Muslims Tear Down Christian School in Uganda

Two months ago area  a Muslim mob from Kabuna, Kaperi, Macholi and Kotia villages marched to the school gate and throw stones at the buildings during classes, officials said. Will the islamophobia never end?

Part of Christian School in Eastern Uganda Torn Down

By: Morning Star News, June 14, 2019:

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 14, 2019 (Morning Star News) – One of two buildings of a Christian primary school in eastern Uganda was demolished after local Muslims who opposed it threatened “tough action,” sources said.

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The building containing three of Hope of Glory Primary School’s seven classrooms was destroyed before dawn on June 2 in predominantly Muslim Kabuna village, Budaka District, following a series of threats that area Muslims sent to the school, officials said. The private school offers instruction in primary grades one through seven.

One of the aims of the school is to provide education to formerly Muslim children whose parents have disowned them for putting their faith in Christ, said a school official whose name is withheld for security reasons. Among the 173 students from eight districts, 57 are converts from Islam, he said. Another seven children were Muslims who became Christians after they began attending the school.

Complaining that worship at night was disturbing them, area Muslims had written several letters to Kabuna educational officials, the Budaka District police commander and the Budaka Resident District Commissioner demanding closure of the school, he said.

“If you do not stop night prayers, then we are going to take tough action against the school,” read one anonymous letter to school officials a week before the June 2 demolition, he said.

“We suspect that the destruction is connected with the warnings that we had received previously,” the official told Morning Star News.

A watchman guarding the school dormitory said he heard the destruction taking place at about 2 a.m.

“Since the school is closed to the road, I thought it was an accident that had taken place, only to find out in the morning that three classroom had been destroyed, with the bricks lying in ruins and the whole entire three classrooms flat on the ground,” said the watchman, whose name is withheld for security reasons.

Two months ago area residents mobilized 35 Muslims from Kabuna, Kaperi, Macholi and Kotia villages to march to the school gate and throw stones at the buildings during classes, officials said. Budaka police arrived immediately and restored calm.

The June 2 demolition caused damages of about $4,500, including materials, chairs and chalkboards, the school official said.

“We need financial help to rebuild the classrooms and for security for the school,” he said. “Otherwise we risk losing children who have showed genuine conversion to the Christian faith from Islam.”

The attack is the latest of many cases of persecution of Christians in eastern Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another.

Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, but with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

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Citizen 1949

4 years ago

Uganda needs to get a handle on their moslem problem before they exceed 12% or they will be facing much larger problems later on. Schools being destroyed will be one of the least of their problems. Clamp down on the moslems hard and deport, deport, deport. It’s a matter of survival.

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Achmed Mohandjob

4 years ago

Sounds as if it’s time, for Ugandans, to raze every mosque …. Burn ’em to the ground. Alleyhooackburr.

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Bill

4 years ago

Remember that Muslim terrorism in Sri Lanka, after the Christchurch massacre? Sri Lanka closed all the Mosques on the island, I think. They didn’t take any guff from those whack-jobs.

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felix1999

4 years ago

You need some GUNS and start fighting back.

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

4 years ago

And Idi Amin smiles from hell.

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ZXL - Today's World

4 years ago

What the hell. What anti-semites and alt-right believers are running this organization? If anybody trusts this source, go to https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/geller-report/ to see why I don’t.

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Dave Glynn

4 years ago

I’d start by replacing that crappy night watchman and getting some attack dogs to patrol with. The muz Do Not like dogs whatsoever.

Who let the dogs out!

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movingwaters

4 years ago

Deport all of them, but not before starting a database of their photos and biometric info. Ditto for any of their family or neighbors who protest against the administration of justice. Peaceful nations need to deny asylum to those whose god says you can do violence to those who refuse to submit to your faith.

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Kalema Shaban Senior

4 years ago

This is story is one of the many being told about Uganda by organisationsome who want to distort money from Christian Charity Organisations. Uganda is a multi religious country with few cases of religious intolerance and the few we have had have been perpetuated by foreign agents from all regions groups.
This story is a fallacy and a lie.

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R. Arandas

4 years ago

The Sub-Saharan African nations should stand together against this threat.

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