Muslims are 'mass producing' children to take over Africa, says Nigerian Archbishop
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 4:06 PM on 21st September 2009
The new leader of the Anglican church in Nigeria told a British congregation he thinks Muslims are 'mass producing' babies to take over Africa.
Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, 56, said Christianity is under attack from Islam, in a sermon in Beckenham, Kent.
He was elected Primate of Nigeria last week, making him one of the powerful figures in Anglicanism.
But his promotion could increase tensions at a time when Anglicans are working to build bridges with Muslims.
Nigeria - where 17 million people are practicing Anglicans- is split almost half and half between Christianity and Islam.
In recent years the country has been plagued with religious divisions with Anglicans facing persecution in the predominately Muslim north and faiths battling with local religions in the rest of the country.
Archbishop Okoh made his controversial comments in the sermon back in July.
In extracts quoted in The Times he spoke of African Christians being 'surrounded by Islamic domination'.
He said: 'They spend a lot of money, even in places where they don't have congregations, they build mosques, they build hospitals, they build anything.
'They come to Africans and say, 'Christianity is asking you to marry only one wife. We will give you four'.'
He went on: 'That is the type of evangelism they are doing: mass-production, so if you have four wives, four children, sixteen children, very soon you will be a village.'
The Archbishop told Christians to speak out or lose the authority to speak.
'I am telling you, Islam is spending in Uganda and in other places, it is money from the Arab World.
'Who is the leader in the Christian world? There is no leader.'
2 comments:
This is entertaining, the "religion of love" feeling
threatened by the "religion of peace". Very little to choose
between them. May these binary death cults obliterate each other. Amen (sic)
In this article the writer notes that "But his promotion could increase tensions at a time when Anglicans are working to build bridges with Muslims".
This leader came on board recently and rather than improve relations, he is already spreading accusations and rumors. Everybody in Africa knows that Traditionalists, Christians and Muslims in Africa can choose to be polygamous. He thinks he can fool the European crowd all he wants
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