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These reports, often clouded by extreme prejudice, were largely inaccurate and misinformed due to reliance on hostile sources of information or, in some cases, because their missionary authors were eager to gather converts and feared the competition of a religion that was having dramatic success. For Christian missionaries, this success presented a disconcerting contrast to the failure Christian missions were experiencing in Muslim countries, a failure that was both long-standing and well known.
(160:3)
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