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Interfaith outreach in Zanzibar: Muslim mob storms church, beats visiting preacher

Jan 25, 2014 12:06 am By Robert Spencer

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“We are looking for the bishop of the church to slaughter him – we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making.”

Pictured above is a church that Muslims tore down in 2012. Probably the Christians in that church were making too much noise as well. Islamic law forbids Christians to ring bells at their churches, or make any public display of Christian worship. They must instead exist in a state of humiliation and subordination. Such assumptions are likely behind the delicate sensibilities of these Islamic supremacists who suddenly find that they can’t stand the noise from the local church.

“Muslim Extremists Attack Visiting Preacher on Tanzania’s Zanzibar Island: Members of nearby mosque threaten to burn down church building,” from Morning Star News, January 24:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – More than 100 Muslim extremists on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar stormed a church following an evening worship service on Jan. 11 and beat a visiting preacher, sources said.

The mob, including suspected members of Islamic extremist groups, meant to attack the Pentecostal Evangelism Fellowship of Africa (PEFA) congregation’s senior pastor, Bishop Daniel Kwilemba, who was not present at the church site in Kisauni village, outside Zanzibar City. Instead, they found a preacher visiting from the Tanzania mainland – William Saidi of the Free Pentecostal Church in Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, church leaders said.

“These rowdy Muslims were shouting and yelling, saying, ‘We are looking for the bishop of the church to slaughter him – we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making,’” said a church elder.

The mob fled when police arrived and rescued the pastor after he had suffered multiple contusions for which he is still taking medication, sources said. The assailants tore his shirt and suit coat.

Since the attack, the Muslim extremists have been issuing threats that the church should leave the area near Zanzibar City, capital of the semi-autonomous island in the Indian Ocean about 25 kilometers (16 miles) off the coast of Tanzania, sources said. A church member added that the congregation has been living in fear for their lives.

“At the moment we cannot worship freely because we are being threatened,” the church member said. “The Muslims are accusing us of making a lot of noise while they themselves make a lot of noise.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 12:23 am

    Zanzibar was one of the last and most ferocious slave centers of the Islamic world. The altar of Christ Church Anglican Cathedral is said to be in the exact place where the main “whipping post” of the slave market used to be. The bishop asked for the spot to be forever marked by the church’s opposition to slavery.

    Now the Muslims want to bring back slavery because enslavement is an eternal feature in Islam. First step: kill the Christians who oppose slavery.

  2. Salah says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 1:26 am

    “The Muslims are accusing us of making a lot of noise while they themselves make a lot of noise.”…

    Why do we hear a lot of noise when Muslims pray?

    Narrated Abu Huraira:
    Allah’s Apostle said, “When the Adhan (islamic call to prayer) is pronounced Satan takes to his heels and passes wind with noise during his flight in order not to hear the Adhan”
    Bukhari 1.11.582

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/satanic-fart.html

  3. dina says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 6:19 am

    first they came for the Africans,

  4. mortimer says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 9:32 am

    Stephanie is correct: “they are devout Muslims”.

    Were the predecessors of these vigilantes ‘EXTREMIST’ one hundred and fifty years ago? NO, THEY WERE NORMAL MUSLIMS!

    Vigilantism is normative Islam, rather than an aberration. The ‘average’ Muslim is exempted from jihad if ‘someone’ is conducting jihad.

    The persecution and ethnic cleansing of Christians in Zanzibar is normative JIHAD! It is not ‘extremism’.

  5. mortimer says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 9:36 am

    Singing and the use of instruments in Protestant worship is very offensive under Sharia law and under the Pact of Omar. It must be punished. Normative Islam, rather than ‘extreme’.

  6. vanhetgoor says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 11:19 am

    That is strange. A church can not be destroyed, unless from within. The church-building can be demolished, but that is not important. A church is a group of people, the brothers and the sisters in Christ. Two people can form a church, as long as a group of people feel the love, than it is okay.

    Moslems simply don’t get it. They have a problem!

  7. Mo-Blows says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    But just let one single mosque or Muslim be attacked by a Christian or any other person and the world will stand up and decry intolerance and persecution!

    The western world is still in it’s ” Neville Chamberlain” stage and it’s pretty scary to see how many people in the west won’t believe their lying eyes and ears for the actual lie of political correctness.

  8. Bernie says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 5:56 pm

    Attacks by Muslims against local Christians have been going on for a long time. Back in 1963, some students I had from Tanzania (or Tanganyika as it was then) told me that one morning a group of Muslims broke through the barb wire fence around their local radio broadcast transmitter and damaged the aerial system, putting it ‘off the air’. They chose a Sunday morning for the attack, knowing that the Christians who operated the station, would probably be at church. However, the staff managed a temporary fix to get the transmitter operating again in time to broadcast the local soccer match that afternoon.

    The students also told me about the increasing Islamisation of their country; and the ‘dark side’ of Islam, with on-going attacks by Muslims on nearby villages, and abduction of women and girls. And they also spoke about Zanzibar’s involvement in the slave trade, which of course, was also run by Muslims.

    As children at school, we learned virtually nothing about Islam. Our only information came from the stories we were told by some of the soldiers who had fought in the Middle East during WW I & II (and many of them were horrific). But back then, I’m sure that most Australians regarded Islam as just another ‘Tale from the Arabian Nights’ – and even today, most of our politicians are still asleep at the wheel.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    “We are looking for the bishop of the church to slaughter him – we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making.”
    …………………………………………

    “The noise they are making”—this is straight out of the 7th-century Pact of Umar rules for dhimmmis:

    “We shall not manifest our religion publicly nor convert anyone to it…

    “We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims. We shall use only clappers in our churches very softly. We shall not raise our voices when following our dead.”

    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pact-umar.asp

    In other words, Christians will be as close to invisible as possible—and even this is no guarantee that they will be spared violence from avid Muslims.

    More:

    NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – More than 100 Muslim extremists on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous island of Zanzibar stormed a church following an evening worship service on Jan. 11 and beat a visiting preacher, sources said.
    ………………………………………

    Tanzania is not Muslim-majority—but Zanzibar is. And this is what happens in any place where Muslims have a large enough presence.

    More:

    “At the moment we cannot worship freely because we are being threatened,” the church member said. “The Muslims are accusing us of making a lot of noise while they themselves make a lot of noise.”…
    ………………………………………

    This civilized Christian believes that the same standards should be applied to Christians and Muslims alike—but pious Muslims disagree, and are willing to use bloody violence to asset their supremacy.

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jan 26, 2014 at 6:07 am

    From the article: “At the moment we cannot worship freely because we are being threatened,” the church member said. “The Muslims are accusing us of making a lot of noise while they themselves make a lot of noise.”…

    Precisely.

    Gravenimage, above, has already cogently pointed out that Muslims objecting to being able to hear Christians singing, praying, etc, is straight out of the Pact of Omar “rules for dhimmis”.

    Further: whether he knows it or not, this African Christian pastor has put in a nutshell *the* problem of Islam: that Muslims reject the principle of reciprocity and instead engage in turnspeak, projection and reversal of reality. They make a lot of noise themselves…then spin round and accuse the *Christians* of being noisy, and demand that they be silenced, and indeed, seek to forcibly silence them.

  11. Zathras says

    Jan 26, 2014 at 6:54 am

    Some of you may remember the movie: “Mondo Cane”. The makers of this “interesting” film also made one called : “”Africa Addio” about post colonial Africa and the expression of freedom by “oppressed” Africans.

    The scenes above Zanzibar( they were fired upon when they attempted to land) were quite impressive seeing as this had been THE Muslim slave trade port for some 1200+ years and the newly liberated Zanzibarians certainly had fresh memories of it.
    I am just surprised that Muslims were allowed back into the island. They certainly had the right way of dealing with the problem then. Recommended viewing on DVD although hard to find. It did shock me until I realised that there are almost NO survivors of the far larger and longerlived eastern Africa slave trade left in the Middle East unlike the nasty Americas slave trade where 90% left descendants.(the men were castrated and half cast African/Arab babies were murdered after birth).

    Ahh the west and the world have such short memories.

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