Dishonoring the Christian women
During the massacres of the Christians in
the Middle East while most people were killed the life of the
younger women and boys under twelve were spared so that they
could be forced into Islam to increase the Moslem population.
Even at peace time Christians were assaulted in other ways to
dishonor them and cause them pain and suffering. Following are
partial confessions of an Egyptian moslem who participated in
a program financed by certain members of the royal Saudi family,
related to the Wahabi movement, to seduce Christian women and
girls in Egypt and convert them into Islam by any means possible.
Conversion into Islam not only means changing one's religion
but also the abandonment of ones parent, friends, relatives and
the entire community.
Part 1
By: Ahmed Awny Shalakamy
I grew up in Giza, Egypt. My father was a building contractor
and was involved in Islamic activities. He was the chairman of
one of the local Islamic associations and was responsible for
making the call for prayer. He also gave Islamic lessons and
at times spoke at the mosque on Friday.
My father hated Christians. He taught me that they are infidels
who contradict themselves by saying that Jesus Christ is God
while their distorted book has verses that prove he is a prophet.
It was all part of the rhetoric we got used to hearing from booming
mosque loudspeakers, and from the playing of radio and audio
cassettes in the streets. In such an atmosphere, a Muslim child
in Egypt is breast-fed hatred along with his mother's milk.
My father's association was active in many fields. It ran a dormitory
for girls, a workshop, a clinic, a nursery, a madrassah to study
Quran and a section for preaching Islam. The main interest of
his association was to proselytize Islam by any means.
During the rule of the late president Anwar El Sadat, the Grand
Imam of El Azhar Mohamed Abdel Halim Mahmoud was involved in
plotting together with Sadat's vice president Mr. Hussein el
Shafei. Sheikh Keshk was also involved in this planning together
with Mohamed Osman Ismail, Assiut's previous governor, and Mohamed
Abdel Mohsen Saleh. Both Ismail and Saleh were the founding fathers
of the various Islamic proselytizing associations that sprouted
up, and of which my father was involved.
The goal of these groups was to convert Egypt into an Islamic
state over a period of 50 years. Members of the royal Saudi family,
who were related to the Wahabi movement and oil princes from
the Gulf, financed this plan. Money was spent lavishly to seduce
Christian women and girls any way possible. The cost in the seventies
and early eighties was about five thousand Egyptian pounds for
the entrapment of each girl. The money was split so that the
Muslim man who lured the Christian woman into conversion received
half and the members of the police and collaborating associations
would receive the other half.
The work of the proselytizing associations in Egypt continues
to take place and the payments for deceptive conversions are
now higher. Today the average payment for an ordinary girl is
ten thousand Egyptian pounds and payments can be as high as two
hundred thousand Egyptian pounds if the girl is from a well-known
Christian family, or is the daughter of a university professor,
a deputy minister, or related to someone from the clergy.
Like my father, I too was involved with a proselytizing association.
After we succeeded in converting a Christian woman, we would
antagonize the Christians by parading the converted girl through
the streets. We played loud music and waved flags while shouting
"Allahu Akbar" to declare the victory of Islam. We
would also chant slogans to shame the Christians. No Christian
would stand in the way of these parades, which were safeguarded
by the police.
This was a normal practice until 1985 when such parades were
banned. Nevertheless, we continued in our campaign to convert
Christian women anyway. We were focused on converting Christian
girls and women because we believed this was a greater form of
humiliation for Christians. In the East, a man's honor is in
his daughter, sister or wife and so disgracing any of them is
the ultimate humiliation for him.
We used all kinds of tricks to get Christian women. We primarily
sought to appeal to their emotions and impulses. We would also
get these women involved in moral scandals and used that to coerce
them to do whatever we wanted. This is what I did, while I was
involved with a proselytizing association. Besides receiving
payment for this work, I was convinced I received an additional
reward because each time I caused a Christian woman to convert
to Islam I would be awarded with an acre of land in heaven.
The following accounts are of the women that I lured into Islam
through deceptive methods.
Part 2
N.M.A.
NMA was originally from Cairo and went to college in the city
where my family lived. I was in my first year of college at the
time, and this was my first case of proselytizing.
She was very pretty. She had a few Muslim girl friends who told
me that she was an easy catch. They arranged for me to meet her
and I practiced pretending that I was madly in love, staring
at her with desire and faking a quivering voice.
When NMA and I first started talking, I asked her some questions
about the Christian faith. I realized I had to change my tactics
if I was going to trap her. I started to convince her that I
loved her and I worked on her until she fell for me. Her girl
friends were aware of what was happening and helped me by talking
to her about my love for her. I told her that we could marry
and keep our different faiths, as Islam allows Muslims to marry
the people of the book because they believe in God. I had my
way with her and she became pregnant.
I secretly went to church with her a few times and I even bought
Christian books, icons and the fellowship bread to convince her
that I was an admirer of Christianity. I told her that I would
have gladly converted to Christianity, but could not do it because
I would be killed. I then told her that I loved her and could
not live without her and if she converted to Islam, she would
not be killed, as she was carrying our baby--the fruit of our
love.
She was scared and did not know what to do. At that time, I asked
her not to sever her relation with the church, to act as she
normally would and as a camouflage go to church on Thursday for
confession, on Friday for communion and again on Sunday for Mass.
She followed my instructions and one day, as per my instructions,
she arrived with her suitcase and gold jewelry, and we spent
the night at my home in Gameat El Dewal El Arabia Street. On
Saturday morning, she had an appointment with the person in charge
at El Azhar. I arranged for her escape to the city where she
attended college and where I lived until she finished her studies.
I then had her name changed to Fatima El Zahra Mohamed Ali El
Mahdi.
The efforts of her family and of other Christians to take her
back were in vain. I made sure she was the one who adamantly
refused to go back after my colleagues and I brainwashed her.
My efforts were successful as she became completely convinced
that she was now worshipping the true God of Islam.
After five weeks of achieving this victory for Islam and receiving
my financial reward, I decided that I did not want to keep this
faithless whore as my wife. She was cheap to me and was merely
an object for sensual pleasure. How could I have a son with her
who has in him the blood of those Christian infidels? I reasoned.
I ordered her to have an abortion and I used my legitimate right
to beat her. I also obliged her to work for her food. I told
her she had to serve her Muslim masters who put a roof over her
head and she had to be grateful that I married her and saved
her from her shame.
I started to think about repeating the same game again with other
women, so that I could serve my life, my religion and my after-life.
I believed by doing this I would serve my religion by making
the infidels embrace Islam; I would serve my life by getting
financial rewards; and I would serve my after life by having
many acres written in my name in heaven. I would also have a
house cleaner for free. She would work for her food and when
I wanted to use her for pleasure, she would be my odalisque.
I enjoyed hurting, beating and humiliating Fatima (NMA). I was
positive she did not truly convert to Islam and that she has
only surrendering to her female instincts. All this made me more
inclined to take revenge on her. Fatima stayed with me for three
years, seven months and twelve days until one Sunday in 1998
when I converted to Christianity. I was an atheist and avoided
everyone, before becoming a Christian. But as I continued my
research, I believe Jesus Christ showed himself to me.
I told my wife about my change of faith. She did not believe
me at first. During those three years seven months and twelve
days that Fatima stayed with me, I made eight girls convert to
Islam. After I became a Christian, I sought to restore each of
the nine women who converted because of me as well as those whom
my father had converted. I am now praying for the rest of them
and I keep getting good news about the coming back of one girl
after the other.
Part 3
D.B.A
When I met DBA, she was studying in a college located one and
a half hours from her home. She came from a wealthy family. Her
father and mother were physicians and her brothers were physicians
in the Egyptian armed forces. Though she was a churchgoer, she
was not religious. DBA was outgoing in her friendships with both
Muslims and Christians. Yet despite her congeniality, we did
not find it easy to get to her and had to resort to foul play.
As Muslim men, we believed we were in a perpetual war with the
"filthy infidels," and therefore it was OK to trick
them.
One day I received a visit from a young Muslim man who told me
he wanted to marry DBA and asked me to help him convince her
to convert to Islam. After much planning, I found out that this
girl's best friend was a religious Muslim. But she still considered
the Christian girl her sister and I was disturbed by this. So
I paid a visit to the Muslim girl and talked to her about the
corrupt beliefs of Christianity and reminded her of what Allah
says in the Quran (Jews and Christians won't accept you until
you follow their religion) and also (Ye believers do not take
Jews and Christians as friends and those who befriend them are
from them, as Allah does not show the right path to the unjust).
I told her that jihad against them is the duty of every Muslim
and she should contribute to the victory of Islam. The Muslim
girl was convinced that I was right and asked what was required
of her. I told her not to show hatred toward her Christian friend,
but to treat her as usual and even try to strengthen their friendship
and follow all of my instructions.
I then went to a Muslim pharmacist who is a member of our association
and asked him for a drug to induce hallucinations. I told him
why I needed the drug. He told me he wanted to contribute to
the victory of Islam and therefore he agreed to provide it. I
then gave the drug to the Muslim girl and told her to dissolve
two tablets in a glass of milk and give it to DBA to drink, and
then call us as soon as she noticed any changes in the girl.
The Muslim girl called us as soon as DBA started to hallucinate
and lose control in her apartment. When my friend and I arrived,
we had a camera and a video recorder. We started joking with
DBA and she was responding, not realizing what we were doing
until my friend managed to strip her of her clothes and took
her to the bedroom.
I recorded everything on video and took pictures for about three
hours. When DBA came around, she realized what had happened and
started screaming and crying. She insulted us, Islam and the
prophet of Islam, and tried to tear up the Quran, which was with
her girlfriend. I showed her the video tape and the photos and
threatened to make copies and distribute them to her family,
as well as to other Christian families. I reminded her that she
would be humiliated by the scandal. She cried and fell to the
ground kissing our shoes pleading with us not to do this, but
we insisted that she had to do whatever we told her to do, as
she knew her brothers and relatives might even kill her if they
were to see that video.
She gave in. Her tears and desperation made me ecstatic. Over
the next few weeks, she accompanied us to the association where
she was brainwashed by the sheikhs. She could not argue with
anything they said. She was miserable and never stopped crying.
We taught her what to say before it was time for her to go the
police department. She followed our instructions when she was
interviewed by the police. And when a police officer asked her
why she wanted to convert to Islam she said that the Prophet
Mohamed came to her in a dream and greeted her with the Islamic
greeting calling her Aisha. Jesus was also in the dream, greeted
her with the Islamic greeting and denounced all Christians saying
there is no God but Allah. She said that Jesus told her that
he is Allah's slave and prophet and Mohamed is Allah's prophet.
Then, she said, Jesus kissed Mohamed's head and asked her to
repeat after him Allah's words from the Quran (those who believe
in any other religion but Islam, Allah will not accept it from
them in the end, and they will be losers).
She not only said this in front of the police officers, but also
to her family members and the priests who came to visit her.
Her reactions during these visits, which were called counseling
sessions, were staged by us and agreed on by the police before
the meeting. It was all a fraud and though she was visited by
different priests, she could only tell them what we had coached
her to say.
After all the legal procedures were completed, we got her new
ID and new Islamic name: Aisha Abdalla Elmahdy. We had achieved
our plan and the Muslim man, Yasser, a Mujahid, got the girl
he desired along with his financial reward, which was quite hefty
because she was from a prominent Christian family. I received
25% of his share, plus my share of the amount I paid to the collaborating
persons involved.
Aisha's family was dishonored and humiliated as expected. As
a result, her mother sold her pharmacy and her father sold his
clinic. They moved to a place where they could disappear away
in the crowd in order to flee the scandal.
So Aisha married Yasser and lived as an outcast, because she
was despised by her in-laws. She was married for two months when
Yasser said he had enough of her and did not want to keep her
anymore. He divorced her and threw her out into the street.
Since she was our sister in Islam and cannot be homeless, I took
her to the association where she lived and worked as a maid,
cleaning the clinic for her food and board. She stayed there
for three months until she was legally allowed to re-marry. The
groom to be was a Muslim who knew her story. He was a coolie
and was already married with six children. During the day, he
labored in the maintenance workshops of the governorate administration.
Aisha did not want to marry him and begged us not to allow her
to go through with it. We ignored her, and she was forced to
marry a man she did not like.
She lived in misery. She worked as a maid to clean homes and
sold vegetables in order to feed her husband and his children.
It was impossible to imagine that she was once a girl from a
wealthy family of physicians and a college student. Her life
was ruined. Her second husband divorced her after five months.
Since she had been married twice she did not re-marry and because
many had found out about the video tapes and photos taken of
her when she was drugged, she was considered unclean. She became
homeless and had to spend the night in emergency camps where
she lived in sub-human conditions. As she hit bottom she cried:
God have mercy on me. God showed mercy and answered her prayer.
During the time she was homeless, I became a Christian was looking
for the girls I tricked into converting to Islam. I found out
what had become of her and went to visit her with my wife who
had returned to the church. My wife and I offered to take care
of her in our home. We sought to inform her parents about her
situation, so I sent a relative of my wife together with a priest
who talked to them. They all cried at the news and expressed
their desire to see her. The family reunion was arranged in one
of the churches in Cairo. It was an impressive reunion. Though
I expected the parents to chastise her, they didn't and were
happy to see her.
As her family hugged and kissed her, I was so touched by the
love I saw that I wondered why we were hurting Christians the
way we did. I have always despised the smiles they had on their
faces when we criticized, hurt or humiliated them. I used to
tell myself that they were smiles of malice because they were
a minority and could not stand up to us Muslims. Now I know the
reason for their smiles. It is their love, forgiveness and tolerance
toward their enemies. It is the Christian characteristic of making
peace.
After DBA met her family, she went back home with them and they
welcomed her with love and kindness as the scripture says in
the story about the prodigal son. Her mother bought her beautiful
clothes and her father bought her jewelry. They celebrated her
coming home and repeated the words of the Bible (Our daughter
was dead and now is alive and was lost and is now found).
A request was submitted to the Clerical Council to endorse her
return to Christianity, which was approved. A Christian lawyer
volunteered to petition the court to give her back her Christian
name and identity card. The court ruled in her favor. She now
lives in France where she serves in the Coptic Church with husband.
I wrote down the experiences I went through
not to entertain the reader or for someone to hate his friends,
but for all to learn from our mistakes. I gave some examples
of evil deceitful friends who act as if they were lambs while
they are wolves waiting to snatch the prey, but there are also
good people, honest and loyal. I am also writing to warn against
guys who deceive girls by pretending to be a Christian and would
even go to church because he believes that tricks are allowed
in war. I am also writing this in the hope that parents would
pay more attention to their children, look into their lives and
mend their ways if they need and bring their families closer
to church - the house of the Lord - in order to protect their
offspring.
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