India: pastor who baptized Muslims appears before shariah court [CWN]

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The All India Christian Council–an ecumenical organization that defends Christians’ religious freedom–is expressing concern about the implications of the arrest of Rev. C. M. Khanna, a …

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Conversion out of Islam can result in execution under Sharia Law. Consider what happened to Dr. Mark Gabreel an imam and professor of Islamic History at Al-Ahzar University in Cairo when he was called to answer for preaching against radical Islamic groups.

*"‘We say the Quran is directly from Allah, but I doubt it. I see it in the thoughts of a man, not of the one true God.’ One professor jumped up and started cursing me. By the end of the meeting I was fired. The next morning the secret police came with machine guns, kidnapped me from my house, and threw me into prison for interrogation (where I was tortured). They suspected that I had converted to Christianity, and they wanted to find out who had led me astray." * Journey into the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist, Mark A. Gabreel, Frontline Publishing, 2006, p.12

This was over 15 years ago in a “moderate” Muslim nation. Dr. Gabreel was eventually released, then fled to South Africa and eventually America becoming a Christian along the way. Pray for the Christians in India and other nations where religious freedom is tenuous or non-existent.
 
I thought India is a secular country which has no shariah courts !!!
 
Sam_777 said:
I thought India is a secular country which has no shariah courts !!!
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India has a federal system in which the states have a lot of autonomy. Some of the states are dominated by religious groups. Gujarat, for instance, is presently run by “Hindu nationalists,” I believe. Jammu and Kashmir, where this event took place, is dominated by Muslims. There has been a lot of conflict in this region–India and Pakistan have fought several wars over it–and apparently in the course of all the turmoil most of the Hindus have moved out, and the Muslims have become increasingly radical. Now these militant Muslims are threatening the small Christian population, it would appear.

It’s a small world–I posted a link about this story on Facebook, and it turned out that one of my Religions of the World students knew someone who belonged to this pastor’s congregation and was himself afraid of being arrested.

According to my student, the pastor has now been released and it’s blown over for now. There is no law in Kashmir against religious conversion (as there is in some other Indian states), so they accused him of fomenting strife.

In India, Christian missionaries are routinely accused of bribing or coercing people into becoming Christians. Of course, missionaries have done some unsavory things and I don’t dismiss such accusations out of hand, but it seems that in many cases the accusation is made as a matter of course, because neither Hindus nor Muslims are willing to believe that anyone would convert to Christianity willingly and with integrity.

Edwin
 
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