Christ the King Baptist Church
I bet you thought this was a mosque.
Actually, it is a serious Baptist Church. They were celebrating Arab ethnics. Another one of their videos celebrates German ethnics.
Brazil has millions of Arabs and Germans. They are all assimilated.
Islamic March in Repudiation of the insults against the Prophet Mohammed
This is a video of a protest march against insults against Mohammed in São Paulo, followed by a discussion with a Syrian Orthodox Priest and a Protestant minister.
What has to be remembered is that
A) São Paulo has a very large Arab community; and may be the Arab Center of Brazil
B) The parade is relatively small
C) Metro São Paulo has about 30 million people and this is the the best they could do?!
D) If you look carefully, you can see that many of those people in the parade are not even Arab or Muslim, and may be in the parade just to protest a political incorrectness. Many of the women are not wearing hijabs, and I saw at least one Christian monk in the group. I have to wonder how much of this was Islam, and how much was simple Arab solidarity, which reigned in a lot of Chrisitans.
But pay attention:
A (4:01) we see Pastor Khalio Samara of the Arab Evangelical Church.
That should tell you something right there.
I am not denying that Islam is making inroads; but it does not take much effort to triple a community if the original size was very small.
But at some point Islam is going to run up against an Evangelical Church which is growing by millions upon millions every year.
This makes good TV fodder to scare you.
But while YouTube or TV notices a loud protest march, it ignores the millions who are converting in the other direction.
House of Praise – Bolivia
Dispense with every idea you learned in school.
South America was Catholic.
No longer! Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina are having massive revivals.
They may have taught you that Brazil had more Catholics than any other country on the planet.
True! But for how long?
What they didn’t teach you was that Brazil is now 22% Evangelical; and the Evangelicals are growing so fast that Brazil is expected to flip real soon.
Millions are converting to Evangelicalism.
So if you hear that Islam is growing in South America, don’t get carried away. Islam might have grown from 4,000 to 12,000 (tripling) while the Evangelicals grew by 10,000,000 over the same period of time. The numbers are misleading because there were so few Muslims to begin with.
Islam cannot compete.
I seriously believe that the Palestinians should be encouraged to move to South America. They would assimilate, and probably convert. A win/win for everyone.
Posted in 2010, by a Brazilian poster (not sure if the group is from Brazil)
Don’t let anybody fool you.
Yes, there are the occasional Arabs in South America who smuggle drugs for Hezbollah, but they are not respresentative.
Over 90% of all South American Arabs are Christian; many are becoming Evangelical, some even pro-Israeli Evangelicals.
This is what the media is not telling you; what the world is ignoring.
