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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (95282)	4/21/2003 8:20:54 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 281500

What most Christian missionaries establish in other places is built into Islam from the start. Muslims are obligated to give 10% of their net income to the poor. You will be hard pressed to find a Muslim community which does not provide interest free loans to the poor. I thought the zakat was 2.5%. If the above ideal is actually realized, one has to wonder about the poverty, lack of health care, etc. in much of the Muslim world. So this begs the question of why the hell is anyone going out for missionary work. If saving a soul is the goal, then saving an American soul right here should be as good as saving another soul anywhere. Logic suggests it is much more productive concentrate on where you already have a good footing than waste your energy where you are not wanted. They do this, too. It's called home missions.

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