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[Libaax-Sankataabte]

 

Muslims and Christians in Kenya argue over Barack Obama's grandmother.

 

Muslims have accused Christians of trying to convert Sarah Obama to Christianity.

 

Mrs Obama, a figure of substance in her homeland since her grandson was elected US President, was reported locally to have been stopped from going to a Seventh Day Adventist Church by Muslims because they thought the church would try to convert her.

 

However, members of the church said that she was not to be converted and was merely invited to attend an event.

 

"We had invited her to grace our meeting in Kisumu which was to mark the end of a three-week convention, but although she had prepared, she did not attend," Lewis Ondiek, a senior church figure, told Ecumenical News International.

 

It was claimed that family members stopped Mrs Obama from attending the service led by an Australian evangelist, John Jeremic, because they feared the church was trying to convert her to Islam but the family said she did not attend because she had a knee complication and could not go.

 

Sheikh Mohamed Khalifa, the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya secretary, said: "Mama Sarah should not be forced by anybody to join Christianity since she is a Muslim.

 

"Muslims will not sit and watch one of their own being coerced by some religious leaders to convert to Christianity."

 

Muslims held protests in Kenya about Mrs Obama's alleged conversion and warned of conflict between the faiths over it.

 

Muslim leaders have claimed that Christians now wished to convert her because of her fame. But one of the pastors involved in the "conversion" later claimed that she was simply invited as a special guest.

 

Tom Obuya, of the SDA, denied the claims. "This is not true, she was never to be converted, this newspaper did not report well. she was due to be with us at a ceremony at the end of a three week evangelistic conversion mission, alongside other special guests."

 

Saidi Obama, Barack's uncle and Sarah's son, said: "this is not true, she was not to be converted. she was to attend as a VIP but in the end she did not go because she had other commitments."

 

President Obama is the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother.

 

His parents split up when he was two and his father returned to Africa.

 

The president's Islamic family background – his middle name is Hussein – has caused him some problems in the United States, where many believe he is a Muslim. He has used that heritage in his efforts to woo supporters and change America's image in the Middle East.

 

Mrs Obama became a national celebrity in Kenya when her grandson visited in 2006. Since President Obama's victory her modest home, with a front room full of photos of the president, has become a tourist attraction.

 

The Kenyan government last month declared Kogelo a protected national heritage site.

 

http://www.telegraph .co.uk/news/worldnew s/africaandindianoce an/kenya/5215943/Mus lims-and-Christians- in-Kenya-argue-over- Barack-Obamas-grandm other.html

[Nin-Yaaban]

o'boy, here we go again.

[Che -Guevara]

Silly people.

[Baluug]

Originally posted by Libaax-Sankataabte:

they feared the church was trying to convert her to Islam

What kind of a church is this?

[Emperor]

Habarta have become some sort of celebrity, she's invited to all kinds of meetings, wedding and even church congregations Loool, somefink is going for her ayaan maqli jiray, her grandson is the President of the US , maskiinta energy ayay kadhameeyeen...

[BOB]

Now these kind of nonsense is what Islam could really do without...!

 

Ma xoolaa qofku oo mala iska convert gareen?

 

 

Peace, Love & Unity.