Iraq: Family members murdered Eman Sami Maghdid, 20, also known as “Maria.” Her “crime” was having embraced Christianity and behaving in a liberated manner, beginning four years earlier, when she abandoned the marriage she was forced into at the age of 12. Her 18-year-old brother and/or uncle responded by slaughtering her on Sunday, Mar. 6. Maria’s body was later found “tied with a tape, thrown at the side of the road, with many stab wounds,” said a local source. According to one report,
[S]he was punished by her family for leaving Islam, specifically for being emancipated and embracing the Christian religion; in short, she was ‘guilty’ of apostasy…. The young woman was well known for her activism, her struggle for women’s rights, which—together with her conversion to Christianity—led her to be condemned by her family….
News of Maria’s murder surfaced on International Women’s Day, Mar. 8. Rather than highlight this incident as evidence that much still needs to be done in the field of women’s rights, support for the murderers and abuse for their victim was evident throughout Iraq. According to one report,
[O]n the evening of March 8th, a radio interview was aired by what is one of the largest broadcasters, K24, where Maria’s brother and murderer was able to explain the motives of his cold-blooded murder for almost 15 minutes uncensored and without criticism—while he was still on the run…
For the entirety of March 8, social media comment columns were awash with people who, as always, condoned the murder. Old pictures of Maria were passed around, in which she was still wearing a hijab, and people commented, ‘see, this is what happens when you leave your faith,’ as many speculated that Maria converted to Christianity. Lies and slander were spread about her, and men and women threw themselves into a contest to see who could blame her most for her murder. By March 9, the brother was found in Kirkuk and detained, but until then, a large part of the Kurdish public managed to assassinate Marias’s character post mortem.
Uganda: Muslims publicly beat a Christian preacher to death before setting his body on fire. According to the Mar. 8 report,
John Michael Okero was quoting verses from the Koran about Christ [during an open-air evangelistic meeting] … when a Muslim identified only as Shakuuru grabbed the microphone from him. He and other Muslims started beating Okero as they accused him of blaspheming Allah by saying that he has a Son, misinterpreting the Koran, touching the Koran without ritual cleansing and disrespecting it by placing it under the Bible… They beat him to death with iron bars, stones and sticks and later burned his body to a chant in the Ateso language referring to a thief who steals people from one religion to join a bad religion, the source said. Okero was 43.
And there are a lot more… to read the entire report go here
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