Ex-Muslim Mohammed: Iraq’s ‘Safe Haven’ a Refuge from Torture

One morning in February 2008, Mohammed got a taste of what it’s like to walk away from Islam. A few weeks earlier, he had converted to Christianity after he said he saw Jesus in a dream. His family got word of his conversion and alerted authorities. “The guards were yelling and shouting, asking me to renounce my faith in Jesus Christ. I said no. They said I had committed a crime by leaving Islam. I told them I would not go back. They kept hitting me,” Mohammed recalled. When that didn’t work …