Muslim leaders prompt officers to arrest, torture evangelistic team

[b]Muslim leaders prompt officers to arrest, torture evangelistic team[/b]

At the urging of local Muslim leaders, police in western Bangladesh have tortured a pastor and two other Christians for legally proclaiming Christ.

Habibur Rahman, 45, pastor of Boalia Spiritual Church (Boalia Ruhani Jamat) in Boalia in Cuadanga district, 220 kilometers (136 miles) west of Dhaka, said he was about to meet with 11 others for a monthly meeting on evangelism at 8 p.m. on June 8 when local police stormed in and seized him and Zahid Hassan, 25, and a 40-year-old Christian identified only as Fazlur.
The first question the police commander asked him, Rahman said, was, “Why did you become Christian?” ...

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They say that Islam is a religion of peace, peace only if you agree with it, death if you don't.

They that live godly in this life shall suffer persecution.

Do you ever wonder if we are godly here in the West? I don't think we are, or this saying would be true for us. :-o