Baptis Massal Muslim Saat Jatuhnya Islam di Granada Spanyol?
Sesaat setelah mendarat di Ambon, Maluku, 1546, St Francis Xavier (Fransiskus Xaverius) menulis surat kepada seorang temannya di Goa, menggambarkan kondisi Muslim di sana.
Menurut Fransiskus Xaverius, kaum Muslim tidak tahu tentang agama mereka. Ia menyebut ‘Islam’ sebagai “sekte jahat Muhammad”. Fransiskus optimistis jika dikirimkan misi ke Maluku maka kaum Muslim akan bisa dihancurkan dalam waktu singkat.
(The best thing about these Moors is that they know nothing about their erroneous sect. For want of one to preach the truth to them, these Moors have not become Chris tians… If a dozen of them came each year, this evil sect of Mohammed would be destroyed in a short time. All would become Christians, and God our Lord would thus not be so much offended as he is now, since there is no one to reproach them from their vices and sins of infidelity. (Adolf Heuken SJ, “Be my Witness to the Ends of the Earth!”: The Catholic Church in Indonesia before the 19th Century, Jakarta: Cipta Loka Caraka, 2002).
*Naskah ini merupakan bagian dari artikel karya Dr Adian Husaini yang terbit di Harian Republika.
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