Why did Christian missionaries give up on the middle east

They lost the crusades.

Muslim don't often convert as conversion and apostasy are sometimes punished. It was easier to convert Africans believing in African religions to Christianity then people who were already Muslim; see places like North Africa where despite being under European rule stayed Muslim and also other places like Somalia.

>>2515423
The Catholic Church and the Mongols fucked things up for everyone involved

>>2515423
Middle East
>go proselytize in the Caliphate
>get arrested and beheaded

Central Asia
>go to proselytize to some small tribal village
>maybe convert some people
>move on to the next village hundreds of miles away
>repeat until dead from exhaustion

>>2515590
Wasn't the Algerian War started over this shit?

>>2515765
the war of independence?

Because they don't put up with that faggy christ shit.

The Muslims repeatedly kicked their asses.

>>2516332
t. Achmed Jamal Al-Taqqiya Mohamed

>>2516335
Don't have to be Muslim to know history, and know that you're butthurt.

>>2515423
>middle east
driven out by the early caliphates, came back for the crusades before being defeated again by the Mamluks and later Ottomans.

>central asia
the region was already difficult to control to begin with, as the Great Game between Britain and Russia was for each power to control as much territory in the region as possible, and forcing religion would be a great way to lose that control. Overall the political control of the region became more important than religious conversion of the area.

That said, the Stan countries still have sizable amounts of Orthodox communities, especially Kazakhstan.

>>2515423
Middle east is a special case since the people there used to be dominantly Christian until Muslim gradual conversion from 7th-10th century
Thus the people there are more repellent to Christianisation since they already have the established societal rhetoric that makes them convert from Christian in the first place. Traditional ME sects such as Orthodox, Coptics, Armenian Sects do get influenced by Western European theologies though

>>2516367
>gradual conversion
You mean "convert or die!".

Islam butchered its way through the Middle-East, destroying classical civilization and plunging Europe into the dark ages by taking control of the medittereanian sea.

>>2516367
Islam made followers by the sword.

>>2516372
>>2516435
The Christian and Jewish pagans were not forcibly converted to Islam, but other pagans were.

>>2515423

Converting someone from Islam to Christianity is near impossible.

Much easier to bait primitive tribal people.

Simply because Islam is more solid in logic.

"There is no God but God, and God sents his prophets" makes more sense than "Jesus was born as the son of God, and is also God himself,(which is also part of the trinity of the holy spirit) and God killed himself so that he can un-die 3 days later, so that your sins are not judged (only if you believe in the son of god(who is God)."

>>2516558
>islam is more sound in logic
Top fucking kek

>>2515423

They found out the gooks and sandcoons had no souls, so they gave up.

>>2516562
Islamic god: 1 = 1 god
Christian "monotheism": 3 = 1 ayylmao

>>2515423
>Why did Christian missionaries give up on the middle east and central asia?
They didn't.

>>2516372
yeah dude they converted like millions of people in a matter of days, while also killing and raping 90% of the christians, but somehow still managed to outnumber their christian and pagan neighbors. weird how that happens.

>plunging Europe into the dark ages
goddamn mudslimes also sacked rome !!!!

>>2516585
>Islamic god
Islam don't have a god. By quran an allah is sourse of all evil and all good, therefore allah is something alike a devilgod or a goddevil.

>>2516617
Top kek

>>2516617
>Applying label of "good" and "evil" to God's action
Shiggy diggy

>>2516617
We're reaching levels of stupidity dangerously close to achieving singularity

>>2516585
>>2516558
the trinity is not a necessary part of christianity.

it's perfectly possible to accept jesus as the son of God who was created by God but is not infact the same thing as God.

>>2517209
>vaugely defined sub-God guy is worth redeeming all of humanity
Defend this.

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>>2515423

For steppe niggers, it's nigh impossible.
1. There's not many real cities or towns on the steppe. That means very few schools (one of the best ways to convert people btw, promise them schooling and indoctrinate them with religion). This also means very few places where missionaries can congregate in safety and hold regular services.
2. Steppe culture is largely egalitarian and socioeconomically mobile. A great warrior is a great warrior, no matter his birth. There's no social dynamic that causes them suffering the same way a heavily agrarian economy does (slavery, day laboring, rigid nobility).
3. How can you explain to these people what the significance of a carpenter is? Or a temple? A structure that isn't felt skin over a wicker frame? These are peoples that are totally immersed in nature and out of the context of civilization proper.
4. How can you explain to them that humility and weakness is a virtue? This is an environment where people brutally murder each other for their shoes. Any devout Christians you make, you are sending off to certain death. Your new converts would die off.

>>2516558
>makes more sense than
maybe to a pleb who doesn't understand mind, body, and spirit

What I don't understand is the John 3:16 shit.

Why do they try to make it out to be such a big thing that "he sacrificed his only begotten son" if they were all just immortal anyway and was going to come right back, what's the fucking point

>>2515423
>Middle east
They didn't. The east had a great many Christians, up until the British and Americans started favoring zealots and Islamic despots.

>Central Asia
Muslims beat them to the punch, centuries before (Islamic Mongoloids), and the wide area- with low population density made it a poor area to focus on.

>>2519319
Not to mention Islam was much easier to spread.
1. Have one nomad convert.
2. He has multiple children by multiple wives.
3. One convert has now created 12 new converts.
4. Every slave he captures is forced to become a Muslim.
5. He tells the other guys about this sick new religion that opens up huge trade opportunities. We don't even raise pigs so the no pork thing doesn't matter anyway.

>>2519343
Islam was born from Tribal society, where
it spread from one small local Bedouin tribes to another, until they became unified force
If anyone knows how to convert steppe nomads like Mongols and Turks, it'll be Muslims

>>2515423
I think the rise of Islam just came in too fast.

>>2518929
>How can you explain to them that humility and weakness is a virtue?

Beat their heads in but then again that leads into the problem of subduing the populace.

>>2515423
Written scripture, social confirmation, locals having a questioning culture or when confronted with Christian tenets go "that's bullshit!", "makes no sense, or "don't care".

Also in some places rocking the boat with conversions wasn't wise.

>>2519825
BIG THING I FORGOT.

The better your rule the easier to force or influence conversions and state/region co-mingling.
See colonial era Africa to Christianity and Sudan/Egypt to Islam.