The Islamic State recently opened a market where it sells the possessions it robbed from Christian churches and homes in Mosul -- in accordance with Islamic teachings that permit plunder, or ghanima. Aptly called, the "Spoils of the Nazarenes" (or Nasara, Islam's term for Christians), among other everyday items, the IS store sells televisions, refrigerators, microwave ovens, … [Read more...]
Islamic State Humiliates Muslim “False Witness,” Saves Real Punishments for Christians
In one of Mosul’s streets, members of the Islamic State tied a man to an electric pole and pasted on his torso a sign that reads: "False Witness." According to Ankawa, eyewitnesses said that IS members had tied the man to an electric pole in the Bab Toub neighborhood in downtown Mosul because he had lied to the Islamic State regarding the ownership of a bottle of cooking gas … [Read more...]
Only Muslim Schoolchildren Lives Matter?
FrontPage Magazine Earlier we looked at “how Western mainstream media enable Islamic terrorism,” specifically by employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, … [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...]
Islamic State Breaks Another Church Cross
A good before and after photo of St. Ephrem Cathedral -- former seat of the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese -- in Mosul. To the right is how it stood before the Islamic State took over in July. To the left is after -- with the Cross broken off the cathedral's dome. … [Read more...]