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Chad: Muslims intimidating Christians and driving them from public life under new rules prioritizing Islam

Aug 27, 2018 8:00 pm By Robert Spencer

While the establishment media gets the vapors about alleged “anti-Islam activity” in the US, this is what actual discrimination on the basis of religion looks like.

“Source: Catholics face fear as Chad prioritizes Islam,” by Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service, August 27, 2018

OXFORD, England (CNS) — Christians in Chad are being intimidated and forced from public life, under new rules prioritizing Islam in violation of the North African country’s secular foundations, according to the Catholic Church.

A senior church source, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, called the situation “critical, as the great powers show complicity by turning a blind eye to violations of basic human rights under cover of resisting radical Islam.”

The source also said Catholic leaders fear for their lives after criticizing constitutional changes.

The comments were sent Aug. 27 to Catholic News Service, as the government of President Idriss Deby enforced a revised constitution, extending presidential powers in the predominantly Muslim state and requiring office-holders to take a religious oath.

“The new religious oath is exclusive and reductive in its vision of the state and appears to be another way of excluding Christians from public responsibilities,” the church source said. “What will now become of the many Chadians who are neither Muslims nor Christians, and what will be the purpose of our institutions of justice and regulation?”

The revised constitution, in force since May 4, abolishes the office of prime minister and extends the powers of Deby, in office since 1990, allowing him to seek a sixth and seventh term, running till 2033.

In April, the Catholic bishops’ conference criticized the religious oath and use of Diya — blood money or ransom. The bishops urged a referendum on the revised constitution and warned its adoption otherwise risked igniting “inter-communal bitterness” and “gravely perverting democratic rules.”

“Our country is traversing a social crisis — in this difficult context, a project for reforming the institutions has been set in motion which does not have the support of the body of citizens,” said the bishops. “As a church, we have reflected on our engagement in the service of charity and development … but we must stress that poverty is now growing as grave violations of fundamental human rights become the norm.”

Radio France International reported Aug. 13 priority had since been given to officials taking the religious oath “in the name of Allah the all-powerful,” adding that several top Christian officials had been dismissed for refusing it.

The church source told CNS Catholic leaders believed the religious oath would “do nothing to solve the real problems of Chad,” while the practice of Diya was “very specific to Muslim communities” and would “sow hatred” if imposed on Christians.

However, the source added that the government had “reacted violently against the Catholic Church” after it listed its objections and said bishops had been threatened and intimidated….

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  1. Notmoron says

    Aug 27, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    While Pope and his bishops are busy welcoming muslims boys into Europe .

    • Fred says

      Aug 28, 2018 at 3:43 am

      Maybe that is it? They want access to Muslim boy/girl dancers. Just like Muslim men have and still get to go to heaven?

    • J D S says

      Aug 28, 2018 at 9:33 am

      If any Muslim country requires its government workers , elected or non elected to take any kind of RELIGIOUS OATH that would oppress Christians, then the U.S.A. should break any and all tied with that country and that includes sending of any freebies, government or other to that country….I know that by doing so would most probably place their citizens in dire want and desperate need because of American handouts to these countries….but something must be done.
      I do feel sorry for those many millions of Muslims who may not be totally tied to Islam and would suffer from our handouts being witheld
      but I am sick of my tax dollars being used in intolerant Muslim countries.

  2. gravenimage says

    Aug 27, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    Chad: Muslims intimidating Christians and driving them from public life under new rules prioritizing Islam
    ……………………

    Muslim supremacism always leads to violence against Infidels.

    And Chad is 45% Christian and animist–but violent Muslims prevail there.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 28, 2018 at 7:39 am

      Agree that this is an example of SUPREMACISM. It is also bigotry based on Koran 4.141 and Koran 63.8 which assert that it is not permissible for KAFIRS to rule over Muslims.

      According to these 2 verses, a non-Muslim having authority over a Muslim is incompatible with ‘SUBMISSION’ to Islam, since the Muslim has to submit to and obey whoever is in charge over him. The Muslim, therefore becomes inferior to the KAFIR, and this should not be the case according to the Koran.

      Dr. Fahd Al-`Usaymi, professor of Islamic studies at the Teachers’ College in Riyadh, remarks that the Muslim owner of the company should seek a Muslim employee who is better than the Christian (manager), or equal to him or even less qualified but has the ability to be trained to obtain the same skill enjoyed by the Christian. It is not permissible for a Christian to be in charge of Muslims by the virtue of the general evidences which denote the superiority of the Muslim over others.

      Muslims are SUPERIOR in what? In IDEOLOGY, thus we have a SUPREMACIST pecking order in Chad based on bigotry.

      This both direct discrimination and indirect discrimination.

      Slogan: “It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.”

      From the European Convention on Human Rights:

      Article 14: Prohibition of discrimination

      The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

      (I understand that this is not the law in Chad… yet it should be.)

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 3, 2018 at 1:30 am

        True, Mortimer.

  3. Lydia Church says

    Aug 27, 2018 at 9:03 pm

    Persecution against Christians is mounting all over.
    And now this.

    Also, take a good eyefull of that situation in Chad.
    THAT is what a country will look like after allowing in too many muslims.
    THAT is the danger.
    THAT is what happens.
    They lay low, pretending to be nice enough… until they reach the majority, and then you find out, only it is too late to change anything! Then all those people crying ‘islamophobia,’ will disappear with their tail between their legs (or snickering), and it will be too late! They accomplished their goals and that was all that mattered to them. It will be plainly obvious that anyone who listened to them was a first rank fool, but again, too late!
    The muslims take over…. and everyone else gets PERSECUTED, MARGINALIZED, and ELIMINATED.
    So for those who don’t fear the invasion of muslim migrants, and even advocate for this,
    and question what the problems could possibly be, and what there is to fear…
    well take a good look at this, because this is exactly what we are all warning about!

    HEED THE WARNINGS!!!

    • Renate says

      Aug 27, 2018 at 10:04 pm

      If we give them an inch, they will take a mile, and then another mile, and then another, and so it goes.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 27, 2018 at 11:51 pm

      The USA needs to start acting like Poland and Hungary. Do not allow Muslim “refugees” into your country, period. Live with the fact that you’ll be referred to as racist, Islamophobic, nationalist, far right, etc., etc. But you will avoid the problems of Islamization.

      Just look at the country of Sweden. The Swedish politicians would rather lose their country that be called racist – even though Islam is not a race.

  4. somehistory says

    Aug 27, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    Another example that proves Revelation’s description of the wild beast forcing worship of satan.

    • tedh754 says

      Aug 27, 2018 at 10:31 pm

      Right on

  5. tedh754 says

    Aug 27, 2018 at 10:31 pm

    Absolutely nothing good ever comes from Islam. Just death and misery.

  6. pemba says

    Aug 27, 2018 at 11:26 pm

    This kind of treatment to non-Muslims is totally financed by Saudi Arabia, all over the world.
    During the time of Idi Amin in Uganda, under instruction from Saudi Arabia more then 100K non-Muslims where killed, Saudi Arabia is getting the killings of non-Muslims by giving money to the leaders of poor African States.
    Today we read about the Chad, tomorrow it will be another state of Africa,
    There is no end to these problem where Muslims under the name of Islam go around killing non-Muslims.
    Easy way out is to set Muslims against Muslims, once they are busy killing one another, non-Muslims will
    live in peace.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 28, 2018 at 8:49 am

      Pemba, this bigotry is based on the ‘ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE’ called AL WALAA WAL BARAA.

      Please inform yourself about this central ‘ESSENTIAL TEACHING’ … it is ‘essential’ for Islamic salvation … all Muslims are required to practice the ‘hatred’ of kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.

    • KWJ says

      Sep 3, 2018 at 1:10 am

      +1 Yep. It’s one of the most dangerous countries in the world. They spread hate in a big way. Our yellow-bellied and greedy politicians do nothing to stop them. There ar Americans who have sold all decency, morals, patriotism and souls to them. It is KSA that needs to be neutralized because they don’t stop. It’s a very sickly relationship.

  7. FYI says

    Aug 28, 2018 at 7:37 am

    Alas,catholics and christians will not be getting any likely support from that apostle of islam and staunch promoter of the koran,pope saint francis.

    He’s too busy at the moment scattering his flock and quietly demolishing the Catholic faith behind that nice smiley visage of his and his carefully stage-managed screen of outwardly pious good works.He’s a man of HUMILITY,HOLINESS you see:he loves the poor so much that he jet sets around the world at enormous expense{security etc}to visit carefully-screened poor people to tell them how much he loves them{ note:he’s CEO of a multibillion dollar corporation:the vatican.an organisation whose enormous,undeserved wealth would be the envy of a Latin American Drug Cartel.Will the enormous wealth of the vatican EVER be distributed to the needy poor by francis the marxist jesuit ,the MAN WHO LOVES THE POOR AND NEVER STOPS BOASTING ABOUT IT….as Jesus I’m sure would want.Well,of course not!)

    So bad is pope saint francis that he has been asked to resign on several occasions.

    He’s been formally accused very recently by a certain Archbishop Carlo Vigano{sworn testimony},
    a former Vatican ambassador to the US, of KNOWINGLY promoting a disgraced cardinal{Theodore McCarricK} i.e knowingly covering up a clerical sex abuse case and PROMOTING the accused.That is very serious indeed ,but it is what one might expect from Mr smiley Bergolio,a man who famously stated that “We must embrace the NWO” and that “there is no such thing as islamc terrorism”.He has promoted leftard cardinals,his buddies,to more senior position in the church..what more proof does anyone need to know about this obnoxious fraud?:his own cardinals have asked him to step down,for God’s sake{literally..}

    “{pope francis}KNEW from at least June 23 2013 that mcCarrick was a serial predator.He knew he was a corrupt man,he covered for him to the bitter end”
    according to Vigano

    “he KNEW”..pope francis KNEW.

    Francis response to the allegation?

    “I won’t say a word about it”{27 Aug 2018}:that’s right francis:KEEP QUIET
    {keep shtum:best to keep it hidden and try to distract people with that famous thumbs up gesture.Like a sneeze,its always better to keep unpalatable secrets in..’cos then it will go away}

    What pope saint francis said to the Irish in Dublin on 26 Aug 2018:-

    “We ask forgiveness for some members of the Church’s hierarchy who did not take charge of the painful situations and KEPT QUIET”

    A member of the Catholic Church hierarchy who didn’t take charge of the painful situation {of the disgraced cardinal mccarrick case} and KEPT QUIET?

    Let me take a guess here but…Is…is… that… not….pope francis himself?Doesn’t the buck stop with pope saint francis?

    And there’s that “WE” again that is reminiscent of ..allah{“WE verily gave unto moses the scripture”.sure ya did allah.. or is that WE? }:but then what can one expect from islam’s greatest defender,fraudulent francis?

    As part of the vatican spin,there is a movie out about francis;_

    Pope francis: a Man of his word

    A cunning PR attempt{no doubt sponsored by the Opus dei Vatican mafiosi who run the RCC church administration but forget I told you that} to conflate smiley Bergolio with… Saint Francis of Assisi.

    pope francis says “Saint Francis was the Apostle of the Ear”.Given his apparent deafness to abuse victims it seems Mr Bergolio is NOT an Apostle of the Ear.

    Given his hilarious critique of the koran{“opposed to ever form of violence”}it seems he’s not the Apostle of the Eye either.He is of course,it seems, an Apostle of islam.

    Even the New Testament does not make any claim to be “opposed to every form of violence”{!!}

    I imagine if Jesus,St Peter and St Francis came to visit the Vatican

    JESUS What have you done?You have scattered my flock,you wolves in sheeps clothing..

    ST PETER What the hell is this place?They seem to be very rich..

    ST FRANCIS ‘pope francis’,really? “pope”…”francis”?..who is he kidding??

    But let’s IGNORE what the apostle of islam is doing ,and look at a smiley picture of francis with his famous panglossian thumbs gesture and maybe the sheeple will fall for the “pope francis is St Francis” propaganda trick via this new movie out about the Great Man.If you want a Real show:stay tuned to what is going on in the vatican

    There are rumors{in Catholic circles} that Fradulent francis may even cause a schism

    the Humility..the Holiness..the Love for the Poor……..the baloney of it all…

  8. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 28, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    So? Chad is still the very poorest nation on earth.
    (Not the most in-debt one; that would be Canada).

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