The Article

08/23/2021 Uganda (Morning Star News) – The Muslim father of a 20-year-old convert to Christianity in Uganda on Sunday (Aug. 15) killed him for refusing to recant his faith, sources said.

Kasimu Kawona of Bupalama village, Buseta Sub-County in Kibuku District was not charged with murder but a lesser charge of manslaughter because he killed his son in anger for leaving Islam, sources said.

The Conversion

His son, Tabiruka Tefiiro, put his faith in Christ in 2019. At that time his father drove him from their home, and he went to Kampala, where he worked in a hotel, relatives said. His mother later spent several months trying to convince him to return home to reconcile with his father, which Tefiiro resisted until consenting to come back on Aug. 1.

His father was away from home until Saturday (Aug. 14), when he called a family meeting to question Tefiiro about whether he had come back to Islam, relatives said.

The Confession of the Son

“I am mature enough to join any religion that I feel like because I am above 18 years old,”

Tefiiro told him, according to Jamila Baluka, Kawona’s sister. “I want to confirm that I am saved by the grace of God. I can’t renounce my Christian faith now or in the future.”

Kawona became angry but remained silent as he left the house, she said.

Another relative said that the next day, Kawona returned with a knife and hoe and started hitting Tefiiro, who managed to escape to a neighbour’s house.

The Murder – Father Kills his Son

“He followed Tefiiro and forcefully entered the house and removed him back to the homestead, where he tied him up and started beating him with the hoe,” said the relative, whose identity is withheld for security reasons. “He fell down unconscious. He then hanged him up.”

The wailing of Tefiiro’s mother and other relatives at the home where Kawona had hung his son with a rope by the neck brought neighbours rushing to the home, sources said

“When I arrived at Kawona’s house with other neighbours, we found the father outside the house,” the area chairperson, Hassan Kwiri, told Morning Star News. “He told us that he had killed his son who had disgraced the Islamic religion by becoming a Christian.”

Kwiri and other Muslim neighbours brought Kawona, who offered no resistance, to the Bupalama police station, Kwiri said.

The Crocodile Tears

“I strongly condemn the brutal act of killing people in the name of religion,” he added.

The chairperson of Local 3, Sadiki Wawire, echoed the sentiment.

“I was shocked to hear that a member of my area had killed his son,” Wawire said. “I condemn the act, and I hate anyone who takes away someone’s life in such a brutal manner.”

Police took the body for postmortem examination. The pastor of Tefiiro’s church in Kampala, unnamed for security reasons, said he felt police should have charged Kawona with murder.

“We are saddened by the brutal death of our young convert who worshipped in our church for two years,” the pastor told Morning Star News by phone.

The assault was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

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 per cent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

Conclusion

Some Islamic Scriptures that could have prompted the Father would be as follows

They wish you would disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so you may all be alike. So do not take them as allies unless they emigrate in the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and do not take any of them as allies or helpers,¹

Quran 4:89

Narrated `Ikrima:`Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn `Abbas, who said, “Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Don’t punish (anybody) with Allah’s Punishment.’ No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ “

Sahih al-Bukhari 3017

Christian Persecution is not new in Uganda. This incident reminds me of words from the mouth of Jesus himself.

a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

Matt 10:36

“They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

John 16:2

End of “Father Kills his Son for becoming a Christan“

Therefore, he took a knife and attacked Hatun (Habil). The attack on Hatun is not a lone incident. In a similar incident, earlier the Jews earlier had tried to kill Jesus because Jesus showed them the errors in their worship. Apostle Paul himself had debated Jews in their Synagogues over worship and was beaten and stoned often.

The Theory of how Islamic Attack Progresses

Aristotle, the Greek Philosopher of the 4^th century B.C. published his work “Sophistical Refutations” to prove that men have a tendency to attack a person instead of an argument. Attacking the person instead of the point of debate is called ad hominem (against the person).  From the latest studies on debating, I have inserted a modified picture of the debate Pyramid. The pyramid shows that if the intention of a debater is not to find truth but rather to force his views on others, he will use all the tactics as shown in the pyramid and finally he may resort to silencing the voice that is challenging him.

Violence in Islam is not new. Actions reveal what one conceals behind words.  Killing and silencing voice is a sign of defeat at an intellectual rational level.

The Dichotomy of the so-called Religion of Peace

Not all are intelligent and not all have enough knowledge combat in debate. Therefore, many religious conflicts have resulted in war and blood since human history. There is no Guarantee that we will stop expressing our faith and religion to others. But then how do we bring peace? Muslims love the pronunciation of the word “PEACE” but have they ever thought about how can true peace be established among humans?  Why does Islamic attacks happen on common men?

We are 7 billion people on this planet earth. This means we all have our own independent choices, wills, desires and wants. I may like the red colour. You may be liking black, green or blue. Not only the colour but in innumerable matters we all differ from each other. In a family of three, each one may differ in his choice of food, colour, spending, choice of brands, and so on.Seven billion people with 7 billion choices and their permutation and combinations!

And, among all these countless variations and differences we have our different faith and belief system. For the sake of an arguement, let us assume that all 7 billion people on this earth have become Muslims. That sounds fantastic for Muslims, is not it? My question is how peaceful will that world be? Will all Islamic Attack stop after that?

Will such a world have no further divisions and no further fights among each other? Will there be no Shia, Sunni, Wahabi, Salafi, Sufi separations within the ummah (Community).  Will there be no no more Afghanistan, Taliban, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, Malaysia, etc? Will there be one currency and uniform distribution of wealth?

Will we have no more racial differentiation among black and white? Will ugly fat woman be loved and desired equally as beautiful woman will be? Will horrible faced man be desired and loved by beautiful woman? Will he not ever feel hurt for not being able to get love from whom his heart and eyes desire?

This Allah could not be even equitable with a handful of men on earth. Quran tells a story of Qabil and Habil that Qabil became jealous of Habil! What guarantee is there of peace in this world if all turn Muslims? Will there be no more strife in family, among friends resulting in a peaceful community? Will there be no boundaries, no grabbing of gold, silver diamond, food and other resources?

I would like to get a response from Muslims on this. Do not be fanciful but give us some rational reasons. You can quote your scriptures in defense but at least it should have verifiable rationale from the world around us. However if you cannot, then we Christians are very sure that the world will be the most peaceful place when 7 billion people turn to Jesus.

The Christian Perspective

We are not giving a fanciful imaginary argument. We actually had a glimpse of such times in our scriptures. In days of Solomon, there was peace in the land and there were no wars (I Kings 5:4). Peace and abundance of food of the land is described in the book of the people as

During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.

1 Kings 4:25

There was so much food and Gold that value of gold became as stones on road (2 Chronicles 1:15, 9:27). This was just glimpse. The Prophets have prophesied similar comparative peace in the times of Jesus. They have used similar phrases in prophetic voices (Zech 3:10, Micah 4:4). Just as in the times of Solomon, we will have so much wealth and gold in the Millenial kingdom of Jesus that gold and money will be under the human feet (Rev 21:21). Prophets tell us that there will be no harm done to any one by any other creature (See Isaiah 11).

The Bible not only describes this time from a future prophecy but also gives us reason and rationale of how it is possible. We have already identified the problem.The lack of peace in world is not mere religious fight among Christians and Muslims, but the cumulative effect of all individual choices made by 7 Billion people. So, all the 7 billion people on earth, changing to one religion – either Muslims or Christians, is not the solution.  The Bible starts with helping us identify the problem.

When God created the earth, he described all of it as very good. But later, we are told that Adam ate from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Quran also mentions this story but it hides the name of the forbidden tree. Why does Quran hide the name of the tree?

Why do Muslims Attack?

It is the name of tree that reveals the real problem, that after eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, that the capacity of Adam and Eve to recognize evil was developed. They could see they were naked. Quran also mentions the effect forbidden that had on them after they ate the forbidden fruit. So why does then Quran remove the name that bible explicitly reveals?

Is it not our ability to choose and define what is good and evil for us the reason why we have so many different choices? God said to Adam the day you eat you will die. Death in the sight of God was separated from him who is the source of all life. That very day, God removed Adam and Eve from paradise.

They were separated from God, the source of life. Death started working in them. Since then men began to define what is good and what is evil for them, independently apart from the almighty creator. We make choices and those choices, in turn, have far-reaching repercussions in the chain of events. Events associated with those choices ultimately bring us evil, harm, pain and death.

My individual sins unlike how Quran says, are not limited to me. All my choices has ripple effects, they cause pain for generations to come. We call this as the original sin that which Quran rejects. If I as man, have made technological advancements by my own wisdom, then that which is defined good had ripple effects on the nature.They are caused by the chain of reactions that has brought the curse on mankind.

Yes, technology has not only been a blessing for humanity (good) but it is also become a cause for pain(evil). Our choices and actions that we have defined as good according to our own judgments have caused evil (adverse effects).  Why has Quran hidden the name of the forbidden tree, and the concept of original sin? Why does not it like to tell us that we humans carry in our DNA a nature to independently define good and evil, separately from God? 

The only solution to this death of our soul is to fix the cause for the curse.We must be given rebirth into a state in which we regain our unity with God the source of eternal life. In the Bible, this process is described as new birth by baptism in Jesus. This process supernaturally takes place as we go through the sacrament of baptism. The death of Jesus and resurrection is what makes this possible, which is described in Romans 6, and which Quran denies.

Conclusion

My question to Muslims readers are as follows

• Why has Quran which is copied from Christian scriptures have hidden the name of forbidden tree?
• Why has it rejected the concept of original sin, and refused the death and resurrection of Jesus?

It has only kept the story of Adam and Eve and eating of forbidden fruit and story of Jesus, but removed all the key solutions given in bible! Seven billion people turning to one religion is not the solution to peace. How many Hatuns will you try to kill? Will you be happy and peaceful when Muslims attack and kill all the remaining non-Muslims? Isn’t the violence in Islam a standing testimony about its demonic origins?

End of “The Islamic Bargain – Why do Muslims attack?“

The News of Martyrdom

Christians Persecuted and Martyred for their faith has been on the rise. The latest is Pastor Isima Kimbugwe of Uganda on June 30th 2021. His body was burned beyond recognition after the assailants set his home on fire in Buseta village, Kibuku District, Uganda at about 10:30 p.m., local Christians said.

The Cause

Leaving Islam to become a Christian in 2017, Pastor Kimbugwe had fled the village after area Muslims upset with him leading five Muslims to faith in Christ threatened to kill him, the sources said. He worked for a Christian organization in Kampala until the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a loss of donor support that caused it to shut down, leading him to his return to his home village.

The Incident

“Immediately after arriving at his house, Muslims sent a young boy aged 14 who was a student at an Islamic school at Kibuku,” said a source who requested anonymity. “He greeted the pastor in the Islamic way, ‘Asalamu Asalamu Alaikum [Peace be unto you, in Arabic].’ The pastor refused to answer but instead replied that Jesus loves you. The boy spat saliva on the ground and uttered the Islamic [jihadist] slogan, ‘Allahu Akbar [Allah is Greater]’ and ran away.’”

At about 9 p.m. the pastor had supper with his brother, Geoffrey Kadogo, at his house, then returned to his home about 200 meters away.

“Upon arriving, he heard some footsteps outside and became fearful, and there and then he made a phone call telling me of his fears,” Kadogo said. “By 10:30 we saw flames of fire and smoke from his house. Arriving at the scene, the house was completely burnt up, and nearby was a small steel jerrycan, a cap and Quranic notes. The notes read, ‘Your enmity to Islam is what you have ripe,’” an idiom meaning he had provided a valid reason for them setting him and his house on fire according to Islam.

Your enmity to Islam is what you have ripe

Killers of Pastor Kimbugwe

The local Muslims had warned the pastor several times to stop sharing the gospel, but he continued to lead Muslims to faith in Christ, Kadogo said.

“This led to this atrocious act,” he told Morning Star News.

The Investigation

Officers of the Kituti police station arrived at the site that night, and the next morning police from headquarters in Kibuku came and took the pastor’s body to a mortuary.

Pastor Kimbugwe’s remains were buried in a funeral service on Thursday (July 1) attended by 20 people, the maximum allowed under COVID-19 protocol.

He is survived by his wife and two children, ages 10 and 17. When Pastor Kimbugwe fled to Kampala, his family members, who had also become Christians, went to live with relatives in another district.

Police investigations have turned up three suspects in the killing.

The assault was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

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 per cent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

Let us uphold the Family and the assembly of Pastor Isima Kimbugwe in our daily prayers. Christians are persecuted and many more will be persecuted. We need to be standing in solidarity with our brothers and sisters worldwide.

Evil Islamic Texts that promotes such Murders for Leaving Islam

They wish you would disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so you may all be alike. So do not take them as allies unless they emigrate in the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and do not take any of them as allies or helpers,¹

Quran 4:89

Narrated `Ikrima:`Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn `Abbas, who said, “Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Don’t punish (anybody) with Allah’s Punishment.’ No doubt, I would have killed them, for the Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.’ “

Sahih al-Bukhari 3017

It was narrated from Ibn`Abbas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Whoever changes his religion, execute him.”

Sunan Ibn Majah 2535

Narrated ‘Abdullah: Allah’s Apostle said, “The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Apostle, cannot be shed except in three cases: In Qisas for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims.“

Sahih al-Bukhari 6878

‘Abdullah (b. Mas’ud) reported:Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) stood up and said: By Him besides Whom there is no god but He, the blood of a Muslim who bears the testimony that there is no god but Allah, and I am His Messenger, may be lawfully shed only in case of three persons: the one who abandons Islam, and deserts the community [Ahmad, one of the narrators, is doubtful whether the Prophet (ﷺ) used the word li’l-jama’ah or al-jama’ah), and the married adulterer, and life for life.

Sahih Muslim 1676c

Conclusion

Christians Persecuted in different lands, will continue to uphold the Gospel of Christ in spite of any opposition. The history of Christianity is drenched with the blood of the martyrs.

March Onward soldiers for Christ. We have signed up for a cause in which we will remain faithful till our last breath. The Martyred Pastor is resting with the Lord.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matt 10:28