Europe Should Learn Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’

burned-out-church-IndonesiaOriginally published by VIE.

Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopia—this time by local authorities.

Heaven’s Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28.  The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority city of Harar for five years.  In the days preceding the destruction, officials forcibly removed the church’s exterior sign and warned believers not to worship there, citing complaints by a local Muslim.  Officials further told church members who had previously congregated at the church “not to gather under what remains of the church building.”  Accordingly, Christians are now meeting in homes of individual believers.

Prior to the demolition of the church, when some Christian leaders protested, they were illegally detained, released only after community members, “outraged by the wrongful detentions,” called “for their immediate release,” reported International Christian Concern, a rights advocacy group supporting the Christians:

These are no isolated incidents, explained ICC, adding that it had documented “numerous ongoing land rights battles between churches and their local governments across Ethiopia.”

In many cases, ICC said, “churches have been operating peacefully for decades on land given to them by now-deceased former congregants.”

However efforts by local majority Muslim populations to “eliminate the public presence” of churches resulted in the forceful closure, destruction and demolition of several church buildings in recent years, according to ICC investigators.

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ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, Cameron Thomas, accused Ethiopia of violating the rights of devoted Christians. “Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they’ve sworn to uphold, are violating Christians’ rights by forcibly closing, destroying and demolishing churches across Ethiopia,” the official said.

If this is the treatment Christian churches receive by Muslim officials and politicians—“sworn to uphold” the rights of every citizen, not just Muslims—one can imagine the treatment churches receive by Muslim mobs.  One example suffices:

In 2011, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes when “Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes” in a Muslim-majority region in western Ethiopia.  At least one Christian was killed, many injured, and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 displaced.  Around the same time, in another area that is 90% Muslim, “all the Christians in the city woke up to find notes on their doors warning them to convert to Islam, leave the city or face death.”

For those few Western observers who live beyond the moment and have an interest in the “big picture”—the world bequeathed to future generations—it is well to reflect on the question of numbers in the context of Ethiopia.  As Jonathan Racho, another official at ICC, earlier said, “It’s extremely disconcerting that in Ethiopia, where Christians are the majority, they are also the victims of persecution.”

That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers.  This reflects what I call “Islam’s Rule of Numbers,” which holds that, wherever and whenever Muslims grow in number—and thus in strength and confidence—so too does Muslim intolerance for “the other” grow (video explanation here).

This naturally has lessons for the West, especially European nations like Britain and France that have a significant and ever-growing Muslim population—and where church attacks and even beheadings are now taking place.

By way of final illustration, the reader is left with the story of Islam’s entry into Ethiopia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations.  According to Islamic tradition, in 615, when the pagan Quraysh were persecuting Muhammad’s outnumbered followers and disciples in Arabia, some fled to Ethiopia seeking sanctuary. The Christian king, or “Negus” of Ethiopia, welcomed and protected these Muslim fugitives, ignoring Quraysh demands to return them—and thus reportedly winning Muhammad’s gratitude.

Today, 14 centuries later, when Islam has carved itself a solid niche in Ethiopia, accounting for 1/3 of the population, Muslim gratitude has turned into Muslim aggression—not least a warning to Western states.

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  • http://raycaruso.com/ Ray Caruso

    Fourteen hundred years of history teach us that those who show kindness to Muslims might as well take a sharp knife from the kitchen and cut their own children’s veins open, because just as surely as cold steel will make their children bleed so will the vicious and rapacious followers of Muhammad. The only tolerable number of Muslims in any civilized country is zero.

    • Ray Burke

      The last sentence of your comment says it all !!! Those of us who choose to ignore this undeniable truth will live to regret it !!! Islam is an ungodly death cult that must be utterly destroyed !!!

      • billobillo54

        I understand your anger and intensity. However, we should not violate our First Amendment and general Constitutional rights and freedoms in order to eliminate Muslims from the U.S. Such an action would have the effect of doing exactly what Islam wants: the destruction of American liberty. What needs to be done is first, all and any immigration of Muslims into the U.S. needs to be stopped by Congress. Congress needs to reject the UN Treaty for refugees. Our intelligence and law enforcement must aggressively investigate and prosecute illegal, subversive activities perpetrated by Islamic organizations. Christians, especially Protestant Evangelicals (because they should know better) and Roman and Orthodox Catholics (because they claim to be the sole possessors of the complete truth of Christ, a claim that I reject due to their relative silence and compromise with Islam) need to teach their churches that Islam is dangerous and is THE BODY OF THE ANTICHRIST.

        • Ray Burke

          Get real, billobillo !!! Islam and all its adherents must be
          exterminated !!! Nothing less will work. They have chosen to throw down the gauntlet and choose the rules of engagement. The name of the game is “kill or BE killed” !!!
          I have made my choice. Have you made yours?

          • billobillo54

            Ray: I’m very serious about defending ourselves against and eradicating the plague of Islam. Islamic jihad, when it manifests itself through brutal war must be met in kind and defeated through warfare. But stealth jihad, like that waged by CAIR or The Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim Brotherhood, to name a few, must be eradicated through enforcement of law against subversion, sound policy that eliminates Muslim immigration into the U.S., exposing the political and social agenda of Islam and education as to the nature and threat of Islam and massive popular demonstrations in the streets by American citizens against Islam and in favor of our liberty. We must cling to and maintain our commitment to our Constitutional liberties. Liberty is a great enemy of Islam. Liberty flows from Christianity, especially Protestantism. Catholicism has a long history of opposing Islamic warfare (e.g. the Crusades which were counterattacks against Islamicist invasion). This history of Catholic war against Islam must be taught and honored, as well as the U.S. war during the Jefferson and the Madison administrations versus the Barbary Pirates, who were agents of the Turkish Caliphate.

          • John Pallyswine

            Please read about the origin of the term ” Leather neck”

          • billobillo54

            The term comes from the Marines fighting the Barbary Pirates and the leather “armor” needed around their necks to stop the jihadis of the Caliphate from beheading them. Most people do not realize, among other things like the length of the war (it actually started during the Washington Administration-Washington wanted to kick the Caliphate’s #%^% but couldn’t because we had no Navy or Army to speak of…ended with Madison), the viciousness of the fighting (i.e. often vicious hand to hand fighting and slaughter) and the tactics of the Caliphate (e.g. beheadings, torture, terror).

          • Yusuf S. Ghazzali

            You are inciting bloody warfare against Muslims from the comfort of an airconditioned pannelled office sipping coffee! Who is supposed to do the fighting for you? Tough Talk is always cheap cheap :-)

          • billobillo54

            You are slandering me and misrepresenting what I wrote in the posts on this very page. Islam and Muslims are supremacists who foist warfare and political jihad on us. Your talk is not only cheap but dishonest. Practice taqqya somewhere else.

  • John Pallyswine

    EU Court: hamas not a terror organisation

    http://rt.com/news/215143-hamas-off-terror-list/

    I will love it when I read about Europeans raped, killed or beaten by arab muslims. I will relish watching the EU turn into Eurabia. F u Eu!!!!

    This decision betrays the people of the West who will never be supported by our judges, politicians, academics and journalists. They are the source of all of our economic and immigration problems.

  • John Pallyswine

    They shall learn but only after many white Euro Christian children have been raped, beaten and killed. I have no compassion for Europe. many European innocents must suffer for their elites. Our elites too.

    They put us all in danger to keep them in power with the perks.

    30% of US 30 year olds live with their parents!!!

    How does Australian Pm Abott know that the latest jihadi attack was another

    ”lone gunman”??? What makes this lying government skunk so sure and so quick to make this decision based on what??? What his scum advisors say??

  • steve b

    EUROPE SHOULD GIVE THE MUSLIMS A CHOICE – MOVE BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM OR BE EXECUTED. JUST LIKE WE DO WHEN WE HAVE ROACHES IN THE HOUSE.

    • John Pallyswine

      Europe`s remaining power exists as long as they have bullets, machinery and oil. Their reserves of natural gas are few – althoughtheir oil reserves are interesting even at these prices and they possess little gold and silver to interest the Chinese or India. All they have are war monuments, paintings and castles and steel tracks. Maybe a wealhy loon from Hong Kong or China will want them. Their intellectual property can be stolen.

      So how much power has Europe?

    • carpe diem 36

      I would not give them such a choice, I would tell all of them to return to their homes. No staying under any circumstances. Those are not human being, they are just bests and the only thing they know is to kill. Why were they let in in the first place? Europeans knew that and they let them in and now that they are there they have to deal with them. Not a smart thing. But of course they are hostile to Jews. Jews do not kill anyone, they do not destroy property, they do not burn cars or have police banned from their neighborhoods, I will have a great deal of joy seeing how Europe is being destroyed by its Religion of Peace people.

    • Erudite Mavin

      There are millions and Millions of Muslims living in Europe.
      too late. They would take out the cities first.

      • steve b

        YOU CAN LET THEM TAKE OVER SLOWLY OR FIGHT TO GET THEM OUT. PERSONALLY, IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR COUNTRIES, GETTING RID OF THEM, NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES, SEEMS TO MAKE MORE SENSE. YOU DON’T SEE MUSLIM COUNTRIES BEING OVERRUN WITH JEWS, BUDDHISTS, CHRISTIANS, ETC., BECAUSE THE MUSLIMS DON’T LET THEM.,
        DESTROY THE MOSQUES, JUST LIKE THE MUSLIM COUNTRIES DESTROY THE CHURCHES, AND MOVE THEM OUT. UNLIKE IN THE US, THERE AREN’T THAT MANY PRIVATE CITIZENS THAT ARE ARMED.

        • Erudite Mavin

          Life is one John Wayne move for you.
          Simple when the script is written by the same person.

      • Ray Burke

        This is already happening !!! We are at the point of no return !!! We must do whatever it takes to wipe out these vicious animals and their unspeakably evil cult !!! Even ONE Muslim is too many !!!

  • Ray Burke

    Islam is a death cult !!! We are at war with Islam and they are winning !!! There is no choice !!! Islam and all of its adherents must be totally obliterated !!! Even ONE Muslim is too many !!! Remember !!! A plague begins with Just one carrier !!!

    • billobillo54

      I agree with one part of your statement: Islam is winning.

      • Ray Burke

        If we hope to survive, our one and only option is to ERADICATE -
        ERADICATE – ERADICATE !!! The deadly plague of Islam must be rooted out and destroyed worldwide !!! No exceptions !!!

        • billobillo54

          I also agree that Islam is a death cult and must be eradicated. The question is : How?

          • Ray Burke

            The answer is: BY ANY AND EVERY MEANS AVAILABLE !!! THIS IS A BARE KNUCKLE FIGHT TO THE FINISH !!!

  • Breakingwind

    “They shall learn but only after many white Euro Christian children have been raped, beaten and killed.”

    But it must be Gods will ….the Christian priests & pastors have been doing it for yrs.

  • 1Indioviejo1

    Why aren’t Christians arming themselves and fighting back? There is no reasoning with Muslims anywhere.

    • Erudite Mavin

      Guns in Ethiopia is categorised as restrictive.
      During the 70s to early 90s The Marxist were in control.
      There was the war Ethiopia and Eritrea.
      There are thousands of Ethiopians and Eritreans living in a neighborhood here in San Diego along with 15 thousands Somilians.
      The Radical Islamic enemy is not one you can take on like a western movie especially with they have explosive belts to take out churches, or homes.

      • 1Indioviejo1

        Self preservation is an instinct. Christians need to find the means and the will to survive.

        • Erudite Mavin

          The problem, many posters on the Conservative sites are not for self preservation and especially preservation of Freedom.
          Many on these sites in 08 and 2012 continued to post that the Republican candidate was not pure enough. 95% is blown off. The type must have 100% even knowing who and what Obama is, this all or nothing Pures bragged about sitting home election day or voting third party and enabled Obama’s presidency.
          Obama has enabled Radical Islam to spread and continue their wars in the Middle East and Africa and terrorist attacks in the Western world.
          These 100%ters now post they will sit at home or vote third party again if they don’t get their Pure candidate.
          What they are doing is enabling Hillary as president.
          Most of these people are probably Christian and have no will to survive, just make a point.

  • Yusuf S. Ghazzali

    Inciting Christians against muslims will backfire in the long run since the two faiths enjoys closer doctrinal similarities than to Judaism and Zionism.
    See Oura’n 5:86

    “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers (Muslims) to be (a section of ) Jews and those who associate others with God (in worship); and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are CHRISTIANS.” That is because among them are priests and monks and they are not arrogant.”

    • billobillo54

      Islam is the antithesis of truth. Islam is the “body” of antichrist and the antichrist will be a Muslim.

      1. 1 John Chapter 2: The antichrist is identified as “he
      who denies the Son.”
      2. Psalm 2 demonstrates the nations are aligned against the Son
      who is enthroned on Mount Zion.
      3. Daniel 9:26 says that”the people (Hebrew “am” meaning ethnic group or kindred, notempire or nation) of the prince who is to come will destroy the Temple.”Josephus identified those who destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD as the Tenth Legion “Frentensus.” The Tenth Legion was comprised of Turks, Arabs and Syrians. These are the “people” of the antichrist.
      4. The antichrist is referred to as “The Assyrian” (Micah 5), “The King of Babylon” (Isaiah 14), “The King of Tyre” (Ezekiel 28) and “the “terrible ruler” of Egypt (Isaiah 19).
      5. Gideon is a type of the Messiah (see Isaiah 9, Isaiah 10,
      Psalm 83). When Gideon killed the princes of Midian (i.e. Arabia) Gideon took their CRESCENT ornaments off their camels.
      6. In Revelation 20 the Saints are killed during the Tribulation by BEHEADING.
      7. In Daniel 11 the antimessiah “has no regard for the
      desire of women.” This does not mean he is gay. It means he has “no
      regard for what women want” (i.e. respect and equality). Islam degrades women.
      8. The OT is filled with
      texts of YHWH, The Messiah and/or the Jews fighting the enemies of God and Israel at the end of the age. All of the
      fighting is against the following: Edom, Mt. Seir, Gaza, Philistia, Lebanon, Babylon, Elam, Midian, Teman, Dedan, Ethopia, Libya, Egypt, Assyria, Moab, Damascus, “Yavan” (not “Greece” but the western shores of Turkey), Mesech, Tubal…not one mention of fighting against European nations. (See Micah 5, Numbers 23, Pslam 83, Isaiah 63, Ezekiel 35-39, Zechariah 9, Isaiah 19, Isaiah 17, Obadiah, Isaiah 9-11 to name a few).
      9. In Revelation, as Jesus is addressing Pergamum, He states they live where “Satan’s throne” is. Pergamum is in Turkey.
      10. In Matthew 24:15 Jesus warns those “in Judea” to
      “flee to the mountains” when they see “the abomination of desolation spoken of by the Prophet Daniel.” Judea is “The West Bank.” Currently there are 500,000 Jewish “settlers” living there. They will be slaughtered by Palestinians once the horrible event happens. As Matthew writes: “Let the reader understand.” Someone needs to warn them. Do you believe they are going to be slaughtered by Europeans in The West Bank?
      11. The types of the antichrist include only Middle East
      characters (e.g. Goliath, “The Assyrian,” Antiochus Epiphanies, Pharaoh, Nimrod, etc).
      12. At the foundational, textual level, Islam hates and is
      antagonistic against Christians and Jews. (Why are Muslims torturing and killing Christians?)
      13. Isn’t it clear by now that the dispute over Jerusalem
      (Zechariah 14, et al) and THE LAND is at the heart of Islam?

      • RodK1975

        You’re good, Brother! I finally found you, been missing you over on the other site.

        • billobillo54

          I don’t go on Shoebat any more. Tired of being demonized for being a Protestant. My battle is with the ideology of Islam. I love the Protestant Church. Sola Fide Bro.

          • RodK1975

            I understand, Bro.. I kinda like this Front Page site… So I’ll be seeing you around here.. Take care and Merry Christmas Brother!

          • billobillo54

            God bless you Rod…Merry Christmas….

  • avi15

    No-one will heed the warning.We are already past the point of no return. There is a muslim double act, you see: muslim fanatics commit atrocities, while their muslim and non-muslim apologists say that this is untypical, thereby preventing all effective action against these atrocities. This double act is like a snake venom that paralyses its victim: only in this case, the victim is western civilisation, which is now dying on its feet.