Posted on 12/05/2007 4:27:57 PM PST by camerakid400
A British imam's daughter is living in fear of her life under police protection after she received death threats from her family for converting to Christianity.
The young woman, aged 32, whose father is a Muslim imam in the north of England, has moved house 45 times to escape detection by her family since she became a Christian 15 years ago.
Hannah, who uses a pseudonym to hide her identity, told The Times how she became a Christian after she ran away from home at 16 to escape an arranged marriage.
The threats against her became more serious a month ago, prompting police to offer her protection in case of an attempt on her life.
She was speaking on the eve of the launch of a new charity in London today to promote greater religious awareness. Muslims in Britain who wish to convert to Christianity are living in fear of their lives because of Islamic apostasy laws, a senior Church of England bishop will warn at the invitaton-only launch in west London.
The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, will claim "freedom to believe" is under threat in Britain because of Islamic hostility to conversion.
Hannah, now employed in multi-faith youth work and who gives talks to churches on Islam, is the daughter of a Lancashire imam whose seven other children are demanding she return to Islam. She has been in hiding,
since her home was attacked by a group of men armed with knives, axes and hammers, in 1994. She will describe today how she is in fear of her life after the death threats against her were recently renewed.
She said: "I left home and I had nowhere to go. My religious education teacher gave me somewhere to live. Even though she tried to make me stay at home on Sundays, I am quite rebellious by nature and I started to go to church with her out of curiosity."
She said she had been in hiding, on and off, ever since, and has now been given a telephone number she can call for an instant response by police should she need help. The latest threat was a text message from one of her brothers, warning he could not be responsible for his actions if she did not return to Islam.
Hannah said she was looking forward to getting married so she could change her name and escape detection by her family. Not all Muslims in Britain are this extreme, she believes.
"It is representative of some Muslims. I know the Koran says that anyone who goes away from Islam should be killed as an apostate so in some ways my family are following the Koran. They are following Islam to the word. But I do not think every Muslim would actually act on that."
Earlier this year, a Policy Exchange study found that 36 per cent of British Muslims aged between 16 and 24 believed those who converted to another religion should be punished by death.
Dr Nazir-Ali will speak out on behalf of Hannah and others suffering persecution for their beliefs in the UK at today's launch of Lapido Media, a new charity which is seeking to promote "religious literacy" in world affairs.
The Bishop is expected to describe how sharia law in many countries, including parts of Britain, punishes apostasy with death and is viewed as treason by theocratic governments. Dr Nazir-Ali will call on society to offer greater protection, by increasing understanding of what makes people vulnerable.
Pakistan-born Dr Nazir-Ali, who has a Christian and Muslim background, is patron of Lapido Media, funded by donations and trusts including the Jerusalem Trust. The word ‘lapido’ means ‘to speak up for’ in the Acholi language of Northern Uganda. The charity has been named in honour of the courage of Acholi church leaders who campaigned for an end to a little-reported 20-year war there, involving the abduction of 25,000 children
I’m pretty sure death threats are actionable.
Dear God keep her safe.
It’s long past time the American Christians actually had a little of this courage to confront our perverted culture. Otherwise, it won’t be long before the Liberal Taliban in AMERICA, under the Rainbow banner of Homosexuality and perversion DEMANDS you renounce Christianity or be jailed or killed.
It’s coming right here in America. When good is called evil, and evil is called good, persecution is right around the corner!!!! Get ready, your time is coming...
Imagine, afraid that daddy might kill her. I cannot think of anything more evil in this world than Islam.
The young woman, aged 32, whose father is a Muslim imam in the north of England, has moved house 45 times to escape detection by her family since she became a Christian 15 years ago.
The threats against her became more serious a month ago, prompting police to offer her protection in case of an attempt on her life.
...since her home was attacked by a group of men armed with knives, axes and hammers, in 1994. She will describe today how she is in fear of her life after the death threats against her were recently renewed.
She said she had been in hiding, on and off, ever since, and has now been given a telephone number she can call for an instant response by police should she need help. The latest threat was a text message from one of her brothers, warning he could not be responsible for his actions if she did not return to Islam.
"It is representative of some Muslims. I know the Koran says that anyone who goes away from Islam should be killed as an apostate so in some ways my family are following the Koran. They are following Islam to the word. But I do not think every Muslim would actually act on that."
Earlier this year, a Policy Exchange study found that 36 per cent of British Muslims aged between 16 and 24 believed those who converted to another religion should be punished by death.
Amazing courage by this young woman. God bless her and protect her. At least she knew enough to keep her treasure in Heaven, and that to lose one's soul is not worth whatever the world can offer...
36 per cent of British Muslims aged between 16 and 24 believed those who converted to another religion should be punished by death.
Yes, that indeed speaks volumes about this ... cult.
Who do they think they are really serving?
Hint: It is Not the God of Light.
Dang. If they could only figure out WHICH Lancashire imam she was the daughter of, they could begin making some arrests, and possibly deportations.
“Give this woman a Green Card.”
I am afraid that if she gets here her location may be betrayed to the Muslims by the NOW gang. Anything is OK in order to destroy Christianity.
You are correct. The new age antichrist will call for a selection process. Check this out:
www.reinventingjesuschrist.com
I would give her and her friends glock 40s and tell her kin where the could find her. After the shot a few of them I do not think they would keep coming.
If Britain didn't have such draconian victim disarmament laws, she could have a gun or five in the house and take care of business the nest time they tried something.
They will have to come through a hail of hot lead first.
In today's Britain? A country where an obscenely overburdened health system instructs its nurses to turn the beds of muslim patients toward some God forsaken city five times a day so they can pass gas or something? Are you sure?
Yes, I am familiar with that... And worse still is the plain ignorance most professing Christians have about the end times...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933659/posts
Well it only takes one of them to kill you one time and it's game over.
Maybe so, but you KNOW that’s why the Liberal Taliban has been trying to take your guns for the last 25+ years, right? You may talk about a hail of hot lead now, but they’ve been preaching the EVILS of firearm ownership to all of the public schooled kids for so long, that within another 15 years they’ll have the “voting block” they need to eliminate guns.
Most distressing.
They thought they had the voting block to do so in 1994 when they passed the AWB. They had dreams of passing a new gun law every couple of years until we were disarmed. But instead, it costs them control of both houses of Congress for 12 years. And when the Supreme Court FINALLY declares that the 2A is an individual right, they will have a much harder time of passing new anti-gun laws. Hell, they will have a hard time keeping the ones they have from being overturned, as I suspect many will be.
I don't think this can be repeated enough. This is what we are living with.
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