but there's one big problem with Sierra Leone and this is basically what I want
my sermon to be about today and that is that Sierra Leone is not a Christian
country at all it is a predominantly Muslim country it has a very high Muslim
population and we know that Islam is a very bad very wicked very evil religion
and it's and you're there in Psalm 74 and this is the verse I'd like to focus
on it says in verse 20 have respect unto the covenant for the dark places of the
earth are full of the habitations of cruelty and Sierra Leone is a very is a
spiritually dark place because of the Islamic influence there because Islam is
a very dark religion Islam is a very cruel religion and Islam is a destructive
religion and Islam is a very corruptive corrupting of religion and the title my
sermon tonight is the corrupting influence of Islam the corrupting
influence of Islam and basically what I want to do is I want to use Sierra Leone
as a case study to show how damaging Islam is to a nation and to a people now
turn if you were to Proverbs chapter 1 now our friend Albert he told us a
story of a time whenever Sierra Leone was not like it is today he told us of a
time whenever it was it was a Christian country and I looked it up online and he
was correct you know in fact in 1960 the Muslim population there was only 35% and
and it grew to 60% by 2000 and then 71% in 2008 and then to 78% in 2015 and it
continues to climb and grow larger and use Albert's words you know it's an
Islamic invasion the heathen hordes are coming in from the north and basically
just migrating there and taking over the country it is a takeover and and I want
to make this clear you know we love Muslims we want Muslims to be saved you
know the individuals but we hate the religion of Islam you know and we hate
the false prophets who are propagating it to the people to the masses and so
this religion of Islam is coming in to Sierra Leone and has been corrupting it
for a very long time and I have four points tonight about how it's corrupting
the country of Sierra Leone and point number one is that it's corrupting the
education of Sierra Leone so you're there in Proverbs chapter 1 I want you
to look at a few verses beginning in verse 1 it says the Proverbs of Solomon
the son of David king of Israel to know wisdom and instruction to perceive the
words of understanding to receive the instruction of wisdom justice and
judgment and equity to give subtlety to the simple to the young man knowledge
and discretion a wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of
understanding shall attain unto wise counsels to understand a proverb in the
interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction and Islam
is a religion for fools because it does not promote the fear of the Lord and it
despises wisdom and it despises instruction and it de-emphasizes
education and I'd like to give you some statistics you know Sierra Leone is one
of the countries with the highest illiteracy rates in the entire world
the new education policy for Sierra Leone maintains that sixty nine point
three percent of the male population is illiterate they cannot read or write and
not only that gets worse while eighty percent of the female population is
illiterate and so that is a that's a huge amount of people and so you know
and I want to be fair about that as well it's not just about is on but it's
also because they have they had a huge civil war back in the nineties and also
there's a high poverty rate as well and they can't really afford to go to school
but Islam is definitely a factor in it as well and you know it's no coincidence
that about seventy to eighty percent of the population is Muslim and about
seventy to eighty percent of the population is also literate that's not a
coincidence at all you know Islam promotes you know being ignorant and in
fact we saw this firsthand because see the principles and the teachers at those
at the schools like I mentioned before it was exam week they didn't have to let
us come and preach for them but they did because the principles and the teachers
they were all Christians you know they wanted us there and and even the the
president is a Christian and Albert told us that many of the politicians most of
the politicians are Christians as well and so basically any job that requires
an education it's it's totally run by Christians and and in fact we can attest
to this me and Daniel we ran into many Muslims who do not speak very good
English at all you know in Sierra Leone they they speak English but it's an
English Creole language and in fact it's called Creo k-r-i-o that's what they
call it and there's different levels of Creo you know there's some Creo that's
very similar in English it's just pronounced a little bit differently you
know me and Daniel we could understand maybe 90 to 95 percent of that but then
there's deeper levels of Creo that is very difficult to understand and
basically the more educated that you are the more that you go to school the
the better that you speak English and we ran into very few Christians who cannot
speak very good English we ran into a lot of Muslims who cannot speak very
good English at all and that's because primary education like elementary school
middle school it's not it's not compulsory there or may error it is but
it's not enforced and this is not only a fact in Sierra Leone that Muslims are
less educated but it actually correlates all around the world and in
fact I have right here a list of the top 11 countries in the world with the top
illiteracy rates and see if you can think about whether these are you know
Muslim places or not so number one is South Sudan number two is Afghanistan
right we know that that's a Muslim place number three is Burkina Faso number four
is Niger number five is Mali number six is Chad number seven is Somalia number
eight is Ethiopia number nine is Guinea number 10 is Benin and number 11 is
Sierra Leone now out of these 11 most illiterate countries eight of them are
predominantly Muslim and two of them of the others it's worth mentioning that
the Christian majority is by a small mark margin so it's only about 55 60% so
is this a big surprise that Islam in his illiteracy go hand-in-hand absolutely
not because they glorify their prophet which was an illiterate pedophile you
know a total weirdo who never learned how to read or write and and I'm sure
that if we went around we asked Muslims you know is the education important is
that important and all of them would say yes you know it's very important we
should learn how to read and write but think about if they're going to their
mosque all the time you know every week and then they're glorifying this guy
who's illiterate then of course the children they're gonna think well if
Muhammad is illiterate then why do I have to learn to read and write you know
what I mean they're gonna it's gonna de-emphasize education in their in their
mind because I'm sure that everybody in here you know we want we're Christians
we want to be Christ like you know that's our goal is to be more like
Christ and and obviously we're never going to attain to that because Jesus
was perfect you know Jesus is God but we try our best every day and so I'm
guaranteed that a lot of Muslims they want to be like Muhammad as well so you
know they glorify him and basically by glorifying him you're glorifying
illiteracy and you can see that for yourself you can look at these numbers
for yourself if you'd like
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