Gatestone Institute 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 … [Read more...]
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Saudi Religious Leader OKs Rape of Children
WND By F. Michael Maloof WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the kingdom’s top religious authority in the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam, has ruled it’s acceptable for men to marry girls so young the West would deem it nothing short of pedophilia and rape. Despite the Saudi justice ministry’s failed efforts to date to set … [Read more...]
Thousand Churches Destroyed in Nigeria: Muslim Persecution of Christians, October 2014
Gatestone Institute In just two months, from August to October, nearly 200 Christian churches were destroyed by the Islamic organization Boko Haram and its Muslim allies after their capture of towns and villages in the north-eastern states of Borno and Adamawa. In the words of Reverend Gideon Obasogie, the director of Catholic Social Communication of Maiduguri Diocese in Borno … [Read more...]
Islamic Law: Girls Can Be Married “Even If They Are In The Cradle”
Veritas International Enterprise Muslim attempts at “reformation” continue to be limited to words not actions. A few days ago, efforts to set a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia “received a blow after the Grand Mufti said there was nothing wrong with girls below 15 getting married.” Two years earlier, the justice ministry began pushing for setting a minimum age in the … [Read more...]
Christians and Churches Attacked in the West: Muslim Persecution of Christians, September 2014
Gatestone Institute The Muslim persecution of Christians in September made prominent appearances not just in the Islamic world, but also in the West—in America, Australia and Europe. In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The words most frequently sprayed were "Infidels!" and "Koran 3:151." The verse from the Koran … [Read more...]
Christianity Under Siege
By Steve Huntley Chicago Sun Times During this season of joyous religious celebrations and especially the holiday cheer enjoyed with family and friends during Christmas time, we should not forget that in too many corners of the world Christianity is under siege with Christians abused, brutalized and murdered. Ghastly crimes like the kidnapping of nearly 300 Nigerian … [Read more...]
Even Christians Who ‘Convert’ Get Beheaded
F. Michael Maloof WND WASHINGTON – “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” This is the statement that fighters in ISIS demand of captured Christians if they don’t want to be summarily executed, mostly by beheading. But now Raymond Ibrahim, writing for the Gatestone Institute, says that if a Christian is captured by ISIS and makes such a profession, they … [Read more...]
Raping and Beheading the Faithful: Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2014
Gatestone Institute Muslims beheading Christians was a visibly growing spectacle throughout the month of August. Islamic State militants cut off a Christian man’s head—after compelling him to say the shehada, the Islamic profession of faith, “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger.” When the shehada is spoken before Muslim witnesses, the speaker becomes … [Read more...]
Islam: Built on the Blood of (Christian) Martyrs (A History of Forced Conversions)
In a recent interview on CBN News, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” tried to recount the horrific atrocities Christians in Iraq are suffering at the hands of the Islamic State. After explaining how Christian minorities fled Baghdad to Ninevah when Islamic militants began terrorizing them and bombing their churches, White said: Then one day, … [Read more...]
‘We Need Your Head’: Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2014
Gatestone Institute The purge of ancient Christian communities throughout Iraq that started in June culminated in a show of great intolerance in July. Among other things, a Christian church that had stood on the ground of Iraq for 1,800 years—a church that was erected less than 200 year after Christ—was reportedly torched by the Islamic State, according to numerous news … [Read more...]