Islamic extremists accuse young man of being spy, embracing ‘foreign religion’
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
BARAWA, SOMALIA (ANS) -- Islamic extremists from Somalia’s rebel Al-Shabaab militants on Friday (Nov. 16, 2012) brutally murdered a Christian in Somalia’s coastal city of Barawa, accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witnesses said.
Another shocking murder; this time of Zakaria Hussein Omar, 26, on Jan. 2 in Cee-carfiid village, nine miles outside of the Somali capital. Omar had worked for a Christian humanitarian organization that al Shabaab banned last year
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Kenya’s population is nearly 83 percent Christian, according to Operation World, while Somalia’s is close to 100 percent Muslim.
A crowd assembled in the coastal city on Friday morning to watch the slaughter of Mose, the sources said.
“His body was split into two, then carried away, only to be dumped near the beach of Barawa city,” a Christian source who witnessed the murder told Morning Star News.
Other witnesses, Muslims, independently described the same scene. They and the Christian witness told Morning Star News that the Islamic extremists accused Mose of being a spy for foreigners and of embracing the “foreign religion of Christianity.”
Loved ones of the deceased did not risk immediately recovering the body, fearing that the militants would consider them guilty by association and kill them as well. A source said a Muslim fisherman who came upon Mose’s body this morning (Nov. 17) lamented, “What a brutal murder – why did the Al Shabaab kill this man? Did he deserve such a brutal death because he associated with the Christian people in Kenya?”
An al Shabaab rebel
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“I am saddened by the death of my friend Mose,” said an underground Christian who had encouraged Mose in his faith after the young man had returned from Kenya.
A leader of the underground church in Somalia also confirmed the murder.
“Barawa, also called Brava, has come under control of the Al Shabaab rebels fighting the government. With a population of 545,000, the city is an international port in the Lower Shebelle Region, 113 miles (181 kilometers) southwest of the capital city of Mogadishu,” the Morning Star correspondent said.
“Al Shabaab rebels have killed dozens of Christian converts from Islam since embarking on a campaign to rid Somalia of Christianity. The insurgents, variously estimated at 3,000 to 7,000, seek to impose a stricter version of sharia (Islamic law) on Somalia.
“The transitional government in Mogadishu proclaims itself moderate, but it too has embraced a version of sharia that mandates the death penalty for those who leave Islam.”
Designated a terrorist organization by several Western governments, Al Shabaab was one of several splinter groups that arose after Ethiopian forces toppled the Islamic Courts Union from power in Somalia in 2006.
4 comments:
Thats amazing that in this part of world there are people, who still want to convert to Christ.
it is. the reason is that Jesus Christ really is alive. And christians have that incredible revelation. He is so beautiful...!
Zim, why not? in this part of the world people also converted to Islam, no one was born with religion. If people converted to Islam why not also convert to Christianity? Maybe Somalia wouldn't be so violence if it was Christian or Buddhist state.
Christ died for us. He loves us so much. It's an honour to live and to die for Him.
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