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| Dewey | Oct 15 2006, 04:52 PM Post #1 |
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(all photos omitted) I. INDONESIA: Sole Survivor of Muslim Beheading Attack to Receive Medical Treatment From VOM July 26, 2006 The Voice of the Martyrs Noviana Malewa, the only girl to escape the malicious beheadings that took place in Indonesia on October 29, 2005 in Central Sulawesi, will receive treatment from VOMedical. The surgery is to alleviate the constant pain she still endures from a sword slash to her face and neck by militant Muslims. Walking through a cocoa plantation on the way to her private Christian high school in Poso Kota subdistrict, 15-year-old Noviana and three fellow students were ambushed by six masked Islamic terrorists. Theresia Morangke, 15, Yarni Sambue, 15, and Alfita Poliwo, 17, were all decapitated and their heads found in bags on the steps of a church and along the road to a police station with the message, “We will murder 100 more Christian teenagers and their heads will be presented as presents.” Their bodies were discarded at different locations. Two of the girls’ heads were left along the roadside. They were found in the places marked by the coconuts, as seen in the photo below. Unable to get a clean shot on Noviana, the attackers managed to slash the right side of her head from neck to cheek. The blow damaged nerves, resulting in the dislocation of Noviana’s lower jaw. She still suffers from severe pain in her head and jaw, and because of her loosened teeth, she cannot chew well. Noviana is having an examination and continued treatment this month through VOMedical. Noviana is still under the 24-hour protection of four policemen far from the scene. Because she is a key witness of the murders, with radical Muslims reportedly searching for her, the Christian survivor has been kept in a safe area. Witnesses of similar Muslim attacks on Christians in Indonesia have been shot. On May 10th, the Associated Press stated that all seven of the terrorists believed connected to the beheadings confessed their involvement. ======== II. NIGERIA: Mob Stones Woman to Death for Evangelizing July 6, 2006 Compass Direct Izom, Nigeria – Church leaders here said Muslim extremists overwhelmed police officers providing refuge for an unidentified Christian woman for ‘insulting’ Muhammad in this town in Niger state on June 28 and stoned and clubbed her to death for doing street evangelism. David Atabo of the Roman Catholic Church in Izom said he witnessed the killing of the woman. He told Compass that she had met a group of Muslim youths, shared the gospel with them and gave them some tracts to read. “As soon as the woman left, some Muslim elders standing by sought to know from the youths what the woman told them,” Atabo said. “When they learned that the woman had preached to the youths, they claimed she insulted the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, and directed that the woman must be killed.” Atabo said the Muslim leaders’ allegations inspired hundreds of Muslims to pour into the streets to track down the woman. They caught up with her around the River Gurara area and started beating her, he said, but police rescued her. Officers took the woman into protective custody at the Izom police station. But the restive mob stormed the premises, demanding that the woman be released to be stoned to death in accordance with sharia (Islamic) law or else they would burn down the police station. “The police, realizing that the Muslim crowd was overwhelming, smuggled the woman through a back door to escape with her, but the Muslims blocked all escape routes, and at this point the police abandoned the woman to save their lives,” Atabo said. “She was clubbed to death.” Police later moved the woman’s corpse to the mortuary at the Suleja Government Hospital. Atabo added that three policemen were injured in the fracas. Mystery Identity Christian leaders in Izom said they were disturbed that police have not identified the woman. “This woman was killed before the police could identify her or even question her,” Atabo said. “We have also tried to find out which church she comes from, but without success.” The area Christian leaders suspect the murdered woman might have come from neighboring Suleja town. Atabo, chairman of the local chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Izom town, said the Muslims claimed that the Christian woman dropped a document containing derogatory remarks about Muhammad. When he asked the police to allow him see the alleged document, though, “there was nothing like that,” he said. Daniel Mazuri, pastor of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) Good News Church in Izom, said those at the scene of the incident told him Muslims accosted the woman and accused her of insulting Muhammad. The Muslims claimed she dropped a letter in a mosque insulting Muhammad, he said, but friends of his in the police force told him this was false. “I believe the Muslims just wanted to ignite a religious crisis in this town,” Muzari told Compass. “This is a very unhealthy development, and it has now opened the door for unending religious conflicts.” Mazuri said his inquiries led to the conclusion that Muslims doctored a document in order to create a religious crisis in this town. “They are known for this attitude, and we are not surprised at the occurrence of this incident,” he said. The Rev. Tanko Madaki of the ECWA, Hausa section, also concluded that Muslims planned the attack with the aim of igniting a religious crisis in the town. “We are aware of the antics of the Muslims,” he said. “They are always good in fabricating falsehood and then anchoring their actions on such falsehood.” Another First It is common in Nigeria to find Christians engaged in street evangelism – preaching the gospel in marketplaces, buses and trains. Muslims are believed to constitute about half of the residents of Izom town, in the Gurara local government area. The death of the unknown Christian woman marks the first fatality of Niger state’s Islamic legal system, introduced in 2000. Niger is one of the 12 states that has implemented sharia in northern Nigeria. “We are hoping that the police will be able to unravel the identity of this woman eventually, or that any of her relations may contact us soon,” Atabo said. There are nine churches in Izom town, including the Roman Catholic Church, the ECWA, All Christian Fellowship Mission, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), The Apostolic Church, the Baptist Church, and the Deeper Life Bible Church. ======== III. Pakistan: Christians Attacked on Easter March 28, 2005 One Killed and Six Injured as Assailants Attack During Easter Morning Service in Pakistan The Voice of the Martyrs (Canada) The Voice of the Martyrs has learned that Sunday's Easter morning service of the Victory Church International (also known as the New Apostolic Church) in the village of Khambay near Lahore, Pakistan was disrupted as four armed assailants opened fire on the church property, murdering one Christian worshipper and injuring six others. Killed was Arshad Masih, a young husband and father of a one-year-old daughter. According to reports received by The Voice of the Martyrs, members of a Muslim family who had long been opponents of the congregation entered the church property at about 10:00 a.m. as the congregation was worshipping and began shooting. Some reports indicate that there were children playing outside. Arshad Masih was reportedly shot and killed as he went outside of the church building to find out what was happening. Six other believers including Pervez Masih, Naeem Masih, Arshed Masih, Ismael Masih, and two others (exact names to be verified) also came out from church and the attackers also fired on them. The attackers then fled. VOM sources report that Muhammad Mukhtar Dogar, Muhammad Sardar Dogar and Muhammad Malki Dogar have been arrested in connection with the attack, while two other suspects are still at large. The injured are in hospital in Lahore, one of them in critical condition. This incident comes after a weekend of threats and intimidations by the Dogar family against the congregation. The 150-member church was forced to cancel their Good Friday and Saturday night services when the family threatened to kill anyone who came to the church. The Dogar family is apparently seeking to take possession of the land that New Apostolic Church and its graveyard has been located on for the last century. Remember to pray for Arshad Masih's wife, Fozia, as she grieves the loss of her husband. Pray for those in hospital, especially those who are seriously wounded. Pray that those responsible will be brought to justice. Pray for the continuing witness of this church, as they testify to the Living Christ and His resurrection. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Wacki Iraqi | Oct 15 2006, 05:14 PM Post #2 |
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I'm outraged! Just thank your lucky stars you're Christian Dewey and rose petals fall after every word of the old testament, let alone all that's been done in the name of Christianity. Tut, to think you were only breathing too. |
| You're an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mithras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.........I just go one God further. | |
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| ivorythumper | Oct 15 2006, 05:44 PM Post #3 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Interesting that you can't condemn violence and hatred where ever it is found. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 15 2006, 05:49 PM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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But, IT, any act.. ANY act, by another Muslim cannot be criticized. So all that is cool, don't you know? Besides.. it was just the precious children of infidels. This is all going to end very badly. We'll win, but it will be awful. |
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| Dewey | Oct 15 2006, 06:01 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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IV. Pakistani pastor shot and killed April 6, 2004 The pastor of a small church in Pakistan was shot and killed last Friday in the village of Manawala, near Lahore, Pakistan. George Masih, aged 42, was the leader of a small village church which met in his home. He and his wife, Aniata, were active in reaching out to other villagers in the primarily Muslim village in order to share the gospel with them. Masih had worked previously as an elder in a Church of Pakistan congregation in Lahore. He and his wife relocated the family two years ago to Manawala and were working to plant a church there. They were known in the village for the worship songs that could be heard coming from their house, and for ministering house to house reaching out to neighbors and praying for those who were sick—even if they were Muslims. There is only one other Christian family in the village. The Christian work of George Masih and his family drew the anger of a Muslim neighbor named Shokat Ali. Ali was irritated by the Christian meetings in Masih’s home, and urged the landlord to kick the family out. On more than one occasion Ali threatened to kill Masih if he continued preaching, according to VOM sources in Pakistan. Last Friday around noon, Masih, his wife and four children were watching the JESUS film in their home. When the movie finished, Aniata got up to go out of the house. When she opened the door, two masked attackers burst in. One grabbed Aniata and covered her mouth, threatening her with death if she tried to cry out for help. The other attacker fired a shotgun point blank at George Masih’s face. As the Christian man lay dying, the assailant hit him in the head with the butt of the gun. Then both men fled. Hearing the cries of Aniata, many neighbors gathered. One neighbor who did not show up was Shokat Ali. About 300 people gathered in the home of George’s brother for the funeral, including many Muslims who had been blessed by his ministry. Pastor Mukhtar, the pastor who led George to Christ, called the martyred Christian “a true and passionate believer” and said, “he always tried to win the souls with his preaching.” The Voice of the Martyrs’ contacts who visited the family offered prayers and encouragement to the widow and her three sons (ages 8, 4 and 2) and daughter (age 1). “At present we are helpless,” Aniata told VOM. “I need the prayers of my brothers and sisters that I may be strengthened by the Lord our God to bear this loss.” The Voice of the Martyrs urges Christians around the world to pray for this young family, and for other Christians in Pakistan. ======== V. Muslims Target Christians in Nigeria May 16, 2003 By Greg Musselman, VOM Canada VOM NEWS, Abuja, Nigeria--A Nigerian preacher and six members of his family were burned to death last month as they were sleeping in their home. Pastor Sunday Madumere had led many Muslims to convert to Christ in the City of Kano. Christian leaders believe that's one reason the fire was set by Muslim militants, who have already killed a number of Christians in Kano. Violence plagues central and northern Nigeria. Hundreds have been killed, and those left behind are having to deal with the grief of losing loved ones. They are also dealing with an uncertain future, fearing they could be next. There were two attacks on Riyom last December. Life appears to be very normal in the Nigerian town of Riyom, located 30 miles from the city of Jos in Plateau State, but it's not. This community has been the scene of much violence, heartache and destruction. Every family has been touched with tragedy. On December 12, on a road leading into Riyom, Fulani Muslims began a jihad on this town of 4,000 people. By the time the rampage was over, 126 homes had been destroyed, 19 people were dead and 18 injured. The people here want to rebuild their homes and lives. For many, it will be extremely difficult. Asabe and her 2 sons are trying to rebuild their lives after their home was very badly damaged by fire. Pentecostal Pastor Coe-Lynn Pam's house was damaged and very little is left. The church, located just next door, was left untouched. Tep stands by an unmarked grave where his wife and son are buried. They were murdered by militant Muslims, last December. For the sake of his remaining family, including a small boy, Tep tries to carry on. Mrs. Garos Manjang is also trying to deal with her grief. Her husband was gunned down right in front of their home, after attending some meetings in the city of Jos, 30 miles from Riyom. Rev. Bitrus Manjang, her husband, was the former Vice-President for the Church of Christ in Nigeria and was very well respected. He was a prominent church leader in the country. But her husband was murdered, right in front of her eyes. Mrs. Manjang described what happened in the late afternoon of December 12, 2002, when they were attacked by militant Muslims. When her husband returned home, he asked, "'Where are the children?!'" She told him they had run out of the house. He went back to his car to get something and had just taken out his keys. "And, as I was standing there, he was shot down," she said. Mrs. Manjang continued, " When he fell down to the ground he shouted twice, and I didn't know what to do. I said, 'Is it the end of the world? Is this how you're leaving us?' I rushed back into the house and started to cry. There was nothing I could do, there was shooting and screaming everywhere. I was waiting in my house for my turn to die." That day, Mrs. Manjang also lost a daughter-in-law and a grandson. They too were victims of unprovoked Islamic violence. Hundreds attended the funerals. Rev. Manjang was buried beside his murdered family members. Mrs. Manjang lost 3 family members in one day. As a widow, Mrs. Manjang is trying to follow the teachings of the Bible. "I've already forgiven them," she says. "We were talking with someone and I said, 'God help them to be like Paul. In the early Christian days, Paul would kill Christians, but God met him on the way and he became a strong Christian. My hope for them is that they get to know Jesus, and become disciples of Jesus'". Rose Hibire is praying that God will give her strength to raise her two children after her husband was brutally murdered in late December, the second attack that month on Riyom by Fulani Muslims. Rose explained that her husband Bitrus was murdered while returning home from defending the village. "He was on his way back home, but he met the Fulani men," she said. "From there they shoot him, but he runs. So, [later] he was tired, he just lie [down] near the stream. It's there they see him. They come up, break his head and remove one of his eyes." Rose had been told by her husband's friends that he was at home. When she went to check, she made the terrible discovery. "When I was coming, I saw people near our house," Rose said. "So, I asked them what was going on. Nobody told me. It's only when I entered the house that I saw his dead body on the ground." Rose says she too forgives those that murdered her husband. She is now trying to rebuild her life, and those of her children. She hopes to be working as a schoolteacher. "And I believe that God is with me," Rose said, "I still believe that God is the husband to widows and He's a Father to orphans. And I believe it is the only way. We came into this world one by one, so we shall go that same way. So now I don't have any problems." Since the two attacks in December, many of the people who lived here in Riyom fled the area, but have slowly started to return. But always in the back of their minds is the fact that there could be yet another attack. Machief Mangam is the Pastor of the Extension Bible School, Church of Christ in Nigeria. He said, "If there is any sound or movement that is not normal, then you will see people running out; to where they can see, or look, if there is any bad movement. This shows that there is fear in the heart and mind of the people." "Up until now we still receive threats from them [Fulani Muslims]. They still say they are coming," said Mrs. Manjang. She added, "We don't know what to feel, we don't know what to say. We are just staying, helpless. Everyone is feeling it might be him next. So we are just praying and hoping we'll be prepared to die." ======== VI. NIGERIA: Student Eight Months in Hiding After Escape From Stoning October 9, 2006 Compass Direct Eight months after she escaped from a judgment by officials at a school of nursing she attended in Sokoto to stone her to death for “blasphemy,” Ladi Muhammed is still in hiding. The 22-year-old Christian woman told Compass from her place of refuge how Muslim students and teachers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery in the northern Nigeria city, capital of Sokoto state, accused her of blaspheming the prophet of Islam after a dispute with a Muslim friend. The accusation led to the students, faculty and administrators condemning her to death by stoning. The ordeal began when Muhammed’s aunt, Hajiya Mary, phoned her on February 2 at the school. While she was still on the phone, a Muslim friend, Aisha Tambulwal, asked her who had phoned her, and Muhammed excitedly told her that the caller was her aunt. “While responding to the phone call from my aunt, I addressed her as Hajiya, the name we know her by,” Muhammed said. “My friend became curious and wanted to know what ‘Hajiya’ was to me. I told her she was my mother, because, being an elder sister to my mother, Hajiya was a mother to me. Furthermore, I grew up under her care. And so my Muslim friend asked why was it that I was a Christian while my parents were Muslims.” Muhammed told her that, though her dad (now living in the United Kingdom) was Muslim, she had come to believe that Jesus Christ was God and the Savior of mankind. Tambulwal became angry and began to insult her. “You are an infidel – if not, how can your parents be Muslims and you a Christian?” Tambulwal told her. Furious, she asked Muhammed, “How can your parents who are Muslims allow you become an infidel?” As her parents divorced when she was young, Muhammed grew up with her mother, a Christian still living in Kebbi state, where Muhammed was born in Zuru town. After Muhammed told Tambulwal to stop calling her an infidel, her friend responded with insults and name-calling. Tambulwal refused to heed her appeals to end the discussion. She insisted that she had to persuade Muhammed to renounce Christ and become a Muslim or else God would hold her accountable for failing to do so. “She warned me to become a Muslim since my parents were Muslims, and in the same vein, said Christians who are followers of Jesus Christ will all go to hell because they are serving a mere man,” Muhammed said. “At this point, I sought to correct her by explaining to her that the Bible says it is only those who do not believe in Christ that will go to hell.” Tambulwal began to shout in a rage, and Muhammed walked away from her, she said. Muhammed thought the matter was over. A week later, however, Tambulwal and two other female students – Hadiza Usman and Sadiya Abdullahi Daweh – came to her class and accused her of blasphemy against Muhammad, the prophet of Islam. “I was surprised, because throughout my discussion with Tambulwal, I never mentioned the name of the prophet,” Muhammed said. “Yet they claimed that I said the prophet was in hell. I assume that because I tried to let her know that it is those who do not believe Jesus Christ that will go to hell that they are using this to accuse me of blasphemy.” She walked away, but the girls – whom she described as militant Muslims – followed her out of the classroom, and soon much of the student population went into a rampaging frenzy. “Muslim students all over the school were shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar [God is great],” she said. “The girls surrounded me and began to drag me here and there.” Leaders of the school’s Muslim Students Society (MSS) came and took over the interrogation from the girls, she said. Rejecting her explanations, they dragged her to the office of the principal, Abdulrahaman Muhammed Isa. He was away at that moment, but the administration officer, Usman Ilo, listened to the charges of blasphemy and ruled that the case was beyond his authority. But the principal, Isa, returned and took over the case. According to Muhammed, who by then felt that she had been taken captive, the principal, faculty members and students then determined that she was guilty of blasphemy of the prophet of Islam and sentenced her to death by stoning. The students wanted the death sentence executed then at the school, but the principal and teachers argued to have it endorsed by an Islamic (sharia) court. Muhammed said that some teachers, after a lengthy argument, convinced the students that she should be taken to a sharia court for confirmation of the death sentence. The administration officer, Ilo, was taking her to Muslim authorities in town who would arrange for her to be arraigned before an Islamic court. En route, she escaped and hid in the house of a Christian friend in Sokoto. The following morning, her friend went to the school to assess the situation: Muslim students learning of her escape had gone on a rampage, burning down the house of the administration officer for allowing her to escape, and Christians living near the school were also attacked. The school was closed down. That same day, Muhammed learned from her friend, posters with her picture were printed and pasted throughout Sokoto. Muslim militants were posted in strategic spots in the byways and exits of the city. The Islamists declared that she was “wanted.” “When the situation became unsafe for me, Christians harboring me in Sokoto dressed me like a Muslim woman, covered completely with clothing and hijab (a head covering), and then smuggled me out of the city,” Muhammed said. Christians took her to her hometown of Zuru, but by then news had reached the town, and Muslims there were also looking for her. She was whisked out of Zuru to Kaduna, where –surprisingly, she said – Muslims were looking for her there too. She had to be moved to her present refuge. School officials Isa and Ilo were unavailable for comment. Muhammed said life in seclusion has been devastating. “I have now been here for eight months. I cannot go out anywhere. I feel very lonely. I cannot even go back to my hometown again. It’s terrible.” She said she last saw her father, Muhammed Lawal, six years ago. Discrimination at School Muhammed’s case ignited in an atmosphere of habitual discrimination at the school of nursing. “We are not allowed to hold Christian programs in the school, and we have been banned from holding worship services or even praying,” she said. “Yet, in this school, Muslim students have all they need to worship Allah. Whether it be mosques or Islamic books, they have all they need.” Muhammed said that female Christian students are admitted into the school with the intent of encouraging them to marry Muslims. Of the 43 Christian students at the school, only three are male. “Muslim male students and teachers are always disturbing us,” she said. “They want to marry us, and when we turn down such marriage proposals, they harass and intimidate us. They believe that they are carrying out jihad once they are able to marry us and win us to Islam.” ======== |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 15 2006, 06:15 PM Post #6 |
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You seem upset. Did a Christian run over your dog? |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 15 2006, 06:16 PM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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(What a setup.. thanks, John.) No, but some of us have been putting a few treadmarks on his dogma. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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