First Grain of Sand — Page 77
A KGB SPY ENTERS OUR MIDST 61 a week. It is clear this dream foretold the behaviours of Abdul Qadir. Now, the question arises as to why the government sent Abdul Qadir to investigate me in the first place. The answer is that in this country, the irreligious and atheist ideology is much larger in com- parison to other countries, which is why the government thinks ill of religious people and views them with suspicion. In the first World War of 1914, the Russian Czar, Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov, was murdered, and the first person to become head of the government was Vladimir Lenin. As soon as Lenin became president, he said, 'Бога нет. Все мы товарищи' [pronounced Boga nyet. Vse my tova-rishchi. ], meaning, 'There is no God. We are all comrades. ' Since these words came from the most powerful man in the nation, it influenced the public all over the country, and people were in awe of the new powerful rule. Any open acceptance of the existence of God was seen as inflicting pain and suffering on oneself. Consequently, many Christian pastors and other scholars were killed at that time, and many were expelled from the coun- try out of the suspicion that they would destroy the country by creating social unrest under the guise of religion. Thus, in the eyes of the government, religious leaders incite rebellions and are the enemy of the state. The Russian government would, thus, put any religious teachers or preachers through all sorts of misery and suffering. If the government would persecute religious figures of their own country, just imagine how they would see someone like me who is a religious missionary from another country! Since they were totally alienated from religion, they were incapable of