In Chains: Christian Persecution - 2019, Issue 1

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Kidnapped and Tortured but Won’t Recant Reprinted with permission: Morning Star News A <strong>Christian</strong> mother from Sudan had deep cause for fear last November when her Muslim brother went to her church in Cairo, Egypt with a photo of her husband and asked members if they knew his whereabouts. Muslim extremists from Sudan had kidnapped and tortured her less than two years earlier in Cairo, and they threatened to kill her husband and daughter if she refused to return to Islam. The 42-year-old Ebtehaj Alsanosi Altejani Mostafa was tied to a chair in a darkened room with no windows when her abductors gave her that ultimatum in February 2017, she told Morning Star News. “I will not go back to Islam – I hate Islam,” she told them, as they continued beating her, Mostafa said. She had Yled to Egypt in 2005 after being jailed Yive times for her faith in Sudan. <strong>In</strong> Cairo she met a Sudanese pastor, also a convert from Islam, who would become her husband; he had also Yled persecution in Sudan. Since she was kidnapped, tortured and raped in February 2017, Mostafa and her family have had to change residences several times due to the Sudanese Muslim extremists’ threats on their lives. She still takes medication for the physical and psychological trauma she suffered after two Sudanese Muslim extremists kidnapped her as she was on her way to a market in 2017. They called her name, grabbed her, covered her nose and mouth, twisted her hands and sprayed some chemical on her that left her unconscious, she said. They took her to the windowless room in an unknown house where they poured water on her, pulled her hair and tied her hands and legs to a chair, all the while shouting her name. Covering her eyes, they reminded her of her Islamic upbringing in Sudan, and how after her school years she moved with her family to Saudi Arabia. Her Sudanese father, they reminded her, is a sheikh (Islamic teacher) in Saudi Arabia, she said. “You are disgrace to your Muslim family, you brought shame to the family,” they shouted as they struck her, she said. “You are
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