Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal.
Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.
Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.
Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith. Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.
Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution.
Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.
Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.
Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain.
Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.
Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and--in the most extreme application--death.
The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/
That is stupid! How to end civilization as we know it!
Something is wrong with those people.
"The Catholic Church’s problem has its roots in an ecumenism that borders on syncretism"
The plan of the Catholic hierarchy is the same one they've always had - to rule the religion of the whole world. The method is to simply digest the other religions, the way a large corporation buys its competitor.
It crossed the ecumenism/syncretism border the first century of it existence, incorporating pagan rites and beliefs and holidays into its form of "Christianity". Masses , Rosary beads, wafers, Mariolatry, priests, Popes, Lent, monasteries, candles, celibacy, abstinences, veneration of relics, veneration of the "Monstrance", purgatory, praying to deceased saints, Papal infallibility and the immaculate conception and assumption are not of our God. They are imported from paganism or invented by men.
Todays integration of Islam is nothing new. In fact, it's 16 centuries old. The Catholic Church is very consistent. If you think it changes, you may be sure that it never does.
Excellent article. Very much worth reading the whole thing.
Thanks for posting.
I did not know how deep the split within Catholicism runs, or how suicidal some of the Catholic leadership has become. In particular, I did not know how far Cardinal Law has gone. If he literally offered praise to "Allah", while prostrating himself inside a Mosque, then he is worse than a fool.
Although some of the examples cited represent a loss of faith, I suspect the real culprit is the desire to appease Islam. Appeasement is the only strategy liberals have with which to "defend" themselves, and many Catholics are quite liberal. Hence, the worse the Muslim threat becomes, the more strenuous the efforts to appease it.
What these people do not understand is that Islamofascism cannot be appeased. This war can end only when Islamofascism is defeated so totally that it is discredited in the eyes of the remaining Muslims, or when the entire world is subjugated to Islam.
Less than half of the American people understand this.
Insanity, pure insanity.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1053 Here's pics of the muslim squatters in churches in europe. Sickening.
This is disgusting. The Vatican, unfortunately, suffers from the European disease. They are kneejerk appeasers of the first order. Hubby and I were wondering the other night what will happen to the Vatican in 50 years when it is completely surrounded by a Muslim country. Will it relocate? Will we airdrop supplies al la the Berlin Airlift? Can the Swiss Guard hold out? Will they even want to? It boggles the mind.
I have nothing but contempt for Bernard Law. He lost his way a long time ago. He was up to his ears in the pedophile scandal and should, by all rights, be in jail. A huge blot on my Church.
I do think the article goes a little overboard by painting the American Church in the same light as the European Church. It said in Michigan, they are selling one church and leasing another to Muslims. I don't like it, but I don't believe it's legal to discriminate in the sale and leasing of real estate in Michigan. If the Diocese can't afford to keep churches open, they must do something with them.
On the bright side, the American Bishops are looking at ways to deny Communion to apostate politicians. Maybe Kennedy, Pelosi, Kerry et al will finally be held accountable in some way. One can hope.
Bump.
MUSLIMS: USING OUR GOODNESS AGAINST US FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
Afterward, Law partook of the meal that breaks the day-long Ramadan fast. ''I feel very much at home with my fellow fundamentalists here,” Law said, “who are convinced that God must be at the center of our lives.”
I'm beyond pi$$ed about this. Bernard Law isn't a Fundamentalist, nor would he want to be associated with the term--at least insofar as it applies to America's Heartland folk-Protestantism. But this pompous evolutionist and higher critic, who made a career of covering up homosexuality in his diocese, considers "fundamentalist" a badge of honor when applying to a religion that is as anti-evolution and anti-higher critical as any American Protestant "redneck," but which (unlike the rednecks) routinely murders people. But as with Rosie O'Donnell, all is forgiven to any group that is arbitrarily identified as "the other" (corresponding to the thesis in the Hegelian formula).
Any and all attacks on American rural folk Protestantism emanating from Catholic leaders/publications/organizations from this moment on should be held to be inexcusable. American Fundamentalists should sue the pants off any Catholic publication, organization, or official who smears them from now on, considering the love affair with non-redneck "fundamentalists."
American Catholics, like all historical minority populations in the United States, have long harbored bigoted and hateful attitudes towards their fellow-citizens of the rural American heartland but have been given a pass both because of the traditional double standard in favor of minorities and because of the worship of Catholicism by so many "civilizationist" conservatives. And as with all historical minorities, the burden of "tolerance" and "understanding" is all one way.
If the American Catholic bishops want to act like Jesse Jackson, then so be it. I say it's time conservatives stopped giving the Catholic Church a free ride.