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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (829690)	1/13/2015 8:57:51 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575816

Why wouldn't they???? The mullahs go back centuries in Iran.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (829690)	1/13/2015 9:16:19 AM
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Christians Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2014 Posted on January 11, 2015 by creeping via Christians Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2014 Both in the Islamic world and the Western world, Muslims continued to attack and slaughter Christians. In Pakistan, “A mob accused of burning alive a Christian couple in an industrial kiln in Pakistan allegedly wrapped a pregnant mother in cotton so she would catch fire more easily, according to family members who witnessed the attack,” reported NBC News: Sajjad Maseeh, 27, and his wife Shama Bibi, 24, were set upon by at least 1,200 people after rumors circulated that they had burned verses from the Quran, family spokesman Javed Maseeh told NBC News via telephone late Thursday. Their legs were also broken so they couldn’t run away. “They picked them up by their arms and legs and held them over the brick furnace until their clothes caught fire,” he said. “And then they threw them inside the furnace.” Bibi, a mother of four who was four months pregnant, was wearing an outfit that initially didn’t burn, according to Javed Maseeh. The mob removed her from over the kiln and wrapped her up in cotton to make sure the garments would be set alight. Discussing this latest atrocity against Pakistan’s Christian minorities, an AFP report states: Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in the majority Muslim country, with even unproven allegations often prompting mob violence. Anyone convicted, or even just accused, of insulting Islam, risks a violent and bloody death at the hands of vigilantes. A Christian woman [Asia Bibi] has been on death row since November 2010 after she was found guilty of making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed during an argument with a Muslim woman. An elderly British man with severe mental illness, sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan in January, was shot by a prison guard last month. Two days after the Christian couple were burned alive, a policeman in Pakistan hacked a man to death for allegedly making blasphemous remarks against Islam. Shama Bibi (left) and Sajjad Maseeh, a Christian couple and parents of four children, were burned to death by a Muslim lynch mob in Pakistan because of a false blasphemy accusation. Shama was also 4-months pregnant. Dr. Nazir S. Bhatti, President of the Pakistan Christian Congress, wrote a letter to U.S. President Obama expressing surprise that the U.S. did not even bother to condemn the crime against the murdered Christian couple: It is surprising that neither US Administration under your honor nor US State Department even bothered to condemn this horrific crime of burning live of Christian couple by a mob living in country named Islamic Republic of Pakistan which is receiving billions of aid of US taxpayers. I would appeal your honor to put pressure on government of Pakistan to end misuse of blasphemy laws against Christian, Ahamadiyyia and other religious minorities and condition US Aid to Pakistan on human rights and repeal of blasphemy laws. Meanwhile, in America itself, in Oklahoma, Jimmy Stepney, a Muslim, stabbed Jerome Bullock, a Christian, after Stepney had said that Muslims need to “step up” beheadings. According to Koco5 News: The [police] report went on to say Stepney had been making comments about beheading people. “We were watching the news,” said Bullock. “He said he felt like more Muslims need to step up to the plate and do certain thing. He was talking about beheading people.” The severity of the plight of Christians in the Middle East was further underscored by Dr. Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, who wrote: Russia is currently considering the possibility of initiating a draft decision of the UN Human Rights Council on the protection of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa. Russian experts are now working on this document.[…] The scale of the problems demands the coordination of international efforts to protect Christians in the Middle East. Further initiatives, new measures and relevant discussions aimed at finding durable solutions in this regard are strongly needed. Of course, we believe that Europe, including the UK, should make its contribution to these efforts, taking into account the Christian roots of the European civilization, which are now often forgotten for the sake of political correctness.[…] The fate of the region’s religious minorities is of the greatest concern. The mass exodus of Christians, who have been an integral part of the Middle Eastern mosaic for centuries, is particularly troubling. The rest of November’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity: Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches Bangladesh: Two Christian pastors from the Faith Bible Church of God were arrested for preaching the Gospel to Muslims . They could face two years in prison if convicted for “hurting religious sentiments” and luring Muslims to convert by offering them money. The pastors deny both charges. Police arrested the pastors and 41 other people, including Muslims, after a throng of Muslims disrupted a house meeting. According to a witness: “More than 100 Muslims headed by local Jamaat-e-Islami party members and Muslim clerics gathered at the house and started barking questions at the pastors—why did they propagate Christianity in the locality and convert some of them,” and who gave them permission to preach to Muslims. “The pastors replied that it did not take any permission from any authority to propagate any religion and convert people to any religion. Suddenly the Muslims became apoplectic with rage, tried to pick a fight and started jabbing the pastors’ faces.” Egypt: Father Timothy Shakar, priest of St. Mina Church in Port Said, confirmed that two homemade bombs were planted near the St. Mina Church but caused no injuries, or losses of life or property. Police searched other churches in the region for more bombs. Germany: Nine men who had earlier broken into, vandalized, and robbed several Christian churches in the Cologne area—including by stealing money from the collection boxes and liturgical vessels—were caught during a massive raid. Apparently, all of the arrested are German by nationality, but Muslim by background and heritage. Some were also identified as “Salafis”—especially fundamentalist Muslims—connected to international terrorist organizations. Some had even raised hundreds of thousands of Euros from native (and naive) Germans to support overseas “charities,” the proceeds of which actually went to terrorist groups such as ISIS. Iraq: As cries of “Allahu Akbar” emanated from surrounding mosques, Islamic State militants blew up yet another Christian church – St. George’s Church and its associated nunnery in the city of Mosul — along with other non-Sunni sites. Separately, after breaking the cross from off the dome of the St. Ephrem Church dome ( before and after pictures here) and selling its pews and other furnishings, IS transformed the church into a mosque and council seat for the jihadis. East Jerusalem: Despite constant and ever bolder attacks on a church, police refuse to respond to pleas for help from the Christian congregation. According to Morning Star News, “The attacks, driven by both intent to seize property and opposition to Christianity, have been mounted by young men with ties to Palestinian militants who for more than three months have been trying to force Living Bread Church from its rented building. Church pastor Karen Dunham and others have filed at least eight police reports about the assaults.” The most recent incident took place on November 5, when the gas tank of a car owned by a church volunteer was filled with sugar. On November 2, a car owned by one of the pastor’s relatives was stolen. And on October 16, three American Christians were injured while trying to repair a metal security door: A crowd of Palestinian men attacked them with box cutters, sticks, clubs and pepper spray. According to the church’s attorney, authorities “have their [the assailants’] pictures, they have their names, they even have their national ID numbers, and still they do nothing…. The level of brute force compared to the level of lack of response of the police force there is pretty shocking…. It almost seems like if someone is going to go in and murder her [Dunham], that no one is going to lift a finger.” Malaysia: Approximately 70 local residents in Petaling Jaya protested the construction of a church. They claimed the growing number of Christian places of worship in the area is part of an attempt to evangelize and convert Muslims to Christianity. An NGO, the local branch of Pertubuhan Sahabat, supported the claims of the Muslims. They argued that there are three churches in the vicinity, although close to 70 percent of the residents in the area are Muslims. According to a spokesman, “Even before the church is built, flyers on Christianity have been distributed to our homes, and this could confuse our children and divert them from the path of Islam.” The vacant plot was previously occupied by squatters, a car park and several food stalls. Another local Muslim added “None of our neighbours are Christians, we can vouch for that… it is an insult to Muslims to allow a church to be built here, but none of our representatives seem to have the time to listen to us.” One demonstrator hurled large rocks at the temporary steel fence around the vacant plot. Jihadi Slaughter of Christians Continue reading at Raymond Ibrahim.com. https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2014/

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (829690)	1/13/2015 9:16:53 AM
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Islamic Slavery and Sharia Enforcement Expanded, Intensified in 2014 Posted on January 11, 2015 by creeping And if the first week of January is any indication, 2015 will be the worst year in modern history. via Dr Martin Parsons: Will 2015 bring more sharia-based persecution of Christians and other minorities? h/t Persecution.org This time last year I asked the question: will the persecution of Christians continue to spread in 2014? Anyone who has watched the news about ISIS and the plight of Christian and Yezidi minorities in Syria and Iraq will be all too uncomfortably aware of the answer. Yet what ISIS has done in 2014 is, in many ways, an extreme example of a broader issue: the global spread of sharia enforcement. This is something that we have seen increase, both in its geographical spread and its intensity, in 2011, 2012 and 2013 – and clearly continued in 2014. By “sharia enforcement” I mean the attempts by either political or violent means to legally enforce sharia on Muslims and non-Muslim minorities. This is the central aim of both political Islamists and violent jihadists. In many respects, this is an uncomfortable subject for many Muslims. However, it is a nettle that must be grasped not simply because it represents the largest increase in the persecution of minorities in the world today, but also because it is the single greatest threat to the freedoms and values of the English speaking peoples. Increases in the severity of sharia enforcement 2014 saw significant increases in the severity of sharia enforcement in two respects: 1. The widespread use of slavery. Hundreds of Christian, Yezidi and Turkoman Muslim women held by ISIS in Badush prison in Mosul are treated as slaves and raped daily unless they agree to convert to ISIS’s own version of Islam. The UN estimates that approximately 1500 Christian and Yezidi women and children have been abducted and forced into sexual slavery. Similarly, reports from Nigeria suggest that many of the 270 predominantly Christian school girls abducted by Boko Haram in April have been forcibly converted to Islam and sold as brides or sex slaves to jihadists. In a video statement Boko Haram’s leader claimed: “Allah instructed me to sell them… slavery is allowed in my religion.” This is a major development in the intensification of sharia enforcement. Slavery almost entirely died out in the Islamic world, at least as a formal legal institution, in the Twentieth Century with its abolition in Mauritania in 1981. Yet the regulations on slavery, and on whom may be enslaved, still exist in the traditional textbooks of sharia that have been taught in madrassas for centuries. 2. The enforcement of jizya and religious cleansing. The advance of ISIS in Northern Iraq and Syria has caused the displacement of an estimated 200,000 Christians from their homes. Christians were given the ultimatum of either converting to Islam, paying the jizya tax on non Muslim monotheists, or being executed. The second option was not available to the Yezidis, who are regarded as polytheists by ISIS and therefore had the choice of either conversion or death – or, in the case of women and children, enslavement. However, what has happened in Iraq and Syria is not an isolated incidence. Similar sharia-based religious cleansing has also been happening in northern Nigeria. This has resulted in repeated attacks on Churches, Christian institutions and individual Christians. For example, on January 26th, Boko Haram locked Christians in the church at Wada Chakawa in Adamawa state, before bombing it and cutting the throats of any who tried to escape, resulting in the deaths of at least 138 local Christians. This has now spread to neighbouring Cameroon where attacks and threats by Boko Haram have forced thousands of Christians to flee from the north. The aim is clearly to eradicate the entire non-Muslim population from increasingly large areas. Similarly, ISIS appears intent on spreading its religious cleansing to Lebanon, with graffiti appearing on the walls of Lebanese churches announcing that “ISIS is coming”. While in Somalia, al Shabab – which has pledged to rid the country of all Christians – murdered a number of Christians during 2014, some by beheading. These groups base such activities on verses of the Qur’an such as: “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book (i.e. Christians or Jews), until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” (Q9:29) And in attacks on the Yezidis “Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them.” (Q9:5) Unlike liberal Muslims, Islamists believe that these commands do not simply refer to a particular historical situation, but must still be obeyed today. Widening geographical spread of sharia enforcement Sudan. 2014 saw the full implications of the family law provisions in sharia which stipulate that a Muslim woman may only marry a Muslim, and that any children of a Muslim father are deemed to be Muslims and, as such, subject to the death penalty for apostasy if they embrace another faith. Consequently, Meriam Yahia Ibrahim – who had been brought up a Christian by her mother after her Muslim father abandoned the family – had her marriage to a Christian declared invalid and was therefore sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery, followed by death for apostasy. Only strong international pressure led to her being allowed to flee to the USA. Pakistan. In October the Lahore High Court rejected the appeal of Christian mother of five Aasia Bibi for alleged blasphemy against Muhammad and confirmed the death sentence. Islamists had made threats to the judges. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court, which determines whether parliamentary laws are compatible with sharia, ordered that the option of life imprisonment for blasphemy should be formally removed from the statute book in accordance with its 1991 ruling that the only appropriate penalty must be death. Brunei. A member of the Commonwealth and British protectorate until 1984. A new sharia-based penal code was implemented in May 2014 whose punishments include stoning to death. Under the code, any Muslim who embraces another faith will be executed for apostasy and Christians will be fined or jailed for teaching Christianity to anyone under 18. Philippines. Under a peace deal between the government and Islamist rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a semi-independent Islamic state called Bangsamoro will be created in the south, which will be allowed its own security force and enforcement of sharia. Bangsamoro includes the town of Wao which is 83 per cent Christian and whose mayor has protested strongly against it being part of an Islamic state. Indonesia. Aceh province, which hit world headlines 10 years ago after being hit by the tsunami, passed a new bylaw obliging all non Muslims to follow sharia. The city of Bengkulu in Sumatra is considering a new law forcing all residents to join in daily Islamic prayers. Although the national government has not yet approved this, a similar stand off between provincial and federal governments in northern Nigeria in the 1990s led to the gradual enforcement of sharia there. Tanzania. A small Muslim majority of the 600 member assembly has proposed the formal inclusion of Khadi (sharia) courts within the constitution. This despite 70 per cent of Tanzania’s population being non-Muslims. Bangladesh. In an illustration of the Islamist understanding of democracy as a one way street to achieving the implementation of sharia enforcement, Islamists issued violent threats to deter Christians from voting in parliamentary elections and set fire to Christian villages that voted. The need to act Each year we have seen both a wider global spread of sharia enforcement and an increase in its intensity. Both of these have led to significant suffering for non-Muslims and, indeed, for many ordinary Muslims who just want to get on with their lives. The plight of the Armenian and Assyrian Christians, Yezidis and many ordinary Muslims in the areas of Iraq and Syria now controlled by ISIS has hit world headlines. Yet their plight is simply the tip of a much wider problem that must be addressed. https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/islamic-slavery-and-sharia-enforcement-expanded-intensified-in-2014/