Somalia militants Behead Christian Father’s Sons
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 (11:05 am)
By Worthy News Africa Service
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (Worthy News) -- Muslim militants have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to hand over information about a church leader, a Christian news agency reported Wednesday, July 1.
Compass Direct News said militants from the Islamic extremist group al Shabaab were still searching for 55-year-old Musa Mohammed Yusuf, after killing his two young sons in February.
His sons, Abdi Rahaman Musa Yusuf, 11, Hussein Musa Yusuf, 12, and Abdulahi Musa Yusuf, 7, were apparently abducted February 21 during an al Shabaab raid on their family home in Yonday village, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Kismayo in Somalia.
Soon after, two of them were beheaded, while the youngest son apparently managed to reach the home again, crying. “I watched my three boys dragged away helplessly as my youngest boy was crying,” said Yusuf’s wife Batula Ali Arbow in published remarks. “I knew they were going to be slaughtered.”
HUSBAND FLEES
The incident happened a day after her husband, who leads an underground church, was forced to flee as militants interrogated him about his relationship with Salat Mberwa, another church leader. Mbwerwa, who supervises a 66-member congregation, reportedly taught Yusuf about Christianity.
Yusuf eventually managed to reach a Kenyan refugee camp where he later met the surviving family members, Christians said. However they apparently were forced to leave their 80-year-old grandmother behind after burying the two sons. Her whereabouts were unknown Wednesday July 1.
Mberwa said his 28-year son was attacked in October last year by al Shabaab militia, but he survived the gun shot. The family was believed to stay in a Kenyan refugee camp, Wednesday, July 1.
Wednesday's reports came amid mounting concerns among Christians in Somalia about their future. On Tuesday, June 30, Somalia's Islamist rebels threatened to attack neighboring Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the failed Horn of Africa state from where they withdrew in January.
ETHIOPIAN TROOPS
Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in 2006 to oust an Islamist movement from the capital in which new President Sheik Sharif Ahmed played a role. That sparked an Islamist insurgency which is still raging despite their withdrawal.
"I'm telling the people that it's time we attacked Ethiopia, who are our Christian neighbours," Sheikh Abdiqani Mohamed Yusuf said on a radio station controlled by the al Shabaab rebels in the southern port of Kismayu in comments monitored by Reuters news agency.
"We have to invade their country, like they did to our country. This is our best chance," he said. "The people should be ready to take part in jihad."
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (Worthy News) -- Muslim militants have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to hand over information about a church leader, a Christian news agency reported Wednesday, July 1.
Compass Direct News said militants from the Islamic extremist group al Shabaab were still searching for 55-year-old Musa Mohammed Yusuf, after killing his two young sons in February.
His sons, Abdi Rahaman Musa Yusuf, 11, Hussein Musa Yusuf, 12, and Abdulahi Musa Yusuf, 7, were apparently abducted February 21 during an al Shabaab raid on their family home in Yonday village, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Kismayo in Somalia.
Soon after, two of them were beheaded, while the youngest son apparently managed to reach the home again, crying. “I watched my three boys dragged away helplessly as my youngest boy was crying,” said Yusuf’s wife Batula Ali Arbow in published remarks. “I knew they were going to be slaughtered.”
HUSBAND FLEES
The incident happened a day after her husband, who leads an underground church, was forced to flee as militants interrogated him about his relationship with Salat Mberwa, another church leader. Mbwerwa, who supervises a 66-member congregation, reportedly taught Yusuf about Christianity.
Yusuf eventually managed to reach a Kenyan refugee camp where he later met the surviving family members, Christians said. However they apparently were forced to leave their 80-year-old grandmother behind after burying the two sons. Her whereabouts were unknown Wednesday July 1.
Mberwa said his 28-year son was attacked in October last year by al Shabaab militia, but he survived the gun shot. The family was believed to stay in a Kenyan refugee camp, Wednesday, July 1.
Wednesday's reports came amid mounting concerns among Christians in Somalia about their future. On Tuesday, June 30, Somalia's Islamist rebels threatened to attack neighboring Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the failed Horn of Africa state from where they withdrew in January.
ETHIOPIAN TROOPS
Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia in 2006 to oust an Islamist movement from the capital in which new President Sheik Sharif Ahmed played a role. That sparked an Islamist insurgency which is still raging despite their withdrawal.
"I'm telling the people that it's time we attacked Ethiopia, who are our Christian neighbours," Sheikh Abdiqani Mohamed Yusuf said on a radio station controlled by the al Shabaab rebels in the southern port of Kismayu in comments monitored by Reuters news agency.
"We have to invade their country, like they did to our country. This is our best chance," he said. "The people should be ready to take part in jihad."
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This is about the saddest thing I’ve read. Only the heart of God Himself could feel the greatest pain for such a loss for His name sake and yet how blessed must have been these young boys’ reunion with their Savior. May the family be given strength and hope of their reunion with their sons and may their faith be increased and their resolve be beyond human understanding, as they struggle through such hardships in His name. We need to reconsider our complaints when we see those in true need and persecution on this earth.
When is the World going to realize that Muslims are not peace loving.
Any one who would slaughtered 2 young boys to get even with their Father is an animal.
We need to rise up and let them know that Christians are not door mats.
Heavenly Father I lift up the hurting parents and younger sibling of the two martyred children. I praise you and thank You that You have promised that those children will be with you in the Millenial Kingdom ruling on this earth. I praise You for your promises, Your Love and Your Son. Please give us all courage. Enable us all to abandon false doctrine, and to gird our hearts with the Courage to be willing to die for You, knowing perfectly well, that if we die with you, we will live with You. I ask this in Your Son’s Holy Name, Jesus. Amen.
How can I help this particular family?
The more these senseless acts are allowed in this world, the more people in power and authoritiy turn a deaf ear and blind eye to these cold-hearted, evil acts, the more they will happen. There is NO EXCUSE for enough leaders and military not getting together and taking these terrorists out! This poor grieving christian family and others like them are in my heart and prayers. My heart goes out to God ’s own heart, who is hurt the most by all this
Praying!
“Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.”
Psalms 116:15
Oh LORD Have Mercy On The Blind
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:” In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
Oh Mighty God Of Grace
“And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?”
Jonah 4:11
Forgive Their Sins
“And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.”
“And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’ feet; and he healed them:”
“Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.”
Matthew 15:29-31
Glory!
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16