Anti-Christian Jihad

I have previously written about the genocidal campaign by islamic jihadis to eliminate or enslave Christians (and pretty much all non-muslims) here, here, here, here, here, and here, but of course even those posts barely touch the surface of what's been going on and since the arrival of the "Arab Spring" uprisings in the islamic world, the tyranny against non-muslims, especially Christians, has really ramped up.

As relatively secular dictators are overthrown in country after country, pro-sharia islamic groups like the Muslim brotherhood are poised to fill the void and they are not interested in "coexisting" with what they consider to be inferior beings. The islamic supremacists find a friend in Obama, of course, and the enemedia, and even Conservative Americans are often blind to the savagery (or are useful idiots for it). The horror continues and the world looks the other way, they have learned nothing from history.

Islamorageboy mobs in Nigeria burn homes, churches and Christians as they riot over the fact that the muslim candidate for President of that country lost to a Christian.  Read about it at Persecution.org and see updates at Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch about how the charred bodies of Christian dead line the streets. Over 100 Christians have been killed and more than 40 churches destroyed.

Giulio Meotti has an Op-Ed, "Mideast without Christians", that truly is a must read:

This is the saddest Easter in the long epic of Arab Christianity: The cross is near extinction in the lands of it origin. The much-vaunted diversity of the Middle East is going to be reduced to the flat monotony of a single religion, Islam, and to a handful of languages.
In 1919, the Egyptian revolution adopted a green flag with the crescent and the cross. Both Muslims and Christians participated in the nationalist revolution against British colonialism. Now, according to the Egyptian Federation for Human Rights, more than 70 Christians a week are asking to leave the country due to Islamist threats.
The numbers are telling. Today there is only one Middle Eastern country where the number of Christians has grown: Israel. As documented in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, the Christian community that numbered 34,000 people in 1949 is now 163,000-strong, and will reach 187,000 in 2020.
In the rest of the Middle East, the drive for Islamic purity is going to banish all traces of pre-Islamic pasts. This has affected not only Christians, but other non-Islamic communities too, such as the Zoroastrians and Baha’is in Iran (the late also found refuge in Israel, in Haifa.)
The silence of the global forums, the flawed conscience of human rights groups, the self-denial of the media and the Vatican’s appeasement is helping facilitate this Islamist campaign. According to a report on religious freedom compiled by the US Department of State, the number of Christians in Turkey declined from two million to 85,000; in Lebanon they have gone from 55% to 35% of the population; in Syria, from half the population they have been reduced to 4%; in Jordan, from 18% to 2%. In Iraq, they will be exterminated.
Should the exodus of Christians from Bethlehem continue in the next two or three decades, there may be no clergy left to conduct religious services in Jesus’ birthplace. In Iran, Christians have become virtually non-existent since 1979, when Khomeini ordered the immediate closure of all Christian schools. In Gaza, the 3,000 who remain are subjected to persecution. In Sudan, Christians in the South are forced into slavery. READ THE REST

"In Iraq, they will be exterminated."  Indeed. Read "The Silent Extermination of Iraq's Christians" by Raymond Ibrahim at FrontPage Magazine  (excerpt):

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 Christians is widely known—actually receiving some MSM coverage—the fact is, Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Among other atrocities, beheading and crucifying Christians are not irregular occurrences; messages saying “you Christian dogs, leave or die,” are typical. Islamists see the church as an “obscene nest of pagans” and threaten to “exterminate Iraqi Christians.” John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity International, summarized the situation well in a recent letter to President Obama:

The threat of extermination is not empty. Since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, more than half the country’s Christian population has been forced by targeted violence to seek refuge abroad or to live away from their homes as internally displaced people. According to the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, over 700 Christians, including bishops and priests, have been killed and 61 churches have been bombed. Seven years after the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk reports: “He who is not a Muslim in Iraq is a second-class citizen. Often it is necessary to convert or emigrate, otherwise one risks being killed.” This anti-Christian violence is sustained by a widespread culture of Muslim supremacism that extends far beyond those who pull the triggers and detonate the bombs. RTR

I have said it before and I will say it again, we have GOT to speak out against the atrocities being committed against innocent people by genocidal islamic lunatics. Dennis Prager makes the same point, quite nicely, at the National Review in his piece, "Why Don't Christians Help... Christians?"

In the Muslim world, Christians are being murdered, churches are being torched, entire ancient Christian communities — the Iraqi and Palestinian, for example — are disappearing. And, again, 2 billion Christians react with silence. There are some Christian groups active on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world. They do important work, and are often the primary source of information on persecuted Christians. But they would be the first to acknowledge that the Christian world is overwhelmingly silent when it comes to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world. RTWT

We are taught to turn the other cheek, but not to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the anguished cries of our oppressed and murdered brothers and sisters. There's a line, you know, and the islamic jihadis haven't just crossed it, they have soaked it in the blood of the innocent and set it on fire.





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