Muslim Convert [to Christianity] Butchered by PLO Terrorists [in PA Territories]

Barnabas Fund ^ | 29th July 2003

[yonif]

The man left his friends and family almost two weeks ago heading into a mountainous region of the Palestinian Authority area. He took Christian materials including cassettes, videos and Bibles with him. After approximately ten days during which his friends and family received no word from him, his body was returned to them. He had been brutally killed and his body carved into four pieces as a warning to other converts. He leaves behind a wife and two small children. The names and further details of those involved are being withheld by Barnabas Fund for their own safety.

Local Christians in this part of the Holy Land have been involved in supporting converts from a Muslim background who suffer persecution from Islamic extremists in the Palestinian Authority areas. Some of them have also been the target of attacks. Last year one such Christian received a phone call telling him that a Muslim convert was in a serious condition in hospital; in response he immediately set off in his car. On the way his vehicle was deliberately driven off the road by another car. The phone call later proved to be a hoax designed to lead him into trap. In another attempt on his life this same Christian was hospitalised. Local Christians working to support converts from Islam report that Islamic militants in the Palestinian Authority area deliberately target converts. Hamas in particular reportedly receives funding from Iran specifically for this purpose.

According to shari’a (Islamic law) any Muslim male who leaves Islam (apostatises) faces the death penalty. Barnabas Fund is campaigning for a change in Islamic teaching on apostasy. A petition has been launched, copies of which can be obtained from the address below. In Britain’s House of Commons 45 MPs have put their name to an Early Day Motion calling for an end to the punishment of apostates.

[yonif]

We support giving these people a state.....

[yonif]

He had been brutally killed and his body carved into four pieces as a warning to other converts.

[LiteKeeper]

Remember, it is a religion of peace...in this case, four

[xrp]

Why not? It'll be good to define the lines now for later bombing by the USAF and US Navy.

[Gabrielle Reilly]

read later.

[Courier]

Don't anyone let this story influence your opinion of the root cause of the troubles in the MidEast.

It's Jews, settlements, fences, occupation,........come on, someone from the State Dept help me with the rest.

What the World is lacking is another Palestinian State. Support Bush and his Saudi Road Map.

Bush had a health check up today. Too bad they didn't cure him of his "vision" of two States living in Peace, Israel and Barbarianstan.

[jocon307]

This is a very interesting, if upsetting and disturbing site, thanks for posting it yonif!

Its good to see that not all traces of Christianity have disappeared from the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth.

My goodness, to live in the Muslim world seems to be a quite awful fate.

[Cobra64]

"Islam is the religon of peace." In this case it is four peices. These people are pathetic.

[Tripleplay]

These people are pathetic.

People??????.........I would agree on some type of life form, But not human.

[F16Fighter]

WARNING TO FRANCE AND EUROPE:

He [a Christian convert] had been brutally killed and his body carved into four pieces as a warning to other converts.

If Europe cannot see the "writing on the wall" and end-game of sharing "culture" with Islam, they will be doomed within a generation and a half.

[sgtbono2002]

Gee and I thought the Muslims were so worried about treating a body properly, at least thats what they said when we showed them Uday and usay.

[Noachian]

Where are the Islamic religious leader's outrage that such a thing would be done in the name of their religion of peace?

Muslims, both here and abroad, are quick to whine about a slight to the Muslim community, but when the true face of Islam is shown, and Islamic leaders should be speaking out, they're nowhere to be found.

Any Christian would be foolish to befriend a Muslim who doesn't publicly denounce the violent portions of his faith.

[Honorary Serb]

So much for the mis-leaders of US "mainline" denominations (including my own) who support "Palestine", while most of the laypeople know better.

I am so ashamed when I see my local bishop call our denominational counterpart "Palestinian" church our "partner". These "Palestinian" Christians--or their mis-leaders, anyway--are a bunch of brainwashed dhimmis that blame everything on Israel and fawn all over the islamist butcher Arafat (who SLAUGHTERED--together with his other islamist allies--around 100,000 Lebanese Christians, as well as a smaller number (!) of Jews and Holy Land Christians.

Mainline mis-leaders almost NEVER stand up for Christian martyrs and confessors--whether in the Holy Land or Lebanon, in the Balkans, or anywhere else. They prefer to champion the cause of their islamist persecutors, of brainwashed Christian dhimmis, and of the islamist fifth columnists in the US who run most of the (Saudi-funded) mosques in our country.

My preferred partner church is our local Serbian Orthodox church, and the larger church in Serbia of which it is a part. THAT is a partner to be proud of!!!!

[rageaholic]

According to shari’a (Islamic law) any Muslim male who leaves Islam (apostatises) faces the death penalty.

Hell, keeping that shari'a death penalty off my head is too much work. I'll just accept the risk.

[Publius6961]

I certainly can't suggest that we butcher people who think like this.
A bullet in the head would be the adequate human public service.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

One can only conclude that people of the muslim religion should be classed as criminally insane.

[brushcop]

I don't know why there is any "shock and dismay" over this sort of news. This has been going on (the Muslim Jihad against Christianity) for years (really centuries). I'm speaking of only about the last decade of genocide against Christians in places such as the Sudan and Indonesia, just to name two. I encourage anyone to subscribe to The Voice of the Martyrs newsletter, which not only keeps one up to date, but offers a proactive way, the best way, to combat this evil. Yes, yes, let's give the Crusades a rest shall we, and read a little more closely concerning this issue.

R.B.

[ChewedGum]

Exactly...incidents like this are common place in Muslim ruled countries. That is why we enacted the 'separation of church and state' at our countrie's founding. Not separating the state from any religious influence, but preventing the state from mandating religion on its people. (Do you really believe a government 'By the people, Of the people and For the people' would not have religious influences if 'the people' were religious?

Gum

[aruanan]

Muslim Convert [to Christianity] Butchered by PLO Terrorists [in PA Territories]

Converts to Islam from Christianity get prayed for; converts to Christianity from Islam get preyed on.

[BenR2]

I was VERY encouraged by the immediate and stern responses from both the White House and the State Department protesting this brutal act of persecution and suppression of religious freedom that threatens the Road Map and demanding that the culprits be brought to swift justice.

(End sarcasm here.)