On July 16,five Somali Muslim men assaulted and seriously injured a Christian man in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for reading a book critical of the Prophet Muhammad.
WASHINGTON D.C. (ANS) July 18, 2010 — A human rights organization has learned that members of the Al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabaab, publicly executed a Christian convert from Islam.
The execution occurred in Hudur district, Somalia on July 1.
Family of 17-Year-Old Somali Girl Abuses Her for Leaving Islam
Young Christian beaten and shackled to tree.
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 15 (CDN) — The Muslim parents of a 17-year-old Somali girl who converted to Christianity severely beat her for leaving Islam and have regularly shackled her to a tree at their home for more than a month, Christian sources said.
They tied me to a tree by my hands and left me hanging
NAIROBI, 8 April 2010 (IRIN) - Ahmed, a 35-year-old pastoralist, was watching over a herd of cows on the outskirts of Hagar town in Somalia's southern Juba valley when militiamen from Al-Shabab, the Islamist insurgent group that controls the area, demanded a "zaka", or tithe. His refusal led to a violent confrontation that left him crippled for life. Ahmed, now in a refugee camp in Kenya, recounted his ordeal by telephone, as his sister, who described him as depressed and traumatized, held the handset:
Islamic extremists in somalia kill church leader, torch home
Al Shabaab militants execute pastor; government-aligned Islamists burn house containing Bible.
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 24 (CDN) Islamic militants in Somalia tracked down an underground church leader who had previously escaped a kidnapping attempt and killed him last week, Christian sources said.
PUSH FOR ISLAMIC COURTS IN KENYA ALARMS CHRISTIANS
Emergence of Somali-related Islamic extremists puts authorities on high alert.
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 11 (CDN) — A constitutional battle to expand the scope of Islamic courts in Kenya threatens to ignite religious tensions at a time when authorities are on high alert against Muslim extremists with ties to Somalia.
Islamic Militants in Somalia Murder Christian Leader
Al Shabaab extremists threaten widow of slain pastor of underground church.
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 26 (CDN) — Islamic extremists shot the leader of an underground church to death outside the capital city of Somalia this month and have threatened to kill his wife, his tearful widow told Compass.
YOUNG BRITISH MUSLIMS ARE JOINING A TERROR GROUP LINKED TO AL-QAEDA THAT IS BLAMED FOR HUNDREDS OF DEATHS IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY
From The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010
Richard Kerbaj
STUDENTS from some of Britain’s top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.
Almost a dozen young British Muslims, including a female medical researcher, are said recently to have joined Al-Shabaab, an extremist rebel organisation blamed for hundreds of deaths in the east African state.
A Somali man accused of trying to kill a Danish cartoonist whose images of the Prophet Muhammad enraged Muslims in 2005 was charged with two counts of attempted murder.
Danish police shot and wounded the 28-year-old man after he broke into Kurt Westergaard’s home in Aarhus armed with an axe and a knife.
Egyptian evangelist Father Zakaria Botros is one of the most controversial figures in the Middle East. He's a born again Coptic priest who's led thousands of Muslims to Christ via the Internet and television-- and militant Muslims want him dead because of that.
Somali Christian Flees Refugee Camp Under Death Threat
Flood of refugees to camp in Kenya brings Muslims hostile to his family.
NAIROBI, Kenya, December 9 (CDN) — Somali Christian Mohamud Muridi Saidi last month fled a refugee camp near Kenya’s border with Sudan after Muslims threatened to kill him.
ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS EXECUTE YOUNG CONVERT IN SOMALIA
Christian accused of trying to convert Muslim teenager found shot on Mogadishu street.
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 23 (CDN)
Islamic extremists controlling part of the Somali capital of Mogadishu this month executed a young Christian they accused of trying to convert a 15-year-old Muslim to Christianity.
CHRISTIAN IN SOMALIA WHO REFUSED TO WEAR VEIL IS KILLED
‘Moderate’ Islamist group had long suspected woman in Puntland was Christian.
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 27 (CDN) — Three masked members of a militant Islamist group in Somalia last week shot and killed a Somali Christian who declined to wear a veil as prescribed by Muslim custom, according to a Christian source in Somalia.
Even Somalia’s supposedly moderate government is loath to protect them
WHERE is the hardest place in the world to be a Christian citizen? North Korea, perhaps? Saudi Arabia? Try Somalia. There are thought to be no more than a thousand Christians in a resident population of 8m people, with perhaps a few thousand more in the Diaspora. The Islamist Shabab militia, which controls most of southern Somalia, is dedicated to hunting them down.
NAIROBI, Kenya, October 1 (CDN) — Islamic militants in Somalia this week killed a woman who led an underground Christian movement in the war-torn country.
MUSLIM MILITANTS SLAY LONG-TIME CHRISTIAN IN SOMALIA
Al Shabaab extremists shoot 69-year-old after finding Bibles on him at checkpoint.
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 18 (CDN) — The faith journey of a long-time underground Christian in Somalia ended in tragedy this week when Islamic militants controlling a security checkpoint killed him after finding Bibles in his possession.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, September 16 (CDN) — A convert from Islam in Somalia’s self-declared state of Somaliland has been jailed for distributing Christian materials, and another is on the run from both family members and police upset over his new faith.
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 22 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim extremists seeking evidence that a Somali man had converted from Islam to Christianity shot him dead Tuesday morning (Aug. 18) near the Somali border with Kenya, according to underground Christians in the war-torn nation.
Somali Islamic extremists beheaded four Christians recently after kidnapping them last month, according to eyewitness accounts reported to International Christian Concern (ICC).
