Muslim Mob attacks Church in Somalia

More intolerance from the world's most tolerant religion. Why did the muslim mob attack a church? Because the son of a religious islamic leader converted to Christianity. BosNewsLife

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in southern Somalia faced more tensions Thursday, October 2, after two people were injured when their house church was attacked, for a second time, by Muslim militants, rights investigators said.

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) with Website www.persecution.org told BosNewsLife that it learned this week that two church elders were injured when a Muslim mob attacked the church in Tayeglow, 200 miles (320 miles) outside the capital Mogadishu.

"Dozens of Muslims, including children and women, demolished the church and attacked the Christians worshipping at the church with spears, machetes, sticks and stones. Two elders of the church, suffered serious injuries as a result of the attack," the group told BosNewsLife in a statement.

It said the violence was apparemtly in response to the Christian conversion of the only son of a prominent Muslim religious leader in the district. "This is the second time that Muslim extremists targeted the church for attack. In the first attack, which took place in 2007, a Muslim gunman opened fire on the Christians at the church and seriously wounded the pastor," ICC said.