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		<title>Europe Should Learn Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another example of “Islam’s Rule of Numbers.”]]></description>
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<p>Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopia—this time by local authorities.</p>
<p>Heaven’s Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28.  The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority city of Harar for five years.  In the days preceding the destruction, officials forcibly removed the church’s exterior sign and warned believers not to worship there, citing complaints by a local Muslim.  Officials further told church members who had previously congregated at the church “not to gather under what remains of the church building.”  Accordingly, Christians are now meeting in homes of individual believers.</p>
<p>Prior to the demolition of the church, when some Christian leaders protested, they were illegally detained, released only after community members, “outraged by the wrongful detentions,” called “for their immediate release,” reported <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2014/12/01/local-officials-destroy-evangelical-church-in-muslim-majority-area/">International Christian Concern</a>, a rights advocacy group <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/34160-ethiopia-destroys-evangelical-church-building-100-christians-forced-underground">supporting</a> the Christians:</p>
<p>These are no isolated incidents, explained ICC, adding that it had documented “numerous ongoing land rights battles between churches and their local governments across Ethiopia.”</p>
<p>In many cases, ICC said, “churches have been operating peacefully for decades on land given to them by now-deceased former congregants.”</p>
<p>However efforts by local majority Muslim populations to “eliminate the public presence” of churches resulted in the forceful closure, destruction and demolition of several church buildings in recent years, according to ICC investigators.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, Cameron Thomas, accused Ethiopia of violating the rights of devoted Christians. “Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they’ve sworn to uphold, are violating Christians’ rights by forcibly closing, destroying and demolishing churches across Ethiopia,” the official said.</p>
<p>If this is the treatment Christian churches receive by Muslim officials and politicians—“sworn to uphold” the rights of every citizen, not just Muslims—one can imagine the treatment churches receive by Muslim mobs.  One example suffices:</p>
<p>In 2011, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/24/thousands-christians-displaced-ethiopia-muslim-extremists-torch-churches-homes-2057387870/#ixzz2SSF8T1xb">thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes</a> when “Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes” in a Muslim-majority region in western Ethiopia.  At least one Christian was killed, many injured, and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 displaced.  Around the same time, in another area that is 90% Muslim, “all the Christians in the city woke up to find notes on their doors warning them to convert to Islam, leave the city or face death.”</p>
<p>For those few Western observers who live beyond the moment and have an interest in the “big picture”—the world bequeathed to future generations—it is well to reflect on the question of numbers in the context of Ethiopia.  As Jonathan Racho, another official at <a href="http://www.persecution.org/">ICC</a>, earlier said, “It’s extremely disconcerting that in Ethiopia, where Christians are the majority, they are also the victims of persecution.”</p>
<p>That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers.  This reflects what I call “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/islams-rule-of-numbers-and-the-london-beheading/">Islam’s Rule of Numbers</a>,” which holds that,<b> </b>wherever and whenever Muslims grow in number—and thus in strength and confidence—so too does Muslim intolerance for “the other” grow (<a href="http://www.meforum.org/3757/islam-rule-of-numbers">video explanation here</a>).</p>
<p>This naturally has lessons for the West, especially European nations like Britain and France that have a significant and ever-growing Muslim population—and where <a href="http://diversitymachtfrei.blogspot.ca/2014/08/france-muslim-smashes-up-historic.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">church attacks</span></a> and <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/05/22/uk-soldier-beheaded-near-barracks-by-man-who-praised-allah-after-cleaver-attack/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-woman-beheaded-in-broad-daylight-by-machete-wielding-muslim-police-rule-out-terrorism"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheadings</span></a> are now taking place.</p>
<p>By way of final illustration, the reader is left with the story of Islam’s entry into Ethiopia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations.  According to Islamic tradition, in 615, when the pagan Quraysh were persecuting Muhammad’s outnumbered followers and disciples in Arabia, some fled to Ethiopia seeking sanctuary. The Christian king, or “Negus” of Ethiopia, welcomed and protected these Muslim fugitives, ignoring Quraysh demands to return them—and thus reportedly winning Muhammad’s gratitude.</p>
<p>Today, 14 centuries later, when Islam has carved itself a solid niche in Ethiopia, accounting for 1/3 of the population, Muslim gratitude has turned into Muslim aggression—not least a warning to Western states.</p>
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		<title>Casting the First Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark D. Tooley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Religious Left upholds the tradition of condemn Israel first. ]]></description>
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<p>The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) has yet really to condemn the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia 35 years ago.  Or the Marxist orchestrated famine in Ethiopia that killed almost as many during the 1980&#8242;s.  It never directly condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Saddam Hussein&#8217;s hundreds of thousands of murdered victims also failed to arouse the WCC&#8217;s concern across 25 years. Nor has the multitude of crimes by Iran&#8217;s theocracy across 30 years interested the WCC.  North Korea&#8217;s slave state for the WCC is a place of pilgrimage but not criticism.  Even North Korea&#8217;s recent unprovoked torpedoing of a South Korean ship, killing 46 sailors three months ago, has not caused the WCC to peep.</p>
<p>But the WCC needed less than 24 hours to condemn Israel&#8217;s &#8220;deplorable&#8221; interception of a &#8220;peace&#8221; flotilla trying to bust the blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza.  The 9 anti-Israel &#8220;peace&#8221; activists killed after the Israelis were resisted with metal poles and other weapons, were apparently more sacred to the WCC than the millions of victims slain by communism, Islamists and other anti-Western tyrannies over the last 4 decades.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is with great distress that the World Council of Churches received the news that the Israeli naval forces stormed a Gaza-bound vessel carrying humanitarian aid in international waters before dawn on Monday, killing at least 10 civilians and injuring many more,&#8221; immediately bemoaned WCC chief Olav Fykse Tveit.  A Norwegian Lutheran theologian, Tveit seems steadfastly committed to the WCC tradition of bashing only Israel and America.  &#8220;We condemn the assault and killing of innocent people who were attempting to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, who have been under a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.&#8221;</p>
<p>Why has Gaza been blockaded by Israel, and, though unmentioned by the WCC, also by Egypt?  Could its rocket-firing Hamas regime be part of the explanation?  The WCC is not interested in such details. &#8220;We further condemn the flagrant violation of international law by Israel in attacking and boarding a humanitarian convoy in international waters,&#8221; Tveit continued.  &#8220;We pray for all those who are affected by the attack, especially the bereaved families.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tveit demanded Israel repatriate all of the flotilla&#8217;s activists, release the impounded ships and, naturally, end the blockade of Gaza.  He also wants a &#8220;full&#8221; United Nations investigation into Israel&#8217;s &#8220;assault.&#8221;  For that, Tveit almost certainly will get his wish.  He concluded:  &#8220;The deplorable events which occurred yesterday off the coast of Gaza remind us yet again of the pressing need for an end to the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories.&#8221; But of course, Gaza is not Israeli occupied.  It is governed by its Islamist &#8220;liberators,&#8221; Hamas.  And most of the West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority.  It&#8217;s never entirely clear what the Religious Left means by &#8220;occupation.&#8221;  But certainly it ignores the considerable problems created by Gaza&#8217;s and most of the West Bank&#8217;s ostensible liberation from direct Israeli control.</p>
<p>The WCC&#8217;s major U.S. member, the Presbyterian Church USA, also chimed in quickly over the Gaza flotilla in slightly more measured tones.  &#8220;A severe blockade of Gaza by Israel in response to the free election of Hamas representatives in 2006 and the military incursions of Operation Cast Lead in late 2008 and early 2009 have dramatically increased the already acute humanitarian need,&#8221; surmised the church&#8217;s Stated Clerk, Gradye Parsons. &#8220;We grieve the killing and injuring of participants in the humanitarian effort, as well as the injuring of members of the Israeli military forces that occurred when the Israeli forces stormed one of the ships and those on board resisted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Parsons noted that the Presbyterian tradition is &#8220;not strictly pacifist,&#8221; which is surely an understatement, but &#8220;honors peaceful resistance, including nonviolent disobedience to unjust government policies and actions.&#8221;  He opined that the flotilla could have been a &#8220;powerful&#8221; instrument for peaceful resistance.  And he warned,  &#8220;These actions sometimes incite violent responses,&#8221; but the &#8220;long-term success of this kind of resistance requires a nonviolent response on the part of the demonstrators, even when they are under attack.&#8221;  Parsons sounds like a Presbyterian Gandhi.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Jerusalem-based Sabeel, a center for Palestinian Liberation Theology with Western affiliates, including Friend of Sabeel &#8211; North America, has quickly issued a prayer litany of solidarity with the failed Gaza flotilla.  &#8220;The Israeli attack on the Gaza Flotilla resulted in numerous deaths, dozens of injuries, and hundreds of arrests,&#8221; Sabeel bewailed.  &#8220;Almighty God, comfort the bereaved, heal the injured, and grant freedom to the prisoners. We pray that you will strengthen each of us to do what is necessary to end the siege on Gaza. Help us to recognize and to fight the structures of oppression, wherever we may encounter them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do these &#8220;structures of oppression&#8221; include the Hamas regime in Gaza, or its chief patrons, the Islamist theocrats who tyrannize Iran?  If so, Religious Left groups in the West, who are Sabeel&#8217;s main patrons, will not say so audibly.  Maybe the WCC is praying quietly, very quietly, for Hamas&#8217;s victims.  These silent prayers are perhaps similar to the inaudible prayers that the WCC and rest of the international Religious Left may have lifted up for so many otherwise unacknowledged victims of tyranny and oppression over the last 40 years. Apparently only Israel&#8217;s and America&#8217;s victims can benefit from the Religious Left&#8217;s very loud prayers.</p>
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		<title>When Aid is No Way to Aid a Country</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sad case of Somalia.]]></description>
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<p>The New York Times on March 10 quoted a United Nations report to the effect that aid given to Somalia was not reaching the people most in need of it, that is to say the malnourished and the starving.</p>
<p>I would not be telling you the truth if I said that, when I read the news, you could have knocked me down with a feather. Can there be anyone left in the world who thinks that aid will go only, or even mainly, to the people most in need of it? By comparison with such a belief, faith in Father Christmas is a model of rational expectation. At least the presents arrive, even if Father Christmas doesn’t.</p>
<p>I have been to Somalia only once, in the comparatively palmy days of the wily dictator, Siad Barre, who by then had jumped ship from the Soviet to the American (Ethiopia has jumped in precisely the opposite direction). Among my treasured possessions of no value to anyone but myself is a Soviet-era (and produced) phrase book, with such essential expressions as ‘Hand me the opera glasses, please, and ‘How many workers does your collective farm have?’ translated into Somali. As everyone knows, Somali was reduced to writing only very recently; the Soviet time reduced it further in no time to nonsense.</p>
<p>Even then, in those comparatively happy times (in how many countries in the world are the days of some loathsome dictator looked back upon with nostalgia, if not longing?), I should not have mistaken Somalia for a country in which the distribution of aid was likely to proceed smoothly in the direction of the needy. Far from it; and I also became rather sceptical there of the foreign distributors of aid.</p>
<p>I remember going into the headquarters of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Mogadishu to obtain information about the cholera epidemics then raging in some of the refugee camps. I was somewhat surprised to find two things: first, a complaint on the UNCHR staff notice-board that the portions in the staff canteen were too small, and second that the staff were de facto on strike because of the Somali government’s insistence on exchanging their salaries at the official exchange rate, which was only a fraction of the open market rate.</p>
<p>In effect, this little vignette captured not the paradox of aid (a policy that is persisted in cannot be regarded as paradoxical once its effects have been generally recognised), but the very essence of aid. In short, aid is no way to aid a country.</p>
<p>Another so call ‘paradox’ that is often referred to in the press is that of African countries that have remained generally impoverished despite the existence of vast natural resources. Nigeria and the Congo are two prominent cases that spring to mind. But the paradox is not a paradox, at least in the sense that it is something not explicable.</p>
<p>In most African countries, it is not the enterprise of the local people that had led to the extraction of mineral wealth, but rather that of foreigners, exploitative as they may often have been. Even though local people have supplied the manual labour necessary to the extraction, the wealth as a whole that accrues to African society as a whole comes as a free gift, more or less as aid does.</p>
<p>This is a disaster for the rounded development of a backward country, for it makes control of the government (which receives the bulk of the wealth accruing to African society from mineral extraction) the most important, and sometimes the only, path to personal or ethnic advancement. Ambition itself is wholly politicised, therefore, and  the humble task of producing things is left to the unambitious and perhaps the less able.</p>
<p>In countries such as Nigeria and the Congo, the mineral wealth is not sufficient by itself to enrich the population as a whole (unlike in Kuwait, for example, where everyone can be well-off doing nothing). However, the mineral wealth is more than sufficient to make those who control it very rich indeed. Wars are worth fighting in the Congo because control of the minerals is so lucrative, where the other possibilities are such commodities as coffee and bananas. In Nigeria, the oil revenues are immense by comparison with those of all other sectors of the economy: and Nigeria’s share of the oil revenues goes more or less straight to the government. If you mix in a little ethnic discord with government control of mineral revenues, the scene is set for prolonged, indeed endless and often bloody political struggles. Far from being a blessing, therefore, oil wealth has been a curse for Nigeria.</p>
<p>In countries less well-endowed with extractable wealth, foreign aid has played the part of oil in Nigeria. Oil constitutes at least 80 per cent of Nigeria’s foreign exchange earnings; in several African countries, foreign aid constitutes very nearly as much.</p>
<p>This results in the same perversions of the national economy, and the same obstacles to real development, as oil has done in Nigeria. The ambitious and able people want to join the government, and so life in general is deeply politicised; genuine economic life is paralysed, and becomes a desperate zero sum game.</p>
<p>When this happens, there is a built-in and deeply perverse incentive to continue to follow policies that impoverish, for a flourishing economy would obviate the supposed need for the foreign aid which is the source of the power, influence and wealth of the elite through whom it is funnelled. Here is one case in which poverty really is a source of wealth.</p>
<p>The most extreme instance of the above syndrome is civil war. It is therefore not in the least surprising that aid to Somalia is not reaching the neediest; it would be very surprising, indeed it would be absolutely astonishing, if it were. Neither is it surprising, however, that it should be reported as if it were surprising (unsurprising news not being news). For otherwise, the fact that aid does not reach the neediest would be a threat to our sense of power, our feelings of omnipotence. How could a few lousy uneducated Somalian gunmen be thwarting our infinite benevolence?</p>
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