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France: Muslim migrants in refugee camp threaten to kill convert from Islam to Christianity

Nov 4, 2016 3:54 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

A Kurdish church leader smuggled to Britain says he received death threats – for having left Islam for Christianity – while living in makeshift camps in northern France.

The refugee did not wish to be identified since he is regarded in Islamic theology as an apostate. The price for converting to Christianity from Islam is death in Sharia states all over the Middle East and North Africa.

It is unsurprising that this convert was arrested and beaten in the streets in Kurdistan; he was also preached about in a mosque there, and his father tried to kill him.

“In the mosque the imams talked about me, and my father, and my little brother, who became a Christian too… The imam talked about us – ‘they are kafir [unbelievers], they have to die,’ from the stage, into the mosque microphone. My father [a Muslim] was filled with shame,” he said. “They were taught bad things about us in the mosque: ‘The Christians are kafir.’ Of course, they [also] say you are slaves to Israel, to the American people.”

The convert should be safe on Western soil. But he isn’t, given the indoctrinated anti-West, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-pluralism mentality that the West is allowing into its lands in the name of “diversity.”

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“Christian convert in French refugee camp told: ‘We will kill you’”, World Watch Monitor, November 2, 2016:

A Kurdish church leader smuggled to Britain says he received death threats – for having left Islam for Christianity – while living in makeshift camps in northern France.

The church leader, who did not wish to be identified, spent nine months living in camps outside the French cities of Calais and Dunkirk. He told World Watch Monitor that Kurdish Muslims in both camps antagonised him.

“In Calais, the smugglers [saw] my cross [round my neck], and said: ‘You are Kurdish and you are a Christian? Shame on you,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘Why? I’m in Europe, I’m free, I’m in a free country.’ They said, ‘No, you are not free, you are in the Jungle. The Jungle has Kurdish rule here – leave this camp.’ The smugglers were from inside the camp, and were Kurdish. They said to me, ‘We will tell the Algerians and Moroccans to kill you.’”

The church leader, who taught art in his home in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as helping to lead a church there, said he received further threats in the camp outside Dunkirk. “They [set] fire [to] my tent,” he said.

He said he moved from the so-called “Jungle” camp in Calais to the Grande-Synthe camp near Dunkirk after one of the people-smugglers told him, “You’re a Kurdish pastor? I’ve heard about you.”

“He was really dangerous, like a gangster. I was really scared,” he added.

The smugglers saw the cross round my neck, and said: ‘You are Kurdish and you are a Christian? Shame on you.’ They said to me, ‘We will tell the Algerians and Moroccans to kill you.’

A convert to Christianity from a devout Muslim family, he left Kurdistan after receiving death threats. He said he was arrested and beaten by police for preaching in the streets, and twice received letters warning him that he would be killed if he did not return to Islam.

“In the mosque the imams talked about me, and my father, and my little brother, who became a Christian too… The imam talked about us – ‘they are kafir [unbelievers], they have to die,’ from the stage, into the mosque microphone. My father [a Muslim] was filled with shame,” he said. “They were taught bad things about us in the mosque: ‘The Christians are kafir.’ Of course, they [also] say you are slaves to Israel, to the American people.”

Within his family, five of his close relatives also became Christians, he said. This strained some relationships, including with his father and two brothers, who are imams. He said one of his brothers supports ISIS, which, he said, has “definitely, definitely” created sleeper cells in Kurdistan.

He said his elderly father also tried to kill him, entering his bedroom one night with a knife. He left home the evening that four men, whom he described as having long beards and belonging to IS, came to his family home and asked where he was. He heard his mother lie for him, saying he was not at home, and escaped through the back door without the opportunity to say goodbye to her.

He said he had flown from Kurdistan to Turkey and paid around US$10,000 to cross the Mediterranean in the bottom of a boat packed with 56 others, including women and children. He also said he had experienced kindness, as he and a friend made their way through Europe from Greece, through Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia. They travelled by bus and train and walked other stretches of the journey.

“The people were really friendly and some people, when they saw us, they cried. I cried too. I cried all the time, because I missed my family and my country,” he said. “We went to Serbia. We were really tired; we didn’t take a shower for a long time. I don’t remember how long for, but we were really dirty. My whole body smelled really badly.

“When I was in Austria … this family said: ‘Stay with us in our house.’ They’re a really, really nice family. We [he was travelling with another Kurd] took a shower and we talked about our situation. I’m still in contact with them now.”

He added that the help they received, such as sharing food, was what he had done for the Syrian refugees who flocked to Kurdistan after the outbreak of civil war.

He said an Evangelical church in France had provided him with water, heating and clothes and had paid for him to stay in a hotel for a while.

He said one reason he wanted to reach Britain, rather than remain in France, however, was that he was scared following the gruesome murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel in northern France in July at the hands of two young men who had pledged allegiance to IS.

Now seeking asylum in Britain, he said that when he gets permission to work, he would like to be a missionary and lead a Kurdish church in the UK. His church in Kurdistan, which was made up of converts from Islam, was closed down by the authorities, but he said that he now feels safe in Britain….

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  1. Keith says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 4:14 am

    These are the people Europe, the US and the rest of thw western world should be protecting and giving refugee status to.
    All too often western governments seem to be protecting those who want to kill anyone who is not a devout muslim.

    • Angemon says

      Nov 4, 2016 at 5:28 am

      There needs to be pushback against the idea that “islam is a religion of peace”. Once that happens – once the average Joe on the street is acquainted with the basic tenets of islam – things will fall into place. No more “these people are escaping war, we need to take them in”, “migrants are good for economy” or “they just want another shot at life”.

      • Tanker weams says

        Nov 4, 2016 at 5:52 am

        What happens when journalists finally realize what Islam really is? Just look at poor Lara Logan who took about 500 fingers and fists in an hour and was left looking like a cocoon of secretions after a good ole taharrush gamea in Egypt. She has not been let anywhere near a mic in years, because she is not pushing the religion of peace BS.
        Who is willing to educate the populus? You talk about fighting, but just utter one word that could be construed as being racist and your life is over. Reviled in the community, unemployable, incarcerated. Screw that. I wish i had the answer but can offer no realistic solution. Trump as potus, followed by hard Brexit, Nexit, Frexit would offer some hope the western world can move away from PC and white genocide.

      • King George says

        Nov 5, 2016 at 11:11 am

        Yeah.. There is… They are Called Trump and Hanson….. People shoot the messenger not the message… What they say is The truth…

    • Musalmaanmasala says

      Nov 4, 2016 at 12:32 pm

      Please could some one describe to me what a “devout” muslim looks like?

  2. Stephanie says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 8:02 am

    Surprise, surprise!

    killer, ‘… kill them (‘disbelieve’) wherever ye find them’ http://quran.com/4/89

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/794494827601817600

  3. Alpo.Yksikivi says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 8:32 am

    It is incomprehensible how quickly and how much the civilized wold has been turned back in time. We have experienced quite peaceful worship of various kind of fantasy-beings for over what, 200 years maybe, but now, in just a couple of years of time, people are being sued, assaulted or killed just because of what they have said or drawn, about a fantasy-being or a bandit (a self-proclaimed prophet).

    And the “justice” and “judges” of the civilized will will hit the accused with a fine or jail-time. When the subject matter is a particular fantasy-being or a bandit who raped under aged children some 1400 years ago.

    Another issue I’d like to bring into discussion, the article speaks about “sharia oppression” and that is much better expression than the “sharia law”. The term “sharia law” should never be used anywhere because it is NOT any kind of law, but just a collection of sick hallucinations of a bandit who lived during the dark-ages. Instead we should use “sharia rule” or islamic rule”, or in specific cases the “sharia oppression” or “sharia brutality”.

  4. Wakeup says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Where is the witness protection scheme for these people?

  5. citycat says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 8:58 am

    Preached about in a Mosque, starting a church in Engeland?
    The English Imams will curse him. The English Muslims will kill him if they can.
    He should change his appearance at least, and not be so public as to open a church. Who is he going to get to go. The churches are empty. Most English don’t go to church. I think Jews go to religious building.
    The people are divided by religions. Hindu areas. Muslim no go areas, Jews walk from the Synagogue with superior attitude. The Hindus are serenely superior. The Muslims are sneeringly superior. Sikhs are assumingly superior. Pagans think they’re superior. The Christians are aloof superior. All the religions are superior to all the religions. Religious egos walk amok. But that’s ok. Except that Islam is violent. I don’t know if the other religions have a chat about Islam. I guess they would if approached about inter religious dialogue between the Pagans, Jews, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Satanists, et al. Worth a shot, you never know till you give it a go.

  6. Crusades Were Right! says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 10:32 am

    He feels safe in Britain? Presumably he’s not in London or any of the other big towns! Perhaps he’s in an English village, or somewhere remote and unattractive to Mohammedans like the Outer Hebrides, perhaps?

  7. Jay Boo says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 10:56 am

    This might put a damper on the EU’s plan for a weekly “Take a Muslim refugee out to lunch” day.

  8. Musalmaanmasala says

    Nov 4, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    I was a mohammedan (muslim) today I am a Christian. I can tell you honestly that half the time the muslims who do “namaz” are showing off their “piety:
    Islam has a lot of showing off like the beard, the black mark of a “namazi” got from years of rubbing the forehead to the ground during “namaz” (you will notice most of the terrorists and imams have this mark on their foreheads), the burkha, the hijab the violence to prove that “islam is the greatest”.
    I started thinking about leaving (not freely allowed in Islam because of the apostacy clause) this hypocritical “religion”. I found it stifling.

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