It’s a brittle and insecure faith that responds to challenges with violence.
“Muslim Extremists in Uganda Kill Evangelist at His Home,” Morning Star News, August 4, 2022:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim extremists on July 29 came to the home of an evangelist who had held open-air events in eastern Uganda and killed him, sources said.
Cut with a sharp instrument that left his head and neck with deep wounds, Sozi Odongo was killed at his home in Omorio cell, Agule Town Council, Pallisa District, while his wife and four children hid in a room, she said. Odongo was 45.
The previous week, sources said, Odongo had received threatening text messages, including one from Nasuru Ongom, a Muslim sheikh (teacher) in Palissa town, that read, “Please stop preaching to our people using the holy Koran, or else you risk your life.”
Odongo had cited the Koran and the Islamic hadiths (sayings of Muhammad) in evangelistic events directed at mixed-race Arabs in several villages of Pallisa District, sources said.
After such an event on July 29, he arrived home and had eaten dinner with his family when they heard a group of people coming toward their house at about 7:15 p.m., said his wife, Stella Kilo. They locked the door.
“We heard them talk in the Arabic language and wondered what could be the matter,” Kilo said. “They then arrived and knocked at the door.”
She and their children went into the bedroom, but Odongo unlocked and opened the door, and the assailants began beating him on all parts of his body, she said.
“He screamed while mentioning the name of Nasuru, saying, ‘Leave me Nasuru, Nasuru, Nasuru, please don’t kill me, just tell your colleagues to leave me,’” Kilo told Morning Star News. “Then I heard a loud hit, and thereafter no more screaming.”
The assailants likely left, but she and the children remained in the bedroom for an hour, afraid that they were still there, she said.
Kilo opened the bedroom door and found her husband in a pool of blood, she said.
“I tried calling to my husband, but he was unable to talk, and I then rang a neighbor and informed him about the situation,” she said.
The neighbor arrived and informed the LC1 chairperson of the area, George Ochola, who came and found Odongo’s body cut several times in the head, neck and arm, Kilo said. Ochola called police, and officers immediately arrived….
Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.
mortimer says
The Muslims protest, ‘Stop preaching to our people using Koran’.
This is revealing, because the proof that the Koran is false is the way it both strongly endorses the Old and New Testaments and strongly contradicts the doctrines contained in them. The dilemma here is that the Koran cannot do both at the same time.
This problem has been labeled ‘The Islamic Dilemma’ by David Wood and many others.
This self-refutation by Koran goes like this:
Claim 1: the Koran claims that the Old and New Testaments are ‘between the hands’ of Mohammed in the 7th century and that they are the words of Allah which cannot be changed by humans.
Claim 2: the Koran claims repeatedly that it confirms teachings in the Old and New Testaments.
Response to 1: Allah claims to ‘preserve’ the Old and New Testament and the Koran. The Old and New Testament texts were complete at the time of Mohammed and have not changed … we can compare the texts of today and show that the text is perfectly preserved. However, there was no complete text of the Koran until two centuries after Mohammed, so there is NO WAY to confirm that the Koran has not changed. In fact, there are now more than 30 different Koranic texts in Arabic with thousands of variants. So the correct Koranic text cannot be known by any means. The Koran cannot confirm itself by a circular claim. Moreover, authentic Islamic hadiths say the Koran was changed and parts were lost. So Allah’s words in the Koran were in fact changed, and so the Koran’s claim of its perfect preservation are false and Islam is thus false.
Response to 2: Far from agreeing with and ‘confirming’ Biblical teachings, the Koran has fanciful versions of Bible stories and doctrines that differ and dramatically contradict the Old and New Testaments. For instance, the Koran claims that Jews are polytheists who make Ezra a ‘son of Allah’. No Jewish sect ever worshiped Ezra who was a ferocious critic of polytheism. Thus the Koran’s claim to confirm the Bible is false, and Islam is false.
Conclusion: Claim 1 by the Koran is false. Claim 2 by the Koran is false. If the Koran has not been perfectly preserved, then it is false. If the Koran has been perfectly preserved and yet contradicts that Bible, the claim of the Koran is false and Islam is false. Either way, Islam is false.
mortimer says
As soon as Christian evangelists show Muslims their Koran under the microscope of modern scholarship, Muslims realize that the Koran is false, and therefore that Islam is false. Without an original, authenticated, confirmed Koranic text, Islam is false. Islam’s own authentic hadiths say the Koranic text was changed multiple ways, so Islam is false.
somehistory says
the poor man and his poor family. At least they have his dying words to tell them who the perps were; the murderer’s name called out over and over by the dying man. In the U.S., those words would go a long way to getting a conviction. In Uganda? Who can say?
mozlums don’t have any *faith* or they would not worry about things that are said, If they really had *faith*, they could wait for their ‘god’ to take action against his enemies. But, their god is fake and can’t be trusted, can’t be entrusted with one’s hope and confidence. the ‘god’ mozlums worship is satan and he is basically impotent; that’s why his worshippers do so much evil in his name. When they lie, rape, kidnap, murder…they are doing the devil’s desires.
gravenimage says
Uganda: Muslims kill Christian after warning, ‘Stop preaching to our people using Koran, or you risk your life’
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This poor man and his loved ones. God, I hate Islam.
And Uganda is not even a Muslim country. Perhaps at least these murderers will be caught.
More:
Cut with a sharp instrument that left his head and neck with deep wounds, Sozi Odongo was killed at his home
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In other words, the victim was beheaded or almost beheaded. This is entirely Islamic.
Andrew Blackadder says
I was in Uganda mid 1970s when Idi Amin was running the country, he was a muslim, though I didnt know that at the time, and he was responsible for the deaths of many many Ugandans and he died in exile in Saudi Arabia.
He was a lover of Hitler, wanted to have a statue of Hitler at Uganda International Airport, most muslims are just like the Nazis as they wish to control the entire world under their sharia nonsense.
muslims seem rather interested in my opinion about their faith than I am about theirs.
They wish to attack me because I call their garbage a Fascist Religious Cult whereas they can call me whatever and I shine it on as totally unimportant.
If a person reacts with violence against anything negative said about their faith then they are not deeply committed to it but rather are merely brainwashed into it.
islam is merely a Nazi in a turban.
James Lincoln says
Andrew,
Were you in Uganda during the time of the IDF “Operation Thunderbolt”?
If so, do you have anything to share?
ceres says
It’s easy to show the koran is a lie as allah can’t remember how long it took him to make it all, he says the earth is flat and held down by mountains; the sun sinks in a muddy puddle on the edge of the earth (and hides under allah’s throne according to hadith); the stars are closer to the earth than the moon; the description of embryonic development is both wrong and is a complete copy of the writing by greek Galen hundreds of years before…..probably translated into the arabic by christians and so it goes on. Completely wrong and clearly NOT written by any god! The koran is full of lies about others, abuse of little girls/women, sadism/slaughter towards others etc and no god worth following would demand such horror towards others he created. Also the god of a decent belief system could cope with analysis and criticism but islam’s text, god, prophet cannot stand up to discussion so the solution is kill as they cannot win a debate.