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Raymond Ibrahim: A Hate to Kill and Die for

Jan 11, 2017 9:14 am By Raymond Ibrahim

“The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God” — Jesus

Muslim attacks on Christian churches are on the rise all around the world—including in America.  The worst occurred last month when a bomb exploded in Egypt’s St. Peter’s Cathedral, killing 28, mostly women and children.  Preliminary investigations had indicated that a woman entered the church, sat in the women’s section, and then left an unattended purse that later detonated.  Later reports asserted that, although others were involved, including one Muslim woman, a male suicide-bomber was the chief culprit (graphic pictures of his remains here).

How much hate must a woman have to enter a church, smile in the faces of Christians, pretend to be worshipping alongside them—here’s a similar example from Turkey—and then knowingly leave a bomb precisely where it would kill mostly women and children?  How much hate must a man have for people who are peacefully praying that, in order to kill as many of them, he is willing to kill himself?

The answer is an unfathomable—and, to Western and Christian minds, unbelievable—amount of hate.    Yet the wonder isn’t that the church was bombed but rather that many are surprised by it.  After all, many Muslim scriptures, clerics, mosques, schools, satellite stations and Internet sites—even the ministry of education—openly incite hatred for Egypt’s indigenous (but “infidel”) inhabitants: the Christian Copts.   Among other forms of animosity, they teach that Muslims must hate—and show that they hate—Christians, even if they are their own wives.

Worse, they teach that the most abominable crimes in God’s sight—“worse than murder and bloodshed”—take place inside churches: there, Christians flaunt their rejection of Islam’s core doctrine of tawhid (“monotheism”) by ascribing partners to God (shirk) via their worship of the Trinity. This is why some of Islam’s most revered ulema (scholars) describe churches as “worse than bars and brothels” and “dens of iniquity” which “breed corruption throughout the lands” (see Crucified Again, pgs. 32-36).

Modern Egyptian clerics constantly echo these hateful slanders.  In August 2009, Al Azhar’s Dar al-Ifta issued a fatwa likening the building of a church to “a nightclub, a gambling casino, or building a barn for rearing pigs, cats or dogs.”  In July 2012, Dr. Yassir al-Burhami, Egypt’s leading Salafi, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslim taxi and bus drivers from transporting Christian clergy to their churches, an act “more forbidden than taking someone to a liquor bar.”  When the Islamic State launched a suicide attack on a packed church in Baghdad in 2011—killing about 60 Christians (graphic images of aftermath here)—it justified the massacre by portraying the church as a “dirty den of idolatry.”

But it’s not just ISIS and “radical” clerics that harbor such animosity for churches.  After the fatal bombing inside St. Peter’s, “everyday” Muslims wrote things like “God bless the person who did this blessed act” on social media.  One average looking Muslim woman appears in the streets of Egypt jubilantly celebrating the massacre (video with English subtitles).   She triumphantly yells “Allahu Akbar!” and says that “our beloved prophet Muhammad is paying you infidels [Christians] back… for rejecting tawhid, which must be proclaimed in every corner of Egypt!”

Americans may remember that Muslims around the world also celebrated the terror strikes of September 11.  Then, the assumption was “we must’ve done something to make Muslims hate us so much.”  But if powerful America is capable of provoking Muslims with its foreign policies, what did Egypt’s already downtrodden and ostracized Christian minority do to make Muslims celebrate the news that a church was bombed and Christians blown to pieces?

In other words, the hate is everywhere and on open display for those with eyes and ears to see and hear with.  It’s a regular feature of the West nowadays for Muslims to go on church vandalizing sprees (here’s a video of one from Rome).  Indeed, the ongoing desecration of churches, crucifixes, and Christian icons at the hands of Muslims is so virulent that—from the earliest writings of Islam (see Athanasius of Sinai’s 7th century chronicles) till today—it continues to be described as the “work of Satan’s offspring.”

In Egypt the hate is usually simmering below the line of what is deemed newsworthy and only reaches the West when Muslim piety boils over and leaves a trail of carnage in its wake.  “Amateur” attacks on churches that fail to claim lives, or Muslims abusing, kidnapping, beating, raping—and sometimes even murdering[1]—Christians, are habitual occurrences in Egypt and other Muslim majority nations that rarely get reported in the West.  Yet the fact remains: the animus that regularly causes large Muslim mobs to attack and/or torch buildings on the mere rumor that they are being used as churches, causes more zealous Muslims to bomb churches.

These latter—the professional jihadis and “martyrs”—believe themselves to be the greatest allies of God.  They cite the Islamic doctrine of al-wala’ wa’l-bara’ (“Loyalty an Enmity”), which is based on a number of Koran verses. It teaches that the best way for a Muslim to proclaim his loyalty to Islam (submission to Allah and adherence to Muhammad’s teachings) is by showing and exercising hate for those who reject it.

The most supreme way of living this hate is by becoming a jihadi—killing and being killed, as Koran 9:111 puts it:  “Allah has bought from the believers their lives and worldly goods, and in return has promised them Paradise: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall kill and be killed….  Rejoice then in the bargain you have struck, for that is the supreme triumph.”

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Whenever Muslims kill Christians for their faith, eulogies for the latter—including for St. Peter’s 28 slain—often invoke the words of Christ: “The time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God” (John 16:2).  Not only is this verse prophetic; it’s key to understanding why Christians are under attack throughout the Muslim world: Their persecutors truly “think they are offering a service to God” by killing Christians.  And they believe this, not because they are “radical” or have “perverted” the teachings of Islam, but because the impostor god of Islam tells them so.

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[1] The other day a Muslim man crept up behind a Christian store owner in Egypt and slit his throat for selling alcohol, which is forbidden Muslims.  Because no English language media had mentioned it at the time I saw it on Arabic news media, I translated it here.

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  1. EH says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 9:39 am

    Friends

    I am back 🙂

    What we are trying to say is on a video,

    https://tr.sputniknews.com/turkiye/201701111026726135-chp-cumhuriyet-video/

    It’s in Turkish I will try to get it in English. We are not watching anymore but we are FIGHTING !!

    All the best

  2. EH says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 9:42 am

    • UNCLE VLADDI says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 6:38 am

      Kemal Atatürk İslam’ı yok etmek için elinden geleni yaptı. Başaramadığı için kötü – henüz!

      • EmHotep says

        Jan 12, 2017 at 3:31 pm

        We will do it 🙂

  3. no_one says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Christianity is the religion of love since Christ is love. Islam is the religion of hate, hate for infidels, including those who believe in love, Christ, the real God. That makes islam the religion of satan, who hates God and His creation. No surprise here.

    • Angemon says

      Jan 11, 2017 at 12:44 pm

      Indeed.

  4. Frederick Middleton says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 11:10 am

    The liberal line is, just live long enough with other races/religions and you will learn to love one them. The Muslims have lived alongside the Copts for 1300 years but show no sign of understanding, let alone love!

    • Ibrahim zaknoun says

      Jan 17, 2017 at 5:46 pm

      Just . you can’t honestly say ,how they lived -!!! Sure you don’t dare to say that

  5. Keith Gilbert says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 12:19 pm

    All the ‘hocus pocus, your’e out of focus’ crap not withstanding…islamic deserve death, it is what they seek and it is cruel for the rest of us to deny them a destiny they proclaim and so richly deserve.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 1:30 pm

    First ,it’s more than strange ,it’s totally inconsistent that so many Muslims apologists for Islam make the claim to the Christians in America the both Christians and Muslims believe in and worship the same God..If this really true and this is the case than it make no sense at all as to why so many Muslims are so extremely hostile towards Christians that they attack them ,burn their churches and their Bible’s .Some Muslims even try to murder people who convert for Islam to Christianity . If that claim is real the both Christians and Muslim believe in the same God Why than all the hateful violence against Christians. it must be that they claim is a lie and the apologists for Islam know it. Thus then thoses Muslims who make that claim to American Christian they are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya. Which is the Islamic dogma the lying and deception is a good thing to do as long as it’s done for the advancement of Islam.

    In addition .there are many Muslims who strongly dislike Christians. Some Muslims even hate Christians so much that they even become violence against them and burn their Bibles. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine. So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
    It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    First, the propagandists for Islam claim that Islam teaches respect for Christians and Christianity . As the above article exposes that is a totally false claim.

    Second ,the way for a person to discover the truth concerning the nature of Jesus is found in the Bible verse Isaiah 8:20. This instructs “To the law of the testimony. If they do not speak according to the word, it is because there is no light in them.” [N.K.J.V.] In other words, if a religious teacher has teaching that are in contradiction to the Word, the Bible, then that teachers is a false teacher who teaches false doctrines. The Muslim clerics, as the imam and mullahs, teach and speak doctrines about God from the Quran .
    As the Quran in 112 teaches “He is God alone: God is the eternal begetteth not…” Likewise, this religious book which is the entire foundation of and for Islam further teaches in 19:35. “It is not befitting to God that He should beget a son.” In great contrast the Bible teaches in John 1:14. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory , the glory of the only begotten of the Father ,full of grace and truth.” Likewise John 3:16 teaches “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son… Then just a little further in verse 18 it is written about Jesus Who is “the only begotten Son of God. “ Other places in the Bible further teach that Jesus is the Son of God as in Matthew 16:15:16. Luke 1:35. John 3:36. First John 4:14. 15. 5:14,15. Moreover to be even more clear the Bible teaches that Jesus is the Son of God, Who is God the Father. As found in Matthew 3:16,17. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. Of course , it ,very much, needs to made even more specific . The Bible teaches that Jesus is also God the Son. As seen in Hebrew1:8 and First John 5:20. The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain” this all away. As in they will try brush off all those Bible verse off by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted, through time, by Christians and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. That claim they make actually underestimate the Power of God to protect and keep His Word safe and intact ,through time, and away from the corruption of men.
    In conclusion ,with the above instruction of the way to find doctrinal truth in Isaiah 8:20 and in the light of the Bible verse provided it may be clearly seen, by all those who are willing to see, that Islam is in terrible doctrinal error and it is therefore a false religion, Proverbs 14:12. John 14;6.

  8. Mira Chaikin says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 1:36 pm

    http://www.islamiceschatology.com/return-of-isa-jesus/4575339474

    Jesus (Isa) is to return at Yawm a Din (Day of Judgment) and lead the Final Judgment to determine who is in the Book of the Good as opposed to the Book of Evil and their fate.

    Per the religion they claim to follow, they can’t win and ISIS will be destroyed during Mr. Trump’s presidency.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2017 at 4:18 pm

      In Islamic eschatology the main role of Jesus–really, “Isa”–is to *kill Christians*.

  9. Catherine says

    Jan 11, 2017 at 5:08 pm

    This is Christianodium – hared of Christians! Let’s Name it and Shame it! Let’s demand legislation to protect us against Crimes of Christianodium! Let’s close down the Buildings where they Preach Christianodium! Let/ fight Islamophobia with Christianodium!

    • Kay says

      Jan 12, 2017 at 2:46 am

      I hope our laws will protect us. But I don’t think the Left has been fair with Christians and there is so much “bad press” about Christianity.

  10. Kay says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 2:51 am

    Muslim attacks on Christian churches are on the rise all around the world—including in America.
    ————————————————–
    A good article about a very sad topic, our besieged Body.

    Any group or publication that claims to care about human rights or justice should be making this (targeting of Christians) an issue, a cause, worthy of news and action.

  11. james.mich says

    Jan 12, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    If these people were neo-Nazis, their movement would be illegal. Why is Islam legal, and why are there not laws against this truly evil, Hitlerian, Stalinian cult ? And why are supposedly Christian clergy fraternising with this evil thing ?

  12. Cheveyo says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 11:16 am

    The religion of pepetual resentment

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