The key question here is, Who is responsible for equating Islam with violence? Islamic jihadists, or non-Muslim “Islamophobes”? Islamic supremacist groups in the West, backed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), constantly pretend that the latter are responsible, when the whole world knows it’s the former. “Pope says it is wrong to equate Islam […]
Pakistan: Muslims expel all Christians from village
“In a Pakistani village in the Punjab province, Christian families are being forced to leave because a Christian married a Muslim woman. The Muslims in this village became enraged when this occurred and began threatening them.” Islamic law forbids Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men. Muslim men can marry non-Muslim women, but not the other […]
Russia considering UN action on protecting Middle East Christians
Why hasn’t the United States initiated such action? “Russia Looking Into Initiating UN Action on Protecting Christians in the Middle East,” by Dr Alexander Yakovenko, AINA, November 26, 2014 (thanks to AINA): Russia is currently considering the possibility of initiating a draft decision of the UN Human Rights Council on the protection of Christians in […]
Brotherhood imposes jizya tribute on Egypt’s Christians
Now that the attacks on Egypt’s Christian churches have subsided, stage two of the jihad “” profiting from the fear and terror caused by stage one “” is setting in: reports are arriving that the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters are forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village in south Minya province to […]
Video: Al-Qaeda attacks two Syrian churches to cries of “˜Thank God!”
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] More information on yesterday”s al-Qaeda led attack on the Christian village of Maaloula near Damascus, Syria. Not only did they firebomb the village, and threaten to slaughter all Christians once the U.S. helps “liberate” Syria, but they also fired missiles and mortars at two ancient churches, St. Alias Church and St. Grace Church, […]
Al-Qaeda vows to slaughter Christians after U.S. “liberates” Syria
While U.S. leaders continue pushing for war against the Syrian government, today “Al-Qaeda-linked rebels,” reports AP, “launched an assault on a regime-held Christian mountain village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday”¦ In the attack on the village of Maaloula, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel […]
Egypt: Christians killed for ransom
[Via RaymondIbrahim.com] Not only are the churches, monasteries, and institutions of Egypt’s Christians under attack by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters””nearly 100 now have been torched, destroyed, ransacked, etc.””but Christians themselves are under attack all throughout Egypt, with practically zero coverage in Western media. Days ago, for example, Copts held a funeral for Wahid […]
Fox News asks Raymond Ibrahim: Why do Christians persecute others?
The other day I appeared on Fox News’ Lou Dobbs Tonight, to discuss my book, Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (see Robert’s review of it here). Filling in for Dobbs, Lori Rothman made some interesting remarks — including,”Throughout history, wasn’t it always the Christians who were doing the persecuting? Why does it […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Islam’s Uninterrupted History of Forced Conversions
Last week on Pajamas Media (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I compared and contrasted two accounts of forced conversion to Islam, two samples, one from modern Pakistan, the other from roughly 500 years earlier, under Ottoman rule, and found great continuity: Finding and connecting similar patterns of behavior throughout Islamic history is one of the most objective ways […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Why “˜Christian” Persecution?
Some are asking why my new monthly series, “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” wherein I collate and assess some of the atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, does not include the persecution of other religious minority groups; others are suggesting I broaden my scope to include all minorities, for instance, homosexuals. Of course other minority groups””especially […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2011
Today on Hudson NY (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I report on last months abuses, few if any of which made it to the mainstream media: This series was developed in order to collate some””by no means all””of the foulest instances of Muslim persecution of Christians that surface each month. It serves two purposes: 1) Intrinsically, to document […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Muslim Persecution of Christians
I am beginning a new series for FrontPage Magazine, an excerpt of which follows. Jihad Watch readers especially are encouraged to forward me any stories they think are applicable for inclusion in the monthly batch of anecdotes, at the following email address: ri_christian_persecution@yahoo.com. Here is the first posting (via RaymondIbrahim.com): Because the persecution of Christians […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Casual Hate – the Subtle Side of Christian Persecution
On July 21 I discussed how embedded anti-Christian sentiment is to the Muslim world for FrontPageMagazine.com (via RaymondIbrahim.com): Earlier this month I participated in Coptic Solidarity”s Second Annual Conference in Washington D.C., titled: “Will Religious and Ethnic Minorities Pay the Price of the “˜Arab Spring”?” Panelists included Middle East specialists, prominent members of the Coptic […]
Christian beheads Muslim in Egypt! No, wait —
Yet another setback for the “all religions are equally likely to inspire violence” crowd. Note the official indifference and complicity. “Muslim Man Beheads Christian in Egypt,” by Mary Abdelmassih for AINA, September 21: Egypt (AINA) — Osama Araban, a Muslim man riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, went on a rampage last week in Egypt, killing 63-year […]