Somalia: Christian mother and baby locked in room for three weeks for fear of attacks from Muslim relatives
Christian Mother, Baby Locked in Room in Somalia
Morning Star News, August 19, 2025:
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother in Somalia has been locked in a room with her infant daughter since Aug. 6 after Muslim relatives relocated her following an earlier escape, sources said.
“My child has grown very thin for lack of enough food,” Fatuma Hassan, 28, told her husband by phone from Afgooye town, in Somalia’s Lower Shebelle Region. “My child is unwanted in the family, who say, ‘Throw away this bastard kid born of an infidel – we want you back, but not the child who deserves no right to live.’ I am always crying for my baby and hope one day I will escape this terrible ordeal to attain my peace and freedom.”
Though Hassan is from a royal family, since accepting Christ she now lives with danger in inhumane conditions as she nurses injuries from relatives beating her, sources said.
“My family and relatives have sworn that they will not allow me to seen the good sunshine until I surrender my Christian faith and return back to Islam,” Hassan told Morning Star News. “But I am praying for God’s intervention to escape and to join my husband once again. More so I need prayers from Christians.”…
She remained hidden from her family for more than a year. In June, Hassan let her location slip to a relative, and again on July 30, this time carrying her 1-year-old baby, she ran into the same relative at a marketplace. The relative informed other Muslim relatives.
After relatives surveilled her and learned that she had a Christian husband, six of them on Aug. 6 journeyed to Hassan’s home, arriving at 6 p.m.
Hassan told her husband to lock himself in the bedroom, and her Muslim relatives entered the house silently. They began questioning her about her absence of more than a year and the whereabouts of her husband, she said. Hassan did not answer.
One relative slapped her while another dashed outside, returning with a stick and beating her.
“My wife started screaming,” her husband told Morning Star News. “I escaped through the rear window. After three days, my wife called me saying she is back with her people but locked in a dark room.”…
The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence. An Islamic extremist group in Somalia, Al Shabaab, is allied with Al Qaeda and adheres to the teaching.
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The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
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