The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all, the journos could have chosen to be killed instead.
“12 Christians Murdered in Nigeria for Trying to Protect Girls From Forced Islamic Conversions,” by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, March 1, 2018:
At least 12 Christians have been killed and another 20 injured in Kasuwan Magani in northern Nigeria in retaliation for believers’ attempts to rescue Christian girls from forced Islamic conversions.
Morning Star News reported on Tuesday that radical Muslims hunted down Christians and burned down their homes after they had attempted to rescue two girls who were kidnapped and forcefully converted to Islam two weeks ago.
“The names of those killed are not readily available to me at the moment, but I can confirm to you that they are Christians killed in the Christian area of the town,” said James Madaki of the Evangelical Church Winning All.
The victims also included members of Pentecostal, Baptist, Assemblies of God and Seventh-day Adventist churches in the town.
“The case was reported to the police, and the girls were not rescued, so some Christians decided to rescue the girls, but the Muslims in the town attacked them,” Madaki explained.
“The Muslims did not just attack the Christians that went to rescue the girls, but also went around town attacking Christians they sighted and burned houses belonging to Christians.”
Omega Funom, another Kasuwan Magani resident, confirmed that the violence came as a result of the girls’ kidnapping.
“This is the practice by Muslims in Kaduna state. They abduct small Christian girls and force them to become Muslims, and when Christians reject this, they attack them to create the impression that there’s a religious crisis,” Funom said, adding that the Muslims were armed with AK-47 guns….
Bob Carrillo says
…And the Librarian Chief, Jason Wood & Company at Simmons College, believes that Christians are guilty of perpetrating “Islamomisic Micro-aggression” against “the people of the book”, and Muslim people – by offering hello’s and greetings, such as “Merry Christmas” – “Happy Easter” – and “God bless you”?
I wonder what sort of aggression “the librarians” believe this to be? Macro perhaps?
How about Neanderthal perhaps Jason?
Isntlam says
I’m beginning to think these Muslims are violent people.
maghan says
Another sad example of the lemming-like stupidity of utterly brainwashed blacks who are so alienated psychologically that they wantonly slaughter other blacks who have not been infected with the stupid but violent nonsense of Arab Islam.
Isntlam says
Average IQ in Nigeria: 84
maghan says
The IQ of Saudi Arabia is also 84. Yup, birds of the same stupid and cruel feather.
SB says
When will they bomb Mecca?
MFritz says
And Soros-ibrahim not commenting on this one too… Because a fraud is a fraud. Oh, and a liar too.
Jack Diamond says
Aside from verse 2:256 being abrogated by the very compulsive “revelation” of the Verse of the Sword: “kill the Mushrikun wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and prepare for them each and every ambush. But if they repent and perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat), and give Zakat, then leave their way free”… there is also to consider that no Muslim is ever punished for forcing a Christian to “confess” Islam (which you’d think would happen if it were against some “law”). Then consider that what Muslims mean by “compulsion in religion” is not at all what you might mean by it.
Forcing someone to confess Islam at the point of a sword is not compulsion in religion because those are only words from the tongue being coerced, not actual belief in the heart. Muslims themselves are allowed to profess false oaths or to even deny Islam and Muhammad under the rules of necessity (darura). So why should it bother the kafir to say something with their mouth they don’t believe (yet) in their heart?
Nevertheless, professing Islam makes you a Muslim in the eyes of the Muslims (coerced or not), and attempting to rescue a stolen Christian girl and return her to Christianity is war against Islam. It’s in that Chapter of Shari’a law called “heads we win, tails you lose.” We also see here the Muslim belief in collective responsibility and collective punishment in action. If one Christian upsets the Muslims, all of them become fair game. Mark Durie wrote ” even a breach by a single single individual dhimmi could result in jihad against the whole community.” As also seen constantly in Pakistan and Egpyt. As in “we” are all Crusaders, we are all collectively guilty, no kafir is innocent. This is normative Islam.
Consider the example of the perfect man and model of conduct for all Muslims:
Ibn Hisham in “The Biography of Muhammad”(Part 4, Page 11)
Muhammad told him: “Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan. Is it not time for you to realize that there is no God but the only God?” Abu Sufyan answered: “I do believe that.”
Muhammad then said to him: “Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan. Is it not time for you to know that I am the apostle of God?” Abu Sufyan answered: “By God, O Muhammad, of this there is doubt in my soul.”
The ‘Abbas who was present with Muhammad told Abu Sufyan: “Woe to you! Accept Islam and testify that Muhammad is the apostle of God before your neck is cut off by the sword.” Thus he professed the faith of Islam and became a Muslim.”
Muhammad told him: “Woe to you, O Abu Sufyan. Is it not time for you to realize that there is no God but the only God?” Abu Sufyan answered: “I do believe that.”
Jack Diamond says
scratch the last paragraph….I fired my proofreader
Walter Sieruk says
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.
Walter Sieruk says
The violent and vicious Muslims in their murderous persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
R Russell says
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints
CRUSADER says
According to Irshad Manji, there is no substantiation in Islam for FORCING conversion….
THE TROUBLE WITH ISLAM – Irshad Manji | No God But ALLAH
nogodbutallah.org/?page_id=473
Further, since Islam allows freedom of choice in belief and advocates justice to all without distinction, non-Muslims do not have to convert to Islam to avoid “ humiliation” or convert out of “terror.” There is no place in the Qur’an or Tradition of the Prophet Mohammad that endorses acts of “humiliation” and “terror” towards …
Savvy Kafir says
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
Cheer Bear Girl says
I do not care what any politician says. Islam is the most evil religion in the world.
Steve's nephew says
The Bible tells us to “love your neighbor as yourself.” The Muslims are the complete opposite. They practice hostility rather than empathy and compassion. The Muslims do NOT follow God, the Creator.
Christ, a brilliant teacher, anticipated this when he spoke in John 16:2-3. He was talking about behavior towards the Jews but the verses apply towards every other non-Muslim religion as well:
2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
I checked the news, It has never happened. mithraist christians are people of falsehoods because their religion is the création of the Satan the father of lies.
Karen says
“Strike at their necks”
“Kill them wherever you find them”
No offense, just quoting the Koran.
Baucent says
So you are a Nigerian. Boko Haram supporter I suppose.
utis says
Given the Christian source of this news item, the authors are being delicate about the reality of “capture” and “conversion”, leaving out the inevitable rape and forced marriage (slavery) of these girls. The muslims had AK-47’s. What did the Christians have?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Utis, it was christians Who first stockpiled sophiscated weapons with which they carried out genocidal killings of muslims,mostly Hausas. when they extended such killings to nomadic fulani cattle rearers, they bought their own and took revenge, hence hues and cries by christians. Idiots !!
Ray Jarman says
That is a lie of the highest degree. The Christians have never attacked the pernicious cult even in Jos. I was in Abuja when members of the sorry cult attacked the Christians in Jos because a female tourist strayed onto the grounds of the mosque. She had no idea that she had done so as there were indicators apprising her. The cult has attacked the Christians many times in Jos for no reason other than they exist and further more, the Christians were there long before the hordes of cult insects fell upon the peaceful Christian population like a plague of locust. As far as Kaduna goes, I have been there working at the American library so I am familiar with the lowest of the low cult members. My colleague’s father is a Christian Chief in Kaduna and I hope that he takes revenge upon the dogs of allah.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Ray Jarman, you are wicked evangelist liar.Dirty and horrible bad smelly filthy Nigerian christians obliterated thé whole Hausa Muslim population in zangon kataf town in kaduna state under Christian General zamani leckot and whild Birom christians killed all Hausa Muslims in jos and got dead bodies fried and eatened in the same christians did in central African Republic.
Ray Jarman says
Ibrahim, If only it were true for if it was, the hard working Christians in Jos would not have to endure the pedophilic monstrous cult. Maybe you can explain why Boko Haram attacks the muslims in Borno State and even in Kano. If islam is so wonderful, why must the followers of the wonderful version of God have to offer islam or death? My Church asks members to visit all parts of the world in order to spread the word of salvation through the atonement of Jesus Christ but no one is forced to listen much less coercion while you talk of slaughter and intimidation. Christians go to church in order to ask forgiveness of their sins and also asks for forgiveness for those who have transgressed against them and I know of no Christian who asks Christ or the Heavenly Father to assist in the killing of another; Christians only pray for safety and if they are killed that their souls be taken to a better place where the lion will lay with the lamb unlike your version where men may rape virgins and little boys. Christians pray that the “Circle Will Be Unbroken” and families will be rejoined. I suggest that you visit my good friend Mary Joseph of the Catholic Church in Kaduna and learn of the true Heavenly Father.