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A Christian mother from Sudan had deep cause for worry November last year once her Muslim brother visited her church in Cairo, Egypt with a photograph of her husband and
asked members if they knew his whereabouts.
Muslim extremists from Sudan had abducted and tortured her but 2 years earlier in Cairo, and that they threatened to kill her husband and girl if she refused to come back
to Islam.
The 42-year-old Ebtehaj Alsanosi Altejani Mostafa was tied to a chair in a darkened room with no windows when her abductors gave her that ultimatum in February 2017, she told Morning Star News.
“I won’t return to Islam – I hate Islam,” she told them, as they continue beating her, Mostafa said.
She had fled to Egypt in 2005 once being imprisoned 5 times for her religion in Sudan.
In Cairo she met a Sudanese pastor, additionally, a convert from Islam, United Nations agency would become her husband; he had also fled abuse in Sudan.
Since she was abducted, tortured and raped in February 2017, Mostafa and her family have had to change residences many times because of the Sudanese Muslim extremists’ threats on
their lives.
She still takes medication for the physical and psychological trauma she suffered when 2 Sudanese Muslim extremists abducted her as she was on her way to a market in 2017.
They called her name, grabbed her, coated her nose and mouth, twisted her hands and sprayed some chemical on her that left her unconscious, she said.
They took her to the windowless room in an unknown house where they poured water on her, pulled her hair and tied her hands and legs to a chair, all the while shouting her name.
Covering her eyes, they reminded her of her Muslim upbringing in Sudan and the way after her college years she moved together with her family to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Her Sudanese father, they reminded her, is a sheikh (Islamic teacher) in Saudi Arabia, she said.
“You are a disgrace to your Muslim family, you brought shame to the family,” they shouted as they struck her, she said. “You are ‘kafira’ [infidel].”
They said she should divorce her husband and come back to her Sudanese family in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia so as to avoid wasting her life.
It was then that they further threatened to kill her husband and girl, now 11, if she refused.
After she told them she would rather die than return to Islam, one of the kidnappers brought a copy of the Koran and began reciting verses that call for the killing of those who leave Islam.
Between verses, they yelled, “Allahu Akbar,” the jihadist slogan, “God is greater,” she said.
The extremists then untied her, forced her to lie on the ground and ripped her garments.
In spite of her pleas to prevent, they raped her in turns, she said.
“This is lesson number one,” one among the lads told her.
After leaving the area shortly, they came back and started spitting on her as they abused her with obscenities, describing her as “adulterous” for being the wife of a pastor, she said.
One of the boys was taking photos and video.
Four different men entered the room, two Sudanese and two Egyptians.
By now her eyes were no longer covered.
The Egyptians, she said, were referred to as Abu Mahmoud and Abu Ali.
“This time I saw them clearly,” she said.
One of the new arrivals ordered her to repeat the shahada, the Muslim profession of religion, after him. When she refused, he had one amongst the others shove her onto the chair and tie her hands and legs again; her chest and back were in great pain, she said. Placing a cup of water and a bit of bread on the ground, they tried to force her to take them, however, she refused.
After going away from the room for a short time, they came back and covered her eyes as they mentioned whether or not to stay here on the chair.
They then forced her to kneel at length, painting her legs, and one of the men sat on the chair and began smoking a cigarette.
The man burned her back with the smoke twenty-six times attempting to force her to mention the shahada, she said.
They laughed with every burn mark, she said; the area was filled with smoke.
They tied her to the chair again. Refusing their demand once more, she was maltreated on her face and kicked many times, she said, as they continuing ordering her to renounce Christ and save her life.
“Baya [a nickname for Ebtehaj], say the shahada and confess that Muhammad is that the prophet of God,” they told her.
Mostafa collapsed to her left. They left her in the dark room.
When they came back, they turned on the light and asked if she needed to mention one thing.
“You are tired, did you change your mind?
Are you certain you would like to stay with Jesus? ” they asked her in turns.
They once more tried to force her to mention the Muslim profession of religion, and once she again refused, they asked her why she worships 3 gods: Mary, Jesus Christ and God.
“This isn’t true, I believe in God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit – one God,” she told them.
Before going away the room, they told her that this was her last probability to come back to her previous faith before they’re allowed to kill her.
After a few minutes, they returned, carrying a Muslim prayer mat.
“This is your day of reckoning with us,” one among them said.
They put a container of water in front of her to wash and say the Muslim confession, but she again refused.
She was given a face veil, the Muslim veil for ladies that leaves solely the eyes exposed, along with many papers for her to sign, as one of the men continued taking photos and videos, she said.
After many tries to force her to sign the papers speech she had came back to Islam, they hurt her hands as they forced her against her will to sign one
of the papers, she said.
Then she felt a blow to the rear of her head and lost consciousness.
When she came to, she found herself on a street with individuals and cars passing by, she said.
Prior to her abduction, Mostafa had received a telephone call from one among her sisters telling her that her uncle and brother were reaching to hurt her, she said.
Her uncle, a prominent officer in Sudan’s notorious National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), also has a large influence as the military attaché in Sudan’s Foreign Ministry in Khartoum
and can simply move between Sudan and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where his brother lives, she said.
Mostafa said she is trusting that God has His purposes for her abduction and that her purpose in revealing it was that the international community would know what kinds of pressures Sudanese converts face in Egypt.
“Our God is ready, and I am now alive,” she said.
Sudan hierarchic sixth on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2019 World Watch List of states wherever it’s almost tough to be a Christian, whereas Egypt hierarchic sixteenth.
