Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims continues...

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[miltonim]

The purpose of this thread is to post links to articles on FreeRepublic on the topic of Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all other non-Muslims

For example:

Muslim Rioters Destroy 13 Churches
www.barnabasfund.org
Nigeria
November 21, 2003
Posted on 11/30/2003 1:49 PM EST by miltonim

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Iraq's Christians Fleeing as Attacks Against Them Increase
July 2004
Excerpt: It was 10:30 in the morning, almost four months ago, and the children were getting ready for church. Aziz Raad Azzo, 5 years old, was drinking his milk; his 14-year-old sister Raneen was putting on her new clothes. When they heard a car pull up, Raneen, thinking her father was home, ran to the window and flung open the shutters. Four men shot her and her little brother in the head. The children's crime: Their father, a Christian storekeeper, had sold alcohol. Before the murders, the family received a photocopied death threat. "We are warning you, the enemies of God and Islam, from selling alcohol again, and unless you stop we will kill you and send you to hell where a worse fate awaits you,"

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"Eminent U.S. religious leaders astounded by violence against Christian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija
August 2004
Excerpt: The bishop emphasized that prior to March 17 of this year 115 Orthodox churches and monasteries had already been destroyed, and on March 17 an additional 30. 'To date not a single perpetrator has been found. Over 3,500 Serbs have been abducted or murdered. All this occurred not during a time of war but under the eyes of the international community.

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A new era of Christian persecution: Pat Buchanan exposes why Islam is not a religion of peace
Balkans, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Egypt
August 2004
Excerpt: "Iraq's 650,000-strong Christian community is depleting fast. Most of the 3 million Christians of Iraqi origin now live abroad, mainly in the U.S. and Western Europe. Tens of thousands have moved to Syria and Jordan, many crammed into tenement blocks, living on charity, banned from work and waiting for visas out of the Arab world." ...From Lebanon, scores of thousands of Catholics have fled in recent decades, leaving those behind as a shrinking minority in a Muslim land where they once flourished and, indeed, led...Last May, in Nigeria's second city, Kano, Muslim youth went on a midnight rampage with cutlasses, clubs and machetes, massacring 600 Christians and leaving their bodies in the streets. Sixteen churches burned to the ground. The senior Muslim cleric in the city ordered all Christians out. Some 30,000 were driven from their homes.

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16 Murdered in Double Terror Attack in Be´er Sheva
Israel
August 2004
Excerpt: Double bus bombings have rocked the southern town of Be'er Sheva, killing 16 - and wounding over 100, including close to 15 seriously. Police are on high alert nationwide. The twin bus bombs were detonated at around 2:55 P.M. on Rager Boulevard, near Be'er Sheva's City Hall. The buses were approximately 100 meters apart when suicide terrorists detonated their explosives.

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Bomb Damages Church in Northern Cyprus
August 2004
Excerpt: The attack followed media reports that Turkish Cypriot extremist groups had vowed to try to prevent services planned next week at the Saint Mamas church to celebrate its namesake's saint's day.

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U.S. Hostage Beheaded, Terror Group Says
Saudi Arabia
June 2004
Excerpt: "In answer to what we promised ... to kill the hostage Paul Marshall (Johnson) after the period is over ... the infidel got his fair treatment," the statement said.

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MUSLIMS KILL CHRISTIANS AT PRAYER: INDONESIA
December 2003
Excerpt: ...in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Islamic killers once again slew Christians while in a prayer meeting. The Muslims barged into the church, shot at random, and left the slain lying in blood on the church floor. Family members and fellow believers were left stunned.

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Saudi Arabian Killed Jew in Houston
Texas, United States
August 2003
Excerpt: A Saudi Arabian national in Houston pled guilty to slashing a Jewish friend's throat after undergoing a religious revival. Mohammed Ali Alayed, 23, faces up to 60 years in jail...

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Report: Muslims slaughter 600 Christians
Nigeria
May 2004
Excerpt: Twelve churches have been burned..."Mobs went from house to house looking for Christian victims and in some cases trapped the occupants inside and torched the houses,"...More than 30,000 residents, mostly Christians, have been driven from their homes in Kano, officials said Thursday

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Qadhafi: Jews must be compensated for loss of property
Libya
1949-2004
Excerpt: In 1948, Moslems attacked the Jewish quarters in the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, scores of Jews were murdered, and 300 houses were destroyed......After the 1967 Six-Day War, there were anti-Jewish riots in Libya; those Jews still remaining then left........When Qadhafi came to power in 1969, there were 500 Jews in Libya. Qadhafi announced that he was confiscating all abandoned Jewish property, and canceling all Jewish claims on debts owed by Muslims...There are no Jews living in Libya today.

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GOTTA SEE THIS - Terrorists attack Russian School - Warning: Graphic images
Russia
September 2004
Excerpt: Hundreds of Parents and Children Held Hostage...Over 100 Killed

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Catholic Aid Worker Shut in Darfur - Sudan
September 2004
Excerpt: A Catholic aid worker of Belgium's charity Caritas was shot and seriously injured while delivering vital medical supplies to a refugee camp

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It Was Christians Targeted In Beslan Russia
September 2004
Excerpt: Russian Ministries of Wheaton, Illinois, has issued an urgent call to prayer regarding the siege of School #1 today in Beslan, Russia, by Chechen rebels. Approximately 20 rebels are holding 400 people hostage including teachers, children, and some parents. Russian Ministries sponsors three Evangelism and Church-Planting Centers in this volatile region.

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Hundreds of Christians Slaughtered in Akobo - Sudan (7/24/2004)
Sudan
May 2004
Excerpt: “Ninety-three of the victims – nearly half of those murdered – were children 12 years old or younger!”

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Iraq's disappearing Christians-Middle East is undergoing ethnic cleansing. Does anybody care?
2004
Excerpt: In addition, Islamists have attacked the predominantly Christian owners of liquor, music, and fashion stores, as well as beauty salons, wanting them to close down their businesses. Christian women are threatened unless they cover their heads in the Islamic fashion. Random Christians have been assassinated.

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Amid Escalating Fear of Massacres, Assyrian Christians Commemorate Martyr's Day 8-7-2004
Iraq
1914-1923
Excerpt: Although the Muslim holy war against the Armenians is perhaps better known, over three-fourths, or 750,000 Assyrian Christians died by outright murder, starvation, disease and the all too familiar consequences of genocide, between 1914-1923 during the Assyrian Holocaust along with a significant number of Pontic Greeks.

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Many Christians Flee Iraq, With Syria the Haven of Choice
August 2004
Excerpt: Suhair Mikhail, 33, recalls walking home from her church in Baghdad this spring with a friend, a young woman from her choir. "A car stopped, and three men got out," she said. "They began tearing my friend's clothes. They said, 'Because this is the first time we see you unveiled, we will only strip you. The next time, we will kill you.' "

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Attacks Upon Assyrians in Central Iraq (1997)
Excerpt: Three Arab men, employed as school guards in a nearby school, were allegedly instructed by a cleaning woman at the same school to attack and rob Mr. Yacoub. According to Mr. Yacoub's neighbors who witnessed the attack, Mr. Yacoub was stabbed in the back, neck and abdomen. The neighbors notified the police, who arrived prior to Mr. Yacoub?s death. Mr. Yacoub survived long enough to identify his attackers and to give the name of a nearby relative to be notified. The police kept Mr. Yacoub in his home for questioning while he was bleeding uncontrollably until his death. They never sought to transport him to a hospital in time to save his life. In addition, Mr. Yacoub ?s relative was never contacted. The relative heard about the incident one day later, at which point Mr. Yacoub had already died. Mr. Yacoub's relative finally arrived at the home only to find that the police had ransacked the place and removed any valuables or evidence.