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Islam’s Sword Comes for Christians: Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2015

Feb 11, 2016 8:18 am By Raymond Ibrahim

Muslim persecution of Christians[From the Gatestone Institute:] Islamic hostility for Christmas was on full display as documented here: on Christmas Day, Muslims in Bethlehem set a Christmas tree on fire and greeted the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem with a hail of stones;  Muslim “refugees” set fire to a public Christmas tree in Belgium; Muslim jihadis attacked churches during Christmas mass killing at least 16 in Nigeria; Muslim jihadis in the Philippines slaughtered 10 Christians on Christmas Eve to “make a statement”; three Muslim countries—Somalia, Tajikistan, and Brunei—formally  banned any Christmas celebrations; due to assassination attempts on pastors and death threats to Christians, churches skipped Christmas mass in Bangladesh and were on “high alert” in Indonesia, with 150,000 security personnel patrolling; in Iran, Christians celebrating Christmas in homes were arrested.

Christmas related violence aside, sword waving Muslims chased down Christians and in two cases butchered them.  In the United States, a Muslim man pulled out a sword and chased his neighbor, a Christian of Mideast descent, while saying he would “Die and kill for Allah.”  The incident took place in San Bernardino, California.  The victim escaped and called San Bernardino police who subsequently arrested Mohamed Ahmed Elrawi, 57, of Victorville, on suspicion of attempted murder.  Police also found evidence at his apartment suggesting he is a “radicalized Muslim.”  While being escorted out of his home by police, Elrawi said in Arabic to Mark Tashamneh , a Christian of Jordanian background and Elrawi’s neighbor, that he would kill him.  “I’m a Christian, I’m happy … and I believe what I believe,” Tashamneh told reporters.  “I am not against what he believes, but he apparently has a problem with me and came and threatened me.”  Speaking of that night, another female neighbor said: “My kids were sleeping when I heard a lot of noise.  I went outside and saw that (Elrawi) had a big sword that he was swinging back and forth. I went back inside but I could still hear yelling and arguing and I heard (Elrawi) telling someone that he was going to kill him.”

Muslims slaughtered two Christian leaders with swords in two separate incidents in Uganda.  Patrick Ojangole, a 43-year-old Christian father of five who also supported several children whose families had disowned them for leaving Islam, was hacked to death.  According to the slain man’s friend, who survived to tell the tale, they were traveling to their village when they saw Muslim women covered in burqas sitting on the road: “Because it was late in the evening, we thought they needed some help from us, so we stopped, and while we were still talking with them, a man arrived [followed by two more men] … The two women immediately pulled out swords from their burqas and gave them to the men.”  One of the three Muslim men reproached Patrick for refusing to cease his Christian activities.  Then the Muslims fell on him with their swords.  “Patrick was a very committed Christian and a hard-working farmer,” said his friend. “From his farm work, he used to support 10 children from Muslim families who had been ostracized by their families,” as well as his own five children ranging in age from 7 to 16.

Separately, a pastor was also hacked to death and beheaded after he and other church members resisted efforts by local Muslims to seize land belonging to the church.   When pastor Bongo Martin, 32, confronted and resisted them, the imam of the Muslim group answered, “We have told you many times that we do not want the church to be located near our mosque. Your church has been taking our members to your church.”  Then a Muslim named Abdulhakha Mugen pulled out a sword and struck at the pastor’s neck.  He instantly collapsed while the Muslim swordsman kept hacking at him and eventually decapitating him. Pastor Martin’s body was later found floating the river.

An additional five underground Christians in a predominantly Muslim village in Uganda, including a pregnant mother, died from poisoning after a Bible study.

The rest of December’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches and Symbols

Italy: While screaming Islam’s ancient war cry—“Allahu Akbar!”—two Muslim men, one Palestinian the other Tunisian,  attacked and tried to disarm soldiers stationed outside Santa Maria Maggiore cathedral in Rome.  According to Italian media, “when police intervened, the two men aged 40 and 30 called other foreigners in the area to their aid, and assaulted and threatened the arresting officers. After they were taken to the police station, they continued to speak out against law enforcement and Europe in both Arabic and Italian. They were charged with resisting and threatening an officer and instigation to commit a crime with intent to commit terrorist acts, slapped with an expulsion order, and taken to a migrant reception center in the southern city of Bari prior to repatriation.”

Egypt: A church under construction in Swada village, Minya, was attacked on December 10 by a mob consisting of at least 400 Muslims incited by local officials.   “They destroyed the marble, ceramics, cement, wood and church’s signs inside the buildings and destroyed the contents of the building, and attacked and injured some of the workers,” said a local.  After the attack, and although the church had obtained the necessary permits required for construction, it the same officials who incited the attack cited the attack as reason to outlaw the church.  The population of Swada is about 35% Christian, or 3,000 people, and there isn’t a single Coptic Orthodox church to serve them.

Separately, an ancient Christian monastery, the Paromeos Monastery, was threatened by jihadis online.  Dedicated to the Virgin Mary it was built over 1,600 years ago—more than two centuries before Islam overran Christian Egypt. Although the ancient monastery receives police protection, Christian activists are calling for greater security measures in response to growing threats.

Yemen: Days after the Islamic State (“ISIS”) assassinated Aden city’s governor, an abandoned Catholic church was blown up. According to a resident, “The gunmen, who were probably extremists, blew up the [Immaculate Conception] Catholic church in the Mualla district of Aden.  We heard a strong explosion which sent a big plume of smoke into the air and afterward saw that the building was completely destroyed.” The church was already severely damaged after a Saudi-led coalition air strike last May.  Reuters concludes: “Once a cosmopolitan city home to thriving Hindu and Christian communities, Aden has gone from one of the world’s busiest ports as a key hub of the British empire to a largely lawless backwater.  Its small Christian population left long ago. Unknown assailants had previously vandalized a Christian cemetery and torched another Aden church this year.”

Iraq:  ISIS bombed a monastery that belonged to nuns in the Christian village of Tel Kepe; ten Assyrian Christian homes were also bombed and several people injured.  Separately, a cemetery in Kirkuk used by the Assyrian Church and the Syriac Orthodox church was vandalized.  Crosses and tombstones were broken and graves opened. The identity of the perpetrators is unknown.  Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako condemned the destruction of the cemeteries adding “We live in difficult conditions…”

Turkey: Groups believed to be associated with ISIS issued death threats to at least 20 evangelical churches via social media, email, and mobile texts.  They included “upsetting videos and pictures” said a human rights activist.  Suspected Islamic State militants reportedly said they “are tired of waiting” for Muslims who had converted to Christianity to return to Islam. “Koranic commandments… urge us to slay the apostate like you,” said one message.

Bangladesh: “He who preaches Christianity must leave the country or die”—such were thewords of an anonymous letter sent to ten leaders of Protestant Christian churches.  An additional four church leaders narrowly escaped attempts on their lives causing the nation’s churches to cancel Christmas Day church services.

Cameroon:  Boko Haram jihadis invaded a Christian village and torched a church as well as several homes.  Up to 1,000 Christians – men, women and children – were adversely affected, eight killed, during the invasion.    After reducing the villagers’ possessions to ashes, the jihadis also set their food supplies and other forms of sustenance on fire, leaving them struggling to survive.

Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: Seven Muslim Fulani herdsmen invaded and attacked two households and a compound for Christians displaced from earlier jihadi attacks near Jos.  Fifteen Christians were slaughtered, including three children aged 1, 3, and 5, as well as their grandmother. According to the slain woman’s daughter, “My mother struggled with the gunmen until they finally shot her and the three kids.  She died trying to save the three children.”  According to one resident: “They had come to survey the village that Sunday morning while we were in our churches.  The Fulani gunmen even asked our children to give them drinking water, which they did, but the kids did not suspect anything and did not inform us about this. It was only after the attack that we were told about the visit of the gunmen to our village.”

Central African Republic:  Armed Muslim Seleka militants attacked a camp for internally displaced people killing eight Christians and wounding one UN peacekeeper.  Thousands of people have been killed since Muslim Seleka seized power of the Christian-majority country in 2013. After months of massacres, rapes, and looting by armed Seleka, militant anti-balaka groups emerged. Although they see themselves a Christian militia, the nation’s churches condemn their violent actions… Keep reading, there is much more

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  1. Wakeup says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 9:06 am

    Trump is the only one who has had the balls to say anything suggesting that we might have a problem with islam. Ted Cruz even though I might like him in more ordinary times has not raised the issue and this is an evangelical Christian.

    Once there was an American Englishman who really used to get up peoples noses, but he was the only one who spoke up about the threat of the nazis everyone else was tainted with appeasement so they HAD to make him leader. Winston Churchill how did that one work out again?

    South Carolina please listen to this, nobody is perfect Winston Churchill wasn’t, but he was the man for the job. Donald Trump is not perfect but he is the man for the job. For Jesus sake literally, please vote for him.

    • Lynne says

      Feb 11, 2016 at 2:32 pm

      If I could vote for Donald, I would. He’s the only candidate who has the guts to say the truth. Why are other “westerners” not getting the message. Instead, our gov’t in Canada is going the way of Europe. Trudeau is bringing more refugees. He’s an idiot.

    • Western Canadian says

      Feb 11, 2016 at 9:55 pm

      If you are ignorant enough of both Churchill and Trump to actually compare them, there is some excuse for your prostituting yourself on behalf of Trump. If you are familiar with both men, you would never degrade Churchill, an uncommonly well educated man even for his own era, a man who faced death in combat, a man who held fast to high standards of personal conduct, a man who studied and wrote uncommonly well, a man who would never pander to ignorant people for power, and compare him to a loud mouthed buffoon who is none of these things, and is frequently flat out the reverse of them…. And Trump is NOT the only one clued in to the evil of islam…. but he does do a hell of a lot of business with muslims….

      Your shilling is disgusting, even without the dishonest. .

      • John Burns says

        May 7, 2016 at 10:35 am

        Spot on. Churchill was the greatest statesman of the 20th Century. Trump is a loudmouth, draft-dodging, philandering bully, and apparently the best we can come up with for the presidency.

      • Wakeup says

        May 11, 2016 at 5:46 am

        My late father was a Canadian and I always had an effection for the country but it seems you have chosen your path of surrender so I have given up on the place. As for Trump we will see he is the only politician who has had the courage to speak up and say what he would actually do. Ben Carson who I pray will become part of any administration did at least comment that he thought a muslim would would be unsuitable as a president. Other than that only Trump has really stuck his neck literally he will be on a jihadi hit list for the rest of his life.

        The very least other politicians could do would be to not immediately dive in to muslims defence like Boris Johnson compared to Cameron who I have to reluctantly say is a dimni.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 11:41 am

    Raymond Ibrahim highlights a crisis in the history of the church. Instead of organizing and fighting back, the church is looking the other way and hoping the Islamic war on Christians will go away.

  3. Charli Main says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 11:52 am

    You ain´t seen nothing yet, folks.

    With tens of millions of Muslim ” refugees” and ” asylum ” seekers being welcomed into Europe, with bells, whistles and teddy bears every year, attacks on Christian places of worship will become routine. Nothing offends Muslims more than the holy places of other religions. Not only will churches face the ire of ” offended ” Muslims but all the religious sites of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists will also be on the Muslim hit list. Sitting on the fence in Dar al Harb won´t save them

  4. Howard Rosenstein says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    Muslims pray to a G-d called the Devil or Satin

    • Andy says

      May 11, 2016 at 2:53 am

      My Holy Scriptures (KJV Bible for me) teach me that those who worship any other God-Person than the Creator-God of the universe, aka Jesus Christ-God-man, is worshiping devils. Some people worship the chief of devils called Satan. Below are a few characteristics of Satan:

      John 8:44 | View whole chapter | See verse in context Ye are of your father the devil [Satan] , and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Meanwhile, the denizen in the White House has his priorities set straight:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/obama-at-baltimore-mosque-quoted-muhammad-from-speech-endorsing-caliphate-and-beheading

  6. Terry Stromsky (@tstromsk) says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 1:45 pm

    These idiot sympathisers don’t understand Islam is a cult of the devil. Their things they are taught from their Holy Book the Koran are sickening, perverted and cruel. The Koran was written 600 years after the Bible. Muslims have no sympathy for their people let alone us. They believe their religion/cult is the true religion all others will are pagan religion. Once they are the majority; because their birth rates out do any other ethnicity. They want the world to convert to muslin, pay a tax to them or die. Look it up people before you destroy the nation with your blindness to the facts about Islam (all of Islam)

  7. Dan Jones says

    Feb 11, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    As we go deeper into the tribulation the worse it will get…

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  8. andrew sapia says

    Feb 12, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    Sad to say but the only thing that may wake up the French and Italians is when the immigrants start destroying Christian art. Some Muslim is going to bomb the statue of David or throw acid on the Mona Lisa and that will be the last straw. Imagine that, rape, murder, rob Christians in these countries and barely a peep and bring in more. You mark my words when they set fire to the Louvre that’ll be it. In fact, I would go as far as saying, I bet their Imams have warned them not to attack public art even though it would be quite easy to do. How could you stop a gunman armed with Kalashnikov from destroying the Statue of David in a few seconds.

  9. Angry Aussie says

    May 7, 2016 at 8:12 am

    Australia has had 8 Christian churches burnt in the past year, and Christmas trees lit up in Bendigo and Sydney.

  10. Benedict says

    May 8, 2016 at 3:28 am

    This is happening because the Muslim Pope. the Muslim president of the US Obama, Muslim prime minister of England David Cameron are keeping quiet and this is encouraging arab muslims living in Christian countries to attack Christians and these leaders tell law enforcement not to arrest the culprits. Mr.Trump is needed to set this straight

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