IRAQ MAKES THE TOP TEN LIST!

A magazine that documents Christian persecution around the world. On the front cover is a Christian who was hunted down and mutilated by Islamic fanatics

The Top Ten List for countries trying to eradicate Christianity. Disgracefully, the mainstream media rarely, if ever, cover this kind of ethnic cleansing. One possible reason: anti-Christian bias among Western elites and stealth Muslims like Barack Hussein Obama who never mention a word about the violent persecution of Christians in Muslim countries.

Washington Times   It is more than a conspiracy of silence. It is a conspiracy of political and media apathy. There is no political or journalistic will to continually publicize and condemn religious persecution by extremist Muslims or Islamic dictatorships. Members of the Western media are overwhelmingly secular, so they often have a hard time even perceiving the religious root of persecution.

This silence and apathy create an implied consent for religious persecution. 

Over the past year there have been several reports of Christians being violently persecuted in the Middle East, Africa, and other Muslim nations. Most were wire service stories, or reports from religious media outlets like Catholic News Service. 

Churches being burned down by Muslims in Zanzibar

There was little follow-up or editorial outrage over what is now being called religious genocide, religious cleansing, or the next holocaust by human rights and religious groups alarmed at the fast spreading persecution. 

The persecution, in some regions genocide, of Christians and other religious groups is the most important international human rights issue willfully ignored by the American media and our government. 

Our self-proclaimed Christian President has not publicly addressed this issue, nor have the supposed Christians in our legislature. Our Christian Secretary of State has been mute.

But, they continue to dole out foreign, military, and humanitarian aid to countries that practice or allow inhumane persecution. With the exception of Newt Gingrich, the supposed Christian presidential candidates, who blather about their faith, are silent on this issue. 

Some examples: 

• In Egypt Coptic Christians are being persecuted and murdered. 100 thousand Christians fled Egypt since the Mubarek regime collapsed in what the Egyptian Union of Human Rights is calling a “mass exodus.” Our president helped depose Hosni Mubarek in the cause of freedom.  
• In Iraq, where we shed our blood treasure allegedly for the cause of freedom, Christians are being violently persecuted, murdered, and churches are being bombed, as seen in the above photo.
• In the West Bank and Gaza, where Palestinians are in control, Christians are being persecuted. Justus Reid Weiner of Hebrew University claims 1,000 Palestinian Christians left the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the historic birthplace of Jesus. Our government wants to negotiate with people who persecute religion to supposedly bring peace, and that freedom thing, to the region.
• In Pakistan it is illegal to convert to any religion but Islam. They have a blasphemy law with the death penalty. We give foreign aid and military assistance to Pakistan. Pakistan is a tenuous ally in the region.
• CNN reported in Nigeria, 12,000 Christians and animists were killed over the past decade in a religious purge. 

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So where is the Canadian ‘freedom flotilla’ to Egypt?

Father John Ramzy joins Michael Coren to discuss the never-ending violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt by the muslim majority.

Canadian Leftists can’t get to Gaza fast enough to offer love and cookies to muslim terrorists. But they have no interest at all in the thousands of Coptic Christians who are victims of growing persecution. I don’t know how many are able to emigrate to Canada but hardly any are granted visas to the United States.

SAUDI ARABIA: 35 Ethiopian Christians still in jail for praying in a private home

Ethiopian Christians who were arrested in Saudi Arabia last month for holding a prayer meeting are now being charged by Saudi officials with mixing with the opposite sex. In Saudi Arabia, it is illegal for men and women (non-family) to be in the same room together.

The six men and 29 women were holding a weekly prayer meeting on December 15 when the Saudi police arrested them. Christian leaders say that the accusation of “mixing with the opposite sex” is only an excuse, and believe that the Christians were arrested for practicing their faith. The Christians have not yet been brought before any court.

MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS: December 2011

“Saying Merry Christmas Is Worse than Killing Someone”

by Raymond Ibrahim
Stonegate Institute

Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East, and throughout the West wherever there are Muslims—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.

The Nigerian church bombings, in which the Islamic group Boko Haram ["Western Education Is Forbidden"] killed over 40 people celebrating Christmas mass, is just the most obvious example of anti-Christian sentiment in the Muslim world.

Yet, despite countless news accounts of the Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram behind these bombings and all the others in the past year, Muslims blame the Mossad and CIA:

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Elsewhere in this region, Christmas time for Christians is a time of increased threats, harassment, and fear, which is not surprising, considering Muslim clerics maintain that “saying Merry Christmas is worse than fornication or killing someone.” A few examples:

• Egypt: The Coptic Church is being threatened with a repeat of “Nag Hammadi,” the area where drive-by Muslims shot to death six Christians as they exited church after celebrating Christmas mass in 2010. Due to fears of a repetition,the diocese “cancel[ed] all festivities for New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve.”
• Indonesia: In a “brutal act” that has “strongly affected the Catholic community,” days before Christmas, “vandals decapitated the statue of the Virgin Mary in a small grotto … a cross was stolen and the aspersorium was badly damaged.”
• Iran: There were reports of a sharp increase in activities against Christians prior to Christmas by the State Security centers of the Islamic Republic. Local churches were “ordered to cancel Christmas and New Year’s celebrations as a show of their compliance and support” for “the two month-long mourning activities of the Shia’ Moslems.”
• Malaysia: Parish priests or their church youth leaders had to get a police permit—requiring them to submit their full names and identity card numbers—simply to “visit their fellow church members and belt out ‘Joy to the World,’ [or] ‘Silent Night, Holy Night.’”
• Pakistan: “Intelligence reports warned of threats of terrorist attacks on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,” adding that most church security is “inadequate.” Christians also lamented that “extreme power outages have become routine during Christmas and Easter seasons.”

Meanwhile, if Christians under Islam are forced to live like dhimmis—non-Muslims under Muslim authority, and treated as second-class citizens—in the West, voluntarily playing thedhimmi to appease Muslims during Christmas time is commonplace: the University of London held Christmas service featuring readings from the Quran (which condemns the incarnation, that is, Christmas); and “a posh Montreal suburb has decided to remove a nativity scene and menorah from town hall rather than acquiesce to demands from a Muslim group to erect Islamic religious symbols.”

Categorized by theme, the rest of December’s batch of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed according to theme and in alphabetical order by country, not necessarily severity.

CHURCH ATTACKS

Ethiopia: A video of some 500 Muslims burning down a church on November 29 while crying “Allahu Akbar!”["Allah is the Greatest!"] appeared. The pretext for burning this church was that it had no “permit”—even though it was built on land owned by Christians for 60 years.

Indonesia: An “Islamic extremist” group is pressing to have five churches demolished, again to claims that the churches have no permit. The congregation of another “embattled church” that Muslims are trying to shut down “was forced to move its Christmas prayers to a member’s house after Islamic groups assembled at the disputed site and threatened to challenge the sermon on Sunday.”

Iran: While celebrating Christmas, a church was raided by State Security. All those present, including Sunday school children, were arrested and interrogated. Hundreds of Christian books were seized. The detained Christians suffered “considerable verbal abuse”; the whereabouts of others arrested, including the reverend and his wife, remain unknown. “Raids and detentions during the Christmas season are not uncommon in Iran, a Shi’a-majority country that is seen as one of the worst persecutors of religious minorities.”

Nigeria: Weeks before the Christmas Day church bombings, another jihadi [holy war]attack, enabled by “local Muslims,” left five churches destroyed and several Christians killed: “The Muslims in this town were going round town pointing out church buildings and shops owned by Christians to members of Boko Haram [" Western Educatim is Forbidden"], and they in turn bombed these churches and shops.”

Turkey: A large-scale al-Qaeda plot to bomb “all the churches in Ankara,” was exposed. An official indictment against al-Qaeda members earlier arrested revealed the homegrown terrorist cell’s plans to attack Ankara’s churches and their Christian clergy.

APOSTASY, BLASPHEMY, and PROSELYTISM

Algeria: In May, a Muslim convert to Christianity was sentenced to a five-year prison term on charges of “insulting Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, and with ‘proselytism’ for giving a Muslim a CD about Christianity.” Now the judge has decided “to indefinitely postpone” the man’s appeal, thus “show[ing how] the judicial system keeps Christians in limbo without officially punishing or acquitting them.”

Kashmir: The top Islamic clergyman launched a website against apostasy and the conversion of Muslims to Christianity. The website works to “check the conversion of young [Muslim] boys and girls [to Christianity]“; its “fundamental goal” is to “thwart catastrophic [Christian] missionary activities.”

Iran: Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, who caught the attention of the world after being imprisoned and awaiting execution for leaving Islam, may have to wait another year for a ruling on whether the sentence will be upheld, as authorities continue to delay a ruling in the hope that the world will forget. Meanwhile, authorities continue “to pressure Nadarkhani to recant his faith,” giving him and ordering him to read “Islamic literature aimed at discrediting the Bible. The court reportedly has been told to use whatever means necessary to compel Nadarkhani to recant his faith. Another convert to Christianity recently told of his experiences: “When my family and friends learned of my decision, they didn’t accept it and rejected me as a result. They made me leave our family home. In addition, my friends treated me like my family had and began calling me an apostate and an infidel. In Iran, anyone who converts to Christianity faces various problems. In spite of the love I had for my family, I had to leave my home. Everyone rejected me.”

Malaysia: Lamenting that “It could be hundreds, maybe even thousands” of Muslims converting to Christianity, a former state-commissioner has been “collecting data” to “persuade” the apostates to return to Islam: “We are helping them, hoping they will come back to Islam.” Likewise, the Sultan of Selangor, a Malaysian state, has ordered top-level Islamic organizations to take strategic steps against proselytism, “so that Muslims who have began distancing themselves from Islam will return to the fold and repent.”

Pakistan: After a Muslim family discovered their son had converted to Christianity, not only did “his father put up a notice in local newspapers disowning him,” but his family “file[d] a police complaint against him because—as a murtad or apostate deserving death—he was said to have committed “blasphemy.” Likewise, after a rent-related quarrel, a Muslim landlord accused his Christian tenant of desecrating the Quran, which led to crowds of Muslims surrounding the Christian’s house, making threats and hurling anti-Christian slogans; “Muslim leaders made announcements from several mosques calling for severe punishment.” He was arrested and charged under Pakistan’s “blasphemy” laws, which make willful desecration of the Quran punishable with life imprisonment.

VIOLENCE and KILLINGS

Kashmir: Christians imprisoned under “blasphemy” charges continue to be tortured. One was “seriously injured in a knife attack and was believed to be in a Lahore hospital on Christmas Day.”

Kenya: Seven Muslims of Somali descent beat a young Somali Christian unconscious, injuring an eye, less than six weeks after a similar attack on his older brother, saying “we did not succeed in killing your brother, but today we are going to kill you.” His family was presumably Muslim when he was born, so the gang beat him as an “apostate” even though he was raised as a Christian.

Iraq: A rash of attacks on Christians erupted following a Friday mosque sermon, and included Muslim “mobs burning and wrecking [Christian] businesses. Later, Muslim gunmen shot and killed a Christian couple as they were walking towards their car… Their two children were hurt but are still alive.” New information has been received “on a plot against the Christian minority in Mosul during the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays.

Pakistan: A Muslim man murdered a Christian girl during an attempted rape: he had “grabbed the girl and, under the threat of a gun, tried to drag her away. The young Christian woman resisted, trying to escape the clutches of her attacker, when the man opened fire and killed her instantly, and later tried to conceal the corpse.” Though the man is described as a “young drifter and drug addict,” the ongoing sexual abuse of Christian women by Muslim men exposes how Christians are seen as second-class, to be abused with impunity.

Philippines: A 71-year old pastor was shot dead by two unidentified gunmen on board a motorcycle. “The [Mindanao] province is known for Christian pastors becoming victims of persecution. Just earlier this year, a lady pastor of a local Pentecostal church was hacked to death by suspected Moslem rebels in front of her daughter.”

Syria: ”Around 50 Christians have been killed in the anti-government unrest in Homs, Syria, by both rebels and government forces, while many more are struggling to feed their families as the violence brings normal life in the city to a halt…. In one tragic incident, a young Christian boy was killed by the rebels, who filmed the murder and then claimed that government forces had committed the act. Another Christian was seized by the rebels, taken to a house and asked, ‘How do you want to die?’ The man completely broke down and was released but has been left in severe psychological distress.”

Uganda: Muslims threw acid on a church leader on Christmas Eve shortly after a revival at his church, leaving him with severe burns that have blinded one eye and threaten his sight in the other. The pastor “was on his way back to the site for a party with the entire congregation and hundreds of new converts to Christianity when a man who claimed to be a Christian approached him. ‘I heard him say in a loud voice, Pastor, pastor, and as I made a turn and looked at him, he poured the liquid onto my face as others poured more liquid on my back and then fled away shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar.’”

DHIMMITUDE

[General Abuse, Debasement, and Suppression of non-Muslim "Second-Class Citizens"]

Egypt: Accusations that a 17-year-old Christian student posted a drawing of Islam’s prophet on Facebook triggered Muslim violence and havoc for two days (the student insists his friends posted the picture on his Facebook page). At least three Christian homes including the youth’s were burned to cries of “Allahu Akbar” and he was severely beaten by Muslim classmates prior to being taken away by police. Demands that Christians pay jizya—tribute collected from non-Muslim infidels—are increasing. Also, Rif’at al-Said, head of Egypt’s Al Tagammu Party, proclaimed that Christians are right to be scared, some are packing and leaving, and that the “history of Egypt includes religious riots and oppression, and subsequent Christian emigration.”

Iraq: A Christian man was kidnapped and held for three days, during which his captors demanded a $500,000 ransom. He “was blindfolded and tied down during his ordeal” until “rescued by a SWAT team … to the great relief of his 21-year-old wife Amal and the local Christian community.”

Malaysia: An evangelical Christian leader may face charges of sedition following a statement he made concerning Article 153 of Malaysia’s Constitution, which he likened to “bullying” for only protecting the rights of Muslims.

Philippines: In Mindanao, where Muslims make up 1/3 of the population, a 20-year-old Christian preschool learning center is being threatened with closure, over “technicalities.” Mindanao “has the highest incidence of persecuted Christians doing missionary work in the Philippines and it was also in this region where a suspected man lobbed a bomb grenade at visiting Christian missionaries … priests and missionaries have also been kidnapped.”

Saudi Arabia: Dozens of Ethiopian Christians were arrested for holding a prayer meeting, although under charges of “mixing with the opposite sex”: “the Saudi officials are accusing the Christians of committing the crime of mixing of sexes because if they charge them with meeting for practicing Christianity, they will come under pressure from the international human rights organizations as well as Western countries.”

Previous Reports:

November, 2011

October, 2011

September, 2011

August, 2011

July, 2011

TANZANIA, ZANZIBAR: Muslim leaders want to turn the tropical paradise into another Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban

Although only about 3% of the population of Zanzibar is Christian (with 45% of Tanzanians Christian), Muslims want to purge the country of everything non-Islamic. They are teaching hatred for Christians who won’t convert and are burning down churches in order to help turn Africa into the first all-Muslim continent. Once you convert to Islam, you will never be allowed to leave….alive.

Zanzibar guarantees freedom of religion, but with Islam their constitution cannot protect them.  In additions, the Muslims (ALL) are teaching to one another to HATE all Christians.  Zanzibar’s mosques are fuller on Fridays, more women are wearing head scarves and more Muslim men are showing calluses created by frequently touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer. A growing number of Zanzibaris are turning toward a stricter form of Islam and possibly away from democracy. Fundamentalist clerics see an opportunity, offering Islamic law as an alternative to democracy, arguing that would bring discipline and moral values to political leadership. 

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Escalating Muslim violence could soon eradicate Christianity from the Middle East

There are new warnings that Christianity could possibly be wiped out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt because of severe and persistent persecution against Christians. Apparently, the only place in the Middle East where Christians are safe is the state of Israel.

FOX  According to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in 2003, there were 800,000 to 1.4 million Christians in Iraq. Today, there are only an estimated 500,000 Christians. 

Leonard Leo, of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, says that there’s a serious increase in the amount of violence, at the hands of both governments and individuals, that’s been perpetrated against Christians in the region. Of the possibility that Christianity may be eradicated in the region, Leo said, “First of all, Christianity has always been a very important part of the fabric of Middle Eastern and North African society, and for those populations to now be dwindling or leaving, has a very serious impact on the stability, security and prosperity of countries in the Middle East and in north and sub-Saharan Africa.”

NIGERIA: This is what happens when half the country is Christian and half are Muslims

BOKO HARAM Muslim terror group

The president of Nigeria is a Christian but seems unable to stem the violence against Christians by Muslim sect Boko Haram, which is trying to impose sharia law across the country. Several church bombs went off, the second Christmas in a row the group has caused mass carnage with deadly bombings of churches.

UK DAILY MAIL  Terror attacks targeted at Christians, including two bombs at church services, have killed at least 40 across Nigeria. Boko Haram, a Muslim sect claimed responsibility for five attacks which struck the nation’s north-east today. Most of the victims died on the steps of a Roman Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass.

The Christmas Day attacks show the growing national ambition of the sect known as Boko Haram, which is thought to be responsible for 504 killings this year alone.

The first explosion struck St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a town in Niger state close to the capital, Abuja, killing at least 35 and wounding 52. Hours after the first bomb, blasts were reported at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church in the central, ethnically and religiously mixed town of Jos, and at a church in northern Yobe state at the town of Gadaka.

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The Origins of Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: The untold story you've never heard

BNI has posted many stories that show the United States and Nato forces fought on the wrong side of that war. Here is an essay, never before published, about the tragedy of that decision with its unforgivable betrayal of a long-time ally, the Serbs, in favor of the Muslim invaders who were doing what they do all over the world, replacing the indigenous population with an Islamic republic, all the while crying that they were the victims of ethnic cleansing. 

THE ORIGINS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE BALKANS: THE UNTOLD STORY

by Zhivko B. Damyanovich

Due to the length of this essay, summarizing the main points may be helpful:

1. The Kosovar Albanians came from Albania to the Kosovo-Metohia region as intruders when most of the original Slavic (Serb and Montenegrin) population – who had lived there for up to ten centuries – migrated under the threat of utter extermination due to their (at the time) unsupported fight for freedom from Turkish oppression.

2. The new Albanian settlers – for the most part Muslims, who were therefore trusted by the ruling Ottoman authorities – actively assisted the Turks in the stifling of the remaining Slavs.

3. During the time of direst hardship for the Serbian Army in its 1915 retreat (from the Bulgarian, Austro-Hungarian, and German armies), Albanians living on the route of withdrawal across the Albanian mountains had no compassion for the exhausted Serbian soldiers (a whole third of whom perished during the march) but seized every opportunity to mug, rob and kill any stragglers.

4. The Kosovar Albanians actively joined with Bulgarian and Austro-Hungarian occupation forces in severe persecution and harassment of ethnic Slavs during World War I;

5. Yet, these Albanians were not molested by the Yugoslav authorities in the slightest following World War I.

6. During the Italian occupation of Kosovo-Metohia of 1941-43 and the extension of that occupation by German and Bulgarian forces in 1943-45, the Kosovar Albanians systematically engaged in a sustained and well-organized campaign of ethnic cleansing unknown to the West, displacing a considerable number of Serb and Montenegrin families.

7. Immediately after the liberation of Serbia in 1944, the communist government of Josip Broz Tito enacted a secret order forbidding all those Serbs and Montenegrins who had been expelled or who had fled during the war-years to return to their homes in Kosovo-Metohia! This was a monstrous act against the Serbian people perpetrated by their own government (under a virulently – though covertly – anti-Serb president) in order to conform to an alien, unethical and forcibly imposed ideology never accepted by the Serbs.

8. The Kosovar Albanians on the other hand readily accepted the communists as their liberators and claimed all the legally proclaimed prerogatives of a distinct and compact minority in their own right.

9. Not only were the leaders and those other Kosovar Albanians who were guilty of innumerable atrocities committed during the war-years pardoned and left unpunished; they were treated as the unfortunate victims of Fascism, and thus compensated by being granted full autonomy to handle their own affairs regardless of the weakened remnants of the Orthodox-Christian Serbs and Montenegrins. All of this was enforced within and under the auspices of “The People’s Republic of Serbia”!!!

10. The Kosovars used this unexpected generosity as a further springboard for promoting their nationalist aspirations. First covertly and timidly, then progressively becoming much more blatant and violent, they attacked Slav property and people using all sorts of misdeeds including arson, rape and murder (especially of children, the weak, and the old).

1211. These same Kosovar Albanian authorities secretly permitted – even encouraged – illegal immigration of Albanians fleeing the brutal regime of Enver Hoxha as well as the pitifully wretched living conditions there. In this way, the ethnic imbalance already existing continued to get progressively worse.

12. The population policies of the postwar Yugoslav government were very benign to the Islamic custom of polygamy, resulting in a proliferation of children but also of penurious families living in ever- worsening conditions which all the outpouring of Serbian aid could not counteract. This is a factor readily and deliberately overlooked in stressing the overall compactness of the ethnic Albanian population of the region nowadays.

13. Throughout the time of Tito’s government and beyond (1945-1988), a steady exodus of Serb refugees fled Kosovo-Metohia, intimidated and terrified into doing so by those same Kosovar-Albanian authorities while the muzzled Serbian authorities in Belgrade turned a blind eye. Scared for their lives, they reluctantly left their homes and everything else so dear to them, gnashing their teeth while forced into suppressing their resentment and need for justice, hoping to return in better days.

SERBS BEHEADED BY THE MUSLIMS

About the Author

Mr. Zhivko Bogdan Damyanovich was born in Rušanj (now a suburb of Belgrade) in 1916. [At that time, his father and three of his paternal uncles were serving on the Salonika front (with the Allies).] After getting a Bachelor of Science (majoring in agriculture) in 1939 and joining the General Union of Farm Coöperatives in 1941, he served as a pilot with the Yugoslav Air Force during the war (1941 and 1944-45). Upon being demobilized at the end of World War II (1945), he was sent to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia (FPRY), being in charge of farm wages and product prices. On account of his vigorous opposition to compulsory requisitions of farm products at inappropriately low prices, arbitrary taxation of farm holdings, and enforced collectivization of agriculture, he was expelled from the state-run trade unions and dismissed from the Ministry (1952). Due to the failure of the Peasant Workers’ Coöperatives to improve agricultural production as well as to the consequently drastic changes in farm policies undertaken, he was reinstated and sent to the Economics Institute of FPRY (1953); when the Institute was abolished (1958) as too “liberal”, he was moved to the Federal Planning Commission.

In 1960, Mr. Damyanovich was able to use an invitation to specialize in land economics to move to Canada, where he graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master of Science (1962). He then had several jobs with the Ontario Agricultural College, the Manitoba Department of Agriculture and Conservation, and the Federal Trade and Commerce Department of Canada before moving in 1965 to Rome (Italy) to work for the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. He retired in 1978 and currently lives in Canada.

Throughout his career, Mr. Damyanovich wrote close to one-hundred expert-level reports, most of which were published (in Yugoslavia and for intra-governmental use only). His Master’s thesis “Labour Productivity in World Agriculture” won the Agricultural Economics Society of Canada’s award as the best submission in Land Economics at Canadian Universities in 1962; however, he was never allowed to defend his major work, the study “Resources in World Agriculture and their Use, 1947-78″ which was submitted as his PhD dissertation at the University of Belgrade, due to political interference.

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The ongoing drama in the Balkans has made me deeply frustrated as a human being. It is not a mere question of my heart being split between my allegiance to Canada (as my adopted country) versus my feelings for my relatives, friends, and ancient homeland afflicted with so many disasters. It is far more than that.

I abhor atrocities of any and all kinds. I must note how from my earliest childhood I heard time and again how terribly my people suffered under Turkish tyranny for centuries, and then under the Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian invaders in World War I. Furthermore, I myself underwent the experience of World War II in which Yugoslavia was dismembered, with her inhabitants exposed to terrible losses, oppression, and terror. However, unknown to the Western World, a reign of terror continued for many years after the war’s end via the purges conducted in many districts in Serbia of monarchists known as ￿etniks, in which many families perished.

As a boy I was very proud of how, after the end of the First World War, the Serbian people were greatly praised by others: not only for their bravery, but also for their generosity and kindness even to their fallen enemies. This praise was given both on an individual and collective level (especially considering the terms imposed on their foes). Doctor Archibald Reiss, a Swiss war correspondent of the time, expressed his great admiration for the Serbs by asking in his will that his heart be buried on the battlefield of Kajmak￿alan (altitude of 2,520 metres) where in September 1918 he had witnessed the Serbian army break through the Salonika front (near Thessalonika, Greece) with Allied help. He made this gesture as a token of deepest homage to the gallantry and valour of the Serb soldiers he had been with throughout their four years of war, sharing in their sufferings as well as in their ultimate victory.

I therefore find it exceedingly hard to believe the stories now being circulated and repeated endlessly in the Western media of the worst cruelty and evil being perpetrated by Serbs in Kosovo upon their Albanian brethren. Is it possible that a nation, proud of its mediæval glory, culture, and centuries-long struggle for freedom from various oppressors, can fall so low as to disgrace her entire past, disavow her ancestral fame and honour, turn her soldiers into the lowest barbarians, and expose her whole people to universal condemnation leading to the catastrophic ruin currently being inflicted?

Very likely there is some truth in these stories, but surely not to such an extreme extent.

In all great conflicts throughout history, whether they are intertribal skirmishes, civil clashes, or international wars, the truth is the first casualty. I used the word ‘casualty’ in terms of the truth being distorted, ignored, and filtered to suit various interests. There is no nation that can claim not to have had dark periods in its history, with atrocities, senseless massacres and enforced famines. Africa is a prime example with wars in Nigeria (Biafra), the Congo, Somalia, Angola, Mozambique, and more recently in Rwanda and Burundi. Even now the cycle continues with the Sudanese, Kurds, Chiapas natives, Tibetans, Chechens, Armenians, east Timorese and others. It has been the same throughout history; except there often were no war reporters to document, or historians to research and preserve the facts about those horrors for posterity.

It is extremely hard for me to accept the discriminatory generalization of various measures and actions undertaken by the present authorities in Kosovo as presented by the American media and repeatedly rebroadcast throughout the rest of the member nations of NATO. I’m particularly appalled by the ease with which journalists, Members of Parliament, and even governing statesmen (and women) use provocative and incendiary language. Do the events in Kosovo amount to “genocide,” or is the use of such terms rhetorical excess? Are we really dealing with a new “Holocaust,” or mere clichés that readily fit in with such defamatory and hate-inciting idioms? I don’t think more needs to be said about the utter inappropriateness of using such terms without substantiation nor the dreadful harm that can be caused by intentionally misusing such words.

Let us consider the accusations being levelled against the Serbian nation of “ethnic cleansing.” For a long time, I’ve been waiting for the Yugoslav authorities, or someone else, to explain the severe ethnical imbalance in the population of Kosovo and Metohia present at the outset of these past months’ unfortunate events. Surely, one ought to wonder how has it come to be that the Serbian presence in its own homeland has dwindled to where they are now an almost-negligible minority (10% of the total inhabitants)?! If this “cradle of Serbian civilization”, their “Jerusalem” was (and is) so dear to Serb hearts, how have they come to the point of losing almost all claim to it?!? In answer thereto, let me attempt a brief historical essay.

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ORIGINS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE BALKINS: THE UNTOLD STORY

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Why have Muslims not been on trial in the Hague – for atrocities against humanity

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EGYPT’S CHRISTIANS, the rubbish people

With the Muslim Brotherhood poised to grab power, the already miserable living conditions for many Christians will only get worse. Yet Barack Hussein Obama has no refugee program for persecuted Christians in the Middle East…only for his fellow Muslims.

PART 1

This is a dark side to Egypt that the authorities dont want foreigners to see: a secretive society … of tens of thousands of Christians literally living in rubbish in a Cairo ghetto overrun by rats and disease. They live with garbage stacked to the roofs of their multi-storey homes – eking out a living recycling the rubbish by hand. Its a sight rarely seen by outsiders.

PART 2

This group is unique for another reason. They’re part of Muslim Egypt’s Christian Coptic minority, a community that is besieged by persecution, extremism and a creeping Islamization in Egypt’s security services. One of the most sensitive issues faced by some of those in Egypt – their decision to convert to Christianity – a decision that some Muslims believe should be punishable by death under a strict interpretation of sharia religious law.

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MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS: October 2011

Egypt’s Maspero massacre where the military killed dozens of Christians protesting the destruction of their churches dominates October’s persecution headlines.

HUDSON NY  Facts and details concerning the military’s “crimes against humanity” are documented in this report, and include videos of armored-vehicles running over civilians, a catalog of lies and deceitful tactics employed by Egypt’s rulers and state media, and other matters overlooked by the West.

More damning evidence continues to emerge: not only did Egypt’s military plan to massacre Christians to teach them a “lesson” never to protest again, but “death squads“ were deployed up buildings the night before to snipe at protesters. Instead of trying the soldiers who intentionally ran-over demonstrators, the military has been randomly arresting Copts simply “for being Christian.” Finally, the fact-finding commission of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights just submitted its report which, as expected, “white washes” the military’s role, “asserting that no live ammunition was fired on the protesters by the military, as the army only fired blanks in the air to disperse the protesters,” a claim eyewitnesses reject out of hand.

Meanwhile, not only are Western governments apathetic, but it was revealed that “Obama’s top Muslim advisor blocks Middle Eastern Christians’ access to White House.” Newt Gingrich asserted that Obama’s “strategy in the Middle East is such a total grotesque failure” and likened the “Arab spring” to an “anti-Christian spring.” Ann Widdecombe accused the British government of “double standards in its threats to cut aid to countries which persecute gay people while turning a blind eye to persecution against Christians.” Even Christian pastors in the West, apparently more concerned about promoting interfaith dialogue with Muslims, are reluctant to mention persecution to their flock.

Categorized by theme, the rest of October’s batch of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is hardly limited to) the following accounts, listed according to theme and in alphabetical order by country, not necessarily severity.

Churches

Afghanistan: Ten years after the U.S. invaded and overthrew the Taliban—at a cost of more than 1,700 U.S. military lives and $440 billion in taxpayer dollars—the State Department just revealed that Afghanistan’s last Christian church was destroyed. The report further makes clear that the Afghan government—installed by the U.S.—is partially responsible for such anti-Christian sentiments, for instance, by upholding apostasy laws, which make it a criminal offense, ,punishable by death, for Muslims to convert to other religions.

Indonesia: Muslims and authorities expelled Christians from their church and shut it down “for allegedly engaging in ‘proselytizing’ in a predominantly Muslim area.” As in previous instances when churches were seized, “the fundamentalists were aided and abetted by the local administration.” Also, the Muslim behind a September church attack that left three dead confessed that he was operating under his jihad leader’s orders, “based on the Koran and Sunna.”

Kazakhstan: The Muslim majority nation enacted new laws further restricting freedom of religion: “All registered churches must now re-register with the government, and only churches meeting new criteria will be registered.” Accordingly, “police and secret police agents reportedly raided a worship meeting of the officially registered Protestant church New Life, saying that under the new Religion Law the congregation ‘cannot meet outside its legal address.’ During the raid, a 17-year old woman was hit by a policeman, leaving her unconscious.”

Sudan: Soon after President Bashir “confirmed plans to adopt an entirely Islamic constitution and strengthen sharia law,” “emboldened” Muslims, “claiming that Christianity was no longer an accepted religion in the country,” attacked Christians trying to construct a church. Likewise, authorities threatened to demolish three church buildings “as part of a long-standing bid to rid Sudan of Christianity.”

Christian Symbols

Egypt: A Christian student was strangled and beaten to death by his Muslim teacher and fellow students for refusing to cover his cross. When the headmaster was informed of the attack in progress, he ignored it and “continued to sip his tea.” In the words of one prominent Egyptian commentator: “a teacher forced a student to take off the crucifix he wore, and when the Christian student stood firm for his rights, the teacher quarreled with him, joined by some of the students; he was beastly assaulted until his last breath left him.”

Saudi Arabia: A Colombian soccer-player “was arrested by the Saudi moral police after customers in a Riyadh shopping mall expressed outrage over the sports player’s religious tattoos, which included the face of Jesus of Nazareth on his arm…. A similar event occurred in Saudi Arabia last year when a Romanian player kissed the tattoo of a cross he had on his arm after scoring a goal, which also caused public outrage.”

Maldives: Police arrested a 30 year-old teacher from India for having a Bible and rosary, and finally deported him after a two-week interrogation. According to the principal, he “was a very good teacher, we’ve not had any complaints of him in the past.” Such cases are not aberrant: “Last year, Maldivian authorities rescued another Christian teacher from India when Muslim parents of her students threatened to throw her into the sea for ‘preaching Christianity’ after she drew a compass in class, which they alleged was a cross.”

Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism

India: A mufti summoned a Christian priest to appear before his court: according to the mufti, the priest “is involved in converting young Muslim boys and girls to Christianity. This warrants action as per Islamic law…. I will take all necessary measures in exercise of the powers vested in me by Islamic Sharia.”

Iran: Militants with suspected ties to Iranian security threatened to kill nearly a dozen evangelical Christians who fled Iran; unless they “repent and ask forgiveness” and return to Islam, they must die. Likewise, a “group of four officers engaged in a commando-style raid on the house” of a Muslim convert to Christianity, arresting him, confiscating his Bible, and “transferring him to an unknown location…. His family was also threatened to remain silent and not to talk about this incident to anyone.” Also, a Christian named “Muhammad” was arrested, interrogated “for the charge of Christianity.” And Iran’s Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of the pastor sentenced to death for refusing to renounce his Christian beliefs, partially because “Iran is feeling the pressure” of the growing international community supporting the pastor.

Pakistan: A female prison-officer assigned to provide security for Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five sentenced to death on “blasphemy” charges, beat her, “allegedly because of the Muslim officer’s anti-Christian bias, while other staff members deployed for her security looked on in silence.” A new report reveals how the nation’s legalization of blasphemy laws has given great rise to Christian persecution.

“Dhimmitude” (General Abuse, Debasement, and Suppression of “Second Class” Citizens)

Egypt: The military threatened a Coptic monastery with a “new massacre” in an attempt to demolish the monastery’s fence “which guards it from unauthorized visits and criminals.” The military has “stormed several monasteries since the January 25 Revolution, demolished fences, and fired on monks and visitors.” Also, a Christian man sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for “insulting the military” has been ordered to a mental health hospital, from which, according to some analysts, patients often emerge as “devastated human beings.”

Iraq: A new report entitled, “The double lives of Iraq’s Christian children” tells of their suffering—”If the children say they believe in Jesus, they face beatings and scorn from their teachers”—as well as the struggle of their parents. “The first years of my faith,” says a father, “I brought so many people to church, because I was motivated, so excited. Now I don’t encourage anyone to be a Christian, because in my experience it is very hard.”

France: Stone-throwing Muslims attacked Christians during a Catholic celebration, although the media largely ignored it: “it would seem that the media silence on these facts, which are occurring more and more frequently, serves to exonerate, even protect, the Muslims in their racist and anti-religious acts.”

Pakistan: Along with one dead man, “two dozen Christians including children, men and women were seriously injured” when “Muslim gangs” hired by an influential Muslim attacked them “to grab a piece of land” which the church had purchased to build an orphanage. Also, Muslim landowners raided a Christian home, beat a sick father and abducted two brothers, whom they claim are in debt; the kidnapper added an extra 70,000 rupees in ransom. “The men’s mother tried to file a report with police , who refused because one of the suspects is a fellow police officer,” not to mention also a Muslim.

Turkey: The Education Ministry in Ankara published a 10^th grade textbook which distorts the role of Christian Assyrians, “denouncing them as traitors who rebelled against Turkey.” Still denying the historic slaughter of Christians, “today’s Turkish Government is not hesitant to distort historical events by inverting victim and perpetrator… About half of the Assyrian population, were killed or died from starvation or disease in a series of killings orchestrated by the Ottoman Turkish government during World War I.”

USA: A Muslim convert to Christianity was violently attacked by Muslims because of a poem “which expresses pain over the loss of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis.” The attackers carved the Star of David on his back with a knife “while laughing as they recited his poem.” In a separate incident, a Muslim physiotherapist “tore into” a Christian patient, saying her faith was “wrong“ and had “killed more people than any other religion.” She later wrote: “I found Mr. Ali to be extremely racist against my Christian faith. I have had doctors, nurses and staff of all different religions look after me but this is the first time I’ve been treated by such a bigoted man as Mr. Ali.”

Pakistani Rape

As usual, Pakistan—which, along with Egypt, oddly missed being categorized as a “country of particular concern” in the State Department‘s recent religious freedom report—dominates the headlines regarding the sexual abuse of Christian women:

• Kidnapped last Christmas Eve, “a 12 year-old Christian [was]gang raped for eight months, forcibly converted and then ‘married’ to her Muslim attacker.” Now that she has escaped, instead of seeing justice done, “the Christian family is in hiding from the rapists and the police.”
• “A Christian mother of four was slaughtered by a Muslim colleague in Pakistan after she resisted his attempt to rape her at the factory where they worked.”
• A new report asserts: “The forced conversion to Islam of women from religious minority groups through rape and abduction has reached an alarming stage… It appears today that no one, from the judiciary to the police and even the government has the courage to stand up to the threats from Muslim fundamentalist groups. The situation is worse with the police who always side with the Islamic groups and treat minority groups as lowly life forms.”

Killings

Iraq: “Two Christians were murdered in northern Iraq this week; their deaths come as three kidnapped Christians were released following the payment of a hefty ransom.” A source in Iraq laments: “The attacks on Christians continue and the world remains totally silent. It’s as if we’ve been swallowed up by the night.”

Nigeria: Months after Muslims from Boko Haram murdered a pastor, another pastor was targeted and murdered. The jihadists have “claimed responsibility for several church bombings and other attacks;” many Christians have fled the region, and some churches have shut down as many of their flock have been killed. Likewise, three Muslim soldiers, in the context of subduing civil unrest, “shot and killed a Christian mother of five” and a Christian boy, without “any justifiable reason.”

Somalia: Weeks after a convert to Christianity was beheaded, al-Shabaab, “who have vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity,” decapitated another 17-year-old Christian in his home: “It is usual for the al-Shabaab to decapitate those they suspect to have embraced the Christian faith, or sympathizers of western ideals.”

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Newt Gingrich says, “The grotesque failure of current U.S. policy has resulted not in an Arab Spring but an anti-Christian spring.”

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the Arab Spring and the Muslim campaign against Catholic University are symptoms of a growing anti-Christian climate, and pledged to defend religious freedom around the globe.

Christian Post  Gingrich criticized the Obama administration’s involvement in the Arab Spring – the Middle East grassroots uprising that has overthrown longstanding authoritarian leaders such as Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak – arguing that such involvement is creating an atmosphere of hatred towards Christians.

“People say, ‘Oh isn’t this great, we’re having an Arab Spring,’” he said. “I think we may in fact be having an anti-Christian spring. I think people should take this [assertion] pretty soberly.”

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2011 report states that while “the Egyptian government engage in and tolerated religious freedom violations” before Mubarak stepped down in February, sectarian violence targeting Coptic Christians have grown unchecked following the Arab Spring. The transitional government, the report noted, “has failed to protect religious minorities … during the transitional period when minority communities are increasing vulnerable.”

Additionally, persecution watchdog group Open Doors reported last week that Libya’s Christian minority are “keeping a low profile” since Gaddafi’s death at the hands of rebels.

The former House Speaker also took issue with the complaint by Muslim students against Catholic University of America last week. The complaint filed with the D.C. Office of Human Rights charged that the school rooms used for Islamic prayer have religious material such crosses and images of Jesus, and that the private Catholic university would not sponsor a Muslim student association.

Gingrich responded to the complaint by asking, “Are you prepared to sponsor a Christian missionary in Mecca? Because if you’re not prepared to sponsor religious liberty in Saudi Arabia, don’t come and nag us with some hypocritical baloney. So I think we need to be prepared to stand firm for genuine religious liberty, not for something that’s anti-Christian.”

As President, Newt Gingrich would prosecute the anti-American CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, ICNA, and all other Muslim Brotherhood affiliates operating in the U.S.

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MALDIVES: Christian Bible teacher deported for having a Bible in his home

Shijo Kokkattu, am Indian-born 30-year-old Catholic teacher at Raafainu School, was deported last week after police found a Bible and rosary in his house during a raid, Christians said.

(Christians should stay out of Muslim countries and Muslims should be banned from all Christian countries)

BOSNEWSLIFE  While Kokkattu was relieved about his release, he reportedly expressed concerns in statements about other “innocent detainees” who are allegedly kept in police custody “on flimsy grounds or fabricated charges.”

The deportation of Kokkattu didn’t came as a surprise for Christian rights activists. The Maldives, a popular destination for Western tourists southwest of India, requires all citizens to be Muslim. “It is against the law to import Christian teaching materials and foreigners who visit the country are immediately deported if Christian materials are found in their luggage,” said Open Doors, which investigates the plight of reportedly persecuted Christians. “Churches are forbidden,” it added.

Since 2008, a constitutional amendment also denies non-Muslims the right to obtain Maldivian citizenship. “In 1998, all known Christian foreigners who were suspected of missionary work were expelled,” Open Doors said. “Foreigners are currently allowed to practice their religion in private as long as they do not gather for Christian activity or try to witness.”

Being one of “the least evangelized countries on earth”, there are only a handful of indigenous believers in Maldives, the group explained. “These Christians practice their faith individually and in extreme secrecy for fear of being discovered.” Under Maldives regulations they could face sentences that could include uo to five years imprisonment or house arrest.

Last year however, Maldivian authorities rescued another Christian teacher from India when Muslim parents threatened to throw her into the sea for “preaching Christianity” to their children after she reportedly drew a compass in class which allegedly resembled a cross.

MUSLIM PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS – September 2011

An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appears in this series was designated among the countries of particular concern, defined by the State Department as countries that are engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.

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Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen over fifty Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, has recommended that the State Department designate it so.

One of the Christians hacked to death in Nigeria by Muslims as part of their campaign of ethnic cleansing in the last few years

Neither was Pakistan cited as a “country of particular concern.” According to CNS news, “Clinton did not designate Pakistan even though the State Department’s own report stated that Pakistani law calls for the death penalty for people who commit ‘blasphemy’ against Islam or who convert from Islam to another religion—and even though the report listed multiple instances of the Pakistani government using the law to persecute Christians.”

September alone saw the following in Pakistan:

Blasphemy

• A Christian student was expelled from school because she misspelled an Urdu word that, instead of praising, insulted Muhammad, leading to accusations of “blasphemy,” which carries the death penalty. After the teacher beat her, the principal was notified and Muslims staged demonstrations “demanding registration of a criminal case against the eighth-grader and her eviction from the area.” As riots and violence were about to erupt, the military intervened: “They bundled the family in an ambulance and took them away…”
• “A Christian high school teacher has suffered false accusations of blasphemy by a student and some Muslim professors, because of dislike, revenge and hatred towards Christians. He was forced to leave his job and hide; he appealed to Court, but the laconic sentence of the judge of first instance invited him to ‘leave the country’…. Married and a father of three, he has been uprooted and is in hiding.”
• A 30-year-old Christian man accused of blasphemy and imprisoned, died in his cell from a treatable disease, “after officials denied him proper medical care.” While in prison, he and others “accused of blasphemy, were kept in solitary confinement without access to a toilet, water or electricity.”

Abuse of Christian Women

• A Christian mother of five was raped by two Muslim men, who “tend to assume they will not be prosecuted if their victims are Christians”; she and her family are being threatened with violence unless they drop the charges.
• A Christian nurse was raped by a Muslim colleague who filmed the act in an attempt to blackmail her into renouncing Christianity and marrying him: “[he] raped me while his friend filmed the entire incident. They ruined my life completely.”
• Accordingly, a new report estimates that some 700 Christian girls annually are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry their Muslim abductors.

Categorized by theme, the rest of September’s batch of Muslim persecution of Christians includes, but is hardly limited to, the following accounts, listed according to theme, and in alphabetical order by country, not necessarily severity.

Attacks on Churches

Egypt: Muslims threatened Christians near Aswan for fixing a dilapidated church, even though the repairs had been authorized. They demanded that the church not have a cross, dome, bells, or even be called a “church”; weeks later, after Friday prayers, thousands of Muslims attacked the church, burning it to the ground, and demolishing its domes, as Egyptian security watched.

Indonesia: A Muslim suicide bomber attacked a packed church, killing himself and wounding at least 27 worshippers, some critically. Security received advance warning but, as often happens in Muslim majority countries, left their post at the time of the attack.

Tunisia: Around 20 Muslims attempted to transform a Christian church into a mosque “in an ominous sign of the growing threat to the country’s small Church in the wake of the revolution.” The police dispersed them, but “they have been invited to make an official request to the faith ministry” to transform the church into a mosque.

Apostasy

Indonesia: Under accusations of encouraging Muslims to convert to Christianity, an American family (husband and wife, two sons) were attacked by a Muslim mob who set fire to their property and vehicle. “Only the intervention of police saved the[ir] lives” from “an enraged mob spurred by a local religious leader.”

Iran: A Christian pastor remains incarcerated awaiting execution for refusing to renounce Christianity. The government of Iran, under international criticism, now claims that he is getting the death penalty, not because of religion, but because he is a “Zionist,” a “rapist,” and other new charges, even though its own court documents clearly assert his crime is apostasy.

Somalia: A Muslim convert to Christianity was abducted and decapitated, his body dumped in the road, by Muslims from al-Shabaab, “a militant group with ties to al Qaeda” that has “vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity.” According to a leader of the underground church: “It is usual for the al-Shabaab to decapitate those they suspect to have embraced the Christian faith, or sympathizers of Western ideals.”

Sudan: 129 people in southern Sudan were arrested and charged with apostasy, which “carries a maximum sentence of death.” The plaintiff maintains that while the defendants may be familiar with the Koran, they are not upholding the “Sunna ]path] of Muhammad”: “Given the track record of the Government of Sudan, it is possible that Article 126 [which outlaws apostasy] is being used to suppress ethnic minorities and those who the state perceives as potential sources of opposition.”

“Dhimmitude” (Abuse, Debasement, and Suppression of Christians)

Egypt: A 14-year-old Christian girl was prevented from entering school because she refused to wear a veil: “The school management described her as a ‘flaunt’ for not covering her hair”…. Coptic students were forced to obey for fear of the school management’s threats” except the girl and her parents, who “refused this decision because it is inconsistent with religious freedom and a blatant Islamization of education.”

Iraq: Three Christians were kidnapped: According to police sources, “Gunmen in a modern vehicle blocked the Christians’ way, set their white Landrover [car] on fire, killed their hunting dogs and led them to an unknown destination.” This abduction comes “after several other anti-Christian attacks in recent weeks, including a car bomb that exploded in August near a church in central Kirkuk…”

Iran: Along with the aforementioned Christian pastor awaiting execution, five Christians, including a “heavily pregnant woman,” were ordered to “report to prison immediately to serve a one year prison sentence,” after being convicted of “crimes against the Islamic Order.” Also, an adopted child was confiscated from its Christian parents, as a way to pressure them to testify against fellow Christians: “If you want your child back, you must file a complaint against your fellow Christians in prison.”

Kazakhstan: “Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have voted for ‘controversial legislation‘ that Christians and rights activists say will further limit religious freedom in the mainly Muslim Central Asian state.” Among other things, the new law “makes[s] it more difficult for churches to worship freely,” and bans “house churches.”

Philippines: In Mindanao, “the Christian minority is suffering harassment and pressure from the Muslim population. Government officials are forcing Christians to sell their land to make room for Chinese industries. According to sources, the climate of impunity, the abductions, the continuing clashes between the army and extremist Islamic groups and the economic crisis have created an unbearable atmosphere for the Christian population, who are afraid to express their faith in public.”

Sudan: A Catholic priest was beaten for allegedly “preaching against [the] Islamic government and opposing its teaching and rules.” Likewise, Muslims sent text messages to at least 10 church leaders in Khartoum saying they are planning to target Christian leaders, buildings, and institutions: “We want this country to be purely an Islamic state, so we must kill the infidels and destroy their churches all over Sudan,” said one recent text message circulating in Khartoum.

Incitement Against, and Killing of, Christians

Egypt: In a circulated video, the grand mufti of Al Azhar, Ali Goma’a, referred to Christians as “infidels”; in the same vein, Wagdi Ghoneim, a popular cleric and former U.S. imam, called Copts “Crusaders” on Al Jazeera television, insisting that they do not deserve equal rights with the Muslims in Egypt; Abu Shadi, a representative of the Salafis, told Tahrir News that the Copts must either convert to Islam, pay jizya [an increased tax for not being a Muslim], and assume an inferior status, or die.

Nigeria: Over 100 Christians have been killed by Muslim militants, many hacked to death, aided by the military; “among them was a pregnant woman who died with a child in her womb.” Similarly, Muslim militants “went to shops owned by Christians at a market at about 8 p.m., ordering them to recite verses from the Quran.” If they were unable to recite anything, the gunmen shot and killed them.

Syria: An anti-Assad Muslim preacher urged Muslims through sermons televised in Syria to “tear apart, chop up and feed” the meat of Christians and others who support the regime “to the dogs.”

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EGYPT: Islam's war on Christianity will bring a theocracy, not a democracy

Christians in Egypt are used to persecution, but the most recent deadly Muslim attacks on the Copts signal the country’s move not from military rule to democracy but to Islamic fundamentalist tyranny just like Iran.

UK TELEGRAPH  In the 19 or so centuries since Christianity first took root in Egypt, the ritual of mourning has become an all-too-familiar experience for the majority of the country’s Coptic community. Egypt’s eight million Copts may claim to be their nation’s oldest surviving indigenous faith, but that has not spared them from prolonged periods of persecution, most recently at the hands of Islamist militants.

During the latest outbreak of Coptic-related violence in Cairo, several Copts are reported to have been crushed to death by the tracks of an armoured military vehicle that ploughed into a group of protesters as they sang hymns and held aloft the Cross.

The roots of the current wave of anti-Coptic violence are murky. At first it was assumed that Islamist militants, who have waged a vicious campaign of intimidation, sparked the unrest by burning down a church in the southern province of Aswan. This attack was the latest in a series of clashes between Muslims and Christians, which began when 21 worshippers were killed as they left mass at a Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve.

Thousands of Copts descended on the state TV building in Cairo on Sunday to protest against what many Christians regard as the growing strength of ultra-conservative Islamists since the overthrow of former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in February. But the uncompromising response of the Egyptian authorities, which resulted in government forces firing live rounds at stone-throwing protesters, has prompted accusations that the army, which has interim control of the country, is deliberately fostering sectarian hatred in order to disguise its own plans to maintain control of the country.

Following the high-profile protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square earlier this year – during which Muslim and Coptic protesters joined forces to demand the overthrow of President Mubarak – the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces assumed responsibility for creating a modern, pluralistic democratic state following decades of authoritarian rule.

But the delays that have hindered plans to hold fresh parliamentary and presidential elections – they are now due to start at the end of next month – have led many to conclude that the military, which effectively ran the country during the Mubarak era, has no real interest in establishing democratic institutions. And what better way to abort the transition from military to democratic rule than to instigate nationwide sectarian violence?

Certainly the vitriolic language used by state-controlled broadcasters during coverage of the protests undermined the interim government’s claim to represent the interests of all Egyptians, Christians and Muslims alike. Newsreaders appealed for “honest Egyptians” to protect their soldiers against Christian “mobs”, while the Copts were denounced as “sons of dogs”, despite the fact many moderate Muslims, who want Egypt to be free of sectarian divisions, supported the protesters.

But then Egypt’s Copts are used to state-sponsored persecution. Tens of thousands of Copts fled the country in the 1950s after Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalised Egypt’s private businesses, most of which were owned by Christians.

Nor is the persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East confined to Egypt’s Copts. One of the more alarming trends of recent years has been the violent persecution of Christians throughout the region.

In Iraq, for example, a wave of al-Qaeda-related attacks has had a devastating impact on Iraq’s once-thriving Christian community, which numbered around 1.4 million 10 years ago, but has now declined to around 400,000.

CAR BOMBING OUTSIDE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRAQ

As in Egypt, the exodus was hastened by a series of grotesque attacks on Iraqi churches, the worst of which was the suicide bomb attack on the Church of our Salvation in Baghdad at the end of last year, which killed 58 people. To mark their contempt for the Christian faith, the al-Qaeda bombers blew themselves up on the altar, together with a child hostage.

In Iran, meanwhile, the persecution of Christians that began with the 1979 Islamic revolution resulted in a Christian pastor being sentenced to death in the provincial town of Rasht earlier this month for refusing to renounce his faith.

Much of the blame for the deterioration in relations between Islam and Christianity in the region can be laid at the door of the growing legions of Islamist militants who refuse to acknowledge the other main monotheistic faiths. They point to the comment made by the Prophet himself on his deathbed, when he instructed his followers that only one faith – Islam – could be tolerated in Arabia.

The current wave of persecution directed at Egypt’s Coptic community constitutes not only a major test of the interim government’s ability to maintain order, but also of its desire to establish a government that represents the interests of all Egyptians, irrespective of their creed.

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CAIRO BLOODBATH: 24 Dead in latest Muslim vs Christian sectarian riots

Flames lit up downtown Cairo, where massive clashes raged  drawing Christians angry over a recent church attack, hard-line Muslims and Egyptian security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the worst sectarian violence since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February.

(Instead of importing tens of thousands of Muslim freeloaders to the U.S., Obama should be bringing in persecuted Christians from Muslim countries. But he doesn’t want Christians here. He is bent on flooding this country with as many illiterate, unskilled, violent Muslim filth as he can get in here using taxpayer dollars to fund)

FOX NEWS  The rioting lasted late into the night, bringing out a deployment of more than 1,000 security forces and armored vehicles to defend the state television building along the Nile, where the trouble began. The military clamped a curfew on the area until 7 a.m.

The clashes spread to nearby Tahrir Square, drawing thousands of people to the vast plaza that served as the epicenter of the protests that ousted Mubarak. On Sunday night, they battled each other with rocks and firebombs, some tearing up pavement for ammunition and others collecting stones in boxes.

At one point, an armored security van sped into the crowd, striking a half-dozen protesters and throwing some into the air. Protesters retaliated by setting fire to military vehicles, a bus and private cars, sending flames rising into the night sky.

After midnight, mobs roamed downtown streets, attacking cars they suspected had Christian passengers. In many areas, there was no visible police or army presence to confront or stop them.

Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 80 million people, blame the country’s ruling military council for being too lenient on those behind a spate of anti-Christian attacks since Mubarak’s ouster. As Egypt undergoes a chaotic power transition and security vacuum in the wake of the uprising, the Coptic Christian minority is particularly worried about the show of force by ultraconservative Islamists.

The Christian protesters said their demonstration began as a peaceful attempt to sit in at the television building. But then, they said, they came under attack by thugs in plainclothes who rained stones down on them and fired pellets.

“The protest was peaceful. We wanted to hold a sit-in, as usual,” said Essam Khalili, a protester wearing a white shirt with a cross on it. “Thugs attacked us and a military vehicle jumped over a sidewalk and ran over at least 10 people. I saw them.”

Wael Roufail, another protester, corroborated the account. “I saw the vehicle running over the protesters. Then they opened fired at us,” he said.

Ahmed Yahia, a Muslim resident who lives near the TV building, said he saw the military vehicle plow into protesters. “I saw a man’s head split into two halves and a second body flattened when the armored vehicle ran over it.

Watch the Egyptian (Muslim) Army and Security Forces beat a Christian to death, then drag the dead body through the street like an animal.

Egyptian Army tanks drive into a crowd of Coptic Christians trying to run them down:

The Obama Regime-supported Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to: DESTROY ALL CHURCHES IN EGYPT ONE AT A TIME