Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World

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Front Page Magazine: Christian Tragedy in the Muslim World

July 26, 2013 By Bruce Thornton

 

Originally published by the Hoover Institution Journal.

 

Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100-200 million. According to one estimate, a Christian is martyred every five minutes. And most of this persecution is taking place at the hands of Muslims. Of the top fifty countries persecuting Christians, forty-two have either a Muslim majority or have sizeable Muslim populations.

 

The extent of this disaster, its origins, and the reasons why it has been met with a shrug by most of the Western media are the topics of Raymond Ibrahim’s Crucified Again. Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow of the Middle East Forum. Fluent in Arabic, he has been tracking what he calls “one of the most dramatic stories” of our time in the reports and witnesses that appear in Arabic newspapers, news shows, and websites, but that rarely get translated into English or picked up by the Western press. What he documents in this meticulously researched and clearly argued book is a human rights disaster of monumental proportions.

In Crucified Again,

 

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Muslim Persecution of Christians: Women & Children First

July 26, 2013 By Raymond Ibrahim

Originally published on Gatestone Institute.

Before Egypt’s President Muhammad Morsi was ousted, April was one of the worst months for Christian Copts there. On April 5 near Cairo, when a longstanding feud between a Christian family and a Muslim family—based on male Muslims sexually harassing Christian girls—culminated in the violent deaths of six Christians, including two of the participants, a Christian and a Muslim, being set on fire, local Muslims went on another “collective punishment” spree. It resulted in the injury of at least 20 other Copts, an Evangelical church being set on fire, and an attack on a Coptic church, Two days later, after Copts had mourned their dead in the St. Mark Cathedral—Coptic Christianity’s holiest site and home to the Coptic pope—Muslim mobs, who had waited outside, launched yet another attack—aided by state security forces. Eyewitnesses said as many as 40-50 tear gas canisters targeted the mourners, many of whom were women and children hiding in the cathedral. Two more Copts were killed and many dozens wounded as other officers stood by while the Muslim mob tried to destroy the cathedral. http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-persecution-of-christians-2013/

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JIhadists Systematically Purge Syrian Town of Christians

 

Since 2011, I have repeatedly warned of the coming genocide of Christians and religious minorities by the jihadists in Syria. In January of 2012, Stop Islamization of Nations (SION) called on the UN to protect Christians of Syria - Reuters.

 

Nothing.

 

This has become a hallmark of the Obama administration. The silence, the sanction of the persecution of religious minorites under the sharia has become the hallmark of this administration. Obama may think his legacy will be "Obamacare" (and it will, for all the wrong reasons) or open border amnesty, but it will be this -- the American sanction of ethnic cleansing on a global scale.

 

"Syrian Christian describes religious cleansing of city by Islamic extremists" JNS, July 25, 2013, (thanks to the Religion of Peace)

 

(JNS.org) In a recent visit as part of a humanitarian aid mission to Syria, Dr. John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity International (CSI), met with a Syrian Christian man from the city of Qusayr who described the religious cleansing of his home by Islamic extremists.

 

According to CSI, before the civil war the city of Qusayr, located in eastern portion of Syria near the Lebanese border, had around 40,000 people, including 7,000 Christians

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/07/jihadists-systematically-purge-syrian-town-of-christians.html

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Christians Under the Crescent: The Syrian Gauntlet

Sean DeGanJuly 31, 2013

 

 

Syria, and the conflict which is now shredding it, is a complex set of political objects, players, and misery. As such, any examination of the crises facing Syria’s Christian population must account at least partially for these dynamic forces that have developed into the current cyclone of violence and oppression.

 

The first set of assumptions we should displace is the idea that the rebels fighting against the regime of Bashar al-Assad are a group of westernized democrats who champion the rights and freedom of all of the people and religions residing within the territorial frontiers of Syria. They are not. Money and fighters from the gulf states, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, as well as Jihadists volunteers from such obscure and ostensibly uninvolved regions as Bosnia in the Balkans, and Chechnya in the caucuses, are flowing into the fighting at an alarming rate and provides evidence to the suggestion that this is not an internal dispute, or a “civil war”, in any real political sense but a proxy war being fought between the rich Sunni Islamic governments of the Gulf states and the last holdout of the socialist and marginally secular, formerly Soviet funded, Baathist Shia regime of Bashar al-Assad.

http://futurevoicesofamerica.org/2013/07/31/christians-under-the-crescent-the-syrian-gauntlet/