Last week in Tel Aviv before returning home, I attended a lecture by Pastor Umar Kalinde where he thanked the Israeli people for their support and the doctors in particular for the wonderful treatment he received after being severely burned following an acid attack by Islamists whom objected to his conversion from Islam to Christianity.
In 2011 just after service at a Church in Namasuba,
Kampala, unknown attackers threw concentrated acid into the face and back of Pastor Umar Kalinde. An attacker shouted,
‘Pastor, pastor,’ and as Umar turned to look, liquid was thrown in his face as the others poured more liquid on his back and then
fled away shouting, ‘Allahu akbar ’”
Intense pain caused him to lose consciousness as the acid ate away at his flesh. He regained consciousness at the Kampala Hospital to which he had been rushed. Doctors reported that the acid had not only badly damaged his skin and some facial bones, but also blinded one eye.
Umar was flown from Kampala to Israel for specialized treatment where after two years of multiple operations he has now been to return home
Umar, who had been a sheikh (Islamic teacher) before his
conversion to Christianity, said Muslim extremists
opposed to his conversion from Islam, and his outspoken opposition of sharia (Islamic law)
courts in Uganda,were responsible for the attack.
Umar had a fatwa declared against him demanding his death
by area Muslim leaders.
He was full of praise for the expertise of the Israeli doctors who "brought him back to life".
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