[ 2015-04-07 ]

Stop provoking Muslims, Sheikh warns Bishop Agyin-Asare
Bishop Charles Agyin-Asare is provoking Muslims.

That is the view of Islamic Cleric Sheikh Muhammed
Zakaria Addo who spoke to Starr News’ Abena
Owusu Nyamekye in an interview in reference to the
Perez Chapel International founder’s Easter
Sunday sermon which he used to urge Christians to
stand up for their right to freedom of worship as
guaranteed by the UN charter, in the wake of
Islamist militant group al-Shabab’s recent
massacre of 148 Christians at Garissa University
College in Kenya.

"We won’t keep quiet anymore because one of the
charters of the UN is that everybody should have
freedom of worship, however, some people believe
that they should kill others so that they are the
only people who can worship their 'whoever',"
Bishop Agyin-Asare said.

Sheikh Muhammed Addo said Bishop Agyin-Asare’s
comments are "provocative" to Muslims and risk
courting disaffection for the Islamic religion and
its adherents.


Kenya held three days of mourning for the 148
victims of the militant group’s attack.

Easter ceremonies were held on Sunday to remember
the dead.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to respond to
the attack "in the severest way possible".

One of the gunmen has been identified as the son
of a government official, the interior ministry
has said.

Four gunmen were killed during the siege, and
officials said they were holding five people for
questioning.

On Monday, the East African country began bombing
al-Shabab’s military bases in Somalia with
fighter jets, its first military response to
Thursday's slaughter.

The warplanes targeted two camps in the Gedo
region, used by al-Shabab to cross into Kenya,
according to the BBC.

Bishop Agyin-Asare said Sunday that al-Shabab’s
massacre of the Christians was "unfortunate,"
adding that Christianity is the panacea to Islamic
fundamentalism and terrorism and, therefore urged
the UN "to do something about it."

"The reason why Islamist fundamentalists are
behaving the way they are doing is because we
haven’t given them the gospel," he said, adding:
"If we had taken the Bible to them, they would not
take the gun or the sword."

In his estimation, there are more than 200 million
Islamic fundamentalists in the world on a
religious cleansing campaign aimed at
exterminating all Christians from the face of the
earth.

According to his calculations, if between 10 and
17 per cent of Muslims are thought to be
fundamentalists, then it means more than 200
million of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslim
population is targeting Christians to harm them
for being Christians.

Source - Starrfmonline

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