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Raymond Ibrahim: Christian Carnage and Western Indifference

Jun 25, 2015 9:07 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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Note: The following represents some of the persecution Christians experienced at the hands of Muslims during the month of April, 2015 alone.  After reading this, ask yourself how Western media, politicians, and other foolish talking heads would react if Muslims experienced the same sort and amount of persecution at the hands of Christians or in Western nations in just one month.

Islamic State Slaughters 30 Christian Ethiopians

Approximately two months after the Islamic State published a video depicting its members slaughtering 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, on Sunday, April 19,  the Islamic jihadi organization released another video of more Christians in Libya, approximately 30 Ethiopians—derogatorily referred to by an IS spokesman as “worshippers of the cross”—being butchered for not paying jizya, extortion money demanded of the “People of the Book” who refuse to convert to Islam, according to Koran 9:29.

One group of Christians were shot execution style to the back of their heads, the others had their heads carved off, like the Copts before them.

The IS spokesman further addressed “Christians everywhere”:

We say to Christians everywhere, the Islamic State will expand, with Allah’s permission.  And it will reach you even if you are in fortified strongholds.  So whoever enters Islam will have security, and whoever accepts the Dhimmah contract [subjugated, third-class treatment and social status] will have security. But whoever refuses will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear. The men will be killed and the children will be enslaved, and their wealth will be taken as booty. This is the judgment of Allah and His Messenger.

In a statement, the Coptic Christian Church of Egypt pointed out that the Ethiopian martyrs, like the 21 Copts before them, were “murdered purely for refusing to renounce their faith.”

Al Shabaab Murders 147, Separates Muslims from Christians

On April 2 in Kenya, gunmen from the Somali Islamic group, Al Shabaab—“the [Islamic] youth”—stormed Garissa University, singled out Christian students, and murdered them, some beheaded.  A total of 147 people were killed in the attack—making this jihad more spectacular than the 2013 Al Shabaab attack on the Nairobi mall, which left 67 people dead (then, Islamic gunmen also singled out Christians for slaughter).

Islamic gunmen were careful to separate Christians from Muslims before beginning the carnage said eyewitnesses.  (While Kenya is 83% Christian, it still has an 11% Muslim minority the jihadis are careful not to kill.)  Collins Wetangula, vice chairman of the student union, said he could hear from inside his room where he was hiding the gunmen opening doors and inquiring if the people inside were Muslims or Christians: “If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot.  With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die.”

Al Shabaab has a long history of singling Christians out from among Muslims for slaughter (here are four examples).  Other jihadi groups—including Boko Haram and the Islamic State—also make it a point to distinguish between Christians and Muslims before slaughtering the former, a fact often omitted from “mainstream media” reports.

Egyptian Churches under Attack

  • On Sunday, April 5, as Coptic Christians were celebrating Palm Sunday, a church was attacked in Alexandria, Egypt.   Gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on the church during the night injuring a police officer and two civilians.
  • On April 12, Easter Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar, two explosions targeting churches took place in Zagazig vicinity.  One car explosion took place near a Coptic Orthodox church and another bomb exploded near the Evangelical Church in the same area.  Although no casualties were reported, large numbers could have easily resulted, based on precedent.  For example, on January 1, 2011, as Egypt’s Christians ushered in the New Year, car bombs went off near the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, resulting in 23 dead worshippers and dozens critically injured.
  • Muslims rioted because President Sisi had agreed for Copts to build a church in Al-Our, where 13 of the 21 Christians who were beheaded by the Islamic State grew up and where their families still live.  Local Muslims rose in violence soon after Islamic prayers Friday, April 3.  They yelled that they would never allow a church to be built, that “Egypt is Islamic!” By night time, Molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at another Coptic church, cars were set ablaze—including one belonging to a relative of one of the those decapitated by the Islamic State—and several people were injured.[i]
  • A day later, on Saturday, April 4, Muslims rioted and attacked the Christians of the village of Gala’, Samalout district.  After waiting for years to repair their dilapidated church (see pictures here) Coptic locals finally received all the proper permits to begin restoration.  Soon Coptic homes, businesses, and persons, were attacked including by hurled stones.  Christian owned wheat farms were destroyed and their potato crops uprooted.  Islamic slogans were constantly yelled, including “There is no god but Allah” and “Islamic! Islamic!”
  • After waiting for 44 years, the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in Sohag City, finally got the necessary permit to build a new church.  Muslims again rioted and even burned down the tent the Christians had erected to worship under.  Denied, the Christians of Nag Shenouda celebrated Easter in the street (picture here).  And when one of them tried to hold worship service in his home, he and his household were attacked by a Muslim mob.

More Islamic Attacks on Christian Churches

Syria: The Islamic State destroyed at least three churches under its jurisdiction:

  • On Easter Sunday, the Islamic State destroyed the Virgin Mary Church in Tel Nasri, northeast Syria.  The Assyrian church was built and consecrated in 1934.  Loosely translated as “Christian Hill,” Tel Nasri is an ancient Assyrian Christian village.  It is one of the dozens of Christian villages along the Khabur river that were attacked and occupied by the Islamic State in late February (more here and here).
  • On April 28, the St. Odisho Assyrian Church in Tel Tal and the St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in Aleppo, were also destroyed.

Nigeria: A Muslim mob set fire to a church in a Christian village in Nigeria’s northern Kano State on April 1.  Muslims were searching for a young man who had renounced Islam and re-converted to Christianity in order to kill him. They also attacked Christian villagers with machetes and torched the home of a pastor, killing one of his daughters.  According to General Dikko, a local official,

The church and all the properties were burnt down in the presence of the Christian community despite all pleadings for them to stop the destruction. The arsonists gathered cornstalks and put them inside the church in order to cause greater damage….  We have the right to belong to any religion of our choice and live anywhere in this country. We call on the authorities at all levels to rise up to their responsibilities of protecting lives and properties of every citizen in this country.

Pakistan: Two assailants on motorbikes opened fire on the main gates of a church and Christian school in Lahore.  The school had just closed half an hour earlier and several students were present outdoors.  Police were present, causing the attackers to ride off.  Two passersby were injured in the crossfire.

Malaysia: On Sunday, April 19, a Muslim mob of approximately 50 people rioted and protested against a small Protestant church in Kuala Lumpur, the capital.  The object of their wrath was the cross atop the building of worship—which was removed during the Islamic protest.  Rioters exclaimed that the cross, the central symbol of Christianity, represented “a challenge to Islam” and could “influence the faith of young people.”

More Muslim Slaughter of Christians

High Seas: On April 16, police in Sicily reported that Muslim migrants hurled as many as 53 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya.  The motive was that the victims “professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim.”  Another report said that the reason the Christians were thrown overboard is because a boy was seen praying to the Judeo-Christian God. Muslims commanded him to stop, saying “Here, we only pray to Allah.”  Eventually the Muslims “went mad,” in the words of a witness, started screaming “Allahu Akbar!” and began hurling Christians into the sea.[ii]

Nigeria: According to a “U.N. human rights chief … all 276 Christian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 may have been among a group of women slaughtered by Boko Haram last month [March], Nigerian media reported Monday, April 6.”[iii]

Syria: Islamic rebels fired rockets at a Christian neighborhood in Aleppo, the nation’s largest city, on the night of April 10-11.   The attack left massive destruction in the eastern section of the Sulaymaniyah district, which is predominantly Assyrian and Armenian.  At least 40 people, mostly Assyrians—including women and children—were killed.  Shells also targeted an Assyrian Catholic Cathedral, injuring three civilians. “Our Easter feast has turned to grief,” a nun in Aleppo said: “Some people woke up to find themselves without a home and others did not see the life died under the rubble because they were victims of violence.”

Egypt: A Muslim man stabbed a Christian woman with a knife multiple times and then threw her body into a canal.  The Coptic woman, Gamila Basilious, was 48-years-old and married, living in Minya.  According to police reports, the man, Mahmoud Hassan Abdulhamid, came to her door inquiring about her husband. When he discovered her husband was not present, he took advantage of the situation by attacking her with a knife, with repeated stab wounds found on her neck and chest region.  As “infidels,” Coptic Christians are regularly attacked in Egypt, including kidnapping, church attacks, and just random slaughter.

Islamic Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytization

Uganda: Five Muslim men gang-raped and beat the teenage daughter of a Christian pastor.  This was done in “retaliation” to the pastor’s refusal to stop Christian worship services in a Muslim-majority region.  The girl was approaching the New Hope Church building where her father serves as pastor when she was abducted and taken to nearby bushes by the rapists.  In the 17-year-old girl’s own words:

The five Muslims took hold of me, and they raped me there.  I tried to scream, but they threatened to kill me. One of them said, “Your father should stop this prayer meeting of trying to change Muslims to become Christians and close the church building—we have warned him several times.

The suspects fled when church members arrived for an all-night prayer vigil. They rushed her to a local clinic, where she was treated for serious injuries and mental trauma.  According to her father, “The girl still has problems communicating.  She just says a few words and then keeps quiet. She needs trauma counseling.”  Earlier, the father had received messages threatening him to cease holding Christian worship services.  One text message said, “Be you informed that we do not want your church in this area. If you continue worship here, then you will live to regret it.”…

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  1. ICH says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 9:22 am

    wouldnt you love the chance to fight these cowards

    man to man

  2. gary says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 9:39 am

    To you Islamic State I boldly proclaim….

    “Oh death, where is your sting?

    Oh grave, where is your victory?

    The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

    But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

    And I ask you oh muslim…

    “Is your labor in vain?”

    “Will you god allah save you on Judgement Day?”

    “Will you be able to stand before God Almighty, The Holy God of Israel, and not be destroyed?”

    “Who is your Rock?”

    “Who is your shelter?”

    • albert says

      Jun 26, 2015 at 5:47 am

      Christians need help in this world not the next. These jihadis will say that they are serving their god….by killing Christians and Yazzidis.

  3. Draki says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 9:53 am

    Helping other Christians to fight against their oppressors is a tricky subject. The 30 Years War is an example of Protestants occasionally coming together to fight their Roman Catholic oppressors. Generally, I think Christians should stand up and fight for themselves and ask for assistance. I believe the Nigerian Church is a great example of this, who are now putting guards at their churches. I do think America helped with South Sudan reaching independence as well. It is very difficult to get Christians of different political states to ally and fight. It’s also difficult for the muslims to unify as well. I think the US is doing a decent job of pitting Shiite against Sunni right now. How is getting the Sunnis and Shiites to kill each other not helping Christians?

  4. Richard C Brown says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 10:31 am

    The Pope is readying the Catholic Church for Jizya.Tax and Dhimmi Hood.
    The Christians and Progressives Do Not Think it will happen in the US with indifference.
    It Cannot Happen to US is Indifference !! Which is BS.

  5. Davegreybeard says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    I have much sympathy for Christians as they suffer continuous atrocities at the hands of Muslims.

    I am outraged at the Muslim savages, as I watch them create bloody Hell on earth – the very antithesis of the message that Jesus Christ brought.

    And I am deeply disappointed that we have so few Christian allies that will join us in this fight.

    • Peggy says

      Jun 26, 2015 at 1:43 am

      Fist, someone has to declare war on Islam to expect allies to join. So far nobody has.

  6. PLOOME says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    we have all become Jews now

    welcome to my world

  7. kepha says

    Jun 25, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    Raymond, a lot of the people now governing the West probably think, in their hearts of hearts, that if they had any 外卵, they’d treat their Christians the way the armed Unitarian post-Christians of the Middle East treat theirs.

    However, I will add that if Western governments fail in the protection of their own people while at the same time encouraging evil, and refuse any redress at the polls or in court, those Western peoples are justified in rising in revolt. We not only have this in the American Declaration of Independence, but also a couple centuries of Western political thought preceding it. Unfortunately, too few Western people have thought how they might successfully rebel and, if successful, how they’d replace the corrupted systems that have made them a prey to the Jihadis.

  8. underbed cat says

    Jun 26, 2015 at 12:39 am

    This is just horrible stuff…almost so bad that the mind has a very hard time reading the words. Then very bad guilt sets in as I have not done anything. I have to get the nerve up to visit the churches…locally…some may know some may not. I have never tried this but I know I could….just don’t want to expose myself too much..but then I have learned nothing…and it will come my way.

    Years ago I was spellbound by a movie from HBO, called Sometime in April, based on the genocide in Rawanda…it was an incredible movie and I wish it could be shown over and over… it fits what is happening today. At the time when the genocide happened Bill Clinton was president and I was very angry at the end of the movie. How could this not be stopped.. it was excellent in showing how a violent group could terrorize a country …..it was hell on earth…the citizens caught up in the terror had friends from both sides…it became madness and governments were ineffective.at every turn. Now I am thinking I am no better…unless I act.

    At the time I thought it could happen here, I just hoped it wouldn’t but it is simmering. i think the churches should all be protected. Robert, Pamela , Raymond you are all incredible people.

    • underbed cat says

      Jun 26, 2015 at 1:07 am

      In mentioning the movie Sometime in April ( it is on you tube) the beginning refers to imperialism, maybe a little leftist stuff, but when the movie starts the intimate relationships and the affects of terror, fear, propaganda, media takes control. it reminds me of whats happening today across northern Africa and ME.

    • Peggy says

      Jun 26, 2015 at 1:50 am

      Clinton was too busy bombing the Christian Serbs in order to defend the Muslims in former Yugoslavia.
      Remember 78 days and nights of constant bombing of Serbia? this was the allow Kosovo Albanians (Muslims) to seaprate from Serbia and then have fun expelling the remaining Serbs from majority Albanians areas.
      Now the same Albanians are going to ME in support of ISIL. The same Albanians are planning terrorist attacks in the US. Remember Fort Dix?
      Clinton has made it quite clear whose side he is on. The Albanians love him so much the erected a statue of him and named a street after him.

      • Uncle Vladdi says

        Jun 26, 2015 at 5:42 pm

        Don’t forget that the Albanian muslims also raised a statue to G W Bush (after stealing his Rolex off his arm, of course)!

  9. Georg says

    Jun 26, 2015 at 5:34 am

    Western elites simply don’t care about Christians. They’ll stick up for Muslims and cry to blues on their behalf at the drop of a hat, but a bloodied Christian is only an inconvenience. What a sickening bunch. It will be on their legacy. They worked at every instance to demonize the victim and glorify the fascist because his skin was often brown — all else was/is non-sequitur for them. The non-white Christians suffer this media and government blackout only because so much Christian skin is often white.

    A 200-year-old church was razed in Britain earlier this week. A beautiful church, in a beautiful area, attended by what seem to be people of the highest morality. And what is the reaction? My apologies — that was a trick question — there isn’t one. And if a mosque was razed?

    Spread the word. Speak to you intelligent friends and family members so we can get to changing all this and bring Pragmatism back to our lives.

  10. albert says

    Jun 26, 2015 at 5:56 am

    Why did it take only a police action by the Serbs against Kosovan terrorists to galvanise Nato and the UN to intervene yet here we have Genocide being committed against Christians and Obama’s man laughed at the idea of intervention. Perhaps in the former case our leaders personally received very large brown envelopes, certainly BLAIR and CLINTON seem to be very wealthy individuals now.

  11. underbed cat says

    Jun 26, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    Today is a sad day, the funeral of Pastor Clemente Pinckney, and many funerals will follow for the other Christians members whose lives were taken a horrible event. I reflect on the racial divide that could have happened and i am so proud that the Pastor Clemente Pinckney influence was evident.

    As JW readers know that around the world Christians and Jewish communities have been victims of violence, although many may not know much about this situation.

  12. Uncle Vladdi says

    Jun 26, 2015 at 5:39 pm

    The enemedia are corporate-owned pieces of shit, pimping the “noble savages” of islam for their globalist oil-bankster sales-masters because muslims like tyranny.

    As the slanderous racist seditious mouthpieces for the Global treason, they should be the first to hit the fan.

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