Why is one of the world’s most self-consciously strict adherents of Islamic law so intolerant of Christians? The pope and many others assure us that Islam is peaceful and tolerant. Why doesn’t the Taliban get this?
“Freedom Focus Report: Afghanistan’s Christians Fight to Survive Under the Taliban,” International Christian Concern, July 13, 2023:
07/13/2023 Afghanistan (International Christian Concern) – Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, religious and civil liberties have rapidly deteriorated under Taliban rule. Under the current regime, former government officials and civil servants, and religious minorities like Christians endure intense governmental and societal pressure and scrutiny. They face regular raids on their homes by the Taliban, frequently receive threats against their jobs and families, and lack access to educational opportunities.
The Taliban are attempting to cut contact between Afghani citizens and any Western groups and have practically eradicated on-the-ground relief efforts by NGOs. Any group looking to provide long-term relief efforts, such as livelihood relief, must be wary of Taliban spies among their workers.
The state of religious freedom and Christian tolerance in Afghanistan has not improved since ICC reported Afghanistan as one of the worst places in the world to be a Christian in the 2022 Persecutor of the Year report. The Taliban are working to completely erase Christianity or any religious minority from the country, even stating that there are no Christians in Afghanistan, an obviously false claim. Many Christians have gone underground to avoid being kidnapped by the Taliban “courts.”
Poverty, Betrayal, and Torture
The rising starvation rates and increasing poverty in Afghanistan create an even higher security threat to these believers since now the Taliban are offering financial compensation to anyone who reports on Christians. In an interview with Mission News Network, Lana Silk, CEO of USA at Transform Iran, said, “The Taliban are offering money for Afghans to turn in any Christians they know. And Afghans are desperate, further heightening the security risk [to] Christians.”
Unless ransomed by their families, Christians captured by the “courts” face brutal torture and even death. If redeemed, the survivors and their families, often bankrupt from the exorbitant ransom demands, must flee their homes to avoid repeated kidnappings from the various Taliban gangs.
Pakistan’s Refugee Crisis
Because of the persecution, many Christians escape to Pakistan and risk capture and death by the Taliban. Even if they make it to Pakistan, they must conceal their faith for fear of receiving worse treatment in already poor conditions. Some Christian refugees decide to return to Afghanistan, deciding they have a better chance of survival under the Taliban than in Pakistan.
The Pakistani government, unprepared for the influx of refugees, has begun to crack down on immigration. Many immigrants cannot find work to provide food or rent for themselves and their families….
tim gallagher says
islam, as shown very clearly in the Koran, is full of relentless hatred towards all non-believers, so this Muslim mistreatment of Christians in that shithole of a hardline Muslim country, Afghanistan, and all Muslim countries, is no surprise at all. As for why the Pope chooses to spread that bullshit about how islam is peaceful, who the hell can understand why that man spreads such a monumental lie? His apologies for islam are a disgrace. It annoys me that we, in western non-Muslim countries, treat Muslims so well when Muslims, any time they have power, treat non-Muslims appallingly. Muslims do not deserve such decent treatment until they start to treat non-Muslims better, which is unlikely to ever happen given the hatred that the Koran teaches them.
PRCS says
+1
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the +1, PRCS. To my mind, islam, so full of hatred for all of us non-Muslims, deserves zero respect. If Muslims ever clean up their act, can’t see it happening, then maybe they should be treated well.
Walter Sieruk says
A Muslim scholar along with other devote Muslims did “Pray to Allah for a complete the victory of the Taliban over America. “
The god of Islam is not the same god as the God of the Bible ,which ,as all readers of this site know or should is the Holy Book of Christians. Second Timothy 3:16. Therefore the Taliban hate Christians.
For The God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
Walter Sieruk says
Allah , the god of Islam likewise, the god of the Taliban. this is not the same god as the God of the Bible ,which ,as all readers of this site know or should is the Holy Book of Christians. Second Timothy 3:16. Therefore the Taliban hate Christians.
For The God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “ Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible.
John Smith says
Yes Walter as you say the crescent moon is a symbol of islam, so is the morning star. According to Walid Shoebat the name Lucifer comes from, hilal bin shahar (crescent moon son of the morning star) which synonymous with evil.
Walter Sieruk says
Since the Taliban have taken over Afghanistan, they have been searching for Christians to kill and likewise burn their Bibles.
First, Joe Biden says that he’s “Christian” but only the most gullible people would believe that claim of that pathological liar . For no genuine Christian would fund and uphold that vicious and murderous anti –Christian malicious Islamic tyranny which are the Taliban.
Second, one of the “reasons “ of that horrendous evil behavior on the part of the Taliban towards Christians along with Bible burning is because when the Bible when compared to and contrasted to the Qu ‘ran is the better and superior of those two books. So much so that the Taliban in fear of the information revealed in the Bible with expose the many false doctrines taught a “divine truth” in the Qu ‘ran.
Therefore, since the entire foundation of the existence and rule is based on the Qu ‘ran. So the Taliban will go to great lengths to eliminate the Bible from Afghanistan even if it means murdering Christians to do so.
The Taliban are glad to engage in that homicide of Christians.
Djandel says
Pope is the one who responsible for this. He never concerned with the oppressed Christian in Muslim countries.