{"id":678,"date":"2021-06-23T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/?p=678"},"modified":"2021-10-25T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:59:29","slug":"daily-threats-normal-for-christian-convert-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/daily-threats-normal-for-christian-convert-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Threats &#8220;Normal&#8221; for Christian Convert in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>After questions about Islam led her to Christ, Aliyah became passionate about sharing Jesus with the rest of her Somali community in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/kenya\/?_source_code=VSLEG02K2\">Kenya<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliyah flipped the black headscarf over her dark hair and fastened the veil across her face. It was nearly evening, and she was going to visit relatives at her former home in \u201cLittle Mogadishu,\u201d the Eastleigh suburb of Nairobi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/kenya\/?_source_code=VSLEG02K2\">Kenya<\/a>, that is populated almost exclusively by Somali immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Aliyah didn\u2019t wear the hijab in daily life around Nairobi, she was careful to wear it whenever she went to Eastleigh, especially when she planned to visit her relatives. She didn\u2019t want to attract the attention of the local sheikh\u2019s henchmen or of neighborhood gossips, and the hijab and darkness helped conceal her identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was dangerous for Aliyah to enter the Muslim neighborhood now that she had converted to Christianity, but it was equally dangerous for her to enter her relatives\u2019 home. Just a few days earlier, her uncle had told her to stay away from his children or \u201csomething bad would happen to her.\u201d One relative has threatened her several times. \u201cYou need to die,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t deserve to live because of what you are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-vom-subscribe-ad\">\r\n\t\t<figure>\r\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/plugins\/vom-custom-block-subscribe-ad\/assets\/magazine-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n\t\t<\/figure>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text-button\">\r\n\t\t\t<p>Request your free magazine<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/free-magazine\/?_source_code=VSTORYM1\" class=\"wp-block-button__link\" aria-label=\"Subscribe to our free magazine\">Subscribe<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t\n\n\n<p>But Aliyah won\u2019t stop visiting them. \u201cI love my family and I want them to know Jesus, too,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is why I go there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several of Aliyah\u2019s younger relatives openly ask her about Christianity, giving her hope that her efforts are bearing fruit. One cousin hides a smartphone with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/bibles\/?_source_code=VSLEG05\">Bible<\/a> app from her fundamentalist father, and she always has questions for Aliyah. \u201cShe reminds me of when I was a Muslim,\u201d Aliyah said. \u201cI was like that, with so many questions.\u201d She believes this relative will eventually commit her life to Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;What if I Die?&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliyah was raised in another country by her Somali mother. When she was 11, Aliyah and her mother moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/globalprayerguide\/kenya\/?_source_code=VSLEG02K2\">Kenya<\/a> to live with relatives. Concerned that Aliyah had been negatively influenced by Western culture, the relatives enrolled her in an ultraconservative Islamic school. She quickly memorized the Quran, and she didn\u2019t stop there. \u201cI wanted to understand whole ideas,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when she asked her teacher specific questions about Islam, he got angry. \u201cI had a lot of fear, and I was just hopeless,\u201d she said. \u201cI was trying very hard to do things just to find a way to go to heaven.\u201d It took nine years of questions and interactions with Christians before Aliyah was persuaded to leave the faith of her culture, community and family to follow Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Somalia-Map_pub_Aliyah-1024x772.jpg\" alt=\"Somalia map \" class=\"wp-image-680\" width=\"399\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Somalia-Map_pub_Aliyah-1024x772.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Somalia-Map_pub_Aliyah-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Somalia-Map_pub_Aliyah-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Somalia-Map_pub_Aliyah-1536x1158.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Somalia-Map_pub_Aliyah-2048x1543.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliyah\u2019s Somali community in Eastleigh had begun to threaten her even before she placed her faith in Christ. Because she was working as a translator for foreigners, many Somalis assumed she was already a Christian. Their threats, however, only helped push her into the arms of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey said they have to do some actions to me,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI thought, \u2018What if I die, if these people kill me today? Where am I going to go, as I don\u2019t have any assurance in Islam?\u2019\u201d That night, she met Jesus in a dream. \u201cI am the only way and the truth,\u201d she heard Him say. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to fear anything, because I am the one who will never leave you.\u201d At that moment, her fear vanished, and she knew with certainty that if she died, she would be with God in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the years since becoming a believer, Aliyah has had to call on that fearlessness repeatedly when confronted about her faith by Muslims in her community. Once, a Somali Muslim security guard at an apartment building insisted on searching her bag, and she boldly challenged him. \u201cDo you think everyone is just like you &#8230; going around with bombs everywhere?\u201d she asked him. Later, she was told that the guard said he would have killed her that day if given the chance, because she was a Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliyah receives frequent text messages from people, usually anonymous, expressing their hate for her. \u201cBefore I became a believer, I never had this kind of hard times,\u201d she said. \u201cBut after I became a believer, even secretly in the beginning, it just became hard and everyone turned against me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, the local imam summoned her to meet with him. Her name had been found among items belonging to another Somali convert. \u201cWhat connection do you have with this guy, because he is an infidel?\u201d he asked. \u201cAre you an infidel, too?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliyah deflected his questions, but she soon began to notice the imam\u2019s brother and others following her. An unfamiliar man claiming to be her neighbor accosted her outside her house one Sunday morning and asked her where she was going. Then, in 2016, she and some friends were chased by four men with knives while walking down a street. Eventually, she decided it was best to leave Eastleigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Suffering Is a Gift&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since coming to Christ, the threats and attacks are the \u201cnormal\u201d daily backdrop to Aliyah\u2019s life. \u201cI think whoever believes Jesus and serves Him will suffer,\u201d she said. \u201cI also believe suffering is a gift from God according to the book of Philippians. We are also not just granted to believe, but to suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is committed to reaching her family at great personal risk and is just as committed to sharing Jesus in her Somali community. Her mentor and spiritual father says he often gets text messages from Aliyah saying, \u201cI\u2019m sharing the gospel with people on the bus.\u201d And then later he receives a follow-up message: \u201cThere is a guy threatening me; please pray.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Africa-Map-Inset_pub_Aliyah-1024x959.jpg\" alt=\"full map of Africa with Kenya and Somalia colored in \" class=\"wp-image-682\" width=\"364\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Africa-Map-Inset_pub_Aliyah-1024x959.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Africa-Map-Inset_pub_Aliyah-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Africa-Map-Inset_pub_Aliyah-768x720.jpg 768w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Africa-Map-Inset_pub_Aliyah-1536x1439.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/assets.persecution.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Africa-Map-Inset_pub_Aliyah-2048x1919.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>While some might view Aliyah\u2019s behavior as reckless or even foolish given her surroundings, she has a different perspective. \u201cSomebody who serves Jesus is not foolish,\u201d she insisted. \u201cIt is the best thing ever. If we are children of God, we suffer, not because we need to be good, but &#8230; for us to even learn more who He is. Otherwise we wouldn\u2019t be thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aliyah hopes to run a safehouse for young, female Christian converts who fear persecution from their families. She would like to provide not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/bibles\/?_source_code=VSLEG05\">Bible<\/a> study but also some kind of vocational training. VOM is already helping her provide shelter for a young Somali who fled her family after becoming a Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust pray for me that God can use me in this ministry that I am going to start,\u201d she asked, \u201cand pray that many come to Christ and know Him. That is more important for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After questions about Islam led her to Christ, Aliyah became passionate about sharing Jesus with the rest of her Somali community in Kenya. Aliyah flipped the black headscarf over her dark hair and fastened the veil across her face. It was nearly evening, and she was going to visit relatives at her former home in \u201cLittle Mogadishu,\u201d the Eastleigh suburb of Nairobi, Kenya, that is populated almost exclusively by Somali immigrants. Although Aliyah didn\u2019t wear the hijab in daily life around Nairobi, she was careful to wear it whenever she went to Eastleigh, especially when she planned to visit her relatives. She didn\u2019t want to attract the attention of the local sheikh\u2019s henchmen or of neighborhood gossips, and the hijab and darkness helped conceal her identity. It was dangerous for Aliyah to enter the Muslim neighborhood now that she had converted to Christianity, but it was equally dangerous for her to enter her relatives\u2019 home. 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