No doubt that most learned of imams, Pope Francis, is on his way to Bout right now, so as to explain to these Muslims that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
“Church Buildings Burned Down in Southeastern Sudan,” Morning Star News, January 23, 2020:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – Temporary worship structures in southeastern Sudan were set ablaze on Jan. 16, three weeks after the buildings they had replaced were burned down, sources said.
In southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile state, Islamists in Bout, Tadamon District were suspected of burning down the structures erected after arsonists on Dec. 28 razed the worship buildings of the Sudan Interior Church, Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Church, according to local news reports and a source in South Sudan close to the border area.
“This incident is true, the three churches were set on fire twice in less than a month,” the pastor in Maban, whose name is withheld for security reasons, told Morning Star News.
Some Bout area Muslims were upset about the presence of the churches there, and they are suspected in the fires, he said.
A rights organization reportedly criticized police for taking no action after area Christians requested an investigation.
Sudanese Minister of Religious Affairs Nasr al-Din Mufreh issued a statement saying police had arrested and questioned a suspect who was released due to lack of evidence, according to one report. Asserting that only one church building was burned, Mufreh said Sudan was committed to religious freedom and protecting houses of worship from any threats.
Police will continue investigating, he said in the statement, issued while he was on an official visit to Washington, D.C.
“If it is proven that it occurred as a result of a criminal offense, the perpetrators will be identified, pursued and brought to justice,” he reportedly said.
In light of advances in religious freedom since former President Omar al-Bashir was ousted in April, the U.S. State Department announced on Dec. 20 that Sudan had been removed from the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) that engage or tolerate “systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom” and was upgraded to a watch list.
Sudan had been designated a CPC by the U.S. State Department since 1999….
Sudan ranked 7th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.
Michael Copeland says
“Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth” –
Sheik Farook al-Mohammedi
Jayell says
“Islam should be destroyed and wiped off the face of the earth”….
Try saying THAT in public in the civilised world!
JTLiuzza says
“Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth”
Lucifer
Rufolino says
Robert, Thank you for a reminder of what the Pope said about a “correct reading” of the Koran being its opposition to violence.
His ridiculous statement cannot be repeated often enough. It’s absurdity in the face of what is actually happening might eventually wake people up to the truth.
Michael Copeland says
Second class status by law is decreed
For all those affirming a different creed.
Denied equal rights, they’re classed as unclean,
Their symbols of faith are a crime when seen.
As proof of submission a tax must be paid,
No church can be built, no repair can be made.
It’s perfectly legal to own a slave,
But forbidden to set up a cross on a grave.
From “Sharia Law”, a poem
https://jdlcanada.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/sharia-law-a-poem-by-michael-copeland/
gravenimage says
Thank you, Michael.
jewdog says
Sudanese “My Home Town” sing-along:
I remember Abdul,
He was the village idiot,
And though it seems a pity so,
He liked to burn down churches
Just to watch the glow…
But nothing could be done
Because he was the imam’s son..
(apologies to Tom Lehrer)
mortimer says
Message to Pope Francis: normative Islam teaches segregation from and hostility towards non-Muslims and their culture:
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
elee says
How much foreign aid is Sudan receiving from your country? WHY?
gravenimage says
Trump has gotten a lot of crap for trying to cut aid to Muslim hell holes:
“U.S. lawmakers blast Trump’s plan for diplomatic, foreign aid cuts”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-diplomacy-pompeo/us-lawmakers-blast-trumps-plan-for-diplomacy-foreign-aid-cuts-idUSKCN1R81MG
Walter Sieruk says
In Sudan all those arson Islamic church burning is further proof,as is more proof is actually needed, that there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their churches .
One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
Battle says
The Islam Moslem burned churches prove Sudan is Hades.
gravenimage says
Sudan: Muslims burn down three churches, then burn down the temporary structures each congregation built
……………….
South Sudan ceded from Sudan just to escape this kind of Muslim savagery.
Joe S. says
Shame really, just as we thought Sudan had entered a new phase that is conciliatory towards the Christian minority. At least South Sudan seems to be at peace now.
somehistory says
Nothing will come of the “investigation.” No one will be arrested, charged, tried and punished. And more churches will burn, and most likely, the people will be murdered as they are being in other nations .