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Rwandan Pastor Forces All Members Of His Congregation To Convert To Islam (PHOTO by 247naijagossip(f): 12:53pm On Aug 31, 2015
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On Tuesday, August 25, a Rwandan pastor, Salim Mikdad, conducted what is arguably the largest conversion of Christians to Islam after he successfully got all 480 members of his congregation to switch faiths.

One of the church members revealed that they all turned up for a church service only to be forced to convert to Islam by their pastor. Mikdad also got the church converted into a mosque during the conversion ceremony. It is reported that an Islamic cleric had preached to Pastor Mikdad and succeeded in converting him to Islam.

According to Africa Metro, Rwanda is a predominantly Christian country but of late, has seen a gradual rise in its Muslim population. About 56.9% of Rwandans are Roman Catholic, 26% are Protestant, 11.1% are Seventh day Adventist and only 4.6% are Muslim, most of them being Sunni.

Islam started growing in Rwanda after the country's 1994 genocide as both Catholic and Protestant churches helped to make the killing of about 800,000 people possible by giving moral sanction to the murders. Churches have longed played ethnic politics themselves, favouring the Tutsi during the colonial period then switching allegiance to the Hutu after 1959, sending a message that ethnic discrimination was consistent with church teaching.

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Source > http://www.247naijagossip.com/2015/08/rwandan-pastor-forces-all-members-of.html
Re: Rwandan Pastor Forces All Members Of His Congregation To Convert To Islam (PHOTO by powerfulsettingz: 12:54pm On Aug 31, 2015
And u still tagged him with the title pastor?
Re: Rwandan Pastor Forces All Members Of His Congregation To Convert To Islam (PHOTO by whirlwind7(m): 12:55pm On Aug 31, 2015
Religion. The opium of the masses. If only extremism and killing in the name of religion hasn't become so prevalent, I don't think anyone would give a rat's ass about what religion someone switched allegiance to.
Wish them well, though.
These people have to be really docile if none of them questioned their pastor's (or imam's, as the case may be) faith if he can suddenly get them to make a 180° turn overnight.
Re: Rwandan Pastor Forces All Members Of His Congregation To Convert To Islam (PHOTO by ichoku: 12:56pm On Aug 31, 2015
Allahu akbar, I can hear our Nigerian brothers shouting. But in truth, the man must have been propelled by the promise of 72 virgins here on earth. I see no other cogent reason for converting to Islam.
Re: Rwandan Pastor Forces All Members Of His Congregation To Convert To Islam (PHOTO by ELTON123(m): 1:05pm On Aug 31, 2015
Dirty religion *spits* on there fore head

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