Posted on 12/17/2014 4:47:23 AM PST by SJackson
Europe Should Learn Ethiopias Islam Lesson
Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On December 17, 2014 @ 12:40 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 2 Comments
Originally published by VIE.
Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopiathis time by local authorities.
Heavens Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28. The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority city of Harar for five years. In the days preceding the destruction, officials forcibly removed the churchs exterior sign and warned believers not to worship there, citing complaints by a local Muslim. Officials further told church members who had previously congregated at the church not to gather under what remains of the church building. Accordingly, Christians are now meeting in homes of individual believers.
Prior to the demolition of the church, when some Christian leaders protested, they were illegally detained, released only after community members, outraged by the wrongful detentions, called for their immediate release, reported International Christian Concern, a rights advocacy group supporting the Christians:
These are no isolated incidents, explained ICC, adding that it had documented numerous ongoing land rights battles between churches and their local governments across Ethiopia.
In many cases, ICC said, churches have been operating peacefully for decades on land given to them by now-deceased former congregants.
However efforts by local majority Muslim populations to eliminate the public presence of churches resulted in the forceful closure, destruction and demolition of several church buildings in recent years, according to ICC investigators.
[ ]
ICCs Regional Manager for Africa, Cameron Thomas, accused Ethiopia of violating the rights of devoted Christians. Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws theyve sworn to uphold, are violating Christians rights by forcibly closing, destroying and demolishing churches across Ethiopia, the official said.
If this is the treatment Christian churches receive by Muslim officials and politicianssworn to uphold the rights of every citizen, not just Muslimsone can imagine the treatment churches receive by Muslim mobs. One example suffices:
In 2011, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes when Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes in a Muslim-majority region in western Ethiopia. At least one Christian was killed, many injured, and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 displaced. Around the same time, in another area that is 90% Muslim, all the Christians in the city woke up to find notes on their doors warning them to convert to Islam, leave the city or face death.
For those few Western observers who live beyond the moment and have an interest in the big picturethe world bequeathed to future generationsit is well to reflect on the question of numbers in the context of Ethiopia. As Jonathan Racho, another official at ICC, earlier said, Its extremely disconcerting that in Ethiopia, where Christians are the majority, they are also the victims of persecution.
That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers. This reflects what I call Islams Rule of Numbers, which holds that, wherever and whenever Muslims grow in numberand thus in strength and confidenceso too does Muslim intolerance for the other grow (video explanation here).
This naturally has lessons for the West, especially European nations like Britain and France that have a significant and ever-growing Muslim populationand where church attacks and even beheadings are now taking place.
By way of final illustration, the reader is left with the story of Islams entry into Ethiopia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations. According to Islamic tradition, in 615, when the pagan Quraysh were persecuting Muhammads outnumbered followers and disciples in Arabia, some fled to Ethiopia seeking sanctuary. The Christian king, or Negus of Ethiopia, welcomed and protected these Muslim fugitives, ignoring Quraysh demands to return themand thus reportedly winning Muhammads gratitude.
Today, 14 centuries later, when Islam has carved itself a solid niche in Ethiopia, accounting for 1/3 of the population, Muslim gratitude has turned into Muslim aggressionnot least a warning to Western states.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
..................
Video: Robert Spencer on the Muslim Brotherhood in the American Heartland
Save
Liberals never learn the lessons of history. If they believe that islam is a religion of peace it must be. If they say “coexist”, like magic we must be coexisting. Facts don’t matter and can just be ignored.
The forces of evil will always seek the destruction of all that is good. When they have grown to a substantial proportion of any population their demands and despoliation will increase and dominate. We have seen the forces of evil at work in every institution in our land: government, the military, schools, business, churches and social institutions such as marriage,family and even the blessed birth of babies. Nothing is left that is sacred or holy. Muslim is but one manifestation of the scourge of evil.
Progressivism and tyranny abound in every nation, no less so here in the cradle of liberty. There must be a purge and cleansing of every form of evil if we are to survive as the people of G-d.
Once again, Hebrews, the chosen of G-d, will lead the way. Christ will bring the light of the world again into the darkness to which we have descended. Be vigilant. Gird your loins. His day is nigh.
The Ethiopians will only take so much from these Muslims, and then they will be slaughtered without mercy. This is the history of Ethiopia.
Let the Muslims bring it. And watch what happens. ( Same as in Somalia courtesy of the Ethiopian Army.)
If an American Christian had done this in the US, what would have happened?
Ooooooh...those tolerant peaceful moozlums.
please let it be soon. I love good news stories.
(While I do pray for the conversion of the mohammedan, I also recognize that a moslem convert can never be trusted as they are commanded by islam to lie. Therefore it is best if they are converted and sent immediately to their reward, lest they be proven to be moslem liars seeking to destroy ever more innocents)
That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers.Not just Europe, btw. Thanks SJackson.
islamic cancer spreads
You mean Europe has forgotten the FIRST lesson that Islam taught it?
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.