Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com) I discuss how “elections” are the latest excuse to attack Christian minorities in the Islamic world
In what seems to be a pattern in many Muslim nations of finding new pretexts to justify anti-Christian””and “anti-Other–”behavior, Egypt’s Christians and their churches are under attack, ostensibly because Christians joined the June 30 Revolution, which led to the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lesser known is that, even before the revolution back during the 2012 presidential elections, Christians were often threatened and sometimes attacked simply for not voting for the Muslim Brotherhood””an absurd expectation considering that it has long been the Brotherhood and its many Islamist/jihadi offshoots that have terrorized Egypt’s Christians for decades…
Now consider how this same paradigm””threatening Christians to vote for or support the same Islamist leaders who persecute them, or else””has manifested itself in other countries, for example, Pakistan.
According to a May 20 report by Morning Star News,
A Muslim political candidate suspected of murdering a Christian has instigated calls from mosque loudspeakers for attacks on Christians, whom he blames for his May 11 election loss. Tensions were high in Punjab Province’s Okara district after provincial assembly seat candidate Mehr Abdul Sattar, sought by police in connection with a 2008 murder, on May 13 arranged for mosque calls for violence against Christian villages. “Burn their homes to the ground “¦ Punish them such that they forget Gojra and Joseph Colony,” was the cry from village mosques in the district [emphasis added]…