Posted on 10/11/2015 7:51:24 PM PDT by markomalley
Wherever U.S. leadership has helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of “democracy and freedom,” indigenous Christian minorities are being forced to convert to Islam or die.
Many are accepting death.
Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 Christians for saying “they would never renounce Christ” for Muhammad.
The jihadis took one group in front of a large crowd. They cut off the fingertips of a 12-year-old boy, who steadfastly refused to submit to Islam. They “severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam.” He refused, so they “also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion.”
According to a Christian leader associated with the martyrs, “They were left on their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them.” A sign saying “infidels” was placed next to their crosses.
The other eight Christians, including two women aged 29 and 33, were also ordered to renounce Christ and embrace Islam before a large crowd. They refused:
The Islamic extremists then publicly raped the women, who continued to pray during the ordeal, leading the ISIS militants to beat them all the more furiously.
As the two women and the six men knelt before they were beheaded, they were all praying.
“Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord’s prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus,” the ministry director said. “One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, ‘Jesus!’”
After they were beheaded, their bodies were hung on crosses, the ministry director said, his voice breaking.
The same is happening in the two other Arab nations where the U.S., under the pretext of “freedom and democracy,” overthrew the secular dictators who had long kept a lid on the jihadis: Iraq and Libya.
Late last year, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” recounted the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering—including seeing their children chopped in half for refusing to embrace Islam. One of his anecdotes follows:
ISIS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, “You say the words [shehada, convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad.” And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, “No, we love Jesus. We have always loved Jesus. We have always followed Jesus. Jesus has always been with us.” They [ISIS] said, “Say the words!” They [children] said, “No, we can’t.” [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off. How do you respond to that? You just cry. They’re my children. That is what we have been going through. That is what we are going through.
It should be noted that the targeting of Christian children in Iraq goes back soon after the ousting of Saddam Hussein. In June 2008, a Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” were crucifying Christian children: “Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents.”
In one of his Facebook postings, White, who regularly posted pictures of Christian martyrs, wrote:
Today’s Pictures are too awful to show. You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen. A family of 8 all shot through the face laying in a pool of blood with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert it cost them their life.
White also told of how Islamic State members came to a Christian man saying, “Either you convert to Islam or we kill all your children.” The desperate father declared the words, the shehada, that “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” thus becoming a Muslim.
Contrite at heart, he phoned White crying, “Father, father, I said the words! Does that mean Jesus doesn’t love me anymore? I’ve always loved Jesus but I said those words because I couldn’t see my children being killed!”
White responded: “No Elias, Jesus still loves you—he will always love you.”
Aside from the numerous historic accounts of Christians slaughtered for refusing to renounce Christ for Muhammad—whether 100,000 Georgians beheaded or burned alive, or a “mere” 813 Italians decapitated—even in the very details, precedents abound: for example, remorse at converting out of fear. Consider the following account from Medieval Egypt:
In 1389, a great procession of Copts who had accepted Muhammad under fear of death, marched through Cairo. Repenting of their apostasy, they now wished to atone for it by the inevitable consequence of returning to Christianity. So as they marched, they announced that they believed in Christ and renounced Muhammad. They were seized and all the men were beheaded one after another in an open square before the women. But this did not terrify the women; so they, too, were all martyred (Crucified Again, pgs. 113-114).
Speaking of Egyptian martyrs, we come to the third “liberated” Arab nation where Christians are now being put to the sword for refusing to renounce Christ: Libya.
Earlier this year, the Islamic State released a video depicting 21 Egyptian Christians being decapitated in Libya. While holding their victims’ bodies down, Islamic State members shoved their fingers in the Christians’ eyes, craned their heads back, and sliced away at their throats with knives. As with the recent public rape, beheading, and crucifixion of those 12 Christians near Aleppo, some of the Egyptian Copts were also seen praying to Christ. One Coptic priest later described the scene as follows:
The name of Jesus was their last word…. With that name, whispered at the very last, their martyrdom was sealed.
Over one month before the video appeared, the BBC had falsely reported that the majority of those now slaughtered Copts were “released.” Sadly, such downplaying of Muslim persecution of Christians is standard for the BBC.
When the Islamic State released another video in April of more Christians in Libya being massacred, a masked IS spokesman addressed “Christians everywhere”:
We say to Christians everywhere, the Islamic State will expand, with Allah’s permission. And it will reach you even if you are in fortified strongholds. So whoever enters Islam will have security…. But whoever refuses will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear. The men will be killed and the children will be enslaved, and their wealth will be taken as booty. This is the judgment of Allah and His Messenger.
The next scene portrays captive Ethiopian Christians being shot in the back of the head or having their heads carved off.
The ongoing slaughter of Christians by the Islamic State and the destruction of churches and antiquities must be laid at the feet of those Western nations that, intentionally or unintentionally, paved the way for the Islamic State.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said before the United Nations, while addressing those nations that supported the “Arab Spring,” chief among them America:
Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?
Whether they realize it or not, they continue to do it in Syria—with Christians paying the highest price. Aside from the Islamic State’s slaughter of Christians who refuse to convert to Islam, Muslim individuals, mobs, terrorists, and governments all around the world have been known to try to force Christians to convert, sometimes on pain of death. Some anecdotes follow:
“leadership”? Sheesh. From behind maybe...
Good work, Obama.
It’s hard to believe that this kind of inhuman behavior exists in this day and age and harder still to believe that world leaders refuse to condemn it. I mean not even a word from the freaking pope?!
If hating what these people do make me an islamophobic then I’ll gladly wear that label with no regret.
Golly Gee!
Who could have possible anticipated this when they voted to put a muslim lover in the White House?
We (Americans) were half way through the re-arrangement of our deck chairs when you interrupted with this...
I imagine we will have to wait until 2016 for our nation to do anything contrary to what’s been going on. Regardless, I believe the U.S. has reached the low state of morality that is necessary for this ship to sink. What iceberg?
Boy do we need revival.
Should read : As Russian President Vladimir Putin, former head of the Soviet KGB, the intelligence service of an empire notorious for its imprisonment of millions of people behind an iron curtain lined with mine fields and razor wire, and known for its ruthless torture of dissidents, its conversion of Christian churches into museums and warehouses, for out-doing even the Nazis in mass murder, for enslaving millions in gulags, its support of Saddam Hussein's murder of nearly 2 million people, for feeding itself with Ethiopian grain while millions of Ethiopians languished in man made famine under the rule of Russian backed Marxists, for destabilizing Africa in the guise of anti-colonialism, for providing Syria, Iraq and Iran with assistance in the development of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons; for supporting Syria's aiding of Iraq insurgencies opposed to the establishment of representative government in Iraq, Russia is since known for its steadfast support of Hezbollah terrorists and communist insurgencies, for aiding in the ruination of the Venezuelan and Cuban nations, for training anarchists and leftist agitators from the US to carry on in both violent and Gramscian revolution, whose leader, Putin, assassinating dissidents with polonium without regard to collateral damage,...recently said before the United Nations...
How is this happening in 2015?
Where is the outrage from Christian leaders, from the UN, from other religions, etc.?
How about from the President and Congress?
Do You realize what You have Done?
Putin
That bastard in Washington needs to be impeached, and tried for crimes against humanity. Any ISIS pigs captured should be nailed to crosses immediately.
now you’ve stepped in it...
That bastard in Washington needs to be impeached,
I share your view of Obama. But the massacring of Christians in Iraq started soon after we toppled Saddam. Six years before Obama was president. “W” was in the White House.
Long article, but a great read; great links.
Thanks for posting.
Obama merely promised to fundamentally transform America. He delivered far more - fundamentally transforming the world as he toppled half of the stable Arab governments and wiped out Christian communities that have existed for almost 2,000 years.
What these jihadis do not take seriously, is Hebrews 10:31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. They will get theirs one day.
Through my tears I can only whisper Thank you for posting this truth. I fear Islam is the punishment being used by God for His Holy purpose. I fear America may not / does not yet deserve to be protected from this bloody curse.For we have put our trust in man(Man made government that has rejected the foundation) and made flesh our strength (there ought to be a law— the supreme court has decided-etc.) and have turned from God. As our interference and policy of military engagement with ROE that we not change the culture— has helped create this horror over there— it seems we ought prepare for the same here-for we have turned from God.
You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen
Here lies the problem, the American people are mushrooms (being kept in the dark and being fed sh##)We are being told day after day that this so called religion is a religion of peace. If they were allowed to conduct thier business in the US do you think they wouldnt love to do this to us? Our leaders and gov are doing a grave diservice to its’ people. we the people remember this!
Proves that Mr. Obama never supported the Christians to begin with.
Big difference as Americans are armed to the teeth.
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