The following article by Bob Unruh first appeared on WND. The United Nations recently named a special day to fight "Islamophobia," based on a lone attacker's murders of 51 at two New Zealand mosques, while at the same time ignoring the thousands of Christians who have been killed by Islamists. And author Raymond Ibrahim, a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone … [Read more...]
The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire
by Mitri Raheb Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2021. 207 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Raymond Ibrahim Author of Sword and Scimitar Middle East Quarterly Summer 2022 Raheb, a Lutheran clergyman and academic in Bethlehem, argues that “Christian persecution is a Western construct that says more about the West than about the Christians of the Middle East.” Whatever persecution … [Read more...]
Death for Christian “Blasphemers” in Muslim Pakistan
Gatestone Institute On July 4, 2022, a Christian mechanic, who had been imprisoned for the last five years awaiting trial under a false “blasphemy” accusation, was sentenced to death by hanging in a Pakistani court, for allegedly insulting the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Five years earlier, on June 5, 2017, Ashfaq Masih, 34, got into a quarrel with Muhammad Naveen, a rival who … [Read more...]
Muslims Attack Coptic Christians for ‘Sin’ of Opening a Church
Coptic Solidarity On the evening of June, 23, 2022, Muslim mobs attacked the homes of Coptic Christians, including by hurling stones through their windows, in al-Hilla, a village in Luxor governate, Upper Egypt. The occasion of this latest Muslim mob attack on Egypt’s indigenous Christian minority was the legalization of the Church of Michael the Archangel. Although the … [Read more...]
“Here We Kill!” The Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2022
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of May, 2022: Murder and Mayhem in Nigeria: On May 12, the Islamic State in Nigeria released a video of its members slaughtering 20 Christians (image above). The Muslim militants were dressed in black garb, which covered everything except their eyes. In the video, the … [Read more...]