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Joseph Fadelle (geboren als Mohammed al-Sayyid al-Moussawi, Arabisch: محمد السيد الموسوي), ist ein Konvertit, der vom Islam zum römisch-katholischen Glauben übertrat. Er wurde 1964 im Iraq in eine muslimisch-schiitische Familie hineingeboren.[1]
Biografie
BearbeitenIm Iraq in einer wohlhabenden aristokratischen schiitischen Familie geboren, musste Fadelle aufgrund einer Fatwa nach seiner Konversion zum Christentum mit seiner Frau und seinen Kindern aus dem Land fliehen. Seine Bekehrung erfolgte nach einem Gespräch mit einem Christen während seines Militärdienstes 1987.[2]
and a dream and a strict reading of the Koran and the Bible. Joseph Fadelle went through a phase of atheism. He also had a dream that led him to embrace the Christian faith. He lived his conversion secret for many months, then he told his wife and she decided to follow her husband’s religion. He was discovered by his brothers who searched his bedroom and found a Bible, his brothers asked his son about what they did on Sundays and the little boy made the sign of the Cross. His family wanted to kill him. Tortured by the political regime of Saddam Hussein for several months at the request of a cousin, Fadelle was released only after his cousin died. He had to wait long to be baptized, as the Catholic authorities sought to avoid violating an Iraqi law banning proselytizing. Fadelle fled Iraq through Jordan, narrowly escaping an assassination attempt organised by his own brothers and uncle, and where a Muslim official of UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) falsely accused Fadelle before Western authorities of complicity in the gas attack on Kurds which left 5,000 dead. Fadelle has lived in France since 2001 and has since obtained French citizenship.
In his autobiography, The Price to Pay, he describes his conversion, and refers to Muhammad as a political strategist, and not a religious man, and that Islam as a prison from which his conversion liberated him.
When traveling in public, Fadelle is escorted by police because of death threats.
In 2014, Fadelle prefaced Interroger l'Islam : 1235 questions à poser aux Musulmans !, authored by Guy Pagès.[3]
Literatur
Bearbeiten- Joseph Fadelle: Das Todesurteil: Als ich Christ wurde im Irak. Sankt-Ulrich-Verlag, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86744196-4.
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BearbeitenEinzelnachweise
Bearbeiten- ↑ Joseph Fadelle - Missionnaires de la Très Sainte Eucharistie. In: www.adoperp.fr. Archiviert vom am 8. August 2014.
- ↑ A Muslim's Remarkable Conversion to Catholicism. 14. Februar 2012.
- ↑ Interroger l'islam : 1235 questions à poser aux Musulmans ! : éléments pour le dialogue islamo-chrétien. OCLC 892945398 (worldcat.org [abgerufen am 10. Dezember 2015]).