All we have to do is stop preaching the Gospel; then the police won’t bother us anymore. But we are not willing to pay that price.

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cited, The Calling, Brother Andrew, 209

David Abdulwahab Mohamen Ali (2008)

David’s conversion from Islam to Christianity was strongly opposed by his Somali Muslim family. Consequently, he had not seen them for many years, when in April 2008, he travelled back to Somalia from Ethiopia where he had been living since 2000, to visit his sick mother.

On 22nd April, one of David’s cousins came to him with two members of the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab, to question him about his faith. They asked him whether he was a Muslim or an infidel. He replied: ‘Neither, I am a follower of the Messiah’. David’s cousin, to avenge the famiy’s honour, pulled out a gun and shot the 29 year old. The other two did the same, before dragging his body to a mosque, praising Allah that ‘an apostate was dead’.

David was described as a gifted evangelist who led many to the Lord … Some Somalians called him ‘The Great Thinker’.

taken from Heroes of our Faith (22nd April)

Patrick Sookdheo