“There is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256), but that statement is all too often honored in the breach. Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola was perfectly free to choose to die rather than to convert.
Also, there is this hadith:
Narrated Qais:
Jarir said “Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said to me, “Won’t you relieve me from Dhul-Khalasa?” I replied, “Yes, (I will relieve you).” So I proceeded along with one-hundred and fifty cavalry from Ahmas tribe who were skillful in riding horses. I used not to sit firm over horses, so I informed the Prophet (ﷺ) of that, and he stroke my chest with his hand till I saw the marks of his hand over my chest and he said, O Allah! Make him firm and one who guides others and is guided (on the right path).’ Since then I have never fallen from a horse. Dhul-l–Khulasa was a house in Yemen belonging to the tribe of Khatham and Bajaila, and in it there were idols which were worshipped, and it was called Al-Ka`ba.” Jarir went there, burnt it with fire and dismantled it. When Jarir reached Yemen, there was a man who used to foretell and give good omens by casting arrows of divination. Someone said to him. “The messenger of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) is present here and if he should get hold of you, he would chop off your neck.” One day while he was using them (i.e. arrows of divination), Jarir stopped there and said to him, “Break them (i.e. the arrows) and testify that None has the right to be worshipped except Allah, or else I will chop off your neck.” So the man broke those arrows and testified that none has the right to be worshipped except Allah. Then Jarir sent a man called Abu Artata from the tribe of Ahmas to the Prophet to convey the good news (of destroying Dhu-l-Khalasa). So when the messenger reached the Prophet, he said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! By Him Who sent you with the Truth, I did not leave it till it was like a scabby camel.” Then the Prophet (ﷺ) blessed the horses of Ahmas and their men five times. (Bukhari 5.64.4357)
“Christian Co-ed Kidnapped, Forced to Convert in Nigeria,” Morning Star News, October 25, 2023:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Personnel of Kaduna State University have aided in the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Christian student, according to a campus watchdog group.
Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola, a 20-year-old, first-year chemistry student at the university, was an active member of the Fellowship of Christian Students when other members noticed her absence last month, according to leaders of Campus Mission Watch (CMW).
Her parents received a phone call on Sept. 20 from Christian students saying they were distressed that she was acting strange before her disappearance.
“She was always looking scared, which shows she was being threatened by the Islamists on campus,” CMW leaders said in a press statement. “Dorcas was also not seen on campus for some days.”
After her parents were informed of her absence, they immediately called her mobile phone number.
“Their daughter’s phone was suddenly switched off, indicating that the call was rejected by her abductors who kept her in a house of a Muslim cleric outside the campus,” the CMW leaders said. “We believe she was forcefully abducted and taken out of campus by the Islamists on the fear of parents of the Christian student withdrawing her from the university.”
Fearing she had been abducted and forced to convert to Islam, her parents reported her absence to school authorities and the commissioner of police that day (Sept. 20).
“The following day being 21st of September, Miss Dorcas Adedayo Adekanola was physically seen being conveyed in one of the Kaduna State University (KASU), MAJLIS buses belonging to Muslims in the institution at about 4:30 pm, to the campus Chief Security Officer’s (CSO’s) office,” the CMW leaders said, adding that her parents were quickly alerted and came to the CSO’s office.
“Miss Dorcas told her parents that she was taken to an imam’s house, the imam of Sultan Bello Mosque, in the city of Kaduna, where she was kept against her will and threatened not to disclose that she was coerced into embracing Islam, before being brought back to campus,” the CMW leaders said. “She also told her parents that one Muslim woman, Mallama Amina, an academic staff in the Department of Biochemistry, was appointed as her godmother, who facilitated her forceful conversion to Islam through the renouncing of Christianity and the recitation of Kalma Sha’ada, the Islamic creed.”
The abducted student said Amina also taught her how to do Islamic ablution and prayer, among other Muslim practices, and gave her “a lot in cash and kind,” including Islamic clothing, according to the CMW leaders….
Infidel in Allah's nose says
The religion of peace indeed. One famos Sheikh, can’t recall his name once said Islam would have been dead centuries ago if not for forced conversions and the death penalty for apostasy.
Kjell says
You couldn’t be more right!
somehistory says
mozlums may be able to force Christians to attend meetings of war in a barracks; mozlums may be able to force Christians to say….during torture…things the Christian would not say; but mozlums cannot force Christians to stop having faith and trust in God Almighty…in their hearts and minds.
Jehovah can, and does, read the hearts of a person to see how that one feels about Him, good and bad, and the “intentions” the person has.
If a Christian holds to his faith, there is no one who can change that.
““Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
I truly hope this young woman knows those Scriptures from Paul, and remembers them in her distress and the terrible circumstances. And I hope also that her parents know the same and keep their faith.
Dalacs says
Once a person recites the Khalma shahada, either willingly or by force, the person rejects the true God and affirms allah as god. The evil spirit of allah takes over the person. The person has the choice of rejecting Islam and face the consequences or yielding to their threats and accepting Islam
bagsgroove says
The world is getting tired and fed up of muslims and hearing about the muslims. God should destroy them all.