"Don't Dare Sit with Us if You Want to Live"

Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2017

by Raymond Ibrahim
February 25, 2018 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11935/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september

"They get paid for every Coptic Christian girl they bring in. In some cases, police provide the kidnappers with drugs they seize. The drugs are then given to the girls to weaken their resistance... I even know of cases in which police offered helped to beat up the girls to make them recite the Islamic creed." — World Watch Monitor, Egypt; September 14, 2017.
On September 14, a court sentenced a Christian man to death for "blasphemy" against the prophet of Islam. Nadeem James, a 27-year-old father of two, was originally arrested in July 2016, after a Muslim angry with him for personal reasons falsely accused James, who is illiterate, of texting a poem deemed "blasphemous" of Muhammad. — Pakistan.
School textbooks taught her that "it was the Christians who wanted to plunder the lands and the riches of the Muslim world" and Turks merely responded by "defend[ing] what was rightfully theirs." (In reality, modern day Turkey consists of territory that was Christian for more than a thousand years before it was conquered by Turks in the name of jihad.) "Everything is used to make the Christians look like villains," she said, adding, "It's the same all through Muslim countries." — Turkey.

Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Pakistan: Sharoon, a Christian boy who achieved academic excellence despite years of entrenched discrimination and bullying—and whose poverty-stricken parents had worked hard to put him in MC Model Boys Government High School—was beaten to death by Muslim pupils. On his first day at the school, the teacher slapped him across the face while blurting an anti-Christian slur. Having set a precedent, the rest of the classroom of Muslim boys continued harassing him throughout the same first day: they hurled out derogatory terms against Christians, denied him access to drinking water, and told him, "You're a Christian don't dare sit with us if you want to live." According to one report: "His academic prowess ... only added to the disdain for him felt by other pupils." Another report said, "there were repeated attempts to convert him to Islam. Sharoon however, never quit his faith to the chagrin of the Muslim children around him, exacerbating his pariah status." Then, on August 27—his fourth day at the prestigious Model school—Muslim students attacked him in the classroom (the teacher supposedly did not notice; he was reading his paper). "The violence," continues the report, "was of such sickening ferocity that poor Sharoon died where he was in the classroom." A cacophony of insults accompanied the beating; he was called a "filthy Christian" and a "demon." According to the murdered teen's mother:

"My son was a kind-hearted, hard-working and affable boy. He has always been loved by teachers and pupils alike and shared great sorrow that he was being targeted by students at his new school because of his faith. Sharoon and I cried every night as he described the daily torture he was subjected to.... The evil boys that hated my child are now refusing to reveal who else was involved in his murder. Nevertheless one day God will have His judgement."

Kenya: Islamic militants from Al Shabaab, centered in neighboring Somalia, beheaded four Christian men in two separate attacks. Approximately 30 heavily-armed assailants surrounded several homes in two different areas; they called victims out by name, before pulling them out and slitting their throats or decapitating them. In the previous two months (August and July), Al Shabaab militants slaughtered thirteen other Christians in a similar manner. "The knock at the door confirmed our fears that what happened in nearby Malamande village in 2014 [was] happening again," recounts one of the slain men's wives:

"We were reluctant to open [the door] and that is when the gang of about 20 broke in and dragged my husband out. I climbed and hid in a space up the roof and I heard everything that was going on. My husband was struggling and screaming for help but the gang overpowered him, slit his throat and chopped off his head. I am very bitter and worried about how I will live without [Gerald]. I treasured him because he loved me and provided everything that I needed. I am still in shock from what I saw that night; blood all over, his body lying lifeless and the head a few meters away. Why did they kill my husband?"

Separately, suspected Islamist militants opened fire on and killed two police officers guarding a church. After the gunmen encountered police standing guard at the entrance of an Anglican church, they "sprayed the officers with bullets," notes the report, before fleeing on motorbikes. "One officer was shot in the head and died on the spot while the other," police confirmed, "died in hospital."

"Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab's beheadings and attacks against Christians will continue to rise," according to another report, "with the Somali-based militants having an estimated 9,000 jihadis at their disposal." It quotes the American Center for Law and Justice as saying:

"[Y]et another radical Islamic jihadist army — just like ISIS, the Islamic State — is ruthlessly murdering Christians, targeting them for their faith. This global and historic persecution continues.... Al-Shabaab's actions are clearly deadly, demented, disturbing, and disgusting. We must defeat and destroy these Islamic jihadists."

Nigeria: Muslim Fulani herdsmen, accompanied by known "Islamic extremist militants," states a report, raided a Christian village and massacred 20 Christians, including a three-month-old baby and eight other children, as they slept sometime after midnight, Friday September 8. Police, who apparently treated the incident with some indifference, said it was a "reprisal" attack for the discovery of a decapitated Muslim boy; but dumbfounded Christians argued that the murder happened in another village more than a year ago and that they had nothing to do with it.

In another incident, a Catholic priest, Cyriacus Onunkwo, was abducted by Islamic gunmen on Friday, September 1 and found slaughtered in the bushes the following day. Nothing was stolen from his car and no ransom was demanded for his release.

Muslim mob uprisings in Jos also left scores of Christians wounded and one dead. On September 15, a mob attacked a vehicle with four Christians who were leaving a weekly prayer meeting at the University of Jos chapel. "Just as I pulled out of the main gate and [was] about to make a left turn," Professor Timothy Oyetunde recalled, "the mob, from the Muslim-dominated neighborhood opposite the campus, ran across the street, surrounded us and started smashing the van" with clubs, stones and actual weapons. Two of the passengers, including another professor, were stabbed; they all fled the van before the Muslim mob torched it. "In a separate attack," the report continued, "two university students were attacked in a different Muslim-dominated area of downtown Jos and stabbed. One student died in the hospital while receiving treatment."

Muslim Rape of Christians

Pakistan: On September 13, a Christian boy (age not provided) was misled to an isolated area, beaten, "gang raped," and ordered to recite the Islamic profession of faith by seven Muslim men. According to the report, "initially they started beating him violently and stripped off his clothes. They sexually assaulted Sher Dil [the youth] and forced him to recite Kalma. Sher Dil was again beaten and fell unconscious, and was taken to a local hospital by the alleged rapists. They warned him of dire consequences if he would disclose the details of the incident to anyone." Police were "reluctant" to respond and, when pressed to act by the victim's father, "took sides" with the rapists, noted the report. The boy is under threat of death from his tormenters for going to the police, even as his father implored the Ministry of Human Rights for help.

Egypt: An ex-kidnapper, an ex-kidnapper known only as "G," explained the process of how Christian girls are targeted for abduction, forced conversions and "marriages" to Muslims. According to the report, he related that "they get paid for every Coptic Christian girl they bring in. In some cases, police provide the kidnappers with drugs they seize. The drugs are then given to the girls to weaken their resistance as they put them under pressure. I even know of cases in which police offered helped to beat up the girls to make them recite the Islamic creed." He "admits he was in a network actively targeting Coptic girls for years before he left Islam." Although such networks have been around since the 1970s, they reached their "highest levels now, in the era of President Sisi," he said. A portion of his testimony notes that:

A group of kidnappers meets in a mosque to discuss potential victims. They keep a close eye on Christians' houses and monitor everything that's going on. On that basis, they weave a spider's web around [the girls].... I remember a Coptic Christian girl from a rich, well-known family in Minya. She was kidnapped by five Muslim men. They held her in a house, stripped her and filmed her naked. In the video, one of them also undressed. They threatened to make the video public if the girl wouldn't marry him.... The kidnappers receive large amounts of money. Police can help them in different ways, and when they do, they might also receive a part of the financial reward the kidnappers are paid by the Islamisation organisations.... And the value of the reward increases whenever the girl has a position. For example, when she is the daughter of a priest or comes from a well-known family.... The Salafist group I knew rented apartments in different areas of Egypt to hide kidnapped Coptic. There, they put them under pressure and threaten them to convert to Islam. And once they reach the legal age, a specially arranged Islamic representative comes in to make the conversion official, issue a certificate and accordingly they change their ID.... If all goes to plan, the girls are also forced into marriage with a strict Muslim. Their husbands don't love them, they just marry her to make her a Muslim. She will be hit and humiliated. And if she tries to escape, or convert back to her original religion, she will be killed.

Muslim Attacks on Apostates to Christianity

Germany: A group of Muslims attacked a 23-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity. He was assaulted because "his attackers saw his Christian cross and were angry he had converted from Islam, says the report. "They asked him why he had changed his religion," before "one of the attackers tore the chain off him and threw it to the ground." The report continues:

The unidentified man then punched the Afghan in the face several times. The second attacker then held the Christian by the arms as the first man took out a blade and cut him twice on the upper body with it..... The attack happened less than a mile away from the most notorious radical Islamist mosque in Berlin, the Al-Nur Mosque. An attack of this nature is also not the first to happen this year in Berlin. In August, another man ... was attacked by three men of North African appearance who also objected to his cross. The three men brutally beat the 39-year-old and shouted abuse at him. Earlier this year in May ...yet another man was attacked for wearing a cross necklace. ...The Christian charity Open Doors claim to have recorded thousands of cases of violence and abuse directed towards Christians in Germany. Earlier this year, an Arabic translator working with asylum seekers in Germany said that many of the Muslims in asylum homes express hatred toward Christians. "Pure hatred against non-believers is preached, and children are brought here from an early age here in Germany. It's very similar in asylum housing, where Muslim boys refuse to play with Christians," the translator said.

Nigeria: The Muslim family of a man, Bulus, a convert to Christianity, harassed, ostracized, threatened to kill, and finally made false charges against him that landed him in prison—possibly for as much as ten years. His family responded by trying to do "whatever they could to make him return to their faith," according to a report. "When Bulus refused, his father threatened to disown him. Bulus lost his inheritance, the support from the extended family circle for everyday life, the protection of the status of the clan and the privilege of an arranged marriage—in other words, and from their perspective, his entire future. When he still refused to change his mind, his family threatened to kill him. That was when Bulus says he knew it was time to go. He fled to Jos, further south, where no-one knew him, and enrolled in theological training." During his training, "I learned a lot about forgiveness," says Bulus. "After I graduated I wanted to go home to see if there was any way my parents and I could be reunited." He instead discovered that:

"Their hatred had increased, especially when they heard I had become a pastor. Before I could leave, relatives trapped me and started beating me. I thought I was going to die, but they dragged me to the police station and accused me of stealing some of their goats. Despite the fact that there was no proof, the police locked me up. Five days later they took me to court. I did not have the opportunity to defend myself but was kept in prison anyway."

As of the last report, Bulus was incarcerated under extremely unhealthy and unhygienic conditions. "He doesn't know when this ordeal will end," said the report, "and dares not fuel any expectations of a speedy release."

Maldives: Although "Christians in the Maldives [already] have few rights," a September report notes:

"the government is increasingly controlling the courts and simply ignoring the law, leaving Christians in an even more vulnerable state.... Despite being a popular tourist destination, the Maldives is one of the most difficult places in the world to be a Christian. The 2008 Maldivian constitution bans Muslims from becoming Christians, which leaves open the question as to whether someone who becomes a Christian could be stripped of their citizenship."

Earlier the government "arrested 50 Maldivians suspected of having become Christians, and is thought to have tortured them. Any Maldivian even found to have a Bible in their house faces a prison sentence."

Iran: Iranian national media reported that several Christians, almost all of whom are converts, in Tehran, Rey, and Pardis, were arrested after a video surfaced showing dozens of Bibles and other Christian literature, allegedly also confiscated by authorities. Little other information is provided.

Muslim Attacks on "Blasphemous" Christians

Egypt: In response to an old Facebook post, a Muslim mob attacked Christians in Tawa village and destroyed several homes, buildings, and cars on September 14. After the slaughter of several Christians traveling to a monastery four months earlier, in May, Bassem, a 22-year-old Christian from the village, had written:

"Are we [Christian] Egyptians not from Egypt? No matter that you try to hurt us, one day all your ways will fail.... When you demolish the homes of his [Jesus'] children, you attack him. I ask Jesus to touch your heart and change you. Our Lord knows and sees what is happening to us. Continue and increase your terrorism, but I'm not afraid because it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of God."

Although he deleted the post one day later, a cached copy was seen by and shared with other Muslims four months later. Deeming it "an insult to Islam ... [m]any Muslims gathered and the mob began to attack Christian homes and shops," notes an eyewitness. "They were pelting stones at the homes while shouting 'Allah Akbar.' They hurled bricks and stones at Mar Girgis (St. George) Coptic Orthodox Church..."

Pakistan: On September 14, a court sentenced a Christian man to death for "blasphemy" against the prophet of Islam. Nadeem James, a 27-year-old father of two, was originally arrested in July 2016, after a Muslim angry with him for personal reasons falsely accused James, who is illiterate, of texting a poem deemed "blasphemous" of Muhammad. The condemned's brother explained what next transpired: "We were not at home when the police raided our house to arrest Nadeem. However, when the cops couldn't find any of us in the premises, they took away two women of the family – my wife and the wife of my elder brother, Faryad." Around the same time, local mosques began calling on megaphones that if he did not surrender himself, Christian homes would burn. Nadeem surrendered himself and the women were released. "The charge against my brother is completely baseless," the brother maintains. "Nadeem is uneducated and could not have possibly sent that text message. I'm certain that Yasir Bashir [Muslim accuser] downloaded the supposedly blasphemous text onto Nadeem's phone and then forwarded it to his cell number to build a case against my brother." Nadeem's lawyer said they will challenge the conviction in a high court.

Separately—and despite being "mentally challenged"—a Christian teen accused of blasphemy against Islam had his first court hearing in September. A Muslim, Muhammed Nawaz, had accused Asif Stephen, 16, of stealing at a local bazaar; he beat the boy, and then told the local imam—who, according to the initial report, "has a history of preaching hatred towards minority Christians"—that the youth had also burned a Koran. Nawaz and the imam tracked down the boy and beat 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, calling for a public lynching of Stephen. As the mob overwhelmed local police, Stephen was removed from his cell and handed over to the mob, which consequently beat him until reinforcement officers stepped in to calm the situation. Police then moved Stephen to a higher security district jail where he pleaded guilty to blasphemy in what his family believed was a coerced confession." His father said that "Muhammed Nawaz has always had a grudge against my son" and "has often threatened Asif and told him that the tomb area is designated for him to collect recyclables as he is a Muslim and Asif is only a worthless and untouchable Christian."

Indonesia: The world's largest Muslim nation "made it clear that the country's dangerously ambiguous blasphemy law is here to stay – which is bad news for beleaguered religious minorities," Human Rights Watch said after the nation rejected the UN's stated recommendations that it "introduce legislation to repeal the blasphemy law." Indonesia further "rejected a recommendation it amend or revoke laws that limit the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion in the country," Human Rights Watch said. Among those recently to suffer from these laws is Ahok, a Christian and former governor of Jakarta, who was sentenced to two years in prison for blaspheming against Islam. "By rejecting pleas from U.N. member states to abolish the blasphemy law," continued Human Rights Watch, "the Indonesian government is telling the world that it will continue to pander to bigotry and discrimination at the expense of the rights of religious minorities."

Indonesia joined other repressive Muslim nations in May 2017 when it sentenced the Christian governor of Jakarta, known as "Ahok," to a two-year prison term on the charge that he committed "blasphemy" against Islam. Pictured: Ahok on the day of his election, February 15, 2017. (Photo by Oscar Siagian/Getty Images)

Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches

Mali: Not only were several Catholic churches "ransacked and torched, forcing parishioners to flee" throughout September, but "militants told Christians they would be killed if they were seen in church," a report noted. A Catholic church leader explained:

"Our churches and chapels are now being targeted by extremists who've told Christians not to gather to pray.... But we're also alarmed the attacks are being mounted by isolated Islamist groups, acting in their own name.... On previous occasions, the government has deployed military units in our parishes. But this still hasn't been done against these new attacks."

Turkey: Photos taken clandestinely of the largest Armenian cathedral in the Middle East "reveal considerable damage to the sanctuary and walls of the now desecrated church in southeast Turkey," a report disclosed. Its crucifix was "defaced," its windows smashed, and its pews used as firewood; garbage was dumped in its sanctuary. First built in the 1600s, Surp Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church is one of six Christian churches in the Sur district to be confiscated by the state. For three years now, Christians—Armenian, Assyrian, Chaldean, and Protestant—have been unable to worship in their churches as authorities placed all Christian property in Diyarbakir on the Turkish cabinet's expropriation plan. "We have been exposed to ethnic and religious discrimination for years," said a local pastor.

Malaysia: Police managed to foil an Islamic State terror plot targeting Christian churches and other non-Muslim places of worship after they arrested a 21-year-old Muslim affiliated with the jihadi group. According to the General of Police, the Muslim youth had "received instructions from a Malaysian Daesh (Islamic State) member in Syria to buy a pistol, a M-16 rifle, an AK-47 rifle and hand grenades from a neighbouring country with the aim of launching attacks on non-Muslims and their places of worship." Chemicals used to assemble the devices were discovered in his house. Although Malaysia is Muslim majority, sizeable populations of Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus also live there.

Muslim Hate Preaching and General Contempt for Christians

Turkey: A former Muslim woman who converted to Christianity explained how "her opinion of Christians was very low because of the things she and others were taught to believe about Christians in a Muslim society," noted a report. According to the convert, who now lives in the U.S. and goes by the pseudonym Derya Little, "An anti-Christian attitude is a big part of the national identity, so anyone or anything that promotes Christianity is automatically suspicious." School textbooks taught her that "it was the Christians who wanted to plunder the lands and the riches of the Muslim world" and Turks merely responded by "defend[ing] what was rightfully theirs." (In reality, modern day Turkey consists of territory that was Christian for more than a thousand years before it was conquered by Turks in the name of jihad.) "Everything is used to make the Christians look like villains," she said, adding, "It's the same all through Muslim countries."

Saudi Arabia: School textbooks continue to promote animosity for, and violence against, non-Muslims. "As early as first grade, students in Saudi schools are being taught hatred toward all those perceived to be of a different faith or school of thought," said Human Rights Watch. "The lessons in hate are reinforced with each following year," Textbooks teach that Christians are "kafirs" (or infidels) and that it is the duty of Muslims to disavow them: "For whoever does not or whoever doubts their religious infidelity is himself an unbeliever." Another textbook teaches that "The hour will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and Muslims will kill the Jews. The Jew will hide under the rock and tree and the rock or tree will say O Muslim, servant of Allah, this Jew is behind me, kill him."

Iran: The government "ordered children belonging to families of one of the country's largest house church movements to study the Koran and Shi'a Islam teachings or face expulsion from school," another report relates. This policy "deprives Christian children of primary and secondary education unless they agree to religious instruction that does not conform to their faith." According to Firouz Khandjani, a Church of Iran council member who lives in hiding:

"Right now [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani wants to prove that he is a good Muslim by persecuting Christians.... Most of the new Christians are former Muslims.... The authorities are trying to eradicate Christianity, just as the Islamic State group, but smarter."

Sudan: "Christian children in Sudan's refugee camps are not receiving food unless they say Islamic prayers," according to a report. After describing South Sudanese Christian refugees as living "in a terrible situation," a local source elaborated:

"We have heard stories where children are conditioned to say Islamic prayers before [being] given food. This is not right. These children are Christian. They should be respected for that.... The majority are left in camps, some in a very terrible situation. They are confined in those places. They are not allowed to go further north to the cities."

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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23 Reader Comments

C.W. • Feb 26, 2018 at 15:33

I tire of reading story after story of Christians being relentlessly pursued and persecuted by Muslims. I wonder that somehow the Christians in these places would get arms and defend themselves against these rabid, fanatical Muslims. That is the only way some of this abuse will stop, if Muslims get word that Christians are able to fight back.

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Mark Matthias • Feb 26, 2018 at 13:16

The thrust of the matter never changes -- everyone in the world basically comprehends
the Muslim modus operandi. I'm not emphasizing Islamic jihad any more than I am
illuminating the feeble posture of those in a position to help defend the victims of Islam.

Schoolyard bullies do what they are permitted to do, and being of such character,
it is naive, to say the least, to expect them to suddenly acquiesce. Showering bullies with "love",
only strengthens their resolve to dominate and scorn the cowardly nature of their victims,
reinforcing the myth that they are superior, knowing that they have found a convincing weapon
against their enemies -- kill everything that resists -- when people become so hysterical
they will even blow themselves up, they are beyond reasoning. In such a case what would you do?

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Odo Saunders • Feb 26, 2018 at 12:48

Where are the Western governments? They have obviously forgotten their faith.

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chris

Odo Saunders • Mar 10, 2018 at 16:18

Western governments have forgotten their faith along with their history, culture and people since the 50s

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Commander Johnson • Feb 26, 2018 at 11:23

It was Adolph Hitler who said that if you tell a big lie enough times, the masses will believe it.

It is a choice - and individual and national choice - to believe the Islamic lies or not. Is Islam a religion or a death cult? Is a "good Muslim" the one who never kills for Allah, or is it a "good Muslim" who obeys the hundred times the Koran and Hadith order all Muslims to kill Christians and Jews?

Winston Churchill was correct when he wrote in 1899 (The River War) that Islam in a man is like rabies in a dog. It is a fact that all Muslims have been exposed to the "disease" to kill all Infidels. But only the "good obedient Muslims" who will take up the sword and do it.

America must make a choice - and soon - whether we will continue to live the lie that Islam is a legitimate religion that is deserving of Constitutional protection. That "choice" will determine whether or not our children and grand children will be required to take that Sharia Sharpie marker and draw that dashed line around their throats with the words, CUT HERE.

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Nasir Hussain • Feb 26, 2018 at 09:52

I am appalled and ashamed that Muslims are doing this against their Christian brothers.

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Mark Matthias

Nasir Hussain • Feb 27, 2018 at 13:43

I agree with you, Nasir -- but the real issue is "doctrine", i.e., Ideology. The differences are remarkable,
no getting around that reality. The term "brother" I see as twofold -- there's a brotherhood of Mankind,
which DNA proves. There's a brotherhood of ideology, which is an extremely powerful stimulus.
The Buhari, the Sunna, and the Quran compared to Judeo-Christianity couldn't be more different;
therefore, the ideology speaks louder than the love for humanity. All Muslims revere Muhammad,
so, comparing Muhammad and Jesus speaks for itself -- as I see it, that's really the bottom line.

All the best to you.

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Frank J Verderber • Feb 26, 2018 at 07:15

You should mail this and other similar information to every church in the US and Britain. There seems to be an emotional and psychological disconnect between the plight of 3rd world Christians and the those in Western democracies. I keep abreast of news and support a Kenyan Christian child and communicate with Messianic Christians in the Negev of Israel. Every Christian family who cares about Jesus Christ's statement about "doing for the least of my brethren," should pray and support financially a Christian person or family through a well documented and approved organization. American Protestantism has lost its empathy for the persecuted Christians and the unbelievers. I have found that Apostolics and Mennonites share a close bond with many impoverished Christians in third world situations. Every year I watch individual Mennonite families pay their own families fare to go visit a family missionary in some forsaken part of the world. And when they come back they find a way to import some of the manufactured goods, so that their impoverished brothers and sisters can earn a living from what they can make. There are no special fun raising gimmicks. No seasonal appeals. The individual Mennonite families save their cash, and then go off to comfort the poor, the destitute, the sick and the ignorant, and the lost. Some stay behind to teach. From a Protestant living among Mennonites.

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chris

Frank J Verderber • Feb 28, 2018 at 10:45

I have spoken to a number of local religious leaders about this and you can just see their eyes glazing over before they quickly move onto someone else to talk to. They do not want to hear the truth. Even when I describe how people in the Middle East have asked me why Christians in the west are not only abandoning them but encouraging the same sort of extremism to flourish in the west as is killing them in the East, you can feel that it is something Christian pastors and vicars do not want to discuss.

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Pat Holdahl • Feb 26, 2018 at 06:42

I thank the writer for covering this. We are forgetting about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East & throughout the world. It happens here in America, the verbal mockery of Christians. It is not just the Muslims who want Christians gone & to pay for the sin of the past Crusader wars, it's also Ultra Orthodox Judaism, not Moderate or Conservative Judaism but Ultra Judaism. After the death of Billy Graham, I was told by 4 Ultra Orthodox Jews that one day the Jews would come for me & tie me to a cross & burn me because of my love for Jesus. This seemed odd to me as I'm not anti-Semitic & I am a Christian Zionist. I don't like radical Islam but I wouldn't go out & kill Muslims. Sometimes all radical forms of a religion can be hurtful & deadly. Maybe more moderation in all religions should be called for. It is sad that people cannot express their faith & respect one another & live side by side peacefully. Amen.

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John Forbes • Feb 26, 2018 at 05:59

When the abuse as is detailed in this article is largely ignored by the Pope & almost all Christian sects it is incomprehensible as to WHY!
In a Europe that describes itself as POST CHRISTIAN & where the Marxist Left has managed to INSTILL in both the political system & the education system a GUILT COMPLEX of unparalleled proportions & backed some of this with BLATANT LIES, it is hard to see any path back BUT this is not so in the US YET!

How this GUILT COMPLEX has been allowed to fester like this is a DISGRACE that the West is going to pay for generations for if this is not dealt with NOW!

Many nations have conquered many peoples as did the Ottoman Turks & the Romans & the Persians to name a few but it is only the WEST that gets targeted with the Colonial Guilt Complex!

Japan colonized Korea & parts of China & Turkey deported & killed over a million Armenians & although there are demonstrations from time to time I see little signs of guilt being talked about or displayed in Japan or Turkey or Iran.

I see little point in battering the next generation as has been done in Germany as an example if you want a strong nation to emerge.

What the LEFT SEEMS to want as does POLITICAL ISLAM is a compliant, subservient populace which has no opinion & will follow along as COWED SHEEP!

Why Christianity simply refuses to even mention in any meaningful way the plight of Middle Eastern groups like the Coptic Christians & Yazidis or the Zoroastrian is a mystery but indifference & cowardice only embolden the followers of ISLAM when they realize that the WEST is more interested in gadgets & holidays & pensions than anyone else.

As sad state of affairs as the LOSS OF FAITH & the FAMILY & COMMUNITY BREAKDOWN seem shows.

This destruction of these things was & is POINTED out by the MARXISTS as being necessary to create the NEW WORLD ORDER with no FAMILY or STATES or FAITH & No Gender Identity!

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William Henwood • Feb 26, 2018 at 05:16

Very sad that our government turns a blind eye to this and continues to support these morally bankrupt people with British foreign aid.

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chris

William Henwood • Feb 28, 2018 at 10:49

Not only foreign aid. But these people are allowed back into the country after our intelligence services have discovered that they have fought on the side of isis. Now the plan is to give them free housing (no doubt in addition to the free houses they have for each of their IDs) plus a raft of benefits. So the more violent people are, the more likely they are to be rewarded.Is it any wonder that extremism is growing in this country?

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Edward • Feb 25, 2018 at 19:38

We have seen many examples of ethnic cleansing. We are now seeing examples of Christian cleansing.

At which point do democratic world leaders acknowledge that Islam is not a religion of peace but an ideology of hate.

This knowledge is suppressed by the politically correct left and major media. Why can't they tell the real story and expose the lies and deceit of the myth that Islam is a religion of peace and atrocities are being committed by Muslims in the name of their religion.

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chris

Edward • Feb 28, 2018 at 10:53

Where is the UNHCR when Christians are being genocided - or is the UN majority OIC now so that only one religion is to exist? It seems that human rights do not apply to the white race (which is a minority race on this planet) or to Christians.

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Patricia Walker • Feb 25, 2018 at 19:07

And yet, many want to welcome Islam, including radical Islamists to the West. Europe is already paying the price, with Canada not too far behind. What will happen to the U.S.?

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Deavman • Feb 25, 2018 at 12:16

Christians of the world, take heed of the Muslim motto, "First we take care of the Saturday people (Jews), then we do the same with the Sunday people (Christians).
Jews are being harrassed and attacked in Europe by Muslims, when all the Jews will be gone as it happened to most Muslim countries, they will come for you. Unlike the Jews who at last have a home in Israel, your countries are being invaded, your men castrated, your women impregnated. You will submit, and be the dimmis that they have planned for you to be....unless you fight back. It starts now.

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chris • Feb 25, 2018 at 12:04

What should be of major concern to every Western citizen is that this sort of incident is increasing in the West, and in many countries the police also turn a blind eye to it - just as they do in the countries described in the article.

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Ora • Feb 25, 2018 at 11:14

I wanted to read this article till the end but I just couldn't bring myself to do so after reading just a few descriptions. Thank you, Raymond Ibrahim, for this and other articles. Why does the so-called enlightened Western World ignore these atrocities? Because it's easier to ignore them than to get involved. This cancer has already begun to metastasize in Europe but there is seems it is only the Jews that are the victims, so it can still be ignored or excused. They should heed the words of Martin Niemoller, a prominent Protestant pastor, who was an outspoken foe of the Nazis.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

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Lotus • Feb 25, 2018 at 08:33

If one browsed Daniel Pipes' blog under "Advice To Non-Muslim Women Against Marrying Muslim Men," there have been a couple of Christian women who have married Egyptians and are happy. One was married to a rich and well-connected Muslim man and so enjoys life in a luxurious villa and his relatives have been OK with her.

As regards Turkey, many British, American and Russian women have married Turks. They appear happy, too, at least until an article about them appeared with a heading-"From Russia With Love, Thousands of Wives for Turkish Husbands."

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Paul Fishman • Feb 25, 2018 at 08:19

Two things: 1) There IS compulsion in religion with brutality according to the correct interpretation of the Qur'an and Hadiths. 2) President Donald Trump is right to have a Muslim ban on immigration to America from those countries that severely persecuted Christians. Expand the same ban to Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Mali and ANY others doing so. ONLY let the persecuted Christians from those Muslim ban countries have emergency asylum to America, since they cannot be resolved by Islamic racist murder to exist there anymore.

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Nick Carter • Feb 25, 2018 at 08:12

Where are the press when we need insanity like this exposed?

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Albert Reingewirtz • Feb 25, 2018 at 06:03

So, where is the Pope? Why has the Vatican be silent all those years? Why is the Vatican against Yeroushalaiim as the capital of the Jewish state where all religions are safe and protected by law. Christians thriving in Israel and even volunteering to defend their country Israel, the only state where Christians or any other religion are safe from Islam's atrocities against their co religionists in the whole surrounding Islamic world.

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