Excellent interview with Imran Firasat, the Pakistani convert to Christianity given asylum in Spain, who dared to make a film about the paedophile Prophet Muhammad, which has resulted in the Spainish government threatening to deport him back to Pakistan, where he will be executed.
Imran says, “Christians all over the Muslim world are being burned alive, tortured, and persecuted for refusing to convert to Islam. Yet when I, as an ex-Muslim speak out, I am threatened and persecuted by Spanish officials” who apparently fear a Muslim backlash. (Makes one wonder why, after so many years of tyrannical Muslim domination in Spain they would even allow any Muslims into their country today)
In this video, you will see the Free Syrian Army cheering the 9/11 attacks, as well as Senator John McCain endorsing the FSA and calling for air support to help these al-Qaeda linked ‘rebels.’ I guess he supports the FSA agenda for the Christians there, too?
These are the three choices the FSA is offering to Christians who remain in Syria:
Pastor Paulus Wiratno of Mercy Indonesia ran an orphanage and taught Christianity by radio from his Bible School- until neighbor Muslims bombed their dormitories while they slept. Here he explains Muslims’ violent intolerance towards non-Muslims.
This shocking figure was disclosed by Italian sociologist Massimo Introvigne, representative of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, at the International Conference on Inter-religious dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims, sponsored the Hungarian presidency of the European Union (EU) in Gödöllo, near Budapest.
Catholic Culture “Every five minutes”, Introvigne said in his speech, “a Christian is killed for his faith.” The figure does not include the victims of civil wars, or wars between nations, but only the people put to death because they are Christians.
“If these figures are not cried out to the world, if this massacre is not stopped,” Introvigne continued; “if it is not recognized that the persecution against Christians is the first worldwide emergency with regard to religious discrimination and violence, dialogue between religions will only produce wonderful symposia but no concrete results.”
The conference on peaceful coexistence between religions was hosted by the Hungarian government as a highlight of its EU presidency of the European Union and saw among its participants Cardinal Péter Erdo of Budapest; the Custos of the Holy Land, Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa; Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants; Maronite Archbishop of Beirut Paul Matar; Metropolitan Hilarion, “foreign minister” of the Russian Orthodox Church; the representative of the European Jewish Congress Gusztáv Zoltai, that of the Organization of Islamic Conference Ömür Orhun; and the general secretary of the Committee for Islamic-Christian dialogue in Lebanon, Chakib Hares Chehab.
The Egyptian diplomat Mahmoud Aly assured participants that his country is about to pass laws that will protect Christian minorities, by prosecuting crimes as hate speech and banning hostile gatherings of outside churches. (When pigs fly) “But the danger is for many Christian communities in the Middle East to die out for emigration,” Cardinal Erdo said. “For all Christians will escape feeling threatened. And Europe should be preparing for a new wave of emigration, this time of Christians fleeing persecution.” Metropolitan Hilarion, for his part, recalled that “at least one million” of the Christians enduring persecution in the world are children.
The Global Jihad against Christians is well underway.
Muslim Cleric threatens Coptic Christians with genocide as Islamic leaders continue to portray the popular protests against President Morsi and his recently passed Sharia-based constitution as products of Egypt’s Christians. And Barack Hussein Obama just sent Morsi another $1.5 billion in American taxpayer dollars.
Gatestone Recently, Muslim Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy said in an open rally, as captured on video:
A message to the church of Egypt, from an Egyptian Muslim: I tell the church — by Allah, and again, by Allah — if you conspire and unite with the remnants [opposition] to bring Morsi down, that will be another matter…. our red line is the legitimacy of Dr. Muhammad Morsi. Whoever splashes water on it, we will splash blood on him.”
More recently, Dr. Wagdi Ghoneim — who earlier praised Allah for the death of the late Coptic Pope Shenouda, cursing him to hell and damnationon video — made another video, entitled, “A Notice and Warning to the Crusaders in Egypt,” a reference to the nation’s Copts, which he began by saying,
“You are playing with fire in Egypt, I swear, the first people to be burned by the fire are you [Copts].”
The video was made in the context of the Tahrir protests against Morsi: Islamic leaders, such as Hegazy and Ghoneim, seek to portray the Copts as dominant elements in those protests; according to them, no real Muslim would participate. Ghoneim even went on to say that most of the people at the protests were Copts, “and we know you hid your [wrist] crosses by lowering your sleeves.”
The heart of Ghoneim’s message was genocidal: “The day Egyptians — and I don’t even mean the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafis, regular Egyptians — feel that you are against them, you will be wiped off the face of the earth. I’m warning you now: do not play with fire!”
Along with trying to incite Egypt’s Muslims against the Copts, and threatening them with annihilation, Ghoneim made other telling assertions, including:
Addressing the Christians of Egypt as “Crusaders,” once again showing Islam’s simplistic, black-and-white vision, which clumps all Christians — of all nations, past and present, regardless of historical context and denomination — as one, in accordance with an Islamic tradition that states “All infidels are one religion.”
Comparing Christian Copts to animals: “Respect yourselves and live with us and we will protect you… Why?… because Allah has forbidden me to be cruel to animals. I’m not trying to compare you to animals … but if I am not cruel to animals or plants, shall I be cruel to a soul created by Allah? You are an infidel in Allah’s sight — and it is for him to judge you. However, when you live in my country, it is forbidden for me to be unjust to you — but that doesn’t mean we are equal. No, oh no.”
Telling Copts: “I want to remind you that Egypt is a Muslim country…. if you don’t like the Muslim Sharia, you have eight countries that have a Cross on their flag [in Europe], so go to them. However, if you want to stay here in Egypt with us, know your place and be respectful. You already have all your rights — by Allah, even more than Muslims… No one investigates your homes, no one investigates your churches. In fact, in the past, the Islamic groups used to fake their IDs and put Christian names on them when they would go out for [jihadi] operations, so that when the police would catch them, they would see they are Christians and be left alone.” Ghoneim misses the irony of what he says: Police know that Egyptian Christians are not going to engage in terror; Egyptian Muslims are suspect.
Saying, in mocking tones, towards the end: “What do you think — that America will protect you? Let’s be very clear, America will not protect you. If so, it would have protected the Christians of Iraq when they were being butchered!” — a reference to the fact that, after the U.S. ousted Saddam Hussein, half of Iraq’s Christian population has either been butchered or fled the nation, and all under U.S. auspices.
Claiming that the Copts are only four million while the Muslims are 85 million — even as Coptic Orthodox Church registries maintain that there are more than 15 million Copts, and most outside analysts say 10 million— and adding that Morsi was only being nice by saying, as he did during one of his speeches: “There are no minorities in Egypt.” Ghoneim fails to explain, if Copts are so few — four million compared to 85 million — how could they be so influential, and flood the Tahrir protests with such large numbers?
Mocking new Coptic Pope Tawadros—not surprising considering his great hate for the former Pope—by claiming that the new Pope urged Copts to protest; that the new Pope wants to see Morsi and Sharia law fall, and by adding, “Is it not enough that you have all those monasteries?”
The Palestinian Authority is slamming Israel for oppressing Christians. However, if you look at the links below the video, you will see who represent the real oppressors of Arab Christians.
The BlazeWishing the “merriest of holidays” to Christians in Israel and around the world, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the grave threats Christians face in the Muslim world, while reminding us that Israel is the one place in the Middle East where Christians can practice their religion freely.
Bibi adds, “So as you celebrate Christmas and your holy holidays, we hope that you will recall the places where Judaism and Christianity emerged in our ancient land: Nazareth and Bethlehem, the Jordan River, the Sea of Galilee. And our eternal capital, Jerusalem.”
Palestinians will no doubt be unhappy Netanyahu referred to Bethlehem as part of the ancient land of Israel and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The PA released its own videotaped Christmas message titled “Justice is Possible and Hope is Justified.” Not one word is spoken in the video, but its images speak volumes.
The video begins by showing Christmas lights and decorations and worshipers – including a teenager – lighting candles in a Christian church, presumably the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It then cuts to the same Christian teen riding his bicycle but passing what’s presented as the menacing Israeli separation barrier. Israeli authorities erected that barrier – which pro-Palestinian activists refer to as the “apartheid wall” – after a wave of suicide bombings ten years ago killed hundreds of Israelis. Since it was erected has successfully obstructed the free movement of would-be Palestinian suicide bombers.
More than 200 Indonesian Muslims threw rotten eggs as well as plastic bags filled with urine and cow dung at Christians wanting to hold a Christmas mass near Jakarta on land where they plan to build a church.
Jakarta Globe(h/t Traduction) Some 100 Christian worshippers intended to hold a mass near empty land where they hope to build a church, about 30-kilometers east of the capital, in a project barred by district government and community members in 2009.
Christian worshippers try to pray during a Christmas service in Jakarta
On Tuesday, however, local community members blocked the road near the land, Andri Ananta, a local police chief on Jakarta’s outskirts, told AFP. An AFP photographer witnessed furious locals — men and women wearing Muslim headscarf, with small children in tow — physically blocking the road and throwing rotten eggs at the gathering worshippers.
Ananta said police managed to convince the Christians to drop their plan and return home. ”We tried our best to avoid any clash and the Christians agreed to leave,” he said, adding 380 police and military personnel including an anti-riot squad were deployed to the area.
Indonesian police block angry Muslim residents away from Christian worshippers from the Filadelfia Batak Christian Protestant intent on holding a Christmas mass on their property at the Jejalen Jaya village in Bekasi on Dec 25, 2012.
Church leader Reverend Palti Panjaitan said the incident came after a Christmas Eve attack on Monday evening when “intolerant people” threw not only rotten eggs but plastic bags filled with urine and cow dung at them. ”Everything had happened while police were there. They were just watching without doing anything to stop them from harming us,” he told AFP.
The country’s high court last year overruled the district government’s 2009 decision, but constant intimidation from Muslims in the area has delayed the church’s construction, church officials said.
Residents on a motorcycle ride past a placard that reads ‘Dismiss illegal Christian services, reject the church project’ in front of a piece of land owned by a Christian congregation from the Filadelfia Batak Christian Protestant church
Indonesia’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion but rights groups say violence against minorities including Christians and the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect has escalated since 2008.
The media isn’t mentioning the fact that the attackers were Muslims, but I will because it’s always Muslims who do this. At least 12 people were slaughtered in northern Nigeria when attackers raided two churches during Christmas Eve services, police said.
CNNOne assault occurred at the Church of Christ in Nations in Postikum, in Yobe province. Gunmen attacked worshipers during prayer, killing six people, including the pastor, and setting the building on fire Worshipers also were attacked at the First Baptist Church in Maiduguri, in Borno state. A deacon and five church members were killed.
They were the latest strikes against Christians in the region. More than 30 people died in a wave of Christmas Day attacks in the north last year, blamed on Boko Haram, a militant group that has targeted Christians and Muslims it considered insufficiently Islamist.
Pope Benedict XVI referred to the northern Nigerian violence in his traditional Christmas message from Vatican City on Tuesday. ”Savage acts of terrorism” in the region, he said, “continue to reap victims, particularly among Christians.”
In October, a report from Human Rights Watch also addressed violence in northern Nigeria, particularly from Boko Haram. ”Suspected members of the group have bombed or opened fire on worshipers in at least 18 churches across eight northern and central states since 2010. In Maiduguri, the group also forced Christian men to convert to Islam on penalty of death,” it said.
The Christmas attacks came as families whose kin died in last year’s killings delivered graveside prayers for a peaceful holiday period. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan issued a statement promising better days next year, including better security.
But residents told CNN that despite assurances of security, they have been attacked again.
From a Tel Aviv hospital, Tom Trento of The United West, interviews a pastor from Uganda, who had acid thrown in his face by a Muslim, whose religion teaches that anyone who leaves Islam should be killed.
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This is the Muslim Brotherhood dominated Islamic government supported by Obama. Notice that Romney advisor, Walid Phares, speaks to the Helsinki commission on this issue, but no one from the Obama Regime is there.
Abductions and forced conversions of young Coptic Christian girls and mothers of small children are on the rise as the Islamists try to ethnically cleanse the country of all its Christians. These women never are allowed to return to their families. A 2009 report about“The Disappearance, Forced Conversions, and Forced Marriages of Coptic Christian Women in Egypt”doesn’t reflect how much worse the problem is now.
Coptic Christians suffer daily persecution in Egypt.
Coptic Christians have lived in Egypt since Christianity began. Once they were the majority population, until Islam set about its crusade to convert all of Northern Africa by the sword. Now they number only 10% of Egypt’s population, because most people have been forcefully converted to Islam, either through terrorism, or by economic means, such as high taxation.
Now that Egypt has a radical Islamic Government, the Copts are suffering unbelievable cruelty – arrested even for praying in their own home. Their daughters are being kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam by torture and rape. Where is the UN? Where is the rest of the Christian World? Why the silence? Egyptian Christians are being cleansed from their native land.
The Pope delivered a greeting in Arabic for the first time during his weekly general audience as part of an effort to reach out to Muslims as well as Arabic-speaking Christians in the Middle East.
UK TELEGRAPHBenedict XVI typically delivers greetings in six languages, including English and Italian, but added a message in Arabic as he addressed the crowds in St Peter’s Square. ”The pope prays for all people who speak Arabic. May God bless you all,” the Pontiff said. An Arabic-speaking priest read out a fuller summary of the Pope’s address, which dwelt on the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, which reformed key aspects of the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s.
The Vatican said it was adding Arabic to the six other languages, including Italian, English, French and Benedict’s native German, typically spoken during the general audience.
POPE JOHN PAUL, WHO NEARLY WAS KILLED BY A PALESTINIAN ‘MUSLIM’ ASSASSIN, KISSED THE BOOK (QURAN) THAT REPEATEDLY CALLS FOR ALL CHRISTIANS TO BE CONVERTED OR KILLED
The initiative reflects the Church’s concern that Christians are being persecuted in the region and that their numbers are dwindling. (Concern? Is that all you are is ‘concerned’ about the Christian genocide going on in the Muslim world? That’s why their numbers are dwindling)
A century ago Christians made up about 20 per cent of the population of the Middle East, but that figure has now dropped to around five per cent, as war and Christian genocide force many to emigrate. The population is estimated to be around 15 million.
The Vatican said it hoped the Pope’s adoption of Arabic would be a comfort to Arabic-speaking Christians in the Middle East and could ease tensions with Muslims. (Oh sure, don’t help them get out of Muslim countries, just speak to them in Arabic…just as good)
Benedict’s papacy was plunged into crisis in 2006, just a year after he was elected, when he gave a speech at the University of Regensburg in Germany, in which he quoted a highly critical remark about Islam made by a 14th century Byzantine emperor.
It referred to the teachings of Mohammed as “evil and human” and alluded to his “command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” (For which the Pope had to grovel in apology, or risk being killed)
The Vatican insisted that the quote was taken out of context and that Benedict was misunderstood, but the speech led to violent protests in some Islamic countries.
The Pope, 85, is keen to further a spirit of reconciliation between Christians and Muslims following his trip to Lebanon last month, where he appealed for people of both religions to help to end the conflict in neighbouring Syria. (How about asking Muslims in Lebanon what happened to all the Christians who used to comprise 80% of the Lebanese population, but now number under 20%?)
“The Holy Father intends to express his perpetual concern and support for Christians in the Middle East, and to remind everyone of their duty to pray and work for peace in the region,” the Vatican said in a statement. (Prayer isn’t helping them. DO SOMETHING that will!)
Excellent interview with Imran Firasat, the Pakistani convert to Christianity given asylum in Spain, who dared to make a film about the paedophile Prophet Muhammad, which has resulted in the Spainish government threatening to deport him back to Pakistan, where he will be executed.
