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| Ethiopian Evangelist Beaten to Death by Militant Muslims |
| 2007-03-30 |
| Militant Wahabbi Islamists Drag Christian Evangelist into Mosque and Beat Him to Death The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has just learned that an Ethiopian evangelist named Tedase was beaten to death by militant Muslims on Monday, March 26th, as he and two young women were on a street evangelism assignment in Jimma, Ethiopia. This marks the second time in six months that Christians residing in Southeast Ethiopia have been attacked and killed by extremist (Wahabbi) Muslims. On Monday afternoon Tedase and two female coworkers were conducting street evangelism on Merkato Street in Jimma, Southern Ethiopia. Merkato Street runs by a Wahabbi Mosque. As the team was walking by the Mosque, a group of Muslims exited the Mosque and began to run after them to confront them. Tedase's female coworkers ran away from the mob but Tedase continued on. The Muslims caught up with Tedase, pulled him into the mosque, and savagely beat him to death. Sources from Jimma reported that Tedase was beaten with a calculated intention to kill him. This was no accident or case of mob frenzy getting out of control. His body was later taken to the hospital for an autopsy and he was buried Tuesday, March 27. Our sources also reveal that Jimma Christians were conducting an evangelism campaign, and news of the outreach was spreading among Jimma residents as well as militant Muslim groups in the area. The Muslims that belonged to the Wahabbi sect purposefully beat Tedase to death as a message to Christians that they are ready to combat evangelism. Aftershocks of the September 2006 Pogrom This most recent incident in Ethiopia confirms ICC's decision to include this country in its Hall of Shame list, which highlights nations where Christians are enduring the most severe persecution. It is important to note that the Muslims who attacked Tedase belonged to the Wahabbi brand of Islam, an extremist sect imported from Saudi Arabia. It is clear that the Christians in Ethiopia are feeling Saudi Arabia's influence, particularly in Jimma, a Muslim dominated area where local authorities are almost exclusively Muslim. It was only six months ago, in September of 2006, that Muslim extremists burned down a number of churches and parishes, as well as Christian homes. As many as 2,000 Christians were displaced by the attack, an attempt to intimidate Christians with the hopes of converting them to Islam. Evangelical church leaders are fearful that if police ignore Tedase's death, it will be a green light for Muslim groups in the area to attack their Christian neighbors at will and without retribution. We appeal to concerned individuals to contact the Ethiopian embassy in their own countries to ask for an investigation of Tedase's murder. Ethiopian Embassies contact infos at link. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #5 Chicago rules. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-03-30 20:41 |
| #4 Drag the beaters into church and baptise them, it'll ruin their life (What's left of it after we announce their "Conversion" to Christianity), if they can force conversions, so can we, especially when converting is a death sentence to Muslims. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-03-30 20:10 |
| #3 Burn the mosque. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-03-30 15:30 |
| #2 Much like how Sudden Jihad Syndrome has yet to recognized for the Islamic terrorism it actually is, I'm curious as to how long it will take the other non-Islamic religions to understand that a campaign of calculated terrorism is being waged upon them with every incident like the one mentioned above. The world's other religions must band together in denouncing Islam and working in concert to defeat it. The outrage over Pope Benedict's relatively benign comments should serve as ample proof of what Islam holds in store for all other faiths. As Benjamin Franklin once said: "Hang together or hang separately." That any tolerance is shown for the world's most intolerant religion is nothing short of self-immolation. This gradual suicide by abdication must end and end soon. It is simply baffling that other governments, churches, cultures and people in general continue to tip toe around the glaring fact that Islam is Hell bent on Global Cultural Genocide. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-30 15:14 |
| #1 It's that Religion of Peace© thing. |
| Posted by: Fred 2007-03-30 13:45 |