If you can’t win the debate with rational arguments, then it’s “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4).
“Radical Muslims Kill Christian after Religion Debate,” Morning Star News, January 10, 2023:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A 37-year-old father of four was killed on Jan. 2 after participating in a Christian-Muslim debate in eastern Uganda at which 13 Muslims put their faith in Christ, sources said.
Ahamada Mafabi was returning from the debate in Nakaloke, Sironko District outside Mbale when men on two motorcycles shouting the jihadist slogan, “Allah Akbar [God is greater],” knocked him off his motorcycle and sliced his neck with a knife, one of the Christians sent to escort him said.
The attack took place at about 10 p.m. in Munkaga cell, Bukasakya Ward in Mbale, said his pastor, whose name is withheld for security reasons.
“Muslims responded openly to receiving Christ,” the pastor said of the public debate that took place before the attack. “There were shouts from the Muslims demanding that Mafabi leave the grounds of the meeting, saying, ‘Mafabi, stop your blasphemous utterance of equating Issa [Jesus] to God, calling him the Son of God.’”
Seeing the hostility, the pastor assigned two Christians to escort Mafabi to his home in Butaleja District, he said.
One of the men escorting him, whose name is withheld for security reasons, said they saw two motorcyles coming from behind carrying four people after they reached Munkaga.
“As they bypassed us, they shouted the Islamic slogan, ‘Allah Akbar’ and then hit our motorcycle down with a metal object,” he said, adding that he and the other escort fled for their lives. “The attackers overpowered him and cut his neck with a long Somali knife.”
Mafabi is survived by his wife and four children, ages 3 to 14 years old, all of whom need to be relocated, the pastor said.
Mafabi had left Islam to put his faith in Christ in December 2020 after several visits with the pastor in an undisclosed village in Butaleja District. Initially the pastor housed him to protect him from Islamists upset with his conversion, and later his church rented a house for him elsewhere.
Knowledgeable in both Islam and Christianity, Mafabi helped the pastor begin Christian-Muslim debates in mid-2021, and in one year more than 100 Muslims put their faith in Christ, he said. Mafabi faced severe Islamist hostility, escaping four assassination attempts, and the pastor also received threatening text messages.
One such message, he said, read, “Stop taking our members to your church. Let this be known to you that your church and your life is at risk.”…
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.
somehistory says
Not “radical,” the correct label is “devout.” these ones are totally devoted to satan and his demonic commands. they have made themselves “children of the devil.” These ones have adopted themselves into the family of satan and his fellow demons.
They are carrying out satan’s “desires,” of ‘stealing, killing and destroying.’ they, like their demon father, are enemies of Christ and His children.
John ..Smith says
True Somehistory, nothing radical about these muslims. This is normative islamic behaviour being carried out by devout muslims.
The more devout a muslim is, the more evil a muslim is.
somehistory says
Thank you, John. Your last sentence says it all.
James Lincoln says
So true, somehistory.
Compare and contrast:
When a Christian becomes more devout, the worst that can happen is that the Christian becomes a little “pesky preachy”…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Was this man insane – getting involved in a public debate w/ muslims w/o concealing his identity? Particularly in a country not known for protecting its citizens from jihadist violence?
somehistory says
Some Christians forget, do not understand, or have never read/heard the words Jesus spoke about being “cautious as serpents and innocent as doves.” They may know how to be “innocent” of deliberate wrongs, but they don’t get the “cautious part.”
Some are new to the words of Jesus, and some are so zealous to preach to others the wonderful words, they are not “cautious” and take too many unnecessary chances. It’s sad.
Linde B. says
I am very sad to learn that this Christian man from Uganda was murdered. And I am very surprised that many Christian theologians have not explained to their parishioners who could explain it to their neighbors that the God of Christianity is One God with 3 roles.
Any person can have 3 roles also, such as being a son or daughter, being a mother or father, being a niece or nephew, being a husband or wife. How come so many Muslims cannot understand that? Perhaps they have been brain washed and their free will has been dissolved. 😈
Joe1 says
For the record, Christians normally believe it is 3 persons (not roles) and one God. Humans are similar, they have 3 parts: body, soul, and spirit. It takes 2 parts to live. For example, plants and animals have a body and soul. It takes 3 parts to have free will. The spirit and soul live on after death, so they exist without the body which they couldn’t do if they were all the same thing. However, the spirit and soul will not have free will until they are renewed with a resurrected body.
It is all about relationships. Nothing is alive without a relationship. A single relationship has no free will which requires more than one relationship. This is the normal line of thought for Christians.
Walter Sieruk says
That bloody incdent , after the debate , shows how the religion of Islam is able to make it’s followers violently irrational.