The Freedom Center is pleased to release Robert Spencer’s new booklet: “The History of Muslim Persecution of Christians”
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One can read, almost daily, of the atrocities and persecution of the ancient Christian communities in the Middle East and beyond at the hands of jihadists. This is not, as some try to claim, just a modern-day phenomenon. Indeed, the Muslim persecution of Christians goes all the way back to the time of Muhammad. Following Muhammad’s death, Palestine, Syria and Egypt, once the most heavily populated Christian areas in the world, quickly succumbed to Islamic invasions, and by the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Robert Spencer has just written a ground breaking new booklet, “The History of Muslim Persecution of Christians” that the Center has published. This incredible and timely booklet chronicles the history of persecution over the past 1,400 years.
Click here to get your copy of The History of Muslim Persecution of Christians.
Emilie Green says
Christine, thanks for letting us know of Robert’s new and important work. Would it also be possible to let us know, in a general way of course, how Robert is doing? Thank you.
mortimer says
Response to Emily: The counterjihad requires a great deal of security, because of its many enemies among leftist globalism and their jihadist allies. They work together with massive budgets.
AnneM04031959 says
As going as planned, Scriptures end of the age wise.
Kessler says
Mortimer, are you saying Robert is on a break due to security concerns? My thoughts are with him every day
Christine Douglass-Williams says
Emilie (and other Jihad Watchers): Robert Spencer is very committed to and respectful of his readership. The booklet was authored before the haitus. We expect, hope and pray that he will return soon. Thank you to all who continue to pray.
gravenimage says
Thank you for the update, Christine. We are all praying Robert continues to get better.
Lydia Church says
Amen!
: )
Terry Gain says
Thank you Christine. We are missing Robert and praying for him.
Christine Douglass-Williams says
All of us at Jihad Watch miss him too Terry. Thank you! We eagerly await his return.
ToBeFrank says
Thank you for the update; continuing to pray and looking forward to Mr. Spencer’s return.
Ashley says
Thank you for the update, Christine.
We will continue to keep our floating wicks burning with Robert in our thoughts.
duh swami says
I’m glad Robert feels good enough to write…I remember when Robert and Hugh used to ride around town in the Maxwell,,,Those were the good ole days…
Michael Copeland says
Unfortunately the checkout has no provision for shipping to UK.
Maybe….. some time……..
CogitoErgoSum says
Interesting that Bishop Barron posted this video today (see link below). He is still pushing the “let us reason together” viewpoint. He thinks that the more Christians stress the divinity of Christ, the more room we have for a rational dialogue with other points of view. What? What kind of rational dialogue can be had when one side says Jesus is the Son of God and the other side holds firmly to the belief that it is blasphemy to say that God has a son? What room is there for compromise when one side says it is the “perfect” religion and all other religions are displeasing to God? The bishop just doesn’t seem to realize that the reason Christians have been persecuted by Muslims for the past 1,400 years is because Muslims believe such persecution is part of God’s “perfect” plan which if changed in any way would make it imperfect. This leaves no way on Earth to reach a compromise and the fighting and the persecution will continue until Islam either destroys all other religions or is destroyed itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyzRoSkPgnA
Keys says
Thanks for the video, CES.
Reply to Bishop Barron’s video:
Here is the voice of Maimonides, a Jewish philosopher from the 12th century, the time of Bp. Baron’s favorite scholar, Thomas Aquinas:
“God has cast us into the midst of this people, the nation of Ishmael [that is, Muslims], who PERSECUTE us severely, and who devise ways to HARM us and to DEBASE us…. No nation has EVER DONE MORE HARM to Israel. None has matched it in debasing and humiliating us. None has been able to REDUCE us as they have…. We have borne their imposed DEGRADATION, their LIES, their ABSURDITIES, which are beyond human power to bear…. We have done as our sages of blessed memory have instructed us, bearing the lies and absurdities of Ishmael…. In spite of all this, we are not spared from the ferocity of their WICKEDESS and their outbursts at any time. On the contrary, the more we suffer and choose to CONCILIATE them, the more they choose to act belligerently toward us…”
Here is his favorite, Aquinas:
“He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.
He did not bring forth any signs produced in a supernatural way, which alone fittingly gives witness to divine inspiration; for a visible action that can be only divine reveals an invisibly inspired teacher of truth. On the Contrary, Mohammed said that he was sent in the power of his arms – which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants. What is more, no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning (1). Those who believed in him were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Mohammed forced others to become his follower’s by the violence of his arms. Nor do divine pronouncements on part of preceding prophets offer him any witness. On the contrary, he perverts almost all the testimony of the Old and the New Testaments by making them into a fabrication of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity. It is thus clear that those who place faith in his words believe foolishly.” – Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, Chapter 16, Art. 4. Footnote: 1. Sura 21:5, Sura 44:14; Sura 16:103, Sura 37:36
David Bukay – 21st century lecturer at University of Haifa:
“The doctrine of al-Wala wal-Bara is critical to understanding the Islamic world-view and its perception of the other as it is second only to attesting to tawhid, the oneness of God, for the faithful. Faith is incomplete without it, and it is the criterion used to distinguish between believers and the enemies of Islam. Tawhid will never be achieved on earth until believers apply al-Wala wal-Bara through adherence to Muhammad’s way of life (as-Sirat al-Mustaqim).
Since it is the deepest Islamic obligation to have all recognize the truth of Muhammad’s message, it is a Muslim duty to impose Shari’a on humanity. The infidels who resist Islam are thus responsible for the persistence of violence and the absence of world peace. It is they who force Muslims to take defensive measures to protect the truth of Islam through jihad, if necessary.[ Qur. 3:118; 4:89; 9:32, 34; 47:34-5; 2:217 ].
Submission is the only solution to world peace, and it is in the best interest of humanity for the other to lose his otherness. This self-image helps explain why multitudes of Muslims react violently at almost every situation in which the honor of their prophet or their faith seems to be belittled while simultaneously complaining of being victims of oppression, aggression, racism, and the new and custom-made bête noir, “Islamophobia.”
Bishop Barron wants to reason with Muslims, but Allah’s will is paramount, not man’s reasoning. The only option for non-believers is submission, not reasoning. Not, Isiah’s “Come let us reason together”, but Mohammad’s “submit” !
Terry Gain says
Barron is as clueless as Bergolio. Sure, reason with a sex maniac who claims Jesus faked his death.
Islam_Is Islam says
@Terry Gain: Bergoglio is not and has never been pope. The goings on at the Cardinal’s March 2013 ‘retreat’ did nothing since the See of Peter was not vacant. It’s no conspiracy theory; the black-and-white evidence is detailed here:
https://www.ppbxvi.org/quaestio-English.pdf
Pope Benedict at least knows what Keys addresses in his comment. Would he be able to act on his knowledge with the Vatican Deep State 100 years and more “deep”? Who knows.
Terry Gain says
Keys
I don’t know who you are – you are clearly even more brilliant than your namesake played by Edward G Robinson in Double Indemnity – but it is a sad state of affairs that you know more about Thomas Aquinas than Bishop Barron and his Pope, my former Pope.
Thank you for your diligence.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
Jean (old) says
He should call his channel The Smug Bishop.
Isabella says
Yea Booh Sucks to you
You cannot post to a non US address
Is there any way I can get this booklet posted to me in South Africa
Walter Sieruk says
There have been many Muslims, in history and now current times still 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.
Clayton Norcroft says
Anyone who has ever entered into discussion of this subject will be familiar with the response – which is that you could write just as much on the history of Christian persecution of Muslims. That the equivalence is exact and merely an indictment of religion, because they’re all the same.
I doubt that is true myself, but, if anyone reading Robert Spencer’s account wishes to be equipped to assert the point (i.e. that there is a history of Muslim persecution of Christians as old as Islam) they would be well advised to find out ahead of time what instances of the contrary will be immediately thrown at their heads, and how to answer that.
The determination to white wash Islam no matter what it teaches and no matter what it motivates, is a phenomenon for the history books, and it is relentless.
eduardo odraude says
Clayton, here’s a small start:
Bernard Lewis says Jihad is an unlimited offensive to bring the whole world under Islamic law; Christian crusades a defensive, limited response to, and imitation of, jihad
From pp.233-234 of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years:
Another place for good answers to the question you pose: thereligionofpeace.com
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer’s New Booklet: ‘The History of Muslim Persecution of Christians’
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I’ll be putting in my order!
Johane says
I’d like to know if we can get books or booklets to Canada from “Frontpage”? Seems to me it’s only for people in the USA. I would really like to get this booklet.
Jean (old) says
Clayton Norcroft
A lesser-known, but beautiful, tale by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Jewish girl”, contains a legend that illustrates the different attitudes of Muslims and Christians to one another.
The legend tells “of a Hungarian knight who was taken captive by a Turkish pasha and yoked with oxen to the plow. He was driven with lashes of the whip and suffered pain and thirst almost beyond endurance.
But at home his wife sold her jewels and mortgaged their castle and lands, while friends contributed large sums to help raise the almost unbelievable amount of money that was demanded as ransom. This finally was collected, and he was delivered from slavery and disgrace. Sick and suffering, he returned home.
But soon there resounded over the countryside the summons to a crusade against the foe of Christianity. The sick man heard the call and could have neither peace nor rest any longer; they had to lift him on his war horse. Then the blood rushed again to his cheeks, his strength seemed to return, and he rode forth to victory. The very pasha who had made him suffer pain and humiliation yoked to the plow became his captive. He was taken home to the castle dungeon, but before he had been there an hour the knight came to him and asked his prisoner, “What do you think now awaits you?”
“I know,” replied the Turk. “Retribution.”
“Yes, the retribution of a Christian,” said the knight. “The teachings of Christ tell us to forgive our enemies and love our fellow men. God is love! Go in peace to your home and loved ones, and be gentle and good to all who suffer.”
Then the prisoner burst into tears. “How could I have believed such a thing possible?” he cried. “I was certain I would have to suffer shame and torture, hence I took poison, and within a few hours I shall die. There is no remedy. But before I die, teach me the faith which is so full of such love and mercy; it is great and divine! In that faith let me die; let me die a Christian!” And his request was granted him.”
http://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheJewishGirl_e.html
The great storyteller portrayed something that runs deep within each of the two faiths, separating them. The faithful Jewish girl who honours her parents to her death and beyond also portrays something running deep within Judaism.
patriotliz says
Thanks for the story and the legend of the Hungarian knight which got my attention since I’m of Hungarian heritage.
gravenimage says
Thank you for citing that story, Jean.
winoceros says
Bought 2.
Linda M Clark says
I’m wondering how Mr. Spencer is doing? Has anyone heard? Thanks.
gravenimage says
Linda, from what Ms. Douglass-Williams says above, it sounds as though he is recovering, but slowly.