Posted on 10/29/2006 7:49:48 PM PST by a contender
"Kenya charges men over anti-Muslim pamphlets"
(AFP, October 20, 2006)
Nairobi, Kenya - A Kenyan court on Thursday charged four Christian missionaries, including two from the United States, with incitement for distributing anti-Muslim pamphlets outside the capital, officials said.
The four, identified as US nationals Andrew Saucier and Paul Garcia and Kenyans Michael Mullei and Patrick Mutinda, pleaded not guilty to the charges in a Nairobi court, they said.
Kibera district magistrate Hellen Wasilwa released them on cash bail of KES20 000 (about R2 000) each and set trial for October 23 in a case that has sparked outrage among local Muslims, the officials said.
If convicted, the missionaries could face three-year jail terms and fines, the officials said.
The four were arrested on Wednesday in Ngong, south of the capital, where they were allegedly distributing pamphlets that read "Prophet Mohammed is not a true prophet" and "Allah had no son", according to court documents.
The leaflets prompted dozens of infuriated Muslims to demonstrate late on Wednesday outside the Calvary Baptist Church where the four pastors worked in Ngong, about 32km from Nairobi.
In February, thousands of Muslims protested in Nairobi against the publication in western media of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and more recently Kenya's Islamic community has complained of harassment and discrimination by police.
Between 10 and 30 percent of Kenya's population of some 32 million identify themselves as Muslims, according to various surveys and official statistics. The majority of Kenyans identify themselves as Christian.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Indeed, and they have declared war against us. As such we need to officially declare WAR against all Jihadists.
Coming soon to your neighborhood.
The moslems have been burning churches in this area.
Click on my name to read what Winston Churchill said about islam over 100 years ago....
/Super Sarcasm!
Man! I was just telling a fellow FReeper that I was considering going on a mission trip to Kenya.
This article says that the trial was set for Oct. 23, it's the 29th -- is there any update??
20,000 Kenya Shillings is less than $300 US.
Pay the bail and get the hell out of Africa. Missionaries are needed in non-muslin countries too....
If Winston Churchill were alive today the world would still not listen to him. The world is always in a Chamberlain mode until something horrific happens and millions of people die. Only then will the West admit that Islam is not the self-proclaimed religion of peace. Hopefully it will have the ba--s and the desire to save itself.
Except Islam is a totalitarian ideology with a religious front.
Here is a link that shows the tract they were giving out. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp
The muslims have been burning christian churches in Niroby for awhile now, they could be beaten or killed, it wouldn't be the first missionary martyred. They (muslims) flipped out because they are a "wild" man, his had is against every man. Niroby, Kenya, is predominately christian, but the muslims are forcing their laws of sheria in every place they are.
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