Basing relief from torture on one’s ability to recite the Qur’an is akin to other incidents, such as when the Muslim in Minnesota who asked mall shoppers if they were Muslim and then stabbed non-Muslims. In Mali, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” took hostages, freeing those who could recite the Qur’an. In September 2013 at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, Muslims murdered people who couldn’t answer questions about Islam. In June 2014, Muslims murdered people who could not pass an Islam quiz. In November 2014, Muslims murdered 28 non-Muslims who couldn’t recite Qur’an verses. In April 2015, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” stormed Garissa University College, and only shot those who couldn’t recite Qur’an. In a Bangladesh restaurant in July 2016, the jihadis spared those who could recite from the Qur’an. In July 2017 in Kenya, Muslims asked Christians to “recite Islamic dogmas” and murdered them when they couldn’t do so. In May 2018 in Belgium, a Muslim who murdered four people told a hostage that he wouldn’t harm her since she was Muslim and was observing the Ramadan fast. In September 2018 in Kenya, Muslims murdered two non-Muslims for failing to recite the Qur’an. In the Philippines in February 2019, Muslims murdered a man for failing to recite Qur’an verses, and released six others who could recite them.
“Qur’an recitation saves protestor from torture in Sudan,” by Khalil Charles, Middle East Monitor, March 11, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Outside an unmarked building in a residential area of Khartoum, Um Mohammed crouched down with her head between her knees unable to stand any longer. She and a few family members were waiting for news of her eldest son detained by security forces after being bundled into a pick-up truck earlier that day. She feared that he was being beaten and tortured for allegedly burning a rubber tyre while participating in the street demonstrations calling for the downfall of the Sudanese regime.
Her story is typical of the mothers and families in Sudan whose loved ones have joined the protests over the past four months. Unofficial estimates are that more than 2,000 people have been arrested, although the government claims that the figure is actually a lot smaller than that. In any case, a large majority of those detained have now been released as a gesture of goodwill by the government and at the insistence of opposition groups. On Saturday, for example, women prisoners, some of whom were on hunger strike, were set free.
For 46-year-old Um Mohammed, her five-hour wait ended when her son, visibly traumatised, emerged after sunset from an unmarked security building in the Bahri residential area of the capital. His hair was patchy having been partly shaved with a razor; he carried his belt in one hand; he was barefooted and his trousers sagged well below his waist. Mohammed is one of the lucky ones, having been threatened with torture by electricity. Bruised and in pain, he was released after signing an affidavit not to join the protests ever again.
Calmly recounting his experience, a startling reason emerged for the curtailment of his torture: “During the interrogation and beating they tried to trap me into making false statements or into contradicting myself,” he explained. “Suddenly, they asked me if I had memorised any of the Qur’an. I told them I had. They gave me verses and asked me to complete the recitation and only stopped beating me when I recited the different parts of the Qur’an at length correctly.”…
Paul says
I post on here. When I travel to muslim countries I take a paperback copy of the Koran, Marmaduke Pickthall translation with me. I also have a diary with it that contains my travails as I transition. I am still alive.
Paul
CRUSADER says
I traveled a few times on long flights with a Koran and a Book of Mormon.
In reading through them, my distinct impression is that both were written for bad frat boys
who wanted an excuse for booty and just lifted scripture from other sources and embellished.
Lydia Church says
I make sure I have enough Bible verses memorized and I always bring a Bible with me when traveling. In any situation if I am asked to recite anything religious, I whip out my Bible verses from memory. In this way, I am identified as belonging to Christ. I have made my public confession of belonging to Him and having converted to Christianity and my vows to remain in it and declare my faith publicly. He said we are His witnesses to the ends of the earth. If I die a martyr, I praise the Lord for it! Jesus did not say to be His witnesses ‘only if our lives are not threatened’ or if we are not faced with any other problem. He said to love Him above all else, including our very lives.
“Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10; 32-33
“For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” Matthew 16; 25
Folks, if you’re a Christian…..it’s not optional. You can’t pretend to be ‘not’ a Christian to save your life. Jesus wasn’t playing games here.
Save all your ‘but’s and ‘what about’s and ‘what if’s for Jesus when you have to answer to Him.
christianblood says
U$ is footing 1 Billion taxpayer dollars to give new missiles to its Saudi=ISIS allies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxtpzYL-Xs
Al says
Well said!
Al says
Well, of course, we must understand that any such edxpose’ reporting and commenting is deemed “islamaphobia” in our culture de jure.
christianblood says
CIA Is Conspiring With ISIS In Northeastern Syria: Turkish Media. More below:
https://southfront.org/cia-is-conspiring-with-isis-in-northeastern-syria-turkish-media/
CRUSADER says
And that’s why SOUTH Sudan exists!
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gravenimage says
Yes–there have been fewer horror stories out of Sudan since most of the Christians and animists left and formed their own nation.
Paul says
Thanks for not slagging me off. But I do want to get through their fifth world countries and I usually have a woman with me. I regretted the post but hell, I do want to tell the truth.
Paul
CRUSADER says
“Khartoum” (1966) movie about warfare in Sudan
and the zealot warlord known as “The Mahdi”
discussing PEACE with General Gordon….
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1040072/Khartoum-Movie-Clip-The-Peace-Of-The-Sudan.html
mortimer says
Reply to ‘Gordon’ film: the Mahdi hates disbelievers ‘for the sake of Allah’. Olivier conveyed the correct attitude.
CRUSADER says
Films back then got most of it right.
“Four Feathers” was also about this era.
Speed forward to these times in film making
and we get the muddle of “Kingdom of Heaven”
with Islamists rewriting the screenplay due to sensitivities
and perceived offenses.
MFGA
Make Films Great Again (GRATE Again)
mortimer says
Al Walaa wal Baraa (association with Muslims versus disownment of non-Muslim kafirs) is an ‘ESSENTIAL’ teaching of Islam. You cannot understand this behavior until you learn Al Walaa wal Baraa. Please learn it.
http://westindanger.com/wb/walaa-baraa.html
FYI says
If christians in islamic countries are ever persecuted by muslims ,or Christian pastors in prisons are being hassled by muslims…
…consider giving the muslims this..
KORAN 10:94
“And if thou muhammed art in doubt concerning that which we reveal unto thee,then question those who read the scripture that was before thee{i.e the Bible}”
On that basis muslims should LISTEN to what is in the Bible…
…like the EXODUS 20 laws which the koran DISAGREES with{..the teachings of the koran are totally at odds with the EXODUS 20 laws and the 2 chief commandments found in Judaism and Christianity are MISSING in islam}
KORAN 5:46-47
“WE bestowed on {Jesus }the Gospel wherein are guidance and a light confirming that which was revealed before it in the Torah”
Perhaps they should listen to the Gospel{since allah claims to have written it..}
muslims of course say the Bible is corrupted but there is no evidence for that:besides,at the time the koran was written, it is clear that there was no problem with the Bible or belief that it was in any way corrupted {koran 3:3}
gravenimage says
Sudan: Prisoner says security forces “only stopped beating me when I recited the parts of the Qur’an”
…………………
Horrible–but no surprise.