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Muslim Persecution of Christians: March, 2013
by creepingsharia
The Islamic jihad against Christians in Nigeria is proving to be the most barbaric. A new report
states that 70% of Christians killed around the world in 2012 were
killed in that African nation. Among some of the atrocities committed in
March alone, at least 41 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a bus station in a predominantly Christian neighborhood. According to the Christian Association of Nigeria, these attacks “were a signpost of the intended extermination of Christians and Christianity from northern Nigeria.”
According to the Rev. Jerome Ituah, “Out of the 52 Catholic churches in Maiduguri diocese, 50 of them have been destroyed by [terrorist group] Boko Haram. When two Christian brothers were returning home after Sunday church service, jihadis opened fire on them with machine guns, killing the brothers, as well as three others, and injuring several more Christians.”
Another 13 Christian factory workers in
Kano were “gruesomely” slain. According to the local bishop, “Reports of
the attack reaching us disclosed that on that fateful Saturday at about
7 p.m, Muslim faithful were conducting their prayer close to the
affected compound occupied by Christian families, when two taxi cabs
stopped in front of the compound and the occupants, who all concealed
their arms, dashed into the complex and demanded to know why the
residents were not part of the 7 p.m. Muslim prayer. They responded by
telling the visitors they were Christians and so could not be part of
the Muslim gathering. At that point, they separated the men from their
wives and children and shot them dead on the spot after ordering the women and children into their homes” to be enslaved.
The bishop added that, “government should
show more concern, like it has always done when Muslims are affected; I
have not seen that in the case of Christians—that 13 Christians were
killed in one straight attack and nothing is heard from the government
reflects selective justice because we are aware of compensation paid to
Muslim families in situations of this nature.”
However, the Nigerian government recently did go on the offensive to try to contain the jihadis in northern Nigeria—only to be chastised, according to Reuters, by the Obama administration,
in the person of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, “in a strongly
worded statement, saying: “We are… deeply concerned by credible
allegations that the Nigerian security forces are committing gross human
rights violations…..” against the jihadi mass murderers.
Categorized by theme, the rest of March’s
Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not
limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and in country
alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity:
Church Attacks
Egypt: According to El Watan News,
three Christian brothers were shot dead at their home by automatic
weapons a few weeks before two of them were set to have their weddings.
The victims’ family was earlier accused of trying to build a church on
land they owned after purchasing building material to build a house on
that land. The rumors about the building of a church spread during the
Friday sermon at the mosque, following which, 2,000 Muslims stormed the
land and tried to destroy the house, a car and a tractor, resulting in
the murder of the three Christian brothers.
Indonesia: Authorities demolished a church building with a bulldozer
in West Java, even as Muslim bystanders cheered and denounced
Christians as “infidels.” According to Pastor Leonard Nababan, the
government is “criminalising our religion.” The congregation had
gathered around the church in an effort to save it; so did Muslims,
shouting, “They’re infidels and they’ve built their church without
permission;” “Knock the church down now,” and “Allahu Akbar”["Allah is
Greater"].
Iraq: According to Fox News,
before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there were more than 300 Christian
churches. Today, a decade after a jihad was unleashed on Christians and
their churches, only 57 Christian churches remain in the nation. And
“The churches that remain are frequent targets of Islamic extremists,
who have driven nearly a million Christians out of the land…” An
Iraqi-based human rights organization said that, “The last 10 years have
been the worst for Iraqi Christians because they bore witness to the
biggest exodus and migration in the history of Iraq…. More than
two-thirds [of Christians] have emigrated.” One of the most dramatic
cases of Christian persecution came in late October of 2010, when Al
Qaeda members laid siege to Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Baghdad,
killing 58 and wounding 78. According to an AP report
, “Iraq’s Catholic Christians flocked to churches to celebrate Easter
Sunday [in March], praying, singing and rejoicing in the resurrection of
Christ behind high blast walls and tight security cordons… [emphasis added].”
Libya: A Coptic Christian church in Benghazi was attacked by armed Muslims.
The jihadis severely beat and shaved the beard and mustache of Father
Paul, the priest of the church, as a sign of humiliation. They also beat
the deacon and nine attendees. Meanwhile, because Egypt’s Muslim
Brotherhood-led government had done little to restrain the systematic
abuse of Egyptian citizens in Libya, including the murder of one under
torture, Copts demonstrated in front of the Libyan embassy in
Cairo—prompting yet another attack on the Benghazi church, which was set
on fire.
Pakistan: In response to one
Christian man accused of blaspheming Islam’s prophet, thousands of
Muslims attacked the Christian Joseph Colony of Lahore. They burned two churches,
one Catholic, the other Seventh Day Adventist, as often happens in
Pakistan, in the context of collectively punishing Christians.
Sudan: According to Morning Star News,
Khartoum’s jihad continues to “rid the area of non-Arabs and
Christianity”: the Evangelical Church in the Nuba was “reduced … to
ashes” after an aerial bombardment. Days later, another bombing campaign
in the Christian-majority region left two dead and twelve injured.
“These bombardments,” said a church leader, “are major sources of fear
among the people in South Kordofan.”
Turkey: The 5th century
Studios Monastery, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is set to go from
being a branch of the Hagia Sophia — Christianity’s grandest cathedral,
which was transformed into a mosque after the Islamic conquest, and is currently a museum — to being an active mosque. Many Turkish Muslims continue calling for the return of the Hagia Sophia itself to a mosque.
Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism
Holland: A 43-year-old Iranian Muslim convert to Christianity was found murdered.
According to the Farsi Christian News Network, the victim went to
church the afternoon he was killed: “The shocking news of this senseless
murder has brought grief and sorrow to the local Christians,
Iranian-Christian community, and asylum seekers across the country.”
Christians constitute a large percentage of the Iranians seeking asylum
in the Netherlands. (Islamic Sharia law calls for the killing of
apostates; in the Islamic world, converts to Christianity are regularly
targeted.)
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Sweden: According to Charisma News,
“Christians in Iran face arrest, torture, even death. But that doesn’t
seem to matter to Swedish immigration officials. Sweden wants to send
Iranian Christian asylum seekers, who left Islam, back to Iran where
they could be killed. Iran is one of the most dangerous places in the
world for Christians. As apostates from Islam, they face grave danger in
this country. But their requests for asylum status that could save
their lives have been denied.”
Syria: According to a Catholic leader, up to 30,000 Christians have fled the city of Aleppo,
and two priests were abducted and held for a ransom of 15 million
Syrian pounds each. Christians are regularly kidnapped and beheaded by
jihadi rebels. Also, a short English-language video
appeared where Fr. Fadi al-Hamzi told of how his uncle was recently
murdered: “They killed him because he is Christian, they refuse to have
any Christians in Syria. … I’m not afraid; my uncle died, he’s immortal
now. I can be like him.” When asked if he was worried if Christians
would be massacred if the U.S.-supported jihadis overthrew the
government, the priest said , “Yes, yes, this will be… they don’t want
us here.” Christians were in Syria 600 years before Islam conquered the
nation.
About this Series
Because the persecution of Christians in
the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions,
“Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no
means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It
serves two purposes:
1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.
2) To show that such persecution is not
“ran
dom,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a
worldview inspired by Sharia.
Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of
persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred
for churches and other Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian
women; forced conversions to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws that
criminalize and punish with death those who “offend” Islam; theft and
plunder in lieu of jizya (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like dhimmis, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder.
Sometimes it is a combination.
Because these accounts of persecution span
different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West,
to India in the East, and throughout the West wherever there are
Muslims—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them:
Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the
supremacist culture born of it.
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