RADICAL MUSLIMS BURNT THREE CHURCHES IN MWANZA

ON WEDNESDAY OF 21ST SEPT, 2011 AT 02:00 PM HRS, THREE CHURCHES WERE BURNT BY RADICAL MUSLIMS IN MWANZA TANZANIA. THE CHURCHES INCLUDE:- (1) (TANZANIA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (T.A.G)-LUMALA PARISH (2) TANZANIA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (T.A.G.)-NYAMANOLO PARISH AND (3) PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF GOD (P.A.G.)-PASIANSI PARISH AT ILEMELA DISTRICT IN MWANZA CITY.

THE SOURCE OF THIS HARSH, CRUELTY AND PROVOCATIVE ACTION, IS THE CLAIM MADE BY RADICAL MUSLIMS, WHO, FALSELY, ACCUSED FOUR EVANGELISTS FROM T.A.G-LUMALA PARISH TO BURN THE QUR'AN.

BISHOP EMMANUEL ISABU, AN OVERSEER OF TANZANIA ASSEMBLIES OF GOD IN MWANZA, SAID, A MUSLIM WOMAN HUSNA KHAMIS,WHO WAS ALSO A WITCH DOCTOR, INVITED EVANGELISTS AT HER HOME TO PRAY FOR HER, FOLLOWING THE HEALTH PROBLEMS SHE HAD. SHE WAS POSSESSED BY DEMONS OF WITCH DOCTOR AS WELL AS FELL SICK ALWAYS. THE EVANGELISTS WENT THERE AND MINISTERED, UNTIL, ALL DEMONS WERE, COMPLETELY, CAST OUT AND WAS HEALED. THIS RESULTED TO SURRENDER HER LIFE TO JESUS. LATER ON, THE WOMAN ASKED EVANGELISTS TO BURN ALL HER FETISHES, INCLUDING WALL PICTURES WHICH DEPICTED ARABS CULTURE.

WITHIN NO TIME HER BROTHER-IN-LAW, WHO IS A MUSLIM, ( HER HUSBAND HAS DESERTED ALONE FOR A LONG TIME NOW), ARRIVED AND INQUIRED WHY EVANGELISTS WERE THERE. THE WOMAN TOLD THE WHOLE STORY AND HOW SHE GOT HEALING AFTER PRAYERS AND THE BURNT OF THE ARAB CULTURE PICTURES.

THE GUY BECAME FURIOUS AND IMMEDIATELY RUSHED TO THE NEARBY MOSQUE AND REPORTED ABOUT THE BURNT OF THE HOLY QUR'AN.

FURIOUS MUSLIMS WENT TO THE SCENE AND FOUND ONLY THE ASHES OF THE BURNT FETISHES BUT COULD NEVER FOUND ANY PIECE OF THE QUR'AN. THEY TOOK THE ASHES OF FETISHES BACK TO THEIR MOSQUE WHERE THE FOLLOWING  DAY THEY BROUGHT THE SAME TO THE CENTRAL POLICE IN MWANZA CLAIMING THAT THE ASHES WERE OF THE BURNT QUR'AN.

POLICE OFFICERS REFUSED TO RECEIVE SUCH EXHIBIT, BECAUSE, LEGALLY, IT HAD, ALREADY, LOST THE LEGITIMACY OF EXHIBIT, SINCE MUSLIMS DECIDED TO TAKE THE ASHES THEMSELVES TO THEIR MOSQUE, WITHOUT THE POLICE CONSENT.

 WHEN THE EVANGELISTS WENT TO THE POLICE ON 22ND SEPT TO REPORT ABOUT THE BURNT OF THE CHURCH,  THEY WERE ARRESTED, REMANDED AND FINALLY CHARGED OF BURNING THE QUR'AN. THEY WERE LATER SENT TO BUTIMBA PRISON. FILE NO:CC 233/2011 BEFORE HON. JANET MAFESA. THE ACCUSED ARE: TUMAINI JUMANNE (30), PETRO MASHAURI (29), DICKSON MAGAI (30) AND CALISTA MLOMO (30).

MEANWHILE MUSLIMS WHO BURNT THE CHURCHES, DESPITE BEING IDENTIFIED BY THE VILLAGE EXECUTIVE OFFICER WHO MENTIONED THEIR NAMES BEFORE THE POLICE OFFICERS WHO WENT TO THE CHURCH TO INVESTIGATE, ARE STILL UN ARRESTED TO DATE.THIS IS A SORT OF OPPRESSION AND RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE.

MORE WORSE ON 26TH SEPT,2011 WHEN THE EVANGELISTS WERE BROUGHT BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE FOR PRIMARY HEARING OF THEIR TRIAL, FURIOUS AND RADICAL MUSLIMS CROWDED THE COURT GROUNDS SHOUTING VIOLENTLY PLEDGED THE COURT TO RELEASE THEM BECAUSE THE ACCUSED HAD TO BE ASSASSINATED ACCORDING TO THE ISLAMIC SHARIAH .THE MAGISTRATE REFUSED. CONSTITUTIONALLY, TANZANIA IS A SECULAR STATE.

THE SITUATION WAS INTERVENED BY THE POLICE FIELD FORCE UNIT, WHO CAME IN THE AID AND ,COERCIVELY, RESTORED THE PEACE AT THE COURT. THE EVANGELISTS WERE TAKEN TO THE NEARBY POLICE POST AT KIRUMBA, WHERE, LATER WERE SENT BACK TO BUTIMBA PRISON.

ON SATURDAY OF 1ST OCTOBER, 2011 A HANDFUL NUMBER OF MWANZA CITY PASTORS FROM DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS, HELD A MEETING AT THE FREE PENTECOST CHURCH BUILDING, NYAMAGANA DISTRICT, TO DISCUSS AMONG OTHERS THE THREATS AND CHURCHES BURNINGS AND FIND THE SOLUTION TO THESE THREATS. THEY RESOLUTED TO JOIN HANDS TOGETHER AND FACE THE SITUATION. THE CHURCH ALSO, WARNED THE GOVERNMENT FOR BEING MUTE AND SPEECHLESS DESPITE THE DAMAGED OCCURRED AND CONSTANT THREATS FROM MUSLIMS. REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OFFICERS  HON. ABBAS KANDORO, ALSO ATTENDED THE MEETING.

MUSLIMS IN TANZANIA-AS OTHER MUSLIMS WITH SIMILAR OBJECTIVES TO INSTITUTE SHARIAH PRACTICE IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES- ARE STILL EXECUTING THE ABUJA DECLARATION RESOLUTIONS TO ERADICATE CHRISTIANITY IN ALL AREAS OF THEIR DOMINANCE. THE BODY OF CHRIST (CHURCH) IN TANZANIA, MUST TAKE HEED OF THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS.

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