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Niger: Muslim mob torches Christian church, pastor’s car

Jun 19, 2019 11:14 am By Robert Spencer

The persecution of Christians is ongoing, with increasing international indifference. Meanwhile, in Europe, Canada, and the U.S., earnest conferences about “Islamophobia” portray Muslims as being the victims of unique discrimination and harassment in the West, a false narrative that has been advanced with great effectiveness.

“Muslim Mob Burns Christian Church,” by Jeff Katz, WRVA, June 18, 2019:

A mob of Muslim activists ransacked and set fire to a Christian church in Niger this weekend to protest the arrest of an influential imam.

On Saturday night, a large group of protesters in Maradi, Niger torched the Assembly of God church along with the pastor’s car.

Witnesses said that groups of Muslim demonstrators laid barricades across the road and burnt old tires in protest of the arrest of Cheick Rayadoune, the imam of the mosque of Zaria.

Police arrested Rayadoune earlier on Saturday after he had preached against a new government bill on the organization of the exercise of worship, calling the proposed legislation “anti-Islam.” After being detained for several hours, he was released.

A senior official of Niger’s Ministry of the Interior said there is “nothing anti-Islamic” in the proposed legislation, which is the result of extensive consultation and is intended to counter measures advocated by “obscurantist terrorist organizations” in the country.

The bill still needs to be adopted by Parliament to become law.

Imam Rayadoune has since said he was misinformed about the bill’s contents, thinking it would impose same-sex marriage. He also said he would correct that in his upcoming sermon Friday. Police have detained 178 Muslim protestors as a result of Saturday’s violence….

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  1. somehistory says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 12:26 pm

    Jesus Christ said the persecution would happen in one place after another. This is the case as He said it would be.

    It’s good this time that the police have arrested the moslims. It is not likely going to prevent them acting this way in the future. Blaming the Christians for what happened to the imam was just an excuse to burn the church and car, and to make trouble. moslims don’t need a reason for violence beyond what their filthy book instructs them.

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 4:47 pm

    A mob of Muslim activists ransacked and set fire to a Christian church in Niger this weekend to protest the arrest of an influential imam.

    Niger, a mostly muslim nation. The reaction after law enforcement arrested an imam? Go and attack Christians…

  3. screw u says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    Nope, none of this happened.
    Iv’e been monitoring the mainstream and leftist media and there has not been any reporting of this. Which means it never happened.
    Is this cynical enough for the start of the day?

  4. gravenimage says

    Jun 19, 2019 at 9:43 pm

    Niger: Muslim mob torches Christian church, pastor’s car
    ………………..

    Awful. At least no one has been murdered–so far…

  5. Joe says

    Jun 20, 2019 at 6:55 am

    “Police have detained 178 Muslim protestors as a result of Saturday’s violence”
    ————————————————————————————
    I bet they are not fined enough to build a new church.

  6. R. Roy Blake says

    Jun 20, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    TOWARDS A DECENTRALIZED AND EFFECTIVE ANTI-ISLAMIC RESISTANCE

    While Islam may not have hit its high water mark, as with every previous totalitarian ideology Islam is eventually doomed. It continues its rule through fear and brainwashing and as such is an affront to human dignity and human nature. So, some might ask, if Islam is inevitably doomed, why bother to actively oppose it? The answer to that is, that while we know Islam is eventually doomed, we do not know how long that will take or how much more human misery it will exact.

    We Americans have overcome colonialism, empires, petty tyrants from the Barbary Coast to the slave plantation, and the totalitarian ideologies of fascism and communism, but we cannot afford to rest easy. Just as one threat to our freedom appears shortly after the last one has been defeated, we cannot delude ourselves into thinking that there are no current threats just as serious, if not more so, than the previous.
    Indeed in our very midst is a totalitarian ideology that has sought and seeks constantly to conquer us from the inside that is being aided and abetted by much of our leadership and media.

    The current totalitarian ideology we face is, of course, Islam. While the previous threats we faced were daunting, they were also mostly top down hierarchies whose infrastructure could be clearly ascertained. The reason Islam has not yet been defeated is its lack of a clear central hierarchy and the decentralized threat it presents, affording it the initiative in picking its battles and great flexibility to change with changing conditions.

    Thus, to successfully attack Islam we urge the creation of a decentralized independent anti-Islamic resistance, returning the initiative and flexibility to our side.

    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=a+handbook+for+the+anti-islamic+resistance&ref=nb_sb_noss

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