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<blockquote class="content_preface"><p>&#8220;You have a cross on… Do you know what we do to people like you?&#8221; — Muslim in Denmark.</p>
<p>Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor], his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the building on fire&#8230; We only found the charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of Christianity in the town.&#8221; — Eyewitness account, Nigeria.</p>
<p>Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.</p>
<p>In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were &#8220;Infidels!&#8221; and &#8220;Koran 3:151.&#8221; The verse from the Koran states, &#8220;We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew&#8217;s Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in Columbus, whether that was truly the person&#8217;s intent or there&#8217;s something else going on, it makes people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that &#8220;Church-goers in Sydney&#8217;s west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window.&#8221; A church official said the people in the car threatened to &#8220;<a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/sydney-church-our-lady-of-lebanon-targeted-by-isis-threats/story-fncynjr2-1227062189328">kill the Christians&#8221; and slaughter their children</a>: &#8220;They were strong words and people were scared of what they saw.&#8221; Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the words, &#8220;There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet.&#8221; And as happens frequently in Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while hundreds partook of the mass inside.</p>
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<p>In Denmark—2013&#8242;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/denmark-happiest-country_n_4070761.html">happiest country in the world</a>&#8220;—Christians of Middle Eastern backgrounds continued to experience &#8220;harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from Muslims,&#8221; reports TV2, especially in Muslim-majority areas, such as Nørrebro. One Christian, &#8220;Jojo,&#8221; born in Denmark of Lebanese parents, shared her experiences. Once when sitting in her parked car, several Muslims surrounded it, harassing her about her Western attire. When one of them noticed she was wearing a cross, he said &#8220;Well, you have a cross on—then <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/denmark-christians-flee-muslim-dominated-areas-they-tell-me-i-ought-to-be-stoned-to-death">you are also a Christian f***ing whore</a>. Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you? You get stoned [to death].&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Christian woman of Iranian background recounted how she and her son are harassed on the Muslim-majority block where they live—and where she stands out for not wearing a <i>hijab</i>, the Islamic veil: &#8220;My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death. My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that &#8216;you and your mother should die.&#8221;&#8216;</p>
<p>Islamic dreams of conquering Europe were prevalent. A senior analyst in Spain warned that, because Islamists see the Iberian peninsula as being &#8220;under Spanish and Portuguese occupation,&#8221; <a href="http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2014/09/05/jihadists-want-al-andalus-back-spanish-terrorism-analyst_966e7c8a-6480-4a28-b4e1-7a63eabf2d51.html">greater risk of terrorism exists there</a> than in other Western areas. Because Iberia—or, in Arabic, Al-Andalus—was under Islamic domination for centuries, many Muslims consider it part of the Islamic world, or Dar al-Islam, which needs to be reconquered, no less than Israel, also seen as occupied Islamic territory.</p>
<p>More pointedly, in the Islamic State [IS], in a lengthy message partially addressed to the &#8220;crusaders&#8221;—a reference to the West—some members declared, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-we-will-conquer-your-rome-break-your-crosses-and-enslave-your-women-by-the-permission-of-allah">We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah</a>.&#8221; Members of the IS also invoked a statement attributed to Muhammad, that Constantinople would be conquered before Rome—and it was, in 1453. The implication was that the Eternal City of Rome would be next.</p>
<p>Around the same time, Rome responded by rejecting a motion to name a street after the late Oriana Fallaci, a veteran journalist who had once written that, &#8220;<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/rome-nixes-naming-street-after-oriana-fallaci-because-she-wrote-that-the-muslim-world-is-attempting-to-conquer-the-west">the Muslim world is attempting to conquer the West in the name of Islam</a>.&#8221; In explaining their decision, local politicians described Fallaci&#8217;s writings as containing &#8220;religious hatred,&#8221; or &#8220;Islamophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Canada, while 80 special Muslims went to the trouble of attending a Muslim rally on behalf of persecuted Christians, sadly, another rally, an extremist Al Quds Day Anti-Israel Hate Fest, drew approximately 6,000 participants.</p>
<p>The rest of September&#8217;s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Muslim Attacks on Churches</b></p>
<p><b>East Jerusalem</b>: <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/attacks-on-church-in-east-jerusalem-grow-more-intense/">A Christian church was attacked numerous times</a>: On September 29, young Muslim men, with ties to a Palestinian militant group, wired shut the door of the Living Bread Church and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside. An earlier gas attack had already occurred on September 17. Hours before the second attack, someone threw a rock through one of the windows of the church, and the day before that, Sunday, September 28, a Palestinian and others assaulted a church member as he was emptying trash into a dumpster outside the church.</p>
<p>On Sept. 21, a Palestinian militant, without warning, ran up behind a church leader, Karen Dunham, and knocked her to the pavement: &#8220;This guy charged me as fast as he could,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He came up behind me and just slammed into my back, and I fell and I hit the ground. My face is bruised. There&#8217;s bruises on the side of my cheek, on my face, on my head, on my knee, cuts on my head, and my wrist was fractured.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: A Christian priest in Egypt appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene on behalf of yet another church being threatened by &#8220;religious extremists.&#8221; So far, local authorities have done nothing. Four years ago, the Coptic Church of St. Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to build an additional building. During those same four years, seven &#8220;thugs&#8221;—in the <a href="http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/2910-egypt-muslim-mob-prevents-coptic-church-building">words of the report</a>—have prevented it from being built. The &#8220;thugs&#8221; had mobilized local Muslims to threaten and demonstrate against the church. &#8220;The priest lamented that &#8216;after suffering many long years&#8217; they finally managed to acquire the permit to build, but then the next obstacle presented itself in the person of the aforementioned seven &#8216;thugs&#8217; who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building. Islamic law forbids the building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq</b>: Islamic State militants &#8220;<a href="http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2014/09/25/isis-blow-up-tikrits-green-church_9ac1fb14-0ae6-417d-a4cc-b20cf9eddef2.html">completely destroyed</a>&#8221; the ancient Green Church in Tikrit. They packed the church with explosives and detonated them &#8212; <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20140925012701.htm">completely destroying the ancient church</a>, which belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East. Almost from the time it was built in the seventh century, when Islam overran Iraq, the church had been attacked, ransacked, and destroyed by Muslim rulers and others, but was restored on the orders of Iraq&#8217;s late President Saddam Hussein in the 1990s.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: Many more churches and a Christian university, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/bible-college-churches-shut-down-as-boko-haram-claims-territory-in-ne-nigeria/">Kulp Bible College</a>, were forced to shut down as a result of the advances of the Islamic jihadi group, Boko Haram. In one instance, a pastor reported that &#8220;Boko Haram violence has been getting worse every day, and our members are fleeing the area by the thousands. Recent attacks in Borno and Adamawa states where our churches are located have seen Boko Haram take over the Army base. As a result, about 350 Christians have been killed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Separately, in Kaduna state, where &#8220;Muslim Fulani assailants seem driven to rid the area of Christianity and use the land to graze their cattle,&#8221; according to church leaders, 46 Christians, including two pastors, were slaughtered in raids. According to an eyewitness,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village. The pastor was still in the pastorate when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning&#8230;. The gunmen then came onto the church premises and began shooting. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any trace of Christianity in the town.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Although Muslim Fulani have historically had property disputes with Christian farmers, Christian leaders say attacks by the herdsmen constitute <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/two-pastors-among-46-christians-killed-in-kaduna-state-nigeria/">a war &#8220;by Islam to eliminate Christianity&#8221; in Nigeria</a>.</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>: In the latest incident of a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and confiscations, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/sudan-shutters-500-member-church-in-khartoum/">security agents padlocked a 500-member church building</a>, the Sudan Pentecostal Church [SPC] in Khartoum. The church also houses the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC). &#8220;The church is concerned that the building might be sold by the government, which renders more than 500 worshippers to have no place for worship,&#8221; a source told the <i>Morning Star News</i>. The Islamist government appears to be seeking any pretext for closing churches, sources said. In this instance, the space for the church was originally designated as &#8220;office space.&#8221; But, as one source asked, &#8220;How do you close a church building that has been in operation for 20 years in the name of the church being meant for offices?&#8221; The church has a deed showing that it owns the building and property &#8212; a situation that raises the question of the government&#8217;s right to sell it.</p>
<p>On June 30 bulldozers <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/sudanese-authorities-demolish-another-church-building/">demolished</a> the Sudanese Church of Christ in the Thiba Al Hamyida area of North Khartoum as church members watched, while security personnel threatened to arrest them if they tried to block the bulldozers, church members said.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: The <a href="http://armenianweekly.com/2014/09/21/der-zor/">Islamic State destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church</a> in Der Zor, seen as the &#8220;Auschwitz&#8221; of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In the summer of 1916 alone, more than 200,000 Armenians, mostly women and children, were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Armenia&#8217;s foreign minister issued a statement calling the church&#8217;s destruction a &#8220;horrible barbarity,&#8221; and referred to the Islamic State as a &#8220;disease&#8221; that &#8220;threatened civilized mankind.&#8221; The church was built in 1989-90 and consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing the remains of the victims of the genocide were also located in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the genocide.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Pakistani Rape and Dhimmitude</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36439-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_girl_raped_the_perpetrators_film_the_violence#.VIXqaDHF9qU">Four young Muslims gang raped a 15-year-old Christian girl</a> and filmed it. The girl&#8217;s father, although he was threatened against filing a complaint, went to police, who confirmed the existence of a video that corroborates the violence. The video will apparently be introduced as evidence against the youths. A lawyer, Mushtaq Gill, issued a statement that, &#8220;Many Christian girls continue to be victims of sexual assault by young Muslims, who go unpunished&#8221; and that, &#8220;in this case there is also a video, flaunted as a trophy.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36280-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Two_Christian_women_abducted_forced_to_convert_to_Islam_and_marry_Muslim_men#.VIXv9zHF9qU">Two Christian women were abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men</a>. Lawyer Mushtaq Gill said, &#8220;A Christian girl, Sairish, forced to marry a Muslim in 2009, in her heart never abandoned the faith and continued to pray to Jesus Christ even after her marriage. After a few years she found the courage to rebel against the situation and run away&#8230;. Her life is now in danger because if she declares herself Christian, Muslims may accuse her of apostasy and the punishment would be death.&#8221; Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.</li>
<li>Another Christian family fled their hometown, Lahore, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36318-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Christian_family_flees_to_save_their_daughters_from_forced_conversion_to_Islam#.VIXuVzHF9qU">to save their daughters from forced conversion to Islam</a>. According to the Justice and Peace Commission, the two sisters, aged 12 and 8, were studying in public schools, where learning to recite the Koran is mandatory. Apparently, because the girls recited the <i>shehada</i>, the Islamic declaration of faith, &#8220;an Islamic cleric, the father of a student stated that these girls had become Muslims and thus needed to be taken from their Christian parents and entrusted to adult Muslims.&#8221; The parents pulled their daughters out of school, but then the headmaster and other Muslim teachers &#8220;warned the parents to send them back to school, offering the family financial aid regarding the school fees.&#8221; The parents quit their jobs and fled the region.</li>
<li>Police arrested 15 Christians and booked 45 other members of the minority community under the blasphemy law <a href="http://www.dailypioneer.com/world/15-christians-held-in-pakistan-under-blasphemy-law.html">for allegedly desecrating Muslim graves</a> in a village in Punjab province. According to the AP, &#8220;The case was registered after a local cleric filed a complaint alleging that the Christians had desecrated over 400 Muslim graves to occupy the land in Chak village in Faisalabad, about 150 kilometres from Lahore.&#8221; Rights groups said it was a spurious charge meant to prevent the Christians from acquiring the land. In fact, the accusations were <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36294-ASIA_PAKISTAN_False_accusations_of_blasphemy_later_withdrawn_against_31_Christians_in_a_Punjab_village#.VIXvWzHF9qU">later proven false</a>.</li>
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<h3 align="center">Dhimmitude: Islamic Discrimination Against Christianity</h3>
<p><b>Egypt:</b> Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Christian mother of five, returned home to her family <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36441-AFRICA_EGYPT_The_Coptic_woman_who_had_disappeared_returns_home_she_did_not_convert_but_had_been_kidnapped#.VIXqsTHF9qU">after being kidnapped</a>. Initially it was believed that she had voluntarily converted to Islam and fled her family to be with a Muslim man. The woman contacted the family from Suez, where she had been brought by the kidnapper. The return of the woman was celebrated by neighbors and relatives in the city of Gabal al-Tir. Her disappearance had been the cause of clashes between Copts and police, who believed the narrative that she had voluntarily left. In retaliation, police officers entered the homes of dozens of Coptic families and violently arrested dozens of Christians. Separately, Ehab Karam, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36416-AFRICA_EGYPT_Kidnappings_continue_to_the_detriment_of_the_Copts_a_dentist_kidnapped_killed#.VIXrhzHF9qU">a Coptic dentist, was killed</a> after he was abducted by unknown persons, most likely for ransom. The kidnapping of Copts for ransom has evidently become a regular part of life in Egypt for Christians, particularly in Upper Egypt. Last February, for instance, police dismantled a crime network that for months had been organizing kidnappings, robberies and extortion against the local Coptic community. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; said the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assist, Kyrillos William, &#8220;the phenomenon continues and there are no signs of improvement. Police operations are episodic and ineffective, they are unable to solve the problem.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Iraq:</b> The Islamic State decreed that <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36336-ASIA_IRAQ_The_school_year_in_the_Islamic_Caliphate_the_teaching_of_Syriac_and_Christian_names_of_schools_have_been_abolished#.VIXuDTHF9qU">all schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain</a> which bore Christian names, some since the 1700s, must be changed. Also, the teaching of the Syriac language and culture and Christian religious education has been abolished. Reports indicate that the Islamic State took these moves &#8220;in order to erase all traces of cultural and religious pluralism in the conquered areas and turn schools into propaganda tools of jihadist ideology among the new generations.&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Saudi Arabia</b>: In the Eastern Province city of Khafji, &#8220;religious police,&#8221; or agents from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-detained-by-Saudi-religious-police-in-raid-on-private-home.html">raided a house where at least 27 Christians</a>, mostly expatriates from various Asian nationalities, were gathered. The Christians, including children, were accused of practicing Christianity in a house church, and were arrested and detained overnight. Authorities also confiscated musical instruments and copies of the Bible. The house had been placed under surveillance after a citizen reported that his Indian neighbor had converted his home into a Christian church. After witnessing a large number of individuals enter the home, officers raided the house. The only religion allowed to be practiced in public in Saudi Arabia is Islam. In the land of the prophet, no public places of worship for non-Muslims are permitted to exist.</p>
<p><b>Turkey:</b> According to the Armenian magazine,<i> Agos</i>, many of the primary and secondary education books being used for the current school year still <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/36339-ASIA_TURKEY_In_school_books_Christian_communities_portrayed_as_tools_of_foreign_powers_against_the_Ottoman_empire">describe the Armenians and other Christian communities as enemy forces</a> at the service of foreign powers, including Russia and England, after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. One eighth-grade history book tries to whitewash the Armenian genocide, which is portrayed as a &#8220;necessary deportation,&#8221; never as a massacre.</p>
<p><b>Uzbekistan</b>: Security forces reportedly raided the home of Pastor Stanislav Kim in Chirchik, 20 miles northeast of Tashkent, the capital. They detained 11 teenagers and three adults, who had gathered there for a volleyball game, and questioned them for more than four hours before releasing them. Officials also searched the pastor&#8217;s home and <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33773-uzbekistan-prosecuting-pastor-son-for-unregistered-activity">confiscated a New Testament, a Bible, several other Christian books</a>, more than 100 slides of hymns, as well as some computer equipment. Voice of the Martyrs, which says there are at least 65 unregistered congregations scattered throughout Uzbekistan, said in a statement, &#8220;Please pray that this pastor and his son will not face fines, but will soon be acquitted of any perceived wrongdoing. Ask God to strengthen each believer who was present during this unwarranted raid so that they will not give in to governmental intimidation and pressure, but instead be emboldened to serve our Lord faithfully.&#8221;</p>
<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians is expanding. &#8220;Muslim Persecution of Christians&#8221; was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month.</p>
<p>It documents what the mainstream media often fails to report.</p>
<p>It posits that such persecution is not random but systematic, and takes place in all languages, ethnicities and locations.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/"><i>Raymond Ibrahim</i></a> <i>is author of</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20">Crucified Again: Exposing Islam&#8217;s New War in Christians</a> <i>(published by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).</i></p></blockquote>
<p><b>Previous reports</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4927/raping-beheading-faithful">August, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4846/muslim-persecution-christians-july">July, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4817/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june">June, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4763/muslim-persecution-christians-may-2014">May, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4666/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution">April, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4400/obama-muslim-persecutions">March, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4365/christians-most-persecuted">February, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january">January, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4252/slaughtering-christians">December, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4170/us-silent-muslim-persecution-christians">November, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4093/slaughter-in-muslim-lands">October, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4065/september-horror-christians-islam">September, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4050/christians-middle-east-august">August, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3967/christian-women-degradation-islam">June, 2013</a></li>
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		<title>Do We All Believe in the Same God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Stephen M. Kirby]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reflection on what Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247929" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/bible_quran.jpg" alt="bible_quran" width="263" height="150" /></a>A commonly heard claim is that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in “the same God.” These are comforting words and of great assistance to those wishing to engage in interfaith dialogues and tri-faith ventures. But is this true? To answer that question, let’s look at what is said and taught about Jews and Christians by Allah, the god of Islam, and Muhammad, Allah’s prophet. We’ll start with the Koran.</p>
<p><strong>The Koran</strong></p>
<p>Muslims believe the Koran is the infallible, timeless and perfect word of Allah. So what does Allah say in the Koran about Jews and Christians?</p>
<p>To set the stage, Allah states that the only religion acceptable to him is Islam (e.g., 3:19 and 3:85). And Allah states that Islam is to be made superior over all other religions, even if the non-Muslims don’t like it (e.g., 9:33, 48:28, and 61:9).</p>
<p>Allah states that he is angry with the Jews, and the Christians are misguided in their beliefs (1:7). In fact, Allah curses the Jews and Christians (9:30). He states that the Jews and Christians are among the worst of creatures who “will abide in the fire of Hell” (98:6), while Muslims are the best of creatures (3:110 and 98:7). He forbids Muslims from being friends with Jews and Christians (5:51). Instead, Allah commands Muslims to fight the Jews and Christians until those Jews and Christians pay the <em>jizyah</em> (protection tax), with willing submission and feeling themselves subdued (9:29).</p>
<p>Allah specifically states that the Jews are among the worst enemies of Islam (5:82).</p>
<p>Allah states that Christianity is a false religion. Allah says that Jesus was not crucified, but it only appeared so (4:157-158). Allah states that he took Jesus bodily into paradise and made one of Jesus’ disciples look like Jesus; it was that disciple who was crucified. So Muslims who know their religion look at a crucifix or a painting of the Crucifixion and see an imposter hanging on the cross. And of course, if there was no Crucifixion, there was no Resurrection. So Islam teaches that Christianity is based on a fraud.</p>
<p>Allah also states that those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God commit the one unforgiveable sin in Islam, <em>Shirk</em> (e.g., 4:48 and 4:116). In fact, Allah curses Christians specifically for this belief (9:30) and says that those who so believe will go to Hell (e.g., 3:151 and 5:72-73).</p>
<p><strong>Muhammad</strong></p>
<p>Islam teaches that Muhammad spoke for Allah (4:80), and Allah commands Muslims to obey Muhammad (59:7). And Muhammad is considered the timeless standard by which Muslims should conduct themselves (33:21). So what did Muhammad have to say?</p>
<p>He said Jews and Christians are worth only half as much as a Muslim,<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup>and he gave the following advice about what to do when meeting Jews and Christians:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Do not greet the Jews and the Christians before they greet you and when you meet any one of them on the roads force him to go to the narrowest part of it.</em><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that the Jews were grave robbers,<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> and he said,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Hour will not be established until you fight against the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, &#8216;O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.</em><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Muhammad said that on the Day of Resurrection, mountains of sins would be removed from the backs of Muslims and put onto the Jews and Christians.<sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> Muhammad even said that Jews and Christians would take the place of Muslims in Hell.<sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup></p>
<p>And on his death bed Muhammad said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslims.</em><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>These are timeless commands and statements from Allah and Muhammad, and Muslims are not allowed to disagree with them (33:36).</p>
<p>So if Allah is God and the Koran consists of statements and commands from Allah, if Muhammad spoke for Allah, and if Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in that same God, then Jews and Christians believe in and worship a God who hates and curses them, orders Muslims to fight them, and condemns them to Hell simply because they are not Muslims.</p>
<p>Either we are talking about a pagan god of multiple, compartmentalized personalities, or the claim that Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the same God is theological nonsense.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p>[1] Muhammad bin Yazeed ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, <em>Sunan Ibn Majah</em>, trans. Nasiruddin al-Khattab, Vol. 3 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2007), No. 2644, p. 521.</p>
<p>[2] Abu&#8217;l Hussain &#8216;Asakir-ud-Din Muslim bin Hajjaj al-Qushayri al-Naisaburi, <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, trans. Abdul Hamid Siddiqi, Vol. 6 (New Delhi: Adam Publishers and Distributors, 2008), No. 2167, p. 439.</p>
<p>[3] Muhammad bin Ismail bin Al-Mughirah Al-Bukhari, <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, trans. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Vol. 4 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 1997), Book 60, No. 3452, p. 413.</p>
<p>[4] <em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>, Vol. 4, Book 56, No. 2926, p. 113.</p>
<p>[5] <em>110 Ahadith Qudsi: Sayings of the Prophet Having Allahs Statements</em>, 3<sup>rd</sup> ed., trans. Syed Masood-ul-Hasan (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, 2006), No. 8, titled <em>Superiority of the believers in the Oneness of Allah and the punishment of Jews and Christians</em>, pp. 19-20.</p>
<p>[6] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 8, No. 2767R1, p. 269.</p>
<p>[7] <em>Sahih Muslim</em>, Vol. 5, No. 1767, p. 189.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The significance of Islam's teaching to smile in unbelievers' faces, but to curse them in one's heart.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart </strong>and joined by Scholar of Comparative Religion<strong> <strong> <strong>Anthony Rogers.</strong> </strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers joined the show to discuss <strong>Allah: The Greatest Deceiver?</strong>, analyzing the significance of Islam&#8217;s teaching to smile in unbelievers&#8217; faces &#8212; but to curse them in one&#8217;s heart. The discussion occurred within a focus on <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application,</strong> in which Mr. Rogers dissected a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Part I</strong> of this discussion with<b> Anthony Rogers</b>, in which he discussed <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are, </strong>focusing on the theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Journalism Fellow stresses why Middle Eastern Christians have to stop thinking like a minority.]]></description>
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<p><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large"></span>Ann-Marie was joined by Shillman Journalism Fellow <strong>Daniel Greenfield, </strong>who came on the show to discuss <strong>A Christian Federation in the Middle East, </strong>stressing why Middle Eastern Christians have to stop thinking like a minority <strong>[starts at the 6:55 mark].</strong> The dialogue occurred within the context of <strong>&#8220;ISIS Rising,&#8221; </strong>in which Greenfield analyzed Obama&#8217;s policy of fighting terrorists by arming terrorists.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only way to secure Christian survival in the Middle East.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/22003232.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239425" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/22003232-447x350.jpg" alt="22003232" width="329" height="257" /></a>Lebanese born Joseph Hakim is a patriotic American who is deeply involved in community affairs. A successful businessman who came to America with less than $500 in his pocket, he has built a multi-million dollar business. It is not money however, that excites Hakim and gets him going. He is devoted to a single cause, which is saving the ancient Christian communities in the Middle East. Toward that end, he has assumed the presidency of the International Christian Union (ICU), an organization that seeks to secure the existence of Christian communities across the Middle East through advocacy in the U.S. Congress, as well as educational and informational campaigns, and speaking to diverse audiences.</p>
<p>Hakim has just returned from Lebanon and this reporter asked him how Lebanon has changed since his last visit three years ago. Hakim explained,</p>
<blockquote><p>I saw more congestion, and more visible poverty. Syrian refugees are all over the streets of Beirut. Child beggars as young as 5-years old roam the streets asking for money and sometimes food. Approximately <a href="http://www.ihh.org.tr/en/main/news/0/ihhs-oriental-sore-project-in-lebanon/2333"><span style="color: #0433ff;">2 million Syrian</span></a> refugees flooded Lebanon, and there are over 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanese camps, as well as Iraqi refugees, fleeing the mayhem there.</p>
<p>It has changed the demography of Lebanon, transforming it from a balanced multi-cultural society to a predominantly Islamic nation. The Christian community feels threatened. I met with Christian religious and political party leaders, and they all spoke about the urgent need to arm the Christian community. They expressed the need to foster a security system for the Christian communities in Lebanon.</p>
<p>Frankly, I was shocked to hear from my Lebanese friends that allegedly the US and the West have conspired with the Turks, Qataris, and Saudis to cleanse the Christian minorities in the Middle East. This is being promoted in the Hezbollah media, with the underlying message that neither the US nor the West is going to come to the aid of the Christian minorities in the Middle East or the Lebanese-Christians. Al-Manar-TV, Hezbollah’s mouthpiece, is seeking to impress the Lebanese-Christians that Hezbollah alone can save them.</p>
<p>There is a feeling that Lebanon is descending back into the 1975 civil war in which the Palestinians and Sunni-Muslims engaged the Christians. The Christian community today understands the Sunni-Shia threat to their existence in the region, as well as in Lebanon.</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #444444;">We continued the interview as follows:</p>
<p style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #000000;">Joseph Puder: </span><i>As the President of the ICU how do you propose the US should help Christians in the Middle East, especially those in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories?</i></p>
<p style="color: #444444;">Joseph Hakim: ICU seeks US Congressional legislation that would provide ironclad protection for endangered Christian communities throughout the region, especially in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian territories. Violators of the bill or persecutors of Christians as well as denial of their religious freedom, would lead to criminal charges in the International Court of Justice. Governments of Muslim states that sanction terror against their Christian minorities should be dealt with as if they declared war against the US and its vital interests.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">As the colonial boundaries drafted by Sykes-Picot are disintegrating in Iraq and Syria, ICU envisions an expanded Christian state in Lebanon that would incorporate areas of Syria with a predominant Christian population. The remaining Christian minorities in Iraq and Syria should be granted autonomous status in a federated Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">The Palestinians for example, will always choose the radical Islamic leaders over moderate leaders, but the Christians living in their territories are voiceless with few choices but to flee.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">The US and its European allies must decide whether they can protect their oil interests while ignoring the growing Islamist resurgence or perhaps they can also secure the lives of peace loving Christians in the region.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #000000;">JP: </span><i>ISIS or as it is now called IS (Islamic State) is threatening to overrun Lebanon. What would you propose the US administration should do? Should it provide additional weapons to the Lebanese Army, or send US troops to help the Lebanese Army?</i></p>
<p style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #000000;">JH</span>: About two weeks ago, ISIS attacked the Sunni village of Arsal in Lebanon. The Lebanese army Special Forces, the moujawkal (a counter-sabotage Regiment) and the Maghawir (Lebanese Commando Regiment) halted the ISIS advance, without which, the Bekaa Valley and Lebanon as a whole would have fallen into ISIS’ hands. As President of ICU, I strongly recommend that the US arm the Lebanese Army with advanced weapons, and secure them in safe military bases in the Maten or Keserwan areas. I also recommend joint US-Lebanese army military exercises and joint operations.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">The radicalized predominantly Sunni-Muslim Palestinians in Lebanon pose a grave threat to Lebanon’s delicate demographic balance. Therefore, ICU recommends that the US and the UN devise a roadmap for the removal of the Palestinian camps from Lebanon and their relocation in any one of the vast oil-rich Arab states (Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, etc.). These Arab states should provide them with decent housing, health care, jobs, and educational opportunities.  Lebanon simply cannot afford it. Under present conditions, the Palestinians amount to a ticking time bomb for the Cedar state. In settling the Palestinians in Arab countries, it would eliminate the corruption surrounding the UNRWA administration of the camps that benefit Lebanese and Palestinian politicians to the detriment of the poor Palestinians.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">Last but not least, along with the Palestinian relocation into the oil-rich Arab states, there must be the disarming of Hezbollah. These two elements along with IS are existential threats to the integrity of Lebanon. Conversely, if that cannot be done, a serious consideration must be given to the arming of Lebanese Christian militias, as well as of Christian communities in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #000000;">JP</span>: <i>What is your vision for ICU? Given the proper resources, how would you go about protecting Christians in the region?</i></p>
<p style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #000000;">JH</span>: ICU’s mission is to build solid bridges of understanding and brotherhood among Middle Eastern Christians throughout the world, especially in the US. We are a global organization that seeks to unify Christians everywhere, and serve to awaken the Christian conscience to the suffering of Christians throughout the Islamic dominated Middle East.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">As we approach the 100-year anniversary of the Armenian-Christian genocide by the Ottoman Turks, we need to remember that over a million Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians perished. The looming threat of the IS is to the remaining Assyrian Christians as well as to Greek-Orthodox and Catholic-Maronite Christians in Syria and Lebanon. Hopefully, ICU is not a lonely cry in the desert. Ours is meant to be a warning call to western Christians to show solidarity with their persecuted brothers-in-faith.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">ICU has dedicated its efforts towards empowering Christians to assert their unique way of life and values. This runs in conflict with the jihadist aims of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and IS, whose violent agendas threaten the survival of Christians in the region.  This is the reason ICU is calling for an independent Christian state, as a haven for persecuted Christians, just as Israel served as a haven for the persecuted Jews.</p>
<p style="color: #444444;">Our vision of the future is one of building rather than destroying (the MO of radical Islam). We seek religious harmony instead of religious intolerance as practiced by the Islamists and jihadists. We want to build libraries and theatres while they want to burn them. We hope to contribute to humanity’s advancement, while they seek to roll us back to 7<sup>th</sup> Century barbarism and bloodshed. With the above in mind, our future rests with a secure and independent Christian state allied and protected by the US and the West.</p>
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		<title>The Fate of the West</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Either it will become Christian again or it will become Muslim.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239258" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/burqa-450x281.jpg" alt="burqa" width="264" height="165" /></a>It&#8217;s all very simple. We can&#8217;t fight Islam in the West without fighting the enablers of Islam in the West, namely the Leftists.</p>
<p>And, since the Left has many different and separate aspects, we have to fight against each one of them. Secularism, environmentalism, global warming alarmism, homosexualism, militant feminism, sexual relativism, multiculturalism, anti-Christianity, Islamophilia, post-nationalism, and internationalism are just as important targets to attack as Marxist economics, the expropriation of the capitalist class (or, in its modern reincarnation, redistribution of wealth), and the dictatorship of the proletariat.</p>
<p>Neglecting any of these fronts is like fighting a war leaving a battleground to the enemy, like fighting on the western front and leaving totally undefended the eastern one.</p>
<p>Secularism and atheism are certainly the first lines of important wars.</p>
<p>A secularist West will always lose to Islam, because it will have enough compassion, tolerance and self-restraint from violence that are the remnants of its Christian heritage, but it will have lost the ideals, the passion and certainty of fighting for a just cause that were once part of Christianity and have disappeared with its erosion.</p>
<p>Two quotes here serve as epigrams. Robert Spencer wrote in his great work &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596985151/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596985151&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=VIUQ2BVVVC5BLDYE">Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn&#8217;t</a>&#8220;: “People who are ashamed of their own culture will not defend it.” And Dennis Prager said during one of his radio broadcasts, “Only good religion can counter bad religion.”</p>
<p>Some people claim that there won&#8217;t be a religious revival in Europe because we are past believing in God. That this is not true can be seen by the high &#8211; and increasing – number of Westerners who convert to Islam. Many of them give as a reason for their <a href="http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/uk-converts-to-islam-on-rise.html">conversion</a> the need for absolutes, boundaries and well-defined status.</p>
<p>A journalist writing for <em>The Spectator</em> on this subject explained why she is Catholic:</p>
<blockquote><p>But above all, I like the moral certainties. I don’t mind the dogma one bit. I would rather dogma and impossible ideals than confusion and compromise. In that sense, I do identify with those who choose Islam over the way of no faith, or a seemingly uncertain faith, like the woolly old C of E.</p></blockquote>
<p>William Kilpatrick, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158617696X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=158617696X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=villagonlinema00&amp;linkId=IPTTMC4C6AVOIXI3">Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</a> – a book I thoroughly recommend reading &#8211; writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Brian Young&#8217;s friends said he was troubled by the decadence of Western society. David Courtrailler&#8217;s lawyer said, “For David, Islam ordered his life.” These are the sorts of reasons ordinary converts to Islam give. A common refrain from converts is that Islam provides a complete plan for life in contrast to the ruleless and clueless life offered by secular society. As Mary Fallot, a young French convert, explains, “Islam demands a closeness to God. Islam is simpler, more rigorous, and it&#8217;s easier because it is explicit. I was looking for a framework; man needs rules and behavior to follow. Christianity did not give me the same reference points.” If you look at the convert testimonials on Muslim websites, they echo this refrain: Islam brings “peace”, “order”, “discipline”, and a way of life that Christianity and other religions fail to offer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Human beings will never be past the need for believing in something bigger than themselves, because that need is part of the human mind.</p>
<p>Today the Christian religion is being replaced by the worship of the Goddess earth, New Age beliefs, the cult of celebrities (not coincidentally sometimes called &#8220;idols&#8221;), a blind faith in science, in chance as the creator and motor of the universe and in the absence of God.</p>
<p>And, last but not least, by Islam, which is increasingly filling the vacuum left by Christianity.</p>
<p>It is not surprising that Western people who feel a spiritual need may embrace Islam more easily than Christianity, when the latter has been the butt of constant attacks, denigrations and ridicule for a very long time, increasing since the 1960s, while the former is continually &#8212; albeit seriously mistakenly &#8212; praised as a religion of peace, tolerance and great wisdom.</p>
<p>Christian clergy is often criticized, sometimes rightly and sometimes not. But we tend to forget that clergymen are human beings, with all their imperfections. They too have been subjected to many decades of Leftist indoctrination and brainwashing. Even they, by the mere fact of living in this society, have been influenced by its insanity.</p>
<p>We can expect guidance from our leaders, yes, but rather than castigating them we should make the first steps.</p>
<p>A clear direction was given by Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy.</p>
<p>As early as 30 September 2000, before 9/11, when very few in the West even thought of worrying about Islam, he delivered a very <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/enza-ferreri-either-europe-will-become-christian-again-or-it-will-become-muslim">forward-looking speech</a>, which included this premonition:</p>
<blockquote><p>In an interview ten years ago, I was asked with great candor and with enviable optimism: “Are You among those who believe that Europe will either be Christian or cease to exist?” I think my answer then may well serve to conclude my speech today.</p>
<p>I think – I said – that either Europe will become Christian again or it will become Muslim. What I see without future is the “culture of nothing”, of freedom without limits and without content, of skepticism boasted as intellectual achievement, which seems to be the attitude largely dominant among European peoples, all more or less rich of means and poor of truths. This “culture of nothingness” (sustained by hedonism and libertarian insatiability) will not be able to withstand the ideological onslaught of Islam, which will not be missing: only the rediscovery of the Christian event as the only salvation for man – and therefore only a strong resurrection of the ancient soul of Europe – will offer a different outcome to this inevitable confrontation.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, neither “secularists” nor “Catholics” seem to have so far realized the tragedy that is looming. “Secularists”, opposing the Church in every way, do not realize that they are fighting against the strongest inspiration and the most effective defense of Western civilization and its values of rationality and freedom: they might realize it too late.</p></blockquote>
<p>An effect of the decline of Christian faith in Europe has been the strong decrease in birth rates, that are now below the population replacement level (the replacing – and then some &#8212; is done by Muslims). Why have babies when you feel that you don’t have anything valuable to pass on to them?</p>
<p>I remember a time when my friends and contemporaries of child-bearing age (but childless) were saying to me things to the effect that there was no point – indeed it was a crime to engage &#8212; in bringing people into this terrible world. This is the talk of faithless despair, no hope in this or another world, lack of belief.</p>
<p>Militant atheists à la Richard Dawkins have not really given enough thought to the long-term consequences of their ideas, which we are beginning to see.</p>
<p>And of which we are reminded whenever, for example, we read in the news of doctors and missionaries who die of Ebola while assisting affected patients for Christian charities. Not many atheist charities are involved in that work.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iraqi-christians.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239038" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iraqi-christians.jpg" alt="iraqi-christians" width="286" height="200" /></a>Nearly three-and-a-half years ago, before the “Arab Spring” and the plight of Christians became much of a topic, I wrote a FrontPage article titled “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/raymond-ibrahim/the-silent-extermination-of-iraq%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98christian-dogs%E2%80%99/">The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs.’</a>”  Revisiting it is useful, as it highlights some important points.  The article follows below in italics, with new observations interspersed in regular font:</p>
<p><em>Last week [April, 2011] an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a </em><a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5200.htm"><em>fatwa</em></a><em> that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.”  Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant.  While last October’s Baghdad church attack which killed some sixty Christians is widely known—actually receiving some </em><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8655/is-the-media-fair-and-balanced-on-christian"><em>MSM coverage</em></a><em>—the fact is, Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003.</em></p>
<p>The important point here is that the plight of Iraq’s Christians did not just begin under the Islamic State, as many seem to believe, but rather from the very first day the (secular) autocrat was removed.</p>
<p><em>Among other atrocities, </em><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20061012004656.htm"><em>beheading and crucifying Christians</em></a><em> are not irregular occurrences; messages saying “</em><a href="http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.1.1271835942"><em>you Christian dogs, leave or die</em></a><em>,” are typical.  Islamists see the church as an “</em><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news224.htm"><em>obscene nest of pagans</em></a><em>” and threaten to “</em><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/world/main7011759.shtml"><em>exterminate Iraqi Christians</em></a><em>.”  </em><a href="http://www.csi-int.org/desk_eibner.php"><em>John Eibner</em></a><em>, CEO of </em><a href="http://www.csi-int.org/"><em>Christian Solidarity International</em></a><em>, summarized the situation well in a recent </em><a href="http://www.csi-int.org/pdfs/obama_eibner_iraq_01_11_10.pdf"><em>letter</em></a><em> to President Obama:</em></p>
<p><em>“The threat of extermination is not empty. Since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, more than half the country’s Christian population has been forced by targeted violence to seek refuge abroad or to live away from their homes as internally displaced people. According to the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, over 700 Christians, including bishops and priests, have been killed and 61 churches have been bombed. Seven years after the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk reports: ‘He who is not a Muslim in Iraq is a second-class citizen. Often it is necessary to convert or emigrate, otherwise one risks being killed.’ This anti-Christian violence is sustained by a widespread culture of Muslim supremacism that extends far beyond those who pull the triggers and detonate the bombs.”</em></p>
<p>Again, more confirmation that the savage persecution of Christians in Iraq—including recent acts of genocide and expulsions—is not a product of the Islamic State, but rather something more homegrown, more—how shall we say?—integral to Muslims unloosed from the grips of secularized dictators?</p>
<p><em>The grand irony, of course, is that Christian persecution has increased exponentially under U.S. occupation.  As one top </em><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0704487.htm"><em>Vatican official</em></a><em> put it, Christians, “paradoxically, were more protected under the dictatorship” of Saddam Hussein.</em></p>
<p><em>What does one make of this—that under Saddam, who was notorious for human rights abuses, Christians were better off than they are under a democratic government sponsored by humanitarian, some would say “Christian,” America?</em></p>
<p>Although I first suggested over three years ago that Christian minorities are the first to suffer whenever the U.S. intervenes in Islamic nations—evincing the types of people the U.S. ends up empowering—this notion is <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/">now an ironclad fact</a>, with other examples to add to Iraq, including Libya, Syria, and Egypt, under Obama allies, the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p><em>Like a Baghdad caliph, Saddam appears to have made use of the better educated Christians, who posed no risk to his rule, such as his close confidant </em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/25/iraq.brianwhitaker"><em>Tariq Aziz</em></a><em>.  Moreover, by keeping a tight lid on the Islamists of his nation—who hated him as a secular apostate no less than the Christians—the latter benefited indirectly.</em></p>
<p><em>Conversely, by empowering “the people,” the U.S. has unwittingly undone Iraq’s Christian minority.  Naively projecting Western values on Muslims, U.S. leadership continues to think that “people-power” will naturally culminate into a liberal, egalitarian society—despite all the </em><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8790/is-an-egyptian-democracy-a-good-thing"><em>evidence otherwise</em></a><em>.  The fact is, in the Arab/Muslim world, “majority rule” traditionally means domination by the largest tribe or sect; increasingly, it means Islamist domination.</em></p>
<p><em>Either which way, the minorities—notably the indigenous Christians—are the first to suffer once the genie of “people-power” is uncorked.  Indeed, </em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/world/middleeast/31iraq.html"><em>evidence</em></a><em> </em><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/christmas-requiem-for-iraq-s-christian-community-1.332680"><em>indicates</em></a><em> that the U.S. backed “democratic” government of Iraq </em><a href="http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&amp;art=9206"><em>enables and incites</em></a><em> the persecution of its Christians.  (All of this raises the pivotal question: Do heavy-handed tyrants—Saddam, Mubarak, Qaddafi, et al—create brutal societies, or do naturally brutal societies create the need for heavy-handed tyrants to keep order?)</em></p>
<p>Again, a reminder that it is not just the Islamic State that persecutes Christians, but even the U.S. installed government of Iraq. Moreover, a few months after the above was written, the government of “liberated” Afghanistan <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/32161-christian-churches-officially-extinct-in-afghanistan">destroyed the last Christian church</a>—entirely under U.S. auspices.</p>
<p><em>Another indicator that empowering Muslim masses equates Christian suffering is the fact that, though Iraqi Christians amount to a mere 5% of the population, they make up nearly </em><a href="http://www.christiansofiraq.com/mostvulnerable.html"><em>40% of the refugees</em></a><em> fleeing Iraq.  It is now the same </em><a href="http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_5024.html"><em>in Egypt</em></a><em>: “A growing number of Egypt’s 8-10 million Coptic Christians are looking for a way to get out as Islamists increasingly take advantage of the nationalist revolution that toppled long-standing dictator Hosni Mubarak in February.”</em></p>
<p><em>At least Egypt’s problems are homegrown, whereas the persecution of Iraq’s Christians is a direct byproduct of U.S. intervention.  More ironic has been Obama’s approach: Justifying U.S. intervention in Libya largely in </em><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/ideals-trump-interests-in-obamas-libya-policy/"><em>humanitarian terms</em></a><em>, the president recently </em><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263265/full-text-ndu-libya-speech-nro-staff"><em>declared</em></a><em> that, while “it is true that America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs… that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what’s right.”</em></p>
<p>Indeed, and we have since seen what Obama’s “humanitarian” actions in Libya have led to—the empowerment of Islamists and jihadis, evinced from things like the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the dramatic rise of Christian persecution.  Since Obama “liberated” Libya, Christians—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/three-american-teachers-slaughtered-for-christian-faith-in-muslim-world/">including Americans</a>—have been <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">tortured</a> and killed (including <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/two-egyptian-christians-slain-in-libya/">for refusing to convert</a>) and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">churches bombed</a>. And it’s “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/open-season-on-christians-in-libya/">open season</a>” on Copts, as jihadis issue a reward to Muslims who find and kill Christians. This was hardly the case under Gaddafi.</p>
<p><em>True, indeed.  Yet, as Obama “acts on behalf of what’s right” by providing military protection to the </em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/libya-rebel-strongholds-now-al-qaeda-wellspring/story?id=13266784"><em>al-Qaeda connected Libyan opposition</em></a><em>, Iraq’s indigenous Christians continue to be exterminated—right under the U.S. military’s nose in Iraq. You see, in its ongoing bid to win the much coveted but forever elusive “</em><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1902334,00.html"><em>Muslim-hearts-and-minds</em></a><em>™”—which Obama has even tasked </em><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-s-new-mission-nasa-reach-out-muslim-world"><em>NASA</em></a><em> with—U.S. leadership has opted to ignore the inhumane treatment of Islam’s “Christian dogs,” the mere mention of which tends to </em><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_al_azhar_vatican_1"><em>upset Muslims</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p>And now the job is largely done, as Christians and other religious minorities are being <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/world-ignores-christian-exodus-from-islamic-world/">cleansed from large parts of Iraq</a>, not to mention much of the Islamic world.</p>
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		<title>The Hell That Is the Obama White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An agenda of destruction at home and abroad. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/635076891073252015奥巴马.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238901" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/635076891073252015奥巴马.jpg" alt="635076891073252015奥巴马" width="291" height="246" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diary/davidhorowitz/2014/08/18/hell-obama-white-house/">RedState.com</a>. </em></p>
<p>Let me begin by acknowledging that this inspirational title is lifted from a tweet by screen actor James Woods. And now I will explicate his tweet.</p>
<p>Every sentient human being whose brain isn’t stuffed with ideological fairy dust can see that Obama is behind every major scandal of his administration from Benghazi to the I.R.S. disgrace. How can one know this? Because the culprits haven’t been fired. Moreover, if they are serial liars like Susan Rice, they’ve actually been promoted to posts where their loyalty to the criminal-in-chief can do America and its citizens even more damage, if that is possible.</p>
<p>A president faced with a scandal created by underlings behind his back would be naturally furious at their misbehavior, and want heads to roll. This didn’t happen in any of these scandals because their point of origin was the White House itself. Promoting the culprits is a way of keeping them quiet.</p>
<p>And what exactly is the I.R.S. scandal about — to take just one case? It’s a plan unprecedented in modern American politics to push the political system towards a one-party state by using the taxing authority of the government to cripple and destroy the political opposition. The administration’s campaign to promote voter fraud by opposing measures to stop it (and defaming them as “racist” is guided by the same intentions and desire.</p>
<p>And why shouldn’t Obama want to destroy the two-party system since he is also in utter contempt of the Constitutional framework, making law illegally, and defying an impotent Congress to stop him? Of course every radical, like Obama, hates the Constitutional framework because, as Madison explained in Federalist #10, it is designed to thwart “the wicked projects” of the left to redistribute income and destroy the free market.</p>
<p>The same desire to overwhelm and permanently suppress the opposition drives the war that Obama and the Democrats have conducted against America’s borders and therefore American sovereignty. Their plan is too flood the country with illegals of whatever stripe who will be grateful enough for the favor to win them elections and create a permanent majority in their favor. The immediate result of these efforts is that we have no secure southern border, and therefore no border; and therefore we have effectively invited criminals and terrorists to come across and do Americans harm.</p>
<p>Which brings us to the deepest level of Obama’s hell, which is his anti-American foreign policy. When Obama was re-elected in 2012, the very first thought I had was this: A lot of people are going to be dead because of this election. How disastrously right I was. Since their assault on George Bush and their sabotage of the war in Iraq, Obama and the Democrats have forged a power vacuum in Europe and even more dramatically in the Middle East, which nasty characters have predictably entered with ominous implications for the future security of all Americans.</p>
<p>Take one aspect of this epic default: Obama’s lack of response to the slaughter of Christians in Palestine, Egypt and Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been slaughtered and driven from their homes in Iraq – over half a million by some counts. This is the oldest Christian community in the world dating back to the time of Christ. What was Obama’s response to this atrocity until a group of Yazvidi along with the Christians were trapped on a mountain side, and politics dictated he had to make some gesture. His response was to do and say nothing. Silence. Even his statement announcing minimal action to save the Yazvidi and the Christians mentioned the Christians once in passing while devoting a paragraph to the obscure Yazvidi.</p>
<p>What this unfeeling and cold response to the slaughter of Christians tells us is that Obama is a pretend Christian just the way he is a pretend American. What he is instead is a world class liar. That is because his real agendas are anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish, and obviously and consistently pro America’s third world adversaries to whom he is always apologizing and whom he is always appeasing. Obama lies about his intentions and policies because he couldn’t survive politically if he told the truth.</p>
<p>The socialist plot against individual freedom called Obamacare was sold as a charitable attempt to cover the uninsured (which it doesn’t), to lower health insurance costs (which it doesn’t) and to allow patients to keep their doctor and their plan (which it doesn’t). What it actually does is to take away a major piece of the freedom that Americans once enjoyed – the freedom to choose their plan and their doctor, and not to have the government control their health care or have easy access to all their financial information.</p>
<p>This devious, deceitful, power hungry administration is just as James Woods described it. But it is also a mounting danger for all Americans. Thanks to his global retreat, the terrorists Obama falsely claims are “on the run” are in fact gathering their strength and their weapons of mass destruction until a day will come when they will cross our porous borders and show us what thyears of perfidy not only by Obama but by the whole Democratic Party have wrought.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on the 700 Club: Christians as Persona Non Grata</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Freedom Center's Shillman Fellow unveils Christians' horrifying suffering in the Muslim world.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ca1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-235061" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ca1.jpg" alt="ca" width="183" height="276" /></a>People worldwide embrace Christianity more than any other religion, and Christians are the most persecuted. Mideast expert Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Center, warns on The 700 Club that such persecution happens most often in the Muslim world.</p>
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		<title>Pope Francis: &#8216;The Che Guevara of the Palestinians&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 04:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pontiff may recognize the “State of Palestine,” but will he acknowledge the plight of Palestinian Christians?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226053" alt="pa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pa.jpg" width="314" height="176" /></a>“The Che Guevara of the Palestinians” is set to visit Palestinian Authority-controlled Judea and Samaria next week, beginning in Bethlehem, and the city of Jesus’s birth is already in high excitement. The bearer of that illustrious title is none other than Pope Francis. <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180779#.U31CLi-6Cmq">According to Israel National News</a>, “Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a member of the Argentinian parliament and close friend of Pope Francis…said that the pope intends to define himself as the ‘<a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177110" target="_blank">Che Guevera of the Palestinians</a>’ and support their ‘struggle and rights’ during his visit.”</p>
<p>If the Pope or anyone around him has expressed a similar intention to speak out about the Muslim persecution of Palestinian Christians, it has not been recorded – in sharp contrast to the abundance of signals that the Pope has sent to Palestinian Authority officials. Fr. Jamal Khader of the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180779#.U30uyS9irUp">explained</a>: “He is taking a helicopter directly from Jordan to Palestine &#8212; to Bethlehem. It’s a kind of sign of recognizing Palestine.” In anticipation of his doing just that officially, Palestinian officials have <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/rabbi-muslim-leader-join-pope-francis-holy-land-trip-article-1.1793254">put up posters proclaiming</a> “State of Palestine” and depicting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Pope Francis, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople.</p>
<p>Not only that, but while in Bethlehem, Pope Francis will meet with Abbas; he also plans to celebrate Mass there rather than in Jerusalem, a move that <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180779#.U31I4C-6Cmr">Israel National News says</a> “has been called a show of support for the PA.” He then plans to visit a Palestinian “refugee camp.”</p>
<p>Khader predicted: “Knowing who he is, and his sensitivity for all those who suffer, I am sure that he will say something defending all those who are suffering, including the Palestinians who live under occupation.” Ziyyad Bandak, Abbas’s adviser for Christian affairs, was enthusiastic: “This visit will help us in supporting our struggle to end the longest occupation in history….We welcome this visit and consider it as support for the Palestinian people, and confirmation from the Vatican of the need to end the occupation.”</p>
<p>All this comes after a Church official in Jerusalem criticized Israeli authorities for asking that a sign announcing the Pope’s visit be taken down from a historic site on which such signs are prohibited for preservation reasons. The unnamed official referenced recent Hebrew-language hate graffiti spray-painted on mosques and churches, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.589924">saying</a> that he and other Church officials “question the fact that the police, instead of taking action against the extremists who paint hate slogans on mosques and churches, choose to remove a sign with a positive message that welcomes the pope in three languages. We hope the police will act with the same determination to prevent the growing incitement and violence against Christians.”</p>
<p>While referring to the graffiti as “incitement and violence against Christians,” however, Church officials have been much more reticent regarding Muslim persecution of Palestinian Christians, even when it has included actual violence. <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180757#.U31VWy-6Cmo">According to Israel National News</a>, “Christian Arab residents of the village of El-Khader in the Bethlehem area <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/180652_seg" target="_blank">were savagely attacked</a> by local Muslims as they celebrated a Christian holiday two weeks ago. A report by CAMERA, an organization which monitors anti-Israel bias in the media, reported that Christians attempting to enter Saint George’s Monastery in the village were intimidated and attacked with rocks and stones.”</p>
<p>Yet about this and other incidents of Muslim persecution of Christians, Pope Francis, as well as Vatican and Church officials, have said little. <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/pope-francis-we-won-t-resign-ourselves-middle-east-without">Last November</a>, Pope Francis decried the plight of “Christians who suffer in a particularly severe way the consequences of tensions and conflicts in many parts of the Middle East.” He added that “Syria, Iraq, Egypt and other areas of the Holy Land sometimes overflow with tears” and declared: “We won’t resign ourselves to a Middle East without Christians who for two thousand years confess the name of Jesus, as full citizens in social, cultural and religious life of the nations to which they belong.”</p>
<p>Neither on that occasion or any other, however, has Pope Francis ever ascribed the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians to anything beyond “the consequences of tensions and conflicts in many parts of the Middle East.” Apparently he believes that if those tensions and conflicts could somehow be resolved, Christians would be able to live freely in the Middle East. After all, he has famously <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/11/pope-francis-authentic-islam-and-the-proper-reading-of-the-koran-are-opposed-to-every-form-of-violen">asserted</a> that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” thereby dismissing the possibility that Christians may be facing persecution from Muslims who are obeying the Qur’anic imperative to fight them “until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).</p>
<p>What’s more, when Pope Benedict XVI spoke out in January 2011 against the jihad bombing of the Coptic cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the world’s most prestigious Sunni Muslim institution, reacted angrily, breaking off dialogue with the Vatican and accusing the Pope of interference in internal Egyptian affairs. In a statement, Al-Azhar denounced the pontiff’s “repeated negative references to Islam and his claims that Muslims persecute those living among them in the Middle East.” When Pope Francis succeeded Benedict, Al-Azhar and other Muslim authorities expressed hopes that he would repair relations between Muslims and Christians by not repeating the mistakes of his predecessor — including speaking out about the Muslim persecution of Christians.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/09/pope-francis-writes-to-grand-imam-of-al-azhar-stressing-vaticans-respect-for-islam-and-calling-for-m">Francis complied</a>, affirming his “respect” for Islam and apparently accepting al-Azhar’s stipulation that “casting Islam in a negative light is ‘a red line’ that must not be crossed.” He has not, in any case, crossed it, even to decry the actions of Muslims to harass, victimize and persecute Christians because of Qur’anic declarations that they are accursed of Allah for saying Jesus is the Son of God (9:30); are unbelievers for affirming the divinity of Christ (5:17; 5:72); and must be warred against and subjugated (9:29).</p>
<p>And so during his trip that the Palestinians are awaiting with such excitement, it is likely that he will have little, if anything, to say about how core beliefs held by the Palestinians he is celebrating are used to justify the oppression of their Christian brethren. It is even less likely that he will note that Christians in Israel enjoy greater rights and freedoms than their brethren in any Muslim country. We may only hope that whatever the “Che Guevara of the Palestinians” says in Bethlehem or elsewhere in the Palestinian Authority, that it will not be capable of being exploited, by those persecutors of Christians he seems determined to ignore, to justify their actions and perpetuate that persecution.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 04:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/crucv.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224838" alt="crucv" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/crucv-450x305.jpg" width="315" height="214" /></a>To the awe of its readership, a recent Daily Mail <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616694/Horrifying-scenes-Syria-Islamic-extremists-CRUCIFY-two-fighting-against-Muslims.html">article</a> reports that the “jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant [ISIL],” which is currently entrenched in Raqqa, Syria, “publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syria in revenge for a grenade attack on members of their group.”</p>
<p>While the Daily Mail is to be commended for exposing these barbaric acts—along with posting photos of the crucified—it nonetheless minimized their significance, in two important ways: 1) by repeatedly saying things like “even al-Qaeda is distancing itself from ISIL,” and so implying that the act of crucifixion is some wild aberration that even the poster-child of jihadi terror, al-Qaeda, wants nothing to do with it; and 2) ignoring the much “sexier” story that Christians in Syria are also being crucified simply for refusing to embrace Islam (as opposed to the rather mundane but politically more correct story of Islamic jihadis crucifying each other in the context of vendetta killings).</p>
<p>Consider the atrocities earlier committed in Ma‘loula, Syria, an ancient Christian village where the inhabitants still spoke Aramaic, the language of Christ.</p>
<p>According to recent <a href="http://www.elaph.com/Web/News/2014/4/896409.html">Arabic news media</a>, “a Syrian nun testified to the Vatican news agency that some Christians in Ma‘loula were crucified for refusing to convert to Islam or pay jizya” (tribute subjugated Christians are <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/jizya-vigilantes-target-christian-minorities/">required to pay</a> to their Islamic conquerors in order to exist as Christians, per Koran 9:29).</p>
<p>Incidentally, they were crucified by the al-Qaeda linked Nasra Front (so much for Daily Mail’s portrayal of al-Qaeda “distancing” itself from the apparently “extra-extremist” ISIL for crucifying its victims).</p>
<p>Sister Raghad, the former head of the Patriarchate School in Damascus who currently resides in France, told Vatican Radio how she personally witnessed jihadi rebels terrorize Ma‘loula, including by pressuring Christians to proclaim the <i>shehada</i>—Islam’s credo that there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger—which, when uttered before Muslim witnesses transforms the speaker into a Muslim, with the death penalty for apostasy should the convert later “renege” by returning to Christianity.</p>
<p>According to the nun, those Christians who refused to embrace Islam were</p>
<blockquote><p>killed in atrocious and violent ways that cannot be described.  If you want examples, they crucified two youths in Ma‘loula for refusing to proclaim Islam’s credo, saying to them: “Perhaps you want to die like your teacher [Christ] whom you believe in?  You have two choices: either proclaim the <i>shehada</i> or else be crucified.  One of them was crucified before his father, whom they also killed.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, according to earlier media reports from October 2013, soon after Ma‘loula fell to the jihadis, one “shaky voiced” elderly Christian man had reported that he heard the invading jihadis shouting, “<a href="http://news.naij.com/50888.html">Convert to Islam, or you will be crucified like Jesus</a>.”</p>
<p>It is, of course, a documented fact that some Christians in Ma‘loula were put to death for refusing to convert to Islam, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/armenian-slaughtered-for-refusing-to-renounce-christ/">such as Minas</a>, an Armenian man, while other families <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/armenian-christians-pressured-to-convert-to-islam/">succumbed to pressure</a> and converted to Islam at the tip of the sword.</p>
<p>But it is not clear whether the two crucified Christians mentioned by the nun are among the three men in Ma‘loula who, according to Asia News, “refused to repudiate their religion” and thus “<a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/For-Gregory-III,-Syria's-Greek-Catholic-Church-has-three-true-martyrs-29707.html">were summarily executed in public</a>”—so many and varied were the barbaric acts, including beheadings, rape, and infanticide during the rebel occupation, not to mention <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/">the other massacres in other Christian regions</a> the mainstream media failed to report on.</p>
<p>These three were declared martyrs by the Syrian Greek-Catholic Church, or as Patriarch Gregorios III explained to Pope Francis in a meeting: “Holy Father, they are true martyrs. Ordered to give up their faith, they proudly refused. Three others however gave in and were forced to declare themselves Muslim, but later returned to the faith of their ancestors.”</p>
<p>For his part, and according to a May 3<sup>rd</sup> <a href="http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/daesh-pb-9689474.htm">Arabic report</a>, Pope Francis recently said, “I wept when I saw reports saying that Christians were being crucified in some non-Christian countries.”</p>
<p>The fact is, crucifixion is a prescribed form of punishment in the Koran (5:33) and occurs throughout the Islamic world with much greater frequency than suggested by the Daily Mail.  For example:</p>
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<li>Iraq, June 2008: A Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” were <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=e7649576-0ebe-4b4f-b803-9a2c64449c41">crucifying Christian children</a> in order to terrorize Christians into fleeing Iraq: “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.”</li>
<li>Ivory Coast, May 2011: Two Christian peasant brothers were “<a href="http://barnabasfund.org/Brothers-crucified-by-Ouattara-forces-in-Ivory-Coast.html">brutally crucified</a>” on “the example of Christ” by Muslim forces accusing them of being supportive of the ousted Christian president.  One died, while the other survived: “The pair were badly beaten and tortured before being crudely nailed to cross-shaped planks by their hands and feet with steel spikes.”</li>
<li>Egypt, August 2012: Multiple media agencies <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-brotherhood-crucifies-opponents-attacks-secular-media/">reported</a> that during one uprisal against Islamist president Muhammad Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood operatives crucified some protesters on trees.   Earlier, a Salafi MP in Egypt called for the <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/mp-proposes-sharia-punishments-murder-theft-crimes">penal codification of crucifixion</a>.</li>
<li>Yemen, August 2012, a <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=60c_1346142917">video of a man crucified</a> on the accusation of spying for the U.S. appeared on video.  A sign placed above his head quotes Koran 5:33:  “The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.”</li>
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<p>Of course, if one delves into Islamic history, one learns that crucifixions were extremely common.  For example, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Witnesses-Christ-Christian-Neomartyrs-1437-1860/dp/0881411965"><em>Witnesses For Christ: Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs of the Ottoman Period 1437-1860</em></a> lists crucifixion as one of the many forms thousands of Christians were executed by the Muslim Turks.</p>
<p>And in her memoir, <em>Ravished Armenia</em>, Aurora Mardiganian <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/crucifixion-in-islam-christians-ascend-their-golgotha/">described</a> how in the early twentieth century in the city of Malatia, she saw 16 girls crucified, vultures eating their corpses: “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands,” wrote the Armenian survivor. “Only their hair blown by the wind covered their bodies.”</p>
<p>Prescribed in the Koran itself, crucifixions are as old as Islam and, with the global revival of the latter, are returning with increased frequency.  And, although it is more politically correct to report on jihadis crucifying other jihadis—other terrorists or “spies”—the fact is, many more innocent Christians are being <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20">crucified again</a>, including simply for refusing to embrace Islam and thus renounce Christ.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">This week&#8217;s <strong>Glazov Gang</strong> episode was joined by <strong> Walid Shoebat, </strong>a former Muslim Brotherhood terrorist who turned to love and Christianity. He is the author of his most recent book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-FOR-Islamophobia-Americas/dp/0982567960"><em>The Case for Islamophobia</em></a> and heads the organization <a href="http://rescuechristians.org/">RescueChristians.org</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The narrative of an evil Israel and oppressed Muslims comes undone. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Church_attacks_from_January_2011.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221671" alt="Church_attacks_from_January_2011" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Church_attacks_from_January_2011.jpg" width="294" height="242" /></a>“To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to public disgrace”—Hebrews 6:6</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The United Nations, Western governments, media, universities, and talking heads everywhere insist that Palestinians are suffering tremendous abuses from the state of Israel.  Conversely, the greatest human rights tragedy of our time—radical Muslim persecution of Christians, including in Palestinian controlled areas—is devotedly ignored.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The facts speak for themselves. Reliable estimates indicate that anywhere from 100-200 million Christians are persecuted every year; one Christian is martyred every five minutes. Approximately 85% of this persecution occurs in Muslim majority nations. In 1900, 20% of the Middle East was Christian. Today, less than 2% is.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In one week in Egypt alone, where my Christian family emigrated, the Muslim Brotherhood launched a </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">kristallnacht</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—attacking, destroying, and/or torching some </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130818125428.htm">82 Christian churches</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (some of which were built in the 5</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> century, when Egypt was still a Christian-majority nation before the Islamic conquests).  </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/al-qaeda-flag-flies-high-above-christian-churches/">Al-Qaeda’s black flag</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> has been raised atop churches.  Christians—including priests, women and children—have been </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/in-egypt-media-sympathizes-with-muslim-brotherhood-persecution-of-christians-ignored/">attacked, beheaded, and killed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nor is such persecution of Christians limited to Egypt. From Morocco in the west to Indonesia in the east and from Central Asia to the north to sub-Saharan Africa to the south; across thousands of miles of lands inhabited by peoples who do not share the same races, languages, cultures, and/or socio-economic conditions, millions of Christians are being persecuted and in the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">same exact patterns</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Muslim converts to Christianity and Christian evangelists are attacked, imprisoned, and sometimes beheaded; countless churches across the Islamic world are being banned or bombed; Christian women and children are being abducted, enslaved, raped, and/or forced to renounce their faith. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Far from helping these Christian victims, U.S. policies are actually exacerbating their sufferings.  Whether in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, or Syria, and under the guise of the U.S.-supported “Arab Spring,” things have gotten dramatically worse for Christians.  Indeed, during a recent U.S. congressional hearing, it was revealed that thousands of traumatized Syrian Christians—who, like Iraqi Christians before them are undergoing a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/07/mass-exodus-christians-from-muslim-world/">mass exodus</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from their homeland—were asking “Why is America at war with us?”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The answer is that very few Americans have any clue concerning what is happening to their coreligionists. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Few mainstream media speak about the horrific persecution millions of people are experiencing simply because they wish to worship Christ in peace. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There, is of course, a very important reason why the mainstream media ignores radical Muslim persecution of Christians: if the full magnitude of this phenomenon was ever know, many cornerstones of the mainstream media—most prominent among them, that Israel is oppressive to Palestinians—would immediately crumble.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Why? Because radical Muslim persecution of Christians throws a wrench in the media’s otherwise well-oiled narrative that “radical-Muslim-violence-is-a-product-of-Muslim-grievance”—chief among them Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Consider it this way: because the Jewish state is stronger than its Muslim neighbors, the media can easily portray Islamic terrorists as frustrated “underdogs” doing whatever they can to achieve “justice.”  No matter how many rockets are shot into Tel Aviv by Hamas and Hezbollah, and no matter how anti-Israeli bloodlust is articulated in radical Islamic terms, the media will present such hostility as ironclad proof that Palestinians under Israel are so oppressed that they have no choice but to resort to terrorism. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">However, if radical Islam gets a free pass when violence is directed against those stronger than Muslims, how does one rationalize away Islamic violence when it is directed against those weaker than them—in this case, millions of indigenous Christians? </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The media simply cannot portray radical Muslim persecution of Christians—which in essence and form amount to unprovoked pogroms—as a “land dispute” or a product of “grievance” (if anything, it is the ostracized and persecuted Christian minorities who should have grievances).  And because the media cannot articulate radical Islamic attacks on Christians through the “grievance” paradigm that works so well in explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict, their main recourse is not to report on them at all. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In short, Christian persecution is the clearest reflection of radical Islamic supremacism. Vastly outnumbered and politically marginalized Christians simply wish to worship in peace, and yet </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">still</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> are they hounded and attacked, their churches burned and destroyed, their women and children enslaved and raped. These Christians are often identical to their Muslim co-citizens, in race, ethnicity, national identity, culture, and language; there is no political dispute, no land dispute.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The only problem is that they are Christian</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">and so, Islamists believe according to their scriptural exegesis, must be subjugated.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If mainstream media were to report honestly on Christian persecution at the hands of radical Islamists so many bedrocks of the leftist narrative currently dominating political discourse would crumble, first and foremost, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-dare-you-the-supremacist-nature-of-muslim-grievances/">the idea that radical Islamic intolerance is a product of “grievances,”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and that Israel is responsible for all Jihadist terrorism against it.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2014 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nyt.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-219053" alt="nyt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/nyt.jpg" width="275" height="183" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/world/africa/nigeria-uses-law-and-whip-to-sanitize-gays.html?_r=1"><i>New York Times</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> has finally found a victim of Islamic aggression in Nigeria worth reporting on: homosexuals.   In a big spread complete with pictures appearing last week, the NYT’s Adam Nossiter wrote “Wielding Whip and a Hard New Law, Nigeria Tries to ‘Sanitize’ Itself of Gays.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While it’s all well and good to expose the persecution of any group, why does the NYT remain silent about the much more endemic and savage jihad to “sanitize” Nigeria of Christians—a jihad that has seen countless Christians butchered and countless churches destroyed?  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A 2012 meeting of Nigerian church heads concluded that “the pattern of these killings [of Christians] does suggest to us a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/01/08/Nigeria-Christians-Liken-Attacks-to-Civil-War-Run-Up">systematic ethnic and religious cleansing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.”  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among other things in the group’s bid to cleanse the Muslim-majority north of all Christian presence, it has threatened to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://global.christianpost.com/news/nigerian-christian-leader-claims-boko-haram-to-launch-jihad-with-poisoned-meat-76949/">poison the food eaten by Christians</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and “to strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.persecution.org/2012/03/06/nigerias-boko-haram-wants-to-kidnap-christian-women-says-spokesman/">kidnapping their women</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.” The group frequently storms areas where Christians and Muslims are intermingled—from villages to colleges—and singles the Christians out before </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-executed-by-boko-haram-in-nigeria-believers-pray-for-change-of-heart-82646/">slitting their throats</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.acnuk.org/countries.php/25/nigeria">2011</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> hundreds of Christians were killed and 430 churches destroyed or damaged. In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.persecution.org/2013/05/05/900-christians-slaughtered-in-nigeria-in-2012/">2012</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, 900 Christians were slaughtered.  Indeed, of all Christians killed around the world in 2012, 70% were killed in the west African nation.  In </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.worldwatchlist.us/world-watch-list-countries/nigeria/">2013</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, 612 Christians were killed and some 300 churches destroyed.  The year 2014 promises to be the same.  Just the other day, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/interfaith-outreach-in-nigeria-chanting-allahu-akbar-muslims-murder-over-50-christians">over 50 Christians were slaughtered</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by “Allahu Akbar” screaming jihadis.</span></p>
<p>Thus, from a purely demographical point of view, we may deduce that for every one man who gets exposed as a homosexual in the privacy of his own home, and killed for it, thousands of Christians expose themselves as infidels whenever they openly congregate and worship inside churches, as they do every Sunday, and get killed for it.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Based on numbers alone, then—assuming the NYT can agree that all human lives are equal, that the life of the Christian is equal in value to the life of the homosexual—the dramatically much bigger story has long been the relentless and genocidal jihad on Nigeria’s millions of Christians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But of course, it’s not surprising that the NYT in general, reporter Adam Nossiter in particular, are biased concerning whose plight to highlight.  The NYT and Nossiter are the very ones who, on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—published a spread equivocating the truth concerning the Muslim persecution of Christians in the African nation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then, on Christmas Day, 2011, the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/africa/explosion-rips-through-catholic-church-in-nigeria.html?hp">NYT’s Nossiter</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> declared:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>The sect, known as Boko Haram, <i>until now</i> mostly targeted the police, government and military in its insurgency effort, but the bombings on Sunday <i>represented a new, religion-tinged front</i>, a tactic that threatens to exploit the <i>already frayed relations</i> between Nigeria’s nearly evenly split populations of Christians and Muslims…(emphasis added).</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Until now”?  The fact is Boko Haram had been terrorizing and killing Nigerian Christians and destroying their churches  several years before the 2011 Christmas church bombings. Indeed, Christmas Eve 2010—one year to the day before the 2011 Christmas Eve church attacks—</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/28/islamist-sect-responsibility-nigeria-attacks">Boko Haram bombed several churches, killing 38 Christian worshippers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Thus Nossiter’s</span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">characterization of the 2011 attacks as “represent[ing] a new, religion-tinged front” is not only inaccurate but unconscionable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Moreover, whereas the NYT’s Nossiter asserted that there are “already frayed relations” between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims, he talks of no “frayed relations” between Muslims and homosexuals: he correctly knows that the “fraying” comes from one direction. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And it’s the same concerning Nigeria’s Muslims and Christians—the “fraying” comes from one direction.  Yet, due to Nossiter’s prevarications, the reader is left with the impression that Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims are equally motivated by religious hostility—even as one seeks in vain for Christian terror organizations that bomb mosques in Nigeria every Friday to screams of “Christ is Great!”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When talking about Boko Haram’s jihad on Christians, the NYT’s Nossiter managed to insert another mainstream media favorite: the “poverty-causes-terrorism” meme: “The sect’s attacks [on Christian churches] have been further bolstered by festering economic resentment in the impoverished and relatively neglected north, which has an exploding birthrate, low levels of literacy and mass unemployment.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Needless to say, when writing about the persecution of homosexuals, “festering economic resentment in the impoverished and relatively neglected north”—precisely where homosexuals are most persecuted—is never cited as a contributing factor.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such are the ways that “reality” is created or evaded by the mainstream media and, from there, to the unsuspecting masses of the West. The script must always prevail—reality be damned. </span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The endemic rise of Christian persecution in the Middle East was noted in November when <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/21/pope-francis-says-no-middle-east-without-christian/#ixzz2sCssMzN8">Pope Francis declared</a> “We will not resign ourselves to imagining a Middle East without Christians” and stressed the importance of “the universal right to lead a dignified life and freely practice one’s own faith” after he met with patriarchs from Syria, Iran, and Iraq, all countries where Christian minorities are under attack.</p>
<p>On the other hand, powers best placed to do something about the plight of Mideast Christians—namely, the U.S. Obama administration—made it clear that they would do nothing, even when well leveraged to do so.</p>
<p>In November, the wife of American pastor Saeed Abedini, who has been imprisoned in Iran for over a year for practicing Christianity, said she and her family were devastated after learning that the Obama administration did not try to secure the release of her husband as part of the newly signed deal on Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>“The talks over Iran’s nuclear program were seen by his [Abedini’s] family and those representing them as one of the most promising avenues yet for securing his release,” said <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/25/wife-imprisoned-pastor-says-family-devastated-after-iran-deal/">Fox News</a>. “But the White House confirmed over the weekend that Abedini’s status was not on the table during those talks.”</p>
<p>“I don’t think we have any more leverage,” said Abedini’s wife. “We now have to consider other avenues and having other countries speak out because our country when we could have used our leverage chose to stay silent.”</p>
<p>The rest of November’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity:</p>
<p align="center"><b>Islamic Attacks on Christian Places of Worship</b></p>
<p><b>Lebanon:</b> An unidentified attacker <a href="http://www.annahar.com/article/82852-%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%89-%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86">firebombed the reception area of the newly built Christian cathedral</a> of the town’s patron Saint, Mar Zakhya.  Despite the loud boom heard in the town’s main square, there was limited damage; some building material used for the building process of the cathedral was destroyed.  Although Lebanon was Christian-majority in the mid-20th century, today it is roughly 60% Muslim, 40% Christian.</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>: Police and security forces used a truck and two land cruisers to batter down the fence around Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, before <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Authorities-break-into-church-property-in-Sudan-beat-and-arrest-Christians.html">breaking into the church and beating and arresting the Christians present</a> as Muslim onlookers shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is greater”).  The government, which has been destroying or taking over church buildings in retaliation to the secession of the mainly Christian South Sudan in July 2011, is believed to be behind the move, on the pretext that parts of the church’s property actually belong to a Muslim business investor.</p>
<p><b>Syria</b>: Nine children were killed and 27 people wounded after Islamic rebels targeted and fired mortar rounds at the <a href="http://www.alhadathnews.net/archives/103798">St. John of Damascus Christian School</a> and the school bus. Also, the aftermath of the rebel invasion and occupation of the city of Qamishli in the northeast near the Turkish border revealed and included—among other atrocities such as killing and beheading Christians and their clergy—the destruction of all Christian icons in the local church and <a href="http://www.alhadathnews.net/archives/103798">theft of the church’s most prized possession</a>, a reportedly two-thousand year-old icon of the face of Christ.</p>
<p><strong>Turkey:</strong> Historically the oldest Christian place of worship in Istanbul, the ancient monastery of San Giovanni in Studion founded in 462, currently classified as a museum, <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34797-ASIA_TURKEY_The_oldest_Christian_place_of_worship_will_become_a_mosque_in_Istanbul#.Uq40_1tDvA8">is now going to serve as a mosque</a>. This would be the third ancient Christian building and heritage site to be set to be transformed into a mosque.  Earlier it was announced that the ancient churches of Hagia Sophia (St. Sophia) in Trabzon and in Iznik would also be turned into mosques.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Islamic Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>India</b>:  TJ Joseph, a Christian college professor, was finally acquitted of all blasphemy charges, though he is still missing an arm. Back in 2010 he had his <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/TJ-Joseph,-Christian-teacher-accused-of-blasphemy-%28and-mutilated%29-is-fully-acquitted-29549.html">right hand and part of his arm cut off</a> by a group of men, following accusations that some of his exams contained offensive questions about Islam’s prophet Muhammad.  Although he had apologized, after he was mutilated, he was also fired by his college.  According to one source: the most serious aspects of this episode “was the attitude of the police, who registered the complaint against him and also arrested him, and of the institution, which has suspended him from duty. Fortunately, the Mahatma Gandhi University, to which Newman College is affiliated, revoked the decision of the school authorities and has offered him his job back.”</p>
<p><b>Iran</b>: The fate of Hossein Saketi Aramsari, a Christian known as “Stephen” among his friends, remained unknown.  Iran’s secret police arrested him back in July, 2013, on suspicions that he was engaging in “<a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/31247-iran-detains-christian-for-evangelism">evangelistic activities</a>.”  According to sources, apparently to increase pressure on him, authorities transferred him from one jail to another; he has also been in solitary confinement.  Then, in October, a judge of the local Revolutionary Court “officially charged him with doing evangelism.”  It is believed that he is currently held in the same prison where Benham Irani, another Christian “prisoner of conscience” is being held, abused, and refused medical treatment, also on the charge of proselytizing. Explaining this rise in crackdowns on evangelizing, Mohabat News said, “Conversion of youth and their families has become a major concern for the Iranian security authorities and Islamic leaders.”  Separately, a former Muslim and drug addict who twice attempted to commit suicide before he converted to Christianity at a rehabilitation center at the hands of another former Muslim and ex-drug addict woman who had earlier become Christian, was, according to those close to him, falsely convicted of selling drugs in the facility, severely beaten, and sentenced to prison, after authorities learned that he himself had begun to proselytize in the rehabilitation center. Police also temporarily arrested Armin Davoodi’s parents at their home and confiscated his personal belongings, including the Bibles he used to take to the rehabilitation center.  Relatives with strong government connections were able to get him released under numerous conditions, including a requirement that he state in writing that Christians had misled him into the faith and that <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/11/convert-from-islam-flees-iranian-authorities-torture-threats/">he would never again go to a church or talk to other Muslims about the Gospel</a>, and that if he did, he would be executed by the state.  So he agreed to their proposal and has since fled.</p>
<p><strong>Pakistan:</strong> Blasphemy cases against Christians have reached an all-time high.  Four such cases <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34793-ASIA_PAKISTAN_Alarm_among_Christians_the_scourge_of_blasphemy_gets_worse_four_cases_in_a_month#.Uq41uVtDvA8">were reported in November</a>, which, according to activists, is four times higher than the monthly average recorded over the past two years. Activists and clergy further stressed that the overwhelming majority of blasphemy accusations are being used as “instruments of revenge” against Christians, as a sure way to see them get punished for whatever real or imagined grievance accusing Muslims may have.  Separately, Younis Masih, a 35-year-old Christian who had been <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34805-ASIA_PAKISTAN_The_Christian_Younis_Masih_sentenced_to_death_for_blasphemy_has_been_released#.Uq40WFtDvA8">imprisoned and sentenced to death on blasphemy</a> charges since 2005, was finally released after judges decreed he did not blaspheme Islam.  He and his family are still in hiding since some Muslims still seek to kill him despite his being cleared of the blasphemy charge.  According to Younis: “I have four children and I have no job, no one is helping me. I live with the fear of being killed.”  And in the words of his lawyer: “Christians in Pakistan fear threats, attacks, violence, discrimination and hatred. The law of blasphemy is always a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads: Their life is not safe even after their release from prison.”</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>: A Muslim convert to Christianity living in Mogadishu was <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/11/christian-shot-dead-in-mogadishu-somalia/">killed by Islamic gunmen accusing him of spreading the faith</a>.  Two men armed with pistols shot Abdikhani Hassan, 35, seven times as he approached his home after closing his pharmacy. He is survived by his wife, who is pregnant, and five children ranging in age from 3 to 12.  He and his wife converted to Christianity back in 2000.  Before killing him, one of the assailants told a neighbor, “We have information that Hassan is spreading wrong religion to our people, and we are looking for him.”  According to a source, “The men who murdered Abdikhani [Hassan] are suspected to be Al Shabaab militia,” the Somali wing of al-Qaeda which has vowed to cleanse the country of any Christian presence.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><strong>Turkey:</strong> A Christian pastor was reportedly arrested on charges of organizing human trafficking and prostitution.  The Christian community of Agape (or “Brotherly Love”) Church, where Orhan Picaklar, 42, is pastor, insists that he is innocent, and that “the allegations are entirely instrumental, as the Pastor was under observation for suspected ‘<a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34766-ASIA_TURKEY_Protestant_Christian_Pastor_arrested_on_false_charges_of_human_trafficking#.Uq42GltDvA8">illegal missionary activity</a>.’”  Later, the church where the Agape community meets was damaged by vandals, although the congregation has obtained the formal status of “association” in 2005 (as with other Christian communities in Turkey, the government does not grant official recognition of “church” to new communities).<b><br />
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<p align="center"><b>Dhimmitude</b></p>
<p><b>Central African Republic</b>: 450,000 Christians have fled their homes in the 80% Christian-majority nation since the Islamic takeover in March 2013.  Then, Seleka—a coalition of local and foreign Arabic-speaking Islamic militias—seized control of the capital, Bangui, in <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20131127122830.htm">an orgy of violence, bloodshed, and rape</a>, against Christians.  As one analyst put it, “But Seleka does not rape, loot and kill indiscriminately. Rather, Seleka attacks Christians and spares Muslims, causing traditional community trust to evaporate, and creating a sectarian tinderbox.”  And in fact, Christians, who make the majority of the African nation, are fighting back, leading to an extremely volatile situation.  Christian Bishop Albert Vanbuel stated “a rebellion of religious extremism with evil intentions, characterized by profanation and planned destruction of religious buildings, especially Catholic and Protestant churches” is now in power.</p>
<p><strong>Egypt:</strong> Three months after the Egyptian military liberated Delga from Muslim Brotherhood supporters and sympathizers—who were forcing Christians to pay jizya, or tribute, for right of life—they continued to terrorize Christians in other towns across Egypt.  Especially throughout regions in Upper Egypt like Minya, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/11/christians-again-terrorized-in-delga-other-parts-of-egypt/">extortionists using the threat of kidnap, torture and murder seized money, land and other property from Christians</a>.  One Copt was tied by his kidnappers as they repeatedly shot an automatic rifle next to his ear.   According to Morning Star News, “Besides the emotional damage he suffered, the shockwaves exiting the rifle combined with the muzzle blast shattered the Christian’s eardrums and burned his face. The Copt begged his family to gather the ransom money, and eventually they paid the kidnappers some 50,000 Egyptian pounds (US$7,260). He returned to his family shattered and unable to speak of the ordeal until recently.” According to the founder of the Maspero Union, targeting Christians in the context of seizing their money and property is seen “as a religious duty.”  The director of a human rights organization in Upper Egypt said, “This past month alone, we had nine cases of kidnapping in Minya, and they all paid their ransom, which was between 100,000 and 250,000 Egyptian pounds [US$14,500 to $36,300] for each case.”  Separately in Minya, after a Coptic boy was accused of being in a relationship with a Muslim girl, “Muslims <a href="http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/11/29/sectarian-violence-in-minya-leaves-five-dead/">burnt down the house</a> of the boy’s father and an adjacent house.”</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: After kidnapping a teenage Christian girl named Hajja, members of the Boko Haram terrorist organization kept her as a slave, eventually putting a knife to her throat and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/17/us-nigeria-security-islamists-insight-idUSBRE9AG04120131117">offering her one of two choices: convert to Islam or die</a>.  “If I cried, they beat me. If I spoke, they beat me. They told me I must become a Muslim but I refused again and again…  They were about to slaughter me and one of them begged me not to resist and just before I had my throat slit I relented. They put a veil on me and made me read from the Koran.”  According to Reuters, “She ceremonially converted to Islam, cooked for the men, carried ammunition during an attack on a police outpost and was about to be married to one of the insurgents before she managed to engineer a dramatic escape. She says she was not raped.” Recounting how her captors used her to lure people into traps, the 19-year-old told Reuters, and “They took them back to a cave and tied them up. They cut their throats, one at a time.  I thought my heart would burst out of my chest, because I was the bait.”  Among those who did the slaughtering was the Muslim wife of a leader, the only other woman in the band of jihadi terrorists.  Separately, a Baptist high school principal and some teachers <a href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/news-headlines/item/27157-hijab-school-principal,-teachers-beaten-to-a-pulp-in-osun.html">were beaten to a “pulp” and “state of coma”</a> at the hands of “unknown persons,” who used, among other weapons, axes.  The reason was that the school had earlier sent home a female student for wearing a veil, or Islamic hijab, while on school premises.  Finally, over 70 Christians were killed by what were described as “Islamic extremists”: Boko Haram terrorists killed 34 Christians in Borno state, while “Muslim herdsmen” slaughtered 37 Christians, injured dozens, and looted and destroyed their homes, in coordinated attacks on four Plateau state villages.</p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: An entire Christian community has been forced to flee a Lyarni neighborhood known as the “Slaughter House,” due to the endemic <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/629740/migrating-out-lyari-forces-its-christians-residents-to-move-out/">killings, rapes of young girls, thefts, drug dealing, and extortions</a>.  Before surrounding Muslims began their incursions, the residential area was 90% Christian, 10% Hindu, with four churches and three temples. “It is almost empty now,” disclosed a Christian elder of a Christian family. “We all are separated now. We won’t be reunited again.” “A lot of the families have left the compound since 2008, after their daughters were kidnapped and raped,” claimed another community elder. “No one knows where they have gone.” He recalled an incident when a teenage girl, who was dancing at her brother’s wedding, was kidnapped. “Her parents, brother and relatives cried and appealed to the kidnappers but they didn’t listen,” he narrated. “She was dishonoured and was left outside the compound the next morning. That family was never seen in the city again.”</p>
<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>While not all, or even most Muslims are involved, the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1)    To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2)    To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws that criminalize and punish with death those who “offend” Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of <em>jizya</em> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <em>dhimmis</em>, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Reports</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/" target="_blank">October, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/" target="_blank">September, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/" target="_blank">November, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/" target="_blank">October, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/" target="_blank">July, 2011</a></li>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 05:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama's policies are threatening Christians in Syria and elsewhere.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Syrian_Church_Destroyed_03_540x404.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218295" alt="Syrian_Church_Destroyed_03_540x404" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Syrian_Church_Destroyed_03_540x404-450x336.jpg" width="315" height="235" /></a>The Times of London </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/west-bankrolls-free-syrian-army-fightback/story-fnb64oi6-1226820979028">reported Thursday</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that “the West and Gulf states are funding a new military offensive by rebel forces around Damascus in an effort to throw the Assad regime on to the back foot before a second round of Syria peace talks. The assault marks an attempt by the Free Syrian Army and its allies abroad to reassert control after months of rebel infighting.” The chief victim of this funding, however, may not be Bashar Assad, but the nation’s Christians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The report notes that the Obama government “has established a training base for the FSA, say rebel field commanders. It includes $57 million in cash to pay the rebels.” The U.S. is also supplying weapons: “late last month, the US approved a supply of a big shipment of arms to rebels in Jordan.” This aid is supposed to go to the “moderates” of the Free Syrian Army in order to help them counter Syrian rebel forces that are aligned with al Qaeda.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On the ground in Syria, however, the distinctions between the various anti-Assad groups are often not easy to discern, especially since U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar have “channelled the lion’s share of funding and weapons to hardline religious factions such as the Islamic Front,” and the rebel factions are not fighting each other, but are all fighting against Assad. Another U.S. ally, Turkey, has likewise aided the anti-Assad forces.</span></p>
<p>All these groups are not just battling Assad; they’re also fighting against the nation’s Christians. This is true not just of the al Qaeda groups, but of the Obama-backed Free Syrian Army as well. In July 2013, Free Syrian Army fighters <a href="http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2013/08/christians-massacred-by-free-syrian-army-terrorists-rebels/">entered the Christian village of Oum Sharshouh</a> and began burning down houses and terrorizing the population, forcing 250 Christian families to flee the area. <a href="http://www.worthynews.com/12470-free-syrian-army-massacre-christian-village">Worthy News reported</a> that just two days later, Free Syrian Army rebels “targeted the residents of al-Duwayr/Douar, a Christian village close to the city of Homs and near Syria’s border with Lebanon….Around 350 armed militants forcefully entered the homes of Christian families who were all rounded-up in the main square of the village and then summarily executed.”</p>
<p>In September 2013, a day after Secretary of State John Kerry praised the Free Syrian Army as “a real moderate opposition,” the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/07/Syrians-Rebels-Kerry-Called-Moderate-Post-Videos-Of-Their-Attack-On-Christian-Town">FSA took to the Internet</a> to post videos of its attack on the ancient Syrian Christian city of Maaloula, one of the few places where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still spoken.</p>
<p>This is just the faction Obama is backing. The rebel factions funded by our “allies” Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey behave even worse toward the Christians.</p>
<p>Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham, who lives in Damascus, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/syria-islamic-jihadists-plant-bombs-in-confessional-box-of-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-churches">explained in October 2013</a> that the persecution was the result of the perception that the Syrian Christians supported the Assad regime: “Some people are saying that we Christians are the friends of the regime, but we are not, we are just ordinary Syrians, and we pray for all. Besides, even if we are for the regime, that is our right as free people.”</p>
<p>Back in May 2011, the Patriarch wrote to Western leaders <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/melkite-patriarch-dont-encourage-mideast-revolutions">asking them</a> not to intervene in Syria: “Our Arab countries are not ready for revolutions, and not even for democracy of the European kind and model. I am asking the West not to encourage revolutions unconditionally here and there in the Arab world.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This request went unheeded; yet now the reason why it was so sagacious is abundantly clear. Late in January a delegation of Syrian Christian leaders went to Washington at the invitation of the Westminster Institute and Barnabas Aid in order, according to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.westminster-institute.org/articles/syrian-christian-leaders-in-washington/">a statement</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> issued by the Westminster Institute, “to raise awareness of the humanitarian catastrophe that the Syrian conflict has become, and to explore concrete steps that can be taken by the United States to help end the crisis and to protect Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities in Syria.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/02/gop-sen-apologizes-for-mccain-tantrum-at-syrian-christian-leader-meeting/">a Judicial Watch report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, at least one of the meetings could have gone better: “Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, evidently doesn’t want to hear negative stories about the rebels he’s working to arm. So he stormed out of a closed-door meeting with the Syrian clergy officials last week….McCain marched into the committee room yelling, according to a high-level source that attended the meeting, and quickly stormed out. ‘He was incredibly rude,’ the source told Judicial Watch, ‘because he didn’t think the Syrian church leaders should even be allowed in the room.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Was McCain lashing out so disgracefully in an attempt to silence his guilty conscience? If he doesn’t have a guilty conscience, he should. He bears primary responsibility for the fact that Obama’s avidity to arm and fund the Free Syrian Army enjoys bipartisan support. There is no national political figure in Washington who is speaking up for the Syrian Christians or pointing out that all the Syrian rebel factions are Islamic jihadists who have vowed to establish an Islamic state in Syria after Assad falls – a state that will impose Islamic law and institutionalize discrimination against and harassment of Christians in a state where they have enjoyed relative freedom and tolerance for decades.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Through all this, American Christian leaders remain largely silent, either ignorant of or indifferent to the suffering of their brethren in Syria and all over the Middle East, and sanguine about the role of the U.S. government in abetting and perpetuating that persecution. One hopes that this will not continue. The only hope for Middle Eastern Christians may be for their American coreligionists to realize before it is too late that to shrug their shoulders and ask, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” does not absolve them of the responsibility to stand for justice even when it is difficult, or harms the “dialogue” they are enjoying with Muslim leaders in this country.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Christians are embattled and defensive in Obama’s America today, but that is no excuse. Churches of all denominations and Christian groups need to pressure their elected representatives to end this madness of aiding the Syrian jihadist rebels. If those rebels prevail, the Christians of Syria will not be their only victims; the reverberations of that victory will ultimately be felt even in the comfortable suburban churches outlying America’s cities. For the global jihad will not, having toppled Assad, hang up its weapons and retire on its laurels. It will, instead, turn to fresh Infidel targets, and not exempt from its wrath fond and foolish Infidels like John McCain, who probably thinks that the FSA owes him a lot of favors and will help him out when the chips are down. It won’t. “The appeaser,” said Winston Churchill, “is the man who feeds a crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last.” The jihadis may eat McCain and all their other Washington friends last. But eat them they will.</span></p>
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		<title>Al-Qaeda: Defender of Christians?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The jihadis try to protect their Achilles' Heel.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/zaw.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-217931" alt="zaw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/zaw.jpg" width="280" height="180" /></a>Muslim persecution of Christians is the “Achilles&#8217; Heel” of the global Islamic movement’s image—the surest way of exposing its supremacist and intolerant elements and one of the main reasons the major media and establishment rarely report or address it.</p>
<p>The logic (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-dare-you-the-supremacist-nature-of-muslim-grievances/">fully explained here</a>) can be summarized as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>Islamic and jihadi attacks targeting the West or Israel pose no problem to the image of Islam.  No matter how violent or brutal, no matter how many Islamic slogans are shrieked—“Allah commands the subjugation of infidels!”—Muslim violence against the West and Israel will always be dismissed as desperate acts of disempowered, oppressed, and frustrated Muslims—the “underdogs,” which the West tends to romanticize.</p></blockquote>
<p>And so they will always get a free pass, without further reflection.</p>
<p>But if jihadis get a free pass when their violence is directed against those stronger than them, how does one rationalize away their violence when it is directed against those weaker than them—in this case, the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-existential-elephant-in-the-christian-persecution-room/">millions of Christians being persecuted today by Muslims across 41 nations</a>?</p>
<p>This is the dilemma that none other than <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/ayman-zawahiri-and-egypt-a-trip-through-time/">Ayman al-Zawahiri</a>, chief of al-Qaeda, understands.</p>
<p>A few days ago, the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/al-qaida-leader-opposes-fighting-christians-135356312.html">Associated Press</a> reported that:</p>
<blockquote><p>It was a rare call by Ayman al-Zawahri in defense of Christians, who largely supported the popularly backed coup against Mohammed Morsi and were subsequently targeted by a wave of violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>In an audio message posted on militant websites, al-Zawahri said it was not in the interest of Muslims to be engaged with the Christians because “we have to be busy confronting the Americanized coup of (Gen. Abdel-Fattah) el-Sissi and establish an Islamic government instead.”</p>
<p>El-Sissi is Egypt&#8217;s defense minister who overthrew Morsi after millions of Egyptians protested to demand he step down. The head of the Coptic church supported the coup along with other groups.</p>
<p>“We must not seek war with the Christians and thus give the West an excuse to blame Muslims, as has happened before,” al-Zawahiri said.</p>
<p>Although Maamoun Youssef, the AP reporter who wrote this story, portrays it as “<i>a rare call</i> by Ayman al-Zawahri <i>in defense</i> of Christians,” and although the report is titled “Al-Qaida leader <i>opposes</i> fighting Christians,” in fact, Zawahiri’s communique has nothing to do with “defending Christians” or “opposing” the overall jihad on them.</p>
<p>Indeed, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/al-qaeda-flag-flies-high-above-christian-churches/">Zawahiri himself</a> played an important role in inciting mass violence against Coptic Christians following the anti-Islamist June 2013 Revolution—leading to the destruction of some 80 churches, some with al-Qaeda flags planted atop them.</p>
<p>Moreover, Zawahiri’s like-minded brother and Salafi front-man, Muhammad, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/al-qaeda-to-morsi-execute-all-christians-and-secularists-who-oppose-sharia/">allegedly called ousted president Morsi while he was still in office</a>, insisting that the latter take measures to force Christians to pay jizya and live in abject humiliation, according to Koran 9:29.</p>
<p>Instead, Zawahiri’s rationale for this communique “in defense of Christians” is that, in his own words, “We must not seek war with the Christians <i>and thus give the West an excuse to blame Muslims</i>.”</p>
<p>Zawahiri knows that Islamic jihadis waging terrorist attacks on Egypt’s military and state targets will be portrayed in the West as oppressed and frustrated “freedom fighters” doing whatever is necessary to overthrow “tyrannical” powers.</p>
<p>But such “heroic” depictions disappear once these same jihadis persecute the unarmed Christian minorities in their midst <i>simply for being Christian</i>.</p>
<p>Zawahiri understands that, not only are such attacks strategically ineffective—kill all the Copts you want, it won’t bring Morsi back—but they unequivocally expose the true face of the “freedom fighters,” one that can only be seen as inherently fascistic and intolerant.</p>
<p>And the fear that Zawahiri and others have is that some people in the West might actually begin to connect the dots and conclude that, if jihadis persecute Christian minorities simply because they are non-Muslim “infidels,” perhaps that is also <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-dare-you-the-supremacist-nature-of-muslim-grievances/">the true reason they are at war with Israel, the West, and non-Muslims everywhere</a>.</p>
<p>Perhaps the jihad is less about political and territorial “grievances” and more about religious intolerance and Islamic supremacism—as unprovoked attacks on disenfranchised non-Muslim minorities clearly indicate; as al-Qaeda’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/an-analysis-of-al-qaidas-worldview/">once clandestine writings to fellow Muslims indicate</a>.</p>
<p>Hence, the true reason why the astute Zawahiri is trying to call off the jihad on Christians.</p>
<p>For now, anyway.</p>
<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim is author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.</i></a></strong><i> </i></p>
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		<title>Kerry:  Post-Assad Syria Will Be &#8216;Pluralistic&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kerry-riyadh_2499344b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217282" alt="kerry-riyadh_2499344b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/kerry-riyadh_2499344b-450x347.jpg" width="315" height="243" /></a>U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, was recently </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/webtv/2014/01/23/EXCLUSIVE-Kerry-says-Assad-not-ready-for-solution-1887.html">interviewed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about Syria.  While many of his assertions can be debated, one especially requires a response.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Throughout the interview, he repeatedly insisted that, if Bashar Assad would only leave power, everything would go well — especially for all of Syria’s minorities.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In his words: “I believe that a peace can protect all of the minorities: Druze, Christian, Isma‘ilis, Alawites — all of them can be protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights of all people are protected.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Elsewhere in the interview, Kerry declared that “The world would protect the Alawites, Druze, Christians, and all minorities in Syria after the ousting of Assad.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The problem here is that we have </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">precedent</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> — exact precedent.  We’ve seen this paradigm before and know </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">precisely</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> what happens once strongman dictators like Assad are gone.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/">demonstrated in this article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, in all Muslim nations where the U.S. has intervened to help topple dictators and bring democracy, it is precisely the minorities who suffer first.  And neither the U.S. nor “the world” do much about it.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After the U.S. toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Christian minorities were savagely attacked and slaughtered, and dozens of their churches were bombed (see here for </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/in-the-media/graphic-images-of-christian-persecution-under-islam/">graphic images</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">). Indeed, Christians have been </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-silent-extermination-of-iraqs-christian-dogs/">terrorized into near-extinction</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, so that today, a decade after the ousting of Saddam, more than half of them have fled Iraq.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The “world” did nothing.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ever since U.S.-backed, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists overthrew Libya’s Qaddafi, Christians—</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/three-american-teachers-slaughtered-for-christian-faith-in-muslim-world/">including Americans</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—have been </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">tortured</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and killed (including </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/two-egyptian-christians-slain-in-libya/">for refusing to convert</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">), their </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">churches bombed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, and their </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamists-chase-nuns-from-Libya,-people-pray-for-their-return-27021.html">nuns threatened</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Not much “pluralism” there.</span></p>
<p>Once the Muslim Brotherhood replaced Mubarak in Egypt — and all with U.S. support — the persecution of Copts practically became legalized, as unprecedented numbers of Christians—men, women, and children—were arrested, often receiving more than double the maximum prison sentence, under the accusation that they had <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/arab-spring-egypts-legal-persecution-of-christians/">“blasphemed” Islam and/or its prophet</a>.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Not only did the U.S. do nothing — it </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obama-to-egyptian-christians-dont-protest-the-brotherhood/">asked the Coptic Church</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> not to join the June Revolution that led to the ousting of the Brotherhood and Muhammad Morsi.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In short, where the U.S. works to overthrow secular autocrats, the quality of life for Christians and other minorities takes a major nosedive. In Saddam’s Iraq, Qaddafi’s Libya, and Assad’s Syria (before the U.S.-sponsored war), Christians and their churches were largely protected.</span></p>
<p>Today, Syria is the third worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq is fourth, Libya 13th, and Egypt 22nd.  Such are the fruits of U.S. intervention in the name of “democracy.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So how can anyone, especially Christians and other minorities, have any confidence in Kerry’s repeated assurances that religious minorities will be safeguarded once secular strongman Assad is gone — and by the “world” no less — leading to a “pluralistic” Syria?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And from an American point of view, what are we to make of Kerry?  Is the U.S. Secretary of State </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">that</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> deluded and detached from reality, or, as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/09/04/vlad-impales-kerry-on-syria/">Russian President Vladimir Putin once accused Kerry</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, also in the context of Syria: “he is lying and knows he is lying. It’s sad.”</span></p>
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		<title>Killings of Christians by Islamists Doubled in 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will President Obama remain silent to the slaughter? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Egyptian-Copts-are-the-la-008.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216639" alt="Egyptian Copts are the largest community of Christians left in the Middle East" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Egyptian-Copts-are-the-la-008.jpg" width="290" height="214" /></a>According to Open Doors, a non-denominational group that supports persecuted Christians worldwide, the official number of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled in 2013, compared to 2012. According to the annual survey, the number of Christians killed in Syria in 2013 comes to more than the whole global total of 2012. Approximately 13 percent of the Syrian population is made up of Christians.</p>
<p>In the list of nations with the highest number of killings of Christians, Syria was followed by Nigeria, Pakistan, and Egypt. In its 2014 World Watch List, Somalia comes in at the top of the list— moving from fifth to second place— followed by Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Maldives, Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Iran and Yemen.</p>
<p>The survey conducted by Open Doors only counts the numbers of Christian who are killed, reported in the media, and confirmed. Some estimates by other surveys indicate the number exceeds 10,000 deaths. Open Doors has reported that it documented 2,123 killings, compared to the 1,201 in 2012. In 2013, 1,213 of these people were killed in Syria alone. &#8220;This is a very minimal count based on what has been reported in the media and we can confirm,&#8221; said Frans Veerman, head of research for Open Doors.</p>
<p>The report revealed that &#8220;Islamist extremism is the worst persecutor of the worldwide church,&#8221; adding that in 36 countries on the report’s list, radical Muslims were the key source behind these persecutions and killings. Michel Varton, head of Open Doors France, told journalists in Strasbourg, &#8220;In Syria, another war is thriving in the shadow of the civil war &#8211; the war against the church.&#8221;</p>
<p>The intriguing issue is that various Islamist rebel groups— including Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham brigade, and other Al-Qaeda-linked groups— are still promising minorities (particularly Christians) that they will have a peaceful life if they support them and if the Islamists come to power. It would be interesting to see an Islamist group provide an example of an Islamist state that has provided full rights for religious and ethnic minorities since the emergence of Islam. Astonishingly, these Islamists groups still emphasize that the rights of religious minorities will be preserved.</p>
<p>This is just another strategic tactic to take control of the states and then impose Sharia and Islamic laws, discriminate against minorities, jail and imprison non-Muslims, and persecute minorities— particularly Christians and Jews.</p>
<p>The first laws that they will pass when they come to power will include: Islam will be declared the sole religion of the state, the law of the land will come from the Sharia, other religions will not be recognized, Christians and other minorities will not be able to run for office, women will not be full citizens, and more. Some other, more ridiculous, Sharia laws may also be implemented, including how women cannot sit on chairs or drive any kind of transportation.</p>
<p>There are many examples of these types of promises made by Islamist groups before they come to power in the history of Islam. For example, the Islamist party of Iran galvanized the support of women and minorities by promising change, yet later imposed the most brutal and barbaric laws against them. These examples existed for the last 1400 years, since the rise of Islam.</p>
<p>Additionally, how can Christians trust the Islamists when they have been executing their own members for the sake of power and for violating Sharia and Allah’s laws?</p>
<p>This week, according to several national and international news outlets and activists on the ground, the Islamist State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has executed dozens of other Islamist rebels in Syria.  ISIL, an Al-Qaeda-linked group, has regained most of the territory it lost in the northeastern Raqqa province. Accordingly, approximately 100 rebel fighters from the Nusra Front— another Al-Qaeda-linked group and Ahrar al-Sham brigade— were executed after being captured by ISIL. Reuters quoted activists as saying that the rebel fighters were captured in the town of Tel Abiad, on the border with Turkey.</p>
<p>ISIL has launched its campaign to build an Islamist caliphate, combining Syria and Iraq through brutalizing the civilians, government forces, and rebel-held areas, while gaining territories and executing those they say have violated Sharia and Islamic law. An unnamed activist said to Reuters,<i> </i>&#8220;About 70 bodies, most shot in the head, were collected and sent to the Raqqa National hospital,&#8221;<i> </i>adding, &#8220;Many of those executed had been wounded in the fighting. The fact that Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham are ideologically similar to the ISIL did not matter.”</p>
<p>It seems that believing in one God, Muhammad, the Quran, and all Islamic and Sharia laws does not matter for the Islamists when it comes to gaining power.  Although, their major argument is that they respect those who believe in Allah and Muslims, history has shown that during the last thousand years what truly matters for Islamists is power and rule.</p>
<p>Prince Charles has decried the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries. Dr. David Curry, CEO and president of Open Doors USA, told The Blaze, “We’re going to motivate the U.S. to pay attention to this issue as a critical component of creating free societies and to support Christians wherever they may be in the world.” Now is the time to observe whether President Obama is also going to issue any statement supporting the persecuted Christians around the world.</p>
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