Balik Islam literally means "return to Islam"

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Balik Islam literally means "return to Islam" and its adherents believe that all individuals are born free of sin and are Muslims. And those that deviate are those that follow the wrong teachings of their parents and guardians. Following that, according to the Balik Islam, to abandon other faiths in favour of Islam is therefore not a conversion but instead a "return".

Apart from East Timor, the Philippines is the only Asian country with a Christian-Catholic majority. Leaders of Balik Islam argue that before the arrival of the Spanish conquerors the Philippines was a Muslim nation. But historians point out that the main indigenous belief system was animism, until Muslim colonisers arrived in the mid 1300s, followed by the Catholic Spaniards some two hundred years later.

One of the reasons I am suspicious of the origins of the Muslim religion, is the deep reasoning that is built in which prevents followers from ever being able to escape. This kind of foundation seems to me to be more than Muhammad could conjure up by himself. For example the reasoning behind the death penalty for converting from Islam.

And this Balik group is pretty clever also…. You were always a Muslim, even if you didn’t know it. That includes Catholic me I guess!

An insidious premise.