Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August, 2021: The Sexual Abuse of Christian Women and Girls Pakistan: Three Muslim gunmen forcibly abducted Muqadas, a 16-year-old Christian girl, from her family home; they seriously injured her grandmother, for trying to prevent them, in the process. … [Read more...]
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“They Are Burning Us Alive!” Say Sinai’s Coptic Christians
Coptic Solidarity The recent execution of a Coptic Christian man in the Sinai is a reminder that the peninsula is a hotbed of wanton, jihadi terrorism in dire need of a crackdown. Although the murder of 62-year-old Nabil H. Salama was videotaped in an Islamic State propaganda video—meaning it received some media attention in the West—much lesser known is that the Muslim … [Read more...]
“Burned Beyond Recognition”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2019
Gatestone Institute The following are some of the abuses that Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of October, 2019; they are categorized by theme: The Slaughter of Christians Uganda: A Muslim mob set fire to the home of former Muslim, Ali Nakabale, 36, for converting to Christianity. Four of his family members—including his two children, a 6-year-old son … [Read more...]
“We Are Going to Burn You Alive!” Muslim Persecution of Christians, June 2017
Gatestone Institute Jesuit Father Henri Boulad, an Islamic scholar of the Egyptian Greek Melkite rite, held no punches in an interview concerning the motives of Islamic terror and Western responses to it. “Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims,” declared the priest, and those who carry out acts of violence and intolerance are only doing what their … [Read more...]
Bombed, Burned, and Urinated On: Churches under Islam (Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2015)
Gatestone Institute Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches Iraq: The Islamic State detonated the nation’s oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah’s. . The 27,000-square-foot building had stood near Mosul for 14 centuries. For several years, prior to 2009, U.S. soldiers protected and sometimes used the monastery as a chapel. “Our Christian history in Mosul is being barbarically … [Read more...]
Islamic State Burns 80-Year-Old Christian Woman Alive
According to a May 26 report, the Islamic State “burned an 80 year-old Assyrian [Christian] woman to death in a village southeast of Mosul.” The elderly woman was reportedly immolated for “failing to comply with Islamic Sharia law.” … [Read more...]
Burned Christian Boy Dies Mysteriously, Pakistani Media Covers Up Christian Persecution
Following the mysterious death of Nauman -- a 14-year-old Christian boy attacked and burned by Muslims for his faith -- some in the Pakistani media have changed the narrative, suggesting he was attacked over a family feud, not religion. However, Christian lawyer Aneeqa Maria Anthony, coordinator of the NGO "The Voice Society," says these are all lies: "Nauman gave his … [Read more...]
Fatwa: How Islamic State Justifies Burning Pilot Alive
Portuguese Once again, the Islamic State (IS) performs an atrocity that boggles the Western mind, and once again the Islamic State points to its namesake—Islam—to justify its depravity. IS has just released a video showing captive Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh in a cage being burned alive (image above). It also posted a fatwa on various jihadi websites that permits the … [Read more...]
Yemen: Muslims Burn Alive Female Relative for Converting to Christianity
French Muslim relatives of a woman conspired to kill her by placing gasoline in one of her kitchen bottles, causing her to catch fire while cooking and burn to death. The reason? Earlier she had converted to Christianity and refused to return to Islam. Now her husband (also an apostate to Christianity) and children are homeless and on the run; nor will police and other … [Read more...]
Noticing the Muslim Slaughter of Christians Is ‘Islamophobic’ Says the United Nations
The Stream On June 22, Muslims murdered 25 Christians — mostly women and children — and wounded nearly 100 more inside a church in Syria. According to eyewitnesses, one or two armed men entered the Mar Elyas Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus during mass, when it was packed with some 350 worshippers, and indiscriminately opened fire before detonating an explosive belt inside … [Read more...]