Islam Updates

Obama Covering Up Saudi Link to Boston Bombing?

Faith Defenders — 2013-04-18T11:37:50-07:00

�Person of interest� to be deported after Obama had unscheduled meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister.

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Breaking: Police Confirm Infowars Photos of Boston Suspects

Faith Defenders — 2013-04-18T11:36:57-07:00

Media continues to cover-up separate images showing private security employees with black backpacks at scene of blast.

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Boston Authorities in Cover-Up of Bombing Drills

Faith Defenders — 2013-04-18T11:34:58-07:00

Images of men from private security firm confirm eyewitness reports of exercise.

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�Innocent� Saudi has ties to several Al-Qaeda Terrorists

Faith Defenders — 2013-04-18T11:33:43-07:00

A couple of weeks ago we warned America about the very serious problem of Saudi infiltration; many of these Saudi nationals are criminals and terrorists.

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Malaysia Invaded � 100's of Terrorists Land on Beaches, Western Media Mute

Faith Defenders — 2013-03-11T08:14:05-07:00

Hundreds of heavily armed terrorists have crossed from the Philippines and landed in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. Dozens are already dead, and the Malaysian military has brought in aircraft and armor to confront the audacious, bizarre invasion, scattering militants into the jungles of Borneo island. A seemingly headline news event, the invasion has been downplayed and spun by the Western media, many calling militant Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, an �armed Filipino clan.�

The West�s woeful, irresponsible coverage of a burgeoning region-wide destabilization, fits in nicely with its coverage of US-Saudi funded/armed terrorism around the world, including in Syria where US-funded terrorists of the so-called �Free Syrian Army� have just taken dozens of UN peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights � just days after the US announced it would fund the terrorists further, to the tune of $60 million and the West�s Arab partners have just granted the terrorist faction Syria�s seat at the �Arab League.�

Terrorists are US-Saudi Funded Extremists � Part of Engineered Destabilization.

While the West pleads ignorance over the identity of the militants held up in the jungles of Malaysia�s Sabah state, the militant organizations themselves have declared thousands more in reinforcements are being arranged in the Philippines to join and exasperate the conflict. The Free Malaysia Today newspaper reported in its article, �10,000 Tausugs to sail to Sabah,� that :

Thousands of Tausug from Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have sailed to Sabah to reinforce members of the so-called royal army of the sultanate of Sulu who are fighting it out with Malaysian security forces, a Moro National Liberation Front official said Tuesday.

The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) of course, is one of several of Al Qaeda�s franchises in Southeast Asia, and spun off the notorious terrorist organization, Abu Sayyaf, a US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization with direct ties to Al Qaeda.

The Philippines� terrorist organizations, located amongst the country�s southern islands have long held ties to Al Qaeda and receive funding and support from Saudi Arabia. AFP reported in their 2010 article, �WikiLeaks: US suspected Saudi ambassador to the Philippines of terror link,� that:

The United States suspected a Saudi Arabian ambassador to the Philippines of potential involvement in funding terrorists, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks this week.

The report would also state:

Francis Townsend cited Waly�s intervention to secure the release of two members of an Islamic charity detained in the Philippines, the cable showed.

The group was suspected of funneling funds to Al-Qaeda-linked groups based in the southern Philippines.

It continued stating:

The February 24, 2007, US embassy cable named the charity suspected of terror financing in the Philippines as IIRO, which stands for the International Islamic Relief Organisation.

Intelligence agencies have said IIRO was set up by Muhammad Jamal Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

The report concluded by stating:

Overall, the WikiLeaks cables singled out Saudi Arabia as the key source of funding for radical Islamist groups including Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hamas.

Saudi Arabia is of course is the chief financier of Al Qaeda, and is currently leading efforts to fund, arm, and fill the ranks of Al Qaeda�s franchises from Mali and Libya, to Syria and Iraq. A multitude of reports from across the West have identified Saudi Arabia as the lynch pin in Al Qaeda�s global terror campaign, including the US Army West Point Combating Terrorism Center.

Its reports �Al-Qa�ida�s Foreign Fighters in Iraq� and �Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa�ida�s Road In and Out of Iraq,� identify a vast terrorist network maintained by the Saudis that recruits, arms, and funds terrorists from across the Muslim World, and can funnel a mercenary army into any desired nation. At the time, the desired nation was Iraq. In 2011, it was Libya. Today it is Syria. The same network that US soldiers fought in Iraq is verifiably in use today, in support of US regime-change operations in Syria.

And while it is acknowledged across even the Western mainstream media that Saudi Arabia is a notorious state-sponsor of terrorism, including the terrorists allegedly behind the September 11, 2001 attacks that left 3,000 Americans dead, the US has had a decades-long, deep economic and military relationship with the despotic Arabian autocracy.

The US maintains permanent military bases inside Saudi Arabia, funds the Saudi military, and has recently concluded the largest arms deal in US history with the Saudis. Additionally, Saudi Arabia�s brutally repressive internal security apparatus is a creation of US advisers and operators.

The Saudi royal family and the elite amongst the US corporate-financier Fortune 500, have maintained deep financial and political ties as well. Saudi Arabian corporate-financier interests (run by the royal family) are tied directly to Wall Street and London via conglomerations like the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council and representation upon the JP Morgan International Council (Khalid Al-Falih of Saudi Aramco, amongst the highest valued companies on Earth).

This also includes the Bin Laden family, whose multi-billion dollar Saudi Binladin Group is an active member of the US-Saudi Arabian Business Council and plays a central role in deciding bilateral policy for the benefit of collective US-Saudi corporate-financier and corresponding geopolitical interests. At one point, the Bin Ladens and the Bush family sat around the same table, as both families were involved in the equity firm, Carlyle. In fact, Bush and Bin Laden family members were clicking champagne glasses together in Washington on 9/11, an event that would make both families immensely rich in the coming decade.

It is clear, most acutely in Libya and Syria, that the use of Saudi Arabia�s global Al Qaeda mercenary army serves both Saudi Arabia�s interests as well as Western geopolitical ambitions, including to exact regime change around the world. And it just so happens that the West and Saudi Arabia both seek regime change in currently Russo-Iranian-Chinese friendly Malaysia.

West Attempts to Install Client Regime in Malaysia

The West has been propping up Malaysian opposition candidate Anwar Ibrahim for years.

Anwar Ibrahim, head of Malaysia�s opposition coalition, which includes the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), has spent a lifetime in the service of Western interests. Anwar Ibrahim was Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1998, held lecturing positions at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, was a consultant to the World Bank, and a panelist at the Neo-Con lined National Endowment for Democracy�s �Democracy Award� and a panelist at a NED donation ceremony � the very same US organization whose subsidiaries are funding and supporting Bersih, a faux-pro-democracy Western-funded street movement that in fact was created by, and in the service of Anwar Ibrahim�s political ambitions.

Bersih�s street activism fits into a global pattern of Western-backed �color revolutions,� where meddling in sovereign nation�s political processes to install Western-client regimes is disguised as �democracy promotion.�

Anwar Ibrahim�s affiliations with Malaysian �Islamists,� the already active political subversion his US State Department-funded Bersih movement is sowing in Malaysia�s streets, and his Western backers� habitual support for terrorism internationally as a geopolitical tool, raises the possibility that his opposition movement is complicit in the conveniently timed militant destabilization Malaysia now faces, only months before 2013′s general elections.

This may be why the Western media refuses to properly cover an otherwise very noteworthy conflict. The fact that these militants are emanating from long-time US ally, the Philippines, and the Philippines� current role in assisting the US �pivot� towards Asia, and more specifically facilitating a proxy confrontation with China, illustrates the greater regional implications at play. The US intends to install client regimes in Myanmar led by Aung San Suu Kyi, Thailand led by Thaksin Shinawatra�s despotic political dynasty, and in Malaysia led by Anwar Ibrahim. Together, this front will then be turned against Chinese interests as part of a long-planned desire to encircle and contain China.

It will be done so under ASEAN and at the cost of Asia�s stability and prosperity.

The future of Asia hangs in the balance, and therefore conflicts like Malaysia�s battle against armed extremists in Sabah may not be covered by the Western press, but it must be covered by the alternative press. The unhinged insanity that is now spilling blood on Malaysia�s shores, also represented by the West�s proxy Anwar Ibrahim and his attempts to provoke street protests against the ruling government, illustrates just how dangerous the current Anglo-American international order is, and how far its reach extends.

We must identify the corporate-financier interests driving this agenda, � interests we most likely patronize on a daily basis, and both boycott and permanently replace them to erode the unwarranted influence they have used, and will continue to use against people the world over.

Tony�s article first appeared on his blog LandDestroyer.blogspot.com.

Source: Infowars

RE: Welcome to the Islam Update Blog

Missionary Evangelist Dave Smeltz — 2013-01-18T14:27:23-08:00

The controversy over the name Allah

By Missionary Evangelist Dr. David N. Smeltz

As Susan and I travel around the world, we have found Islam is growing in many countries that once had a strong Christian witness. America is now facing many changes with the growth of Islam and the newest movement called Chrislam. Actually, Tela Tella founded this movement in the 1970s; the sect predominantly exists in Lagos, Nigeria. Its followers recognize both the Bible and the Qur'an as holy texts, and practice "running deliverance," a distinctive practice of spiritual running, which members liken to Joshua's army that took Jericho, or the Muslim practice of walking around the Ka'aba.

[1]Chrislam uses both the Bible and Qur�an and sees them both as holy texts. During the worship service, verses are read from both the Bible and the Qur'an. According to Ebenezer Edohasim, a man who worshiped with the Chrislamic people, there was no friction between the two religions and the congregation as true accepted both texts. The people of the congregation are also free to shout out the name of Allah or God in worship. The Chrislamic people believe that Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus were all great prophets and we need to love them all. Worship services include singing of Christian and Islamic hymns to praise God and attract his presence. During the times of Christmas, Easter, Ramadan, and other Christian and Islamic religions celebrations, both are accepted and celebrated without judgment or hostility. Inside their place of worship, there is an altar similar to those built by Abraham where the worshipers pray and seek the face of God. There are prayers going on here most of the day. Like a number of other proselytizing religions, they believe in evangelism and try to convert new members every day.

In the Oke-Tude organization of Chrislam there are three different sessions or services that take place on Sunday. The first is a Muslim session, then there is a Christian session, and finally there is a joint session that Saka leads. During this, he stresses the similarities between Christianity and Islamic beliefs. In the other organization of Ifeoluwa, they worship on Saturday because when they worshipped on Sunday the congregation claimed that Tela Tella was showing favoritism since Christians worship on Sundays and Muslims worship on Fridays. The worship sessions on Saturday are held three times a day. Tela Tella believes in both the Qur�an and the Bible but says they are incomplete, and that is why he is writing his own book called the �Ifeoluwa Book�. In Ifeoluwa there is an annual pilgrimage to The Mount of Authority, where the people pray for three days, and other annual festivals put on by Tela Tella. Tella also leads the singing of hymns during the Saturday service. Tella, claims these hymns were revealed to him by the angels Gabriel and Michael.

We can raise several questions about this practice. I am hoping that within the article I will answer three questions.

1. Does the name Allah exist in the Bible?

2. What efforts should be taken by Christian believers to correct this?

I. Does the name Allah exist in the Bible?

To resolve this issue we have to look at two verses in the Bible. Matthew 27:46 (KJV) ⁴⁶And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mark 15:34 (KJV)
³⁴And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The word that is controversial is the word (Eli) Some theologians believe that when Jesus was on the cross he spoke in Aramaic and this word is pronounced, hli eli, ay-lee'. The word (Eli) is a Hebrew word and is one of the names used for God. These verse refer back to Psalm 22:1. Psalm 22:1 (KJV) ¹My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? In this verse we see the same context with (My God) Here it is in the Hebrew and notice how Strong�s deciphers it. ( strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):�God (god), X goodly, X great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in "-el.")

Some are suggesting that the word Allah existed centuries before Muhammad and that because it is found here in this context it is a legal description of God. In the Mideast the name, Allah is generic in term. A Moslem uses the word as reference to the Islamic god while a Coptic Christian or Born again Christians will use the same name Allah for the sovereign God of the Bible.

[2] A Coptic Christian described as �Coptic� means �Egyptian,� and Christians living in Egypt identify themselves as Coptic Christians. As a denomination, they originated in the city of Alexandria, one of the most faithful, respected, and fruitful cities during the Apostolic Period. Proudly, the Coptic Christians acknowledge and herald John Mark, (author of the Gospel of Mark), as their founder and first bishop sometime between A.D. 42 - A.D. 62. The Coptic Church was actually involved in the very first major split in the Church, well before there was such a thing as "Roman" Catholicism, and it was well before the East/West split.

Prior to the �Great� East/West Schism of A.D. 1054, the Council of Chalcedon separated the Coptic�s from the rest in A.D. 451. The council met to discuss the Incarnation of Christ and declared that Christ was "one hypostasis in two natures" (i.e., one person who shares two distinct natures). This became standard orthodoxy for Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant churches from then on. The Coptic understanding is that Christ is one nature from two natures: "the Logos Incarnate." In this understanding, Christ is from, not in, two natures: full humanity and full divinity. Some in the Coptic Orthodox Church believe that their position was misunderstood at the Council of Chalcedon and take great pains to ensure that they are not seen as Monophysitic (denying the two natures of Christ), but rather "Miaphysitic" (believing in one composite/conjoined nature from two). Some believe that perhaps the council understood the church correctly, but wanted to exile the church for its refusal to take part in politics or due to the rivalry between the bishops of Alexandria and Rome. To this day, 95 percent of Christians in Alexandria are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

It is interesting to note that when the Coptic�s were under the rule of the Roman Empire, they suffered severe persecution and death for their steadfast faith and beliefs in Christ while refusing to worship emperors. However, by A.D. 641, yet another tribulation began when the Arab conquest took place, overthrowing the Romans� rule in Egypt and, at first, relieving the Coptic Church from persecution. What appeared to be their liberty and freedom became yet again bondage. The societal strength and control of the Arabs caused the Coptic�s to endure a major language and culture change as well as confront the Islamic faith. Unfortunately, over the centuries, Christianity lost foothold and most Coptic�s converted to Islam.

Today, there is a small population of Coptic Christians remaining in Alexandria, but most are located elsewhere. Estimates of the current population of the Coptic Church range from 10 million to 60 million members worldwide. Theologically, Coptic Christianity is very similar to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. They profess to be genuine followers of Jesus Christ and a part of His worldwide Church. However, as with Catholicism, they tend to emphasize meritorious works in salvation along with liturgical ritual rather than salvation through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Should Christians Call God Allah

The following is �excerpted from Building Bridges by Fouad Accad (Colorado Springs, CO: Navpress), p. 22.

Some Christians unthinkingly say �Allah is not God.� This is the ultimate blasphemy to Muslims, and furthermore, it is difficult to understand. Allah is the primary Arabic word for God. It means �The God.� There are some minor exceptions. For example, the Bible in some Muslim lands uses a word for God other than Allah (Farsi and Urdu are examples). However, for more than five hundred years before Muhammad, the vast majority of Jews and Christians in Arabia called God by the name Allah. How, then, can we say that Allah is an invalid name for God? If it is, to whom have these Jews and Christians been praying?

What about the 10 to 12 million Arab Christians today? They have been calling God �Allah� in their Bibles, hymns, poems, writings, and worship for over nineteen centuries. What an insult to them when we tell them not to use this word �Allah�! Instead of bridging the distance between Muslims and Christians, we widen the gulf of separation between them and us when we promote such a doctrine. Those who still insist that it is blasphemy to refer to God as Allah should also consider that Muhammad�s father was named Abd Allah, �God�s servant,� many years before his son was born or Islam was founded!�

As you can see, there is a real problem with this issue. The real question is what can we do about it? Now let me point out we are a Judo-Christian founded country. Judaism would never call God Allah. The Bible has many names for God and the clearest of names is Jehovah. Please notice the following verses:

Ex 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Ps 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Isa 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Isa 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

I do not see Allah in these verses. It is very clear that God is Called Jehovah. Now notice the Bible refers to sixteen names for God.

1. Elohim, meaning "God," a reference to God's power and might Gen. 1:1; Ps. 19:1

2. Adonai, meaning "Lord," a reference to the Lordship of God Mal. 1:6

3. Jehovah (sometimes spelled Yahweh), a reference to God's divine salvation Gen. 2 :4

4. Jehovah-Maccaddeshem, meaning "The Lord thy sanctifier" Exod. 31:13

5. Jehovah-Rohi, meaning "The Lord my shepherd" Ps. 23:1

6. Jehovah-Shammah, meaning "The Lord who is present" Ezek. 48:35

7. Jehovah-Rapha, meaning "The Lord our healer" Exod. 16:26

8. Jehovah-Tsidkenu, meaning "The Lord our righteousness" Jer. 23:6

9. Jehovah-Jireh, meaning "The Lord will provide" Gen. 22:13-14

10. Jehovah-Nissi, meaning "The Lord our banner" Exod. 17:15

11. Jehovah-Shalom, meaning "The Lord is peace" Judg. 6:24

12. Jehovah-Sabbaoth, meaning "The Lord of Hosts" Isa. 6:1-3

13. El-Elyon, meaning "The most high God" Gen. 14:17-20; Isa. 14:13-14

14. El-Roi, meaning "The strong one who sees" Gen. 16:12

15. El-Shaddai, meaning "The God of the mountains" or "God almighty" Gen. 17:1; Ps. 91:1

16. El-Olam, meaning "The everlasting God" Isa. 40:28-31

I do not see the name Allah in these names. Once again, the liberals are using sematic terms to prove their point. The question is do we take the side of those who have killed millions in the name of Allah or do we stand with Jehovah.

Now if the Christians in the Mideast and around the world want to call God Allah that is up to them. As Americans and born again Christians we need to call God by the name he called himself, Jehovah. The move in America to call God Allah is one more step to allow this false religion to gain control of our country. If you are a pastor or Bible teacher, you need to get it straight for in this country for over 200 years we have not called God Allah. We are not Arabs and for many years prior to 2001 the only Islamic group we heard from was the a Black led group called the Nation of Islam and today his headed up by Lewis Farrahkan. This group was founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad and is considered their Messiah. They are a anti-white clan who claims they will overtake white America. Barrack Obama was involved in this group for over twenty years while attending Reverend Wrights church in Chicago.

[3]Islam and the Nation of Islam

Many people who do not have any true knowledge of Islam or the Nation of Islam often times put the two together, however, many people will be surprised to know that these have more differences than they do similarities.

When people see the Nation of Islam, they immediately associate the late Malcolm X and the former NOI leader Louis Farrakhan with the organization. They identify Black Muslims as being a part of this organization, when in fact many Black Muslims follow the true religion of Islam and have no association with the organization.

Many Muslims denounce the teachings of the Nation of Islam and consider them to be false teachings of the religion. In an article titled "The Nation of Islam Exposed" A. I. Palmer states that the NOI is a black racist cult. He defends true Islam by saying that the followers of the Nation of Islam are not Muslims because they do not follow the true teachings of the religion of Islam.

The religion of Islam is the acceptance of and the obedience to the teachings of God, which he revealed to His last prophet, Muhammad (peace be upon him). Allah is the Arabic word that means God (the one true God who created the whole universe). The word Muslim means "the one who submits to the will of God." Muslims believe that only Allah is the one worthy of worship alone without any partners.

Conclusion-What can we do about this?

In this Article, I have tried to answer the questions in a practical manner. I believe we need to make every effort to reach those who practice Islam as a religion with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I do not believe as Christian and or believers we should call God Allah. The definition for (ELI) is a matter of opinion for God made it very clear what we are to call Him. The conflict between Islam and Israel will continue to be an issue. You must decide if Christian came out of Judaism or Islam. Jesus Christ came as the Son of God for the Jew. The Jew has rejected Jesus as the Messiah, Islam has rejected him as the Messiah, and God will settle all of this in tribulation period.

It is very clear that Jesus came and died on the cross for our sins. Jesus has 117 names in the Bible and the Qur�an has only one name. Who do you believe, Jesus, Jehovah or some false god who calls himself Allah. If I was a Arab, Asian, African, European Christian I would not call God (Jehovah) Allah because the characteristics of the two are very different.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrislam

[2] http://www.gotquestions.org/Coptic-Christianity.html

[3] http://voices.yahoo.com/islam-vs-nation-islam-260577.html

Persecution Explodes as Muslims Come to Christ

Faith Defenders — 2012-12-10T11:08:58-08:00

400% Increase in Persecution

The persecution of Christians in the 10/40 window area of North Africa, the Middle East and South Central Asia has increased by 400% over the last 10 years. Some of the worst persecution of Christians is taking place in the Arab nations of the Middle East, particularly in Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, in the Muslim dominated North of Nigeria, in Sudan, in communist China, North Korea and in Buddhist Burma.

Coptic Christians Targeted in Egypt

In Egypt, Salafis Muslims are kidnapping Coptic Christian girls for forced conversion to Islam and marriage to Muslims. Coptic girls have also been subjected to violent attacks on the streets. Frequently these knife attacks are by Muslim women wearing hijabs (a black face covering with only narrow slit for the eyes). These hijabs prevent the assailants from being identified for prosecution.

Eritrea

Over 3,000 Christians are imprisoned in Eritrea and all missionaries have been expelled from the country.

Beheaded in Somalia

In Somalia, on 16 November, Al-Shabaab Muslims publically beheaded 25-year-old, Farhan Haji Mose, for leaving Islam and embracing "the foreign religion of Christianity".

Churches Bombed and Burned in Kenya

In Kenya, where Christians are the majority, numerous churches have been attacked by Muslim militants connected with Al-Shabaab. Churches have been bombed and others have been burned down. Numerous Christians have been killed and crippled in these terror attacks. On Sunday, 4 November, Chaplain Julius Mukonyi was killed and 11 Christians injured in a bomb attack on a church in Garissa. The chaplain was preaching when the bomb landed on the pulpit.

Persecution in Pakistan

In Pakistan, Christians have been beaten by mobs for sharing the Gospel with their neighbours.

Suicide Bombings in Nigeria

Suicide bombing attacks on churches in Nigeria continue to kill and cripple Christians gathering for worship. Christian students at some colleges have been targeted, called upon to deny their Faith, or be hacked to death with machetes. Many churches, businesses and homes of Christians have been targeted for arson attacks and burnt to the ground. There have been over 700 attacks against Christians by Muslims in Northern Nigeria recorded during 2012. On Sunday, 25 November, 20 Christians were killed and many wounded in a twin suicide bombing of St. Andrews Protestant Church inside the Jaji military barracks in Kaduna. Investigators believe that the bombers may have been residents of the barracks and that they built the bomb on site. This has raised fears that all military and police establishments which have Muslim staff and personnel could be similarly targeted from within.

Muslim Mobs on the Rampage

On 1 December, 9 Christians were killed and 4 churches were burned down in two separate attacks in Borno state, in North Eastern Nigeria. Muslims went on the rampage burning the homes of 20 Christians and a church in Kwaple village. Another 3 churches were burned in Gamboru, Ngala. 10 Christians were killed in the attacks by Muslims in Kwaple

Jihad in Nigeria

In a press communication released on 29 November, the radical Muslim terrorist group, Boko Haram declared: "Jihad started now! Jihad started now, oh enemies of Allah!" On Sunday morning, 2 December, approximately 50 Muslim terrorists, in cars and on motorbikes, attacked a police station, immigration and customs offices and 3 churches in Gamboru, Ngala, in Borno state, near the border of Cameroon. Before launching the attack, the Jihadists destroyed the mobile phone masts to prevent communication and delay the arrival of ambulances and reaction teams.

Murder in Allah's Name

Shouting "Allah Akbar", they opened fire, killing 5 police. While torching churches, targeting the homes of Christians, slitting the throats of Christians and looting the neighbourhood, they chanted "Allah Akbar" repeatedly. At least 10 Christians were killed in this attack. A tailor was shot for making clothes which the Islamists deemed un-Islamic.

Phenomenal Church Growth

Yet, while persecution, particularly in the Muslim and communist world is increasing, Bible-based, Evangelical Christianity is the fastest growing Faith on the planet. Mega Shift documents that while liberal mainline denominations are losing members, the fastest growing religious movement on earth are those who are Biblically inspired, born again and Evangelistic.

A Massive Spiritual Harvest

Bible-believing Evangelicals are increasing by 8% a year. Every day an average of 175,000 more Bible-believing Evangelicals are added to the Church, net gain. There are over 707 million Bible-believing Christians who would describe themselves as born again.

Muslims Turning to Christ

Over 200,000 Muslims have been converted to Christ in the last 6 years. Many of these converts include Sheiks, Imams and other Muslim leaders. There is a tremendous dissatisfaction and disillusionment amongst many of those who have studied the Qur'an and know it the best, and who are informed concerning the history of Islam.

Violent Backlash

It is this explosive growth of the Christian Church, in many cases at the expense of Islam, that has led to this vicious backlash by Muslim terrorists. There is a desperation that they are losing ground and they are reacting in the only way they know how, violently.

From Islam to Christianity

For 36 years, Nigeria was considered a Muslim country, and was a member of the Organisation of Islamic Countries. Yet, now, the percentage of Christians in Nigeria outnumbers those of Muslims. Many Churches in Northern Nigeria are made up primarily of converts from a Muslim background, members of the Hausa and Fulani tribes, which traditionally have been completely Muslim.

Winning Muslims to Christ

It is these churches which have large numbers of Muslim converts which are primarily being targeted by the Jihadists. There have been cases of entire mosques being converted to Christ. One Muslim town in Northern Nigeria, which has martyred numerous Christians, now has 7 thriving churches.

"The desert tribes will bow before Him and His enemies will lick the dust... all kings will bow down to Him and all nations shall serve Him." Psalm 72:9-11

California Muslims Arrested for Terror Plotting Discussed "Committing Violent Jihad"

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T07:38:59-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

This kind of thing is common, and yet witless mainstream media reporters still swallow uncritically what smoothly deceitful Islamic supremacist spokesmen tell them about jihad.

More on this story. "California terrorist suspects talked of 'violent jihad,' FBI says," from the Los Angeles Times, November 20:

California men charged with plotting to join Al Qaeda and the Taliban discussed "committing violent jihad," according to the criminal complaint in the terrorist case released Monday.

In all, four men with Southern California ties were charged in the international terrorist plot that authorities say stretched from the Inland Empire to Afghanistan.

Sohiel Omar Kabir, 34, a former Pomona resident, allegedly left the United States last year and traveled to Afghanistan in July to set up terrorist training with Al Qaeda and Taliban members, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in federal court.

Kabir is accused of converting Ontario resident Ralph Deleon, 23, and Upland resident Alejandro Santana, 21, to "radical and violent Islamic doctrine," according to the complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Riverside. The men allegedly sought to target Americans.

Santana and Kabir allegedly posted terrorist audio and video files on the Facebook pages and communicated via Skype when Kabir was overseas, federal authorities said in the complaint.

Kabir, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, served in the Air Force from 2000 to 2001, according to court records filed with the complaint. The records did not specify why Kabir spent only a year in the service....

"At various times," the complaint alleged, "Santana and Deleon discussed their preferred roles in committing violent jihad," according to the complaint. Santana allegedly said he wanted to be a sniper, and Deleon said he wanted to be on the "front lines."

The men allegedly went to shooting ranges, where they practiced firing semiautomatic weapons, according to the complaint.

In September, Santana and DeLeon recruited Riverside resident Arifeen David Gojali, 23, to travel overseas with them and join Kabir for terrorist training, according to federal authorities. Gojali is a U.S. citizen....

Source: Jihad Watch

News Flash: Egypt�s Islamist President Assumes Dictatorial Powers

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T07:37:09-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

The French press agency headline says it all: �Egypt�s [President] Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh.� Mursi has issued a decree giving himself virtually dictatorial powers and contradicting the assumption that he�and his Muslim Brotherhood organization�intend to rule democratically. Opposition forces said this constituted a coup.

Mursi�s spokesman explained the decree in these terms: the president can issue any decree he wishes to protect the revolution. �The constitutional declarations, decisions and laws issued by the president are final and not subject to appeal.�

It seems apparent that this is another step in the process toward the fundamental transformation of Egypt into an Islamist, Sharia-ruled state. If one views the 2011 revolution as a democratic one, then Mursi is destroying it. But of course he and the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists see it as an Islamist revolution, parallel to the 1979 Iranian revolution � though in Egyptian terms, of course. Lest there be any illusions about what this means, note that Mursi is one man whose legitimacy is not established in practice�despite having won an election�and who cannot depend on the country�s institutions to obey him. The power behind Mursi is not that he is president but that he has the support of the country�s strongest group, the Muslim Brotherhood, and can generally count on the Salafists as well.

The timing of this takeover is ironic since it coincides with an all-time high for the Obama administration�s regard for Egypt, following that regime�s brokering of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire, including a continuous insistence from the U.S. government and mass media that the Brotherhood was now moderate and pro-democratic. In a normal universe, a U.S. president would be furious at Egypt for being made to look foolish after lavishing so much praise on Egypt and its insistence that the Brotherhood was moderate and democratic. Of course, that will not happen with this administration.

It is true that Mursi acted �pragmatically� on the ceasefire issue. But what does that mean? He took into account his own regime interests and didn�t just howl �Alahu Akhbar!� repeatedly. Westerners seem to think that for someone to be a radical Islamist they have to be a wild man. If Osama bin Laden wore a suit and tie, he�d still be alive today.

But of course Mursi wants to stay in power and strengthen his regime. He�s not going to throw away $10 billion in aid (U.S., EU, IMF) for some wild adventure in the Gaza Strip that Hamas began without asking him. He doesn�t yet control the country or the army. There�s no constitution and no functioning parliament. If the Muslim Brotherhood has proven anything, it is that it has patience.

According to the New York Times:

Mr. Obama told aides he was impressed with the Egyptian leader�s pragmatic confidence. He sensed an engineer�s precision with surprisingly little ideology. Most important, Mr. Obama told aides that he considered Mr. Morsi a straight shooter who delivered on what he promised and did not promise what he could not deliver.

�The thing that appealed to the president was how practical the conversations were � here�s the state of play, here are the issues we�re concerned about,� said a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. �This was somebody focused on solving problems.�

But the main problems Mursi is focused on is how to keep the Muslim Brotherhood in power, how to get lots of money from the West, and how to make Egypt into a radical Islamist state. Enforcing quiet in the Gaza Strip right now is part of that effort.

Being the main sponsor of Hamas, a terrorist group, used to be called �state sponsorship of terrorism,� now it is to be admired as being, in the New York Times formulation, Hamas�s �most important international ally.� Another interesting parallel is that Hamas, like the fellow Brotherhood branch in Egypt, won an election and then seized power completely. Things in Egypt have not yet gone that far, but Mursi has taken a big step in that direction.

At home, it has taken only a few weeks for Mursi to return to dictatorship. The decree comes as secular-minded groups demonstrate in the Tahrir Square area while the Islamists call for suppressing them.

Mursi�s offensive seeks to give him the power to purge existing institutions and put supporters in control.

Perhaps the highest priority is to take over the court system by appointing Islamist judges. During the late Mubarak regime, judges were among the most courageous of dissidents, issuing decisions the government doesn�t like. After the revolution, judges gave rulings against the Brotherhood�s goals, for example, saying that the election of parliament�which is three-quarters Islamist�was illegal. Mursi wants to reverse this ruling by decree rather than face new elections where Islamist vote totals will probably plummet.

The other key institutions are the armed forces, where top generals have already resigned, and the religious establishment. While the chiefs of Egypt�s religious system, including the powerful mosque-university al-Azhar, are hardly liberal, they are also not systematic Islamists or Brotherhood supporters. Once such people are replaced with loyalists, the Brotherhood will have the power to define Islam itself.

Given the international authority of al-Azhar, which trains clerics for many different countries, Sunni Islam from Morocco to Indonesia would be closer to becoming thoroughly in line with revolutionary Islamist, anti-Western, antisemitic thinking. That is not to say it is open, liberal, and tolerant now. But the situation would be far worse and destabilizing. For example, mainstream clerics would issue a stream of rulings justifying terrorism and condemning anyone who cooperated with the West.

The Egyptian regime�s cooperation on a Gaza ceasefire, then, was in large part intended to defuse any reaction against its movement toward dictatorship at home. It is doubtful, for example, that the Obama administration will condemn the new decree giving Mursi total power in the country. And Egypt will get almost $10 billion in aid from the United States, European Union, and International Monetary Fund, even as it becomes a repressive, Islamist state.

Source: Rubin Reports

Israel Bus Blown Up, Shelling of Gaza Continues as Clinton Keeps up Frantic Diplomacy

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T06:24:29-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

A bomb exploded aboard an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding 27 people and delivering a major blow to diplomatic efforts to forge a truce to end a week of fighting between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.

The attack came as diplomats, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, shuttled around the region to try to broker a cease-fire following a week-long Israeli offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza that intensified to its most feverish state overnight, according to CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata. Palestinian officials say more than 140 people have been killed, and 1,000 wounded -- most of them civilians, and many children among them.

Israeli aircraft pounded Gaza with at least 30 strikes overnight, hitting government ministries, smuggling tunnels, a banker's empty villa and a Hamas-linked media office. And it took Israel less than two hours to respond to the bus bombing with a fresh round of air strikes on the tiny Palestinian territory. As night fell in the Middle East, D'Agata says at least 30 shells from an Israeli warship pounded the city.

One blast the night before blew out the windows of the hotel room where D'Agata was staying in Gaza.

Militant rocket fire into Israel has killed five Israelis.

This, as thousands of Israeli ground troops massed on the Gaza border awaiting a possible order to invade.

The bus exploded about noon on one of the coastal city's busiest arteries, near the Tel Aviv museum andacross from an entrance to Israel's national defense headquarters.

The bus was charred and blackened, its side windows blown out and its glass scattered on the asphalt. The wounded were evacuated and blood was splattered on the sidewalk.

An Israeli driver who witnessed the explosion told Army Radio the bus was "completely charred inside." Another witness said there were few passengers on the bus when it exploded. The witnesses spoke to Israeli TV and were not identified.

The last bombing in Tel Aviv was in April 2006, when a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people at a sandwich stand near the city's old central bus station. A bomb left at a bus stand in Jerusalem last year killed one person.

While Hamas did not take responsibility for the attack, it praised the bombing.

"We consider it a natural response to the occupation crimes and the ongoing massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told The Associated Press.

Clinton, meanwhile, pressed on Wednesday with efforts to wring an elusive truce deal from Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers, after earlier attempts to end more than a week of fighting broke down amid a furious spasm of violence.

She joined other world diplomats in shuttling between Jerusalem, the West Bank and Cairo, trying to piece together a deal that would satisfy the two foes after a week of fighting and mounting casualties.

After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Tuesday night, Clinton conferred with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Wednesday morning, then arrived in Cairo, where the new Muslim Brotherhood-led government is mediating in the crisis.

Clinton met Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, and was to sit down later with Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr, and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al Araby.

The two sides had seemed on the brink of a deal Tuesday following a swirl of diplomatic activity also involving the U.N. chief and Egypt's president. But sticking points could not be resolved as talks -- and violence -- stretched into the night.

At least four strikes within seconds of each other pulverized a complex of government ministries the size of a city block, rattling nearby buildings and shattering surrounding windows. Hours later, clouds of acrid dust still hung over the area and smoke still rose from the rubble.

The impact of the blast demolished the nearby office of attorney Salem Dahdouh, who was searching through files buried in the debris.

"Where are human rights?" he asked, saying officials negotiating a cease-fire ought to see the devastation.

In downtown Gaza City, another strike leveled the empty, two-story home of a well-known banker and buried a police car parked nearby in rubble.

"This is an injustice carried out by the Israelis," said the house's caretaker, Mohammed Samara. "There were no resistance fighters here. We want to live in peace. Our children want to live in peace. We want to live like people in the rest of the world."

The Israeli military said its targets included the Ministry of Internal Security, which it says served as one of Hamas' main command and control centers, a military hideout used as a senior operatives' meeting place and a communications center.

Washington blames Hamas rocket fire for the outbreak of violence and has backed Israel's right to defend itself, but has cautioned that an Israeli ground invasion could send casualties soaring.

Israel's outspoken foreign minister, meanwhile, expressed what many in Israel suspect - that ahead of January elections, the country's leaders do not want to get mired in a ground operation.

"There is no point embarking on such a dramatic move two months before elections after we didn't do it for four years," Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the Ynet web site Tuesday. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev had no comment on Lieberman's remarks.

Hamas official Izzat Risheq predicted a truce deal would be reached Wednesday, but the movement wouldn't discuss what the problems were.

Israeli media quoted Defense Minister Ehud Barak as telling a closed meeting that Israel wanted a 24-hour test period of no rocket fire to see if Hamas could enforce a truce among its forces and other Gaza militant groups.

Palestinian officials briefed on the negotiations said Hamas wanted assurances of a comprehensive deal that included new arrangements for prying open Gaza's heavily restricted borders, and were resisting Israeli proposals for a phased agreement. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Israel launched the offensive on Nov. 14 following months of rocket salvoes from the territory into southern Israel, which has endured attacks for the past 13 years. For its opening salvo, it assassinated Hamas' military chief, then followed up by bombarding the militant-run territory to its south with more than 1,500 airstrikes that initially targeted rocket launchers and weapons storage sites, then widened to include wanted militants and symbols of Hamas power.

Defying Israel's claims that they've been badly battered, the militants have so far fired more than 1,400 rockets at Israel, drawing upon newly developed and smuggled weapons to extend the reach of their attacks toward Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel's largest cities. The number of Israelis within rocket range leapt to 3.5 million from 1 million.

Source: CBS News

SoCal Terror Suspects Met at Pomona Mosque

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T06:16:42-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

Note: Click on the source link to view the video

The four local men who were arrested on terror charges all worshipped at a mosque in Pomona, where they apparently met. Reaction from mosque members was mixed.

Sohiel Omar Kabir, 34, formerly of Pomona, Ralph Deleon, 23, of Ontario, Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, 21, of Upland and Arifeen David Gojali, 21, of Riverside, are named in an FBI criminal complaint with pages and pages of evidence about their alleged plan to travel to Afghanistan and start violent jihad.

"If somebody does that, he's crazy, he's not normal," said Gamal Atia.

Atia says if the charges are true, they're reprehensible because Islam is about peace.

"If somebody tried to do that, he's really bad, and he's not Muslim," he said.

But there are others at the mosque, like Aaron Gaulding, who do not believe the charges and think the men were set up.

"They were wonderful young men," Gaulding said. "FBI entrapment is what I believe. The FBI has violated our civil rights and freedom of religion because he had come in here and prayed with us."

Gaulding was referring to the man working undercover for the FBI - a man who was paid more than $250,000 by the FBI to provide information about the suspects' activities. Gaulding thinks it was that confidential source who set up the four men as terrorists.

"If they're guilty of anything, it's just simply being of youth, na�ve," he said, adding that he didn't think the men were capable of such an attack.

The FBI said in a statement, "The defendants will have an opportunity to defend themselves in court. The charges were filed with the court. The charges speak for themselves.

Source: ABC

Watchman Warning: 11/17/2012

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T06:13:40-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

Click here to view the video from The Hal Lindsey Report

Hamas TV after Tel Aviv bus bomb: "Allah Willing, We Will Soon See Black Body Bags"

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T06:11:34-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

Savages glorying in blood and death.

Video thanks to the IDF, via Twitter.

Source: Jihad Watch

Muslim Child Preacher: "Oh Zionists, We Love Death for the Sake of Allah, Just as Much as You Love Life for the Sake of Satan"

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-26T06:08:25-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

Note: Click here or on the the source link to view the accompanying video

Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he "loved death more than they loved life." This is a commonplace idea among jihadists. Nigerian jihadist Abubakar Shekau said: "I'm even longing for death, you vagabond." Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife advised Muslim women: "I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death." And as one jihadist put it, "We love death. You love your life!" And another: "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death." -- Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah

Of course, this idea comes from the Qur'an itself: "Say (O Muhammad): O ye who are Jews! If ye claim that ye are favoured of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful." -- Qur'an 62:6

Teach your children well! "Child Preacher Ibrahim Adham Longs for Martyrdom, Fighting alongside the Palestinians," from MEMRI, November 16:

Following are excerpts from a TV program featuring child preacher Ibrahim Adham, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on November 16, 2012.

Ibrahim Adham: Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan. We long for martyrdom for the sake of Allah, just as much as you hate death, oh enemies of Allah.

I am just a small child, but nevertheless, I pray that Allah will allow me to lead the prayer in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

[...]

If it were up to me, I would come to you [Palestinians], and I would fight alongside you in the battlefield, even if I am killed a hundred � nay, a thousand � times.

Source: Jihad Watch

Gaza conflict: Militant rocket targets Jerusalem

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-20T12:42:16-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

The missile was aimed at the Israeli parliament but landed outside the city and there were no casualties.

Israel has suggested it will intensify its strikes against Gaza targets, with more than 75,000 reservists reportedly put on stand-by.

The upsurge follows Israel's killing of Hamas's military chief on Wednesday.

Twenty-eight Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed since Wednesday.

Militants and civilians, including at least seven children, were among the Palestinian dead, Palestinian officials said.

Hamas's military leader Ahmed Jabari was killed by an Israeli air strike on Wednesday. A senior commander was killed on Friday, Hamas said.

Two Israeli women and a man died when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a building in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi on Thursday, Israeli officials said.

Before the recent offensive, Israel had repeatedly carried out air strikes on Gaza, as Palestinian militants fired rockets across the border.

It is not clear if the rocket targeting Jerusalem was the same Iranian-built Fajr-5 launched towards Tel Aviv for the second day on Friday.

The rockets have an estimated range of 75km (45 miles).

A rocket landed in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. Haaretz newspaper said it was the first time since 1970 that a rocket had been fired there.

Police were checking to see if a second rocket fell in the Jerusalem area.

Tel Aviv was earlier targeted for the second day, but a missile aimed at the city appears to have done no harm, with police officials quoted variously as saying it had landed in the sea or in an unpopulated area.

It is the first time Tel Aviv has come under attack since the 1991 Gulf War.

Analysts say it is the first time Gaza militants have deployed such powerful missiles.

An Israeli military spokesman said 550 missiles had been fired into Israel since Wednesday - 184 had been intercepted by its radar-protective system, Iron Dome.

The Israelis had hit more than 600 targets in Gaza, the spokesman said.

Israel says the assault is aimed at knocking out rocket-firing facilities. A spokesman said on Friday it had destroyed Hamas's "nascent" unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) programme.

The Israeli government has confirmed "in principle" the call-up of 75,000 reservists, Israel Radio reports. The defence minister had earlier approved the army's request for more than 30,000 reservists.

On Friday evening Israel blocked access to three major routes leading into Gaza.

Rumours have been swirling that a ground attack is imminent, but Israeli officials have said no decision has yet been made.

Mursi's backing

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of carrying out "massacres".

Western leaders have appealed for both sides to stop the escalation in violence.

Britain and Germany both said Hamas bears the brunt of the blame and should stop firing rockets immediately.

But Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi sent Prime Minister Hisham Qandil to the territory for a three-hour visit on Friday to show solidarity with the Palestinians.

"Egypt will not leave Gaza on its own, and what is happening is a blatant aggression against humanity," the president said shortly after Mr Qandil returned from Gaza.

Ties between Hamas and Egypt have strengthened since Mr Mursi's election earlier this year.

Hamas was formed as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, to which Mr Mursi belongs.

Source: BBC News

Urgent Legislative Action Alert! Oppose Ambassador Susan Rice as Secretary of State!

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-15T13:56:36-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

PLEASE ASK YOUR MEMBER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO SIGN REP. JEFF DUNCAN�S LETTER OPPOSING SUSAN RICE AS SECRETARY OF STATE!

http://www.capwiz.com/actforamerica/dbq/officials/

We understand that President Obama may be considering Ambassador Susan Rice to serve as U.S. Secretary of State if Hillary Clinton steps down as expected.

We assume that this possibility is as shocking to you as it is to us; particularly considering the unconscionable misinformation campaign that Ms. Rice was a part of immediately following the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi�an attack that resulted in the brutal murder of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

As you will recall, days after the violence against our embassy in Benghazi, Ms. Rice went on numerous television shows claiming that the attack was spontaneous and solely due to a low budget You Tube video�instead of recognizing it for the act of terrorism that it clearly was.

In response to the outlandish possibility that Ambassador Rice is indeed being considered as a possible next Secretary of State, Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) is circulating a congressional letter to President Obama expressing strong opposition to the nomination of Ms. Rice for this important post. Over the next few days, he will be asking every member of the U.S. House of Representatives to join with him by signing the letter.

The letter states, in part �we, the undersigned are deeply troubled by reports that you may be considering Ambassador Susan Rice to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State,� and further, that �Ambassador Rice is widely viewed as having either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi matter.� The letter ends by stating �we strongly oppose any efforts to nominate Ambassador Susan Rice for the position of Secretary of State.�

We need your help to see that every Member of the U.S. House of Representatives adds his or her name to this critical statement of opposition. Please see below exactly what help we need today.

*** Important Action Item ***

Congressman Duncan�s letter will be circulated around the U.S. House of Representatives for signatures today and Thursday and is expected to be sent to the President on Friday, so time is of the essence!

Today, please call YOUR member of the U.S. House of Representatives and ask him/her to sign on to the letter that Congressman Duncan is circulating, opposing the nomination of Susan Rice to serve as our U.S. Secretary of State.

NOTE: If you need help locating your elected official, visit our Contact Congress page by clicking HERE. Type in your zip code where indicated to locate your U.S. legislators. Click on your Representative and you can then see his/her contact information, including the phone number of the Washington, DC office.

Please make your call NOW! Politely let your Representative know about Rep. Duncan�s letter and ask that he/she sign on in support. Further, let your Representative know that you, too, strongly OPPOSE the nomination of Ambassador Susan Rice as Secretary of State. (Be clear that you are a constituent!)

Thank you for all that you do.

REMEMBER, YOUR VOICE COUNTS!
IF EACH OF US DOES JUST A LITTLE, TOGETHER WE CAN
ACCOMPLISH A LOT!

Brigitte's Message: 'You Are Our Hope...'

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-15T13:54:08-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

What Obama Should Have Done In The Last 4 Years And Won't Do In The Next 4 Years

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-08T06:15:06-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

Over and over again I�ve written about what President Barack Obama should do. Now the voters have given him a whole new chance. He could take it and change his policy. I don't believe he will do that but let me lay out both what he's been wrong and what he should do, just in case Obama is seeking a different approach.

What he did in the first and will do in the second term: Foster revolutionary Islamism in Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey.

What he should have done and should do now: Do what Franklin Rooosevelt did in 1941 and Harry Truman in 1947 and George Bush in 1990. Lead an international coalition that will systematically fight against a totalitarian enemy. Today, that means revolutionary Islamism. The loose coalition should include Europe, anti-Islamist Arab regimes (Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf Arab states) and pro-democratic opposition movements (Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, and Syria).

What he did�.: Support Islamist opposition groups

What he should have done�.: Support anti-Islamist and moderate opposition groups

What he did�.: Pressed Israel to reduce pressure on the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and helped bring an Egyptian regime that backed Hamas.

What he should have done�.: Supported a reformed�not overthrown�Egyptian regime and Israel in opposing Hamas and subverting its rule.

What he did�.: Gave support and aid to the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt despite lip service to defending women�s and Christian rights and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

What he should have done�.: Clearly condition aid on Egypt to protecting women, Christians, and moderates; take a strong stand on the regime�s permitting cross-border attacks on Israel and gutting the peace treaty. The Obama Administration has, and will have, no credibility with an anti-American extremist and antisemitic Egyptian government.

What he did: Celebrate the Turkish regime as a great example of democracy and moderate Islam. Did nothing as that regime went into a non-shooting war with Israel, backing Hamas, Hizballah, and Iran; rewarded Ankara with special treatment, including letting it organize the Syrian opposition.

What he should have done�.: Without provoking a conflict, use U.S. leverage to press Turkey�s rulers to change their policies. No rewards without their help in promoting U.S. goals. Be suspicious of the regime�s intentions and note its suppression of democracy within Turkey.

What he did�.: Accepted the Lebanese government dominated by Hizballah and backed by Iran and Syria.

What he should have done�.: Back the moderate Lebanese opposition that opposed the regime in order to combat the Iran-Syria bloc.

What he did�.: Backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria�s civil war and did not interfere with weapons going to Salafist groups as long as they were not al-Qaida affiliates.

What he should have done�.Support moderates and anti-Islamists in Syria against both the Islamists and the regime.

What he did�.: Acted as if all of Libya�s problems had been solved; tried to please the regime and show his niceness by not intervening to save Americans in the September 11 Benghazi attacks.

What he should have done: Know that the US is involved in an ongoing conflict in Libya and there will be more attacks in future.

What he did: Nothing.

What he should have done: Investigate the Benghazi incident seriously and honestly (his choice for chief investigator, former State Department hack Thomas Pickering, is an opportunist who will write whatever the White House wants), get those responsible and make sure that nothing like that has ever happened again. Perhaps an apology to the families of those killed would be in order.

What he did�.: Pushed the �peace process� for two years though then he did get the idea it wouldn�t work. He also opposed, albeit starting far too late, Palestinian Authority (PA) unilateral statehood bids. But will he continue that revised policy into a second term?

What he should have done: Realize the peace process isn�t going anywhere and understand that�s because PA intransigence and the Hamas challenge that is radicalizing even further Palestinian policy. When the PA subverts U.S. policies be willing to pressure and criticize it.

What he did�.: Said he supported the rights of Christians and women from (Islamist) repression. But he never did anything about it, zero. Cozied up to Syria and Iran at the very moment they were violently suppressing dissidents at home and opponents abroad.

What he should have done: Genuinely work to protect the rights of Christians and women as well as the lives of moderates by using leverage.

What he did�.: Said that al-Qaida was defeated.

What he should have done: Understand that al-Qaida is not finished by any means. And its partner the Taliban is still going strong. But this issue made less difference since U.S. policy did fight al-Qaida any way.

What he did�.: Continued the withdrawal from Afghanistan and tried to cut a deal with the Taliban.

What he should have done: Continued the withdrawal from Afghanistan but follow a realpolitik policy and set into place a strong set of patron-client relationships with those willing�albeit for their own interests�to keep the Taliban from taking power. The problem is that once U.S. forces are out the regime is likely to collapse and possibly give way to a revolutionary Islamist, anti-American government.

What he did�.: Although the U.S. government conducted drone strikes and the killing of Usama bin Ladin, unilaterally, it generally continued to pour money into Pakistan despite its lack of cooperation, activity as a major sponsor of terrorism, and institutionalized anti-Americanism, persecution of Christians, and the spread of radical Islamist ideology.

What he should have done: Move away from Pakistan and rebuild relations with India.

What he did�.: Forbade an honest discussion of the enemy and threat in the U.S. military; minimized or denied attacks like the one at Fort Hood were terrorist.

What he should have done: Let the U.S. military educate its people to the actual threat instead of forcing them to pretend otherwise.

What he did�.: Put tough international sanctions and on Iran and keep the possibility of an attack against nuclear institutions on the table. He will try to make a deal with Tehran letting it do limited enrichment and drop sanctions in exchange for promises not to develop nuclear weapons. The choice is up to Tehran as to whether to negotiate a deal or simply use talks as one more stalling technique while continuing to hurry toward getting deliverable nuclear weapons. When Iran does get nuclear weapons he won�t do anything, including never supporting an Israeli attack.

What he should do: If he wants to negotiate, first gain credibility in Tehran by being tough on Iranian interests everywhere in the region�he�s doing this in Syria--and bargain toughly rather than do anything to get a deal. When Iran does get nuclear weapons put in place a really tough containment system that would counter Iran�s subversion and terrorism, give strong backing to the internal opposition, and squeeze Iran to the maximum extent. If an honest assessment shows an Iranian plan to attack Israel or if Tehran seems likely to give nuclear bombs to terrorists, the U.S. government should support an Israeli attack. By not being credible, Obama makes more likely Iran�s obtaining nuclear weapons and that outcome leading to war.

Shall we go on? Well, the U.S. government will go on doing these things for the next four years.

Source: RubinReports

What Now?

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-08T06:11:06-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

No matter what your reaction is to last night�s election results, one thing hasn�t changed�the importance of our work together.

If anything, it�s even more important.

Here�s what we know.

The Obama White House has rolled out the red carpet to groups and individuals connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a fact.

The Obama administration is actively working to purge all references to radical Islam from counterterrorism training and materials. This is a fact.

The Obama administration refuses to characterize �jihad� as a primary motivation for Islamic terrorism. This is a fact.

Would a Romney administration change course in these, and other, areas? Obviously, there�s no way to know with certainty the answer to that.

So we must proceed ahead with strategies and tactics based on what we know.

Our work in state legislatures has never been more important. We must continue to make progress in passing laws, such as �American Laws for American Courts� (ALAC), at the state level. We can, and we will, erect firewalls at the state level to stymie the sharia-driven agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliate organizations.

Our �Thin Blue Line Project,� which we have been working on for months, has never been more important. While the Obama administration further imposes its politically correct will on counterterrorism training, we will provide the TRUTH to law enforcement professionals.

Next year we will unveil this website resource so that these professionals can easily, in one place, get the truth about jihadist ideology, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more.

We refuse to roll over and let our counterterrorism infrastructure be sanitized to appease Muslim Brotherhood connected organizations like ISNA and CAIR.

Our outreach and education program on Capitol Hill has never been more important. Over the past three years, we have reached hundreds of Members of Congress and staffers with information about the threat of radical Islam. With new Members having been elected yesterday, we will re-double our efforts.

Our free speech campaign has never been more important. We should expect that the Obama administration will continue its effort to get UN Resolution 16/18 passed. This resolution, which is the work of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, is a direct assault on our first amendment right of free speech.

We are formulating our plans so we can fight it next year with everything we have at our disposal. A slim majority of Americans may have re-elected President Obama, but I am convinced the vast majority of Americans don�t want their freedom of speech muzzled.

Our textbook project has never been more important. In March of this year, our �sister� organization released our textbook analysis report, �Education or Indoctrination? The Treatment of Islam in 6^th through 12^th Grade American Textbooks.�

This was only phase one in a multi-year plan to revisions in our public school textbooks. The success or failure of this project has absolutely nothing to do with who is in the White House.

We will succeed if enough concerned citizens rise up and join us in this effort.

Each of us is now faced with a choice. We can choose to give up and give in, or we can choose to stand up and fight for what we believe.

This morning I received several text messages and emails from chapter leaders who told me they are more determined than ever. They are choosing the course that the great American heroes of our past have chosen, to stare challenges in the face and purpose to overcome them.

When I read those messages, it made my heart swell with pride. How privileged I am to be part of this organization and amazing people like this!

I have two grown children, and my first grandchild is due to be born next year. When I�m tempted to succumb to discouragement, I remind myself what I�m fighting for.

I encourage you to do the same. Now is the time for us to pull together and redouble our resolve, to keep faith with our loved ones, the values we hold dear, and the nation we love. Because if we do, we will ultimately prevail against the evil that is radical Islam.

Source: ACT for America

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2012

Faith Defenders — 2012-11-07T13:12:17-08:00

Contributor: Scott Allswang

The aftermath of collective punishment for Pakistan's Christians�the inevitable byproduct of the notorious Rimsha Masih blasphemy case, concerning a Christian girl falsely accused of desecrating a Quran�was more dramatic than the blasphemy case itself. Indeed, knowing what was in store for them, some Christians even held a symbolic funeral procession, carrying a Christian leader in a coffin and digging a grave for the "deceased."

Their morbid predictions proved too true�especially after another pretext for Muslims to riot emerged: the Youtube Muhammad movie. After Friday prayers, Muslims attacked, killed, and robbed the Christians in their midst, who account for a miniscule 1.5% of Pakistan's population. St. Paul's Church in Mardan was attacked by hundreds of Muslims armed with clubs and sticks. After looting and desecrating it, they set the church on fire. Next Muslims raided a nearby church-run school, looting and torching it as well, and burning down a library containing more than 3,000 Christian books. Although the library also contained thousands of books on Islam�making the Muslim mobs' actions blasphemous under Pakistan's law�"the attack continued for more than three hours, with minimal efforts by the authorities to stop it."

Separately, Gunmen on motorbikes dressed in green (Islam's color) opened fire on the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cathedral in Hyderabad, murdering at least 28 people. Their immediate target appears to have been a nun, Mother Christina. Days later, unknown men reportedly threatened workers at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Hyderabad, saying: "We will teach a lesson to the Christians," destroying the hospital's windows and doors. Naeem Samuel, the bishop of Trinity Evangelical Church was assaulted, severely beat, and injured as he exited his church.

Meanwhile, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, far from condemning such outrages, validated them by falsely accusing the Muhammad movie for all the violence�even as they exposed their double standards by refusing to denounce paintings offensive to Christians, such as "Piss Christ." The New York Times also exposed its bias by defending the anti-Christian "Piss Christ" as "art," while condemning the anti-Muslim Muhammad movie as hate-speech.

Categorized by theme, September'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

Bahrain: Long considered the most tolerant nation in the Arabian Peninsula, with a 30% non-Muslim population of foreign workers, Bahrain is the latest Muslim nation to showcase intolerance for churches: Sunni clerics strongly opposed the planned construction of a Catholic church, "in a rare open challenge of the country's Sunni king. More than 70 clerics signed a petition last week saying it was forbidden to build churches in the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam." One prominent cleric, Sheik Adel Hassan al-Hamad, proclaimed that "anyone who believes that a church is a true place of worship is someone who has broken in their faith in God."

Egypt: Kasr El-Dobara, the largest evangelical church in the Middle East, located in Egypt, was besieged by "unknown people" hurling "stones and gas bombs." The first gas bomb thrown at the church was described as an "error" by police, but it was soon followed by other bomb attacks, which lasted through midnight until early Friday. Worshippers locked themselves inside the church and put on masks to avoid gas poisoning. Some of those trapped inside looked for help by trying to contact politicians, journalists, and even the "moderate" Muslim Brotherhood. All the Brotherhood did was announce on TV that the attackers were not members of the Muslim Brotherhood. After the men conducting the siege finally left, and the trapped Christians finally came out, not a single police or security agent to counter the attacks or protect the church could be found.

Indonesia: The several-year-long campaign against GKI Yasmin Church took another turn for the worse, as authorities ordered the congregation to relocate�a demand that abrogated a previous agreement which had permitted the church to exist, provided that a mosque would be built next door, and to which the church had agreed. Moreover, a Supreme Court ruling in 2010 ordered the GKI Yasmin's building to be reopened; it had been shut down in 2008 by local Muslims who, along with the mayor, to this day still refuse to comply with Supreme Court ruling. As one church leader said, "The rule of law in Indonesia has collapsed." Since its forced closure, the congregation has been holding services in the street in front of its half-constructed building or in private homes.

Lebanon: Two unknown assailants opened fire on the Saint Joseph Church in the town of Bqosta near Sidon, damaging the building's windows.

Nigeria: A suicide bomb attack on Saint John's Catholic Church claimed three lives including those of a woman and a child; 44 others were seriously injured. Another report describes the typical aftermath of church attacks in Nigeria, citing just one example: "One month after gunmen opened fire inside Deeper Life Bible Church [August 7] � members of the church have yet to resume worship services and other activities. 'All of us are traumatized by this attack. [There is] no family in this church that is not affected by this incident,' said Stephen Imagejor, an assistant pastor whose wife, Ruth, was killed, and their two daughters, Amen, 12, and Juliet, 9, hit by bullets and hospitalized. In all, 19 died. Church members say they were attacked specifically because of their Christian faith. They may have been a target, they say, because some of the dead include former Muslims who had converted to Christianity. And in the aftermath, 'Many are now saying that they can no longer come to the church,' Imagejor said. 'But we will eventually try to see how we can get those of us that have survived the attack to return to the church for worship services. But, I do visit them to encourage them to remain steadfast in the faith in spite of the persecution.'"

Spain: In Catalonia, a Catholic church was attacked by Moroccan Muslims, who, along with two other Moroccan Muslims, have been detained and charged with multiple assaults and robberies, including terrorizing and beating indigenous Spaniards with clubs and robbing them.

Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism

Egypt: The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued a press release saying it had "credible information suggesting terrorist interest in targeting U.S. female missionaries in Egypt. Accordingly, U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance." And an Egyptian court sentenced a Christian teacher to six years in prison after convicting him of blasphemy�specifically "insulting Prophet Muhammad"�and defaming the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt on his Facebook page.

Maldives: Airport customs officials seized 11 books about Christianity from a Bangladeshi expatriate who came to the Maldives via Sri Lanka. Later the same day a Maldivian national was caught with more Christian books, after arriving to the Maldives from Sri Lanka. The pair has been handed over to police. According to the Maldives Religious Unity Regulations, "it is illegal in the Maldives to propagate any faith other than Islam or to engage in any effort to convert anyone to any religion other than Islam. It is also illegal to display in public any symbols or slogans belonging to any religion other than Islam, or creating interest in such articles. It is also illegal in the Maldives to carry or display in public books on religions (other than Islam) and books and writings that promote and propagate other religions�"

Saudi Arabia: The hunt for a 28-year-old Saudi woman, Maryan, who embraced Christianity and fled the country, first gaining sanctuary in a Lebanese church, but then fleeing to Sweden, continues. Earlier the woman had said that, though she "was raised to hate Judaism and Christianity she has come to love those religions since finding peace in Christianity." Two men, a Christian Lebanese and a Muslim Saudi and are accused of proselytizing to her and helping her escape, respectively. Prosecuting lawyer, Humood Al-Khaldi, said that while the penalty in Islam of death for apostasy is clear, "the roles played by the two men, the Saudi and Lebanese, in making the girl become Christian should be taken into consideration," meaning they too must be brought to judgment. Swedish authorities are actually helping to find and extradite the apostate fugitive back to Saudi Arabia to face Sharia justice, including the possibility of execution.

Somalia: Muslims shot three converts to Christianity. The men had converted while in Ethiopia in 2005, but when Muslims began noticing they were not serious about attending mosque prayers, the apostates were attacked by "militants" who burst into their home and opened fire. Similarly, another family that had embraced Christianity fled their village after receiving death threats. Another convert who fled to Kenya said "Pastors and Christians are very afraid. I know people, mainly Christian converts, who had to leave their homes and their families because of pressures from these terrorists." The messages of the Islamists include statements like: "Stop your harmful ideologies and preaching to the Muslims"; "Some Somali Muslims are already affected by this cancer of Christianity� they will be under the sword of the mujahedeen (holy worriers)� We know where you are� We ask Allah to help us make his purpose reign� We are reaching millions of youth to join our jihad against the enemy of Islam and to terrorize by any means we can to make them understand that they are nothing but lowly infidels."

Uzbekistan: A disabled Christian woman, who walks with crutches, and her mother were brutally beaten with sticks in a violent police raid on their home. The officers turned the home upside down, seizing Bibles and other religious literature. At the police station, officers tried to pressure them to accept Islam, saying it was better than Christianity, and that a married man could marry them because Muslim men are allowed to have four wives. When the women refused to comply, the officers beat them again. The court ordered the destruction of the literature.

Dhimmitude

[General Abuse and Suppression of Non-Muslims as "Tolerated" Citizens]

Bangladesh: A new report indicates that some 300 Christian children were recently abducted and forcibly converted to Islam: So-called intermediaries visit poverty-stricken communities where they convince families to send their children to a mission hostel, charging them the equivalent of US$ 500 to 1,200 for school and board. "After pocketing the money, the intermediaries sell the children to Islamic schools elsewhere in the country 'where imams force them to abjure Christianity.'" The children are then instructed in Islam and beaten; after full indoctrination, they are asked if they are "ready to give their lives for Islam," presumably by becoming jihadi suicide-bombers.

Iran: Pastor Behnam Irani, imprisoned for "holding house church services and leading Muslims to Christ," continues to suffer health problems, while receiving no aid: "First, his eyesight is dimming and he has not been given access to a doctor to get prescription lenses. Second, he has a bleeding ulcer in his intestines. This has caused him to have bloody stool, vomiting blood, resulting in unconsciousness at one point. Third, from an accident several years ago, he had metal placed in his knee, and according to a family member it needs to be replaced every so often."

Syria: Christians fleeing to the Lebanese border are still being targeted, kidnapped, and in some cases murdered for ransom money. One report said 280 were held hostage by "armed gangs" taking advantage of the chaos of the war. Some of those kidnapped are later found slaughtered on the road.

Turkmenistan: A new report indicates how "the situation [for Christians] has got markedly worse since July and we don't know why." Among other anecdotes, Christian homes were raided and Bibles confiscated; Christians were threatened for not participating in Muslim prayers; they lost their jobs and businesses; Christian children are being harassed and discriminated against in schools. In one instance, "secret police officers raided a flat where five elderly Christian women had gathered for worship, as was their regular practice. They were so frightened by the incident that they have stopped meeting together."

Uzbekistan: A former Uzbek Muslim who converted to Christianity eventually becoming an active Protestant house church leader, and subsequently persecuted by the state, fled with his family to Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan wants him back to face charges that he practiced religion "outside state regulation." Because of its evangelical nature, Protestantism is banned in Uzbekistan. His case now rests before the country's highest court, which has yet to set a hearing date.

Pakistani Dhimmitude

Pakistan continues to show that it is one of the absolute worst nations for Christians and other non-Muslims, requiring its own section for September:

A 16-year-old Christian girl, Shumaila Masih, was gang-raped for hours by Muslims�joining the countless Christian girls and boys raped and murdered in Pakistan. Three Muslim men met her on the street, persuading her to go with them. She refused and was forcibly abducted and taken to the home of one of the men, who took "turns raping her for hours. The attack took place at 11 am, in broad daylight, but no one intervened to save Shumaila, despite the desperate cries and pleas for help. Around 5 pm, her father and his cousins began searching for her; when they came to the rape-house, they heard her cries and rushed to it: "At the sight of the men, the three young Muslims fled, leaving Shumaila naked and in pain on the bed."

According to a new report, as many as 2,000 women and girls from various minority sects, especially Christianity, were forcibly converted to Islam through rape, torture and kidnappings, while 161 people were charged with blasphemy in 2011. "The actual number is larger as many cases go unreported� For instance, policemen are involved in more than 60 percent of sexual abuse cases of street children."

A separate report discussing the murder of a Christian youth by Muslims, notes that "Christians are harassed by criminal gangs and Islamic terrorist groups of ethnic Pashtuns: armed to the teeth, the militants enter the area to collect jizya [extortion money imposed on Christians and Jews, according to Quran 9:29]. Militants raid houses, steal and abuse women and children for fun. The local population is terrorized."

Another 16-year-old Christian girl, Sumbal, a maid working for Muslims, was "beaten harshly" by the family with "pipes and iron rods � afterwards, she was taken to the washroom and terribly tortured there." When the child's parents learned of the incident, they went to retrieve their daughter but were told by the family that they did not know her whereabouts. According to Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association: "Yet again we have violence against a teenage Christian maid. The fact that the family are refusing her mother access is very disturbing. What are they covering up? Is it the fact that the girl was murdered, as in a recent case where a senior lawyer in the same city tortured to death a young Christian girl servant? Is it to try and concoct a story about her condition, or has she been raped and forced to marry and convert as so many young Christian girls are?"

Soon after a Muslim opened a madrassa (Islamic school) near where Christians held their tent church worship, Muslims began harassing the Christians, including by spraying bullets on their homes and saying "Convert to Islam or leave this neighborhood"; trying to trick a pastor to admit he proselytizes Muslims; and gathering in front of the church and harassing Christian girls as they exit after services.

About this Series

Because the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching epidemic 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:

Intrinsically, to document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, Muslim persecution of Christians.
Instrumentally, 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; apostasy and blasphemy laws; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (tribute); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed "dhimmis" (barely tolerated citizens); and simple violence and murder. Oftentimes it is a combination thereof.

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.

Source: Middle East Forum