Articles
Persecution of Nigeria's Christians
(30 April 2013)
"The publicly reported Christian casualties
in Nigeria last year were greater than the Christian casualties of
Pakistan, Syria, Kenya and Egypt combined. In fact, Nigeria alone
accounted for almost 70 percent of Christians killed globally. This
makes Nigeria the most lethal country for Christians by a huge
margin..."
Planned Hanging of Christian Mother in Pakistan
(6 April 2011)
"A young
woman is going to die, for being different. Her children are going to be
orphaned. Her husband made a widower. A community – already living in
fear and suffering daily persecution – will be cowed into submission,
and learn the true dangers of nonconformity. This is not the description
of an Orwellian fiction, nor is it a woeful tale from history. It is a
living, breathing reality in our 21st century world..."
Iran Burns Bibles, Condemns Quran Burning
(24 March 2011)
"Iran’s official Fars news agency reports that the Iranian
Foreign Ministry 'strongly condemned the recent insult to the Muslims’
holy book in the US state of Florida, and warned that Washington
attempts to spread Islamophobia in the world.' ... NRO readers may
remember that Iran recently suspended
Hohabet News after it reported that the
Iranian government itself had seized
and burned 600 New Testaments in Salmas..."
What About Religious Freedom in Muslim Countries?
(11 January 2011)
"'Christians in much of the Middle East -
including Egypt, Iraq, and Gaza - face intense religious persecution and
violent attacks, but they gets very little attention from NGOs and UN
bodies claiming to promote universal human rights,' says Prof. Gerald
Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor..."
Islamic Fundamentalism Has Replaced Communism as
Greatest Threat to Christians
(8 January 2011)
"It used to be the case that Christians
suffered greatest in communist countries, but today Islamic
fundamentalism has replaced communism as the number one cause of
persecution against Christians..."
Sunni Islamists Slit the Throat of a Christian
Mother in Somalia
(7 January
2011)
"The reality of Islam in all its hatred can be seen in
Afghanistan, the Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen, and a few other
nations, where converts from Islam face the death penalty. In Somalia,
the Sunni Islamic fanatics called the Al-Shabaab (Al-Shabab) have once
more killed a convert to Christianity and in true style the soldiers of
Islam held down a Christian lady and slit her throat in front of many
villagers. This hatred is clearly based on the teachings of Mohammed
because he supported killing apostates and the ongoing Islamic
inquisition continues in nations like Somalia..."
25 Iranian Christians with Muslim Backgrounds
Arrested
(6 January 2011)
"In a new wave of victimization of
Christians in Iran, about 25 Christians with a Muslim background –
including church leaders and five married couples are confirmed to have
been arrested at their homes in several cities..."
The Invention of Islamophobia
(4 January 2011)
"At the end of the 1970s, Iranian
fundamentalists invented the term 'Islamophobia' formed in analogy to
'xenophobia'. The aim of this word was to declare Islam inviolate.
Whoever crosses this border is deemed a racist. This term, which is
worthy of totalitarian propaganda, is deliberately unspecific about
whether it refers to a religion, a belief system or its faithful
adherents around the world..."
Denying the Jihad Against Christians
(3 January 2010)
"An Islamic jihad-martyrdom suicide bomber
murdered twenty-two people and wounded eighty more at the Coptic
Christian Church of the Saints in Alexandria, Egypt on New Year’s Eve.
Predictably enough, this mass murder has not resulted in any worldwide
revulsion against Islamic jihadists, or general recognition of how
Islamic supremacists and jihadists are persecuting Christians not only
in Egypt, but in Iraq, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and elsewhere also.
Instead, it has brought only new and imaginative twists on the usual
evasion, obfuscation, denial and finger-pointing that generally follow
jihad attacks..."
We Hypocritical Muslims
(15
December 2010)
"On an international level, people from
every religion exchange greeting cards to commemorate different
occasions. We all know that most of these cards are meant for the
wastebasket. What if a Christian or Jew saw a Muslim salesperson
throwing his card with Jesus or Moses’ name on it and called the police
to register a case of blasphemy against him/her and the police arrested
the violator? Most western readers would laugh out loud at this unlikely
scenario but it is not a laughing matter for a physician from Hyderabad,
Pakistan, who, unwittingly, threw a Muslim’s visiting card in the trash
basket. He apologised to the offended party and yet the police arrested
him under pressure from religious fanatics..."
Pakistan President Urged Not to Pardon Christian
Woman
(24 November 2010)
"Two prominent Pakistani Muslim leaders
threatened Wednesday to call for nationwide protests if the president
pardons a Christian woman sentenced to death for insulting the Muslim
prophet Mohammed. 'If the president pardons Asia Bibi, we will raise our
voices across the country until he is forced to take his decision back,'
nationally known mufti Muneer Ur Rehman said..."
The Left's Delusion Over Islam is Baffling to
Middle Eastern Christians
(17
November 2010)
"Two more Christians murdered in Iraq on
Monday night and another three yesterday, as the community is driven to
extinction. And on the Today programme earlier this week there
was yet another segment about this persecuted minority, perhaps
suggesting that the media are waking up to what many Iraqis themselves
call 'genocide' ... However the Left largely remains in denial about the
situation faced by Middle Eastern Christians, despite widespread
evidence by various human rights organisation[s]..."
Blasphemy Law: A Sword Hanging Over Our Heads
(16 November 2010)
"I am a native Pakistani Christian. I
studied in Pakistan and saw how the blasphemy law has and is being used
and abused to settle personal scores, kill Christians and burn their
homes and properties..."
Christian Woman Sentenced to Death in Pakistan
'for Blasphemy'
(9th November
2010)
"Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five
[sic], denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being
persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine
harassment and discrimination..."
Islamist Organisation Kills 58 Christians in Iraq
(2 November 2010)
"The 'Islamic State of Iraq', an umbrella
organisation dedicated to defend Islam, has ... claimed credit for a
massacre at a Baghdad church that killed 58 and left at least 78 wounded
Iraqi Christians..."
Muslim Persecution of Hindus in India - The Story
You Won't See in the Western Mainstream Media
(10
September 2010)
"They are crossing the border illegally and
violently displacing the indigenous population whose homes and
possessions they either destroy or occupy. They are attacking the young,
the elderly, and especially the girls and women, whom they kidnap,
forcibly convert, or traffic into brothels. The locals are terrified of
them. The police rarely come to their aid, nor do the politically
correct media or government. Both are terrified by the criminals and
terrorists who are riding these immigrant waves..."
Muslim Extremists Execute a Somali Christian
(4 May 2010)
"al-Shabaab is waging jihad in Somalia to
establish an Islamic government based on Sharia law. The Somali church
has been the most visible victim of the al-Shabaab 'holy-war' in
Somalia..."
Muslim Mob Burns Christian Man
(30 March 2010)
"A Muslim mob in Rawalpindi, Pakistan,
burned alive a Christian man, the second burning death in the past three
weeks and the 10th anti-Christian attack in Pakistan within just a
month..."
Born-Again 'Son of Hamas' Now Fights 'Islam's God'
(20 March 2010)
"The son and heir apparent of a founder of
the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Yousef broke the heart of his
pious, close-knit family and put their lives and his own in danger with
his announcement ... that he had become a follower of Jesus Christ.
Today, the threats have only intensified since he shifted his mission
from saving lives by battling terrorism to saving Muslim souls ... the
Global Islamic Media Front released a statement ... citing Islam's
prophet Muhammed: 'Whoever alters his religion, kill him'..."
Barnabas Fund Exposes Media Coverup of Massacres
of Christians in Nigeria
(18 March 2010)
"Moral equivalency is a matter of dogma in
the mainstream media: When five hundred Christians were massacred in
their homes by machete-wielding Muslims in Nigeria's Plateau Province on
the night of March 7, news reports claimed it was simply retaliation for
previous attacks on Muslims. That is an outright falsehood..."
25 Years for Touching Quran Before Washing Hands
(6 March 2010)
"In Pakistan, a Christian man was sentenced
to life in prison after a neighbour with whom he had a business
disagreement accused him of desecrating the Quran, and a husband and
wife were jailed for 25 years for touching Islam's holy book without
washing their hands..."
Muslim 'Apostates' in U.S. Ask for Protection
(25 September 2009)
"Five ex-Muslims who founded a group called
Former Muslims United put out a public appeal Thursday to the U.S.
government for protection, saying the lives of thousands of 'apostates
from Islam' are in peril..."
Forced Conversions to Islam
(30 May 2009)
"In his
Discovery of India Jawaharlal
Nehru appears to attribute the conversion of Hindus to Islam to Islam's
purported egalitarian character and hence its 'mass appeal':
'The
idea of brotherhood of Islam and of the theoretical equality of its
adherents made a powerful appeal, especially those of the Hindu fold who
were denied any semblance of equal treatment.' But
strangely, India's demographic data stands in complete contradiction to
such a conclusion..."
Do
They Know It's Christmas?
(19
December 2005)
"Ahmad
El Achwal was returning to his home ... near the West Bank city of Nablus
after a hard day's work ... As he approached the entrance to his home,
four masked gunmen approached and opened fire, killing him. On the streets
of the West Bank and Gaza, where the rule of law is that there are no
rules and no law, this type of rough justice is regularly meted out by PA
'security' forces..."
The Christian Exodus From the Middle East
(No Date)
"In another decade or so, given present
trends, there will be few if any Christians living in Bethlehem, the
birthplace of Jesus. The same is true of Nazareth, where Jesus grew up,
and even of Jerusalem, where nearly 600 historic churches still stand.
Christians in the Palestinian territories have dropped from 15 percent
of the Arab population in 1950 to just 2 percent today. Both Bethlehem
and Nazareth, which had been overwhelmingly Christian towns, now have
strong Muslim majorities..."
The Curse
of Cain
"After Cain killed his brother, the Lord told him,
... 'Cursed shall you be from the earth', ... and so it has been. The earth
under their feet may be cursed, it yields nothing but sand and thistles, ...
They become worshippers of death dreaming of the green verdant fields of
paradise which they can reach only if they kill enough men, women and children.
Leaving devastation behind them, dead lands, lost cultures, widows and orphans,
they claw their way up to heaven on a ladder of bones. Everything around them
dies until the only green is on their flags. They are cursed from the earth and
they curse the earth. Where they go, the world dies. ... Cain sows fields of
corpses of the innocent for the Lord and he still does not understand why his
sacrifice is not accepted and why the earth he dwells on is cursed. ...
From Iraq to Iran, from Kuwait to Saudi Arabia, from Nigeria to Somalia, from
Pakistan to Indonesia, he holds up human heads and cries 'Allahu Akbar'. ...
There is no room for Cain anywhere. Where he remains there will be death and
suffering. He will kill because it is all he can do. He has nothing else to
offer the world, his own kind, or the Creator.. ... He kills from one end of the
world to the next and it is never his fault. Each time, each Abel did it. ...
His code is cruelty and his holy book is written in blood on the flayed skins of
his murdered victims. ... The cries of peoples long vanished from the earth warn
us that we will either drive out Cain or his curse will fill our lands with
blood and dust and all that we love and all that we have worked for will die at
his cursed touch" [source].
The Burden Which
Habakkuk the Prophet
Saw
The righteous cry out for God's punishment of the injustice in their
lands:
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto
thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for
spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife
and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the
wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment
proceedeth.
The LORD God answers:
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I
will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be
told you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which
shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling
places that are not theirs.
They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall
proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce
than the evening wolves:
And their horsemen shall spread themselves, and
their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east
wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto
them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and
take it.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing
this his power unto his god.
The dismay of the
righteous at God's answer:
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall
not die.
O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty
God, thou hast established them for correction.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on
iniquity:
Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and
holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more
righteous than he?
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net,
and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their
drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay
the nations?
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to
see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am
reproved.
The LORD God's reassurance to
the righteous:
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain
upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely
come, it will not tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just
shall live by his faith.
[Habakkuk 1:1-2:4]
Please Pray for All Those Persecuted
by Islam
There
are many, many suffering brothers and sisters who desperately need us to pray for them...
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"Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body"
(Hebrews 13:3)
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