In Chains: Christian Persecution - 2019, Issue 1

Kidnapped and
Tortured but Won’t
Recant
Reprinted with permission: Morning Star News
A Christian mother from Sudan had deep
cause for fear last November when her
Muslim brother went to her church in Cairo,
Egypt with a photo of her husband and
asked members if they knew his
whereabouts.
Muslim extremists from Sudan had
kidnapped and tortured her less than two
years earlier in Cairo, and they threatened to
kill her husband and daughter if she refused
to return 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 will not go back to Islam – I hate Islam,”
she told them, as they continued beating her,
Mostafa said.
She had Yled to Egypt in 2005 after being
jailed Yive times for her faith in Sudan. In
Cairo she met a Sudanese pastor, also a
convert from Islam, who would become her
husband; he had also Yled persecution in
Sudan. Since she was kidnapped, tortured
and raped in February 2017, Mostafa and
her family have had to change residences
several times due to the Sudanese Muslim
extremists’ threats on their lives.
She still takes medication for the physical
and psychological trauma she suffered after
two Sudanese Muslim extremists kidnapped
her as she was on her way to a market in
2017. They called her name, grabbed her,
covered 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 Islamic upbringing in Sudan, and how
after her school years she moved with her
family to Saudi Arabia. Her Sudanese father,
they reminded her, is a sheikh (Islamic
teacher) in Saudi Arabia, she said.
“You are disgrace to your Muslim family, you
brought shame to the family,” they shouted
as they struck her, she said. “You are