On 28 July in the Ethiopian capital of Addis
Ababa, making an American president’s first
speech
to
the African Union, President
Obama said: ‘Many of these groups claim
the banner of religion, but hundreds of millions of African Muslims know that Islam
means peace’.
For millions of Muslims, that may be true.
But for one Muslim cleric, it was not. This is
his story.
Tofik
(not his
real name) grew up
in
Islamic schools and became an imam in his
East African village. Several deeply personal
revelations brought him to Christianity, at
the risk of his life.
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