Dhimmi Watch: Family of convert from Islam to Christianity threatened to murder him

September 29, 2005

Family of convert from Islam to Christianity threatened to murder him

After all, the Muslim Prophet Muhammad said, "Baddala deenahu, faqtuluhu" -- if anyone changes his religion, kill him (cf. Bukhari vol. 9, bk. 84, no. 57). As far as many Muslims are concerned, this command is not a dead historical relic, but a live mandate. "From Muslim leader to evangelist for Christ," from Compass Direct:

His father sent him to Saudi Arabia from Nigeria when he was 3 years old to be trained as an Islamic cleric, but God had other plans for Ahmed Abdullahi.
Raised in Saudi Arabia and born into a northern Nigeria family with several relatives who are Muslim clerics, Abdullahi was an unlikely candidate to become a Christian evangelist to African Muslims. His path to Christ, however, has carried him past all obstacles -- including the death sentence his family has pronounced over him -- to become just that.

Abdullahi has not seen his family in more than 20 years. Those who warmly embraced him when he returned from Saudi Arabia in 1980 as a learned, 30-year-old Muslim cleric felt they had no choice but to kill him when he turned to Christ. “When I told my people that I have decided to follow Jesus Christ, they planned to kill me, forcing me to run away,” Abdullahi told Compass.

Posted by Robert at September 29, 2005 7:02 AM
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Reminds me something that I read in an Australian detention camp about a month or so ago.

A muslim man killed a muslim woman from either Iraq or Iran, whose crime was only to pick up a bible and read it.

Posted by: Voltaire

at September 29, 2005 8:51 AM

This is OT but elsewhere on the Compass Direct site (which provides no less than 3 of todays stories of persecution for Jihad) is the latest good news about the Jordanian Christian widow Siham Qandah and her battle for custody of her children. Her Muslim brother who was trying to get custody of her children to raise them as Moslems did not file papers against the court decision to revoke his guardianship in time.

http://www.compassdirect.org/en/newslongen.php?idelement=3980

However the funds he embezzled from his niece and nephew remain outstanding. There is a lovely photo of the family.

Posted by: Granny Weatherwax

at September 29, 2005 12:05 PM

Voltaire,

That story sounds familiar to me (as it would to anybody who has a basic understanding of the mechanics of Islam) but I haven't been able to track it down. If you manage to dig it up do you think you could see your way to posting the link?

. . . while I'm on the subject of links . . .

Granny,

Thanks for your last post, (relatively) happy endings are something of a scarse commodity around here.

Posted by: Razorskarr

at September 29, 2005 1:09 PM

Its people like this bloke in the article, whom various lobby groups (like the Australian Christian Lobby currently does), regardless of beliefs (I don't care as a Christian, if its a Gay Lobby group, when it comes to Islam we are all targets), to get men like this Muslim Apostate to talk to our (corrupt) politicians.

These people know Islam, they have been Islamic, unlike many of our self-stupid-styled academics who currently advise our politicians.

Posted by: 3rdtimelucky

at September 29, 2005 6:53 PM