They were trying to kill Emmanuel Hamuzah, who converted from Islam to Christianity. In the melee, they killed his six-year-old son. They will think they are righteous in doing this because the death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
“Pastor, Two Christian Boys Killed in Islamist Attacks in Uganda,” Morning Star News, November 26, 2020:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim relatives of a former sheikh in eastern Uganda who refused to renounce Christ killed his 6-year-old son on Monday (Nov. 23), two days after Islamists in the western part of the country killed a pastor and his 12-year-old son, sources said.
Following a two-hour meeting with Muslim relatives in Buseta Sub-County’s Kameme village, Kibuku District, former sheikh (Islamic teacher) Emmanuel Hamuzah refused their demand to renounce Christ, the 38-year-old convert told Morning Star News. Shortly afterward his brothers, sisters and paternal uncle attacked him outside his house, he said.
His 6-year-old son, Ibrahim Mohammad, was outside with him when the five relatives approached at about 6:30 p.m., with one saying, “You should renounce this Christian faith, which is a disgrace to our family,” Hamuzah said.
“I refused to yield to their demand, and they started fighting me with kicks and blows,” Hamuzah told Morning Star News. “I tried to defend myself while the other attackers were stepping on my child’s neck, suffocating him.”
The assailants fled when neighbors rushed toward the commotion, and his son died before he could obtain medical help, he said. The family has not reported the assault to police out of fear of further violence by the assailants.
Hamuzah, who with his wife has three other children ages 10, 8 and 4, put his faith in Christ two years ago.
Pastor and Son Slain
Near Uganda’s western-most point, pastor Wilson Niwamanya was on his way home to Kabale with his 12-year-old son after delivering Christian literature along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo when radical Muslims stopped them near Kisoro on Saturday evening (Nov. 21), sources said.
The four Muslim extremists stopped Pastor Niwamanya and his son, Simon Peter Bizimaana (local middle children take the names of grandparents rather than their parents’ names), as they rode on motorcyels. The pastor’s son was on a motorcyle driven by a 15-year old Christian worker whose name is withheld for security reasons.
The worker said the assailants had blunt objects and a horn-hilted dagger known as a Somali sword.
“When the four attakers emerged from the bush, they immediately caught hold of Pastor Niwamanya, saying, ‘This man must die for disrespecting our religion,’” the worker told a Morning Star News contact in Kabale. “The attackers began by beating them with blunt objects and thereafter used the sword and stabbed the young boy in the stomach. He died while the pastor and I tried to wrestle the attackers.”
The assailants fled when other motorcyclists arrived. Pastor Niwamanya, with serious wounds to his head, was rushed to a medical clinic in Kisoro, where he succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday (Nov. 24), his wife said. The Christian worker sustained injuries to his hand.
Pastor Niwamanya had been receiving threatening text messages from Muslims, possibly some of the same ones who attacked him, as he received one shortly before his death reading, “Please stop giving people books that discredit Islam, and if you continue distributing these books, then you are risking your life,” his wife said….
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
Antiislamicman says
How evil this cult is
Victor Edwards says
Sounds like tge same goal of Democrats in tge US.
gravenimage says
I have my issues with the Democrats, but where are mobs of Dems murdering 6-year-old children?
mortimer says
Even well-informed Muslim clergy have left Islam after reading the well-reasoned arguments of polemicists such as Robert Spencer, Christian Prince or David Wood, PhD.
The vicious, callous murder of a little boy should receive the strictest punishment that the law of the country can provide.
gravenimage says
I hope so, Mortimer–but Uganda often appeases Islam.
J. Morgan says
Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
This is what it looks like when Muslims are 12% of the population, with areas of high concentration. This is a warning. It seems the Muslims are on a mission to systematically murder Christian leaders (and their sons). Unfortunately, Trump is the only leader who would be willing to stand up to the government of Uganda and demand answers and change. Biden, like the Pope are sold out to Communist China and would never do a thing to help these Christians.
somehistory says
How can anyone, with a straight face and peaceful sleep at night, claim that islam is a religion of peace? How can anyone defend it? How can anyone promote it?
Those who defend or promote islam have “seared their conscience as with a branding iron,” and willingly serve satan the devil who is behind this evil, demonic business of rape and murder.
The Bible says that, “Jehovah is examining hearts,” to see who is righteously inclined, and to see who has given his heart and soul to satan. He will also Judge those who engage in killing for the lust of it, murdering babies, people in their sleep, engaging in necessary work, and those who wish to share “The good news of Peace,”…real Peace…with their neighbors.
And as for those “family” members…demons have taken over what might have been natural affection for this man and his little boy. They will pay a heavy price for their evil acts.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslim relatives of a former sheikh who refused to renounce Christ kill his 6-year-old son
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Just horrifying–this poor little boy.
God, I hate Islam.
Linde Barrera says
“Kill the infidel…” as in verses 8:12 and 9:5 of the Quran does not state that idea in association with self-defense and being attacked. Islam mandates that infidels be killed because Islam cannot tolerate other religious choices. Islam has no respect for the idea that people were born with free will.
I conclude Islam is the religion that sprouted from Satan the devil, whose goal is to destroy mankind.
And my sympathies go to any persons whose loved ones are murdered by Islamists. But I continue to pray that the Holy Spirit will touch
more Muslims and convert them to Christ.
OLD GUY says
If you follow the Quran you will kill non-believers. So what’s the problem with allowing islamic people into your western country? Ans. They want to KILL you. Can’t you just feel the LOVE. ISLAMOPHOBE for ever!