Why Did They Become Muslims

churches, gave an harsh answer to the people who asked him what
church he was going to convert into a mosque, when he entered
Jerusalem, and performed his first namâz outside of the church.
Three hundred years after Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ was raised up to
heaven, (alive as he was,) Constantine I accepted Christianity. With
his support and compulsive methods, the number of Christians
reached only three million. Any Jew who refused Christianity would
be subjected to chastisements dictated by Constantine such as
mutilation of ears and pelting with stones.
As for the allegation that when Christianity appeared Judaism
was abrogated and Jews suffered sundry disasters; it shows that the
priest has not studied history well enough and therefore is not aware
of the facts. For it was a fairly long time before the rise of Christianity
that Judaism was contaminated, Jerusalem was destroyed first by the
Assyrian king Buhtunnassar (Abuchednezzar) [604-561 B.C.], and
later by the Romans. After these destructions, Jewry suffered utter
social disruptions from which they never recovered. Because all these
events took place before the advent of Christianity, they have
nothing to do with Christianity. Today, as we are to enter the twentyfirst
century, we see a Jewish state before us. Obviously, therefore,
Judaism survives despite Christianity. As a matter of fact, before the
establishment of today’s Israel, Jews occupied the leading positions in
the European monetary sources, banks, institutions of press and
heavy industry, and Jewish lawyers enjoy universal popularity. The
Jewish population in Britain produced the Empire’s wealthiest lord,
Lord Disraeli. [1]
Rothschild [2] , another Jew, was the world’s richest
person. Even today, European and American bourses and most of
the companies are in the possession of Jews. That means to say that
the priest is completely wrong in his assertion that as soon as
Christianity appeared Judaism disappeared and various disasters
befell on Jews, which is no more than a hallucination that was
conjured up in his mind.
Christian priests announce that Christianity is based on essentials
such as affection, compassion, mercy, and mutual help. We had a
Christian neighbor, a priest. We asked him about a passage that we
had read on the hundred and sixty-ninth page of the Turkish version
of the Holy Bible which was printed in Istanbul in 1303 [1886 C.E.].
The passage, the tenth through eighteenth verses of the twentieth
[1] Benjamin Disraeli, (1804-1881), English Premier in 1868, and again in
1874, until 1880.
[2] Meyer Arschel Rothschild, (1743-1812), German banker and the
founder of the international banking firm, House of Rothschild; and
also his son. Nathan Meyer Rothschild, (1777-1836), British banker.
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