Conversion

Another great British documentary dealing with Islam in UK.
This time it's about a rather unknown subject to me, muslims converting to Christianity. To my surprise, there seem to be around 3000 converts from Islam to Christianity in Britain, and these people are living in fear, having received all sort of insults, threats and physical attacks from other furious, intolerant muslims.

Many muslims believe that those who leave Islam (apostates) should be punished, even with death. In fact, it seems like 36% of young muslims in UK think apostates should be killed. This 36% figure is terrifying, and it goes far beyond my most pessimistic ideas about the percentage of fanatic muslims in the West.

Hopefully, there's one absolutely respectable muslim leader that dares to claim before the cameras that muslims should be free to leave or change their faith without being attacked by other muslims. He says Qur'an does not ask for punishment to apostates, and that those Muslims that think so are misunderstanding something (for example some books-leaflets shown in the program and available in muslim British libraries that ask for murdering the apostates).

On the other side, radical Christians (USA evangelists) have also started their own XXI century crusade, and are sending volunteers to UK in an attempt to Christianize muslims. They seem to be targeting Bradford, and it's no wonder why they choose this city, as some polls say that around 25% of the population there are muslims.

As an agnostic who views Christianity and Islam mainly as two suffering and alienation inducing ideologies (OK, I'm not going to deny that a few good things have been done in the name of both religions, but the global result is fairly negative), all this modern times proselytism sounds awful and decadent, but also, and confusing as it may seem, I have to admit that a small part of my mind, aware of having been brought up in a Christian cultural background, seems to be happy of seeing some Christians trying to counteract the growth of Islam.

This brings to my mind that same as other years I had seen muslim stalls on the streets of London leafleting and calling people to conversion... this year I've seen groups of Christians singing and leafleting trying to draw attention. It may seem harmless and funny now (poor crazy guys...) but this is just another chapter of the religious war that has prevented Humanity from full development for so many centuries...