Praise Allah! Islam goes evangelical in Nigeria's South

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Lagos (AFP) - Sunday morning is usually the preserve of Christian pastors in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos but a new form of worship is emerging to challenge the monopoly.

“Praise Allah!” shouts the imam of the Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) before thousands of his faithful, gathered under tents on the outskirts of the city.

Pacing up and down through the crowd, he punctuates his message with vigorous “Allahs” in the trademark bombastic style of Nigeria’s evangelical preachers.

Entranced, men and women sitting on multi-coloured prayer mats, raise their hands to the heavens.

NASFAT is one of a growing number of groups practising “charismatic Islam” in response to the massive success of pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria, said Ebenezer Obadare, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas.

It has introduced “new modalities of prayer, modes of proselytising, and repertoires of devotion that closely approximate forms normally exclusively associated with Pentecostal Christianity,” he told AFP.

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Will the women start wearing full-length denim skirts and keep their uncut hair in large, poofy up-dos?

When I see that, I’ll believe it’s really a charismatic movement.

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“Praise Allah soon we shall kill the infidels!”

He forgot to finish his sentence…:hey_bud:
 
Stylteralmaldo said:
Lagos (AFP) - Sunday morning is usually the preserve of Christian pastors in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos but a new form of worship is emerging to challenge the monopoly.

“Praise Allah!” shouts the imam of the Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) before thousands of his faithful, gathered under tents on the outskirts of the city.

Pacing up and down through the crowd, he punctuates his message with vigorous “Allahs” in the trademark bombastic style of Nigeria’s evangelical preachers.

Entranced, men and women sitting on multi-coloured prayer mats, raise their hands to the heavens.

NASFAT is one of a growing number of groups practising “charismatic Islam” in response to the massive success of pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria, said Ebenezer Obadare, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas.

It has introduced “new modalities of prayer, modes of proselytising, and repertoires of devotion that closely approximate forms normally exclusively associated with Pentecostal Christianity,” he told AFP.

More:
yahoo.com/news/praise-allah-islam-goes-evangelical-nigerias-south-030145365.html
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Allah is Arabic for God. I hate when westerners think it’s a Muslim word (or when Muslims say Allah instead of God or their language’s equivalent)
 
adamhovey1988 said:
Allah is Arabic for God. I hate when westerners think it’s a Muslim word (or when Muslims say Allah instead of God or their language’s equivalent)
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You are right that Allah is Arabic for God.

However, if I am not mistaken there was a thread some years back where Muslim countries prohibited non-Muslims the use of the word Allah, saying it was exclusively for Muslims and Islam or something to that effect.

Maybe here it is alluding to that. 😉
 
Reuben_J said:
You are right that Allah is Arabic for God.

However, if I am not mistaken there was a thread some years back where Muslim countries prohibited non-Muslims the use of the word Allah, saying it was exclusively for Muslims and Islam or something to that effect.

Maybe here it is alluding to that. 😉
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Yes I don’t remember if it was Indonesia or Malaysia. My geography in that area of the world is not keen, but I do remember a law passed where only Muslims had the exclusive right to use Allah.
 
Stylteralmaldo said:
Lagos (AFP) - Sunday morning is usually the preserve of Christian pastors in the Nigerian megacity of Lagos but a new form of worship is emerging to challenge the monopoly.

“Praise Allah!” shouts the imam of the Nasrul-lahi-li Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) before thousands of his faithful, gathered under tents on the outskirts of the city.

Pacing up and down through the crowd, he punctuates his message with vigorous “Allahs” in the trademark bombastic style of Nigeria’s evangelical preachers.

Entranced, men and women sitting on multi-coloured prayer mats, raise their hands to the heavens.

NASFAT is one of a growing number of groups practising “charismatic Islam” in response to the massive success of pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria, said Ebenezer Obadare, a sociology professor at the University of Kansas.

It has introduced “new modalities of prayer, modes of proselytising, and repertoires of devotion that closely approximate forms normally exclusively associated with Pentecostal Christianity,” he told AFP.

More:
yahoo.com/news/praise-allah-islam-goes-evangelical-nigerias-south-030145365.html
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To me this is obfuscation. Maybe the intention is pure, but the end result will be likely quasi syncretistic confusion.

MJ
 
Oh I just read the link. So they are reforming their faith a bit to compete with the prosperity gospel and healing preached in evangelical churches.
Almost seems at times a merging of religions and cultures.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Yes I don’t remember if it was Indonesia or Malaysia. My geography in that area of the world is not keen, but I do remember a law passed where only Muslims had the exclusive right to use Allah.
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Actually I think it went the other way where the courts decided that the word Allah predated Islam and so Christians could use the word. I think it was Malaysia.
 
Not only that, but in the Barelvi school of thought, there are faith healers. When the sheikh touches someone, they start convulsing uncontrollably. It’s basically the Islamic equivalent of a Benny Hinn service. People falling down, dancing and convulsing everywhere you look.
 
Personally, i think all NASFAT is accomplishing is painting a giant bulls-eye on its organizations collective body for ISIS affiliated Boko Haram to target…

What they are doing is an “innovation” - it will allow the radicals to yet again undercut them.
 
ChineseCatholic said:
Personally, i think all NASFAT is accomplishing is painting a giant bulls-eye on its organizations collective body for ISIS affiliated Boko Haram to target…

What they are doing is an “innovation” - it will allow the radicals to yet again undercut them.
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I had the same thoughts. ISIS/Boko Haram will not like this.
 
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