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Muslim Butchers Christian with a Meat Cleaver

 

According to the deceased’s brother, Abdullah was locally known for harassing Christians. He had relocated to Libya for a time but returned two days before assaulting Kirollos.  The latter himself had been working abroad (in Kuwait) and was visiting family when Abdullah knocked him off his motorbike and started hacking at him.:snip:

 

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Terrorists Kidnap Another Catholic Church Priest In Benue During Mass

He was abducted around 5pm along Otukpo-Ugbokolo Highway when he was going to celebrate Holy Mass on Wednesday, July 6.

Saharareporters, New York

Jul 07, 2022

Another Catholic Church priest, Rev. Father Peter Amodu has been kidnapped by terrorists in Benue State.

It was learnt that he was abducted around 5pm along Otukpo-Ugbokolo Highway when he was going to celebrate Holy Mass on Wednesday, July 6.

According to a verified circular issued by the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo and signed by Rev. Father Joseph Itodo, the Diocesan Chancellor confirmed the abduction of the priest.

The circular read, “We write to notify you of the kidnap of Rev. Pr. Peter Amodu, a priest of the Holy’ Ghost Congregation who is working in the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo as Parish Priest of Holy Ghost Parish, Eke-Olengbeche.

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Muslims Slaughter 20 Nigerian Christians in ‘Retaliation’ For Western Actions

Last May, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) published a video of the execution of about 20 Christian civilians in Nigeria.  As with many other such ISIS-type videos, the terrorists stood behind their bound and kneeling victims, before knocking them over and carving their heads off to cries of “Allahu Akbar.”

Before doing so, one of the masked Muslims, speaking in the Hausa language, said that the execution of these Christians was “to avenge the killing of the group’s leaders in the Middle East earlier in 2022.”  This is apparently a reference to ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi—a man with a reputation for extreme brutality—who was killed last February during an airborne raid by U.S. and Kurdish forces in northwestern Syria.

The reader may be pondering how impoverished Christian civilians in Nigeria are connected to or responsible for the activities of U.S. and Kurdish forces in Syria.  The fact is, Muslim terrorists are notorious for offering any number of pretexts—many of which border on the absurd—to justify their cowardly targeting and murdering of the Christian minorities in their midst.:snip:

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A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time - Dennis Prager

About 40 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salman Rushdie, the Indian author was finally attacked and nearly killed.

Stabbed 10 times by a young Muslim living in America, Rushdie is in a hospital, where his prognosis as of this writing is partial paralysis and the loss of an eye. 

What was Rushdie's "crime"? He "insulted" Islam.

Tens of millions of Muslims believe that if a person insults Islam, Muhammad or the Quran, he should be killed. Any Muslim who does kill a person deemed to have insulted Islam goes straight to heaven when he or she dies.

 

The most famous case of Muslims murdering people charged with insulting Islam occurred in 2015, when two French Muslims entered the Paris editorial offices of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, and murdered 12 people and wounded 11 others. Charlie Hebdo had printed cartoon images of Muhammad, which most Muslims consider forbidden even to non-Muslims.

That same week, Muslims also entered a kosher supermarket in Paris and murdered four Jews. For many Muslims, Jews don't have to do anything to insult Islam; their mere existence is an insult to Islam.

It is instructive to compare Christian reactions to insults to Christianity with Muslim reactions to what they perceive as insults to Islam.

 

If Christians reacted to insults to Christianity the way Muslims react to insults to Islam, there would be daily murders in America and elsewhere. Christianity is constantly insulted in America and elsewhere in the West, and Christians are regularly murdered by Muslims in the Middle East and Africa.:snip:

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As I have come to expect, Dennis Nails It!

 

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A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time - Dennis Prager

*About 40 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Muslims to murder Salman Rushdie, the Indian author was finally attacked and nearly killed.

Stabbed 10 times by a young Muslim living in America, Rushdie is in a hospital, where his prognosis as of this writing is partial paralysis and the loss of an eye. 

What was Rushdie's "crime"? He "insulted" Islam.

Tens of millions of Muslims believe that if a person insults Islam, Muhammad or the Quran, he should be killed. Any Muslim who does kill a person deemed to have insulted Islam goes straight to heaven when he or she dies.

 

 

**If Christians reacted to insults to Christianity the way Muslims react to insults to Islam, there would be daily murders in America and elsewhere. Christianity is constantly insulted in America and elsewhere in the West, and Christians are regularly murdered by Muslims in the Middle East and Africa.:snip:

 

* Just one problem many of us have with Islam. Another (Short story) The other day it was in the 90's and humid, a Muslim woman comes walking by and covered head to foot. 2 thoughts come to mind 1. This is how God wants/demands women  to dress?  This is a Big Concern of Gods? 2. With temps in the mid 90's and dew points in the 70's she has  GOT To be pretty ripe, under all those clothes.

 

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That was pretty much it.

Something else I have noticed. When Secularist/Materialists/Whatever debate on anything close to a level playing field, they more often than not, do not fair well. The word Shallow comes to mind.

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Climate Change: The Latest Pretext for Muslims Slaughtering Christians

Politicians have found a way to kill two birds with one stone: ignore the endemic slaughter of Christians at the hands of Muslims, while over exaggerating the impact of climate change.  How?  By saying that climate change is the true engine that drives the persecution of Christians.

On Pentecost Sunday, June 5, 2022, Muslims massacred some 50 Christians inside a Nigerian church (see here for several other examples of Muslims massacring Christians worshipping inside their Nigerian churches).  Two days later, the president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, issued a statement on the incident. 

In it, he links the Nigerian church massacre to “climate change”: three of the statement’s four paragraphs deal with global warming; nowhere does the statement acknowledge, much less condemn, Islamic radicalization and terrorism in the region—even though that is precisely what led to the Pentecost Sunday church massacre.

In fact, although unreported by the so-called “mainstream media,” the Christians of Nigeria are, according to several NGOs, being purged in a genocide. According to an August 2021 report, since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009, more than 60,000 Christians have either been murdered during jihadist raids or abducted, never to be seen again. During this same timeframe, approximately 20,000 churches and Christian schools were torched and destroyed by “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslims.  In 2021, Muslims murdered at least 4,650 Nigerian Christians for their faith, and nearly 900 in just the first three months of this year.:snip:

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Christians in Afghanistan face routine torture, persecution from family members: watchdog groups

Christians who remain in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's takeover face routine torture and persecution from both the government and their own friends, families and communities, according to humanitarian and watchdog groups.

"There are still Christians in Afghanistan," said Todd Nettleton, an author and radio host who works for the international humanitarian nonprofit Voice of the Martyrs. "I think during the time of the Taliban takeover a year ago, there was a lot of coverage that kind of suggested that all the Christians had fled the country."

Nettleton explained to Fox News Digital that as the Afghan government crumbled last year, many Christians did flee because they knew the Taliban's hard-line theology and intolerance toward Christians, especially those who had converted from Islam. Many who were widely known to have renounced Islam for Christianity escaped to other countries, he said, but the potentially thousands of Christians who remain face profound challenges.:snip:

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Persecution of Christians ‘Intense’ in Up to 60 Countries Across Globe, Faith Leader Says

There are estimated to be more than 360 million Christians facing persecution for their faith around the world today, according to Open Doors USA, an organization that advocates on behalf of the persecuted church.

While persecution of Christians is severe in nations like North Korea, there are about “50 to 60 countries where there is intense levels of persecution,” says David Curry, the president and CEO of Open Doors USA.:snip:

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Christians 'Face Routine Torture' in Afghanistan

Raymond Ibrahim
September 18, 2022

  • According to the World Watch List 2022, which ranks the 50 nations where Christians are most persecuted for their faith, Afghanistan is now the worst nation in the world in which to be Christian.

  • "Beatings, torture and kidnappings are routine for Christians in Afghanistan.... Christians are martyred every year in Afghanistan, but their deaths generally occur without public knowledge. A few are also in prison... Christian converts from Islam are often killed by family members or other radicalized Muslims before any legal proceedings can begin." — The Voice of the Martyrs, 2022.

  • Because Muslims tend to conflate Christians with the West in general, and America in particular — based on the popular but erroneous belief among Muslims that the West and America are still Christian — Afghan Christians were especially targeted after the U.S. invasion as a form of "collective punishment."

  • Western leadership, for its part, is extremely careful not to show any concern for Christian minorities—a sentiment that goes hand in hand with Western acquiescence to Islamic sensibilities. If anything, Western leaders are more prone to turn a blind eye to, if not actively discriminate against, already persecuted Christians—as was the case with the UN and the UK, and the US during the Obama administration.

  • [H]ere are the weak and vulnerable, altruistically risking their lives for what they at least believe is the good of their fellow man, while many of the world's rich and powerful, who habitually preach about "human rights" and "religious freedom" — at least when it suits their agendas, for example, by creating racial divisions in the U.S., demonizing Israel, or covering up for Islamist radicalization — have seemingly done everything possible to worsen their situation.

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Obviously  no one told these people Christianity was just for white people.

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Suspected Herders Kill One-Year-Old Baby Of Redeemed Church Student-Pastor, Leave Mother Barely Alive In Adamawa

Sept. 30 2022

Suspected herdsmen have ripped open the abdomen of a one-year-old daughter of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) student-pastor, leading to her death, in Adamawa state.

SaharaReporters learnt that the infant was snatched from her mother, Siyona Special and killed while they were on the way to a funeral in Kodomti village in the Numan Local Government Area of the state.

A community leader from Kodomti, Elias Kadakufo who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters, said the murdered infant was the daughter of an RCCG student-pastor.

In an emotion-laden conversation, Kadafuko said, "The woman was discovered in a nearby bush by passers-by lying unconscious in a pool of blood beside the lifeless body of her baby.

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Radical Islamists Behead 20 Christians in Congo

Members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Congo, a radical Islamist group, killed 20 Congolese Christians and kidnapped several others on Oct. 4 in the village of Kainama, reported the International Christian Concern (ICC), a news outlet that focuses on Christian persecution worldwide.

The 20 victims were beheaded and, according to the ICC, at least 50 Christians have been murdered by the ADF since the start of October. Kainama is in eastern Congo in a province that borders Lake Kivu.:snip:

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'Simply being a Christian is enough to get you arrested' in Iran: British government report

Iranian Christians number between 500,000 and 800,000 in a country of 86.7 million

A shocking new report from the British government details that the violent persecution of the Christian minority population continues unabated in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

"Simply being a Christian is enough to get you arrested" in the Muslim-majority country, noted the United Kingdom's study on Christians and Christian converts in Iran. The report said that "many arrests reportedly took place during police raids on religious gatherings" and that "Christians, particularly evangelicals and converts from Islam, continued to experience disproportionate levels of arrest and detention.":snip:

 

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 The Unspoken Genocide of Christians in Nigeria The black lives that don’t matter.

 

Did you know that, all throughout sub-Saharan Africa—in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo—Muslims have for many years been terrorizing and slaughtering Christians?

Nor is there any hope on the horizon: problems that cannot be honestly addressed are doomed to persist in perpetuity.

Enter the so-called “mainstream media.” As far as they are concerned, the persecution of Christians in Africa is a byproduct of economic and territorial grievances.

One report, titled, “How poverty and corruption fuel terrorism across Africa,” is emblematic.  After citing  an incident where “jihadis” connected to the Islamic State slaughtered dozens, it insists that such terrorist attacks, which  “are on the rise across the African continent,” are “a consequence of poverty, domestic grievances new and old…”

This has been the mainstream media’s argument, and they’re sticking to it — no matter all the mountains of contradictory evidence.

Take the little-known genocide of Christians in Nigeria. According to an August 2021 report, since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009, more than 60,000 Christians have either been murdered during raids or abducted, never to be seen again. During this same timeframe, approximately 20,000 churches and Christian schools were torched and destroyed by “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslims.:snip:

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 The Unspoken Genocide of Christians in Nigeria The black lives that don’t matter.

Did you know that, all throughout sub-Saharan Africa—in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo—Muslims have for many years been terrorizing and slaughtering Christians?

 

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Enter the so-called “mainstream media.” As far as they are concerned, the persecution of Christians in Africa is a byproduct of economic and territorial grievances.

One report, titled, “How poverty and corruption fuel terrorism across Africa,” is emblematic.  After citing  an incident where “jihadis” connected to the Islamic State slaughtered dozens, it insists that such terrorist attacks, which  “are on the rise across the African continent,” are “a consequence of poverty, domestic grievances new and old…”

Has Raymond Ibrahim considered This is also  part of it?

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On Christmas, Christians Remain Persecuted Around the World

As Christians in the United States and all around the world celebrate Christmas, those who follow the teachings of Jesus remain some of the most persecuted people on earth. 

 

According to data compiled by Open Doors, an international network dedicated to helping persecuted Christians, thousands of believers were killed in 2022 for their faith. 

Over 360 million Christians living in places where they experience high levels of persecution and discrimination

5,898 Christians killed for their faith

5,110 churches and other Christian buildings attacked

4,765 believers detained without trial, arrested, sentenced or imprisoned

Authoritarian, communist governments are the perpetrators, in addition to Islamic terrorist oraganizations.

"Christian persecution takes place under authoritarian governments. In places like North Korea or Eritrea, authoritarian governments seek to control all religious thought and expression as part of a comprehensive plan to tightly oversee all aspects of political and everyday life. These governments regard some religious groups as enemies of the state because they hold religious beliefs that may challenge loyalty to the rulers," Open Doors reports. "In places like the Middle East and Nigeria, Islamic extremist groups terrorize communities and churches, killing those they consider to be “infidels” (often in coordinated bombings), raping and kidnapping women and burning down homes and churches. Their victims can be fellow adherents of a religion—for instance, Boko Haram attacks on Muslims in Nigeria—but they always target Christians out of hatred for other faiths.":snip:

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Christians face genocide amid rise in persecution in at least 18 countries, report warns

Christians are facing genocide in several countries as the persecution of followers of the religion has increased in at least 18 nations, according to recent research. 

 

 

The Catholic group Aid to the Church In Need released a report earlier this year titled, "Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report On Christians Oppressed For Their Faith 2020-22," which highlighted "human rights violations" against Christians in 24 countries.

The group found that persecution increased in 75% of the countries surveyed.

In Africa, "extremism threatens previously strong Christian communities," the report states. "In Nigeria and other countries, this violence clearly passes the threshold of genocide.":snip:

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Persecuted into Extinction: The Fate of Christianity in Bethlehem

The vastly, and intentionally, unreported demise of Christianity in its place of birth.

After noting that there “has been a marked uptick in religiously motivated attacks by Palestinian Muslims on Christians in Bethlehem,” a Nov. 21, 2022 report offers some examples:

Just over two weeks ago, a Muslim man was accused of harassing young Christian women at a Forefathers Orthodox Church in Beit Sahour near the city of Bethlehem. Soon after, the church was attacked by a large mob of Palestinian men who hurled rocks at the building while congregants cowered inside. Several of the congregants were injured in the attack.

The Palestinian Authority, responsible for security in the area, did nothing.

In October, unidentified gunmen shot at the Christian-owned Bethlehem Hotel after a video on social media associated the hotel with a display that included cardboard cutouts of a Star of David and a Menorah. …

No arrests were made in connection with the shooting.:snip:

 

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Catholic Group: Christians Face Increased Persecution, ‘Genocide’ in Multiple Countries

 

Does the Western media cover the persecution of Christians? Almost never. But Christians faced increased persecution around the world from 2020 to 2022, according to the Catholic group Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) International. North Korea and Nigeria are particularly dangerous for Christians, according to the recent report.

 

ACN announced Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2020-22 in November, saying the report showed that “JIHADISTS and nationalists are driving increased persecution of Christians around the world.” Included under “nationalists” is the authoritarian North Korean regime, which is the worst persecutor of Catholics in Asia, according to the ACN press release. Another dangerous country is India, which had “710 incidents of anti-Christian violence between January 2021 and the start of June 2022.” And over 7,600 Christians were killed in Nigeria alone.

The press release did not highlight China, which has also stepped up its persecution of Christians in recent years, according to Persecution.org. ACN did highlight Nigeria, which was arguably the most dangerous place in the world to be Christian in 2021 due to radical Islamic violence. JihadWatch covered a report in January saying that a record-breaking 360 million Christians had been persecuted globally in 2021, with almost 6,000 Christians killed for their faith. Eight out of ten Christians killed were reportedly from Nigeria. Yet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was one of the very few world leaders to speak out against the persecution of Christians at the time.:snip:

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Coptic Christian Church Attacked by Muslim Mob on Christmas Eve

A Coptic Christian church in the outskirts of Alexandria, Egypt, was attacked by a mob of Muslims on Dec. 24, 2022, an action apparently condoned by Egypt's Islamic sharia law, reported the organization Coptic Solidarity (CS).

The Church of the Virgin and Anba Samuel is located in Abis al-Thawra, which is a village in the rural outskirts of Alexandria on Egypt's north coast. 

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Catholic Leader of Baghdad: Christians Treated as 'Second Class Citizen,' Sharia 'Imposed on Everybody'

The leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Cardinal Louis Raphael I Sako, said that some of the practices in Iraq today "violate the rights of Christians to the core," including the imposition of sharia "on everybody." He further said that in Muslim-dominant Iraq he is "treated as a second-class citizen."

The Chaldean Catholic Church is in union with the Roman Catholic Church headed by Pope Francis. The church traces its origins in Iraq to the 16th century, although there were many Christians there as part of the Eastern Church prior to the 1500s.:snip:

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North Korea, Nigeria, and Islamic Nations Top the List of Most Dangerous Countries for Christians

(CNSNews.com) – Nigeria accounted for 89 percent of verified religiously-motivated killings across the world during the 12-month period ending last September, a year marked by a serious deterioration across many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, according to Open Doors.

The religious freedom advocacy group on Tuesday released the 30th edition of its closely-watched annual list of the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian.

As deadly as the situation has been for followers of Jesus in Nigeria, six other countries ranked even worse on the 2023 World Watch List (WWL), with North Korea returning to the number one spot that it held for two decades, until briefly displaced a year ago by Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

(The reporting period for the 2023 WWL runs from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.)

Since 2005, at least half – and as many as nine – of the ten worst countries on the list have been Islamic nations. This year is no different, with eight of the top ten (and 15 of the top 20) being members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Sudan.:snip:

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At least one dead, several injured in machete attack at southern Spain churches
Reuters    
January 26, 2023

Spanish authorities said they were investigating what they called a possible “terrorist” incident after a machete-wielding man attacked several people at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras, killing at least one person.

The man attacked clergymen at two different churches – San Isidro and Nuestra Senora de La Palma, around 1,000 feet apart – just after 8 pm on Wednesday evening in downtown Algeciras, a spokesperson for the city said. A source at Madrid’s High Court said the incident was being investigated as terrorism.

Police said the attacker had been arrested, and a police source shared footage showing two officers escorting a man in a hooded sports top in handcuffs through a police station. Police have not released details of his name or nationality. Local media, including El Pais newspaper, said he was a 25-year-old Moroccan.

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Egypt: 3 Muslims Acquitted of Allegedly Stripping, Beating 70-Year-Old Christian Grandmother

Three Egyptian Muslim men charged with stripping and beating a Coptic Christian grandmother in the street because her Christian son courted a Muslim woman, were acquitted by a Cairo court on Jan. 9. Now, the woman, 76-year-old Soad Thabet, may face litigation to compensate the men who reportedly attacked her.

Thabet was 70 years old when the attack occurred. :snip:

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New Report Estimates That Over 8,000 Nigerian Christians Killed, Kidnapped Last Year
Leif Le Mahieu
Apr 15, 2023

A new report has estimated that over 5,000 Nigerian Christians were killed in 2022 while over 3,000 were kidnapped.

The report, put out by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), comes as some religious freedom advocates have said that the persecution of Christians in the African nation should be seen as genocide.

“[Intersociety] is emotionally dedicating this special investigative Report to 1,041 slain and disappeared victims of the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and other Jihadists’ genocidal attacks carried out across Nigeria in the first 100 days of 2023,” the report says. “The under-listed slain and wounded victims also represent 5,068 others slain or caused to disappear without traces till date by Nigerian Jihadists in 2022.”

The estimates were based on reports from a variety of sources, including media outlets, government reports, nongovernmental organizations statistics, and estimates from diplomats. The report also said that over 1,000 Christians have been killed in 2023.

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