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Radical Islam's Existential Threat to Christianity Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
CBN News ^ | May 14, 2019 | Emily Jones

Posted on 05/20/2019 11:03:33 AM PDT by Jyotishi

Middle Eastern Christians have endured a long and violent history at the hands of radical Muslims.

At the turn of the 20th century, Christians made up 20 percent of the population in the Middle East. Today, that number is only 3-5 percent.

"Christians have been harassed in more countries than any other religious group and have suffered harassment in many of the heavily Muslim countries of the Middle East and North Africa," says the Pew Research Center's Katayoun Kishi.

By 2050, it is estimated Christians will compose 3 percent or less of the population of the Middle East with Muslims becoming 94%.

Middle East specialist and author Raymond Ibrahim argues that "for centuries Islam has been literally and figuratively erasing Christianity."

He points to a recent discovery by French scholar Dr Eléonore Cellard of an eighth-century manuscript of the Qur'an, which was written over a copy of the Old Testament.

Cellard noticed that behind the Arabic writing of the Qur'an were faint Coptic letters from Deuteronomy.

"This is a very important discovery for the history of the Qur'an and early Islam. We have here a witness of cultural interactions between different religious communities," Cellard told The Guardian.

Ibrahim argues those cultural interactions were persecution.

"What is euphemistically referred to as 'cultural interactions between different religious communities' and 'the contact between communities in the first centuries of Islam' is a reference to the near cultural annihilation of Coptic Christian civilization by Islam on the former's own homeland," he writes.

John Nikiu, a Coptic bishop who was eyewitness to the Muslim invasion of Egypt in the seventh century, said Egypt's Muslim conquerors viewed "the servants of Christ as enemies of Allah" and gave detailed accounts of Christian persecution at the hands of radical Muslims.

Nikiu concludes his bloody account by saying, "But let us now say no more, for it is impossible to describe the horrors the Muslims committed."

Ibrahim points to other Coptic chroniclers who also described the events.

"The dead were cast out into the streets and market-places, like fish which the water throws up on the land, because they found none to bury them; and some of the people devoured human flesh" from starvation, writes the chronicler Severus Ibn al-Muqaffa (d.987).

Ibrahim documents the persecution of Egyptian Christians centuries ago in a new book, Sword and Schimitar.

That persecution continues today.

Over the last 30 years, more than one million Coptic Christians have left Egypt due to widespread attacks, church bombings, and kidnappings at the hands to radical Muslims.

The same is true for many Christians and other religious minorities in the region.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released in its 2018 Annual Report that 16 countries are "of particular concern for religious freedom violations. Most of them are majority Muslim countries.

"Sadly, religious freedom conditions deteriorated in many countries in 2017, often due to increasing authoritarianism or under the guise of countering terrorism," said USCIRF Chairman Daniel Mark. "Yet there is also reason for optimism 20 years after the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act. The importance of this foundational right is appreciated more now than ever, and egregious violations are less likely to go unnoticed."

Many activist groups including Open Doors USA and In Defense of Christians are working around the clock to make sure those violations do not go unnoticed.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allah; christendom; christian; church; coptic; egypt; globaljihad; islam; jihad; koran; middleeast; mideast; muslim; quran; radicalislam; sharia; terrorism; uscirf
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1 posted on 05/20/2019 11:03:33 AM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi
Islam is an existential threat to EVERYONE!
2 posted on 05/20/2019 11:15:54 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Correct. There is no radical Koran and a non-radical version of the Koran that I am aware of. Islam is one of Satan’s Cults and must be neutralized.


3 posted on 05/20/2019 11:38:41 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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4 posted on 05/20/2019 11:41:24 AM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Jyotishi

The abomination that causes desolation, and it’s false prophet.


5 posted on 05/20/2019 11:43:58 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: Jyotishi

bkmk


6 posted on 05/20/2019 11:44:35 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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7 posted on 05/20/2019 11:52:11 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Exactly.
Fakest of all possible fake news.


8 posted on 05/20/2019 11:59:29 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: polymuser

Bring back the Templars.


9 posted on 05/20/2019 1:19:41 PM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Rappini

So many do not know that muzzie crusades led to the Christian crusades (to get their stolen lands back from the muzzie slaughterers).


10 posted on 05/20/2019 1:33:52 PM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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bump


11 posted on 05/20/2019 1:50:43 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We believe that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true American way.--DTrump)
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To: polymuser
So many do not know that muzzie crusades jihad led to the Christian crusades (to get their stolen lands back from the muzzie slaughterers).

Crusade literally means ‘way of the cross’.

12 posted on 05/20/2019 1:52:21 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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“Yet there is also reason for optimism 20 years after the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act. The importance of this foundational right is appreciated more now than ever, and egregious violations are less likely to go unnoticed.”

Egregious violations...it is not enough that they are
noticed only. They must be stopped. If the egregious
violations result in death, they can only be stopped
by the death of the perpetrators. As a consequence
we are in a war for our way of life.


13 posted on 05/20/2019 1:59:38 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Islam, no peace!

No Islam, peace!

Islam is an evil death cult that is responsible for the deaths of AT LEAST 270,000,000 non-Moslems since 622 AD!

For more information about Moslem depredations through the ages, see http://markhumphrys.com/islam.killings.html#politicalislam

14 posted on 05/20/2019 2:12:05 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: tet68
If the egregious violations result in death, they can only be stopped by the death of the perpetrators. As a consequence we are in a war for our way of life.

A problem is the Judeo /Christians would rather solve the Islamic problem by praying , instead of preying. - Tom

15 posted on 05/20/2019 2:21:44 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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Islam will learn that Christians can be terrible
opponents at some point. Buddhists too.
History is replete with examples.


16 posted on 05/20/2019 2:26:07 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The creepy Somali Muslim woman in Congress says they will thwart Muslim hatred with “their love."
We got a large dose of "Islam’s love" on 9/11. So keep your lousy love…..and just GTH out of our country.

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Ilhan Omar Promotes Somali Policies; Complains Trump Is Droning Jihadis in Somalia ‘to Death’ Breitbart ^ | 16-05-19 | EDWIN MORA / FR Posted by McQ444

WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), during a House panel hearing on Thursday, complained that U.S. President Donald Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab. Describing herself as “an African on this committee,” she suggested that the Trump administration should “reassess” the way it deals with al-Shabaab and other jihadis in Somalia. Her comments came during a hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Omar told the Trump administration witnesses invited to testify: (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

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Here's the problem....the creepy rag-head describes herself as “an African on a Congressional committee”...... An African? ..... you can bet this fraud's got a whole bunch of identities......one for every occassion.

Tucker Carlson called the Muslim woman and self-proclaimd Somali refugee “someone who hates our country” and who came to the U.S. “at public expense,” noting that she “demanding the abolition of ICE, the decriminalization of illegal immigration itself, and an end to all deportation programs.”

“She demands open borders, the unlimited arrival of anyone who wants to come to America, whether they have anything to contribute or not; and taxpayers get to pay for it. And if you don’t want to, according to "the African" you’re a bigot,” Carlson said.

He referenced Omar as “a symbol of America’s failed immigration system if there ever was one.” (Excerpt) Read more at bizpacreview.com ...

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LOYALTY TO SOMALIA NOT AMERICA---Democrat Omar complained on the floor of the US Congress that President Trump has dramatically intensified American airstrikes in her native Somalia that have killed hundreds of members of the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.

REALITY CHECK I guess her Somali BIL gave her the script. Read on.

Omar’s brother-in-law, a Somalia official, tweeted on March 4: “Road to 2020/21 and national issues in #Somalia - current political agreement (4.5) is decaying, yet main governance systems/structures are not in place: constitution is incomplete, justice system poor, security absent, political parties not there...what gives?!”

This is embedded with some sort of creepy Muslim code......probably for more US foreign aid.....
Omar got her BIL a top job in the Somali administration. Read on.

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Democrat Cong Clyburn said Omar "told him" she was born in Somalia, and had to flee the country to escape Somali violence,
and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before coming to the US.....this according to Clyburn.

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Then why, as a frightened Somali given refuge in America, did she hurry back to Somalia to get her BIL a job?

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This creepy Somali Muslim woman in our Congress has a hidden agenda no one could ever imagine.Omar has world-wide terrorist connections.

BACKSTORY-- Just a few weeks after her election to Minnesota's state legislature,
Ilhan left her American refuge to travel to her homeland she says she "fled in fear".
She was with then-Pres Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, a Somali favorite for re-election.
He reportedly invited her to appear beside him prior to the Somali election taking place.
That's the "frightened lady" pictured chit-chatting, setting up her foreign policy $$$$ Somali agenda.

No Longer "Fearful," elected US state rep Omar Endorsed Somalia’s New President. Four Days Later,
Omar's Brother-in-Law Had a Powerful Job in the Somali Administration. The US foreign aid is about to pour in.

What was the deal she made with the corrupt-ridden Somali govt? Are the violent Somalians she once fled,
privy to US security reports from Omar's current position on the Congressional Foreign Affair Committee?

You better believe it, guys.

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A foray into foreign politics, should have disqualified her from getting US security clearance.

17 posted on 05/20/2019 2:48:09 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Taxman

Thanks for the link!


18 posted on 05/20/2019 3:05:52 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Pontiac

I stand corrected. Will never make that mistake again, thx.


19 posted on 05/20/2019 3:21:02 PM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Liz

I believe it.

Imagine a Soviet Russian ‘refugee’ getting elected to U. S. Congress in 1964, that returned to visit Russian leaders after ‘fleeing’, and getting put on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee...absolutely unimaginable.


20 posted on 05/20/2019 3:30:38 PM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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