Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity (faces threat if forced to return to Turkey)

WorldNetDaily ^ | 02/07/2007 | Wolfgang Polzer

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Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity But faces threat to life if forced to return to Turkey

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Posted: February 7, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Wolfgang Polzer © 2007 ASSIST News Service

A Turk who claims to be a descendant of Islam's prophet Muhammad has converted to Christianity while living in Germany.

But Sedar Dedeoglu, of Luedenscheid, now faces a threat to his life if he's forced to return to Turkey, and is seeking help from German authorities.

Dedeoglu, who is involved in Christian outreach programs among Muslims, has been receiving death threats from Muslims unwilling to accept his conversion. His relatives also regard the apostasy as shameful.

If Dedeoglu is returned to his native country, he very likely would be killed, his lawyer says.

Despite this threat, the German Federal Migration Office and several courts of justice have rejected asylum applications by the Dedeoglu family. They claim Christians are free to practice their religion in Turkey.

To avoid deportation, Dedeoglu, his wife Husniye and their daughter Isil now hope at least to be tolerated in Germany as a "case of hardship." According to their attorney, Oswald Seitter, it is impossible to overlook the extraordinary danger the Dedeoglu family is facing.

For Muslims, he said, it is undeniable Dedeoglu descends from Muhammad's daughter Fatima and her husband Ali. In Dedeoglu's hometown, Elazig, in eastern Turkey they used to be revered as a holy family. According to Seitter, the apostasy of a family member is regarded as an insult of the prophet himself.

Dedeoglu's case has become so widely known in Turkey that his life is in real and imminent danger, the lawyer said.

"We should rejoice that a such a person has become a Christian, and we should avoid any actions which could put his life in additional danger," Seitter told an evangelical news agency.

Seitter is an evangelical Christian and used to be the speaker of the synod of the Protestant Church in Wuerttemberg.

Dedeoglu came to Germany in 1997 and asked for asylum because of political persecution of the Kurdish minority in Turkey. Four years later, he and his family converted to the Christian faith. They are members of an Evangelical Brethren church.

[WalterSkinner]

BUMP

[BuffaloJack]

ping

[darkwing104]

Too bad we couldn't bring him to the U.S.

[cdcdawg]

ping

[Cicero]

I hope the German government understands how important this is, not only for this particular family, but for the future of Europe.

[himno hero]

it is too bad

perhaps his story can be pumped in American news medias.....

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Paleo Conservative]

I'd be a large proporton of the world's population are direct descendants of Muhammad.

[Paleo Conservative]

I'd bet a large proporton of the world's population are direct descendants of Muhammad.

[eleni121]

Ping

God Bless and protect him!


But why should he fear for his life if he goes back to Turkey? After all, Turkey is a "Secular" nation. Maybe some of the Turk lovers around here have n answer to this conundrum...hmmm... //sarcasm\\

[Red Badger]

I'd be a large proporton of the world's population are direct descendants of Muhammad.

Only if Old MO' was Chinese or a Cherokee.........

[kellynch]

That's the religion of peace for you!

[MeanWestTexan]

Jon Carey certainly is. (Literally)

[Killborn]

And the descendant of George Washington isn't even a politician, much less president.

[popdonnelly]

So we non-Muslims get coerced to join Islam, and converts from Islam to other religions get threatened with death. As practiced by these thugs, Islam is not a religion. It is organized crime.

[contemplator]

I see this is as simply an immigrant who doesn't want to get sent home who figured that converting to christianity would allow him to claim 'refugee' status. The rest of the stuff, the 'descendant of Mohammed' etc is simply obfuscation.

[CarrotAndStick]

I guess there's some truth in that...but is it that hard for a Turk to emigrate into Europe?

[MEGoody]

Despite this threat, the German Federal Migration Office and several courts of justice have rejected asylum applications by the Dedeoglu family.

Hmm. . .I wonder what the Germans take is on illegal aliens in the U.S. My guess would be that they would favor the position of U.S. liberals - open the flood gates and let them in.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Muhammed has a lot of descendants. His descendants are allowed to wear the black headpiece.