He is a minor God but played a significant role in Greek mythology. Sufis (Islamic mystics) played an important role in the spread of Islam in India. This point is made to establish the fact that despite popular notions that Western colonial powers deliberately impeded the spread of Islam in Africa the evidence on the ground shows that Islam spread more during the one century of European intervention in Africa than it did in more than a millennium. Since then, the number of Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa has increased more than twentyfold, rising from an estimated 11 million in 1900 to approximately 234 million in 2010. The exponential growth of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa, soaring to 470 million in 2010, took place during the postcolonial era. In May 2007 the Islamic community began proceedings against the RS city of Banja Luka seeking damages of approximately $1.1 million (1.5 million Bosnian convertible marks) for the wartime destruction of all mosques in the city.

West, M.L. (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Broadly, Muslims agree on and share one Qur’an, belief that Muhammad is a prophet from God, the five articles of faith and the five pillars of Islam, the qibla or prayer direction (i.e., towards Mecca or the ka’bah), the practice of saying liturgical prayers in Arabic, and others. There is no denying the fact that there is indeed some consensus among Muslims in the profession of their faith. Radical and militant Islam, therefore, has the potential of radicalizing not only young Muslims, but Christians as well, a fact Christians everywhere need to be mindful of. In Chad 70% of Christians hold negative views, as compared to 40% of Muslims’ negative views in Djibouti. The Pew Forum (2010) found that overall 43% of Christians hold negative views of Muslims as compared to the 20% of Muslims who hold negative views of Christians. While many still hold the idea of a coded hymn to be true, there’s no substantive evidence that this was the case, nor is there any evidence that the verses contain anything uniquely Catholic.

There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God . We can safely credit Mahmud Taha of Sudan who was executed in 1985 for “blasphemy” as the godfather of progressive Islam in Africa. Therefore, Islam in Africa is not only made up of dif­ferent colors of the African soil; African Islam is made up of different threads, new and old, woven together into an African fabric. African Christian engagement with Islam has tended to be reactive more than proactive. The outcome of one debate, in Crowther’s own words, “sobered me down a great deal in my zeal.” He then went on to develop what Andrew Walls calls “an African Christian approach to Islam in an African setting. This confrontational and polemical approach was roundly rejected by leading African mission workers at the time such as Edward Blyden (1832-1912) and Samuel Adjaye Crowther (1806-1891). Blyden argued that Islam was an integral part of the African reality and should be engaged with as a partner and an ally rather than demonized as an enemy. The Edinburgh 1910 Mission Conference report is littered with competitive zeal and a combative mood.

All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC). Church responses to Islam in Africa are no different from those in other parts of the world. One such face of Islam is the missionary and polemi­cal Islam that seeks to propagate Islam by employing Christian missionary tactics such as public preaching and debates; establishment of Muslim educational, health, and agricultural institutions; translation of parts of the Qur’an into vernacular languages; use of Islamic songs; formation of Muslim youth and women’s organizations, and imitation of Western-Christian wedding styles. One passage (saying 37) allows it to be suspected that the early Christian followers of the Gospel of Thomas took off their garments and trampled on them as part of their baptismal initiation. Peter is saying that that is exactly the sort of preparation our appetite for God’s Word requires. And indeed the word of Allah SWT. How many times does the word stand firm appear in the bible? In modern times the timeless view has been defended by E. L. Mascall, Norman Kretzmann, Eleanor Stump, Paul Helm, and Brian Leftow. That’s exactly what happened in 2005, when a judge told New York Times reporter Judith Miller that she was required to name the source who revealed the identity of Valerie Plame, an undercover C.I.A.