“I will stop Christianity in this country,” Ahmadinejad reportedly vowed.

Certain a spiritual statement and certainly a not so veiled message for Christians in Iran to get out or risk further risks. But what is new for converts, especially leaders, among Christians in Islamic nations such as Iran. This sharply contrasts my own conversations with Muslims on university campuses who acknowledged Jesus as a good man and prophet. Of course their point of view is that Christ pointed to the Prophet Muhammad.

So it becomes obvious from their point of view that Christians who continue to ignore Muhammad also have ignored Jesus and must be apostate. On campus there was a difference of opinion. In Iran and other such nations there is a difference: one lives and the other dies.

An Iranian convert to Christianity was kidnapped last week from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, his bleeding body thrown in front of his home a few hours later. Ghorban Tori, 50, was pastoring an independent house church of convert Christians in Gonbad-e-Kavus, a town just east of the Caspian Sea along the Turkmenistan border.

Thanks to Atlas Shrugs for catching this news. Her excellent article on this is here.

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