Somalia: Sister Fislan Alive: but Ethiopian Christians in 'Grave Danger'

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Somalia: Mogadishu Surrounded.

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The first paragraph of the following e-mail has been edited to avoid making public anything that might endanger this “very brave  and very wise woman.”

Here is the e-mail from a Somali Christian which begins by saying that Sister Filsan, author of mothballed blog ’Somali’s for Jesus’ is alive and well but has been in “extreme danger from islamic fundamentalists” (more below).  In recent months the murders of the Catholic nun, three somali believers and a Swedish journalist have shown just how oppressive the Islamists can be. She is now out of Somalia.

The rest of this e-mail is reported unedited.   

Things have gotten worse for the Somali Christians living throughout Somalia and the surrounding countries since the islamists took power of the southern Somalia. There is wahabi political islam on the rise throughout Somalia and young people are being radicalized by wahabism and jihadi islam. we praise God that fundamentalists in south Somalia are defeated in the past two weeks.

Thanks to be to God and to the Ethiopian intervention. But all in all, Somali believers are living in constant fear and hope day after day and the Lord is sustaining us.

We feel great injustice as Somali Muslims in Great Britain and other Western countries enjoy practicing their faith 100% free… but they would shoot us if they see us reading the Bible inside Somalia. We wait for the day when the Lord will vindicate us…

Peace

The paper media (with a very few notable exceptions) have condemned the Ethiopian rout of the Islamists in Somalia. The Western world continues to fete Islam and ignore the plight of Christians who are being persecuted throughout the Muslim world.

This ‘peace dividend’ Eurocentric culture in which we live, coupled with an almost visceral hatred of anything resembling American support or intervention, is blinding many people to the realities of Islam and the fragility and cost of defending personal freedom.

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