"Oh You Cross-Worshippers, We'll Kill You All"

Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2017

by Raymond Ibrahim
January 14, 2018 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11731/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august

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A popular Arabic-language newspaper attacked Morocco's Christian activists for their faith and ended with the message: the "Koran requires the killing of apostates." — Morocco.
Muhammad and the imam tracked down the boy and attacked him again. When a passerby saw the violence and contacted police, "instead of protecting the teenager from his attackers, [police] arrested and booked him into prison on blasphemy charges." Hours later, the imam and "a mob of more than 300 Muslim fundamentalists surrounded the prison, and called for a public lynching of Stephen." — Pakistan.
Sweden decided to deport a female Iranian convert to Christianity. When the convert, Aideen Strandsson, pleaded that in Iran she could face the death penalty as an apostate, Swedish officials told her, "it's not our problem if you decided to become a Christian, and it's your problem." Meanwhile, Sweden continues accepting Muslim refugees.
In the name of "fighting terrorism," Bangladesh made changes to a law that forced approximately 200 Christian organizations to shut down.

A document drafted by members of the global Christian community convening at the 3rd International Christian Forum, held in Moscow, detailed how over the past ten years the Middle East's Christian population has shrunk by 80% and warned that unless current trends are reversed, Christianity "will vanish" from its ancient homelands in a few years' time. Around the year 2000, there were 1.5 million Christians in Iraq; today there are only 100,000 -- roughly a 93% percent drop, the document notes. In Syria, the largest cities "have lost almost all of their Christian population."

Other experts offered similarly dismal statistics. The Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts, had predicted that by 2025, the percentage of Christians in the Middle East — which in 1910 was 13.6% — could go down to around 3%.

Christians seeking to return to areas in Iraq and Syria liberated from the Islamic State (ISIS) continue to face discrimination from local Muslim and Kurdish communities. Andrew White, also known as the "vicar of Baghdad," had said that, "the time has come where it is over, no Christians will be left. Some say Christians should stay to maintain the historical presence, but it has become very difficult. The future for the community is very limited."

Others, such as Former Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), are more optimistic: "Now is the time. We have an administration that's open to doing something," he said, indicating the US Trump administration.

Meanwhile, ISIS continued to harbor high hopes. In a video released by the terrorist organization in August, an extremist tore up a photo of Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, while saying, "Remember this, you kuffar [infidels] — we will be in Rome, we will be in Rome, inshallah [Allah willing]." The narrator of the video also vowed that, "After all their efforts, it would be the religion of the cross that would be broken. The crusaders' enmity toward the Muslims only served to embolden a generation of youth." When asked about this, the pope's top aide said, "Pope Francis hasn't changed a thing in his agenda, nor is he going to. Furthermore, he'll continue to foment dialogue, creating bridges, defending peace. With Muslims and Christians."

August's roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Kenya: Islamic terrorists hacked four Christian men to death for refusing to renounce Christ and embrace Islam. On Friday, August 28, jihadis from the Somali-based group, Al Shabaab, rounded up three men (two in their forties, the other 17) and held them at one of the Christians' homes. They ordered them to recite the shahada — that "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger" — and thereby renounce the Trinity and become Muslim. When the men refused, the Muslims hacked them to pieces with machetes. They then went and slaughtered the mentally handicapped older brother of one of the slain. According to the "severely traumatized" wife of one of the men, "Al-Shabaab knew these men as Christians, and Joseph [her slain husband] as a church elder."

Nigeria: Gunmen massacred as many as 50 Christian worshippers inside ‎St. Philip's Catholic Church in Amambra State during a Sunday morning service. Initial reports claimed that "the gunmen were hunting for a drug baron, traced him to his house but were told he had gone to church." When they found he was not in the church, "out of anger, probably, they rained bullets on worshippers in the church." However, not only does the attack closely follow the pattern of other jihadi terror attacks on churches in Nigeria, but at least one group, Act for Biafra, a Biafran independence organization, issued a statement referring to the attack as a "jihadist slaughter" of Christian churchgoers.

Separately, during an attack on a Christian community in a Muslim majority region that enforces Sharia (Islamic law), Muslim terrorists slaughtered a Christian father and his son, and abducted three women and a baby. Aside from habitual attacks on Christians "in northern Nigeria, [which is Muslim majority] Christians who have already been displaced by Boko Haram extremists are being forced out of their refugee camps and denied access to vital aid," according to human rights activists.

Pakistan: Javid Masih, a Christian man who sold himself into slavery to a Muslim family for two years to buy his family a home, was regularly abused, kept from going to church, and finally murdered in August. When the two-year contract was nearly up and Javid told one of the family that he looked forward to getting married, he was told, "There is no way you will ever be free from us and leave this place." When his term was up and he asked for his freedom, he was severely chided by the family's sons: "You filthy Chura ["worthless thing"], how dare you ask for your freedom. Your life is ours. You will clean our excrement every day of your life from now on or you and your family will die." Afterwards, "he was grabbed by the brothers, tied up, beaten and spat upon for a whole day. He had never told his family about this because he was both embarrassed and fearful of the repercussions on his family if they got involved. Other employees were made to see the brutal torture of Javed to instill a sense of fear amongst them." He continued as a slave but his productivity dropped, and the Muslim family decided to do away with him. They poisoned him and then dumped him in front of his family's home. When his widowed mother begged them to drive him to a hospital, they spat on her. He died; the police reported the death a "suicide." Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, said:

"Despite anti-slavery laws in Pakistan bonded labour proliferates and is destroying the lives of many Christians. The Bonded Labour (Abolition) Act 1992 is not worth the paper it is written on and the Government's clear apathy to enforce the law illustrates the low value placed on Christians and other minorities... There is a very small suicide rate in Pakistan of around 300 victims over two years—Pakistanis are hardy. It is inconceivable that Javed committed suicide when he expressed no such desire to anyone he knew and remained stoic for two years despite the pain inflicted on him."

Another Christian man, a prisoner who was offered but rejected Islam, was found dead "under mysterious circumstances in police custody," according to a report. Indaryas Ghulam, 38, was among 42 Christians arrested for the lynching of two Muslims associated with a 2015 church attack that killed nearly 20 Christians and wounded 70. Indaryas had denied involvement in the lynching and was one of the prisoners promised "release in exchange of reneging Christ."

"He could have saved his life, but decided to bear witness to his faith onto death.... The prison administration attributed his death to poor health; he had tuberculosis. But his wife Shabana and daughter Shumir, who saw the body, said that he had burns and cuts everywhere, clear signs of torture and of the brutality to which he had been subjected. What is more, they add that although he was severely ill, he never received adequate medical care behind the bars."

Muslim Attacks on Christian Freedom

Iran: Approximately five hundred Muslim converts to Christianity have faced persecution in Iran, and fled to Turkey in search of asylum, notes an August report. One young convert who said he could not be who he wanted to be if he remained Muslim, added that he is now feeling "comfortable" as a Christian. Another said:

"I changed my religion because I did not see anything in Islam. Whatever I saw was wrong. It is a fact that the government of Iran is an Islamic one, yet our youth are getting executed. In Iraq the same.... There is ISIS and [they] are killing people in the name of Islam, and there are vulnerable people who are being beheaded there. They have fled to Turkey, and we came to Turkey. That is why I did not see any good from Islam."

Open Doors USA, which monitors Christian persecution around the world, confirms that "Converts to Christianity from Islam make up the largest group of Christians and experience the most persecution."

Morocco: An August report reveals that earlier in 2017, a popular Arabic language newspaper attacked Morocco's Christian activists for their faith and, considering that virtually all Christians in Morocco are converts from Islam, ended with the message: the "Koran requires the killing of apostates." "Morocco is home to several thousand Christians who live across the nation, many of whom are new converts and forced to worship in secret churches," the report adds. "Christians are regularly harassed by authorities, and societal pressure to renounce their faith is commonplace throughout the country."

Pakistan: Another Christian minor was beaten and charged with "blaspheming" against Islam. After a Muslim man, Muhammed Nawaz, accused Asif Stephen, 16, of stealing at a local bazaar, he beat the boy, then told the local imam, who, according to the report, "has a history of preaching hatred towards minority Christians," that the youth had also burned a Koran. Muhammad and the imam tracked down the boy and attacked him again. When a passerby saw the violence and contacted police, "instead of protecting the teenager from his attackers, [police] arrested and booked him into prison on blasphemy charges." Hours later, the imam and "a mob of more than 300 Muslim fundamentalists surrounded the prison and called for a public lynching of Stephen."

"As the mob overwhelmed local police, Stephen was removed from his cell and handed over to the mob, who consequently beat him until reinforcement officers stepped in to calm the situation. Police then moved Stephen to a higher security district jail where he plead guilty to blasphemy in what his family believed was a coerced confession."

Uganda: On August 7, Sophia Nakisaala, 35, a Muslim woman, embraced Christianity after her daughter was healed by a street preacher:

"My child got healed instantly from high fever, which had caused several convulsions. The evangelist shared with me about Issa [Jesus], whom he said to be the healer and Savior. I then decided to accept Him as my Lord and Savior and then returned back home."

When she returned home and began telling Muhammad Lubaale, her husband, what had happened, "He got angry and slapped me. I kept quiet and did not respond to his interrogation about my new faith in Jesus." Three days later, word of his daughter's healing and confirmation that his wife had indeed embraced Christ reached Muhammad. "My husband arrived home on Aug. 10 and started beating me and injuring me with bruises on my head and right hand, using a stick," Sophia explained. "Neighbors came to my rescue and housed me that very night." The following morning, while her husband was away, she gathered her four children—aged 3, 5, 8 and 11—and went to an area pastor, who helped her find refuge.

Sweden: The Western nation most renowned for taking in — and suffering from — Muslim migrants, Sweden, decided to deport a female Iranian convert to Christianity. When the convert, Aideen Strandsson, pleaded that she could face the death penalty as an apostate, Swedish officials told her, "it's not our problem if you decided to become a Christian, and it's your problem." Meanwhile, Sweden, which is reputed as "the world's humanitarian conscience and a safe haven for refugees," continues accepting Muslim refugees, some of whom have helped make it known as the "rape capital of Europe."

Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches

Egypt: Authorities closed down the 1,300-member Virgin Mary and St. Paula Church in the Minya governorate. The closure came in response to local Muslim opposition groups who protested the existence of the church, which had served Christians from three separate villages. The Coptic Bishop of Minya, Anba Makarios, issued a public statement chiding officials for siding with the aggressors against the victims:

"The security apparatus has prevented Copts from practicing their rites in Kedwan, Minya, claiming that it was because of objections of some opposing factions in the village, and that it was necessary to be considerate of their feelings. However, this means that there is no consideration for the feelings of the Copts and those who do not ask for anything but to pray, as if the decision belonged to the opposing factions and not to a great state such as Egypt, which should have authority and law."

The Virgin Mary and St. Paula Church in Kedwan is just one of at least 15 Christian churches that have been closed in Minya province alone. "We have more than 15 places [of worship] closed on the order of the security apparatus, despite the existence of formal requests that are imprisoned in [desk] drawers," Makarios added in his statement. "Also, there are 70 villages, farmsteads and hamlets without places for prayers."

Separately in August, security officials prevented Christians from meeting and worshiping in a private home in the village of Forn, in Minya. They said the home lacked a permit for worship. In a letter entitled, "We were prevented from prayer like criminals," frustrated Christians wrote to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi:

"We were surprised to find police forces surrounding and entering the village to prevent the Egyptian Copts from prayer and were prevented from going out of our homes. We were attacked with inappropriate words ... As if we are criminals or outlaws and wanted for justice, accused of performing religious rituals. And is performing religious rituals a crime?"

Iraq: Christians returning to the Nineveh Plain continued to encounter the remains of the Islamic State's handiwork, including graffiti all around and inside their desecrated churches, such as "There is no place for the Cross in Islamic lands" and "The Cross is under our foot." The following German writing was found in one church:

"Oh you Cross worshippers, we'll kill you all. Germany is an Islamic land. You are weak and don't belong here.... Oh you Cross worshippers, you have no place in Islamic lands. Either you leave or we'll kill you."

"They'd [ISIS] used the statutes of Jesus and Mary for target practice," said one man of another church. "The altar was also destroyed. Daesh [ISIS] knew that the West would be reluctant to bomb a church, so [it] stored food and ammunition here." Much of the graffiti has since been removed and altars are being restored. "To see our Christian symbols again is almost as important as food for us," commented one Christian man.

Somaliland: After agreeing to the reopening of a Catholic Church, which had been closed for nearly 30 years, the government of the Muslim nation reversed its decision. Spokesmen cited public anger, fomented by Islamic religious leaders who claimed the church reopening was part of the government's conspiratorial plan to Christianize Somaliland. Explaining their decision during a press conference, Religious Affairs Minister, Sheikh Khalil Abdullahi Ahmed, said, "The Government of the Republic of Somaliland has decided to respect the wishes of its people and religious leaders and keep the church closed, as it has been for the past 30 years." The Catholic church was one of many churches built 70 years ago when Somaliland was a British Protectorate.

Sudan: The day after the Khartoum Parliament rejected the Ministry of Education's call for Church Schools to operate on Sundays and follow only the Muslim week—a decision "viewed by Christians in Sudan and around the world as another means of harassment and discrimination against the minority group" — on August 2, the Sudanese government demolished yet another church in Omdurman, just west of Khartoum, from their list of 27 churches to be demolished.

Muslim Contempt for and Abuse of Christians

Iraq: More reports indicating that Christian suffering is hardly limited to ISIS appeared in August. According to one, Chaldean Archbishop Habib Jajou said "that the remaining Christian families in Iraq fear that a new ISIS could come to power. He accused Baghdad of failing to foster religious tolerance amid the years of sectarian war and said a lot of people have been brainwashed by the terror group." He also pointed out that the education ministry should begin to acknowledge Iraq's Christian heritage and roots instead of falsely claiming that it was always Islamic and that Christians are essentially foreigners and agents of the West.

Pakistan: The Islamic nation's senate unanimously approved a bill requiring the compulsory teaching of the Koran to all primary and secondary school students, including non-Muslim ones. In part, the bill is meant to help the state discharge article 31(2) of the Pakistani constitution, which states that the "State shall endeavour to make the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and Islamiyat [all things Islamic] compulsory." However, according to Nasir Saeed, the director of a Christian human rights organization, the bill "will have a negative impact on the non-Muslim students... It will promote bigotry and hatred against non-Muslims in Pakistani society, something which is already on the rise."

Bangladesh: In the name of "fighting terrorism," the Muslim nation made changes to a law that forced approximately 200 Christian organizations to shut down. The Foreign Donations Regulation Bill, which is meant to be a check on terrorist cells receiving funds outside of Bangladesh, has especially created economic problems for Christian NGOs "geared specifically for the Christian community" explained one missionary. Because a majority of Christian organizations in overwhelmingly Muslim Bangladesh are economically supported from outside sources, 200 were no longer able to secure external funding and to close permanently.

Sudan: The Islamist government arrested seven church leaders for refusing to comply with a court order to turn over leadership of their congregation to a government appointment committee in an effort to dissolve the church. They were interrogated for several hours and then released on bail. "Police said that in arresting them they were implementing orders from the Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowments to impose its committee as new SCOC leadership, presumably to sell off the church property in Sudan's bid to rid the country of Christianity," notes the report, adding that "the arrests were seen as part of a recent upsurge in harassment of Christians."

Separately, in order to help a wealthy Muslim businessman take over church property, police evicted two more pastors and their families from their homes and onto the streets. The pastors "were terrorized when police pounded on the doors shouting threats," "They came and knocked on the door strongly, they said, 'Should you not open, we will have to break it by force to get in," Pastor Nalu, 47-year-old father of a one-year-old boy, said. "The situation is very difficult, and we are living on the street."

Nigeria: Fulani terrorists, some allied with the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram, have been known to invade Christian farms and settlements and slaughter Christians. In August, when few such attacks were recorded, and (mostly Muslim) politicians portrayed the problem as settled, a Christian leader explained that, when not directly slaughtering Christians, Muslim Fulani herdsmen resort to "economic terrorism": "As we gleefully wallow in the false sense of peace on the Plateau," he said, "know it today that a deliberate economic terrorism and land-grabbing strategy is being launched on Christians of Riyom and Barkin Ladi on a daily basis with the sole aim of making them poor, weak and destitute in their own land."

About this Series

While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians by Muslims is growing. The report posits that such Muslim persecution is not random but rather systematic, and takes place irrespective of language, ethnicity, or location.

Raymond Ibrahim is the author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (published by Regnery with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).

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25 Reader Comments

Lynette Gautier • Jan 24, 2018 at 22:47

This is not at all surprising about Sweden - from what I've read it has almost given itself over to Islam entirely. Why any western country would want such demented, cruel and demented fiends among their people is beyond understanding. One can only hope they perpetrators of such stupidity will end up being victims of the very people they were trying to protect.

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Asian • Jan 15, 2018 at 23:01

It is...shameful how so many Westerners sympathize with Islam, but are completely unfazed by this escalating brutality against Christians all over the world.

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Ioanna

Asian • Mar 21, 2018 at 19:59

Yes, I'm actually baffled by this. Muslims are telling us on a daily basis that their aim is so infiltrate the west and use our human rights laws and political correctness against us. They are committing genocide of Christians in the East and promise to do the same to us here.

I have actually come to believe half our country is completely brain dead, and I'm not trying to be flip...I actually think they must have some kind of incapacity because they are literally denying reality in claiming Christianity is evil and Islam must be protected. Literally denying what Muslims (like Erdogan just the other day) are saying straight to our faces. Totally baffled and at a loss for how to illuminate the masses of politically correct Westerners.

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Bruce Sallan • Jan 15, 2018 at 10:10

WHY do any Christians stay in these places? OF COURSE they should be able to live in peace and follow their own religious beliefs, but at this point, it's suicide. The world doesn't care. They care that all Muslims are treated well. It's a travesty of self-destruction in Europe. I still believe that Europe is gone as we've known it. Gone!

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Elizabeth L. • Jan 14, 2018 at 20:41

Raymond Ibrahim's articles that keep us up to date with the satanic activities of Islam against 'kafirs' everywhere, are much appreciated.

In spite of this information and the evidence, it is alarming that so many westerners choose to remain ignorant of the dangers it presents. Even more so, is that most political leaders are enabling ISIS to accomplish their stated aims of "conquering the world for Allah", by allowing known terrorists to come and stay in our countries, where they receive special privileges at the expense of the country and citizens' wellbeing.

Those who kowtow to Islam have been blinded in their thinking as a consequence of having rejected the true living God and exchanged the truth for a lie . God will not be mocked forever.

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Patricia Canon • Jan 14, 2018 at 15:43

I have written to the president to ask him to grant asylum to the Iranian woman, Christian convert, who has been rejected by the insane liberals in the Swedish government. A flood of letters on her behalf to the president would be nice:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

We can't stop Europe from committing suicide, but perhaps we can help to save one life.

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Bill • Jan 14, 2018 at 14:17

Raymond Ibrahim is about as insightful and knowledgeable of the threat of Islam as anyone. PROGRESSIVISM is as threatening, hostile and aggressively acting toward Christianity and classic Western liberalism as their Islamic partners.

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David Hall • Jan 14, 2018 at 13:46

It goes without saying that most western governments currently do very little if anything at all to stop the plight of persecuted Christian believers around the globe. They somehow seem to feel that to do so would be wrong. Where such thinking might have come from in so short a space of time is beyond contemplation expect one believes in supernatural. No group or people has ever had such things change so dramatically against them in a few years as have christians.

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Sylvan Moir

David Hall • Jan 15, 2018 at 10:02

I am sure you are right about it coming from the supernatural. But often these things are brewed carefully by people with evil and knowing intent, for decades before they come to flower - cultural marxism, relativism - things like that incubate and are planted decades before they take over. Things can be planted with complete impunity because NOBODY respectable in academia or any profession these days considers the rise of these kind of phenomena may be due to seeds planted and nurtured from unseen dimensions.

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David Hall

Sylvan Moir • Jan 16, 2018 at 07:16

I agree the world laughs at the supernatural while embracing it. Regrettably the Church, which should be the leaders in demonstrating God's power does not alway demonstrate the power of the gospel as Paul recommends in 1 Corinthians 2:4 : my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

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Lynette

David Hall • Jan 26, 2018 at 03:06

Agreed that the world laughs at the supernatural despite it being all around them. The universe with it's moon, stars, planets and possibly things we know nothing about were placed their by God so they are all supernatural. What makes a seed produce a rose? What makes the soil produce delicious fruit? What makes the fruit sweet? What makes the sun and moon rise right on time? Who created all the animals? Who made everybody look different out of millions and millions on the earth? Who made the vast variety of animals and wonder of wonders - who taught birds how to fly and land so softly - no crash landings for them. Who made human procreation? Who made the four-legged animals? There is only one answer and that is... almighty God. I could go on forever but that's enough for now.

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Ducati • Jan 14, 2018 at 11:58

Islam is Satan behind a thin veil. He is free to rape, pillage and destroy. He has secured the souls of men that hate God. Evil will increase beyond the imagination. But Christ has already defeated Satan. Repent and believe in Jesus.

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Patricia Walker • Jan 14, 2018 at 11:31

The world has gone mad, but it will not prevail in the end. Who controls the western leaders?

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Jeff Page • Jan 14, 2018 at 10:56

All brought about and encouraged by the twisted perversions of Western European Politicians. Those holier than thou people who are of the strange, delusional, brand of individual who consider that to show love and afford Muslims a welcome they will then be rewarded with support through the ballot box! If that isn't a betrayal of their own people then what is?
It's all politicians care for, their own positions, they can't make a living when they fall off of the gravy train!
We in Europe are heading for one enormous civil war if things continue as they are, and Muslims will be at the centre of it all. Our politicians simply haven't woken up to the fact that Islam has no time and certainly no tolerance for any other religion but their own perverted one. Any refugees from warzone that we in the West take in should be Christian and we should turn our backs on the vicious hate filled Muslims!

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Enrique Villarreal • Jan 14, 2018 at 10:13

Can you imagine the upheaval in the world if this had been the other way around ? Caiaphas's tearing his clothing when claiming Jesus blasphemy would be a child's story compared to the reaction of the world's leaders. It seems that history hasn't taught us anything . The Holocaust of WWII has been forgotten and as it happened the world leaders of that time passively turned their backs to the facts; and now we are seeing the same. Our hopes that this will reverse is in the hands of our nation that unfortunately has suffered irreparable damage from the previous administration which rose in part from the "White Guilt" it drags.

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Pat Holdahl • Jan 14, 2018 at 10:04

This is no surprise & is to be expected. This is the persecution a Christian will face for just being a Christian. Is it right? No. Is it to be expected? Yes. Could it change? Maybe, temporarily. Persecution of Christians is not just the physical persecution of Christians as in the Middle East, China, N.Korea, etc., it's the emotional persecution that Christians in the entire world face today. Is it right? No. Will it change? Probably not. The Christian walk is not a teddy bear, feel good walk, it's often a very alienating earthly walk, yet a loving, fulfilling Heavenly walk. Christ warned us of this, our choice. Earth is not perfect, we shouldn't get attached to it, it's our Heavenly home that matters.

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Tamara • Jan 14, 2018 at 09:43

You can't keep posting articles like these and expect anyone to see Muslims or Islam as normal. Islam is obviously the cause of violent behaviour and terrorism. It should be illegal for the leaders of our societies to forbid us from demanding our physical safety from this religious belief system. Muslims surely know their faith is abusive and dangerous to everyone, including Muslims. How on earth it hasn't been banned in every country on earth is baffling. I can not support Islamic immigration based on the belief system itself combined with the actions of so many of their people. It's obviously a terrorist organization. No number of nice Muslims who do not practice their belief system this was does not make up for the countless others who are obviously the majority in Islamic nations who threaten our very existence through immigration. Please behave in a manner consistent with human normalcy, which does not abuse anyone's right to be treated with kindness and respect, especially with regard to personal safety. Let the Muslims who completely abandon their faith leave Islamic lands and all others remain for the sake of our children's futures at the very least. Spreading this inhuman belief system is a war crime.

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William A. Beck • Jan 14, 2018 at 09:41

Thank you for publishing these persecution stories of Christians. God grant them His presence and peace as they are accomplishing the sufferings of His body. Let us be praying for His members without ceasing.

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jeb • Jan 14, 2018 at 09:15

The issue of Muslims converting to Christianity as a capital crime in Islamic States is as old as Islam. This is nothing new, but the attacks on pre-existent Christian communities which needs to be stated, Christian communities in these areas pre-date Islam. The liberal socialists in the west abetting mass annihilation of Christians which must include the DNC, is accelerating. How is the DNC complicit? When the DNC radicals including pro-sharia law advocates like Fredrica Wilson and Congresswoman McCullom among dozens of other black and Islamist supremacists, denounced the GOP when they pressed to bring upwards to 200,000 Muslim refugees to the USA behind President Obama's initiative. Despite the fact 20-40% of the refugees are Christians of 11,000 refugees Obama brought to the USA only less than 120 were Christian, Yazidis and other higher risk group. Seeking to include more non-Muslim minorities, the GOP was accused of being racist and Islamophobic. Let's not pretend there are not more than a few very evil and malevolent westerners who have a false ideology that would easily and without conscience advocate hate crimes against Christians.

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Andy Paul • Jan 14, 2018 at 08:26

yet the whining from Muslims and their apologists in the West seems to carry more weight. If only the West treated Muslims in a spirit of reciprocation I suggest the West would see a lessening of the threat by the day

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Andy Paul • Jan 15, 2018 at 12:31

Supposing a Saudi-funded mosque were to be demolished in the West for every Christian church knocked down in a Muslim country. And supposing we deported an Imam whenever a Christian was imprisoned wrongfully? I wonder if it would start WW3? It is not, of course, Christian behaviour: we are supposed to turn the other cheek. But does this really mean nationally? In Britain, if a leader appeared who is prepared to stand up to bullying they would be denounced as "Far Right" whatever that means - a derogatory term, certainly. In my long life I have never heard language misused in my country as it is today and it reminds me of China under the repression of Chairman Mao.

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Paul Fishman • Jan 14, 2018 at 08:15

This article gives President Trump a legitimate reason to stop immigration from North Africa and the Middle East. This means ONLY Christian minorities from these areas should be allowed to come in to America. Orthodox Muslims around the world in their hatred and violence against Christians are asking to be discriminated. Their foul behavior is deserving of this.

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chris • Jan 14, 2018 at 08:03

Odd how countries which were largely built on Christian values are being forced to accept Muslim migrants from countries where they could practise their religion freely, but have no problems sending Christians back to countries they are fleeing where Christians are being threatened, imprisoned or slaughtered in their thousands.

There is something very wrong with the present crop of western leaders, particularly female and/or childless ones who evidently feel no sense of responsibility for the futures of the descendants of their native countrymen and women.

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robert • Jan 14, 2018 at 07:45

Now you know why Trump refers to African countries the way he did.

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joanofark06

robert • Jan 14, 2018 at 12:49

If I'm correct, I believe he was talking about Haiti, not Africa, when he said that curse word?

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