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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Outrage as Somali militia dig up Italian graves
Somalia
January 2005
Somali militiamen, allied with Islamic clerics who rule by sharia law, have dug up hundreds of skeletons from an Italian colonial-era cemetery and thrown them in the trash.

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Somalis build mosque on cemetery (Atrocities Alert)
Somalia
January 2005
Somali militiamen have begun building a mosque on the site of an Italian colonial-era cemetery in Mogadishu, which they desecrated last week.

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The plight of Jews in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
January 2005 (1998-2005)
both remaining Jews survived the Taliban's five-year reign is something of a miracle...the Taliban had ransacked the synagogue for almost all items of value it still contained, including a silver pointer and four tiny silver bells. A few months later, a Taliban commander confiscated its last, most precious treasure: a handwritten Torah scroll that Simintov estimates was about 400 years old.

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One of Kabul's last remaining Jews dies
Afghanistan, Iran
January 2005
Both men said they had been jailed and beaten by the Taliban....Afghanistan's Jewish community numbered as many as 40,000 in the late 19th century, after Persian Jews fled forced conversion in neighboring Iran.

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All Muslims Are Not Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslim
Worldwide
1979-2000
1979) The Shah of Iran is deposed by Islamic fanatics. Months later Muslims stormed the US embassy and took hostages.

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Nigeria: CHRISTIANS CRITICIZE GOVERNMENT REPORT ON RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE (3,000 Chrisitians dead)
Nigeria
January 2005 (2004)
Methodist Bishop Foster Ekeleme, chairman of the Kano chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, places the casualty count at nearly 3,000 Christian dead.

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NIGERIA : MUSLIM MILITANTS TARGET EXPELLED CHRISTIAN STUDENTS
Nigeria
February 2005
“Muslim militants went to Gombe to … kill Hannatu, but fortunately, she was not at home at the time. The family was held at gun point. Hannatu’s father happens to be a former military officer. He wrestled with the militants and was able to disarmed one of them who had a gun. While he was fighting them, one of the militants stabbed Hannatu’s mother with a knife. She has been treated for the wounds.”

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Assyrians Prevented By Kurds From Voting in North Iraq
Iraq
January 2005
The KDP's specific targeting of the Nineveh Plain is no mere coincidence. The Nineveh Plain contains the last remaining stronghold of predominantly Assyrian towns and villages in the immediate environs of the ruins of Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital.

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Christians Threatened in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
February 2005
As well as threatening to deport the Protestants from their village if they continue to hold services, local officials threatened to cut off gas and electricity supplies to the family home and withhold pensions, a serious threat in impoverished Turkmenistan.

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ISLAMIC TERRORISM: The pawns without a vote
India
January 2005 (January 19, 1990)
It was on this day 15 years ago that Islamic zealots engineered the mass exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Kashmir valley. Throughout that night, this peace-loving community was threatened to either convert to Islam or leave the valley. Or get killed.

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Muslim Apostates Cast Out and at Risk from Faith and Family
United Kingdom
February 2005
The week before, another brick had been thrown through the window as the family were preparing for bed in their Bradford home. The victim of a three-year campaign of religious hatred, Mr Hussein’s car has also been rammed and torched, and the steps to his home have been strewn with rubbish.

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Christian mother abducted, stripped and tortured in front of husband and sons by Muslim gangsters
Pakistan
February 2005
Moreover, 16,17 young girls were also sitting over there. I came to know later that four/five girls were Christians". Kashif told that "my clothes were taken off, they hanged me by tying my feet with cord and turned my body upside down on the ceiling. Those cruel people started beating me with hot iron pipe. While Pervaiz and Kala were beaten with sticks, pipe and bats. They kicked us very brutally and cruelly."

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Basra intellectuals united by fear of rise in religious intolerance
Iraq
February 2005
The Christian said his four brothers had recently left with their families for Kurdistan to escape the danger. He himself was out of work after extremists looted his off-licence and killed his brother-in-law, who worked there. His daughter resigned from her job as a cleaner with the occupation forces after two other Christian employees were murdered.

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Iraq's Christians Disenfranchised at Home and in U.S.
Iraq
January 2005
The Kurds are systematically displacing the Iraqi Christians, says Larry Allen, spokesperson for ICC. "The Kurds have been making a move for the Nineveh plain area and trying to expand Kurdistan out to the west."

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(1991-1996) BARKAT-- A Victim of the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan
Pakistan
February 2005 (1991-1996)
Despite his complete legal exoneration, militants kept coming to his house to find him... Barkat kept receiving death threats from Muslim zealots through his mail also. Some Christian ministers arranged a student's visa for him to study abroad. A student visa was an easy and a fast way to send him out of the country.

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Christian pastor Hamid Pourmand went on trial before a military/revolutionary court in Iran
Iran
February 2004
It was the first time Iranian authorities have produced Pourmand, 47, arrested five months ago when police raided a church conference in Karaj, near Tehran.

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In Iraq, Ancient Minority Flees Atrocities [Christians]
Iraq
January 2005
Too late. As Hani and Khaled Toma backed out of the garage to make the two-hour drive from Mosul to the relative safety of Irbil on Sept. 2, a dozen gunmen riddled their red BMW with bullets, adding two more to the dozens of members of Iraq's tiny Christian community who have been murdered in Iraq's post-invasion blood bath.

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Christians on PalTalk Chat Service Tracked by Radical Islamic Web Site
USA
January 2005
Barsomyat.com features not only photographs of the targeted Christians, but also attempts to track down their addresses. A post about a Christian man whose computer was apparently hacked to obtain his photograph includes the man's PalTalk name, his real name, and the city where he resides in Lebanon.

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Palestinians fire mortars at Gaza settlements (Well that didn't take long)
Israel
February 2005
Palestinians fired 17 mortar shells in the Gaza Strip early on Monday, most of them exploding near Neve Dekalim settlement.

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PEACE-KEEPING SOLDIERS KILL CHRISTIAN WOMAN [Nigeria]
Nigeria
February 2005
Judith Lan’guti, a young Christian woman in Numan, a town in the northern state of Adamawa, Nigeria, was shot dead without provocation on January 28 by soldiers who had been deployed to keep peace in the town following the outbreak of violence between Muslims and Christians.