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"Sound of Trumpet" |
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12 Feb 2007 05:45:57 PM |
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Descendant Of Muhammad Converts To Christianity |
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780763/posts
Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity (faces threat if
forced to return to Turkey)
WorldNetDaily ^ | 02/07/2007 | Wolfgang Polzer
Posted on 02/07/2007 9:43:02 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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 =A9 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.
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12 Feb 2007 08:15:51 PM |
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Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity (faces threat if
forced to return to Turkey)
WorldNetDaily ^ | 02/07/2007 | Wolfgang Polzer
Posted on 02/07/2007 9:43:02 AM PST by SirLinksalot
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.
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