The next good list might be of mohammadan violence, discrimination, intimidation and murder targeting non-muslims outside the Muslim world.
Besides the US, and EUrabia, be sure to add the jihad in Russia, India, Israel, Philippines etc...
Posted on 07/07/2008 7:12:54 AM PDT by 2banana
From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren’t wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.
Some of the oldest Christian communities in the world are subject to relentless attack and teeter on the brink of extinction at the hands of the “Religion of Peace”: Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the West Bank; Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in Iraq; Coptic Christians in Egypt; Evangelical and Orthodox Christians in Eastern Ethiopia and Eritrea; Armenian Orthodox Christians in Turkey; and Maronite Christians in Lebanon.
Several of these communities date back to the beginning decades of Christianity and all have weathered wave after wave of Islamic persecution for centuries and more, but in the very near future some will simply cease to exist. In our lifetime, the only trace of their past existence will be in footnotes in history books (and probably only Western history books at that).
Meanwhile, we in the West hear much from radical Islam’s apologists how the US is engaged in a war against Islam citing of our military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are lectured on the inviolability of the Muslim ummah and justifications of defensive jihad.
But an extensive search this past weekend of the websites of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim American Society, the Muslim Student Association, the Fiqh Council of North America, and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee - the most visible institutional representatives of Islam in America - found not a single mention or reference of the religious persecution of Christians by their Islamic co-religionists, thereby making them tacit co-conspirators in the Final Solution to the Christian problem in the Muslim world.
The global war on Christianity by Islam is so massive in size and scope that it is virtually impossible to describe without trivializing it. Inspired by Muslim Brotherhood ideology and fueled by billions of Wahhabi petrodollars, the religious cleansing of Christians from the Muslim world is continuing at a break-neck pace, as the following recent examples demonstrate.
Iraq: In the current issue of the American Spectator, Doug Bandow observes that centuries of dhimmitude have left Christians in the war-torn country without any means of self-defense. Washington policymakers have refused to lend assistance for fear of showing partiality, despite the murder of hundreds of Iraqi Christians, the kidnapping and torture of Christian clerics, the repeated bombings of Christian churches, the torching of Christian businesses, and the flight of close to half of the entire Iraqi Christian population since April 2003. Those who remain have been subject to the imposition of shari’a by the Shi’ite Mahdi Army and Sunni militias (al-Qaeda doesn’t bother with such niceties, preferring to murder them immediately instead), including the recent published threat in Mosul of killing one member of every Christian family in that city for Christian women not wearing the hijab and continuing to attend school. (Be sure to remember that the next time an Islamist apologist claims that the hijab is a symbol of women’s liberation.)
Egypt: Journalist Magdi Khalil chronicles in a new report (”Another Black Friday for the Coptic Christians of Egypt”) the campaign of violence directed against Christian Copts almost weekly immediately following Friday afternoon Muslim prayers. Inspired by Islamist imams preaching religious hatred in mosques all over the country and protected by government officials willing to look the other way, rampaging mobs of Muslims set upon Christians churches, businesses and individuals, from Alexandria to cities all the way up the Nile. Coptic holy days are also favorite times for Muslim violence, which the Egyptian media likes to describe as “sectarian strife” - as if it were actually a two-sided affair.
Gaza: Ethel Fenig recently noted here at American Thinker (”More Gaza Multiculturalism”) the systematic destruction of churches and desecration of Christian religious objects by Jihadia Salafiya following the HAMAS takeover of the Gaza Strip from their Fatah rivals and the imposition of Islamic rule. The head of Jihadia Salafiya told reporter Aaron Klein that any suspected Christian missionary activity in the area will be “dealt with harshly”. (Ynet News)
Saudi Arabia: According to the Arab News, a Sri Lankan Christian man barely escaped with his life in late May when he was found working in the city of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, which is officially barred to non-Muslims. In December, an Indian man had been sentenced to death for accidentally entering the city, but was spared after the Indian embassy made an urgent appeal to the Saudi Supreme Court.
Pakistan: In Islamabad, Younis Masih was sentenced last month to death under the country’s frequently invoked blasphemy laws, which were also used against six Christian women suspended from a nursing school after they were accused of desecrating a Quran. And as protests against Salman Rushdie’s knighthood raged, a Muslim mob armed with guns, axes and sticks attacked Christians worshipping in a Salvation Army church in Bismillahlpur Kanthan. (Associated Press; United Press International; Mission News Network)
Bangladesh: Almost a dozen Christian converts in the Nilphamari district were beaten last week by Muslim villagers wielding bricks and clubs, and threatened with death if they did not leave town immediately. Local hospitals subsequently refused them treatment. Christians in the area have also been prevented from using the only potable water well in the area after a pronouncement by religious authorities at the mosque in Durbachari. This came after 42 former Muslims were baptized as Christians in the local river on June 12. (Compass News Direct)
Malaysia: Government authorities demolished a church building on June 4th in Orang Asli settlement in Gua Musang in Ulu Kelantan, despite prior government approval of the project. The church was built on donated property after the entire village had converted to Christianity just a few months ago. Also in late May, the Malaysian high court ruled that Muslims who convert to Christianity must appeal to the religious shari’a courts to officially be deregistered as Muslims and reregistered as a Christians. (Journal Chretien; Associated Press)
Indonesia: Agence France Presse reported last month on an attack by the Islamic Anti-Apostate Movement, who stormed a church service in a Protestant church in the West Java town of Soreang. The AFP report notes that more than 30 churches have been forced to close in West Java and dozens more throughout the country in recent years due to Muslim violence, churches which were among the few spared during the outbreak of hostilities during 1997-1998, where hundreds of Christian churches were burned to the ground and never rebuilt.
Turkey: The Christian community is still reeling from the torture and ritual slaughter of three Protestants at a Christian publishing house in Malatya in April by an armed Islamist gang, which was preceded by the murder last year of Catholic priest Andrea Santoro in Trabzon and the assassination of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul in January. An additional six men allegedly associated with the same Muslim gang were arrested on May 30th for plotting an attack on a Christian pastor in Diyarbakir. (Lebanon Daily Star; ADKNI)
Cyprus: The Cyprus Mail reports that during a meeting last month in Rome the Archbishop of the Cypriot Greek Orthodox Church pleaded with the Vatican Secretary of State for the Pope’s assistance to pressure Turkish authorities in restoring and repairing Christian sites and churches in areas occupied since the invasion of the island nation by Turkey in July 1974 and the ethnic cleansing of 160,000 Greek Christian Cypriots.
Lebanon: More than 60,000 Christians have left the country since last summer’s war between Hezbollah and Israel, fearing the rise of both Sunni and Shi’ite extremism and terrorist activity. The Sunday Telegraph recently revealed the results of a poll finding that at least half of Lebanon’s Maronite community were considering leaving the country. More than 100,000 have already submitted visa applications at foreign embassies.
Algeria: In what is considered one of the more “moderate” Muslim regimes, Al-Quds Al-Arabi announced that the Algerian government has just issued regulations requiring advance permission for non-Muslim public events, following a 2006 law aimed at limiting Christian evangelism in the Kabylia region and the Sahara. (MEMRI )
Morocco: In the country that The Economist magazine in 2005 anointed “the best Arab democracy”, all Moroccans are considered Muslims at birth and face three years in prison if they attempt to convert. They are also prohibited from entering any of the few churches permitted to operate for the foreign inhabitants of the country. Moroccan Christians must operate covertly for fear of imprisonment by the government and attacks by Islamists. They cannot bury their dead in Christian cemeteries, and they must be married by Islamic authorities or face charges of adultery. Late last year, a 64 year-old German tourist, Sadek Noshi Yassa, was sentenced to six months in jail and fined for missionary activity. (Journal Chretien)
Nigeria: Police in Gombe arrested sixteen suspects after a Muslim mob stoned, stripped, beat, and finally stabbed to death a Christian teacher, Christiana Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, after she caught a student cheating on an exam in March. Her body was then burned beyond recognition by the mob who falsely accused her of desecrating a Quran. The suspects were released last month without any charges being filed, prompting Christian leaders to accuse government authorities of a cover-up and raising concerns about additional attacks. (Christian Today)
Eritrea: Just a few weeks ago, the Islamic government installed a new Orthodox Patriarch after they removed the previous Patriarch and placed him under house arrest for no stated reason. Compass News Direct reported in February the death of Magos Solomon Semere, a Christian who had been imprisoned in a military jail for four and a half years for illegal Christian worship, the third Christian to die in government custody since October. Authorities have also cracked down on unapproved churches, jailing at least two thousand Protestants and members of the Medhane Alem Orthodox renewal movement since the beginning of the year and publicly burning confiscated Bibles. (Christian Post; Compass News Direct ; Journal Chretien)
It is not an exaggeration to say that I could extend this brief list ad infinitum with additional Islamic countries and news items from just the past few weeks’ worth of incidents of violence, discrimination, intimidation and murder targeting Christians in the Muslim world. In many instances, the government and religious authorities in these Muslim countries work hand-in-hand in their campaign of religious persecution.
A scene in the Academy Award-winning movie Schindler’s List gives us some insight into what is happening all across the Muslim world with respect to Christianity. As the SS Commandant Amon Göth and his Nazi Stormtroopers prepare to liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland, Göth (played in the movie by Ralph Fiennes) gives his men a peptalk:
For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today is history.
This scene is being repeated in the Friday sermons in mosques and on Islamic satellite TV all over the world, only this time it is the Christians in addition to the Jews who are targets. Great efforts are being made to make the two-thousand year history of Christianity in North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia a blasphemous rumor. Soon students in Turkey will be taught that the Hagia Sophia, the greatest architectural structure in the Muslim world, wasn’t built by the Christian Emperor Justinian in the Sixth Century, but by the Sultan Mehmed II a thousand years later after the Ottomans seized the Byzantine capital. That Christians lived at all in the Muslim world, let alone that much of the territory occupied by Muslims used to be Christian lands before the Islamic Wars of Conquest, will be nothing but a rumor by the end of this century punishable according to the precepts of shari’a.
President Bush announced last week that he will be sending a special envoy to the 57-member Organization of Islamic Countries. Hopefully, the systematic persecution of Christians and other religious minorities will be the first and primary item in the new envoy’s portfolio, with the 2007 annual report of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and the State Department’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom, which name virtually every single country in the OIC for its human rights abuses and religious cleansing, as evidence for our country’s concern.
The fact remains that not a single Christian or Jew lives in peace in the Muslim world, and if it is truly our nation’s foreign policy to spread democracy around the world, this issue is the perfect topic for us to press. Back at home, raising Islam’s global war on Christianity should be the immediate response to the seemingly endless media grievance machine of radical Islam’s Western apologists. Until they begin to address the new Holocaust perpetrated in the name of Islam, their complaints and denials are nothing but bald hypocrisy.
Patrick Poole is an occasional contributor to American Thinker. He maintains a blog, Existential Space.
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin." (John 8:1-11)
Islam
There came to him (the Holy Prophet) a woman from Gamid and said: ‘Allah’s Messenger, I have committed adultery, so purify me.’ He (the Holy Prophet) turned her away. On the following day she said: ‘Allah’s messenger, why do you turn me away? ... By Allah I have become pregnant.’ He said ‘Well, if you insist upon it, then go away until you give birth.’ When she was delivered she came with the child (wrapped) in a rag, and said ‘Here is the child whom I have given birth to.’ He said ‘Go away and suckle him until you wean him.’ When she had weaned him, she came to him (the Holy Prophet) with the child who was holding a piece of bread in his hand. She said ‘Allah’s Apostle, here is he as I have weaned him and he eats food.’ He (the Holy Prophet) entrusted the child to one of the Muslims and then pronounced punishment. And she was put in a ditch up to her chest and he commanded people and they stoned her. (Sahih Muslim 4206)
Jesus
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
"Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions. (Mark 12:28-34)
Mohammed
Allah's Apostle was asked, "What is the best deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and His Apostle (Muhammad). The questioner then asked, "What is the next in goodness? He replied, "To participate in Jihad in Allah's Cause." The questioner again asked, "What is the next (in goodness)?" He replied, "To perform Hajj Mubrur."
"Believers! - wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbors, and let them find you rigorous; and know that God is with those who fear him." (Koran 9:124)
allah - sacrifice your son to me
God - I will sacrifice My Son for you
Tragically, the US is supporting the Albanian Muslims in Kosovo even though they have destroyed over 200 Christian churches, monasteries, and cemeteries.
islam, religion of peace?
Technically, I don’t think Isam’s war is so much against Christianity. (I know they say kill the Christian infidels.) What I’m saying is, I have worked with quite a few devout Muslims. They were nice, friedly guys actually. According to them, they perceive Christians as a bunch of porn watching, doping, violent, drunks who engage in all kinds of sin.
What they see in Hollywood movies is their perception of Christianity. These Muslim guys aren’t seeing real Christian living.
bump to read later!
I thought Obama said there were only 50!
ML/NJ
According to them, they perceive Christians as a bunch of porn watching, doping, violent, drunks who engage in all kinds of sin.
:::::::
What other people do, is NONE OF THIER F&*&^%G BUSINESS!!! Islam, like all other failed systems of human organization, measurement and rule, need BADGUYS to blame thier OWN FAILURES AND INABILITIES on...to take the attention off of themselves. Islam and the Muslim cannot deliver crap to their bases of people, so they will do anything to anyone to keep the heat off their monolithic, stone-age, repression and totalitarianism.
Alot like the Obama campaign, in reality.
agreed
That’s a pant load. Some Muslims I have known also watch porn and chase women and some beat their family members. There are just as many homosexual Muslims and non-Muslims. So sell that BS elsewhere.
I perceive Muslim as murders and pagans. Until I see the majority of them denounce what their brothers are doing ( as do most Christians when one of their own acts that way ) I’ll stand by that analysis.
The next good list might be of mohammadan violence, discrimination, intimidation and murder targeting non-muslims outside the Muslim world.
Besides the US, and EUrabia, be sure to add the jihad in Russia, India, Israel, Philippines etc...
Agreed.
And I’ll stand there with you. These people worship a demon “allah” and are murdering Christian “infidels” who don’t live in “the decadent West” watching porn and whatever else. This thing called “islam” has no place either with God nor man. It is nothing but the devil’s work and, yet, our so-called “leaders” won’t call it for what it is.
LOFL. I have lived in several muslim countries and that's not far from my view of them, and their so-called "leaders."
You need look no further than the founder of their so-called religion, mohammad, the so called "al kemal al insan" (the "perfect man") who muslims are to emulate in deed and examples as they waste endless hours discussing hadith, and sura and obsessing over every nuance - He was a violent, sex-obsessed pedophile who engaged in murder, theft, deception, rape and genocide.
Christians who may do this are not following Christs example... thats the difference.
Islam at war Christianity?
No kidding.
Islam is at war WITH EVERYBODY. ISLAM IS AT WAR WITH WESTERN CIVILIZATION, AMERICA, ISRAEL AND THE JEWS EVERYWHERE.
They want us all dead, simple as that.
Today's lesson.
In islamic countries, infidels like you convert, pay up or you die!
Let me fix this for you
"Technically, I don’t think"
There that is better.
Isn't it an amazing coincidence that just about ever where Sharia law is practiced (and quite a few places it's not, but majority Islamic) that Christians and Jews are persecuted. But as you say it's not really against Christianity.
bookmark
I feel the same way about Hollywood! Too many people are getting their so called education from movies and what Hollywood dictates to be the truth. I can understand why those Muslims feel the way they do because too many Christians have decided to embrace the world,such as Hollywood crap,and not live up to the Gospel of Christ. Christians are embracing homosexuality and abortion as if they were not sins. I don’t believe in the faith of Islam but they do fight for their faith and the liberals are scared to death of them. And we all know how the liberals hate Christians.
Read my post again. I know they want all to convert or die. I know this. What I’m saying is, they perceive Christianity as a religion that’s rampant with homesexuality, porn, promiscuity, etc. That’s how they perceive Christianity.
I know for a fact when they’ve come across Christians who were devoted, similar to the Amish, those I’ve seen and known have respected that.
I can’t say that’s how those Christians in Arab nations are perceived but that’s how they tend to perceive them here in America. And our image of what they think Christianity is probably STICKS or colors their perception of Christians in their countries.
BTW, did you see this?
That is how the West is percieved in general in the Middle East & in other traditional areas of the world.
Heaven forbid we actually take a stand for Christians in an islamic land lest we be labeled “Crusaders” by our MSM, et al. Political correctness has a great deal to do w/ allowing these pogroms on a more frequent basis. allah’s minions only understand and respect naked aggression.
the Deets
Anything that offends them must be accomodated, and anything they say to offend others is either accepted by others or ignored in it's hate based utterance.
A form of religion based on family honor, and murder if that is insulted is archaic and unacceptable to the rest of a peacreful mankind.
You are naive to think otherwise.
You didn’t read my post but glossed over it. I stated clearly that I understand they intend to convert Christians at gunpoint.
Where in my post does it make the declaration that ALL muslims are clean living people? I never imply that.
My post added value by stating Muslism I’ve worked with who were devout say that Muslims perceive people like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears as Christians.
Maybe they should read a Bible to get that definition instead of from Hollyweird. I read a Koran to aid in my definition of Muslims. By their own book they okay murder, rape, and lying against non-believers. The Bible condemns such acts.
Still not buying that Muslim are good people. If they were they would denounce their brothers.
Visit one of the Muslim countries, if you wear a cross it cannot be displayed. If you are a woman, you cannot go out in public without an escort, wiht any skin exposed. If you are a blonde woman, offers will be made for your purchase or you go out under guard so you won't be kidnapped.
You do not see the danger of the last 1500 years this cult represents to the world and has done in the past when there were no movies to use as a guide to Christianity.
You should read a little history before basing your judgements on just a few people you know.
Do you want to argue just for the sake of arguing?
I never said Muslims are saints. I never said Muslims don’t want to convert at gun point. Etc.
You’re arguing with someone who basicly feels the same way you do.
I clearly understand what Muzzies are doing to white women in Europe for example. And I believe they need to be kicked out of Sweden, UK, Australia, Canada, etc. And the US!
But I’m not going to generalize that all arabic people are evil and frothing at the mouth.
I never implied that ALL Muslims are good people. And you can’t generalize that all of them are evil, filthy people because it’s simply not true. Get out and meet some!
And the logic that they should denounce their brothers makes sense. Absolutely. By the same token, there’s a whole lot of ethnic groups in the US that should be denouncing their brothas too. PAC’s and firebrands like Jackson and LULAC, CAIR, etc have no place in this country so why is that tolerated?
None of the Christians I know are embracing homosexuality and abortion.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.