Published in FrontPageMagazine.com Translations of this item: Danish Italian Portuguese Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that "it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians." Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant. While last October's Baghdad church attack which killed some sixty … [Read more...]
Muslim Jihad in Christian Ethiopia
Published in FrontPageMagazine.com Not only does last week's jihadist rampage against Ethiopia's indigenous Christians highlight the travails Christians encounter wherever Islam has a sizable population, but it offers several insights, including some which should concern faraway, secular nations with Muslim minorities. According to Fox News: Thousands of Christians have been … [Read more...]
No ‘Revolution’ for Egypt’s Christians
Published in FrontPageMagazine.com Translations of this item: Norwegian On March 5, Muslims attacked, plundered, and set ablaze an ancient Coptic church in Sool, a village near Cairo, Egypt. Afterwards, throngs of Muslims gathered around the scorched building and pounded its walls down with sledge hammers—to cries of "Allahu Akbar!" Adding insult to injury, the … [Read more...]
Mosques Flourish in America; Churches Perish in Muslim World
Published in Pajamas Media Translations of this item: Danish Dutch As Muslims prepare to erect a mega-mosque near the site of the 9/11 atrocities, it is well to reflect that the sort of tolerance, or indifference, that allows them to do so, is far from reciprocated to churches in the Muslim world. I speak not of Islamist attacks against churches—such as the New … [Read more...]
Is the Media ‘Fair and Balanced’ on Christian Persecution?
Published in Pajamas Media The mainstream media (MSM) has just provided another example of how it ostracizes those who fail to tout its party-line. Context: the Washington Post's On Faith blog posted an article dealing with Muslim-Christian relations, in light of recent attacks on Christians in the Muslim world. Regular contributors were invited to respond. The response of one … [Read more...]