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The National Rifle Association, which is battling a raft of gun
control measures on Capitol Hill, also has an international fight on its
hand as it gears up to oppose a U.N. treaty designed to restrict the
flow of arms to conflict zones.
Negotiations open Monday in New York on the Arms Trade Treaty, which
would require countries to determine whether weapons they sell would be
used to commit serious human rights violations, terrorism or
transnational organized crime.
The gun lobby fears that the treaty would be used to regulate
civilian weapons. Human rights activists counter that it would reduce
the trafficking of weapons, including small arms such as the ubiquitous
AK-47 assault rifle, to outlaw regimes and rebel groups engaged in
atrocities against civilian populations.
“This treaty is a common-sense alignment of the interests of
governments, law-abiding citizens and individuals all over the world,
who deserve the right to live free from harm,” said Michelle A.
Ringuette, chief of campaigns and programs at Amnesty International USA.
“Any step toward restraining the illicit sale and transfer of weapons
used to commit horrific crimes is a good move forward, and the world
could use a lot more steps in the direction of ending human rights
abuses.”
The Obama administration, which has wavered on the treaty, signaled
Friday that it was willing to support the accord. “The United States is
steadfast in its commitment to achieve a strong and effective Arms Trade
Treaty that helps address the adverse effects of the international arms
trade on global peace and stability,” Secretary of State John F. Kerry
said in a statement. “We will not support any treaty that would be
inconsistent with U.S. law and the rights of American citizens under our
Constitution, including the Second Amendment.” The NRA is among the treaty’s most vocal opponents and a
founder of the World Forum on Shooting Activities, an international
coalition of gun rights activists and gun manufacturers who plan to
speak against the treaty.
“What we really object to is the inclusion of civilian firearms
within the scope of the ATT,” said Tom Mason, the group’s executive
secretary and a lawyer who has represented the NRA at U.N. meetings for
nearly two decades. “This is a treaty that really needs to address the
transfer of large numbers of military weapons that leads to human rights
abuses. We have submitted language that you can define what a civilian
firearm is.” The NRA also argues that the treaty could infringe
on gun rights as understood in the United States and could force
Americans onto an international registry.
Activists say the NRA wants to gut the treaty. “The NRA claim that
there is such a thing as ‘civilian weapons’ and that these can and need
to be treated differently from military weapons under the Arms Trade
Treaty is — to put it politely — the gun lobby’s creativity on full
display,” Ringuette said in a statement. “There is no such distinction.
To try to create one would create a loophole that would render the
treaty inoperative, as anyone could claim that he or she was in the
business of trading ‘civilian weapons.’?” Keep Reading..
Amazing Photos Undersea Eruption Created a Tonga Island ~Inner Earth Inner Sun~
This undersea eruption created a new Island off the coast of Tonga in March of 2012.
Spectacular columns are spewing out of the sea about 6 miles
(from the southwest coast off the main island of Tongatapu - an area
where up to 36 undersea volcanoes are clustered, geologists said.
Trade winds are blowing gas and steam. Tonga, a 170-island
archipelago between Australia and Tahiti, is part of the Pacific "ring
of fire" - an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones stretching from Chile
in South America through Alaska and down through Vanuatu to Tonga.
Scientists sailed to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting
for days near Tonga — shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet
into the sky above the South Pacific ocean.
Tonga is made up of 169 islands, 39 of which are
inhabited, sprinkled over the Pacific Ocean about one-third of the way
from New Zealand to Hawaii. Coastal residents said the steam and
ash column first appeared after a series of sharp earthquakes were
felt in the capital, Nuku'alofa.
Volcanic activity in the sea off the Canary island of El Hierro is seen
in this areal photo taken and released by the Canary Islands Government
on Friday Nov. 4, 2011. The regional government of the Canary Islands
on Saturday Nov. 5, 2011has ordered the evacuation of homes and road
closures near the southern tip of El Hierro after two earth tremors and
increased offshore volcanic activity caused a buildup of malodorous
debris floating on the sea.Seismic activity began in the area on July 17
and residents have since been rocked by more than 10,000 tremors, while
underwater fissures have released an almost continuous flow of
sulfurous gases, smoke and hot objects.El Hierro has some 11,000
residents and was formed by volcanic activity
An eruption of an underwater volcano is seen in the Pacific Ocean near
the uninhabited Minami Iwojima Island, about 1,400km (870 miles) south
of Tokyo July 3, 2005. The Japanese Coast Guard sent a plane to
investigate the approximately 1,000-metres (3,280-ft) column of steam
after it was spotted on Saturday by a member of Japan's armed forces
stationed on the island of Iwojima
In this photo taken and released by the Canary regional government on
Saturday Oct. 15, 2011, fragments called pyroclasts from an underwater
volcano are seen on the surface of the sea off Restinga on the Canary
island of El Hierro, Spain. The regional government of Spain's Canary
Islands has closed access to a port on El Hierro, ordered shipping to
sail away from the area and banned aircraft from flying over the
island's southern tip after an underwater volcano began spewing smoking
debris. Scientists have detected airborne volcanic fragments called
pyroclasts rising from the sea off the port of La Restinga, the
government said in a statement. A research vessel that had been taking
samples from the sea has been ordered to desist.
The Hollow Earth -Heaven or Hell?
Our common conception is that Heaven is out there somewhere in
the sky or in space, while Hell is underneath us, deep underground or at
the planet's center. This would be accurate if the planet had a wholly
solid interior, but it does not. Our planet is a hollow shell and at its
center is a luminous sun or anomaly. It is engineered wisely and
economically so that both the outer convex surface and the inner concave
surface can be inhabited. This is possible when it is realized that the
planet's gravity is in the middle of it's shell, and not its center.
Polar openings connect the two surfaces in an unbroken fashion, and two
suns, one outer and one inner, illuminate and warm both areas. Air and
water flow also circulate unbroken from inner to outer and vice versa
with the ice caps acting as a filtering system.
Not only are the inner and outer surfaces of our hollow planet
inhabited, but the shell is as well. The Earth's shell, which varies
from 400 to 800 miles in thickness, is made up of several layers or
stratas, much like an apartment complex, wherein live many civilizations
and eco-systems. The shell is also honeycombed throughout with tunnels
and cavern systems both natural and man-made. The caverns contain cities
or communities, human and non-human alike, and are interlinked by
high-speed shuttles or trains which run magnetically through the
tunnels, much like our modern subway systems. Many of these transport
systems reach both the outer and inner Earth surfaces, where trade and
buisness is conducted, but only priveleged or high-level functionaries
have access to these ports.
All major outer Earth cities are linked to inner or Middle Earth
sub-cities via secret tunnels, ports, shafts, elevators, and other
passageways, where dignitaries and officials conduct commerce or
exchange imformation. Most of our technology comes from the inner earth.
In the last few hundred years, inner earth societies have groomed the
outer earth into its present modernized state. The goal is the eventual
full integration of the inner and outer earth worlds into one world
government or society. Whether this is for good or bad remains to be
seen. One of the great challenges confronting us is the safe integration
of clean technologies in an otherwise fully organic world. Many believe
that technology is a crutch or the work of the devil, and that the
human organism has potentials that can outsurpass any technology.
Is the inner earth good or evil? The same question can be asked
of outer earth. It appears that the first two to three hundred miles
both beneath and above sea level is a region of predominant negativity.
For thousands of years now, this outer world of ours has been dominated
by war and chaos instigated largely by forces that are anti-human. There
are two basic forces or spirits in our universe whose embodiments are
reflected in the mammalian and reptillian species, and they have always
been at odds with one another. Both have claims to this part of the
universe and Earth in particular. In the last great battle between these
two forces the reptillian or luciferian forces were defeated and driven
underground, where they now await judgement. These fallen angels, who
have lost their original human bodies and taken on reptillian ones
continue to impede and frustrate humanity despite their restraints. Were
they to be fully loosed, humanity would be instantly destroyed. Instead
they must use human leaders and technology to do their dirty work.
True Christianity in the first few centuries AD was one of the greatest
resistance movements against the satanic or luciferian forces that seek
to destroy humanity and make Earth their home. Apollonius of Tyana,
also known as "Paul" was the true Jesus or Christ of the New Testament.
His works and writings have been largely destroyed or changed by Roman
emperor Constantine and his advisors to formulate our present
Christianity which invented Jesus and a hellfire and eternal damnation.
Christ comes from the word Krishna. The Bible is a rehash of even more
ancient manuscripts originating in India and the Orient. Over the
centuries, true christianity has also gone underground recruiting
special individuals who have overcome sin and death and who will become
part of the 144,000 leaders in the new heaven and earth. They are from
all races and nations and are now busy battling the dark forces in a
struggle to reclaim this planet from the inside out.
World Wars I and II were the outer manifestartions of the gigantic
battle going on inside the planet for its repossession. We are in a lull
right now, as both opposing forces regroup for an all out final
assault(Armageddon) on one another. According to one American lama in
Tibet, the ruler of the Satanic forces, Sanat Kumara, or "King of the
World" was deposed from his inner Earth throne in 1948, and his demons
with him, so that most of the inner Earth is now under superhuman rule.
It is outer earth, or the few hundred miles beneath or above sea level,
to where the vanquished demons have fled that remains to be cleaned up.
The planet Pluto, discovered in 1930, and representing the dark coming
to light, is a heavenly signal or warning that the planet is undergoing
an inner and eventually outer cleansing. Our planet and all life on it
are dying, but we are also on the verge of being reborn.
A new home or planet will be found for the negative forces that have
plagued and polluted our planet for so long, and then finally this
planet will come into its own and enjoy a much needed golden age or
millennium of rest and peace and abundance.
BIBLICAL VERSES REFERRING THE THE HOLLOW OR INNER EARTH
"sides of the pit"(Isaiah14:15)
"the great deep"(Isaiah 51:10)
"deep places"(Psalms 135:6)
"heart of the earth"(Matthew 12:40)
"lower parts of the earth"(Ephesians 4:9)
"the deep"(Romans 10:7)
"tartarus"(2 Peter 2:4)
"under the earth"(Revelation 5:13)
"the bottomless pit"(Revelation 9:1)
THE BOOK OF ENOCH
The Book of Enoch, which predates the New Testament and which
was excluded from the bible at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, is a
treasure house of knowledge and wisdom concerning the hollow earth. In section I of the book, chapters 17 to 36, Enoch, beloved
scribe of God, is granted the unique privelege of observing and
recording the secrets of the inner earth and heaven(central sun). He saw that the inner earth contained both heavenly and hellish regions, and that ANY place can become a heaven or a hell depending on the spirits who inhabit it. While the book was popular and widely read in the first few
centuries AD, it was later banned or suppressed by the new counterfeit
Christianity, which obviously saw it as too revealing, and
counterproductive to its purposes.
In December of last year we revealed that the rebels had in their hands potent chemical weapons and were testing them on rabbits, and we predicted that they will use them on innocents.
Well now it is happening.
And now, new evidence translated
from Arabic sources reveals the likelihood that it was the Muslim
rebels (FSA) and not the Assad regime that carried out a chemical attack
on the town of Khan al-Assal, west of Aleppo.
We have captured clips that were never translated (until now)
showing rebels revealing heavy arsenals including weapons of mass
destruction that contain chemical agents.
Russia says that it was the FSA that carried out the massacre while the White House says that there is no evidence that the rebels are responsible.
In the Arab circles, the blaming goes back and forth.
The Syrian government blames the FSA and vise versa.
So who do we believe?
Even if we examine the sources in Arabic we find that the reporting on this story is usually done by masters of confusion.
For example, how can an FSA reporter film an exploded chemical rocket at a close distance and remain alive?
But if we examine the videos during all the clashes between the
FSA and the Syrian military we find much evidence from footage never
seen in the West (until now) showing that weapons cache of scuds, tanks,
Sam-7 rockets and even weapons of mass destruction (chemical as well as
biological) are falling into the hands of FSA rebels.
In one video that we found, the Syrian rebels, after taking an airbase, show the substantial amount of scud missiles now in their hands:
And just when you think that these rebels are too primitive to
figure out how to fire these missiles, here is a video of them actually
launching one:
The chemical attack in Khan al-Assal is said to have been done by
Assad, but as people are swayed to believing the jihadist rebels, we
have first hand testimony from just one of the multitude of victims of
this tragedy:
Also, there are some important facts that we have to take into perspective.
The assault happened in the town of Khan al-Assal, a predominately Shiite town. The Syrian revolution is a Sunni movement, and one of its main goals is to remove the Shiite Assad regime. The town has also been a common victimof attacks by Al-Qaeda,
a Sunni organization. This is thus an indication that the attack was
conducted by Sunnis, and not the government which is Shiite.
Moreover, neither the rebels nor the government denies that amongst the victims were military personal. In fact, it is said that out of the 26 dead 16 were Syrian soldiers.
Why would a Shiite government orchestrate a terrorist attack on its own soldiers especially in a Shiite town?
Assad is very loyal to his own sect–the Alawites–which is a part
of Shia Islam, and they in turn are loyal to him. This allegiance is so
strong that, according to Middle East expert Walid Phares, if Assad ever
escaped from the rebels and hid in the northwestern part of Syria,
where most of the Alawites live, and his enemies came to attack there,
he would use chemical weapons “to defend his own community.”
Khan al-Assal, the place of the attack, is in the northwestern
part of Syria, to where Assad would flee, and the region that he would
be willing to defend.
Furthermore, a medic at the local civilian hospitalsaid that he personally saw soldiers attending to the wounded at the scene of the attack.
Another factor that
deserves attention is that the device used for the attack was not
advanced; both American and independent weapons analysts confirm this.
If the Assad regime had done last week’s incursion, then it would have
utilized something of a more sophisticated arsenal.
Also, if the government was behind this, the attack would have killed more than just 26 people, since Syria is said to own the largest chemical arsenal in the region.
It is reported that
the syrian military believes that the assault was done by launching
into the town a home-made rocket containing CL17, a type of chlorine
that can be found at your local swimming pool.
Though this was a small attack, chlorine can be used to implement very significant destruction on human populations. According to Benjamin Brodsky, writing for the Monterey Institute of International Studies:
The worst industrial accident in history is illustrative: 40
metric tons of methyl isocyanate was released from a Union Carbide
pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, on December 3, 1984. The resulting
plume killed at least 3,000 people downwind and injured more than
100,000. A sufficiently large release of elemental chlorine may be
capable of exacting a comparable toll, particularly if it were to be
discharged in a highly populated civilian area.
Another point is that if Assad was indeed the attacker in this
scenario, then the media would be making full scale reports affirming
that he is the perpetuator. The White House would be confirming it, the
U.N. would be confirming it–but they are not.
It makes no sense that Assad would all of a sudden order such a
strike in the first place, since he is worried about the repercussion of
negative international responses. Walid Phares has made this point:
He is going to try not to use it [the chemical weapons] as much
as as he can because he knows the international reaction is going to be
very tough.
But, all of these facts have not stopped John Mccain and Lindsay
Graham from calling for U.S. intervention and the granting of weapons to
the jihadists. In a recent joint statement, the two Republican senators wrote:
We are extremely disturbed by reports that chemical weapons have
been used today in Syria. President Obama has said that the use of
weapons of mass destruction by Bashar Assad is a ‘red line’ for him that
‘will have consequences.’ If today’s reports are substantiated, the
President’s red line has been crossed, and we would urge him to take
immediate action to impose the consequences he has promised. That should
include the provision of arms to vetted Syrian opposition groups,
targeted strikes against Assad’s aircraft and SCUD missile batteries on
the ground, and the establishment of safe zones inside Syria to protect
civilians and opposition groups. If today’s reports are substantiated,
the tragic irony will be that these are the exact same actions that
could have prevented the use of weapons of mass destruction in Syria.
The facts do not stop Republican Mike Rogers from affirming that
it is a “high probability” that Assad used chemical weapons, as can be
found in a recent interview:
America is in, to a degree, intervening in the Syrian situation.
One diplomatic source has stated
Scores of U.S. military advisers in Jordan are training the rebels in
It has also been said that
that training and weapons has been financed by Saudi Arabia and Qatar,
and that the goal of the U.S. and NATO is to make the rebels into a
formidable fighting force “capable of countering the Syrian Army.”
Our primary concern should be that one day our own nation will
work with NATO to militarily strike the Assad regime and allow the
revolutionaries to prevail. Such an act will not only enable Islamic
fundamentalism to further expand, but empower Turkey to commence its
much aspired empire–that is–a revived Ottoman empire.
Theodore Shoebat and Walid Shoebat are the authors of the book, For God or For Tyranny. SOURCE: FPM
“When
a homeowner is confronted with nine armed agents wearing bullet proof
vests, I’ll wager it doesn’t take a lot of talking [to gain entry].”
Photo credit Bloomberg.com.
California gun laws
allow agents to seize weapons with neither probable cause nor due
process, and illustrate a sobering, even chilling assessment Ann Coulter
made on The Sean Hannity Show in early February.
“Universal background checks means universal registration,” she said. “Universal registration means universal confiscation, universal extermination. That’s how it goes in history.” She was right.
Any owner in California of a registered firearm who
is later convicted of a felony, has a mental health issue or is subject
to a domestic violence restraining order, will have his Second Amendment
rights revoked.
This sounds pretty reasonable on its face. I probably join most
people in saying I don’t want felons, mental incompetents or those who
beat their spouses to possess a firearm.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris urged Vice President Joe Biden to adopt a similar provision nationally.
“What do we do about the guns that are already in the hands of
persons who, by law, are considered too dangerous to possess them?” she
wrote to Biden, according to Bloomberg.com.
As reported by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, any disqualified gun owner:
must immediately designate a third party who is not prohibited from
possessing firearms by completing a Power of Attorney Declaration. The
third party then has 30 days to properly transfer or dispose of any
firearms possessed by the prohibited person. The third party may
relinquish the firearms to a local law enforcement agency, sell or
transfer them to a third party through a licensed firearms dealer, or
sell them to a dealer.”
If the disqualified owner wasn’t properly notified, ignores or
doesn’t understand the notice, the firearm is confiscated. The Bloomberg
article described a typical gun confiscation:
Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine
California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style
house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner
who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital.
They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came away peacefully with three firearms.
Let’s take a look at the criteria California uses to confiscate a firearm: Felony Conviction: What if the person is convicted
of a white-collar crime like embezzlement? What about other non-violent
crimes? Such a person isn’t so much showing a propensity toward violence
as he is a desire to get something that doesn’t belong to him without
the messiness of physically harming others. Mental Disease or Defect: What if the gun owner is
suffering a bout of depression due to the loss of a loved one or a
career or a financial setback? Do we remove his firearm on that basis?
The California law makes no provision for voluntary treatment. Domestic Restraining Order: I know this will
surprise a lot of readers, but people going through a divorce will
sometimes lie — in fact, they’ll often lie, to their lawyer, to the
judge, even to themselves.
The Justice Department agents lack probable cause for a search
warrant to enter a residence and confiscate a weapon — they have to talk
their way in, according to the Bloomberg article. When a homeowner is
confronted with nine armed agents wearing bulletproof vests, I’ll wager
it doesn’t take a lot of talking.
Coulter was right in her assessment — and if this insanity were to spread across the nation, we have every right to be afraid.
Read more at Bloomberg.com.
Egypt:
A court sentenced an entire family – Nadia Mohamed Ali and her seven
children – to fifteen years in prison for converting to Christianity.
The
year 2013 began with reports indicating that wherever Christians live
side by side with large numbers of Muslims, the Christians are under
attack. As one report said, "Africa, where Christianity spread fastest
during the past century, now is the region where oppression of
Christians is spreading fastest." Whether in Kenya, Nigeria, Mali,
Somalia, Sudan, or Tanzania—attacks on Christians are as frequent as
they are graphic.
As for the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity, a new study by the Pew Forum finds that "just 0.6 percent of
the world's 2.2 billion Christians now live in the Middle East and
North Africa. Christians make up only 4% of the region's inhabitants,
drastically down from 20% a century ago, and marking the smallest
regional Christian minority in the world. Fully 93% of the region is
Muslim and 1.6% is Jewish."
How Christianity has been all but eradicated from the region
where it was born is made clear in yet another report on the Middle
East's largest Christian minority, Egypt's Christian Copts. Due to a
"climate of fear and uncertainty,"Christian families are leaving Egypt in large numbers.
Along with regular church attacks, the situation has gotten to the
point that, according to one Coptic priest, "Salafis meet Christian
girls in the street and order them to cover their hair. Sometimes they
hit them when they refuse." Another congregation leader said "With the
new [Sharia-heavy] constitution, the new laws that are expected, and the
majority in parliament I don't believe we can be treated on an equal
basis."
Elsewhere, Christians are not allowed to flee. In eastern Syria,
for example, 25,000 Christians, including Syriac Orthodox, Syriac
Catholics, Chaldeans and Armenians, were prevented from fleeing due to a number of roadblocks set
up by armed Islamic militia groups, who deliberately target Christians
for robbery and kidnapping-for-ransom—then often slaughtering their
victims.
Categorized by theme, January's batch of Muslim persecution of
Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the
following accounts, listed by theme and in country alphabetical order,
not necessarily according to severity:
Church Attacks
Egypt: Reminiscent of the 2011 New Year's Eve church bombing in Alexandria, which left over 23 Christians dead, a car packed with explosives was discovered by a Coptic church celebrating
Christmas [which is in January] and was neutralized before it could
detonate. As patrols seized the explosives-packed car, another car with
masked men in it sped away. Separately, hundreds of Muslims chanting
Islamic slogans in the village of Fanous destroyed a social services building belonging
to a Coptic Church. Security forces arrived only after the building had
been completely destroyed. According to the AINA report, the social
services building "had all the necessary government permits; it had a
reception hall on the first floor and a kindergarten on the second. But
the Muslims insisted that it would become a church. Mosques in
surrounding areas had earlier called on Muslims, through their
megaphones, to go and help their Muslim brethren in Fanous, because
Christians were "building a church." Hundreds of other Muslim
protesters rioted outside yet another church in Upper Egypt;
on claims that a Christian man had sexually assaulted a 6-year-old
girl, they threw stones at the building. Four stores owned by Copts were
torched. Police are investigating the accusations against the merchant.
Nigeria: A total of 30 Christians were slaughtered in
two separate attacks carried out by armed men ahead of the New Year, in
the Muslim-majority north: on Sunday December 30, 15 people were killed
when armed jihadis stormed a church and opened fire on worshippers. The
night before, Muslim terrorists broke into targeted homes and
slaughtered 15 other Christians in their sleep. "The victims were
selected because they were all Christians, some of whom had moved into
the neighbourhood from other parts of the city hit by Boko Haram
attacks," said a relief worker. Meanwhile, Nigerian president Jonathan
revealed that Boko Haram has enablers even within his own government:
"The saboteurs in government condoning terrorism by Boko Haram, you do
not love this nation," he said. "Those of you who leak secrets to Boko
Haram do not love this nation."
Pakistan: On Christmas day, "when Christian worshipers
were coming out of different Churches after performing Christmas
prayers, more than one hundred Muslim extremists equipped with automatic
rifles, pistols and sticks attacked the Christian women, children and
men," according to a Pakistan Christian Post report. Several were shot or beaten relentlessly. Much of this appears to have been exacerbated by a fatwa, or
an Islamic edict, that came out right before Christmas, saying that,
"Christmas cannot be celebrated by Muslims because it is against the
concept of monotheism in Islam." Due to the subsequent chaos, Christians
"were under siege from Christmas day and running out of food supplies
and milk for children on fear of safety and security of life from
further attacks of Muslim mob…. The news of this attack on Christians on
Christmas Day was intentionally blocked by media and administration of
capital city Islamabad."
Russia: Security forces in a North Caucasus province on Sunday killed three Islamic militants suspected ofplanning attacks on church services during the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday in
January. Security forces tried to stop a van in a Muslim-majority
province but its occupants opened fire and, in the ensuing battle, were
killed. Guns and ammunition were subsequently discovered in the van,
indicating that the men could have been planning attacks on churches
during the services that marked the Russian Orthodox Christmas. "Deadly
exchanges of gunfire between police and suspected militants at road
checkpoints are common in Russia's North Caucasus, a string of provinces
hit by an Islamist insurgency rooted in two separatist wars in
Chechnya," the report added.
Murders and Plots of Murder
Algeria: According to a local man who escaped an Islamic raid
in the Sahara, the Islamic gunmen, who seized hundreds of gas plant
workers, told the staff they would not harm Muslims but would kill
Western hostages to whom they referred as "Christians and infidels":
"The terrorists told us at the very start that they would not hurt
Muslims but were only interested in the Christians and infidels. 'We will kill them,' they said."
Egypt: Two bearded men, apparently Salafis —those Muslims
who most try to pattern themselves after Islam's prophet—in what appears
to have been a random act of violence, stabbed a Christian woman in
Alexandria. The two men were riding a motorcycle when they intercepted
Mary and, as she was crossing the street, stabbed her in her abdomen,
causing a serious wound in her peritoneal membrane. Mary, a Copt, was
transported to the hospital, where she underwent surgery. Although her
family filed a complaint with the police, the head detective, as usual,
refused to go out and inspect the assault scene. An activist confirmed
that this is not the first attack on Coptic women in Alexandria; there
were several such cases reported in January, all with no response from
authorities.
Iraq: The nation's ever dwindling Christian minority continues to suffer atrocities. A Christian university medical student was killed by a car bomb a day after the body of a 54-year-old female Christian teacher was
found with her throat cut. She had been discovered in the same area
where attacks have been perpetrated in the past against members of the
city's Christian minority -- some abducted then murdered.
Turkey: An assassination plot against a Protestant pastor was
thwarted when police arrested 14 suspects, two of whom had been part of
his congregation for more than a year, pretending to be interested in
Christianity; one went so far as to be baptized. "These people had
infiltrated our church and collected information about me, my family and
the church and were preparing an attack against us," said the pastor, a
native Turk who had converted to Christianity. "Two of them attended
our church for over a year and they were like family."
Also, an 85-year-old Christian Armenian woman was stabbed to death in her apartment. A crucifix was carved onto her naked corpse.
Another elderly Christian Armenian woman was punched in the head, and,
after collapsing to the floor, was repeatedly kicked by a masked man.
According to the report, "the attack marks the fifth in the past two
months against elderly Armenian women, one of whom has has lost an eye….
Opinion remains divided as to whether these are organised hate crimes
targeting non-Muslims or just random theft." According to Turkey's Human
Rights Association, however, "The attacks were carried out with racist
motives," the victims intentionally targeted for being Christian
Armenians.
Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism
Egypt: A court sentenced an entire family—Nadia Mohamed Ali and her seven children—to fifteen years in prison for converting to Christianity.
Seven other people were sentenced to five years in prison, mainly for
facilitating the formal conversion of the family. Born a Christian,
Nadia had converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man; when she attempted
to convert back to Christianity after the death of her husband, and
reflect this change formally on her and her children's identity card,
the request created suspicions among security personnel, who arrested
the family. The fifteen year prison sentence followed.
Iran: Saeed Abedini, an American-Iranian Christian pastor was arrested and,
in a sham trial, sentenced "to eight years in prison for threatening
the national security of Iran through his leadership in Christian house
churches. He will serve the time in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, known
as one of the most brutal." "This is a real travesty—a mockery of
justice," said the American pastor's attorney. "From the very beginning,
Iranian authorities have lied about all aspects of this case, even
releasing rumors of his expected release. Iran has not only abused its
own laws, it has trampled on the fundamentals of human rights." This is not be the first time Tehran has behaved in such a manner.
Malaysia: Threats to burn Bibles in the Malay language were
just the latest assaults on Christianity in a Muslim nation regularly
touted in the Western press as "moderate." A note written in Malay
saying a Bible-burning festival would soon take place was sent to a
Christian priest; it ended with a warning in English: "Let's teach 'em a
lesson." This latest threat "has had the desired effect of adding to
the despair of Malaysian Christians. A fortnight ago the Sultan of the
State of Selangor, defying the conventional practice and in the country,
forbade Christians from using the word 'Allah.' The Arabic term for
God, in usage in religious and cultural contexts before the dawn of
Islam, has been used in Bibles in the Malay language and litany for more
than 400 years."
Dhimmitude
[General Abuse and Suppression of Non-Muslims as "Tolerated" Citizens]
Egypt: A Muslim preacher, Hisham al-Ashri, appeared on prime-time television saying that women not wearing thehijab [headscarf] in public, are asking to get raped. He framed his discussion around Christians,
who in Egypt are most likely not to wear veils: "I was once asked: If I
came to power, would I let Christian women remain unveiled? And I said:
If they want to get raped on the streets, then they can." He further
said that, "In order for Egypt to become fully Islamic, alcohol must be
banned and all women must be covered," a remark that pointedly does not
take Egypt's large Christian minority—whose own religious beliefs do not
mandate veils or ban alcohol—into consideration.
Indonesia: After being threatened with closure,
six Catholic schools in the nation that has the largest Muslim
population in the world, finally agreed to hire Islamic teachers and
offer Islamic lessons to Muslim students. Muslim public schools,
however, habitually refuse to offer Christian lessons to Christian
students, and teach Islam to all students. As one Indonesian commentator
put it, "If the regulation is upheld, will Islamic schools, which are
more exclusive than Catholic schools when it comes to accepting students
of different faiths, also be required to provide Buddhist, Christian or
Hindu lessons for their non-Muslim students?" Separately, the Indonesia
Ulema Council's East Java chapter urged other regions in the province
to issue similar decrees so that all schools, whether state-run or
managed by Christian foundations, provide Islamic lessons for their
Muslim students.
Pakistan: A powerful government official's Muslim aide, running a prostitution ring abducted a 15-year-old Christian girl from her home,
then forced her to convert to Islam and marry him. As a tenant of the
Christian family, the aide was evicted after police exposed his
prostitution ring. After his departure, the girl disappeared. When,
according to the mother, the aide called the girl's family, "He also
claimed that Asma had converted to Islam and asked us not to look for
her, as she won't be returning home. I could not believe my ears,
because Asma is hardly 15 and Ghaji [the Muslim aide] is thrice her
age," she said. "I told him that I wanted to speak to Asma for the last
time, so he handed over the phone to her. 'What have you done my child,
my child?' I asked as Asma burst into tears. [Asma said:] 'They are not
going to let me return home, mother—do something.'" The police, as
usual, refused to register a case, telling the devastated parents, "Do
you know Ghaji works for Siraj Durrani [a governmental official]? I'd
suggest that you forget your daughter and stop creating problems for
your other children."
Tanzania: During a Friday mosque sermon, a cleric called
on Muslims "not to cooperate with Christians because they were infidels.
He insisted that Muslims should not take part in Christian festivals
like Christmas, Easter and other celebrations, including baptism and
confirmation." He also called on Muslims not to go to Christian funeral
services, because infidel Christians are to be buried as dogs:
"Let me tell you if you came from a Christian father or mother, but you
got assimilated [converted to Islam], consider yourself you are lucky.
But if one of your parents is deceased, you shouldn't burry [sic]
him or her, but just put him/her in the grave as if you [were] doing it
to a dead dog." The report further adds that, "Since the founding of
the Saad bin Mwazi mosque in Makorora half a decade ago [where the above
sermon took place], most residents of the area, including Christians
and Muslims have been listening to hate sermons uttered in the mosque."
Uzbekistan: Police detained 80 church leaders in a raid on
a gathering to train people for the ministry. In the process, they
insulted the Christians and confiscated their Bibles and Christian
books, later destroyed by a court order. According to the report, "Four
leaders were charged with offences under the country's harsh laws
regarding religious practice, including violating the procedure for
holding religious meetings, carrying out unauthorised religious activity
and teaching religious beliefs without permission. They were each fined
more than a year's salary in Uzbekistan and are appealing against the
ruling. On 24 December, a court ordered that Bibles confiscated during
the raid must be destroyed, despite the fact that the Committee on the
Religious Affairs of Uzbekistan officially recognises the Bible as a
legitimate text."
About this Series
Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its
way to reaching pandemic proportions, "Muslim Persecution of Christians"
was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of
persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:
1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.
2) To show that such persecution is not "random," but systematic
and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.
Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically
fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other
Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions
to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws that criminalize and punish with
death those who "offend" Islam; theft and plunder in lieu ofjizya (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like dhimmis, or second-class, "tolerated" citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination.
Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities,
languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East,
and throughout the West wherever there are Muslims—it should be clear
that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of
Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.
Gatestone Institute Raymond Ibrahimis a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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