Islam, Christianity, and Africa
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The BBC broadcast a program in 2001 in which it was strongly suggested that Christianity and Islam had two very different impacts on Africa. The BBC (2001) stated that Islam, which tolerated native African cultural and social traditions, made conversion easier and was ultimately less upsetting and more beneficial to Africa than Christianity. This position appears to be valid when one considers the interaction between the cultures of West Africa and Islam and Christianity and the Congo. Albert Hourani (1991) reported that in Africa, Islam spread along trade routes during the tenth through the thirteenth centuries. It had earlier penetrated parts of Western Africa as Muslim conquerors acquired new territorial holdings. Where Islam interacted with Africa, Karen Armstrong (2000) says that the influence was generally positive in that Islam permitted polygamy which was well established in Africa and Africans were accepted into the Muslim world as equals. According to the BBC (2001), whereas Christianity rejected polyga
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