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Iraqi Christian leader on Muslim persecution of Christians: “Is this not a crime against humanity?”

Jan 2, 2016 5:24 am By Robert Spencer

Of course it is. And others have asked similar questions before: “Why, we ask the western world, why not raise one’s voice over so much ferocity and injustice?” asked Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI). The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III has also said: “I do not understand why the world does not raise its voice against such acts of brutality.” Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan appealed to the West “not to forget the Christians in the Middle East.”

But why are they forgotten? Why does Sako have to ask his question? Why does Bagnasco have to ask his? Here is why: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013

That’s right, it’s all for the sake of the spurious and self-defeating “dialogue.” For all too many of Patriarch Sako’s colleagues, especially those in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, to speak out about this persecution renders one outside the realm of acceptable discourse. Sako should ask his colleagues in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He should ask bishops like McManus, Kevin Farrell, Jaime Soto and others why they move actively to silence and demonize voices that tell the truth about this persecution. He should ask them why they are so convinced that Islam, at its core, teaches peace, despite the superabundance of evidence to the contrary in Islamic texts and the actions of Muslims who read them. He should ask why the U.S. Catholic bishops tolerated dissent from so many core Catholic dogmas for decades, but move as ruthlessly as any Grand Inquisitor to suppress dissent from the idea that Islam is a Religion of Peace, which isn’t even a dogma of the Church. He should ask them why they are abandoning their Middle Eastern brethren and keeping their own people ignorant and complacent about the jihad threat. He should ask himself why he speaks of this persecution as a problem involving the Islamic State alone, when he must know from his personal experience that it is a much larger issue than that.

Cowards, time-servers, trimmers and self-deluded wishful thinkers dominate the Church hierarchy today, and all too many Catholics believe that to say so makes one disloyal to the Church. Nonsense. Calling these people to account for the damage they have done and are doing is the highest form of loyalty to the Church.

sako

“Patriarch Sako on Christian Persecution: ‘Is This Not a Crime Against Humanity?,’” by Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, December 30, 2015:

ROME — “In one night, 120,000 Christians left their homes just with their clothes and have been living in camps for one and a half years. Is this not a crime against humanity?”

His Beatitude, Louis Raphael I Sako, Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans, spoke of this and other serious hardships and persecutions against Christians, at a recent Rome conference on religious freedom….

So extensive and brutal has the persecution become that calls have been increasing in the U.S., the European Union and the U.K. to classify the atrocities taking place there as genocide.

As well as the humanitarian emergency and forced displacement caused primarily by the brutality of the jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS), Patriarch Sako also mentioned other facts regarding persecution in Iraq not widely known.

These included the approval in October of a law in the Iraqi parliament to forcibly convert to Islam children who are Christian, Yazidi and Sabean if one of the parents proclaims to be Muslim, and the advance of political Islam in which sharia (Islamic law) doesn’t allow non-Muslims to participate in politics and have equal constitutional rights as Muslims in administration.

ISIS leaders, he said, have established three “rules of trade” with non-Muslims: “forcing people to convert to Islam, to pay a tax (jizya) or leave their house, or be beheaded.”

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the last day, nor forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and his Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of truth, of the People of the Book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” — Qur’an 9:29

He further pointed out that the numbers of Christians in Iraq has collapsed, falling from 1.4 million before the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime to currently 500,000.

“Today, everything in Iraq has become sectarian,” said Archbishop Sako. “Daesh/ISIS and extremists attack Christians, Yazidis and Sabeans because of their belief. They destroy anything that does not fit into their vision of Islam.”

Moral Responsibility

At the same Dec. 10-12 conference, called “Under Caesar’s Sword” and hosted by the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states (commonly referred to as the Vatican’s “foreign minister”), said a number of studies have suggested that Christians are the victims of 80% of all acts of religious discrimination in the world. “What’s more, for various reasons, it seems to go largely unreported.”

Why does it go largely unreported, even in the Church? Because of the prevailing attitude that McManus enunciated, quoted above. Gallagher and his colleagues should have addressed that.

But the archbishop noted “a much more important reason” why the Church should focus on Christian persecution: As Christians, he said, “we have a special duty in charity to our fellow Christians” to show them “solidarity” and come to their aid.

It’s true, said Bishop Anba Angaelos, general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the U.K., that as Christians we are called to “embrace and accept out persecution thankfully,” but all Christians also have a “moral responsibility to be advocates, speaking for those who cannot speak, to be a voice in the wilderness.”

Noting a gradual “pushing of boundaries” leading to what now amounts ethnic cleansing of Christians in the region, he warned that “our silence is a contributing factor” that “must be changed.”

“There is a growing disregard for the sanctity of life, and that must be what offends us,” he told the conference. “It is not about Christians or Muslims being killed, but about life and humanity as God’s creation, and that disregard is a violation that we cannot be silent about. In response we must realize that we have to respond together, collaboratively.”

Bishop Angaelos warned against Christians becoming “desensitized” to the suffering. “It’s not enough to empathize with them,” he said. “We must act. [We] should never let our conscience say: ‘It’s okay, they’re not dying.’ The sanctity of life is not a statistic but reality for each and every person.”

Remembering the ransacking of dozens of churches in Egypt in August 2013, which he believes was a coordinated attack, he resented the fact that in response Christians around the world “did absolutely nothing.” He recalled someone commenting at the time: “There was no memo from head office to say ‘don’t react.’”

Really? Are you sure there wasn’t?

What to Do?

So what should be done? Patriarch Sako listed several concrete proposals which included first of all destroying ISIS militarily with “troops on the ground.” ISIS must also be destroyed ideologically, he said, “drying up the funding, weaponry” of the jihadists and “condemning and eliminating” sectarianism and “all other forms of hatred and violence.”

He also advocated political reform underpinned by the principle of “citizenship and equality” that allows Christians and other religious minorities to be full citizens rather than “protected minority status”. He called for a separation of religion from the state, and the criminalizing and punishing contempt for religion and the spread “hatred and division.” Islamic religious authorities, he said, must dismantle jihadist ideology and replace it with promoting “a culture of harmonious social existence,” and the international community should “issue decrees” through the U.N. against those committing injustices against religious minorities….

Who and what is going to compel Islamic religious authorities to “dismantle jihadist ideology”?

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Comments

  1. Charli Main says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 5:45 am

    Off Topic
    The French Government has just announced that it will build a multi million pound camp, with all mod cons at Calais, for all the” desperate refugees and asylum seekers ” trying to break into Britain.
    Yet another no go zone on French soil for Christians and assorted non Muslims.

    • خَليفة says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 9:14 am

      No go zones would be a good place to clandestinely test the rate of pathogen transfer.

      Find a willing prostitue, infect her with a highly communicable and deadly disease, send her in when most contagious to turn a few tricks, when she returns administer the cure. Let nature do its thing.

    • Shane says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 3:55 pm

      The answer is to end all Muslim immigration into the West, and a new crusade to save the lives of Christians living in the ME. Appeasing Muslims is about as effective as appeasing Hitler was.

  2. old white guy says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 6:19 am

    the world has gone nuts. there are so few sane people left the muslims are running all over them. it is time to stand up and put islam in it’s place, in fact it is long past time to eradicate islam.

    • Don McKellar says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 10:53 am

      can’t be eradicated — CAN be beaten down, quarantined, humiliated, blocked from entry, exposed, removed from advanced modern countries like cutting out a cancerous tumor perhaps — but you can’t eradicate a philosophy. there are still communists and even nazis in the world. islam will always sit like a poisonous mass in the Middle East and in a few other pockets where it has completely corrupted the population. the only other option is to force reform on islam by turning mecca into a lake of radioactive glass — but nobody is going to do that.

    • GEA says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 2:36 pm

      There are 54 millions of Muslims who had invaded Europe, over 3 millions in Australia and over 3 millions in USA, 10 millions in India, 1.6 millions in Israel and a total of 1,600 million M Muslims spread among 56 corrupt, dysfunctional and overpopulated Muslims occupied countries.

      send them ALL to a permanent Haj to Saudi Arabia and Iran to live happily ever after and leave us Kafir (derogatory name Muslims use for non-Muslims) along. Let them enjoy life in the holly Mecca and enjoy Allah and his followers. We do not want them in the West as they bring trouble, just as all kinds of black racists do in America.!

      After all mosques in the West are shut down, and all Christians had been ethnically cleansed by the Muslims, and had settled in the West, we can follow Trump’s advice of shutting borders to Muslims and find alternative to Muslim oil which finances terrorism all over the world..

      But before we can start cleaning up the Western civilization home, Obama and his ilk must be tried for treason …for allowing and encouraging Muslim invasion…

  3. Spot On says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 6:25 am

    Yet another perfect example of the totally dishonest, lying Marxist Media, which focuses their propaganda against Christians and Jews. Where is the Pope on all that is going on with the Muslim atrocities against Christians. Surely he is not intentionally silent on this.

    • Panmelia says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 1:28 pm

      The present Pope seems more interested in ‘green’ issues than the mortal danger Christians are in worldwide. A few years ago, another Pope had the nerve (how dare he?) to criticise the brutality of the Mohammedans in crushing the Byzantine empire and exterminating Christianity one way and another. Despite the fact that he was merely referring to factual recorded history, there was an outcry of recrimination and condemnation from all the PC Petes and muslim defenders you could ever hope not to meet.
      I think that Pope backed down and apologised. I do wish he hadn’t. If he were still alive, maybe he could criticise the present day persecution of Christians and be applauded instead of demonised,

      • itstime says

        Jan 2, 2016 at 6:33 pm

        “Surely he is not intentionally silent on this” Yes he most certainly is. Just review the history of this pope and you will find that he is paving his way to the temple mount by being allies to the muslims.

  4. Baucent says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 6:59 am

    One of the tragic ironies after Western nations enthusiasm for “regime change” is that what the Patriarch calls ““a culture of harmonious social existence,” was more present under the dictators and hard men like Sadam Hussein, Assad and even to some extend Giddafi. None of whom were “Islamists”, but rather Arab nationalists, which even Christians could be accepted. But once swept away, the void is now filled by Islamists.

    • Bela Csakany says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      Both St.JPII and the Patrirch af the Chaldean Catholic C hurch, warned GWBush what the consequences of the removal of Sadam Hussein would be. They were tragically prophetic.

      “Zlozcie Kopie!”

    • DFD says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 11:00 am

      The pope? people get real, he kisses the Quran and prostrates in a mosque – can any of you imagine a mullah doing the reciprocal? He enjoys his office, the trappings, the image and the ‘unversal approval’ of the ‘free press’ (insert: free to pront as the editors and owners want to).

      Further, please stop talking about ‘Islamists’. They are Muslims, just loke your neighbour, taxi driver etc. And when they decide the time is suitable, they act according to the Quran – practise jihad. Make people aware of them, the term ‘islamaist’ is as misleading, Taqyian actually, as would bge Christianists, Hara-Krishnaists, Hinduists and son.

      Simple answer to all this is
      Delando Islam

      • dfd says

        Jan 3, 2016 at 11:03 am

        PS: Here’s the link to the pope, quran kissing and prostrating towards Mecca in a mosque

        http://tinyurl.com/qgt26nv

        Regards and
        Delando Islam

  5. jewdog says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 7:19 am

    Here’s one reason for the discrepancy in people’s concern: Geography. A bishop in Massachusetts can afford to be a lot more tolerant than one in Iraq or Syria. When you’re 6000 miles away, What Me Worry is easier.

    • kinley says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 9:11 am

      You are liberal when it affects SOMEONE ELSE, conservative when it affects YOU!

      • jewdog says

        Jan 2, 2016 at 11:03 am

        Yes. A liberal will give you the shirt off someone else’s back.

  6. sidney penny says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 7:46 am

    “Who and what is going to compel Islamic religious authorities to “dismantle jihadist ideology”?”

    President Barrack Obama.The world”s most powerful man.

    • خَليفة says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 8:50 am

      Sidney penny – Obama is far from being the world’s most powerful man – he’s more like a milk-toast sissy, drawing red lines then back stepping. ( the office of POTUS may be the most powerful position in the world – you can put a crown on a mannequin, but that won’t make it a good leader )

      Jihad is to Islam as a brain is to a human. If a person’s brain were completely cancerous it is theoretically possible for doctors to completely remove the cancerous brain and keep the body alive on an artificial life support system. We all know how that turns out. Jihad is the cancerous brain of Islam.

  7. TH says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 8:06 am

    The first thing these bishops need to do is to convince Pope Francis of their case. If he is too stubborn and fails to listen to them, they can only wait for a future Pope to take up their cause, but alas, by then there will be no Chistians left in the MIddle East. Catholic bishops follow the winds coming from Rome and these days these winds don’t indicate there is any understanding of the jihadist ideology or the nature of Islam itself. . McManus, Farrell and other American bishops would change their tune if there were a clear sign from Rome. That’s the way the Catholic Church operates. The Church includes several Eastern Catholic Churches such as the Chaldean, the Melchite and others. Many of their faithful are the ones suffeing the persection in the Middle East, plus their Orthodox brothers. If the Pope showed leadership and convoked Catholics world wide, things could be much different and we wouldn’t have to be hearing the just revindications of these bishops. Instread of writing a letter about the environment and endorsing the global warming hoax, why did’t Pope Francis write a letter asking for support for persecuted Christians, proposing some concrete measure, for instance collections and world wide campaigns in Catholic media, etc. Caatholics could also exercise political pressure on candidates, and office holders. It is not the job of bishops to do this, but the laity can do it. Ah, if he did that what would happen to “dialogue”? Of course, anyone who knows anything about Islam knows that dialogue is simply impossible with those who take the religion of Mahommad seriously.

  8. nacazo says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 8:25 am

    Yes. How is this different from the first genocide: that against the Armenians?

  9. خَليفة says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 8:30 am

    Here is how to get the pope’s attention – every single Catholic Church in Muslim countries should stop sending tithes and collections to Rome. In fact every Catholic, every where in the world should stop giving money to their church, Until such time that there is an out cry at all levels of the church for the persecution of christians.

    If your priest asks why you’ve stopped contributing, tell him it’s because the “church” is not doing enough to help persecuted Christians, AND tell him you are giving your tithe and offerings to OTHER organizations that you believe are doing God’s work.

    The Catholic Church is essentially a franchise – if you stop paying, you can’t use the “Catholic” brand name. And of course the old expression ‘hit them where it hurts’ is applicable to any business, even the Catholic Church.

    • dfd says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 11:09 am

      Khalifat: Excellent idea! I’ll print some of that article, people don’t want to read a lot, and pass it on to catholics I know. Including your reply.

      Regards and happy 2016
      Delando Islam

    • Avenger says

      Jan 3, 2016 at 10:35 pm

      The number of Catholics in Muslim countries amount to a tiny, tiny fraction of 1% of the worlds Catholics. This Pope wouldn’t give a crap if he received their money or not.
      He’s a spineless spiritual leader who gladly washes the feet of the very vermin that murders his flock.

      Despicable

  10. duh_swami says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 8:46 am

    The ‘perverted version of Islam is a crime against humanity… It
    s odd that the perverted version issues not literature and has no address…
    The perverted version is very mysterious, no one seems to know ezactly what is is except a few million pious who follow it…It may be the best kept secret in the world…Everyone has heard about it, but no one can explain it…
    Allah works in strange and mysterious ways…mostly strange and mysterious…The perverted version of Islam must be one of them…

  11. Hugh says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 9:40 am

    I just finished a book on the history of the Papacy. What I determined from that book is that the Western Church really didn’t care if the Eastern Church was destroyed. I think there is similar sentiment today. I don’t think other Christian sects care if one or the other is destroyed. Notice that Muslims rarely if ever use the name Catholic or Protestant. They just say “Christian” because they don’t see or even understand the differences. Christian division (when it comes to Islam) will lead to its defeat. Islam is giving the Christian world a reason to unite … and its still won’t unite! The Christian world needs to wake up and recognize that this is a holy war … Islam (Mohammed) vs Christendom (Jesus). It needs to be united in order to defeat Islam because Islam (too) is divided between Sunni and Shiite. That division could well be taken advantage of if Western religious and secular leaders would just WAKE UP!

    • خَليفة says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 10:11 am

      You ever think that the pope and other PTBs are “trying” to make the appocolypse happen?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 5, 2016 at 11:48 pm

      I don’t think other Christian sects care if one or the other is destroyed.
      ……………………

      This is not the case at all–most Christians I know care deeply about Christians, even if they are of other denominations.

      But many of them are so mired in “political correctness” that they fail to see that what is threatening them is Islam.

  12. Sam says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 9:41 am

    Since Muslims are doing it, it is not considered a crime as they do so as Allah dictates. It a cultural thing and we should respect that culture of bastards.

    I am sick of nausea by this free ticket to murder given to Muslims by western cultures.

    It is difficult not to think that if we are so stupid, maybe we deserve Islam.

  13. Russell says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 10:26 am

    Most people have a myopic view of history; as such, and if they were well read/studied in the topic, they would find the Islam is not a religion of peace regardless of what it espouses in it’s filthy pages. It was Muhammed’s attempt to unify the then predominant religions of the time (Judaism and Christianity) under one new religious creed with the moral impetus of having been “revealed by Gabriel” as a new revelation to set all things right and making Arabs the predominant. The conquests that resulted thereafter preclude any and all argumentation regarding it being a religion of peace, period! And, to those that would argue that “Christians did the same thing” are in error related to the premises of this argument of the logical fallacy that two wrongs do not make a right.

    • Radegunda says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 2:49 pm

      Most people seem to have the impression that the history of Western interactions with Islam consists of the Crusades and the era of Western imperialism — i.e. that Muslims have pretty much always been the victims and the underdogs, except when they were supposedly saving Greek science from the alleged neglect by European barbarians.

      Most Western Christian leaders seem to share that distorted view of history, and they add to it a preening self-righteousness that says: “We must always reach out in compassion to the poor misunderstood Muslims everywhere (because then God will reward us for being Christlike).”

    • Jay Boo says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 5:38 pm

      David Wood exposes Muhammad’s trickery in reference to the Bible in video link above

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/iraqi-christian-leader-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-is-this-not-a-crime-against-humanity#comment-1352082

  14. Peter says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 10:46 am

    Given that Islam is in its essence a declaration of war against humanity, so its adherents’ depredations are inherently “crimes against humanity.”

    • Radegunda says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 2:50 pm

      Islam itself is a crime against humanity and civilization.

      • dsinc says

        Jan 3, 2016 at 1:32 am

        True, and the sooner it is thrown in the garbage bin of history, the better.

  15. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 11:20 am

    As for cruel and vicious jihadists of ISIS in their many brutal way they treat the Christians in Iraq is totally unconscionable. One awful way which those jihadist who compose ISIS are so very malicious the they literally crucify Christians. This malice -filled and outrageous. This brutally heinous cruelty is sanctioned in the Koran .As seen in ,for example Surah 5::33. Likewise, this harsh behavior is Koranic as also shown in Surah 9:123 which instructs “O you who believe ! fight those of the unbelievers who are close to you, and yet them find harshness in you…” Crucifying people really is showing harshness.That is hideous harshness too the extreme. There are,of course, some people who might ,understandable wonder in horror and then ask “Just how can those jihadists of ISIS actually be so extremely cruel ,callous and despicable as to crucify people ?” The answer to that question in found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches that there are some people who are so very unfeeling, heartless,malice-filled and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2.[ K..J.V.] The “hot iron” is this case is Islam.

  16. mortimer says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 2:11 pm

    Assyrian Christians are the martyr church.

  17. BringBackTheCrusades says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 2:47 pm

    “Calling these people to account for the damage they have done and are doing is the highest form of loyalty to the Church”
    well said Robert. It is also necessary for the survival of Christianity in the west…

    • خَليفة says

      Jan 2, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      Awesome name – BringBackTheCrusades

      Would be nice for Chistendom to retake all the historic Christian lands; that’s the entire Middle East and most of Africa.

      Would be nice to visit Constantinople.
      Workd traveling would be so much safer.

  18. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    In the comments thread to an article on Australia’s ABC (the article in question being a mass of soft soap from our sly and sinister apologist for Islam and suspected Muslim Brotherhood operative, Waleed Aly), I read a very arresting comment placed by a thoroughly non-Dhimmi Iraqi Christian (one of the lucky few who had managed to get out and escape to Australia, some years I think before the current explosion of Jihad).

    Here’s the link for the article

    http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2014/05/15/4005307.htm

    And here’s the comment (his reference to ‘Scott’ is a reference to another commenter who had posted a lot of uninformed waffle). Well worth reading.

    DAVID :
    16 May 2014 2:51:59pm

    “As a christian who grew up in Iraq, for the 19 years that I lived in Iraq, not a day passed by and I wasn’t being targeted by the every day Muslims that I got to deal with.

    “Neighbours, school mates, colleagues and the list goes on. 



    “Perhaps, Scott needs to live in a Muslim community to understand what a hell it is to be a non-muslim living amongst muslims.

    
”Then he will understand that it isn’t just the fanatic Islamists that are targeting the non-muslims, but in fact the average muslim citizens that are, in one way or another, are targeting anyone who doesn’t share them their religion.



    “I wonder how would Waleed justify what Quaran states clearly: 
”They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.”
    END.

    To repeat. There it is. The words of a Christian escaped from Iraq to Australia, describing what it is like to live as a non-Muslim among Muslims. Not Islamic State. Just plain old ordinary everyday Muslims. It is *hell*. Because they are at you every way they can, day in and day out. BULLIES.

    “As a christian who grew up in Iraq, for the 19 years that I lived in Iraq, **not a day passed by and I wasn’t being targeted by the every day Muslims that I got to deal with.** (my emphasis – dda)

    “Neighbours, school mates, colleagues and the list goes on. 



    “Perhaps, Scott needs to live in a Muslim community to understand what a hell it is to be a non-muslim living amongst muslims.

    
”Then he will understand that **it isn’t just the fanatic Islamists that are targeting the non-muslims, but in fact the average muslim citizens that are, in one way or another, are targeting anyone who doesn’t share them their religion.

** {my emphasis – dda).”

    YES.

    This guy is no Dhimmi. This guy tells it like it is.

    Think of Asia Bibi. It wasn’t some Islamic State operatives who picked a quarrel with her, forced her into a corner, and then screechingly accused her of “blasphemy!!!”, nor was it Islamic State operatives or card-carrying members of any specific jihad group that mobbed her and beat her up and damn near lynched her. It was plain old ordinary Muslims, Muslim men and women filled full of an ecstasy of hatred and megalomaniacal sense of superiority – pride and cruelty together. High as kites on the License to Bully, the License to HURT, that Islam gives every member of the Mob, vis a vis the Designated Punching Bags aka Non-Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 5, 2016 at 11:50 pm

      So true, DDA–it isn’t just “Jihadists” but ordinary Muslims who oppress and threaten Christians and other Infidels.

  19. RJ says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    Panmelia, above, is referring to the Papal Address at Regensburg University by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. He is alive and well, and never, to my knowledge, “backed down” from his simple account of an historical event.
    http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/papal-address-at-university-of-regensburg

    A short snippet here:
    “…n the seventh conversation (διάλεξις – controversy) edited by Professor Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the holy war. The emperor must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: “There is no compulsion in religion”. According to some of the experts, this is probably one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels”, he addresses his interlocutor with a startling brusqueness, a brusqueness that we find unacceptable, on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”[3] The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. “God”, he says, “is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably (σὺν λόγω) is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats… To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death…”.[4]

  20. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    Glad to hear that there remain some Christian leaders still thinking like Christians and speaking out with clarity and human courage.

  21. Bobby G says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 3:30 am

    Yes Cardinal, it is a crime against humanity, by any definition of the term. It’s genocide, pure and simple, with a malignantly large dose of ethnic cleansing.

  22. Mark says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Please view share and give a thumbs up to this video. It exposes the Islamic program very well and needs to be seen widely. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

  23. Judi says

    Jan 3, 2016 at 7:59 am

    This is akin to 1930’s Europe with the persecution and finally the slaughter of 6,000,000 Jews. The whole world knew what was going on, yet nobody did anything to stop it.

  24. Angemon says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 6:13 pm

    He also advocated political reform underpinned by the principle of “citizenship and equality” that allows Christians and other religious minorities to be full citizens rather than “protected minority status”.

    Where “protected” means “exploited and mistreated”.

  25. gravenimage says

    Jan 5, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    Muslim persecution of Christians: “Is this not a crime against humanity?”
    ……………………..

    Yes, it is–and is too widely ignored.

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