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The imams are breaking into a cold sweat in Africa:

The American Thinker - Six million African Muslims leave Islam per year

Katani starts off describing the overall problem:

…As to how that happened, well there are now 1.5 million churches whose congregations account for 46 million people. In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Ever year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity. These numbers are very large indeed …..

And in other news, innocently offered with no subtext, hidden meaning, winks or nudges:

The Sydney Morning Herald - Pell challenges Islam - o ye, of little tolerant faith

(I love Cardinal Pell. I love listening to him talk, though I’ve only heard him maybe twice at any length. I was going to say he’s very Aussie but also very intelligent, but that sounds bad. What I mean is very down-to-earth instead of incomprehensible and rather druidish like some others I could name.)

He had tried to reconcile claims that Islam was a faith of peace with those that suggested the Koran legitimised the killings of non-Muslims.

While there was room for optimism in fruitful dialogue between faiths and the common human desire for peace, a pessimistic response began “with the Koran itself”.

Errors of facts, inconsistencies, anachronisms and other defects were not unknown to scholars but difficult for Muslims to debate openly, he said.

“In my own reading of the Koran, I began to note down invocations to violence. There are so many of them, however, that I abandoned this exercise after 50 or 60 or 70 pages.”

Last year, Dr Pell courted controversy when he drew a link between Islam and communism.

His speech on Islam and Western democracies was delivered in Florida on February 4 but only appeared on the archdiocese’s website on Wednesday.

Dr Pell said every nation and every religion, including Catholicism, had “crimes in their histories”. In the same way, Islam could not airbrush its “shadows”.

Claims of Muslim tolerance of Christian and Jewish minorities were largely mythical and he wondered about the possibility of theological development in Islam when the Koran was said to come directly from God.

“Considered strictly on its own terms, Islam is not a tolerant religion and its capacity for far-reaching renovation is severely limited,” he said.

Curtsies to LGF for both links.

Update (5.5):

RC2 (the only Catholic I know who might be familiar with the Acts of the Apostles, and who has been a non-heretic* for nineteen years has something to add today).

* (I say in jest.)