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From her home in Birmingham yesterday, his wife, Margaret, 64, said that her husband might have been targeted because he had converted to Christianity. She said: "The school he established is run in a house which is also where he lives - there are various disgruntled factions running around and because he is a convert to Christianity from Islam then he is a target. They raided the house in the middle of the night and murdered all four people there."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/ap ... alia.islam

The wife of Daud Hassan Ali alleged that her husband was targeted because he was a Muslim-born convert to Christianity.

http://www.persecution.net/pnp.htm

Barnabas Fund, a ministry supporting the persecuted church worldwide, has made an urgent appeal for prayers to support Christians in Somalia in the wake of the murder of four Christian teachers last Sunday.Daud Assan Ali and Rehana Ahmed, both Somali converts from Islam who had previously lived in Britain, were shot dead alongside two Kenyans when Islamic militants stormed the school where they were sleeping in, in Beledweyne in south-central Somalia.

http://bielbienne.wordpress.com/2008/04 ... daha-aduu/

The last quote claims even Rehana Ahmed was Christian. What do we make of those quotes?

who are these insignificant people?

Hotti wrote:who are these insignificant people?

I don't know about them being insignificant, but they were British teachers who were recently killed in wartorn unsafe Somalia.

People are dying left and right in Somalia. Today alone we had 8 people die in Mogadishu wardhiigley area, and many more will die in the future, that's how it's been for a while now. The dying never stops, and it does not discriminate. No matter what their religious affiliation was, the fact still remains that these people were in dangerous territory, and the danger is not limited to the poor/Muslim Somalis, lol, but to anyone and everyone.

eternauta just leave them alone, it's upto Allah to determine their faith. we don't know nothing and we clearly shouldn't be judging them.

Enternautu, Even if he converted to Christianity, Nobody has the right to take his life without Sharia System. It has to be done by a panel of Sharia judges, something we don't have in Somalia.

Faisah wrote:eternauta just leave them alone, it's upto Allah to determine their faith. we don't know nothing and we clearly shouldn't be judging them.

Are you saying, in my holier-than-thouness, I am judging Daud? He's a Christian convert, which even his wife has confirmed and rubber-stamped; how is stating that fact judging him?

MJ-Pride wrote:Enternautu, Even if he converted to Christianity, Nobody has the right to take his life without Sharia System. It has to be done by a panel of Sharia judges, something we don't have in Somalia.

Do you know what you're asking for? You're asking for, a Christian convert with a questionable agenda (evangelizing) working in a Somalia where there's civil war, insecurity, occupation, where Islamists are fighting a Christian occupation army-- to be left alone. Ask yourself; how realistic is leaving him alone?
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Barnabas Fund

The Barnabas Fund is an evangelical Protestant Christian missionary organisation that serves Christians in many countries who face discrimination or persecution, and makes their needs known to Christians around the world, encouraging them to pray. It provides practical help to strengthen and encourage the Church in many different ways. Barnabas Fund was established in 1993 and channels aid to projects run by national Christians in more than 40 countries.

The problems faced by Christian minorities in some parts of the world range from discrimination to genocide. Even in places that allow worship and evangelism, a convert to Christianity will almost always be rejected by family and community. Whilst many ancient churches are declining because of intense social pressure, new growth is suppressed by the persecution of converts. At the same time, Barnabas Fund officials are quite opposed to the trend of Christian conversions to other religions in Western countries; their publishing wing has published several books such as "Secrets Behind the Burqa" which "analyses whether Muslim women will be able to embrace Western values and thinking or will be trapped inside their own cultural and religious system" and "Stepping into the Shadows" which "explores the reasons why so many women are converting to Islam".

Barnabas Fund's director is Dr Patrick Sookhdeo who did a PhD on Islam at the University of London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnabas_Fund
http://www.barnabasfund.org/