Imagine the lectures on “Islamophobia” we would be getting now from the global political and media elites if the roles were reversed here, which they would not be and should not be. But this? You’ll only hear about it here.
“Attacked Pastor in Sudan Sentenced to Month in Jail,” Morning Star News, April 25, 2022:
JUBA, South Sudan (Morning Star News) – A pastor in Sudan who was attacked during worship this month was sentenced to a month in jail on Monday (April 25) under a law against disturbing the peace, sources said.
Judge Awad Ibrahim Kury, a Muslim, found Pastor Stephanou Adil Kujo of disturbing the peace under Article 69 of Sudan’s 1991 penal code and sentenced him to one month in jail beginning April 25, said the Christian’s attorney, Shanabo Awad. The assailant who attacked him, Ibrahim Kodi, was also sentenced to a month in jail on the same charge.
During worship at the Evangelical Luthern Church in Al Hag Abdalla, about 85 miles southeast of Khartoum in Madani, Al Jazirah state, three Muslim extremists on April 10 disrupted worship and attacked three Christians. The assailants were led by Kodi, locally known as Banaga, who punched Pastor Kujo, tore his shirt and assaulted two women of the congregation, Awad said. The other two assailants tore Bibles and broke chairs.
“This ruling is not fair, and my client is innocent,” Awad told Morning Star News.
The jailed Christian leader’s church has long been harassed by Muslim extremists. Leaders of the church were detained and questioned in February after Muslim extremists upset about the presence of their worship building locked it shut on Feb. 21. Dalman Hassan, an evangelist arrested on Feb. 27 and released along with the church pastor later that day, said the Muslims accused church members of hostility toward Islam by holding gatherings on Fridays, the Muslim day of mosque prayer….
In Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, Sudan remained at No. 13, where it ranked the previous year, as attacks by non-state actors continued and religious freedom reforms at the national level were not enacted locally….
The Christian population of Sudan is estimated at 2 million, or 4.5 percent of the toal population of more than 43 million.
Westman says
Does any Islamic nation exist in which Islam is not the de facto state religion? Does any Islamic nation exist which did not become Islamic through conquest by Muslims?
bill says
So much for freedom of religion
somehistory says
And it isn’t ‘fair.” But what is to be expected from a mozlum ‘judge’?
This reminds me of school when a bully would attack another kid and the teacher would punish both.
Or, one or two students act up and the entire class is punished.
These poor Christians…don’t even have to be fighting back to be charged with disturbing the peace. the mozlum ‘judge’ wants them to stop meeting, so has punished the pastor with jail time…believing if he does this enough. the pastor will give in and stop meeting at the church.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Sudan: Muslims enter church during service, attack three Christians, pastor arrested and jailed
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Just appalling.
And so much for the claim that Sudan is now “moderate” and protects religious minorities…
Infidel says
Yeah, while there may be reason to be optimistic about the Emirates and Bahrein, there is little reason to be optimistic about Sudan, which has had 40 years of jihadist government both under Gen Nimeiri and under Omar al Bashir, so they have at least 2 complete generations that grew up totally indoctrinated. There is a reason that Sudan was Osama’s first choice of refuge when Saudi Arabia became too hot for him
OLD GUY says
No such thing as a moderate Muslim or Islamic followers.
Andrew Blackadder says
Juba is the main Town for Christians in the Sudan, situated on the far south of that Desert country.
islam and the morons that follow this Fascist Religious Cult seriously lack in any kind of tolerance, understanding or compassion of anybody other than their own kind.
I have been speaking recently with a muslim woman I knew in Malaysia and even thought she drinks booze, smokes cigarettes, even had a Heroin problem some years back, but she tells me that I should not call islam such a bad name so I asked her to inform me about the beauty of islam…. Silence…
This is a perfect example of the indoctrination children are taught in a muslim family where they cannot free think about islamic teachings and think they may go to hell if they doubt this nonsense faith of evil.
PRCS says
Hmm!