Uganda: Islamic Sheikh Converts To Christianity, Muslim Relatives Develop Sudden Urge To Kill Him

Luke 21:16, “You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.”

By Jeremy Reynalds, Christian Post – “Muslim relatives of a convert from Islam in a village in eastern Uganda last week tried to poison him to death, the Christian told Morning Star News.

According to a story by Morning Star News, Hassan Muwanguzi, who lost his wife and job as a schoolteacher shortly after his conversion in 2003, was hospitalized on March 31 in Mbale. That was after an aunt who called a family gathering in Kadimukoli village, Budaka District, put insecticide in his tea, he said.

‘After eating and taking tea, I started feeling stomachache, then I realized that she was the one responsible for it – and I believe she did not do it alone, since they have been hunting for me directly and indirectly, because when I left them and converted to Christianity it pained them so much,’ Muwanguzi said in an email.

He added, ‘The reason they want to kill me is very clear – it is because of being a convert to Christianity; above all, to them it is like I brought shame by converting, as a (former) sheikh. But to God the Almighty Father, this was His plan for me to expand His Kingdom.’

A physician who treated him, identified only as Dr. Rashid, told Morning Star News that the substance Muwanguzi ingested was possibly diazinon. That’s an organic acid used in insecticides, as his condition slightly improved under atropine, the antidote for diazinon…

Muwanguzi was invited to a special meeting to discuss family matters at the home of the aunt he accuses of poisoning him, Maimuna Time. She had mentioned the family needed special prayers for a daughter who was ill, Muwanguzi said.

The meeting was scheduled to start at 5 p.m. but was delayed until about 7 p.m., when three other relatives arrived. At 7:30 p.m. tea was served with bread. Immediately after taking the food, Muwanguzi began feeling slight pains that gradually increased, and he realized he could have been poisoned, he said.

He telephoned Bishop Kinyewa, who advised him that he should leave secretly, as he planned to get a motorcycle to take him to the hospital…

Following his conversion in his early 20s in 2003, Muwanguzi said his family immediately threw him out of their home, and enraged Muslims beat him. His wife also left him that same year, and he lost his job as a teacher at Nankodo Islamic School, near Pallisa.

Despite that, he opened a Christian school, Grace International Nursery and Primary School, at Kajoko, Kibuku District, 16 miles from Mbale, where the area’s population of 5,000 people is predominantly Muslim…

‘I knew if he were to mention to them that he was getting sick, they would harm him more,’ Morning Star News reported Bishop Kinyewa said.” Read more.

Flashback: Uganda: Daughter Beaten By Her Father, Hospitalized After Converting To Christianity – “A dream of praying in a church frightened a recent college graduate in Uganda, the Muslim daughter of sheikh; she knew he was capable of seriously hurting her for such a religious switch. Wenene Nuru, 23, of Iki-Iki township in Pallisa District, had been listening to a Christian-Muslim dialogue on ‘The Sonship of Jesus Christ’ on the radio before she had the dream on Feb. 28… On March 4, at about 8 p.m., her father, Nuru Rajabu, could no longer contain his anger. ‘My father began beating me with clubs and blows, and I started screaming in great pain,’ she said. ‘While I was down on the floor bleeding, my father went looking for a knife to kill me…'” Read more.

Flashback: Imam Embraces Christ: ‘I Started Reading The Bible, And Upon Its Completion I Was Absolutely Convinced’ That Christianity Was True – “Mario Joseph was born in an ordinary Muslim Indian family. His father prepared him—the third among six brothers—as a spiritual leader: thus, aged 10, Mario entered a Koranic school, and when he returned from it at the age of 18, he became an Imam-khatib in a local village Mosque. However, the young man turned to Christ, and this choice made him a target even for his own father who, having known about his son’s conversion to another faith, threatened to kill him. Moreover, his father erected a gravestone in advance in a local Muslim cemetery with the epitaph containing the young man’s name and date of birth.” Read more.