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Why are Jeje Nehamiah Baki's Muslim in-laws so hostile? Could it have something to do with the traditional Islamic prohibition -- indeed, a death sentence -- on those who leave Islam, a prohibition rooted in the words of Muhammad? Western Muslim spokesmen have frequently assured us that no such prohibition exists. Yet stories like this one are not hard to find.
Islamic Tolerance Alert: "Chad: Convert Loses Family Members For His Faith: Muslim in-laws seize his wife, kill his young son," from Compass Direct (thanks to all who sent this in):
ZALANGA, Nigeria, February 7 (Compass Direct News) – A little over a year after becoming a Christian in Ngudungudu, Chad in December 1995, Jeje Nehamiah Baki left the town to meet up with his nomadic family in the wilderness.His wife had already returned to her parents and their nomadic lifestyle, and Baki, a former Muslim and nomadic Fulani of the Bororo dialect in Chad, was looking forward to reuniting with her and their two children. But he said his father-in-law, having learned of his conversion, seized his wife and would allow her to go back with him only if Baki renounced his Christian faith.
“When I returned to take my wife and children away, my father-in-law told me point blank that he would not allow his daughter to stay with me, an infidel,” Baki told Compass. “In spite of all entreaties, my father-in-law refused to allow me to take my wife and children.”
For one year, Baki faced threats from family members to renounce his Christian faith. He refused, moving with them in their lives as nomadic cattle people. For about 30 minutes daily, he said, he would sit under a tree reading the Bible and praying as the cows grazed.
Threatened by his in-laws’ hostilities, Baki eventually left without his family. A few years later, he returned to try to convince his father-in-law to allow him to retrieve his wife and children. In the course of this confrontation, his father-in-law killed Baki’s young son on August 18, 2002.
“At the end of it all, he murdered my first son, Joshua, by poisoning him,” Baki said. “Having lost my first child, and with threats to my life, I had to leave without my wife, but [returning later] only succeeded in taking away our second son.”...
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Posted by Robert at February 12, 2008 8:57 AM
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C'mon, Robert. This is just your average in-laws story.
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at February 12, 2008 9:36 AM
This is Africa you know. The do things different there.
Posted by: Dumbo at February 12, 2008 11:07 AM
When Muslims misunderstand Islam.....
What a title for a TV series! Is that writer's strike still on?
Posted by: tanstaafl at February 12, 2008 2:49 PM
I am in awe of Baki's courage and faithfulness.
To all Christians reading and posting here who come from traditions in which Lent is observed - this Lent, can we devote some serious prayer time to intercession for Muslim-background-believers such as Baki? Pray that they will be able to continue in their new faith, despite the persecution. Pray that their families, instead of rejecting them, will join them (quite often, it is a couple, like Mohammed Hegazy in Egypt and his wife, who leave Islam together).
And think about forgoing this or that little luxury in order to devote the money thus saved, to Patrick Sookhdeo's Barnabas Fund, which provides physical and pastoral support, and engages in lobbying, on behalf of people like Baki.
Final point: right now, there is a war going on in Chad. The 'rebels' are supported by Sudan. The Third Jihad advances - and Christians like Baki will be first to suffer, if the Muslims gain the upper hand in Chad and it becomes an officially Islamic state.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at February 12, 2008 3:03 PM
As background to this story, for a quick overview of the ethnic-religious-political setup in Chad, see the CIA factbook online:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cd.html
Read it. Worth noting - Chad is listed as having deposits of uranium. Worthwhile oil reserves were also discovered fairly recently - oil exports began in 2004.
Religious mix: Muslim 53.1%, Catholic 20.1%, Protestant 14.2%, animist 7.3%, other 0.5%, unknown 1.7%, atheist 3.1% (1993 census). In other words: add the Catholics and Protestants together and you get 34 % Christians.
According to my other, Christian source, the 2001 edition of Johnstone's "Operation World" [OW] most of the Christians are in the south (which is also where the oil deposits are...) and most of the Muslims are in the north. The same source also says (I quote):
"the non-Muslim southerners [Christian and animist] were politically dominant until 1978, i.e. 18 years after independence from France in 1960, but since 1979 northern Muslim factions have fought amongst themselves for power, with interventions by Libya, France, and others". OW notes elsewhere, laconically, that the 'history is one of [Muslim] northerners enslaving [non-Muslim] southerners'.
'Operation World' also remarks that Chad is "officially a secular state with freedom of religion, but the government favours Islam. Muslims have become dominant in government, trade, and the army, though barely a majority in the country".
I should note that OW estimated a smaller percentage of Christians than the CIA (27.78 % as opposed to 34 %) and a higher percentage of animists (16 % as opposed to 7 %).
For one update on the current 'unrest'/ rebellion in Chad
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/11/2159189.htm?section=world
at February 12, 2008 3:47 PM
The story doesn't say how young the children were...just hideous.
Do any of you observers of islam have a human heart?
I mean, you train your children to be murderers ("palestinian" sesame street)...hate...do you ever wonder if you could be WRONG?
at February 12, 2008 5:31 PM
Jeje Nehamiah Baki is in my heart w/prayer.
“He told me it was impossible to leave Islam, as that would mean I am committing suicide,”
Which brings me, once again, to the question concerning Barack Hussein Obama's first 27 years of life as a Muslim. Apart from the obvious questions surrounding the other supremacist religion he's now affiliated with .. and apart from his lousy politics .. are we endangering ourselves further by having this man in office - a man who, at the very least, will have fatwahs issued against him simply for his apostate status?
If any Conservative is considering withholding their Presidential vote .. please keep this in mind.
Posted by: Daisytoo at February 13, 2008 1:14 PM
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