It looks as if many in Afghanistan believe that the local Christians have violated their dhimma. From Compass Direct, with thanks to all who sent this in:
March 22 (Compass) – An avalanche of media coverage of an Afghan man facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity has apparently sparked the arrest and deepening harassment of other Afghan Christians in the ultra-conservative Muslim country....During the past few days, Compass has confirmed the arrest of two other Afghan Christians elsewhere in the country. Because of the sensitive situation, local sources requested that the location of the jailed converts be withheld.
This past weekend, one young Afghan convert to Christianity was beaten severely outside his home by a group of six men, who finally knocked him unconscious with a hard blow to his temple. He woke up in the hospital two hours later but was discharged before morning.
“Our brother remains steadfast, despite the ostracism and beatings,” one of his friends said.
Several other Afghan Christians have been subjected to police raids on their homes and places of work in the past month, as well as to telephone threats.
There is much more. Read it all.
Soon all twelve Afghan Christians will be arrested and executed. Problem solved! threat to Islam averted! Let us give praise.
While the all too real persecution of Christians continues unabated throughout the Muslim world, we in the west, who have absorbed some 25 MILLION Muslim immigrants who unabashadly proclaim the superiority of Sharia law and their intentions to dominate us infidels eventually and reduce us to dhimmitude (while all the while they are perfectly free to practice their religion in the west unimpeded), have to endure the continual nauseating cries of Islamophobia! from the likes of CAIR. Truly, the hypocricy makes me sick. It's high time CAIR and friends tackled the widespread Christianophobia! (or infidelophobia as some posters here have aptly named it) in the Muslim world. Until they do, Islamophobia among westerners is a completely rational response. The more the term is so absurdly hurled at those who can plainly see the fundamental injustice of islam, the more I am moved to embrace the charge. Hell yes I am an Islamophobe! Why the hell WOULDN'T I be is the question...
Can the media see the same story twice?
(A story that doesn't hurt the West, I mean.)
Will they give as much 'concern' (AKA 'airtime') to the second Christian threatened with a death sentence by Muslim Sharia Law?
This story of intolerant Islam isn't going away.
Let's see if the Media try to hide it.
Islam is like the Mafia. They don't like people leaving. I'm amazed that anyone leaves Muhammadanism given the constant brainwashing via 5x/praying. This constant reinforcement of group-think
Caroline said:
Yes. Death-sentence apostasy trials. Talk about infidelophobia!! They want to kill us! We just want them not to, so we're islamophobes.
Dennis W said:
And in some other ways they are like Mafia too. See below about dhimmis.
Is The “Mercy” of Allah Like the “Protection” of the Dhimmi?
I am still learning about Islam and open to correction, but isn’t obedience to "Allah" as described in the Qur'an rather hard to distinguish from obedience to a monstrous tyrant? Allah, who on innumerable pages threatens the worst imaginable punishments, yet proclaims himself "the Compassionate, the Merciful” at every turn, like a pretentious despot awarding himself a gentle-sounding epithet as a sort of fig leaf to cover the embarrassment and hide the scandal of dominating by ugly terror, a fig leaf to encourage the delusion in his terrorized subjects that giving in is not only necessary, but also a sane consolation.
Isn’t that the "good cop/bad cop" routine writ large, a whipsawing of the psyche between supposed friend and terrorizing foe, the former serving to create the trust that the latter then finds defenseless enough to shock into brutalized submission?
In the context of all the hellish punishment threatened in the Qur’an, the proclaimed “mercy” of Allah appears as a mere relent from his torment, and as a politic way of hinting at possible resumption if you prove unworthy. That is the bully’s sort of “mercy,” which consists mainly in desisting from torture when you agree to do as he demands. The bully’s most basic demand is that you say ‘uncle’ and submit. Who by now does not know that when translated, "Islam" means "submission"?
Allah’s “protection” seems as perverse as his “mercy.” A “dhimmi” in Islam is a “protected” non-Muslim living under Muslim rule. But to be a “protected” non-Muslim in the traditional Islamic sense is rather like being “protected” by the Mafia, who agree not to kill you if you pay a regular and exorbitant fee. In Islamic law the protection fee levied on non-Muslims is called jizya, and while it is rarely imposed today, the ethos behind it often continues to exist and to reduce non-Muslims in various ways to second-class citizens.
In the Qur'an, the line "Obey Allah and His Messenger [Muhammed]," or some variation of it, appears more than 20 times. I've got all the relevant verses clearly displayed in the latest post at my blog, so one can easily see. Islam's great problem is that thorough perusal of the evidence shows Muhammed was a dictator promulgating a doctrine in many respects totalitarian. And we are all expected to obey. But that's not gonna happen.
From a Richard Cohen column:
"Then comes the Rahman case and it is not a solitary crazy prosecutor who brings the charge of apostasy but an entire society. It is not a single judge who would condemn the man but a culture. The Taliban are gone at gunpoint, their atrocities supposedly a thing of the past. In our boundless optimism, we consign them to the "too hard" file of horrors we cannot figure out: the Khmer Rouge, the Nazis, the communists of the Stalin period. Now, though, this awful thing returns and it is not just a single country that would kill a man for his beliefs but a huge swath of the world that would not protest. There can be only one conclusion: They were in agreement.
The groupthink of the Muslim world is frightening. I know there are exceptions -- many exceptions. But still it seems that a man could be killed for his religious beliefs and no one would say anything in protest. It is also frightening to confront how differently we in the West think about such matters and why the word "culture" is not always a mask for bigotry, but an honest statement of how things are."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/03/unfathomable_zealotry.html
I happened to read something from CAIR and just had to respond, because what he is saying is just not washing with Afghanistan at the moment.
Here's some of the article:
"Would it be right for anyone to judge Christianity based on the murderous acts of Slobodon Milosevic who killed thousands of Muslims in Christ's name? Would anyone judge Judaism based on the daily murderous acts of settlers taking away land from Christian and Muslim Palestinians? Would anyone judge the West and Christianity based on imperialism, slavery, colonialism or the Crusades? The answer to these questions are, of course, no.
Isn't it arrogant and condescending to label 1.5 billion people on this Earth backward? Intelligent and rational Americans would be hard-pressed to believe Islam is the only religion that has wacko followers."
(Then my response)
Nice try and believe me, most people will swallow this hook, line and...BOOM...sinker.
You paint some broad strokes but first of all, Milosevic was one who misrepresented Christianity but he didn't do so based on claims which Jesus taught. Mohammed, on the other hand had plenty to say which was aggressive, violent, oppresive, inhumane (shall I go on?) and deceptive, so it's no wonder his followers have done the same for 1400 years.
"Judge the West and Christianity"? Well, first of all, Christianity was not a western concept as you should know yourself that it began in the Holy Land and spread throughout. Christianity is only mainly considered to be synonymous with the West even though much of it was in the East, that is until the raging fury of Mohammedans came and tore it away, murdering everyone in their way...unless of course, they converted. What a choice that was!
Oh, and the Crusades...the Crusades...yes, thank God for that for you fellows would have slashed your way right through the entire world if it had not been for Pope Urban II who finally said that enough was enough. Was he supposed to allow the more than 400+ years to continue while you killed and destroyed everything sacred in Jerusalem and even assaulted the many pilgrims who went there? To see the former lands such as Turkey and Egypt to flooded with the blood of the innocent so that you could engulf them in the demonic spew which you call a 'religion of peace'?
Many of us understand your game of rhetoric but aren't fooled. Even your own people, if the truth be told, are tired of the heavy burden of Islam which has tormented millions until today with its unspeakable destruction and degradation of human life; lacking in love and compassion and a real understanding of the grace of God.
You don't have to respond because I know all of the games, the harsh words of vengeful Mohammedans bent on slitting the throats of all the infidels who don't bend the knee to their god, even Mohammed.
You know what strikes me as funny. Every prophet you read about in the Jewish Bible (I know you think it's corrupted) never exalted themselves but spoke strictly from God, yet your prophet almost speaks of himself as being god himself. Perhaps that may be the true test of a true prophet and a false one.
Good day to you.
PJ
(I hope I didn't sound like I was being mean. I really can be a nice person but these people burn me up)