Former Islamic Sheikh turned Christian, Mulangira Ibrahim, 27, has told Police, journalists that unknown people beaten him unconscious when he declined their request of recanting Christianity to return to Islam.
This happened 16 November on Lake Victoria’s Jaguzi Island, Mayuge District, Eastern Uganda where he received a telephone call from the anonymous saying that a pastor he knew wanted to see him back at the church compound.
“On my way to the church premise, four people stopped me and then got hold of me and started threatening me that if I do not recant Christianity and return to Islam, then they were going to kill me,” Ibrahim told Persecution Watch Dog, Morning Star News.
“I did not answer them, and one began slapping me, while another hit me with a blunt object. As I started screaming for help, I received more blows and from there I lost my consciousness,” he added.
Pastor Charles Musana of the Evangel World Vision Church found and rushed Ibrahim to a nearby dispensary, Jaguzi, for medication – after which he filed charges under police Reference No. SD 14/19/11/2017 on life-threatening violence.
From Butegwa village, Bukooli County in Bugiri District, Morning Star News says Ibrahim had been sent to propagate Islam on the island of Jaguzi as the sheikh of Madrasat Noor Islamia Mosque.
Since his conversion two years ago, area Muslims took his wife, Nalunkuma Joweria, and their three children ages 8, 6 and 4, from him upon learning that he had left Islam, he said.
“For the last two years I have confined myself within the church compound and pastor’s house, which is 1.5 kilometers away, as Muslims are continually posting messages that they needed my head because I ditched Islam,” he told Morning Star News.
Police are investigating the 16 November assault but have not arrested anyone.
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