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Bangladesh: Christmas jihad suicide bombing in Catholic church foiled, security heightened around 62 Dhaka churches

Dec 29, 2016 9:44 am By Robert Spencer

The New Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh is an Islamic State group that also planned New Year’s jihad massacres. “Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah , so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)

Yet Christians in the West remained silent and indifferent to the Muslim persecution of Christians. Why? The Catholic Church’s supine and pollyannish stance in the face of the advancing jihad, and active campaign to mislead Catholics about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, is a moral failure the likes of which have seldom been seen in history, and poses a severe challenge to any claim it makes to moral authority.

“We have to understand that totalitarianism based on Islamic creed is the worst among all systems of government. Yes, my friends, the very survival of Christians in the cradle of Christianity is quite in danger.” So said the patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch, Ignatius Joseph III Younan.

Yet the Church as a whole has said almost nothing at all. Why? Why are Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim persecution of Christians? Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave an interview to a French reporter in which he was highly critical of the mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim persecution of Middle Eastern Christians. “The European media,” he charged, “have not ceased to suppress the daily news of those who are suffering in Syria and they have even justified what is happening in our country by using information without taking the trouble to verify it.” And as for his brother bishops in France, “the conference of French bishops should have trusted us, it would have been better informed. Why are your bishops silent on a threat that is yours today as well? Because the bishops are like you, raised in political correctness. But Jesus was never politically correct, he was politically just!”

Archbishop Jeanbart was not the first to say this. “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). Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan himself has in the past appealed to the West “not to forget the Christians in the Middle East.” 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.”

But the Patriarch should have understood, since he is a major part of the problem. After all, he recently said: “No one defends Islam like Arab Christians.” It is to defend Islam that Western clerics do not raise their voice against such acts of brutality. It is to pursue a fruitless and chimerical “dialogue” that bishops in the U.S. and Europe keep silent about Muslim persecution of Christians, and enforce that silence upon others. Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, said it on February 8, 2013 as he was suppressing a planned talk at a Catholic conference on that persecution: “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.”

Remember that Mohamed Atta, about the plane he had hijacked on September 11, 2001, told passengers over the intercom: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” The Catholic Church appears to have adopted that statement as its policy regarding Muslim persecution of Christians. When will Pope Francis canonize Atta?

“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)

“Dhaka, anti-terrorism forces foil Christmas attack on a Catholic church,” Asia News, December 28, 2016:

Dhaka (AsiaNews / Agencies) – The anti-terrorism forces have foiled an attack on a Catholic church in the capital, planned for Christmas Day. This was revealed by a police officer, who reports the arrest of members of the extremist group “New Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh” (Neo-JMB) who planned to plant suicide bombers in the Holy Spirit Church, in the Banani neighborhood.

In view of Christmas, the government increased controls and security measures around 62 churches in Dhaka. The arrest of the militants took place on December 24 in a house in Ashkona, but details of the operation were leaked yesterday. The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) group arrested the new leader of the terrorist group, Moinul Islam alias Abu Musa, along with other accomplices.

CTTC chief Monirul Islam, told the Dhaka Tribune that the apartment was used as a refuge by the bombers. Inside documents and papers were found that delineate the attack mode, which would have included a woman….

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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 29, 2016 at 11:17 am

    The jihadist Muslims who compose the violent and deadly jihad entity ISIS detest all who say that they are Christians. The jihadists who make up ISIS don’t care if that person who professes to be a Christian is a Catholic or Protestant. The jihadists of ISIS hate them all. One of the reasons why the Muslims who compose ISIS are so much against Christians is that some Christians teach the Bible with its many doctrines to others. The Bible that is so very damaging to Islamic doctrine that the Muslim clerics sand strongly against the people obtaining Bible’s. For example, Islamic [Koranic] doctrine denies the Jesus is God. In other words Islam denies the Deity of Christ. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Colossians 2:9. [N.I.V.]
    Moreover, the Jesus is God may further be seen in the Bible. As in, for example, John 1:1-3. Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 9:5. Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20. In addition, for a person to further find out that Jesus is God all a she or he has to do in to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. AS by comparing Isaiah 45:22, 23 with Philippians 2:5-11. Likewise by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. Will also confirm that Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 62. 5-7.with First Corinthians 10:4. Just by comparing the New Testament books together will like show that Jesus is God .For example, comparing John 5:22. with Romans 14:12 shows the Deity of Christ. The list can go on but this should be enough for anyone who is willing to see, and not as those who Bible calls those who are willingly ignorant, II Peter 3:5., that Jesus is God.
    The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain “ all this away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians, through time, and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. This claim they make very much underestimate the Power of God to preserve His Word and keep it safe and intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, The Muslim clerics strongly dislike the Bile because the Bible greatly exposes the terrible doctrinal errors that Islam with the Koran as Islam’s foundation have concerning the nature of Jesus. Likewise the Bible exposes Islam as a false religion, Isaiah 8:20. Proverbs 14:12. All Muslims be they jihadist /ISIS Muslim or non-violent peaceful Muslims are invited to turn away for the false religion of Islam and come to and receive the real Jesus of the Bible. Who is the True Light to the world, John 8:12. and the only way to God the Father , John 14:6.

  2. Mark A says

    Dec 29, 2016 at 1:14 pm

    The Vatican just appointed a new Cardinal for Bangladesh and the Catholic media is saying this Cardinal is very popular among the population. Here’s a sample article:

    https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2016/12/27/muslim-bangladesh-goes-gaga-catholic-cardinal/

    Could this attack be connected in some way to the recent appointment of a Catholic Cardinal for Bangladesh?.

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 30, 2016 at 5:01 pm

      That stupid so called Pope, is like a 3ed leg of terrorist attacks.. He is very enabling to the kind of attacks that Muslims plan… I also fear for all churches in the USA.. Now until Jan. 20th is nothing but a free for all for Muslim terrorists.. here in the USA, we better watch our backs,, every day..

  3. Tommy says

    Dec 29, 2016 at 2:20 pm

    ‘We must welcome all Muslims…” said Pope Frankie

  4. gravenimage says

    Dec 29, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Bangladesh: Christmas jihad suicide bombing in Catholic church foiled, security heightened around 62 Dhaka churches
    …………………..

    Merry Christmas, filthy Infidels!

    The only surprising thing is that Bangladesh–which regularly oppresses its Christian minority–is even bothering to squelch these Jihad terror attacks. Glad to see it–in this case, at least.

  5. Angemon says

    Dec 29, 2016 at 6:10 pm

    Inside documents and papers were found that delineate the attack mode, which would have included a woman….

    As a suicide bomber, I’d wager.

  6. Florida Jim says

    Dec 30, 2016 at 10:58 am

    How often must it be said Muslims following Islam cannot be accepted anywhere they all dream of a world domination and beheading all enemies. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

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