ICC Note: Islamic extremists have once again tried to kill a Muslim convert to Christianity in eastern Uganda.  Last year, Hassan Muwanguzi, a former Muslim Sheikh and now born-again Christian, survived a poisoning attempt but, sadly, lost his twelve-year old daughters to the Muslim extremists.  Recently, Muslim hard-liners once again plotted to take his life as they broke into his house with knives and clubs.  Although Muwanguzi was at a prayer meeting at the time, the extremists stole thousands of dollars’ worth of his possessions.  Despite Uganda, being a majority-Christian nation, Muwanguzi lives in a region which is dominated by Muslims, where he faces regular threat of death.

7/9/15, Nairobi, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Twice in the past two weeks, Muslim extremists in eastern Uganda have tried to kill a former sheikh known throughout the region for his Christian activities, the former Islamic teacher told Morning Star News.

Hassan Muwanguzi, an evangelist in Budaka District whose conversion and ministry success led hard-line Muslims to poison him and kill his 12-year-old daughter last year, said he received a phone call in late June from a Pallisa District resident, 40-year-old Naaya Edward. The caller said he had been given a message to deliver to Muwanguzi.

“He wanted to meet me alone early in the morning at an isolated place,” Muwanguzi told Morning Star News by phone. “I suspected meeting him might not be in good faith, and, more so, I did not know him, so I requested to be accompanied by two village elders from Kabuna.”

When they met Edward on June 29, he appeared very nervous, he said.

“Straight away we took him to the local county representative, where, after a lengthy interrogation, he confessed that he had been hired to kill me, with a gang in hiding planning to ambush me,” Muwanguzi said. “The man was not willing to name his accomplices.”

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