Muslims Threaten Christian Missionaries

That afternoon, Tim was informed by the TUKS Missions Committee that they could not allow the mission display to be set up again. It was mentioned that the Frontline Fellowship newsletters, in what it reported on the activities and teachings of Muslims, were too offensive to Muslim students.

Hostile Phone Calls

On the same day, the Frontline Fellowship mission in Cape Town received a number of hostile phone calls. Two phone calls were with people who identified themselves as Muslim students of the University of Pretoria.

The second caller was more controlled, but also threatened serious consequences and hell fire for having "insulted the prophet Muhammad". The mission made clear that if there were any factual errors in their publications, they would be keen to rectify that.

Death Threat Fatwa by Fax

"These abusive phone calls, coming along with a death threat, received last week, and a Muslim mob intimidating a students Mission Committee to expel a mission to Muslims from the university Missions Week, has ominous implications." Said missionary Dr. Peter Hammond, the author whose writings seem to have been the focus of the abusive calls.

The death threat informed him that as the Editor of Frontline Fellowship News, he was: "... worthy of death, not by stoning, but to be cut up piece by piece, and your remains given to dogs and hyenas…"

The letter, which came to the mission by fax, said that they "should be eliminated from the face of this earth. You have the audacity to insult 2 billion adherents to this mighty and great religion, the perfect and final religion of the almighty. ... the last and final prophet of god, namely the holy prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) without retribution from just one person of the 2 billion plus Muslim men and women of the face of this earth, .... The Fatwa will definitely come for you, ... You are worthy of death…Go burn in hell…LONG LIVE ISLAM, AMANDLA ISLAM."

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Update: Hyscience has more.

Dr. Hammond has apparently received a significant backlash from Muslims in South Africa following his publication of Slavery, Terrorism and Islam

This is what Dr. George Grant had to say about the book:

The conflict between Islam and the rest of the world may dominate the headlines, define our foreign policy, and give new urgency to the day-to-day mission of our churches, but why that is the case is still not very well understood. It is for that reason that Frontline Fellowship has produced this vital new study of one of the most neglected aspects of Islam. Born out of the difficult experience of missionaries on the front lines of the battle for the soul of Africa. This book is designed to equip ordinary Christians from every walk of life to wisely and Scripturally minister in a world where the conflict between Islam and civilization is all too obvious.