Mosques, imams, burqas, all of it has to be stopped right at the beginning. Once they turn churches into mosques and the muezzin calls from the bell-towers its too late:
Samoa’s council of churches has welcomed the prime minister’s call to review the religious freedom provisions of the constitution.
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi recently said the country’s supreme law may be changed to recognise Christian principles and teachings, not just in the preamble.
However the Secretary General of the Samoa Council of Churches, Reverend Ma’auga Motu, said he would go a step further and ban the religion of Islam.
He said even though most Samoans are Christian, Islam poses a future threat to the country.
“We are not going too far, no,” Reverend Motu said. “We are still wanting our own people to be prevented from this kind of influence, even though there are so many people who are good people but still there are some dangerous people among them who might come and threaten our peace.”
The constitution protects the right to practice any religion but doesn’t rule out the establishment of an official state religion.
But Tuila’epa said Samoa is a Christianity-based country and that goes together with Samoan cultures and traditions.
There is a small muslim population in Samoa that gathers at a mosque and there is the Samoa Muslim League based near Apia.
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Imam in Samoa says Christians should be more open
Funny that he didn’t call on his Muslim brothers to “be more open”, don’t ya think?
Its like… Muslims would never discriminate against unbelievers, right?
Dr Mohammed Bin Yahya was responding to comments by the National Council of Churches that Islam should be banned in Samoa.
The Secretary General of the council, Reverend Ma’auga Motu, described Islam as a threat, calling on the Prime Minister to review the religious freedom provisions of the constitution.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi said Article 11 of the constitution on freedom of religion would not be part of the amendments but he added that any amendments would focus on making it clearer that Samoa is a Christian country.
Samoa’s Prime Minister Photo: Tipi Autagavaia
Imam, Dr Mohammed Bin Yahya, said he does not have a problem with that because the constitution would say that the government should be run to Christian principles.
But Dr Yahya said those Christian principles be defined.
“We have all kinds of Christianity in Samoa, let us not play with it, the truth is Catholics are different, Methodists are different, Congregational churches are different, they are all different, so we need to define what principles they are talking about.”
“Just like Islam, there are some other sects in Islam, when you talk about Sunni or Shiite, we need to define, are we talking about this Islam or that Islam,” he said.
Islamic leader, Dr Mohammed Bin Yahya, who was raised as a Catholic, said the only Christian church to invite him to talk about Islam was the Methodist Theological college.
Some Muslims in Samoa after a call to prayer. Photo: RNZI/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia
This is one place I might move to ; they have the right idea.
Ah, yes. It is definitely not a problem when muslim countries ban Christians or the Bible. But if a Western country tries to curtail islam, WE ARE INTOLERANT RACIST ISLAMOPHOBES! Please pardon the caps. I do get angry at times.
“We have all kinds of Christianity in Samoa, let us not play with it, the truth is Catholics are different, Methodists are different, Congregational churches are different, they are all different, so we need to define what principles they are talking about.”
“Just like Islam, there are some other sects in Islam, when you talk about Sunni or Shiite, we need to define, are we talking about this Islam or that Islam,” he said.
But the Catholics, Baptists, etc, are not killing each other like the Sunnis and Shiites do.
The reason? We are not bloodthirsty primitive misogynist inbred rats.
Dear Samoa: please nip Islam in the bud, RIGHT NOW, and you will one day be the envy of many, many, many nations. Keep the Muslims OUT. Turf out the ones you’ve already got; if they want Islam, if they are converts, they can migrate to a country that is already ruined by Islam. Ban all Muslim immigration. Surprise search whatever mosque/s you’ve already got, use sniffer dogs. Find anything.. peculiar… raze the thing to the ground. No mosques, no Muslims, and keep the damned OIC at arms-length no matter what tempting bribes they proffer. **Instead of dealing with the OIC make friends with Israel! – they have a LOT to offer – vote for Israel in the UN, set up your embassy in Jerusalem, and see about some student-exchange programs and invite Israelis to invest in Samoa; you’ll never regret it**.
Then sit back and reap the benefits.
Well I think Samoa needs to keep a tight reign on the Christian denominations otherwise they’ll end up like the Sth Eastern suburbs of Melbourne and that’s a HUGE thank you (not) to the Anglican, Catholic, Baptist ar*eholes that have pushed, jumped up and down, demanded, dropped to their knees to be badged dumb dhimmis of the millennium.
Christianity once stood for something not today too busy singing kumbaya and being sniveling cowards.
Pacific Islanders in NZ are being deliberately targeted by muslims, as Maori people have been before them.