"Christians Are Untouchables! They Are Meant for Cleaning Our Houses."

Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2016

by Raymond Ibrahim
October 2, 2016 at 5:30 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9045/christian-persecution-june

Translations of this item:

Three Muslim men slaughtered a 15-year-old Christian student, Wajaesh Shono. One of the murderers was the boy's schoolteacher. — Pakistan.
A Muslim mob killed and beheaded a Christian pastor's wife based on a false accusation of "blasphemy." — Nigeria.
His father and stepmother became furious when they learned of the boy's conversion. They began... starving him, in keeping with Islamic law recommendations for apostate women and children. — Uganda.
As usual, Egyptian TV reported the one-sided attacks from the Muslim majority on the Christian minority as "clashes." After arriving, the police stood back and allowed the mob to continue rioting, plundering and setting more Christian homes and vehicles on fire. — Egypt.
A Christian woman who escaped ISIS said the militants "married and divorced" her as many as nine times every night to justify the act of raping her. — Iraq.
Christians reciting the rosary inside St. Anthony Church in Ventimiglia, Italy were told by refugee-volunteers to keep their prayers down as they were bothering newly arrived Muslim migrants. — Italy.

At the height of one of the worst months for Christians under Islam, June, 2016, both the U.S. government and "mainstream" media continued to ignore the plight of Christians.

Despite the U.S. government acknowledging that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians in Iraq and Syria, statistics showed the number of refugees the Obama administration has welcomed since the start of 2015:

From Syria: 5,435 Muslims; 28 Christians
From Iraq: 11,086 Muslims; 433 Christians

As for the mainstream media, the death of a gorilla was covered six times more than the Muslim slaughter of Christians for their faith, according to a report.

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

Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Egypt: A Coptic Christian priest, Fr. Raphael Moussa, 46, was shot dead in "a hail of bullets" by an unidentified gunman outside the Church of the Martyr of St George, in Arish (Sinai). No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamic terrorists affiliated with ISIS have targeted Christians in Arish before. In 2013, another Coptic Christian priest, Mina Cheroubim, was also shot dead as he left his church in Arish.

Syria: Non-ISIS rebel fighters considered "moderate" by establishment counterterror analysts slit the throat of a Christian man in front of his wife. The murderer told her: "Your Jesus did not come to save him from us." The murder took place in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, where Jesus' language Aramaic was still spoken. The town had been invaded by militants few days earlier.

According to a resident: "They arrived in our town at dawn and shouted 'We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders.'"

Separately, a suicide bomber disguised as a priest attempted to enter an event commemorating the genocide of Christian Assyrians, but was stopped by Assyrian forces. The bomber detonated his bomb outside the hall, killing himself and three members of the Christian Assyrian Sutoro security forces, and wounding five. It is believed the bomber was targeting Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who led the commemoration.

Pakistan: Three Muslim men slaughtered a 15-year-old Christian student, Wajaesh Shono, on June 14. One of the murderers was the boy's schoolteacher. According to local sources,

"Because of Shono's success in school, a local group of Muslims often pressured Shono to convert to Islam.... Shono's Muslim classmates never allowed him to use their study table or chairs. They always avoided playing with him because of his Christianity, and hated when he drank water from the school tap."

When the boy continued to insist on rejecting Islam, two men grabbed him while the third, possibly his teacher, stabbed him 15 times.

Bangladesh: On Sunday, June 5, Muslims associated with ISIS slaughtered Sunil Gomez, a 65-year-old Christian shopkeeper in his store. According to local priest Father Rebeiro, the victim "attended Sunday prayers at my church and then went to his grocery store. The next thing we know he was hacked to death. I can't imagine how anyone can kill such an innocent man." That same afternoon, local Christians held a protest rally demanding the immediate arrest of the murderers and accusing police of being indifferent to such attacks on Christian minorities. They cited the previous murder of Christian resident Gabriel Costa, whose killer is still at large, as evidence of police complicity.

Lebanon: Eight suicide bombers launched two separate attacks on the Christian town of Al Qaa on June 27. At least five people were killed. One of the attacks was near a church, and witnesses heard the attacker shouting, "Allahu Akbar" before blowing himself up. According to the town's priest: "People are stuck in their houses, not daring to go out and fearing more suicide bombers... We're living in terror in this town." No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, although both al-Qaeda's Nusra Front and the Islamic State are active on the Syrian side of the border. Lebanon has also taken in approximately 1.5 million refugees from Syria, an act that has raised fears that militants are hiding among them.

Muslim Slaughter of Christians in Nigeria

On June 2, a Muslim mob murdered and beheaded a Christian pastor's wife, based on a false accusation of "blasphemy." Bridget Agbahime, a kitchen utensil vendor, had politely asked Alhaji Dauda, a Muslim engaged in Islamic ritual cleaning, to move away from her shopfront because customers were still coming and going. He left angrily. According to the report:

Agbahime and her husband, pastor Mike Agbahime of Deeper Life Bible Church in Kano, were later meeting with the market landlord about the persistent problem when Dauda and other Muslims returned and began chanting that she must die for blasphemy. The landlord pleaded for them to return later to talk about it, but they began stoning him, and he fled. Shouting the jihadist chant "Allahu Akbar," Dauda and the mob accused Agbahime of blasphemy against Muhammad, the prophet of Islam... Pastor Agbahime tried in vain to protect her. The assailants overpowered the few policemen present, and Agbahime knelt and began to pray before she was beaten and clubbed to death....

On June 22, the partially decayed corpse of Rev. John Adeyi was found in some bushes. The Catholic priest was kidnapped at gunpoint while traveling for pastoral duties two months earlier. His abductors later contacted church officials and demanded 25 million naira (USD $121,224) as ransom. According to one unconfirmed press report, some two million naira (USD $9,700) had been paid.

It was reported on June 1 that, after hearing that a Christian had committed "blasphemy" against Muhammad, a Muslim mob in Niger State rampaged and killed the accused, Methodus Chimaije Emmanuel, age 24. According to a Baptist pastor:

"The incident began with Facebook chats between a Muslim and Christian youth in the town. The Muslim youth mobilized other Muslims in the town on claims that the Christian youth had blasphemed the prophet Muhammad. The Muslims went to Fellowship Baptist Church along Alllawa Road, Pandogari, and burned down the church."

He said that two Christians were shot and injured on Sunday, May 29 in one area of town, and that there could be others wounded.

It was reported on June 2 that Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed three Christians on May 31, while they slept in their homes in the early hours and burned a pastor's home. Days earlier in the same area, Muslim herdsmen attacked another Christian with machetes.

Muslim Slaughter of Christians in Uganda

On June 17, the Muslim in-laws of a 24-year-old Christian mother, Angel Nabirye, poisoned and killed her infant daughter, sources said. Nabirye's in-laws did this because they were angry to see the young woman eating during the daytime fast of Ramadan. "My mother-in-law questioned me for eating food with my baby during Ramadan, and I told her that the baby was unwell and needs breast-feeding." The following day, "She [mother-in-law] brought some herbs for my baby, Saidha Namwase, which I gave her. After three hours, the condition of the baby worsened, and I rushed her to Iganga Hospital, but she was pronounced dead on arrival at 4 p.m." Hospital tests reveal the baby was poisoned. Her husband and Muslim family were eager to bury the body immediately, according to Islamic custom, and when the mother protested because she wanted her family to be present for a funeral, they started abusing her, and calling her an infidel and pagan. Her family came and were also clandestinely drugged by the Muslim in laws and beaten; when they regained consciousness the baby's corpse had disappeared.

On June 23, Muslims murdered a Christian woman because she refused to donate part of her land to a mosque. A number of Muslims had been pressuring Efranse Kadondo, a 50-year-old Catholic. At one point she told a Muslim relative, among those pressuring her, that "if I have to surrender part of my land, then I will give it to the Catholic Church." This angered the Muslim relative, who, with some imams who had accompanied him, forcibly chased her off her property. Kadondo took refuge at a relative's home in a nearby village, and reported the Muslim seizure of her land to police. Six days later, after returning from an all-night prayer meeting, the Christian woman was found lying dead in a pool of blood; her hands were broken and there were bruises around her neck. The autopsy confirmed that she was murdered during a struggle. Neighbors saw local Muslims lingering around her house that night, some of whom were subsequently arrested. Her Muslim relative had fled earlier.

On June 4, a Christian widower and father of two daughters was murdered by Muslims, who were apparently angered by his evangelistic work. According to the report,

The body of Yokannah Zirinkuma ... was found in a pool of blood in nearby Kadama village, near the home of the primary suspect... Well known in the area for evangelistic preaching in a marketplace by which several Muslims came to faith in Christ, Zirinkuma two weeks prior had engaged Muslims in Kasasira village in open debate that became heated. He later received a threatening letter from unknown Muslims. "You should stop misleading Muslims, and if you fail to adhere to this, then you will face the judgment sword from Allah," a letter in Arabic warned him.

Soon thereafter, the pastor was led to a house through a ruse and murdered.

Muslim Attacks on Christian Apostates, Blasphemers, and Preachers

Uganda: A Muslim man burned his 9-year-old son for accepting Christ. On June 5, after attending church with a Christian friend, Nassif Malagara "requested that he wanted to receive Jesus as his personal savior," said that church's pastor: "I was a bit hesitant, but after his continuous press, I then prayed with him, and he left." Afterwards, the boy refused to engage in Islamic activities. His father, Abubakar Malagara, and his stepmother became furious when they learned of the boy's conversion. They began abusing him, including by starving him, in keeping with Islamic law recommendations for apostate women and children. Two days later, his father caught him eating food the boy had smuggled from a neighbor. According to the boy:

"He started beating me up with sticks, but I managed to escape to a nearby bush. My father then followed me and got hold of me back to the homestead, where he tied me up to a banana tree. He went into the house and came back with a hot piece of wood. The banana tree had dry leaves, which caught fire and caused serious burns on my body."

Neighbors heard the child screaming for help. They rescued and took him to a nearby hospital. The neighbor who introduced the boy to church fears for his life, especially after receiving a text message: "We know that you are behind the conversion of Nassif to Christianity. You will soon reap what you have sown, which will be a lesson to others. Islam is against such conversion."

Unknown Middle East nation: Three Christians (pastor Stephan, pastor Samuel and evangelist James) who worked for a missionary organization that delivers Bibles to several nations of the Middle East, suffered from "a brutal attack by Islamic extremists" on the evening of June 12, said Paul Ciniraj, the organization's spokesman: Shouting "Allahu Akbar!" the Muslims "jumped out on the pastors from a dark corner and brutally [beat] them with iron pipes." While hospitalized, the three men suspected they were being stalked inside the health-care facility and, despite their serious injuries, asked to be discharged early. Upon their release from the hospital, they disappeared. Their organization suspects "terrorists" abducted them.

Nigeria: An Islamic cleric beat his wife with a blunt instrument after their 6-year-old daughter told him how she was healed at a church service, where the woman and their seven children all became Christian. According to a neighbor: "There was loud screaming, and we rushed to Siraji's house and found his wife bleeding. Her husband left for a nearby mosque." The neighbor took the woman and her children to the church site before her irate husband returned, but the sheikh and five other angry Muslims arrived looking for them, the pastor said.

"I saw them outside the church gate and sensed danger for the new converts. I told the church guard not to open the gate, and after two hours they left. Early the next day, I sent her and her children to some church members."

The mother and children are now hiding in another village, living in a tattered house with a thatched roof that leaks. The children are unable to return to school.

Pakistan: A Christian man who converted to Islam two years ago taught his Christian relatives a "good lesson":

Sonu tried to persuade his [Christian] cousins to convert to Islam as well, but when they refused, their discussion quickly turned into a dispute. Sonu threatened Salamat and the others, saying that he was going to "give them a good lesson." On June 10, Sonu went to the nearest mosque and claimed that Salamat and his friends had made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad. Without waiting to verify Sonu's report, more than a dozen men from a nearby Islamic seminary came and attacked Masih's house. The men beat the three teenagers and knocked over household items. As the men carried out the attack, they chanted abusive slogans at the Christians. After the attack, the men went to the police to register a complaint [blasphemy accusation] against the three boys. Since the attack, the teenagers have been forced into hiding.

Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches

Sweden: On June 27, around 3 a.m., a man broke into St. Paul's Church in central Malmö and vandalized it, starting with breaking the window panes. When police arrived, the man attacked them. Officers, according to the report, used pepper spray to overpower the "aggressive" man, who is being charged with a hate crime: "Police suspect that the man went to the attack on the church because it is a symbol of the Christian faith." Witnesses heard him shouting, "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.

Nigeria: It was reported on June 1 that, after a Christian was accused of making a blasphemous remark (see below) on his Facebook page, Muslims rose in violence. As a result, "One of our churches, Fellowship Baptist Church, has been burnt by the Muslims. Another church too was vandalized and destroyed, and the Christian accused of blasphemy was killed," said a local pastor.

Egypt: Hundreds of angry, rioting Muslims burned down 80 Christian homes on June 17, on the rumor that Christians were trying to build a church. When the neighboring village's priest heard what was happening, he rushed to the scene — only to be attacked in his car; Muslims climbed, stomped on, and damaged it. Among the hundreds of rioting Muslims were many women and children shouting chanting "Allahu Akbar!" and "We'll burn the church, we'll burn the church." As usual, Egyptian TV reported the one-sided attacks from the Muslim majority on the Christian minority as "clashes." After arriving, the police stood back and allowed the mob to continue rioting, plundering and setting more Christian homes and vehicles on fire. The Muslims then performed their afternoon prayers outside those Christians' homes they had not destroyed — with loudspeakers pointed at their doors. "No one did anything and the police took no pre-emptive or security measures in anticipation of the attacks," said Anba Makarios, a representative of the normally diplomatic Coptic Christian church.

Pakistan: On June 4, around 4:00 a.m., a group of unknown armed men opened fire on the St. Joseph Catholic Church near Lahore. Five bullets penetrated the church premises. The assailants escaped. Local Christians "expressed exasperation" concerning this latest in a long line of attacks on churches in Pakistan. They also complained that "none of the Muslims of the area has expressed solidarity with them, nor have voiced condemnation." Separately, police stormed the United Church in Lahore's Fazlia Colony. They hurled abusive language at the worshipers; when the pastor asked the officers to show respect for the house of worship, a policeman started cursing the church leader and slapping him around. The reason police had invaded the church is that someone complained that the church was using loudspeakers (which is banned under Islam), an allegation that was later dismissed.

Dhimmitude: Muslim Hate for, and Violence against, Christians

Nigeria: A Muslim gang stabbed a Christian carpenter, on June 7, for eating during the Ramadan fast. Francis Emmanuel, 41, sustained multiple wounds from the attack. From his hospital bed he explained:

"As I was eating, about six Muslims came to ask me if I am a Muslim or a Christian, but I did not answer them. They asked why I was not fasting, then I told them that I am not a Muslim. Before I know it, one of them slapped me. As I stood up, the rest came and surrounded me and started attacking me with knives."

Iraq: A Christian woman who escaped ISIS said the militants "married and divorced" her as many as nine times every night to justify the act of raping her. In the words of the woman, whose name is withheld: "They had me whenever they would desire it. Especially this one, Farouk, who was obsessed with me and he would [sarcastically] say, 'I like the people of Jesus.'" She was enslaved in 2014 when she went looking for her husband who had disappeared soon after ISIS' takeover of Mosul. Militants saw the crucifix tattoo on her arm, identifying her as a Christian, abducted and enslaved her. According to the report,

"The woman, who sobbed and shook during the interview, said she is not the only one who experienced these things. She said she wants to tell the world to know what happened to her in the hopes that her story will prompt the world to do something to protect Christians, Yazidis, and others."

Pakistan: According to a Christian man, "I was attacked, beaten, and abused for selling ice-cream to Muslim children and women." Khaleel Masih, 42, supports his wife and six children by selling ice-cream from an ice chest on the back of his bicycle, which he rides everyday through several villages in order to find enough customers for his business. One day two Muslim brothers, both named Muhammad, came up to Masih and began insulting, beating, and torturing him for being an "unclean" Christian selling "unclean merchandise" to Muslim children. When they understood the context of the beating, approximately twenty other men joined in the attack, while Muslim women yelled slogans in the street, saying: "Christians are untouchables! They are not followers of our holy prophet. They are meant for cleaning our houses and therefore should not be allowed to sell anything edible to Muslims." When Masih reported the attack at the local police station, the police refused to listen to his statement. Koran 9:28 refers to non-Muslims as "unclean."

Separately, police seized and publicly beat and humiliated a young Christian woman in the middle of a park because her brother had eloped with a Muslim woman. Police then threatened the entire Christian community. They said if the Muslim woman was not returned to her husband, they would gun down the entire family in a fake encounter.

Germany: Accounts of Muslim migrants abusing Christians in refugee shelters continue to grow. A report found that 88% of the 231 Christian refugees interviewed in Germany have suffered religiously motivated persecution in the form of insults, death threats, and sexual assaults. Some were pressured to convert to Islam. "I really didn't know that after coming to Germany I would be harassed because of my faith in the very same way as back in Iran," one Christian refugee was quoted as saying.

Paulus Kurt, of the Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany, said: "These are not isolated cases. I don't know of any refugee shelter from Garmisch to Hamburg where we have not found such cases."

Italy: Christians reciting the rosary inside St. Anthony Church in Ventimiglia were told by refugee-volunteers to keep their prayers down as they were bothering newly arrived Muslim migrants apparently living on the church premise. One of the female parishioners asked if the migrants couldn't be taken to another church so she could continue to pray in peace in her own church. In response, Don Rito, the parish priest, appeared and proceeded to escort her and other parishioners to another church. "We have now entered an 'Alice in Wonderland' world where everything is upside down," Fr. Ben Kiely said regarding this incident. "Europe is committing cultural suicide. It has lost its heart and its soul. As Pope Benedict so wisely reminded us, the foundation of Europe is Christianity. When you destroy a building's foundation, it collapses. This is what we are watching."

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 in all languages, ethnicities, and locations.

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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13 Reader Comments

barth Ihewuezi • Oct 8, 2016 at 06:19

This is obviously a systematic move to reduce to max the christian faith in the world. Unfortunately the west are so scared or concerns with political correctness and we as Christians are being murdered every other day around the world. It is a shame and if the Christian community does not wake up now, the whole world will soon be another Turkey. May we all remember the true history of Turkey and Egypt.
All Christians must stand and support the quest to restore Biafra from Nigeria or Nigeria will be the next Turkey in Africa in another 100yrs from now. Note that a single Muslim man has a minimum of 4wives with each having about 2-4,5 kids as the case maybe where as a Christian has by our religion 1 wife and has between 1-4 kids max. If we do the maths in a few yrs the Christians will be highly outnumbered and of course the completion of islamization will only be a matter of a simple vote in the legislature. Biafra means more than just fairness and equity. Biafra note is 95% Christians and 5% pagans. No Muslim in Biafra land minus the sojourners. Is time for the world to come to our aid and insist that a referendum is carried out in Nigeria for the state of Biafra as being demanded by the Biafrans today.

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Jeff Jay mayflower • Oct 3, 2016 at 23:31

Horrendous acts of purely heinous cultism! This is truly not a religion, it is a catatonically oblivious psychosis.

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Nam Marine • Oct 3, 2016 at 10:30

Time to bring back the Crusades !

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Carl • Oct 3, 2016 at 09:52

The ugly tenants that have ruled the Earth are about to be evicted and they know their time is closing in on them. The final act of defiance is violence against The Righteous. Let it be known that The Creator of Heaven and Earth is ready to introduce Himself and everyone and they will bow down and worship Him. Revelation 6:16 Isaiah 2:19 Luke 23:30 Who needs a bunker when Yeshua arrives. Who will be the water carriers and the wood choppers in the Age to come.

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dm • Oct 3, 2016 at 05:38

A brief horrifying segment of the atrocities that are being carried out in the world today. Let's be very clear, this is only a very small sample of the atrocities being enacted on a daily basis by the Muslim community.

The present INVASION of Muslim hoards has nothing to do with refugeism, its exactly the same as the earlier invading hoards in the 15th century who took control of parts of the world BY THE SWORD, and murdered people in their millions THEN.

I am watching television programmes showing the reign of the Ottoman Empire, how they beautified and had water systems in the lands that they plundered. They are not mentioning in the programme how they took over those areas and what is most appropriate to be mentioned that, is their reign consisted of rule by the sword, keeping thousands of women inside a harem and that they constantly fought and murdered each other and that ultimately their method of rule did not go well and they destroyed themselves.

This is clearly history repeating itself, the death toll that we are looking at now will surely destroy a very large part of the world for a very long time.

Muslims cannot live with each other in their own countries, modern day western communities do not want them involved in their life style. For the politicians (Obama) to go on about, people should understand that we are a WORLD COMMUNITY, (meaning, I presume no race or religion) is not washing.

People appear to be taking notice as their is rumblings that other countries are considering pulling out of the disastrous EU temple and that mad Merkel is losing her grip.

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david • Oct 3, 2016 at 03:45

• Sir Winston Churchill on Muslims. Still true over 100 years later...
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
He really was ahead of his time in regard to the the "Religion of Peace".

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Roger • Oct 3, 2016 at 01:01

Heart wrenching to read this. I asked myself can I read yet more. So, can you give all of us Christians a report on:
1. What is being done on the USA, UN, individual church levels to bring justice to this widespread threat of violence against anything "other"?
2. What can individuals in the USA do to help protect Christians and Jews around the world?
3. How can we discredit the ideology of violence you speak of?
4. How do these few Muslims justify before God there meanness?
5. If there are petitions we can sign, where are the links?
6. We can pray for protection, but seems like churches need private security forces and self-defense training.
7. Muslims usually act under authority, so who issues fatwas?
8. How can we petition Obama to ask for more Christians from the UN who I believe is screening the refugees.
9. Keep the Christians and Muslims in separate refuge camps. Yes, some religions in this world force this remedy.
10. This forced separation for security may well lead to an ultimate global confrontation.
11. However, most Muslims use the critical thinking God gave them and are peaceful and ACTIVELY protect Christians, Jews, Hindus and all "other". And we praise them for having hearts of compassion, true love, and uphold human rights as defined by the inner heart created by God in the beginning. These Muslims we celebrate and support.

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Elizabeth • Oct 2, 2016 at 17:16

Thank you and Gatestone for your comprehensive reports on Christian Persecution across the globe. Apart from you and organisations who minister to the Persecuted Church, we would have no idea what is happening to our suffering brothers and sisters in Christ. It has become a widespread battle between good and evil.

I take comfort in that when Jesus ministered on earth it was during cruel Roman times, and his advice was to "follow me". That advice holds true for today too, when persecution is so widespread and most of the world does not care - even those who we believed would, and are in actual fact wolves in sheep's clothing.

Scripture has warnings about the world hating us (John 15:18,19; 1 John 3:13) and encouragement ( Luke 6:22,23) of the eternal rewards Christians will receive for staying faithful to Jesus.
In the mean time we need to pray fervently for those suffering brutality at the hands of Islam other Godless nations, and be grateful for the freedoms we still have in the West, as that time might be short too.

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barth Ihewuezi • Oct 2, 2016 at 14:44

This is obviously a systematic move to reduce to max the Christian faith in the world. Unfortunately the west are so scared or concerns with political correctness and we as Christians are being murdered every other day around the world. It is a shame and if the Christian community does not wake up now, the whole world will soon be another Turkey. May we all remember the true history of Turkey and Egypt.
All Christians must stand and support the quest to restore Biafra from Nigeria or Nigeria will be the next Turkey in Africa in another 100yrs from now. Note that a single Muslim man has a minimum of 4wives with each having about 2-4,5kids as the case maybe where as a Christian has by our religion 1 wife and has between 1-4kids max. If we do the maths in a few yrs the Christians will be highly outnumbered and of course the completion of islamization will only be a matter of a simple vote in the legislature. Biafra means more than just fairness and equity. Biafra note is 95% Christians and 5% pagans. No Muslim in Biafra land minus the sojourners. Is time for the world to come to our aid and insist that a referendum is caried out in Nigeria for the state of Biafra as being demanded by the Biafrans today.

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Dean • Oct 2, 2016 at 10:39

Obama is more concerned about a group of people ("Palestinians") who were formed as a propaganda tool during the Cold war by the Soviets and Islamic nations to get back at and terrorize Israel than he is about Christians who are under real threat of death and destruction under Islam. It seems that check points that prevent terrorism are worse in Obama's eyes than death of people who he was taught during his formative years are infidels (Christians and Jews).

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geoffrey ben-nathan • Oct 2, 2016 at 10:24

The West's failure to react suggests it is in a trance - it is sleepwalking towards a total nightmare.

The question is: WHY is it failing to react ?
The answer is perhaps that it has NO substitute policy for ANTI-racism which policy has been built up over the last few decades.
Police forces in the UK where I come from are "terrified" of doing anything 'racist'. So usually, they close a blind eye and do nothing at all.

The opposite of ANTI-racism is ........RACISM. No-one wants, or is yet prepared, to go down that road. Meanwhile of course, Islam and Muslims are exploiting western susceptibilities for all they are worth.

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Jeff Page • Oct 2, 2016 at 08:25

This report comes as no surprise to many of us in the west, but it seems to go over the heads of the political classes! It as if they are turning a blind eye and deaf ear to Muslim outrages, almost as if Christians deserve to be raped, violently attacked and killed because they happen not to be Muslims.
We know that persecution is an everyday occurrence in most Muslim countries, because they simply have no respect for any other religion not just Christianity.
A regular thing for the police to do is ignore attacks on Christians and sometimes even join in with the hate filled Muslim perpetrators, to the police, it's a lot safer for them than to actually do their job and protect innocent citizens.
But here in the west, we have governments who have instructed their police forces to safeguard the interests and well being of the Muslims who attack Christian society. Of course, they do it in various ways by using "human rights" against the majority population. This works because of the rights given to all to be able to practice their religion freely. Big mistakes have been made and there has to be changes that allow the whole population to benefit from these rights and for them not to be abused by a certain minority in order to gain some social or political advantage! The leaders in the west have to be less tolerant of demands and consider all when coming to their decisions. The example of gross stupidity has got to be Frau Merkel and her invitation to Immigrants. She's regretting it now, but the damage has been done to her country and she is facing a backlash from the German public. Decisions such as the one she made are no democratic, she never considered asking the people she just did what she wanted. We are now faced in Europe with large Muslim communities that isolate themselves from general society, they don't fully integrate and many of them don't work. Just imagine what will happen to our societies when a great many Muslim families are being supported by the state! Their goal is to out breed indigenous people to eventually be the dominant culture, and taxpayers, with the help of governments will be footing the bill for their own downfall. Politicians are failing to release the true figure of the cost of in the first instance of allowing them to stay in their countries without making a contribution and what the consequences will be in the future if they don't start tackling the situation before it gets completely out of control. It won't be a case of Christians being persecuted by Muslims, because there won't be any Christians left alive!

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Albert Reingewirtz • Oct 2, 2016 at 05:55

It is really infuriating that Christians are slaughtered all over the Middle East. Churches burning. Christian women raped. Christians everywhere in the area are on the move. Those who can escape the inferno leaving everything behind. Christian Europe takes in their tormentor and demand that Israel gives it's ancestral land to an invented nation of Islamic terror while ignoring that The Jewish state of Israel is the only state around where Christians are not only safe but thriving. At the head of this horror, Christian Barack Hussein and his bird dog Kerry push for their "two state solution" giving away the heart land of the ancestral land of the Jews liberated from the land grab by Jordan from where all Jews had been cleansed out. Jews having returned to their liberated ancestral land upset those Christians Barack Hussein and his bird dog Kerry and of course Barack Hussein2, Hillary while ignoring that Christians are no longer the majority in Bethlehem since most fled the Islamic terror upon them too.

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