The
reason for the murder of the Fr. Daniel Sysoev was
the success of his mission
among the
Muslims, says his friend the famous missionary
Father Oleg Stenyaev
"A man gets
killed when he is feared, when his spiritual
superiority is feared. Father Daniel was threatened 14
times. And even on the day of his murder, he
received a
threatening call demanding that he must stop
preaching among the Muslims.
After his assassination many Muslims were
baptized, as priests of other Churches have told me. The
murder produced the opposite effect," says Father
Oleg in an article published by the Orthodox newspaper
Krestovsky bridge.
According to Stenayev,
"When the warlord Said Buryatsky
sentenced Father Daniel to death two ‘charges’
were announced—that Father Daniel conducted open
debates with Muslims, and that he had them
baptized.
"But the Muslims themselves initiated the
debates. And the fact that they
were coming to him to be baptized shows that something is
lacking in Islam, that's why they came," said the
author.
The priest emphasized that
Father Daniel’s mission never had an
aggressive nature, and the videos of those debates are
proof of this.
"Unfortunately, the
intermissions were not filmed. During the
debates there were periods when everyone in the lobby
started talking to each other. Many Muslims gathered
around Father Daniel and asked him questions which he
answered very amicably. He had no animosity towards people
of other confessions and he spoke about it in his
lectures: "I love these people but I do not share
their faith and their beliefs," says the
article.
Father Oleg considers his friend to be a
saint.
"Saints are
difficult people, they always have an
inspirational impulse, and they are ahead of others in
ideas, words, and actions. It looked as if he was in a
hurry. But actually it was us who were behind. Father
Daniel was not in a rush, he was a measured person. But he
set the pace and the tension and it wouldn’t let one
rest idly," he wrote.
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