Source: Morning Star News, February 2, 2022
Islamic extremists stopped an evangelist on his way to participate in a debate about Christianity and Islam in Kampala, Uganda, and beat him unconscious, he said.
Charles Kamya, 43, said he was about 300 meters from the open-air debate site in the Bwaise area of Kampala [on January 29] when two men stopped his car.
“I stopped my car only to be ambushed by six other Muslims in Islamic attire who resurfaced from the bush at around midday,” Kamya told Morning Star News from his hospital bed.
He said one of the assailants told him, “You have been terrorizing our religion. Today Allah has called you, and you are going to meet him.”
“Some beat me badly while others cut me with some objects, and I lost a lot of blood as they pulled me out of my car and threw me out,” he said.
A blow to the head with an iron bar left him unconscious for about two hours, he said. A passerby found him in a pool of blood and called police.
“They arrived immediately and saved my life,” Kamya said. “The attackers did not damage my car or take anything inside the car. They only wanted to destroy my life.”
The full story points out this is just the latest in a series of instances of religious persecution in Uganda. Another story from the same source: Former Mosque Leader in Uganda Beaten for Faith in Christ.
Interested in Uganda? The New Humanitarian recently ran an article about conflicts in the Karamoja region.