Paying off poor villagers to convert to Islam is nothing new. For instance, in 2016, it emerged that Zakir Naik, described as the “third most popular guru in India,” and deemed “the rock star of tele-evangelism and a proponent of modern Islam,” was paying off the poor to convert to Islam. Naik, whose Peace Channel boasts 100 million viewers, was hailed for his special “gift” of eliciting mass conversions to Islam. But then Mumbai Police investigators revealed that Naik and his non-profit Islamic Research Foundation illegally converted “around 800 people to Islam by paying them using funds received from abroad.”
In mainstream Islam, virtually any form of dawah is permitted in order to spread the religion; the goal is to bring the world under the House of Islam.
The spread of Islam using petrodollars is also well established. There is the Saudi influence in the poor areas of Pakistan, where the Saudis build schools. Selling Wahabbism using economic benefits ensures a hold on the population.
Who goes to these madrassas?
They are recruited from among the lower classes and lower-middle classes. In the Afghan-Pakistan arena, there are members of Pashtun tribes who enroll in these madrassas. There are peasant children from the peasant backgrounds. And occasionally there are also lower middle-class children they are very able to recruit among people in Pakistan particularly who don’t have any access to any other kind of schooling. …
That’s why the ideology that’s propagated by these schools is so significant in shaping minds in the Muslim world. So if regular schooling is not schooling people, and schools that propagate fanaticism are schooling people, it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out what would be the impact on society.
Whether it be individuals and groups, “rock stars of televangelism” (such as Zakir Naik) or wealthy Muslim states such as Saudi Arabia paying poor people to convert is nothing new in Islam. And it isn’t peace that is being taught to the converted. It is what the world likes to describe as “extremism,” but it is really mainstream Islam.
“FIR against 9 in Gujarat for ‘converting’ over 100 tribals to Islam, say police,” Hindustan Times, November 17, 2021:
An FIR was registered against nine persons, including a local man currently living in London, for allegedly luring tribals from a village in Gujarat’s Bharuch district to convert them to Islam using funds collected abroad, police said on Monday.
Over 100 tribals from 37 families of the “Vasava Hindu” community, all residents of Kankariya village in Amod taluka of the Bharuch district, were made to change their faith by offering them money and through other allurements, an Amod police station official said.
“The accused persons took advantage of the weak economic condition and illiteracy among the members of the tribal community to lure them into conversion to Islam over a long period,” the official said. Almost all the nine accused are local residents barring one who is currently residing in London and identified as Fefdawala Haji Abdul, who collected funds from abroad for the purpose, he said.
“The illegal religious conversion activity by Muslim fundamentalists using funds collected from abroad was going on for a long time at the village. The accused persons lured the Vasava Hindu community members by offering them money and other help to convert them fraudulently to Islam by entering into a criminal conspiracy
BruceRobert says
I think we see improvement here… The usual Motus Operendi is not to pay them, but threaten to slaughter their families or slaughter them – or simply take the expedient route and slaughter them both.
This world-wide coven of filth is an outrage. How dare these terrorists be allowed to set up shop in the West. Is not what India is facing enough? Is not perpetual islamic warfare for the last 1000 years enough to keep these monsters out of the West??? What in god’s name are we thinking….
gravenimage says
Too true, Bruce.
Infidel says
Do the Saudis still fund dawa abroad? As much as 2 years ago, I read that due to their budget constraints, they had totally ended their funding of foreign dawa and mosques, and were even looking at introducing an income tax for their citizens, who are completely a welfare population. Not just that, due to MbS’s reforms, muslim activists in the subcontinent (like the Raza Academy, described in another story in the last 2 days) and elsewhere have started demanding action against Saudi Arabia and MbS, even if the reforms so far have been pretty minor
As for India, it’s increasingly showing itself to be a completely spineless government, and even Gujarat, where this sort of thing was unheard of when (ironically) Modi was the chief minister, has a government that’s very weak kneed. This won’t end well for the people of Gujarat or other states like it
tim gallagher says
Islam and Muslims have absolutely no integrity whatsoever. Imagine thinking it is OK to pay some people to join your religion. It seems that, as long as they are building up the numbers of clowns who belong to their evil, totally bullshit version of a religion, Muslims are happy and think that is all fine and dandy. islam has no concept of morality and seems, in so many ways, to be nothing but a huge criminal enterprise. Other religions expect people who join them to have a genuine conviction that the religion they join has the truth and not merely that it bribes them with money to join. Integrity and anything decent and Islam are complete strangers to one another.
abu taleb says
Paying non muslims to become muslims is mentioned in Quran at 9:60. However, it is always the muslims who complain about muslim being converted to Christianity for money or other goods.