November 20, 2009

ROP Murders Priest For Preaching to Muslims

Via NCRegister:

A masked gunman entered a Russian Orthodox church in Moscow Nov. 19 and shot a priest who had been preaching to Muslims and warning about the growing Muslim minority in Russia, according to an article in this morning’s New York Times.

Father Daniil Sysoyev, 34, died on his way to hospital. The church’s choir master also had been injured in the attack and was in the hospital under armed guard.

Father Sysoyev had been receiving death threats for some time because he was converting Muslims and criticizing Islam, prosecutors and Church officials said. But that didn’t stop him.

In a February 2008 television interview, he said he had received 10 threats by e-mail for decapitation if he did not stop preaching to Muslims.

“As I see it, it is not a sin to preach to Muslims,” said Father Sysoyev, who was originally from Tatarstan, a predominantly Muslim area on the Volga River.

Oh but it is according to the Koran wrong to preach to Muslims. Islam is the only religion I know of that is so insecure in itself that it calls on its followers to murder those who preach other religious values.

If Islam is so perfect,why does it fear the preaching of other religious values so?

Hat Tip: Sultan Knish.


By Howie at November 20, 2009 10:19 AM | | l digg this