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Uganda: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” incites police to arrest six Christian pastors for “blasphemy”

Dec 2, 2018 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Uganda doesn’t even have a law against blasphemy. But it seems as if everywhere in the world authorities are afraid to stand up to violent intimidation.

“Muslim Mob Incites Police to Arrest Six Pastors in Uganda,” Morning Star News, November 30, 2018:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Officers arrested six pastors in eastern Uganda on Saturday (Nov. 24) after hundreds of Muslims, furious over a public talk comparing Christianity with Islam, descended on the local police station, sources said.

Following a series of public events earlier this month at which mosque leaders criticized Christianity in Sironko, about 22 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Mbale, the local Pastors’ Fellowship had invited Pastor Moses Wangaia, a popular Christian apologist based in Mbale, to speak at a series of open-air talks defending the faith.

After a week of peaceful debate, Pastor Wangaia, an ex-Muslim sheikh (teacher) formerly known as Hajji Bidongo Byayesu, arrived for the series of talks designed to refute three weeks of Muslim speakers’ arguments against the designation of Jesus as the Son of God. Tensions began as Pastor Wangaia gave his testimony of how he converted to Christianity and used the Koran, Bible and Hadith (sayings and deeds of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam) to make his case, sources said.

The pastor pointed out the differences between the Koran’s portrayal of Issa (Jesus) and the Christ of the Bible, and he also pointed out the differences between the koranic Allah and the biblical God, sources said.

Police permitted the 70 pastors and 30 churches that organized the talks to stage them over a three-week period in the predominantly Muslim area, the sources said.

“It was unfortunate that later the Muslims influenced the police to act against the Christians because of the uproar by the Muslims in Sironko town,” a source said.

By Saturday (Nov. 24), Muslim leaders mobilized 1,800 Muslims from other areas to enter Sironko chanting the jihadist slogan, “Allah Akbar,” local sources told Morning Star news. Muhammad Wakabi from Jinja and sheikh Ustazi Swaleh from Kadama led the mob, they said.

The previous day mob leaders had gone to the Sironko central police station alleging that the Christian speakers had disrespected the Koran. The Muslim throng arrived at the event venue on Saturday (Nov. 24) with police officers and began dismantling the public address system, sources said. They removed amplifiers, microphones, loudspeakers, keyboards, a generator and the wiring system.

Officers then arrested six pastors identified as Wangaia (formerly Byayesu), Mwanje, Anthony, Palapande Tom, Jowashi and Grace. As police forced the six pastors into the police vehicle, the Muslim mob shouted, “Away with these pastors and their families for blaspheming the Koran and Hadith,” sources said.

Those arrested spent three cold nights at the Sironko police station, they said.

“When Muslims alleged that Jesus is not the son of God, we Christians did not pick up stones to attack the Muslims, and we are shocked that the Muslims and police officers have taken such a wild move to frustrate Christians from propagating the message of the kingdom of Jehovah God,” said a church leader who requested anonymity for security reasons.

Uganda has no law against blasphemy, but Muslims adhering to sharia (Islamic law) in several countries try to enforce it by influencing police and courts, fabricating such charges as disturbing the peace, sources said.

A Sironko deputy district police commander identified only as Abantu told Morning Star News that the pastors were released after three days, on Tuesday (Nov. 27), without charges but with a stern warning.

“After two weeks of peaceful dialogue between the Muslims and Christians, word reached our police that the Muslims were planning to attack the Christians,” Abantu said. “On Nov. 23, the Muslims recorded serious allegation at our police station that the Christians were using abusive language, insulting and provoking their religion using the Koran.”

He confirmed that the Muslim mob on Saturday marched in the streets of Sironko chanting and shouting, “Allah Akbar.”

Tensions led to a meeting among Christian and Muslim leaders, along with Local Council 5 and district heads. The Christians were cautioned to stop using “provocative language,” and the six pastors were released as police continued investigating the allegations against them, Abantu said.

Since the pastors’ release, they have received threatening messages.

“The struggle is not yet over, we will teach you [Christians] a lesson,” read a text message to one pastor.

Another to Pastor Wangaia read, “Know that disrespecting the Koran means a punishable crime, which is death.”

Christians in Sironko fear for their lives, sources said, adding that the Pastors’ Fellowship has asked police to be on high alert….

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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 8:18 am

    “After a week of peaceful debate, Pastor Wangaia, an ex-Muslim sheikh (teacher) formerly known as Hajji Bidongo Byayesu, arrived for the series of talks designed to refute three weeks of Muslim speakers’ arguments against the designation of Jesus as the Son of God. Tensions began as Pastor Wangaia gave his testimony of how he converted to Christianity and used the Koran, Bible and Hadith (sayings and deeds of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam) to make his case, sources said.”

    There’s nothing like an honest ex-muslim simply telling the truth, to bring out the “peace” in the Religion of Peace. They are embarrassed by the fact that an ex-muslim can easily prove their claims wrong, so they resort to the only way they know to stop it- violence.

    Islam: the most childish and insecure religion known to man. Fortunately, those of us alive today are witnesses to its early death throes:

    https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/03/15/the-number-of-ex-muslims-in-america-is-rising?frsc=dg%7Ce

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 1:19 pm

      i certainly hope so, Peter, but i fear that because the left is using pious muslims as a proxy army to destroy free societies, it won’t matter too much, because being a slave is still being a slave, no matter who the master – leftism or islam – happens to be. it looks like the leftist brownshirts are winning in the u.s., where, were people educated in the history of their nation and the nature of freedom, they (the brownshirts) and their poisonous leftist ideology would get nothing but condemnation. it would appear that the left will depose the constitution (mr. obama was well on the way to that, and ms. clinton would likely have finished the job), yet when it tries to solve the muslim problem with the usual leftist solution (mass murder) once they take power, we will likely see almost all “moderate muslims” turn pious, and islam will likely win that fight.

      BTW, thanks for the link; i read that article when it came out, but lost it afterwards. the only argument i have with the author is that he claims that “[n]on-believing Mormons, Hasidic Jews and evangelical Christians find themselves in a similar predicament.” being a christian is being a “little Christ,” and i fail to see anything in the new testament that excuses Jesus for hanging around with prostitutes and tax collectors (for the romans; they were usually criminals under the former rulers of roman provinces and client states), which means that if one calls himself a christian, he *should* be working with people who need His love, and that would include apostate relatives. furthermore, it is disingenuous at the very least to equate ostracization with murder; the doctrines of *NONE* of the named religions orders its adherents to murder apostates, but islam *DOES*. perhaps the author’s original statement was changed by the editor, or maybe the sentence was added by same; hopefully, the author learns more about islam soon if not.

      • Peter Buckley says

        Dec 3, 2018 at 12:59 pm

        https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/02/spain-reels-far-right-vox-party-storms-andalucian-parliament/

  2. Antisharia says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 8:40 am

    Many muslims are brainwashed followers of Muhammed.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Dec 2, 2018 at 2:34 pm

      absolutely correct, Anti; their knowledge of islam is usually limited to what the imam tells them, but they swallow that hook, line, and sinker. the nature of the cult is that if somebody calls one out for doing something “blasphemous,” one must take drastic measures to get back in the good graces of the most pious cult members; otherwise, the pious take matters into their own hands. in islam, mob rule and vigilante action *will* get U into jannah (paradise), unlike any other religion of which i have knowledge (and if there is another such cult, please let me know about it!).

  3. b.a. freeman says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 11:11 am

    … the Pastors’ Fellowship has asked police to be on high alert …
    —
    and “high alert” means “allow the pious muslims to murder christians” to the police. the only way that the behavior of the police could be considered acceptable would be if they had escorted the pastors to safety and called it “arrest” to mollify the muslim mob, but from the story, that is not what happened. as we watch, yet another nation is being consumed by the disease of the gangsta cult of islam.

  4. Lookmann says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 11:51 am

    …..’everywhere in the world authorities are afraid to stand up to violent intimidation’

    Only if it is by the Muslims.

    Police, authorities do not fear others. Of course, non-Muslims do not indulge in such tantrums.

  5. gravenimage says

    Dec 2, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    Uganda: Muslim mob screaming “Allahu akbar” incites police to arrest six Christian pastors for “blasphemy”

    Uganda doesn’t even have a law against blasphemy. But it seems as if everywhere in the world authorities are afraid to stand up to violent intimidation.
    …………………………

    Nor is Uganda majority-Muslim–it is, in fact, 85% Christian. Muslims make up only 13% of the population. But that is enough for them to make violent demands.

    More:

    Following a series of public events earlier this month at which mosque leaders criticized Christianity in Sironko, about 22 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Mbale, the local Pastors’ Fellowship had invited Pastor Moses Wangaia, a popular Christian apologist based in Mbale, to speak at a series of open-air talks defending the faith…
    …………………………

    So criticizing Christianity is fine, but it is “blasphemy” to say anything critical of Islam. This is, indeed, the orthodox Islamic view.

    More:

    After a week of peaceful debate, Pastor Wangaia, an ex-Muslim sheikh (teacher) formerly known as Hajji Bidongo Byayesu, arrived for the series of talks designed to refute three weeks of Muslim speakers’ arguments against the designation of Jesus as the Son of God.
    …………………………

    His being an apostate from Islam likely enraged the Muslims all the more.

    More:

    “It was unfortunate that later the Muslims influenced the police to act against the Christians because of the uproar by the Muslims in Sironko town,” a source said.
    …………………………

    The police caved to Muslim threats–and this now sets a precedent of punishing Christians and other Infidels from being able to speak openly about Islam–backed with state force.

    More:

    “When Muslims alleged that Jesus is not the son of God, we Christians did not pick up stones to attack the Muslims…
    …………………………

    That doesn’t mean that Muslims are so civilized…

    More:

    Uganda has no law against blasphemy, but Muslims adhering to sharia (Islamic law) in several countries try to enforce it by influencing police and courts, fabricating such charges as disturbing the peace, sources said.

    A Sironko deputy district police commander identified only as Abantu told Morning Star News that the pastors were released after three days, on Tuesday (Nov. 27), without charges but with a stern warning.
    …………………………

    We’ve seen charges like this in the West. as well–threatening arrest and imprisonment of peaceful people if *Muslims* are threatening violence. Not just unjust,but also, far from calming things, this is apt to embolden Muslims because they know that threatening people *works*.

    More:

    Since the pastors’ release, they have received threatening messages.

    “The struggle is not yet over, we will teach you [Christians] a lesson,” read a text message to one pastor.

    Another to Pastor Wangaia read, “Know that disrespecting the Koran means a punishable crime, which is death.”
    …………………………

    Are the police going to charge those threatening death with disturbing the peace? I wouldn’t count on it…

  6. Mary says

    Dec 4, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    Religion of peace my A$$

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