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The free public presentations are set for 7 p.m. today and 9 and 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, said Acts’ pastor, David Booker. The church is located at 5201 Steinbeck Road.
Robinson Abid, 37, of Faith Covenant International in Parker, Colo., preaches around the country under the name “Pastor Mujahid el-Masih” – a name that can be translated from Arabic as “Warrior of the Messiah” or “Soldier of Christ.”
His visit is on behalf of The Voice of the Martyrs, a non-profit, interdenominational organization founded almost 40 years ago to work with and for Christians worldwide facing religious persecution. It maintains more than 30 offices around the world.
Booker said el-Masih’s talk, titled “Christians Understanding Islam,” will feature the Pakistani-born pastor’s tale of the persecution of Christians in his native land, which is 97 percent Muslim.
In February 1997, about 400 policemen and 70,000 Muslim militants rampaged through the Christian village of Shanti Nagar, in the Punjab province of Pakistan, killing, raping, burning and looting, according to human rights agencies.
The alleged provocation for the attack was desecration of the Quran, and insulting the Prophet Muhammad, with revenge ordered by mullahs after Laylat-al-Qadr (“Night of Power”) observances on the 27th day of Ramadan.
The Pakistani pastor survived the attacks but was forced into exile. He has been in America for more than 6 years now, and runs a ministry that still operates more than 50 Faith Covenant Bible churches and a Faith Covenant Bible college inside of Pakistan.
Abid said in a phone interview Friday that the Quran – a 1,400-year-old holy book for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims – “is a book of corruption … totally silly ideas” and that Muhammad was a “cunning and deceiving person” who spoke only of peace and tolerance when he was outgunned by opponents.
“There are more than 35,000 references to jihad in the Quran,” he said. “People think it is a peaceful religion, but lying is a part of that religion. They say one thing in English and another in Arabic.”
It’s a dangerous sermon he preaches as he travels the nation, he said: “My belief is to love them (Muslim Americans) by telling them about the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Their belief is to kill me, praise God.”
Abid questioned the loyalty of Muslim Americans, even those who have been in this country for generations.
“The only time a person can be a good American is when they are not following the teachings of the Quran,” he said. “If they are following the teachings of the Qu’an, he will be against democracy, and Judaism and Christianity and idol worshippers like Buddhist and Hindus.”
Muslims in this country are willing to take advantage of American naivete to advance their agenda of “silent jihad” as they infiltrate every aspect of the United States government, Abid said.
Khalil Meek, vice president of the Dallas-Fort Worth office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the views of evangelists such as Abid are representative of only “a very, very, very small” minority of Christians.
“The only ‘plot’ is to help people see beyond the stereotype of Islam to the reality of Muslims in the United States today,” Meek said. American Muslims are known as law-abiding, productive members of society who eschew many of the ills that plague the nation, such as drug and alcohol use, and sex outside marriage.
Meek also pointed out that American Muslims – motivated by Quranic calls to help the needy – have already collected $10 million in relief funding and supplies for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, $2 million of it in Texas alone. Globally, Muslim nations have pledged more than $1 billion to storm refugees.
“He has a right to his opinion. He’s entitled to his view, as we all are in America. But he is distorting our faith,” said Meek, a convert to Islam from Christianity.
Laila Al-Qatami, communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said with a “name” like Mujahid el-Masih – a derivative of “Jihadist for Jesus” – the Christian convert “sounds like a bit of a demagogue.”
“It seems he would be engaged in a most limited world view, good versus bad, without adding much in the realm of tolerance and diversity,” she said.
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