Source: World Watch Monitor, July 31, 2015<\/p>\n
Tofik trained to become an imam at an Islamic (madrasa) school in Africa. \u201cIn school I only learned about Islam,\u201d he said. \u201cParts of our teaching were about destroying Christianity. So we did what we learned, by attacking Christians once we finished our training.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he was taught that Christians are bad people, and that he and the other students were encouraged to steal from and kill non-Muslims.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe beat them, attacked the church and burnt their Bibles\u2026 Our teachers would tell us every time there was a new church in town and we were told to go and attack the people and destroy the church. So that\u2019s what we did,\u201d Tofik said.<\/p>\n
Tofik was one of 14 students selected by the local mosque to be trained in Saudi Arabia for further Islamic studies. After finishing his education, he became an imam. He led the construction of 16 mosques in his area. He also imposed a rule: No village leaders or visitors could preach Christianity in his town.<\/p>\n
[But then] Tofik began working with Christians when a church in a neighboring village started a project and appointed him as a coordinator for the area\u2019s social work\u2026<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read about what happened next<\/a> or watch him tell the story on video.<\/p>\n \u00bb Other stories with \u201cSaul to Paul\u201d themes include Yazidi Leader Healed and 136 More Come to Christ<\/a> (Godreports), Cambodian \u201cSaul\u201d Killed for the Khmer Rouge, Transformed into \u201cPaul\u201d by the Word and the Spirit<\/a> (ASSIST News Service), Boko Haram Members Convert to Christianity<\/a> (Christian Today) and Former Sandinista Now Part of God\u2019s Army<\/a> (ASSIST News Service). Let\u2019s ask God for some extremist monks<\/a> to come to Christ, too! (Asian Correspondent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: World Watch Monitor, July 31, 2015 Tofik trained to become an imam at an Islamic (madrasa) school in Africa. \u201cIn school I only learned about Islam,\u201d he said. \u201cParts of our teaching were about destroying Christianity. So we did what we learned, by attacking Christians once we finished our training.\u201d He said he was … Continue reading EAST AFRICA: Muslim Imam Risks Life to Become Christian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}