And Christian worship has been banned at their hospital. From Compass Direct, with thanks to Stephen Scott:
October 13 (Compass) — Muslim militants have threatened to kill Christian nurses serving at the Federal Medical Center in the town of Keffi, in the central state of Nasarawa, unless they stop conducting Christian worship services. An undated letter received by hospital management and the hospital’s chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Nurses (FCN) stated, “We are making it abundantly clear that our thirst for your heads/blood is mounting daily if you continue with your worship services in the hospital unabated.”Subsequently, the medical director and chief executive at Keffi Federal Medical Center banned Christian-related activities at the facility and banned the FCN chapter indefinitely. “How can they ban us from praying or worshipping here,” FCN Secretary Christiana Shiaki said, “when the Muslims have two mosques built with public funds for them here in the hospital?”
Good question.
Sums it all up really doesn't it. The "religion of peace" says "our thirst for your heads/blood is mounting daily.." Do people like the San Jose Police Chief, the British Education Minister Charles Clarke, Tony Blair, John Kerry etc., etc, etc., ever read this stuff. Do they know what islam really means ? If not their ignorance is endangering us all.
You always hear about mercenaries fighting all over the world. Why not mercenaries fighting muslims in places like Sudan and Nigeria? It's about time that the gloves came off.
This says it all:
“How can they ban us from praying or worshipping here,” FCN Secretary Christiana Shiaki said, “when the Muslims have two mosques built with public funds for them here in the hospital?”
We dhimmis know that Muslims are more deserving, more entitled because they are, well, Muslims.
The rest of us Jews, Christians, Hindus etc should be happy with what we get and be thankful for Muslim generousity.
OT: but I think that maybe it's a good idea to have Turkey join the EU after all.
There's going to be a war between Islam and the west, and the sooner that we get it over and done with the better.
When Turks start flooding into the EU and start taking over towns and cities, then there will be good cause for legitimate warfare as far as I am concerned.
Sorry to sound so violent, but Europe is too far gone for anything other than armed resistance IMHO.
It's no surprise that Muslims are flocking to Western Christian based Countries for protection to practise their version of Islam,sadly though,some want the 99 percent of non-Muslims in America to adjust their way of living so to avoid hurting their feelings.
It is a bit ironic that CAIR Canada denounces Christ as the Messiah and claims he is one of the revered Prophets in the Quran,but then remains mute on followers of Christs peaceful teachings.
And pray tell, who will take care of patients when the Christian nurses are beheaded, if they don't decide to quit their jobs while they still have their heads?
www.c4israel.org/articles/english/e-i-02-2-sook-christiansinm.htm
Christians in the Muslim World
By Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo
We in the western nations are free to follow our religious beliefs as we wish, and as Christians it is all too easy to forget the suffering and fear that so many of our fellow-believers are living with in many Islamic countries today. They increasingly find themselves to be an embattled minority with dwindling rights who are trapped in poverty and uncertainty.
There are around 40 million Christians living as minorities in Muslim-majority countries in the world today. In some parts of the world these Christian minorities are a substantial size – at least 15 million in Indonesia, about 9 million in Egypt and 3 million in Pakistan. In other places, there may be no more than a few dozen national Christians in the whole country, for example, the Maldives. In countries such as Saudi Arabia national Christian believers must keep their faith secret, or they would be executed. It is impossible to know exactly how many Christian believers there are in these countries.
Christians living in Muslim countries are generally treated as second-class citizens. They meet frequent discrimination in education, employment and even from the police and judiciary. They are despised and distrusted, often suspected of giving their primary loyalty to the “Christian” West rather than to their homeland. The basis of this lies in the traditional Islamic teaching that Christians and Jews – “the people of the book” – should be subjugated by force and made to pay a special tax called jizya. Surah 9, verse 29 of the Qur’an instructs Muslims as follows:
Fight those who believe not
In God nor the Last Day,
Nor hold that forbidden
Which hath been forbidden
By God and His Apostle,
Nor acknowledge the Religion
Of Truth, (even if they are)
Of the People of the Book,
Until they pay the Jizya
With willing submission,
And feel themselves subdued.
These subjugated peoples were designated dhimmi. As well as the jizya there were many other conditions imposed on dhimmi, most of which were designed to underline their inferior status. Though these are not followed strictly nowadays, the general attitude still prevails across the Muslim world.
In some countries there is legalised discrimination against Christians. In other cases, it is community and society which treat them unfairly despite good laws and constitution. Often it is a mixture of the two, as for example in Egypt. One of the greatest difficulties facing Egyptian Christians concerns church buildings. They have to get permission from the president himself to build a new one, a process which can take many years and has no guarantee of success. Even permission to repair existing church buildings is hard to obtain, and on top of this they often find their buildings are attacked. In lawless areas of rural upper Egypt they face much violence to themselves, their homes and their fields from Islamic extremists, some of whom demand payment of jizya. The government seems unable to protect rural Christians from these militants.
Pakistan’s Christians have three particular handicaps. Firstly, there is an electoral system that effectively deprives them of any political voice. Secondly, they are very vulnerable to false accusation under the so-called “blasphemy law” which lays down a death sentence for the crime of “defiling” the name of the Prophet Muhammad. Although none have yet been executed, several Christians accused in malice under this law have been murdered by zealous Muslim individuals who believe this is pleasing to God. Thirdly, in the Islamic court system, the witness of a Christian does not carry as much weight as the witness of a Muslim, putting them at a severe disadvantage.
In Nigeria Christians slightly outnumber Muslims but are concentrated in the South of the country, with Muslims forming a majority in the North. Twelve Northern states have recently introduced full Islamic law (Shari’ah). Despite promises that Christians in these states would not be affected, they are facing a variety of restrictions and difficulties as a result. Furthermore there have been many incidents of violent rioting, in which hundreds of Christians have been killed and thousands made homeless.
Anti-Christian violence on an even greater scale is now occurring in parts of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Until a few years ago, this country was an example of harmonious Christian-Muslim relations and real equality between the two communities. Now, however, Christians in the Moluccas Islands and in Sulawesi are being targeted by Islamic militants in a systematic genocidal campaign to eliminate them. Many thousands of Christians have been killed, as village after village has been burnt to the ground, and almost half a million have been made refugees. In addition at least 7,000 Christians have been forcibly converted to Islam. Many of these were forcibly circumcised as a sign of their new Islamic faith. This includes men, women, children and the elderly, and the circumcisions were usually performed without antiseptic or anaesthetic.
The Sudanese government is ruthless in attacking the African Christians and animists in South Sudan, who refuse to accept its policies of Islamization and Arabization - hence the brutal civil war which has been running since 1983 and which has resulted in the destruction of the entire infra-structure of the South. Millions of Southerners have fled, either to the North or to neighbouring countries. In the North they find themselves discriminated against in many ways. The shanty towns where they live are often bulldozed, and lorry-loads of Christians have been forcibly dumped in the desert with no food, water or shelter.
Worse than Ever
Since September 11th 2001 and the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, followed by American attacks on Afghanistan, the situation for Christians in the Muslim world has become even more tense and dangerous. They are an easy local target on which Muslims can vent the anger they feel against the United States.
On 20th September a 13-year-old Christian stallholder in Pakistan was beaten to death by a gang of Muslims who refused to pay for the food they had bought from him. They told him to “take your payment from America”. Two churches in Isiolo, Kenya, were burnt down on 26th September and the words “God is Great” and “We condemn America” carved into the charred remains. In Israel on 8th October, a Christian convert from Islam was stabbed to death by a supporter of Osama bin Laden, who shouted, “You are an apostate!” In Malaysia eight Christian workers at the headquarters of the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship were hospitalised on 23rd October after coming into contact with an envelope containing white powder. The powder was sent with an offensive letter, claiming the powder was anthrax and promising the death of the staff, the destruction of their office and a curse on Christians in general. In Iraq it is reported that some Christians are now being left out of the distribution of government food rations and are being mockingly told to ask America for their food instead. They have become too frightened to wear a cross in public any more. On 28th October, fifteen Christians at Sunday worship were shot dead by Islamist gunmen who burst into their church in Bahawalpur. The gunmen shouted “Pakistan and Afghanistan, graveyard of Christians,” “God is Great,” and “This is just the start.” The massacre occurred several weeks after some Islamic religious leaders in Pakistan had announced a fatwa that two Pakistani Christians would be killed for every Muslim who died in airstrikes on Afghanistan.
Hope for the future?
What does the future hold for Christian minorities in Islamic contexts? The trend in the last two decades has been consistently towards the erosion of their rights and status, the increase of pressures and discrimination. These developments have gone largely unremarked by the world in general, including the western Churches. Christians in Muslim countries feel themselves forgotten by their Christian brothers and sisters elsewhere who are blessed with greater freedoms, and this only adds to their pain and hopelessness.
But perhaps the new interest in Islam which has resulted from the events of September 11th could result also in greater publicity for the plight of the suffering Church under Islam, which has continued for fourteen centuries. Perhaps too it could result in a debate leading to a reformation of Islam, to move it on from its present laws and values, which have remained unchanged since the Middle Ages, towards modern standards of human rights and religious liberty. Maybe this could be one aspect of God’s plans and purposes for His people in the Muslim world who have remained faithful to Christ through all their difficulties.
But one thing is certain - our hope must remain in God, and we believe that ultimately His purposes will be fulfilled.
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is Director of the Barnabas Fund, UK.
Copyright 2002
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"We are making it abundantly clear that our thirst for your heads/blood is mounting daily if you continue with your worship services in the hospital unabated"
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B) a high priest of a satanic cult.
C) a aztec human sacrificing priest
D) Vlad the Impaler/Dracula
E) a nun slaughtering psychopathic islamist
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Question no. 123
What is the following statment represent:
“How can they ban us from praying or worshipping here,” FCN Secretary Christiana Shiaki said, “when the Muslims have two mosques built with public funds for them here in the hospital?”
Does it mean:
A) multiculturalism in action
B) compulsion in religion
C) cultural genocide
Wild card question:- all are correct. No matter what you say you must go to Jail immediately.
To escape from Jail must apologize to Islamist groups and donate 1 million to build fundamentalist mosque over ground zero.
The non-Muhammedans in these places need to disengage. Let the wonders of Muslim science and medicine attend to their needs.
The global conflagration that is upon us has opened up on three fronts:
1. 9/11 will no doubt be recognized by future historians as the opening salvo in the war on the Americas and Western Europe. This is just the latest chapter in the 1,000 year old conflict between the political and cultural heirs of the Western Roman Empire and the Islamic jihadis. The United States and UK are the champions of the non-Muhammedan world on this front.
2. The Bali bombing opens up the front in Asia. The bloody borders of Islam in Asia are again erupting in western China, southern Thailand, southern Philippines, and the clash between Pakistan and India. China, India, and Japan will necessarily shoulder most of the burden for the conduct of the war on this front.
3. The Beslan massacre tears open the ancient wound at the seam of the Hellenic world and the Muslim aggressors. Russia is the champion of the Eastern Christian civilization and represents the heirs to the political and cultural heritage of the Eastern Roman Empire with which the Islamic invaders have been in constant conflict for over 1,300 years ("Tsar" is derived from "Ceasar"). Traditional Russian allies in this war include the Eastern European countries like Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria and of course, Greece.
Like I keep saying, these are once in a millenium events we are experiencing. Only when we view them in the light of the full historical context of the Islamic aggression over the entire 1,350 years of its existence can we fully appreciate the magnitude of what we will all witness in the coming years.
Hulegu Khan -
Yes, that pretty much sums things up succinctly.
The curious thing is that so many people in the West - in Europe anyway - have yet to wake up to the fact that we are at war and under attack. Iraq might as well be in a different solar system as far as sone of the people I talk to.
We seem to be in much the same situation as Britain at the start of WW2. War had been declared, yet nothing much was happening. There was an air of anxious unreality which led to this waiting period being called 'the phony war'.
Waiting for the result of the US election...for the next terrorist 'spectacular'...despite the daily casualties in Iraq, there is still a feeling of a phony war waiting to get real.
Good, I'm sure this will drive away the good Christian nurses and more Muslims will die, which Allah would approve of!
SOA,
Unfortunately they do not have the staff or extra time to know what the truth is.