ABUJA, NIGERIA (BosNewsLife)-- A militant group seeking to enforce Sharia, or Islamic law, throughout Nigeria, has shot and killed two children of an ex-terrorist and "murderer" because he converted to Christianity, well-informed missionaries told BosNewsLife Wednesday, November 23.

Boko Haram, meaning “Western education is a sin”, carried out the killings this month after discovering that a former fellow fighter refused to kill a Christian and instead accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, explained Rae Burnett, Africa Director of the U.S. based Christian Aid Mission (CAM) group.

Burnett told BosNewsLife that the father and Boko Haram militant "was poised to slit the throat of his Christian victim" during November attacks in northern Nigeria that killed at least over 130 Christians, including missionaries, when "he was suddenly struck with the weight of the evil he was about to commit."

Dropping his machete, the man ran to the nearest church, asking a pastor for help, Burnett said.

INDIGENOUS MINISTRY

The pastor referred him to a CAM-supported indigenous ministry, where "native missionaries are reaching remote villages with the message of Christ," she added.

"When the call came, the ministry leader was grieving the loss of several close missionary friends who were murdered in the Yobe State slaughter. He immediately met with the confessed killer and joyfully led him to Christ. He is discipling him in a secret location because of the extreme danger."

Burnett declined to identify the former Muslim militant and missionaries, citing security concerns.

"After meeting the Lord, the converted terrorist [and] murderer called his former colleagues to testify what had happened to him without disclosing where he was," she said.

CHILDREN KIDNAPPED

However, "Upon discovering the man's conversion to Christianity, Boko Haram members invaded his home, kidnapped his two children and informed him that they were going to execute them in retribution for his disloyalty to Islam. Clutching his phone, the man heard the sound of the guns that murdered his children," the CAM official added.

There was no known published comment about the specific attack by Boko Haram, but the reported murders were part of what President leader Goodluck Jonathan called "heinous violence" which began November 4 mainly in and around Damaturu, the capital of Nigeria's northern  Yobe state.

Christian missionaries said that during the attacks Muslim "extremists" of Boko Haram also demanded that Christians recite the Islamic creed. Those who refused, were reportedly butchered on the spot.

Additionally, "among the "devastation and destruction left in the wake of Boko Haram's violence were 10 church buildings set aflame while Christians remained trapped inside,"  added Burnett, who has close knowledge about the situation.

Though "severely traumatized," the former Boko Haram fighter who lost his children "is growing in the knowledge of Christ through the loving care he is receiving from his brothers and sisters in the ministry that is sheltering and training him," she said. "He knows he is called to become a missionary to Nigerian Muslims."

CONVERSION WELCOMED

It was not immediately clear whether he would hand himself over to authorities for possible wrongdoing in the past, but Burnett made clear his conversion came as a boost for an "indigenous missionary ministry" which "has been working tirelessly to take the Gospel to Nigeria's unreached Islamic northern states."

Areas where CAM missionaries work are dominated by Muslim Hausa and Fulani tribes, many of whom are reportedly illiterate and remotely located.

"Millions have never even heard that Jesus died [and rose up from the death] for them," Burnett said.

She claimed that despite "the extreme difficulties involved in reaching Muslims with the Gospel" several former Muslims "have made a commitment to follow Christ."

Burnett said several ex-Muslims facing "the danger of persecution or death from the Islamic community and even family members," are brought to "a safe location while they are discipled and trained in the Word of God."

GOVERNMENT PRESSURED

The government of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has come under international pressure to improve protection of minority Christians in northern areas.

Nigeria's over 160 million people are divided almost in half between Muslims living mainly in the north and Christians in the south, according to several estimates. President Jonathan has pledged to send extra troops to areas of sectarian friction, but Burnett said he faces an uphill battle.

The Boko Haram's "goal is to force Sharia law throughout Nigeria" targeting "secular education by bombing schools and universities, " the CAM director said. She added that while attacks are often prompted by local issues, they also aim at "anything that is perceived to be foreign influence."

Burnett recalled a recent attack against the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria, which killed 23 people. However even hundreds of Muslims have been killed as "fanatics carry out near daily attacks in the remote northeast of Borno state, where Nigeria borders Cameroon, Niger and Chad," she stressed.

Embassies and hotels have reportedly increased security and are on high alert amid concerns the attacks will increase and further spread in the African nation.
Copyright 2008 BosNewsLife.

Muslims are SCARED TO DEATH of someone preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because they KNOW that it is the truth and will change lives. They KNOW that what they have is a lie, and that's why they fight so hard to stop Christians from speaking about Christ.

I guess I should say that the demon spirit known as "allah" is the one who knows that the Bible contains the truth, and the "koran" is all lies. That's why "allah" commands his "followers" to fight so hard against the preaching of the Gospel.

If you have the truth, you aren't so worried about what others are preaching. But if you have a lie, the last thing you want is for the truth to be proclaimed and your lie to be exposed.

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Dat was so badt of him

True

Food for thought

@OP

this is only goes to show how misguided,illitrate,ignorant and backward the boko haram is if this is not a fabricated story.

besides,i do not trust the missionaries and what they say.so i dont believe this story.

also i am a (SHIA) MUSLIM;i am not a northerner and i am living in Lagos and i am not being forced by anyone to be MUSLIM.this is how i was born and this is how i will die as a MUSLIM and nothing else.your missionaries can keep going up north to fool,deceive and mislead the illitrates in poor remote villages of their christian doctrine of their "god" who "died".


"Their True Agenda"-"The Stealth Crusade": "An Investigative Report On How Christian Missionaries Are Being Trained to Go Undercover and Wipe Out Islam".

http://motherjones.com/politics/2002/05/stealth-crusade

http://www.democracynow.org/2003/1/3/the_stealth_crusade_an_investigative_report

FOR THE REALITY OF CHRISTIANITY:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-739943.0.html

ISLAM is a death CULT , and the more people see the truth for what it is, the more they leave ISLAM.

I personally know many many who have left ISLAM, some personal friends, who have had enough of this 7th century stone age barbaric ideology.

frosbel:

ISLAM is a death CULT , and the more people see the truth for what it is, the more they leave ISLAM.

I personally know many many who have left ISLAM, some personal friends, who have had enough of this 7th century stone age barbaric ideology.

CHRISTIANITY is not a dead cult;It is made up of MANY DEAD CULTS!!!
and the more people see the truth for what it is,the more they leave those CHRISTIAN CULTS.

I personally know many many many who have left their CHRISTIAN CULTS-some personal friends,who have had enough of this PRE-CAMBRIAN and foolish ideologies made from a mixture of jewish tales and pagan customs like "crucifying their god" and ""celibrating his birthday in december".

@frosbel: I am trying as much as possible to avoid replying to your comments because IMO, your mission is just to insult muslims and Islam and not to engage in a matured dialogue. I expect you to exercise some restraints and display some sense of maturity (except of course if you are not matured). Your comments are usually very uncivil. Besides, the source of your story is very unreliable and confirms what I have said about you.

@Lagos Shia: A muslim is a muslim, so long as you believe that Allah (SWT) is One and Muhammad (SAW) is His Messenger. Identifying yourself as a Shia muslim, not a muslim is not part of the teachings of the Prophet (SAW), that says all muslims are one. Little ideological opinions /issues does not stop you from been a muslim.


Please I didn't insult anyone o, so I don't expect any insults pleassssssssssse!

@post:

That is very true, and this is what is going on in 50 Muhammedan states over the world. Muhammad's Quran and Sunna, contain absolutely no Joy or Happiness but are full to the brim with Hate, War, Pain, Torture, Hell, Damnation, Discrimination, Racism, Unhappiness, Submission, Misery and Stupidity,

Bump

Any confirmation of this story?

goggs:

i dont know why Muslim will be hyper ventilating over missionaries to the extent of fabricating stories about missionaries going undercover. They dont need to at all. Missionaries are well know for their charitable works, hospitals, clinics, schools and food programmes. They are so open minded that ANYBODY is welcomed to their facilty. I was at a Catholic Hospital the other day and one of the porters is a Muslim. At the time for afternoon prayers, he took excuse and headed out to an area of the hospital where their WAS A MAKESHIFT MOSQUE and prayed. That is tolerance! Which Muslim organisation will take a Christian worker? Or even allow him pray on the grounds. Even Sanusi Lamido Sanusi went to a missionary School. Did he ever say an attempt was made to convert him? Did he convert? St Geralds in Kaduna has tended to all, many Muslim families are treated there and Muslim babies born there. I was in the interior of Plateau state some 3 years back and there were missionaries distributing free drugs and carrying out free treatment.

Missionaries really dont need training to evangelise. What they give is genuine and most importantly THEY DONT FORCE ANYONE. I have never heard missionaries asking if you are Muslim or Christian before administering drugs. More often you hear of Missionary Trained Nurses/Teachers/Administrators.

Who is largely responsible for the eradication of Guinea worm in Northern Nigeria? What of River Blindness in Northern nigeria? Was it Islamic Charities NO! but the beneficiaries are mostly Muslims and they were not asked to convert nor have they converted. That is what a religion should be - concern for one another even to the far ends of the earth

How come Saudi Arabia is not interested in providing health services or food or clothing? Just mosques and the like. And they can afford it. Why are the Saudis not the biggest humanitarian donors to the Palestinians? The US (with all their lame support to the Palestinian cause) are. Why?

Ask questions and seek genuine answers not some lame conspiracy theories.

Thank you so much. You have just hit the nail on the head. I have never seen anything good that comes out from Muhammedan Islam. nothing of value, intellectual, artistic, spiritual or literary can ever sprout in the darkness cast by Fundamentalist Muhammadan Islam upon all the peoples and lands that it occupies.

That is the reason why Islamist acts like idiots and just butcher people without thinking. Take a look at what the so called Boko Haram are doing.

@goggs, well spoken. What i believe God will arest them one after the other in Jesus name.
@Frosbel, can u provide a link plz, thanks.

Indeed

@tidytim,I though u provided the link now, wht happend.? it has dissapeared?
I got their picture from the page though!