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October 13, 2011
Persecution in the
Muslim world
Dear Nelson,
Whenever there is an attempted or successful Islamic terrorist
attack in the U.S., leaders of groups like CAIR and ISNA, and their
enablers and apologists, immediately wring their hands about a potential
“backlash” against Muslims.
While such a backlash is always hard to find, as illustrated by
the declining number of hate crimes against Muslims over the past few
years, a real story of persecution is ignored by most of our media,
government, and academia; most of our churches; and, of course, CAIR,
ISNA, and their enablers. (It is refreshing to see that the U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom is demanding an
investigation of recent events in Cairo).
It is a 1,400 year old story of jihad, of the persecution of
Christians, Jews, Hindus, and those of other faiths, at the hands of
militant Muslims. A story that is being played out now right before our
eyes, and reported on below (highlights added).
The forgotten Christians of the East
By Caroline B. Glick
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1011/glick101111.php3
It is unclear what either Western
governments or Western churches think they are achieving by turning a
blind eye to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a
peaceful vigil at Egypt's state television headquarters in Cairo. The
1,000 Christians represented the ancient Christian community of some 8
million whose presence in Egypt predates the establishment of Islam by
several centuries. They
gathered in Cairo to protest the recent burning of two churches by
Islamic mobs and the rapid escalation of state-supported violent attacks
on Christians by Muslim groups since the overthrow of former Egyptian
president Hosni Mubarak in February.
According to Coptic sources, the protesters Sunday night were
beset by Islamic attackers who were rapidly backed up by military
forces. Between 19 and 40 Copts were killed by soldiers and Muslim
attackers. They were run over by military vehicles, beaten, shot and
dragged through the streets of Cairo.
State television Sunday night reported only that three soldiers
had been killed. According to al-Ahram Online, the military attacked the
studios of al-Hurra television on Sunday night to block its broadcast
of information on the military assault on the Copts.
Apparently the attempt to control information about what
happened worked. Monday's news reports about the violence gave little
indication of the identity of the dead or wounded. They certainly left
untold the story of what actually happened in Cairo on Sunday night.
In a not unrelated event, Lebanon's Maronite Catholic Patriarch
Bechara Rai caused a storm two weeks ago. During an official visit to
Paris, Rai warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy that the fall of the
Assad regime in Syria could be a disaster for Christians in Syria and
throughout the region. Today the Western-backed Syrian opposition is
dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Rai cautioned that the overthrow of
President Bashar Assad could lead to civil war and the establishment of
an Islamic regime.
In Iraq, the Iranian and Syrian-sponsored insurgency that
followed the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime in
2003 fomented a bloody jihad against Iraq's Christian population. This
month marks the anniversary of last year's massacre of 58 Christian
worshippers in a Catholic church in Baghdad. A decade ago there were 800,000 Christians in Iraq. Today there are 150,000.
Under the Shah of Iran, Iran's Christians were more or less free to practice their religion.
Today, they are subject to the whims of Islamic overlords who know no law other than Islamic supremacism.
Take the plight of Yousef Nadarkhani, an evangelical Protestant
preacher who was arrested two years ago, tried and sentenced to death
for apostasy and refusal to disavow his Christian faith. There is no law
against apostasy in Iran, but no matter. Ayatollah Khomeini opposed
apostasy. And so does Islamic law.
Once Nadarkhani's story was publicized in the West the Iranians changed their course.
Now they have reportedly abandoned the apostasy charge and are
sentencing Nadarkhani to death for rape. The fact that he was never
charged or convicted of rape is neither here nor there.
Palestinian Christians have similarly suffered under their popularly elected governments.
When
the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, Christians made up 80
percent of Bethlehem's population. Today they comprise less than 20% of
the population.
Since Hamas "liberated" Gaza in 2007, the area's ancient
Christian minority has been under constant attack. With only 3,000
members, Gaza's Christian community has seen its churches, convents,
book stores and libraries burned by Hamas members and their allies. Its
members have been killed and assaulted. While Hamas has pledged to
protect the Christians of Gaza, no one has been arrested for
anti-Christian violence.
JUST AS the Jews of the Islamic world were forcibly removed from
their ancient communities by the Arab rulers with the establishment of
Israel in 1948, so Christians have been persecuted and driven out of
their homes. Populist Islamic and Arab regimes have used Islamic
religious supremacism and Arab racial chauvinism against Christians as
rallying cries to their subjects. These calls have in turn led to the
decimation of the Christian populations of the Arab and Islamic world.
For
instance, at the time of Lebanese independence from France in 1946 the
majority of Lebanese were Christians. Today less than 30% of Lebanese
are Christians. [Editor’s note: This is the history Lebanese-born Brigitte Gabriel knows from personal experience.]
In Turkey, the Christian population has dwindled from 2 million at the
end of World War I to less than 100,000 today. In Syria, at the time of
independence Christians made up nearly half of the population. Today 4%
of Syrians are Christian. In Jordan half a century ago 18% of the
population was Christian. Today 2% of Jordanians are Christian.
Christians are prohibited from practicing Christianity in Saudi
Arabia. In Pakistan, the Christian population is being systematically
destroyed by regime-supported Islamic groups. Church burnings, forced
conversions, rape, murder, kidnap and legal persecution of Pakistani
Christians has become a daily occurrence.
[CONTINUE READING HERE]
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com
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The U.S. has been battling this plague for quite some time now. "... to the shores of Tripoli ..."
ReplyDeleteMrs. AL, America hasn't a clue about how much influence Hollywood liberals have on our government. The single, most often used strategy used to make money in Hollywood is in writing sequels and in order to do so you must never, never kill off the bad guys for good. That way they keep coming back and the good guys have to keep fighting them. Tell me if you think I'm wrong that our government hasn't been following this plan for decades. Yes, we invaded Tripoli way back when the Founding Fathers were still running the show but they didn't finish the job.
ReplyDeleteExcellent point, Oldironsides! Had not thought of the hollywood angle. Mind if I "steal" that concept to communicate with some acquaintances?
ReplyDeleteAs for Tripoli ... indeed they did not finish the job. That has happened more than once and we are under the influence of those decisions to this moment, IMHO.
Mrs. AL, Please use anything you want. Just as long as everyone realizes that Hollywood IS the Land of Make Believe, and not the real world we all live in. They don't call it LA LA Land for nothing.
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