Now we discuss missionary activity itself ...

First of all, the importance of the Islamic world, the Islamic world is the land that is full of milk and honey, the way "Butrous Al-Nasik" described it when he called for the European Crusades, today the Islamic world floods with Oil too, which is the most important one because the western civilization and economy is based on the consumption of this oil, of which 70% is in the Islamic world, and much more is discovered day by day.

Second, the great number of Muslims, which grows faster than any other nations, for example in Palestine, the growth rates of Muslim are much higher than Israelis, which indicates that if things go as they are Muslims will outnumber the Israelis and take over, so what you notice now is that they try to completely terminate the Islamic existence, we can see that very clearly in Bosnia where they kill a Muslim even if he knew nothing about his religion. This is one issue; the other is birth control and limiting it among Muslims. A funny example is Indonesia, Indonesia is a densely populated Muslim land, one of the doctors who I know that lived in Australia before told me that the average Australian believes that one day those Indonesians will invade Australia, he said that this belief is very strong in the heart of Australian to the degree that he thought it originated from some sort of a previous prediction or so, after investigation we discovered that there is no such thing and it is only from the fact that Indonesia in densely populated and Australia is not, and so when this Muslim country is over populated Muslims will invade Australia, that is what Australians fear.

The third reason, and the most important, the Islamic threat, the one they call "fundamentalist threat", which they fear today, and which is coming now. It appears to me that this threat is coming very soon, so they fear Islam today. I talked about these in details in a previous lecture titled "Why do they fear Islam?", but, concerning their fear today, I will add something new to it. Islam in central Asia and previous USSR republics: It has become a danger to them, they decided not to allow any Saudi Muslim to get a visa to go there, and it appears that this is cooperation between Russian and American intelligence because of their fear of Islam s spreading or getting stronger. Another example is Afghanistan ; there are great threats to destroy the Islamic government in Afghanistan and to establish a state in northern Afghanistan that doesn't apply Islamic law so that it stands between the control of what they call the "fundamentalist government" in Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan . Another example is Bosnia, I read yesterday about a report from the British intelligence which warns against the great Islamic danger from the Balkan states, it also says that there is apart of Serbia called Kosovo which is populated by a Muslims majority, and that these Muslims are uniting and they assigned for themselves a Muslim leader and they are gathering weapons. It says that they intend to ask for separation from Serbia and recognition from the world, and if not given that they will start a new Balkan war against the Serbs and the Balkans will fall into a Muslim-Christian war that no one can predict how and when it will end. In addition to many Muslim groups who store guns in Albania and Montenegro . So they expect a war between Islam, and what they call fundamentalism, Versus Christianity. We too expect that war and maybe even faster than they expect, that is why they give a great deal to the Muslim lands.
It is enough evidence for you that the council of international churches in its 7th gathering in Australia concentrated on the Middle East and decided to assign the pope Shinoda to be the head for its missionary campaigns in the Islamic world, with the center being Cairo in Egypt . Shinoda was given great authority to do his mission. This is why notice that Shinoda has that great attention in the media and on TV, especially in the Egyptian TV and newspapers. We notice the same attention in western newspapers and TV channels, where he is portrayed as the leader of Christians in the Middle East .

Many of the young Muslims today are not afraid of this missionary campaign; they think that it does not affect anything. I say that this is wrong, it was proven by study that this is not true, and that many Muslims are affected by this missionary activity, and that many Muslims leave Islam and enter into Christianity! Add to that the ones who are slightly affected by Christianity they for example leave Islam without entering into Christianity, or accept some of the Christian belief, or help Christians in their activities, or accept that their relatives become Christians then that is a huge number of people! So the missionary activity is doing what it is supposed to do.

It is wrong to think that every Muslim has an impunity against these missionaries, the missionary efforts are very huge, they are starting to give results even it is was a partial success. The need for food, shelter, medicine, edu cation and clothes are one of the reasons that Muslims may accept Christianity. Ignorance is also another reason; there are many Muslims who do not know much about Islam. The ignorant Muslim is called to Christianity in cunning ways and so he enters into it. The fact that there is no Islamic preaching to stand in the face of Christian missionary with similar preaching is also another factor, there is not such activity to teach those ignorant Muslims about their religion and warning them about the danger of the missionaries is a reason that made Christianity acceptable among Muslims.