CHRISTIANS: On the Front Lines of Muslim Violence

[leilani]

Honestly, it's pathetic that this is one of the only places on the internet - if not the only place - where this is all being documented.

 

It's bizarre to me that even US conservatives have evidently decided to turn a blind eye to this mass extermination.

 

Well, thank you Gee, Valin & Draggingtree, is all I can say.

 

You three are triple-handedly keeping whatever last shred of respect for humanity I have left alive.

[Geee]

Honestly, it's pathetic that this is one of the only places on the internet - if not the only place - where this is all being documented.

 

It's bizarre to me that even US conservatives have evidently decided to turn a blind eye to this mass extermination.

 

Well, thank you Gee, Valin & Draggingtree, is all I can say.

 

You three are triple-handedly keeping whatever last shred of respect for humanity I have left alive.

I hate having to document the greatest extermination of Christians in history and no one is paying any attention to it. Uh - remember the holocaust. No one really paid any attention till after the fact. Sigh.

[Draggingtree]

O Little Town of Bethlehem – The Persecution of Christians In The Modern-Day City of Jesus’ Birth

By: Candice Lanier (Diary) | December 16th, 2014 at 07:59 PM

 

The town of Bethlehem lies within the territory assigned to the tribe of Judah. At that time, it was very fertile country, situated on an impressive ridge, 2700 feet above sea level and approximately six miles south by west from Jerusalem. Known for its beauty and terraced hills, covered with vines and fig trees, the surrounding valleys yielded abundant harvests of grain.

 

According to the Bible, Jacob buried Rachel near the gate of Bethlehem and it was the town that both Ruth and David called home.

 

http://www.redstate.com/diary/candicelanier/2014/12/16/o-little-town-bethlehem-persecution-christians-modern-day-city-jesus-birth/

[Draggingtree]

ISIS Continues their Brutal Barbarism in the Middle East

By: Jake (Diary) | December 19th, 2014 at 11:00 AM

In this image (obtained from Wikipedia), the gray area is the territory controlled by ISIS.

A couple of weeks ago, ISIS made news for martyring children who refused to renouncetheir Christian faith. This story was hardly surprising, and in fact, it was depressingly only one of the smaller outrages against humanity they’ve committed. Not content to stop there, we’ve received news this week of even more of their barbarism this week.

 

First of all, we need to remember that ISIS is one of the worst perpetrators in the War on Women. Fresh off news from last week that the terrorist organization has published pamphlets on how to properly sexually exploit and abuse women and underage girls, we find news of what happens when women and children don’t submit to these horrors.

 

Mary Chastain over at Breitbart brings to our attention a report from the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights that at least 150 women have been executed after they refused to have sex with members of the terrorist group:

http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/19/isis-continues-brutal-barbarism-middle-east/

[Draggingtree]

Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2014 by findalis • December 18, 2014 • 1 Comment

Muslims beheading Christians was a visibly growing spectacle throughout the month of August. Islamic State [iS] militants cut off a Christian man’s head—after compelling him to say the shehada, the Islamic profession of faith, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” When the shehada is spoken before Muslim witnesses, the speaker becomes Muslim and thus, in theory, safeguards his life and possessions from the jihad. Not so for this hapless man, who, after renouncing his Christian faith for Islam, was still slaughtered on camera (graphic video can be viewed here).

http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2014/12/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2014/

[Valin]

They Fled ISIS, but They Can’t Flee Winter
Kathryn Jean Lopez
December 23, 2014

 

They are cold and loosing hope of returning. They miss family pictures and albums. And their village church.

 

Winter is setting in for refugees who fled ISIS this summer in Iraq and Syria. Just last week, Chris Seiple was traveling in Lebanon, near the Syrian border, Erbil, and Dohuk, Iraq, and told some of the stories of people he met along the way.

 

In an abandoned building across from St. Joseph’s Church in Erbil, he finds families who can’t use kerosene heaters because the walls are flammable and whose donated electric heaters “short an electric system not designed for refugee families.”

 

(Snip)

 

Seiple is president of the Institute for Global Engagement and was traveling in conjunction with The Cradle Fund, an effort recently launched by husband and wife team Mark Burnett (of Survivor fame) and Roma Downey (known best from Touched by an Angel) to help. As Seiple writes:

 

 

To lose the presence of Christians in the birthplace/Cradle of Christianity is to accelerate instability in the Middle East. With the region on the brink, those who have fled persecution—including Christians, other religious minorities, and the majority Muslims—need a strategy that works to rescue, restore, and return them to a home where they can practice their faith free from fear. This approach is not only the right thing to do, it is in everyone’s interest to do so for the sake of a peaceful Middle East. To start, we are working to get immediate humanitarian aid to all those suffering.

 

 

Q: You were in Iraq last week. What did you see and hear?

 

A: I met with many folks who have fled ISIS: mostly Christians, but also other religious minorities and Muslims as well. Their story is all the same: they fled in the middle of a hot summer night as ISIS approached. But they can’t flee winter. Their situation is dire, and they need all the help possible to get through the winter. They have now been away from their homes for four months and they are losing hope about the possibility of returning. Their despair is compounded by this twofold fact: they are middle class refugees within an hour or two of their beloved homes. They all had respectable jobs and status in society. They are professors, lawyers, doctors, etc. They had homes and people over for the holidays, just as we do. Now they live in the corner of a basement, or in a 6×10 metal box provided by the U.N., just 30 miles, in some cases, from all that they cherish. The tantalizing tragedy of these folks hurts the most.

 

(Snip)

[Geee]

Christians and Churches Attacked in the West

 

“You have a cross on… Do you know what we do to people like you?” — Muslim in Denmark.

 

 

Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor], his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting the building on fire… We only found the charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of Christianity in the town.” — Eyewitness account, Nigeria.

 

Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is closed.

 

The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/christians-and-churches-attacked-in-the-west/

[Valin]

Christians and Churches Attacked in the West

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/christians-and-churches-attacked-in-the-west/

 

Also at Gatestone Institute

 

The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe.

 

In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were "Infidels!" and "Koran 3:151." The verse from the Koran states, "We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers."

 

Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew's Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said, "There's a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in Columbus, whether that was truly the person's intent or there's something else going on, it makes people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared."

 

Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that "Church-goers in Sydney's west have been left shaken after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window." A church official said the people in the car threatened to "kill the Christians" and slaughter their children: "They were strong words and people were scared of what they saw." Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the words, "There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet." And as happens frequently in Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while hundreds partook of the mass inside.

 

(Snip)

[Draggingtree]

Thousand Churches Destroyed in Nigeria: Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2014

By Raymond Ibrahim Full Story

 

 

- Raymond Ibrahim

In just two months, from August to October, nearly 200 Christian churches were destroyed by the Islamic organization Boko Haram and its Muslim allies after their capture of towns and villages in the north-eastern states of Borno and Adamawa. In the words of Reverend Gideon Obasogie, the director of Catholic Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese in Borno State: “The group’s seizure of territory in both states has seen 185 churches torched and over 190,000 people displaced by their insurgency.” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/68704

[righteousmomma]

Makes me literally sick to my stomach and angry.

Where is the world's media!!!!!

[Geee]

REPORTS: ISIS ABDUCTS 90 ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS AND TORCHES CHURCHES

 

Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have kidnapped dozens of Christians in northern Syria. According to reports, some sources state that as many as 90 were abducted from their homes near Tal Tamr.

 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad regime monitoring group, said that 90 Assyrian Christians were abducted as Islamic State fighters were engaged in battles with Kurdish and Assyrian forces.

 

The Observatory claimed that its sources heard radio chatter describing the new captives as “crusaders.”

 

The Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) reports that four Assyrian fighters were killed as a result of the battles, along with tens of ISIS jihadists. AINA also reported that while dozens have been abducted, other Christian communities are now completely surrounded by the Islamic terrorists.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/24/reports-isis-abducts-90-assyrian-christians-and-torches-churches/

[Draggingtree]

Makes me literally sick to my stomach and angry.

Where is the world's media!!!!!

Same place they were in the 30’s / 40’s as the Nazi regime was at it worse.

[Valin]

 

Makes me literally sick to my stomach and angry.

Where is the world's media!!!!!

Same place they were in the 30’s / 40’s as the Nazi regime was at it worse.

 

 

 

The UK Telegraph

 

Reuters

 

USA Tody

 

Washington Post

 

Al-Manar TV (Hezbollah)

 

I could go on if you want

[righteousmomma]

Valin, sometimes its hard to get one's true meaning across in a little flat white rectangle with flat black letters.

 

Thanks for the current headlines and no, I don't want more. From January and before when I first wrote that until almost 2 months later matters have gotten so horrific and done for public show that no one can ignore them.

[nickydog]

Makes me literally sick to my stomach and angry.

Where is the world's media!!!!!

 

Where are the world's leaders??? Well, we know where ours is -- "leading" from behind.

[Geee]

ISIS ABDUCTS 220 CHRISTIAN CIVILIANS, BURNS TWO CHURCHES IN SYRIA

 

In their latest terror campaign, ISIS militants in Syria have rounded up 220 Christian civilians in the past three days, according to reports Thursday from the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

 

The jihadists also burned two Christian churches during their raids.

 

The kidnappings took place in 11 different villages in the Tal Tamir countryside in al-Hasakah. The Observatory states that the prisoners have been taken to the Abd al-Aziz mount to the southwest of Tal Tamir.

 

“These were peaceful villages that had nothing to do with the battles,” said Nasir Haj Mahmoud, a Kurdish official in the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, in northeastern Syria.

 

Mahmoud said that some Christians are fighting under the YPG in Hasaka province, but not in that area.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/26/isis-abducts-220-christian-civilians-burns-two-churches-in-syria/

[Valin]

ISIS ABDUCTS 220 CHRISTIAN CIVILIANS, BURNS TWO CHURCHES IN SYRIA

 

In their latest terror campaign, ISIS militants in Syria have rounded up 220 Christian civilians in the past three days, according to reports Thursday from the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

 

 

 

ISIS kills 15 Christian hostages in Syria, beheads woman

Archimandrite says 350 held; mass execution feared

26 February 2015

 

(ANSAmed) - ROME - The Islamic State (ISIS) has killed 15 of the Christians it took hostage in northeastern Syria earlier this week.

 

 

The news was given by Archimandrite Emanuel Youkhana to the Catholic organization Aid to the Church in Need on Thursday. ''Many of them,'' he said, ''were defending their villages and their families.'' One woman was beheaded in the village Tel Hormidz and two men were shot to death. There is no information at the moment on how the other 12 were killed. Youkhana added that the number of those known to have been taken hostage had risen to about 350. In addition to the hundreds previously reported, some 80 inhabitants from the Tel Jazira village, 21 from Tel Gouran, 5 from Tel Feytha and 3 from Qabir Shamiya have been taken. Almost all are being held in the Sunni Muslim village Um Al-Masamier.

 

 

Another 51 families, ''with around five members each'', Youkhana said, have been taken hostage in Tel Shamiram, but it is not known where they are being held. ''They have probably been taken to the ISIS-controlled Mount Abdul Aziz region,'' Youkhana said. One source has said that a mass execution is being planned for Friday, February 27, in the mosque of Bab Alfaraj, a Sunni village in the area. There has been no confirmation of the news.

 

(Snip)

[Geee]

Andrew Klavan: Good News, Beheaded Christians

 

I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.

 

Good news, Beheaded Christians! Terrorism is not an existential threat! The President of the United States himself has told us so. He says the threat from make believe climate change is much worse than the threat from actual worldwide Islamic jihad… that’s probably why he was taking funny-face selfies while ISIS zanies were cutting off the heads of 21 of you in Libya. Because you having your heads cut off doesn’t make the climate any warmer… or colder… or whatever it’s supposed to be getting. So it’s not an existential threat. Except, you know, to you. Isn’t that great?

 

Oh, and by the way, you may have noticed that the White House didn’t mention the words Islamic or Christian when it issued its statement about your whole unfortunate head off incident. And you might say, hey, why not? That’s why we were killed. Our murderers decapitated us in the name of Allah because we followed what they called “the illusion of the cross.” But no, no, no, no, no — that’s just the kind of muddy thinking you do when… you have no head.

 

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/truthrevolt-org/andrew-klavan-good-news-beheaded-christians/

[Geee]

How Syria's Christians stopped turning the other cheek

 

Like many of Syria’s warriors, Kino Gabriel was a student four years ago, training to be a dentist.

Like many other Syrians, he resisted the call to war, until he saw the threat to the towns and villages where he grew up and worshipped.

Like countless thousands, he soon found himself, gun in hand, snow falling in the bitter Syrian winter, fighting for his life, claiming his first kills.

Mr Gabriel, though, is a rarity in this remorseless conflict. He is a Christian, a member of a minority that in both Syrian and Iraqi wars has tried desperately to stay on the sidelines.

No longer. Christian militias have existed for a number of years, sometimes patrolling neighbourhoods, sometimes venturing further afield. But now they are engaged in their first major battle.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11442355/How-Syrias-Christians-stopped-turning-the-other-cheek.html

[Valin]

*Suicide bombers kill 14 people outside Pakistani churches

K.M. CHAUDHRY and ZARAR KHAN

March 15 2015

 

Pakistani Christians and rescue workers gather outside a church damaged from a suicide bombing attack in Lahore, Pakistan

 

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers exploded themselves near two churches in the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday as worshippers were gathered inside, killing 14 people, officials said, in the latest attack against religious minorities in the increasingly fractured country.

 

In the tense aftermath, angry mobs lashed out at people they suspected of involvement in the attacks including one person who was burned to death and Christian crowds set fire to cars in a show of defiance in the country's second largest city and the prime minister's seat of power.

 

Life in Pakistan is increasingly fraught with danger for religious minorities, especially Christians. They have been targeted by extremist Sunni Muslim militants who object to their faith.

 

They are also discriminated against in the wider society where they can often only get menial jobs like garbage collection, and are frequently targets of blasphemy accusations.

 

(Snip)

 

* Hereafter known as Evil Murderous Scumbags.

[Geee]

Pope Deplores Pakistan Church Attacks: World ‘Tries to Hide’ Persecution of Christians

 

CNSNews.com) – Pope Francis appealed Sunday for an end to the persecution of Christians around the world, voicing “much pain” at the news of twin suicide bombings targeting churches in Pakistan and suggesting that the world plays down the fact that Christians are being targeted.

 

“These are Christian churches: Christians are being persecuted,” he told a crowd gathered in St Peter’s Square. “Our brothers shed blood only because they are Christians.”

 

“As I assure you of my prayers for the victims and their families, I ask the Lord, I beseech the Lord, source of all goodness, for the gift of peace and harmony for that country,” he continued, “and that this persecution against Christians, which the world tries to hide, might end, and that there may be peace.”

 

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/pope-deplores-pakistan-church-attacks-world-tries-hide-persecution

[leilani]

I hope Pope Francis keeps trying to shame the world's press for averting their eyes & refusing to connect the dots on all these attacks to expose the orchestrated effort of ethnic & religious extermination it so very clearly & irrefutably is, Gee.

 

It's like we're all expected to believe that these worldwide attacks on Christians are not connected in any way & are just discrete & wholly unrelated attacks of "workplace violence" undertaken by emotionally troubled misfits or something.

 

@Valin: yes the press does takes the occasion to look up from its other trivial obsessions & take note of the carnage here & there. But I think even you'll agree that there is a bizarre lack of momentousness attatched to their coverage of the ongoing global slaughter - a studied aversion to recognizing its magnitude. The coverage is haphazard, disconnected and strangely minimizes the horriffic extent of the systematic extermination that's been going on right under their noses.

 

Thanks again, Geee, for all you do. I came here to see if you'd posted about Lahore & you were days ahead of me, as usual!

[Valin]

 

@Valin: yes the press does takes the occasion to look up from its other trivial obsessions & take note of the carnage here & there. But I think even you'll agree that there is a bizarre lack of momentousness attatched to their coverage of the ongoing global slaughter - a studied aversion to recognizing its magnitude. The coverage is haphazard, disconnected and strangely minimizes the horriffic extent of the systematic extermination that's been going on right under their noses.

 

 

 

 

Well what with the huge wave of racism going on, and the imminent destruction of all of all life caused bu AGW...this is understandable....besides it's all George Bush's fault.

[leilani]

Yep. Bush and, according to the President, the Crusades.

 

And now that we mention it, it was probably an ancestor of Bush43, the medieval cowboy Jorge Prensacotta Arbusta, who instigated the Crusades and started it all, donchaknow.

 

(I'm surprised the apologists at Vox haven't already tried that one on for size.)

[Valin]

Yep. Bush and, according to the President, the Crusades.

 

And now that we mention it, it was probably an ancestor of Bush43, the medieval cowboy Jorge Prensacotta Arbusta, who instigated the Crusades and started it all, donchaknow.

 

(I'm surprised the apologists at Vox haven't already tried that one on for size.)