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		<title>Christians ‘Crucified Again’ for Refusing Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 04:30:24 +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/2014/05/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>
<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>Raymond Ibrahim and Erick Stakelbeck Expose Christian Persecution in Muslim Lands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 04:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Shillman Fellow Raymond Ibrahim recently appeared on “Stakelbeck on Terror” to discuss the topic of his new book, <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> with Erick Stakelbeck. Click <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=Y2BKMV7DFZXY">here </a>to order this must-read.</span></b></p>
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		<title>The Forgotten Genocide: Why It Matters Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_187010" style="width: 267px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/armen1.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-187010" alt="armen1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/armen1.jpg" width="257" height="166" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A still frame from the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls, which portrayed eye witnessed events from the Armenian Genocide, including crucified Christian girls.</p></div>
<p>Yesterday, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the Armenian genocide that took place under Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire, during and after WWI.  Out of an approximate population of two million, some 1.5 million Armenians died. If early 20<sup>th </sup>century Turkey had the apparatuses and technology to execute in mass—such as 1940s Germany’s gas chambers—the entire Armenian population may well have been decimated.  Most <a href="http://www.anca.org/genocide/denial.php">objective American historians </a>who have studied the question unequivocally agree that it was a deliberate, calculated genocide:</p>
<blockquote><p>More than one million Armenians perished as the result of execution, starvation, disease, the harsh environment, and physical abuse.  A people who lived in eastern Turkey for nearly 3,000 years [more than double the amount of time the invading Islamic Turks had occupied Anatolia, now known as “Turkey”] lost its homeland and was profoundly decimated in the first large-scale genocide of the twentieth century.  At the beginning of 1915 there were some two million Armenians within Turkey; today there are fewer than 60,000….  Despite the vast amount of evidence that points to the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide, eyewitness accounts, official archives, photographic evidence, the reports of diplomats, and the testimony of survivors, denial of the Armenian Genocide by successive regimes in Turkey has gone on from 1915 to the present.</p></blockquote>
<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Indeed, evidence has been overwhelming.  U.S. Senate Resolution 359 from 1920 <a href="http://middleeast.about.com/od/turkey/a/me090318d.htm">heard testimony </a>that included evidence of “[m]utilation, violation, torture, and death [which] have left their haunting memories in a hundred beautiful Armenian valleys, and the traveler in that region is seldom free from the evidence of this most colossal crime of all the ages.”  In her memoir, Ravished Armenia, <a href="http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/online_exhibition_6.php">Aurora Mardiganian</a> described being raped and thrown into a harem (which agrees with <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">Islam’s rules of war</a>).  Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were discarded after being defiled, she managed to escape. In the city of Malatia, she saw <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=r_O_lkCGHOsC&amp;pg=PA107&amp;lpg=PA107&amp;dq=%E2%80%9CEach+girl+had+been+nailed+alive+upon+her+cross,+spikes+through+her+feet+and+hands,%E2%80%9D&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=610-sOzCgq&amp;sig=3Na9l_6_2Bci2ulLu7HOFVxsYD0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=cAp4UYyRIqXriwK0rYGICw&amp;ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&amp;q=%E2%80%9CEach%20girl%20had%20been%20nailed%20alive%20upon%20her%20cross%2C%20spikes%20through%20her%20feet%20and%20hands%2C%E2%80%9D&amp;f=false">16 Christian girls crucified</a>: “Each girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.”  Such scenes were portrayed in the 1919 documentary film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnCaW-Uo_s&amp;feature=youtu.be">Auction of Souls</a>, some of which is based on Mardiganian’s memoirs.</span></b></p>
<p>What do Americans know of the Armenian Genocide?  To be sure, some American high school textbooks acknowledge it.  However, one of the primary causes for it—perhaps the fundamental cause—is completely unacknowledged: religion.  The genocide is always articulated through a singularly secular paradigm, one that deems valid only those factors that are intelligible from a modern, secular, Western point of view, such as identity politics, nationalism, and territorial disputes. As can be imagined, such an approach does little more than project Western perspectives onto vastly different civilizations of different eras, thus anachronizing history.</p>
<p>War, of course, is another factor that clouds the true face of the Armenian genocide.  Because these atrocities occurred during WWI, so the argument goes, they are ultimately a reflection of just that—war, in all its chaos and destruction, and nothing more.  Yet Winston Churchill, who described the massacres as an “administrative holocaust,” correctly observed that “The opportunity [WWI] presented itself for clearing Turkish soil of a Christian race.”  Even Adolf Hitler had pointed out that “Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.”</p>
<p>It is the same today throughout the Muslim world, wherever there is war: after the U.S. toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the nation’s Christian minority were first to be targeted for <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2878/iraq-christians-persecution">systematic persecution </a>resulting in more than half of Iraq’s indigenous Christian population fleeing their homeland.  Now that war has come to Syria—with the U.S. supporting the jihadis and terrorists—the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/syria-christians-fate/">Christians there </a>are on the run for their lives.</p>
<p>There is no denying that religion—or in this context, the age-old specter of Muslim persecution of Christian minorities—was fundamental to the Armenian Genocide.  Even the most cited factor, ethnic identity conflict, while legitimate, must be understood in light of the fact that, historically, religion—creed—accounted more for a person’s identity than language or heritage.   This is daily demonstrated throughout the Islamic world today, where Muslim governments and Muslim mobs persecute Christian minorities—minorities who share the same ethnicity, language, and culture, who are indistinguishable from the majority, except, of course, for being non-Muslims.</p>
<p>If Christians are thus being singled out today—in our modern, globalized, “humanitarian” age—are we to suppose that they weren’t singled out a century ago by Turks?</p>
<p>Similarly, often forgotten is the fact that non-Armenians under Turkish hegemony, Assyrians and Greeks for example, were also targeted for cleansing.   The only thing that distinguished  Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks from Turks was that they were all Christian.  As one Armenian studies professor <a href="http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/facts/answers.html">asks</a>, “If it [the Armenian Genocide] was a feud between Turks and Armenians, what explains the genocide carried out by Turkey against the Christian Assyrians at the same time?”</p>
<p>Today, as <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/greatest-church-soon-to-be-mega-mosque/">Turkey continues moving back to reclaiming its Islamic heritage</a>, so too has Christian persecution returned.  If Turks <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-479143/The-forgotten-Holocaust-The-Armenian-massacre-inspired-Hitler.html">taunted </a>their crucified Armenian victims by saying things like “Now let your Christ come and help you,” just last January, an 85-year-old Christian Armenian woman was repeatedly stabbed to death in her apartment, and a crucifix carved onto her naked corpse.   Another elderly Armenian woman was punched in the head and, after collapsing to the floor, repeatedly kicked by a masked man.   According to <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/01/turkeys-armenians">the report</a>, “the attack marks the fifth in the past two months against elderly Armenian women,” one of whom lost an eye.  Elsewhere, pastors of church congregations with as little as 20 people are <a href="http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/turkey/article_2018075.html/">targeted for killing </a>and spat upon in the streets.  A 12-year-old Christian boy was beaten by his teacher and harassed by students for wearing around his neck, and three Christians were “<a href="http://www.persecution.org/2007/04/25/turkish-believers-satanically-tortured-for-hours-before-being-killed/">satanically tortured</a>” before having their throats slit for publishing Bibles.</p>
<p>Outside of Turkey, what is happening to the Christians of today from one end of the Muslim world to the other is a reflection of what happened to the Armenian Christians of yesterday.   We can learn about the past by looking at the present.  From Indonesia in the east to Morocco in the west, from Central Asia in the north, to sub-Sahara Africa—that is, throughout the entire Islamic world—Muslims are, to varying degrees, persecuting, killing, raping, enslaving, torturing and dislocating Christians.  See my new book, <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’s New War on Christians </a>for a comprehensive account of one of the greatest—yet, like the Armenian Genocide, little known—atrocities of our times.</p>
<p>Here is one relevant example to help appreciate the patterns and parallels: in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria, Muslims, led by the Islamic organization, Boko Haram (“Western Education is Forbidden”) are waging a <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/nigerias-christmas-present-blown-up-christians/">bloody jihad on the Christian minorities </a>in their midst.  These two groups—black Nigerian Muslims and black Nigerian Christians—are identical in all ways except, of course, for being Muslims and Christians.  And what is Boko Haram’s objective in all this carnage?  To <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2012/06/28/boko-haram-aims-to-wipe-out-christianity/">cleanse northern Nigeria of all Christians</a>—a goal rather reminiscent of Ottoman policies of cleansing Turkey of all Christians, whether Armenian, Assyrian, or Greek.</p>
<p>How does one explain this similar pattern of Christian persecution—this desire to be cleansed of Christians—in lands so different from one another as Nigeria and Turkey, lands which share neither race, language, nor culture, which share only Islam?  Meanwhile, the modern Islamic world’s response to the persecution of Christians is identical to Turkey’s response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial.</p>
<p>Finally, to understand how the historic Armenian Genocide is representative of the modern day plight of Christians under Islam, one need only read the following <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/roosevelt.html">words written </a>in 1918 by President Theodore Roosevelt—but read “Armenian” as “Christian” and “Turkish” as  “Islamic”:</p>
<blockquote><p>the Armenian [Christian] massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey [the Islamic world] is to condone it… the failure to deal radically with the Turkish [Islamic] horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, if we “fail to deal radically” with the “horror” currently being visited upon millions of Christians around the Islamic world—which in some areas has reached <a href="http://campaigns.csi-usa.org/index.php?id=1Obama">genocidal proportions</a>—we “condone it” and had better cease talking “mischievous nonsense” of a utopian world of peace and tolerance.</p>
<p>Put differently, silence is always the ally of those who would commit genocide.  In 1915, Adolf Hitler rationalized his genocidal plans, which he implemented some three decades later, when he rhetorically asked: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”</p>
<p>And who speaks today of the annihilation of Christians under Islam?</p>
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