Islam: Built on the Blood of (Christian Child) Martyrs

IRAQ-UNREST-CHRISTIANSIn a recent interview on CBN News, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” tried to recount the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering at the hands of the Islamic State.  After explaining how Christian minorities fled Baghdad to Ninevah when Islamic militants began terrorizing them and bombing their churches, White said:

Then one day, ISIS, the Islamic State, the Islamic caliphate came [to Ninevah] and they hounded all of them [Christians] out.   Not some, all of them.  And they killed huge numbers.  They chopped their children in half; they chopped their heads off.

It should be noted that the targeting of Christian children in Iraq goes back years before the creation of ISIS.  For example, in June 2008, a Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” were crucifying Christian children: “Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents.”

During his interview, White offered the following, likely surreal to Western sensibilities, anecdote:

ISIS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, “You say the words [shehada, convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad.”  And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, “No, we love Jesus [Yesua].  We have always loved Jesus.  We have always followed Jesus.  Jesus has always been with us.”  They [ISIS] said, “Say the words!”  They [children] said, “No, we can’t.”  [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off.  How do you respond to that?  You just cry.  They’re my children.   That is what we have been going through.  That is what we are going through.

As callous as it is to say, perhaps these faithful children are better off.  After all, ISIS members have been known to compel Christians to convert to Islam, and still cruelly hack their heads off—thus damning them twice.

Similarly, in one of his Facebook postings, White wrote:

Today’s Pictures are too awful to show.  You know I love to show photos but the photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen.  A family of 8 all shot through the face laying in a pool of blood with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert it cost them their life.

During his CBN interview, White also told of how ISIS members came to a Christian man saying, “Either you convert to Islam or we kill all your children.”  The desperate father declared the words, the shehada, that “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” thus becoming a Muslim.  Contrite at heart, he phoned White crying, “Abouna, abouna [father, father] I said the words! Does that mean Jesus doesn’t love me anymore?  I’ve always loved Jesus but I said those words because I couldn’t see my children being killed!”

White responded: “No Elias, Jesus still loves you—he will always love you.”

The two types of anecdotes offered by White—Christians refusing to embrace Islam and dying for it, and Christians embracing Islam under duress—are an integral part of how the “Islamic world,” the majority of which was almost entirely Christian before the Islamic conquests, came into being: a historic fact Western people were once well acquainted with, before the current age of political correctness and alternate realities.

A historic anecdote that combines the twain—forced conversion to Islam followed by Christian remorse—comes from Egypt:

In 1389, a great procession of Copts who had accepted Muhammad under fear of death, marched through Cairo.  Repenting of their apostasy, they now wished to atone for it by the inevitable consequence of returning to Christianity. So as they marched, they announced that they believed in Christ and renounced Muhammad. They were seized and all the men were beheaded one after another in an open square before the women. But this did not terrify the women; so they, too, were all martyred. (Crucified Again, pgs. 113-114)

First forced to convert and then forced to remain in Islam—both on pain of death: these are two facts of Islam, past and present; facts that, according to top ranking Islamic cleric Sheikh Qaradawi are responsible for the existence of Islam today.  Just ask  Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim, Egypt’s Muhammad Hegazy, or Iran’s (rather America’s forsaken) Saeed Abedini.

Aside from the numerous historic accounts of Christians slaughtered for refusing Islam—whether 100,000 Georgian beheaded or burned alive, or a “mere” 813 Italians beheaded—Christians are still being forced to convert to Islam, and not just at the hands of ISIS:

•Palestine, July 2012: Christians in Gaza protested over the “kidnappings and forced conversions of some former believers to Islam.”  The ever-dwindling Christian community banged on a church bell while chanting, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus.”

•Pakistan:  In 2004, a-two-year old child was raped because her Christian father “refused to convert to Islam.”  Another “devoted Christian” was butchered by Muslim men “with multiple axe blows [24 per autopsy] for refusing to convert to Islam.” In April 2014, A Muslim security guard murdered a Christian worker who refused to convert to Islam.

•Uganda, July 2014: After a gang of Muslims brandishing machetes stormed a church during service, hacking one 18-year-old woman to death and leaving three others, including a one-year-old baby, injured, the pastor explained that the attackers belong to a local “group of Muslims” which seeks “to transform [Christian-majority] Uganda into an Islamic nation and would kill anyone who refused to convert.”

•Nigeria, May 2014: A Christian teenage girl told of how Boko Haram came to her household and slaughtered her father and brother because they refused to convert to Islam.  After abusing her, they tied her up and left her in a state of shock between the two corpses.

•Bangladesh, October 2013:  After shutting down the construction of a church, a local government official threatened Christians with eviction from their village unless they renounced their faith and embraced Islam.  Said one of the Christians: “Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life.” Another said: “The chairman is clipping the wings of our faith. I do not know how long we can grin and bear it. We want religious freedom. We want to practice our religion freely.”

•Russia, 2013: In Tatarstan, a Muslim-majority republic in Russia, seven churches were burned and “increased pressure on Christians to convert to Islam” was widespread.

•Uzbekistan, August 2012: A 26-year-old Christian woman, partially paralyzed from youth, and her elderly mother were violently attacked by invaders who ransacked their home, confiscating “icons, Bibles, religious calendars, and prayer books.” At the police department, the paralyzed woman was “offered to convert to Islam.” She refused and was accordingly fined almost two years’ worth of her wages.

Pakistan, Uganda, Russia, Nigeria, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh: these are not “ISIS.”  Yet Christians there are experiencing the same intolerance and violence that Christians under ISIS are experiencing.

The lesson?  If all around the Muslim world Christian minorities are being forced to embrace Islam, the very least the non-Muslim world can do is embrace the fact that Islam is inherently hostile—a costly lesson that countless innocents have been paying for nearly 1,400 years.

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  • muchiboy

    We know enough of the religious/power agenda of ISIS/ISIL.Unconscionable and condemnable.Period.I am uncertain if any worthwhile or useful conversation can be had with ISIS leaders.There may be common ground,I don’t know.Regardless,every decent nation should come together in Global Jihad to fight this group and their ideas/ideals.
    So as not to become complacent,worse has been done in the name of the religions of Nazism and Zionism.Religion,by itself,may be a spent force in the absence of poverty,hopelessness,etc.It is all too easy to take our eyes of these difficult and persistant balls of forment that contribute to religious violence and persecution.And we are not exempt or guilt free.

    • BenZacharia

      You Zeus followers are some of the dumbest posters I have ever seen. You forgot to lump in the religions of atheism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Communism, Socialism, Smurfism and et. al.

      • muchiboy

        A simple “etc.” would have sufficed,BenZacharia.I’ll amend and add one.Ta.

  • Jack.Foobar

    I don’t think I’ll ever be wrong saying that all Muslims are degenerate scum, no matter their particular perverted pedophile sect.

    I’d like to be wrong. But after a millennia of these primates turning the human race to ash, I haven’t been yet.

    • RMThoughts

      And we are shameless for funding, training, and unleashing Jihadist in Syria to acheive neocon regime change.

      • herb benty

        Obama is assisting the jihadists, conservatives hate Islam. There is no “neocon”, only conservative. Is there neodem? Quit blaming the Right for what the Left does, pinko.

        • RMThoughts

          Neocons are from the most part Zionist Trotskyite leftist globalist liberals who migrated over to the conservative movement in the 70′s and 80s, came into their own in the 90′s and now own it. Not my fault. Pat Buchannan and his likes are the last of the old guard, what you probably consider the ‘right’ is no longer so.

          • herb benty

            Your arrogance is ridiculous. I am a Conservative and we are in the millions and we are doing fine. We are not, “Trotskyites, Liberals or globalists. That is Obama, period. “Neocon” is a progressive construct to denigrate traditional, Christian, patriotic Americans. Zionist? You’re damn right I’m a Zionist- as the Bible tells me to. The Bible says the Jews will be in possession of Jerusalem when Messiah(Jesus Christ ), returns. As they are. I believe God, that makes me a “Zionist”, and THAT is what you wail about? You’re fighting God, not mankind. Good luck.

          • DesertSun59

            Amusing. Your genocidal deity exists only in your imagination. It’s the same genocidal deity that Muslims worship.

          • Dan Knight

            Amusing. Your genocidal deity exists only in your imagination. It’s the same genocidal deity that Muslims worship.

        • DesertSun59

          You’re amusing and a troll. The RIGHT loves Islam since it represents everything the Right in the US can’t have, which is absolute control over everyone.

  • FedUpWithWelfareStates

    “Pakistan, Uganda, Russia, Nigeria, Palestine, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh: these are not ISIS.” The common denominator? They are ALL Islamic…

  • 1Indioviejo1

    Islam is founded on Christian persecution. The conquest of the today Muslim world is itself a history of bloody persecution, yet the Catholic Church, which has been there since Mohammed came up with his satanic creed has chosen to coexist with satan since the middle ages. Pope Francis himself just completed a trip to Turkey and to his eternal shame, has called the Koran a “prophetic” book. Why?

    • Keith

      “Pope Francis himself just completed a trip to Turkey and to his eternal shame, has called the Koran a “prophetic” book. Why?”
      Because all the leaders of the Chirstian church, Protestant and Catholic have given up and are handing everything over to Islam. They no longer have any faith.

      • RMThoughts

        Francis has the problem that all his enemies are practicing Catholics, and none of his friends are……….

    • herb benty

      Islam is partly Rome’s creation. A catholic priest helped write the Koran, as Mohammud was illiterate. The idea was to make Rome the center of Christianity, not Jerusalem. And to “take care of the Jewish problem”. Rome is not blameless. AND why the Vatican was left untouched by moslem hordes.

  • Gradus Quia

    But the Obama administration is a religion of peace!

  • billobillo54

    Islam will not be defeated by western, secularist, enlightenment, syncretic, democratic, rationalistic humanism. Only militant, prophetic Christianity, devoted to the Word of God and the Spirit of Christ will save Christians and save the west. Christianity that acts against the antichrist and protects the innocent, as Daniel wrote in Daniel 11: “…but the people who know their God (i.e. YHWH) will do great exploits” (against the antichrist). The body of antichrist is Islam and the antichrist will be a Muslim who deceives the world, including Christians and Israel. The destruction and deception is in high gear and few are opposing it. Matthew in Matthew 24:15 added this note to Jesus’ prophetic utterance: “LET THE READER UNDERSTAND.” The injunction is given to save the reader from the destruction and murder that will be perpetrated by the Muslim antichrist to those in “Judea.” The application is much broader. Do you “understand?”

    • Keith

      Whilst I am not really religious I do agree that the west has lost its way since it has decided to relegate Christianity out of the mainstream of civic life. Until we can all believe in something I am not sure that we will win.

      • billobillo54

        Keith: Look honestly at the prophecies of the Bible. Be skeptical, but be skeptical pf the atheistic materialism also. The prophecies about the Messiah (e.g. Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Pslam 2, Micah 5, etc., there are Over 300 of them), look at the prophecies about Israel (e.g. Ezekiel 35-39, Zechariah 14, Zechariah 12, Micah 5, Numbers 23, etc….there are scores of them….Here are a few clear messages are evident and prevalent:
        1. Messiah would suffer, die and be rejected by Israel
        2. God will bring the Israelis back into the Land at the end of the age.
        3. Islam, is the body of the antimessiah.
        4. The current Islamic nations of the world will surround and will antagonize and invade Israel.
        5. There will be a peace treaty between Israel and the antichrist over the Land.
        6. The Israelis will be betrayed and a slaughter of the Israelis will ensue.
        7. Judea (i.e. “The West Bank” and Jerusalem) will be points of emphasis in the dispute over the Land and the slaughter to come.
        8. Messiah will return and fight for His people: Israel. Why? For His Name’s sake.
        9. The events of the end of the age would be so catastrophic that they will threaten the existence of all life on earth…all of this with the focal point on the Jews, Israel, Judea and Jerusalem.

        • Keith

          Hi Billobillo54, I think you need to reread my response to your post. I am not critical of Christianity I am critical of the fact that we have kicked Christianity out of our lives and out of our society.
          I admit I do not always put things as clearly as I should but in light of your response to me I have tried to reread my last post as being critical of Christianity but am unable to see it in that light.

          I am just trying to say that we in the west have lost our way since relegating Christianity out of the mainstream of our society.

          • billobillo54

            Keith: When I wrote “critical” I meant that you should evaluate the evidence with a critical mind. Christianity and the life of Jesus is the most well documented life of antiquity. Using all the rules of evidence to judge the veracity of any ancient life, entity or event. Jesus and Christianity and the Bible stands tall and true. Your post was crystal clear. My use of the word “critical” may not have been the best. :)

        • al_kidya

          Yes, the prophets of the Bible were true prophets. Muhammad was no prophet.

      • al_kidya

        I treat Christianity as a philosophical guide book for right living.

  • Hank Rearden

    The obvious solution is for Israel to give in to them.

    • Keith

      Along with the rest of the world!!

    • al_kidya

      If Israel ever gives in to the Islamists then all Israelis will either have to submit to Islam or die. The rest of the western nations will follow shortly after that. Tiny Israel is the only buffer zone between democracy and tyranny . That’s the bottom line.

  • Paul J. Turner

    If you can read this and still believe that islam is a religion of peace….

    • Keith

      You know when I hear our leaders spouting off about Islam being THE RELIGION OF PEACE, my first thought is always “who are they trying to convince, themselves, the public, the muslims or all three.”

  • andrewwhitehead

    Stories like this prove the weakness of Islam and that Islam is not a religion, but a cult. A murderous cult that only gets respect by threats.

    • DesertSun59

      It’s a cult just like Christianity is a cult.

      • https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008177942791 Mike

        Brilliant, except you can call any form of veneration with more than two people a “cult”. You, dear friend, are part of a cult. Maybe it is a troll cult, or a Leftist cult, but you are part of one. You just need to be part of the right one.

      • mobuyus

        The Christian cult is not going around beheading children and finding more repulsive ways of killing innocent people.

    • al_kidya

      Islam is a fascist political and social ideology that masks itself behind a religion. The religion part is what allows Islam to spread to other countries as a “religion of peace”. That is how Islam has spread worldwide in 1400 years…once Islam reaches a population point of 6.5% it starts taking control of the country it has usurped by terrorizing the citizenry, multiple wives having multiple births allow it to spread faster. Muhammad and those who followed after were actually quite brilliant when they devised the method of taking over the world.
      We Infidels have a very good right to be Islamophobic because Islam is a virus that kills and or tortures, mercilessly, those who will not submit.

  • https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008177942791 Mike

    If you are a Christian and forced to convert under duress, you’re not damned. Jesus won’t do that to you- He is love. And if you’re a child and convert under stress, you’re not only not damned,but your tormentor receives a special punishment. And, if you’re a child and die proclaiming love for Jesus (true martyrdom), not only does your tormentor receive a special punishment, but you are a saint. Islam is evil, and is storing up unheard of wrath for itself.

    • DesertSun59

      Nothing you asserted has one ounce of Biblical backing. You made all of it up.

      • https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008177942791 Mike

        Jesus forgave the thief on the cross, who didn’t even ask for forgiveness, he just asked that Christ remember him. Jesus throughout the New Testament said those that hurt children should have a millstone tied around their necks. Jesus therefore holds children special to Him, because he specifies how wrong it is to hurt them. Children are vulnerable and not adults, they cannot defend themselves. Which is why Jesus won’t hold it against them if they are forced to convert. And, since Jesus clearly addresses that there are levels of sin (he said that the ones who brought Him to Pilate have the greater sin, and said that those that hurt children were of special import), logic and Jesus divinity require that there be different levels of punishment. You cannot have one without the other. Plus, if you look in the Old Testament, purgatory is mentioned. So yes, everything I said is in scripture. Try reading it sometime and using the brains God gave you. Nothing I said is made up. Not. One. Thing.

  • DesertSun59

    Nothing destroys civilization faster than adherence to Bronze, Iron or Medieval Age religions.

    • mobuyus

      Adherance to liberal liscentiousness is the biggest destroyer of civilizations.The only religion that is trying to destroy civilization is the new liberal death-cult of islam.And they want to destroy us exactly because of liberal values.Fucked up or what?

  • Dan Knight

    Thank you Raymond for compiling this chronicle of martyrs. My worry is what will Jesus say when he asks for us to account for our duty to help our brothers and sisters and children? The answer cannot be good. By neglecting our duties we are allowing evil to have its way with our children. Heaven help us when the bill comes due …

  • Alexander Tchaikovsky

    Caliph Ibrahim IS the Anti-Christ -Revelation 20
    4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw
    the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
    the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his
    image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.