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Titolo: Disgustati dalla barbarie del Cristianesimo, i Ruandesi si convertono all'Islam

In Ruanda,  la cristianita' e' la religione della barbarie e del 
genocidio, visto che preti e suore hanno allegramente preso parte ai
massacri dei Tutsi.
Disgustati da questa religione compromessa, migliaia di Ruandesi
lasciano
il cristianesimo per l'Islam.  Magari, qualche versione locale di
Oriana
Fallaci sta gia' scrivendo un libro sul fatto che "non esistono
cristiani
buoni".   
Ovviamente, quei preti Ruandesi non rappresentano la cristianita'...
proprio come Bin Laden & Co non rappresentano l'Islam.
http://www.iht.com/articles/513696.html
Rwanda's growing faith: Islam 
Marc Lacey/NYT NYT 
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 
 KIGALI, Rwanda When 800,000 of their Tutsi countrymen were
slaughtered in a massacre that began 10 years ago this week, many
Rwandans lost faith not only in their government but also in their
religion. Today, in what is still a predominantly Roman Catholic
country, Islam is the fastest-growing religion.
Many people, disgusted by the role some Catholic priests and nuns
played in the genocide, have shunned organized religion altogether,
and many more have turned to Islam.
"People died in my old church and the pastor helped the killers," said
Yakobo Djuma Nzeyimana, 21, who became a Muslim in 1996. "I couldn't
go back and pray there. I had to find something else."
Wearing a black prayer cap, Nzeyimana was one of nearly 2,000
worshippers at the Masdjid Al Fat'h last Friday. The crowd was so
large that some Muslims set their prayer mats on the dirt outside the
mosque and prayed in the midday heat.
The Muslim community now boasts so many converts that it has embarked
on a campaign to construct mosques to accommodate all the faithful.
There are about 500 mosques scattered throughout Rwanda, about double
the number that existed a decade ago.
Although no accurate census has been done, Muslim leaders in Rwanda
estimate that they have a million followers, or about 15 percent of
the population. That, too, would represent a doubling of their numbers
over the past 10 years.
Muslim leaders credit the gains to their ability to shield most
Muslims, and many other Rwandans, from certain death in the 1994
slaughter. "The Muslims handled themselves well in '94 and I wanted to
be like them," said Alex Rutiririza, explaining why he converted to
Islam last year. With killing all around, he said the safest place to
be back then was in a Muslim neighborhood. Then as now, many of
Rwanda's Muslims lived crowded together in the Biryogo neighborhood of
Kigali.
During the mass killing, militias had the place surrounded, but Hutu
Muslims did not cooperate with the Hutu killers. They said they felt
far more connected through religion than through ethnicity, and Muslim
Tutsi were spared. "Nobody died in a mosque," said Ramadhani Rugema,
executive secretary of the Muslim Association of Rwanda. "No Muslim
wanted any other Muslim to die. We stood up to the militias. And we
helped many non-Muslims get away." Rugema, a Tutsi, said he owed his
life to a Muslim stranger who hid him in his home when members of the
Interahamwe militia were pursuing him. Rugema said that two imams were
arrested outside Kigali for participating in the massacre. But both
were released within about two years for lack of evidence. "We are
proud of how Islam emerged from the genocide," he said. For all the
gains Islam has made, however, no one is suggesting that it is about
to supplant Christianity as the country's dominant religion.
Catholicism, which arrived in the late 19th century with the White
Fathers order, remains deeply embedded in the culture. On Palm Sunday
last weekend, worshippers on their way home from mass lined the
roadways throughout Rwanda with fronds in their hands. They included
people like Mediatrice Mukarutabana, who survived a slaughter in her
church that she says has made her even more observant now. "God saved
me," she said after the morning mass at Saint Francis Xavier Church in
eastern Rwanda. "He was testing my faith. Since the genocide, I've
been transformed. I can endure more now. I have more of a connection
with God."
Mukarutabana's church has a new pastor. The one who was there during
1994, a Spanish priest, tried to persuade the attacking militias to
spare his congregation. He even offered them money if they would go
away. But the militias would not relent. After a standoff, the
attackers offered the priest the opportunity to leave safely on his
own, and he fled. Mukarutabana said she felt let down by the priest's
decision to leave the congregation behind but she said she understands
his fear. "We thank him because he made every effort to save us," she
said. "But when it came to the 11th hour, he blessed us and left us to
die." Church leaders have taken pains since 1994 to teach a message of
healing and to distance the church from clergy members who failed to
protect their congregations. They say that, after a period of decline,
they are now slowly rebuilding attendance, and that Christianity
continues to play an important role in the recovery from 1994. But the
pain of 1994 lingers, and many, like Alex Rutiririza, are still
looking for an alternative to Christianity.
In a country where Christians account for about 70 percent of the
population, however, Rutiririza found as others have that conversion
can be a difficult and complex process. His wife remained with the
Methodists, he said, while his children joined him at the mosque. He
said he was ostracized by his Methodist congregation after he decided
last year to become a Muslim. Neighbors steer clear of him, he said,
now that he has left Christianity. The community Rutiririza joined is
a largely self-sufficient group, receiving relatively small amounts of
aid from the larger Muslim world. Libya did build a grand cultural
center for Muslims in Rwanda more than 20 years ago, and Saudi Arabia
also provides financing for some of the mosques. It is also largely an
inward-looking group, and not a likely candidate for harboring Al
Qaeda cells. While Rwanda's Muslims say they follow the travails of
Islamic adherents in other parts of the world - the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, for instance, and the conflict in the Middle
East - their primary focus is on their own struggle to put their lives
back together. "Our first priority is our country," Rugema said.
"Muslims in other countries face many problems, too, but we focus here
more than on Afghanistan or Iraq. In Rwanda, there is no Al Qaeda."
The New York Times

 proprio come Bin Laden & Co non rappresentano l'Islam.
Guarda che quelli che identificano Bin Laden e l'Islam - proteggendo il
primo in nome del rispetto per il secondo - sono proprio i pacifisti.

Ciao,
volevo dirti che ti sei scordato di accendere il cervello prima di
rispondere.
Ti avverto di questo disguido in modo che tu possa farlo alla prossima
occasione.
Ciaociao
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 il cristianesimo per l'Islam.
Si, ma perchè tutto ciò ti farebbe piacere?
Per caso sei scemo?