CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY BECOMES MUSLIM AND CALLS PEOPLE TO CHOOSE ISLAM
Ankara, 4 Zul-qaadah 1434/8 September 2013 (MINA) – Musa Bangura, a 45-year old former Christian priest from Sierra Leone, who travelled to different places in Africa telling people about Christianity and Jesus Christ has adopted Islam.
Musa Bangura told Anadolu Agency as quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) Sunday, that he was abandoned by his wife and his family after he decided to become a Muslim.
After years of efforts to persuade Muslims to adopt Christianity, Musa Bangura now calls on people to choose Islam.
“For many years, I tried to persuade Muslims in my country to adopt Christianity, then I had a dream in which I was invited to adopt Islam,” he said, adding he had the same dream three times one after another.
He stated that the first thing he did after adopting Islam was to make more research on Islam.
“I revealed the contradictions in Christianity which resulted in my discussions with Christian priests. I proved them that Islam is the real religion.”
Bangura said he set up a web site named ‘Why Islam’ through which he told people why Islam is the real religion and revealed the contradictions in Christianity.
Until now, over 8,000 people has adopted Islam thanks to the website, including 500 priests, convert to Islam thanks to his efforts to promulgate Islam in Sierra Leone, one of the four poorest countries in the world.
“I now work for the Christians in my county and try to help them realise the truth and choose Islam.”
Muslims make up around 60 percent of Sierra Leone’s 5.5m population, Christians 30 percent and Animists constitute the rest.
Compared to the Christian community Muslims have worse living conditions and face widespread missionary propaganda as in other African countries.
That is why Bangura decided to promulgate Islam after becoming a Muslim. He says as a priest he was trained particularly to convert Muslims to Christianity.
He experienced many material and non-material hardships after his conversion. His property was seized, he and his family were shunned from the community and he even received death threats. The Muslim community offered protection to Bangura, who had to live in hiding for six months.
Bangura asserts that converting people to Christianity is not the only goal missionary organizations pursue in Sierra Leone and adds that the primary objective of all missionary activities in Africa is to wipe out Islam.
Christian missionaries are able to easily influence impoverished people using their financial resources, Bangura noted, adding that poverty has such devastating impact on the Muslim youth that it has the potential to misguide them and they were fighting against it.
Bangura provides material and spiritual support as well as religious education to people who have chosen Islam like himself under the umbrella of WHY ISLAM organization he set up. (T/P09/E1).
Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).
