The Church of the Catacombs lives!

Posted by: John C at May 10, 2008 8:13 AM

My guess is that the guy saw enough of the Salafists and went looking for something better. May there be many more like him!

The cracks are showing across the Islamic world!

Posted by: Kepha at May 10, 2008 2:31 PM

"Since January police and provincial officials have ordered the closure of up to half of the country’s 50 estimated Protestant congregations."

Have ANY Mosques been closed in western countries yet?...It may be time to start.

Posted by: pulsar182 at May 10, 2008 4:45 PM

Where does Algeria with its 99% Muslim religion (the state religion) and 1% Christian/Jewish fall in the following report I posted elsewhere?

(clue:..see After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide)

Here is a clue as to how they will do it>

What Islam Isn't
By Dr. Peter Hammond
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, April 21, 2008

The following is adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:

Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to 'the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States -- Muslim 1.0%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris --car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. – Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.
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Posted by: pulsar182 at May 10, 2008 7:22 PM

Something that should be noted for the benefit of visitors to this site.

First: this man is an apostate from Islam. Standard Islamic teaching is that an adult male apostate must be killed (he may first be held for a while and pressured to return to Islam). Algeria is just 'secularised' enough that, in this case, the police did not kill him out of hand, although they confined him and clearly leaned on him to try to persuade him/ intimidate him into returning to Islam.

Second: under sharia law and under the 'dhimma', non-Muslims are forbidden to attempt to convert Muslims to a non-islamic religion. The displaying and selling of non-Islamic religious books in the sight of Muslims is forbidden.

A few clauses, relevant to this case, from the Pact of Omar (the archetype of the dhimma, or 'treaty' establishing the onerous state of religious apartheid under which non-muslims are grudgingly permitted [mostly] to survive within an Islamic society):

"We will not...publicize practices of Shirk, [or] invite anyone to Shirk" (shirk is 'ascribing partners to allah', thus, Christianity is 'shirk' because it worships Jesus as Son of God].
"[we will] refrain from erecting crosses on the outside of our churches and demonstrating them and our books in public in Muslim fairways and markets."

Although 'on paper' Algeria is not yet a full sharia law state - the purist Muslims are pushing to make it so, and are highly displeased with the current government for what they perceive as its laxity and its compromise with corrupt kafir ways - one can see that these ideas and attitudes have shaped the way in which this Muslim-background-believer has been treated.

Strictly speaking, since the books and study materials were found 'in his luggage', it could be argued that he was not displaying them, and it can also be argued that they were for the in-house use of the existing Christian community, rather than for sale or showing to Muslims.

Of course, no matter how many print-and-paper Bibles the Muslim authorities seize and destroy, unless they also destroy ALL satellite TV receivers, and ALL ordinary TV receivers, and ALL radio, they simply cannot prevent the human-friendly message of the gospels from flooding over the borders into receptive ears.

Furthermore: it comes in colloquial Algerian Arabic, the mother tongue of the Arabised communities; and it also comes in the Berber dialects, rather than (as Islam does) in arrogantly incomprehensible Quranic Arabic; it comes with lively and joyful songs, also in modern Arabic or in Berber, and employing traditional tunes, not denying and suppressing but inhabiting and transfiguring, indeed, resurrecting and liberating traditional pre-Islamic North African culture; then its appeal is well-nigh irresistible. People will listen in, are listening in, in secret, fascinated, delighted...learning the life-giving words by heart with far more pleasure and profit than ever they learned to parrot the Quran.

Somewhere in Paradise Raymond Lull, one of the earliest Medieval Christians to attempt to bring the Christian faith back to North Africa, is smiling with joy to behold the faithfulness of this former-Muslim-now-Christian who has resisted five days of relentless pressure in an Algerian Muslim police station, and emerged with his loyalty to Christ unshaken.

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at May 12, 2008 4:07 AM

I would like to pay this man's fine.

Any idea how I can do that?

Thanks,
kuta

Posted by: kutabeach at May 12, 2008 10:22 AM