Post by Daniel on Apr 20, 2016 19:48:05 GMT -5
Violence divides Muslims, drives many to Christ
BY Cliff Jeffery
Mission Network News
21 March, 2016
International (MNN) — As more Muslims tire of hearing how extremists use their religion to justify violence, Muslim families are tuning in to television stations that bring them closer to a saving-knowledge of Christ.
The age-old divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims continues to cause strife in the Middle East and Northern Africa, but the rhetoric of hatred is being supplanted in many homes by SAT-7 Christian satellite stations.
“It’s surprising just how much damage the Muslim world has done to itself due to this schism between Sunni and Shiites,” says SAT-7’s Terence Ascott. “It raises serious questions. People were really losing trust in organized religion.”
In a 2011 survey, completed before the fall of Mosul and the most deadly attacks by ISIS, 32% of Iraqis had already lost faith in Islam, says Ascott.
“It’s quite a huge problem for Islam in general–this conflict that is going on–because it has turned people away from Islam,” Ascott says. “In the wake of that, comes Christian broadcasting with a message of peace, reconciliation, love; and we’re presenting a God who makes sense to people who turn their back on violence being done in the name of God by one faction of Islam to another.”
The broadcasting channels produced by SAT-7 go out to the areas served mainly by Islamic-friendly stations. Only God knows how Christian satellite TV affects the viewers who are growing weary of the constant battles by different Muslim groups.
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BY Cliff Jeffery
Mission Network News
21 March, 2016
International (MNN) — As more Muslims tire of hearing how extremists use their religion to justify violence, Muslim families are tuning in to television stations that bring them closer to a saving-knowledge of Christ.
The age-old divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims continues to cause strife in the Middle East and Northern Africa, but the rhetoric of hatred is being supplanted in many homes by SAT-7 Christian satellite stations.
“It’s surprising just how much damage the Muslim world has done to itself due to this schism between Sunni and Shiites,” says SAT-7’s Terence Ascott. “It raises serious questions. People were really losing trust in organized religion.”
In a 2011 survey, completed before the fall of Mosul and the most deadly attacks by ISIS, 32% of Iraqis had already lost faith in Islam, says Ascott.
“It’s quite a huge problem for Islam in general–this conflict that is going on–because it has turned people away from Islam,” Ascott says. “In the wake of that, comes Christian broadcasting with a message of peace, reconciliation, love; and we’re presenting a God who makes sense to people who turn their back on violence being done in the name of God by one faction of Islam to another.”
The broadcasting channels produced by SAT-7 go out to the areas served mainly by Islamic-friendly stations. Only God knows how Christian satellite TV affects the viewers who are growing weary of the constant battles by different Muslim groups.
continue reading
www.mnnonline.org/news/violence-divides-muslims-drives-many-to-christ/
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