U.S. Becomes Chief Enabler of Christian Persecution

"We are looking for the bishop of this church to slaughter him -- we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making." — Church elder quoting Muslims who attacked a priest, Zanzibar.

"Muslims wanted to punish [him]...because he had recently organised a demonstration against violence in Islam." — Local priest of a murdered Christian, Bangladesh.

"O people of the Scripture [Christians]. Do not exceed the limits of your religion....Cease! It will be better for you...." — Koran, 4:171, Billboard in Nazareth, Israel.

Human rights organization Open Doors published its 2014 World Watch List in January, highlighting and ranking the top 50 nations that persecute Christians. The overwhelming majority of countries making the list—and nine of the top-ten worst offenders—are Muslim, and include nations from among America's allies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) and its contenders (Iran); from among economically rich nations (Qatar) and poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); from among "Islamic republic" nations (Afghanistan), "democracies" (Iraq), and "moderate" nations (Malaysia and Indonesia).

The report also indicates that every Muslim nation that the U.S. has helped "liberate," including during the "Arab Spring," has become significantly worse for Christians and other minorities. Previously moderate Syria is now ranked the third-worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four receive the worst designation in the ranking process: "extreme persecution."

Three of these countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—were "liberated" in part thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring "freedom fighters" against the regime. Many of these "freedom fighters" have been responsible for any number of atrocities—including massacres, beheadings, and the crucifixion of Christians, and others.

If they leave me alone I will leave them alone. But how many ‘peaceful” muzzzies are there?

======================================== My husband and I worked for ARAMCO (Arabian American Oil Company) in Saudi Arabia for five years.
Our little community on the Persian (They call it ARABIAN Gulf over there.) Gulf was peaceful. It was so peaceful that it was dull.

The 30 (or so) Saudi men I worked with were concerned their own lives. They weren't the "muzzies" you write about.
My boss was one of the two nicest, most humble, God-loving people I had ever met. The other was my cousin, a priest. But I am here to say that in the five long years we lived over there no militant "muzzies" gave us any trouble.

The Saudis really are very simple Bedouins who only want to just sit around and shoot the breeze with each other. The few wealthy "playboys" who travel around splashing their money around are NOT the average Saudi. THEY are the anomalies who get all the press, the bad press, naturally. Most Saudis are just ordinary joes who work, have families and really much attention to anything beyond their own life.

I had left the office once and came back and my boss and his staff were "shooting the breeze." They were complaining about their teenage sons who didn't want to work or go to school...but only wanted to drive around with their friends.

They DID have coffee ready for us every morning. I thought it would be that gawd-awful "Mississippi mud" they usually drink. But, they made American coffee because they said it tasted much better than their coffee. [Well, all our coffee comes from S. America, I think. But they didn't know that.]

Personal opinion; the Pakistanis are probably some of the worst troublemakers over there. Pakistan and India were occupied by the British a long time and the British built many universities in the now-Pakistani part of old India...which ended up in modern day Pakistan. So the Pakistanis are the more educated of the former Indian subcontinent.

We had Pakistanis over there too. The American men were the engineers; the Muslim Pakistanis and Indians were the clerks. There WERE also Christian Pakistanis and Indians. ARAMCO insisted on hiring only "people of the Book," Muslim or Christian. No Hindus, therefore, only Christians and Muslims.
FYI: The word "pak" means "pure" and "stan" means "country." The Pakistanis REALLY believe that they live in the "land of the pure." Hah, "pure" what? camel kaka.

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