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பிரான்ஸில் சுமார் 10009 முஸ்லீம்கள் கிரிஸ்துவ மதத்தை தழுவியிருக்கிறார்கள்
Le Figaro (mainstream daily, centre-right, similar to the UK’s Daily
Telegraph) very interesting. My translation.

Quote:
The conversions of Muslims in France to Christianity are a subterranean
river only now emerging onto the surface. The Catholic Church says
little about the subject except that several hundrd people raised as
Muslims are baptised every year. An estimated 10,000 ex-Muslims have now
converted to Christianity in France, about two thirds of them to
Catholicism. The numbers have been rising every year according to the Catholic
Association Notre Dame de Kabylie. The reason for the relative silence is
due to very heavy family and community pressure.

To lend mutual support to these ex-Muslims a Protestant prayer group
called ‘Oasis’ was set up a few years ago. “Requests to take part in
these prayer groups are on the increase ” states Sa鸞Oujibou, one of the
few Muslim converts to Christianity who does not hesitiate to speak out
in public. Coming from a stict Islamic background he himself exerted
much pressure on a sister who converted to Christianity. “One of our
brothers made her rip out the pages of the Bible one by one”, he says. With
his wife Fatima, who is also a former Muslim, this ‘itinerant pastor’
travels across France coordinating the Oasis network.

Malika, now a practising Christian, sighs : “All contact with my family
has been broken off.” She had to ask her future husband, a Christian,
to feign a conversion to Islam so that she could marry him without
incurring her family’s wrath. Somethign that she regrets today. “I haven’t
rejected all aspects of Moroccan culture” she says “but only the Gospels
could answer the questions that I was asking myself.”