Saturday, August 3, 2013

Genocide of Christians on Planet Earth


Raymond Ibrahim is a stalwart in chronicling the persecution and genocide of Christians all over the world. The vids below has him talking to Glenn Beck, Brian Lilley and CBN.  Worth your time to go through his listing, which he does on a monthly basis and checking for yourselves if I am amiss in labelling  as "genocide" the killing of Christians worldwide. 

...One of the few positive developments . following the rise of the Islamists during the "Arab Spring" is that today many average and/or nominal Muslims are seeing the true face of Islam and its teachings. And many—as evinced by the June 30 Revolution of Egypt, which saw the ousting of the Muslim Brotherhood—don't want to deal with it.

For example, during a recent episode of "With Dr. Islam Buhira" on Al Qahira Wa Al Nass TV station, Buhira explained how he had attended "a conference in Morocco on the status of women in society post Arab Spring," and how at the conference, the following interpretation of the Koran by renowned Islamic exegete, al-Qurtubi (d.1273), was read: "Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden."

After quoting al-Qurtubi's words, Dr. Buhira continued, in a disappointed tone: "This is how al-Qurtubi speaks about women, who include his mother, his daughters—basically all Muslim women. He says they are 'all ridden.' This is what makes them similar to animals."

Hard to believe or not, the idea that "Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden," is in fact recorded in Tafsir al-Qurtubi (see vol. 17, p. 172), one of the Islamic world's most authoritative exegeses, or commentary on the teachings of the Koran.



In fact, comparing women to beasts is not uncommon in Islam and traces back to Prophet Muhammad himself, who is recorded saying, "Women, dogs, and donkeys annul a man's prayer" (Musnad Ibn Hanbal, vol. 2, p. 2992).

I first translated and discussed these texts likening women to animals in 2008, in the context of how female concubines in Islam are not deemed human, as the Arabic relative pronoun used in the Koran to indicate captive sex-slaves is "it"—as in an animal—not "she" (e.g., Koran 4:3).

Even so, many Muslims, including women, are only now learning about these texts and teachings. The fact is many Muslims really don't know much about Islam beyond the Five Pillars. But they have been conditioned to believe that, whatever Sharia says must be laudable and judicious—Sharia being the law of their god as delivered by their beloved prophet. Moreover, in the last couple decades the slogan "Islam is the solution" became popular as a panacea to all of society's ill.

That is, until it went from being theory to reality.

Put differently, now that the Arab Spring has brought Islamists to power—in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Libya, and currently trying (at the tip of the jihadi sword) in Syria—nominal and nonobservant "cultural" Muslims, and they are not a few, who for decades were ruled by Westernized autocrats and media, are finally seeing the true face of Islam and its teachings, in all their minutia, up close and personal. This new acquaintance with the truth is setting some of them free—even as it further enslaves those who like what they see.........



The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia  has again declared that it is 'necessary to destroy all the churches in the region.

Before Egypt's President Muhammad Morsi was ousted, April was one of the worst months for Christian Copts there. On April 5 near Cairo, when a longstanding feud between a Christian family and a Muslim family—based on male Muslims sexually harassing Christian girls—culminated in the violent deaths of six Christians, including two of the participants, a Christian and a Muslim, being set on fire, and local Muslims went on another "collective punishment" spree. It resulted in the injury of at least 20 other Copts, an Evangelical church being set on fire, and an attack on a Coptic church, Two days later, after Copts had mourned their dead in the St. Mark Cathedral—Coptic Christianity's holiest site and home to the Coptic pope—Muslim mobs, who had waited outside, launched yet another attack—aided by state security forces. Eyewitnesses said as many as 40-50 tear gas canisters targeted the mourners, many of whom were women and children hiding in the cathedral. Two more Copts were killed and many dozens wounded as other officers stood by while the Muslim mob tried to destroy the cathedral.



On one Friday after prayers, the Bilal Ibn Rabah Mosque in Cairo was turned into a "torture chamber" for Egyptians, many of whom were Christians, protesting the Muslim Brotherhood. One of the victims, Amir Ayad, a Christian, said he was severely beaten before being left for dead at the side of the road. He suffered a fractured skull, a broken arm, bleeding in his right eye and pellet wounds. Coptic Christian children, mostly boys, were targeted for kidnapping and held for ransom; one 6-year-old, after his family had paid the Muslim kidnapper, was killed. And a video appeared on Arabic-language websites showing a crowd of Muslims in Egypt assaulting and raping two Christian women on a crowded street and in broad daylight. Throughout, the women scream in terror as the men shout Islamic slogans such as "Allahu Akbar!" "["Allah is Greater!"] None of the many passersby intervenes in any way........

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