ISLAM: THE SCOURGE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
A radical Muslim
wants to cut your head off. A peaceful Muslim is praying that a radical Muslim
cuts your head off.
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Why are we defended the borders of these
Muslim dictators when we can’t defend our own borders against NARCOMEX?
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“The
Wahhabis finance thousands of madrassahs throughout the world where young boys
are brainwashed into becoming fanatical foot-soldiers for the petrodollar-flush
Saudis and other emirs of the Persian Gulf.” AMIL IMANI
Robert Spencer’s The History
of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is an amazing book,
extraordinary in its detail and riveting in its narratives and analysis.
This book documents the history of horrors, violence, brutality, oppression,
conquests by the sword, beheadings of hundreds of thousands (probably
millions), destruction of civilizations and cultures, corruption, deception,
and lies that are part of the Islamist culture, and every other evil that you
can imagine that one group of humans could impose on others in the name of an
ideology or, in this case, a pseudo-religion.
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The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam
Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place today, June 15, exactly 630 years ago today in 1389. It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern Europeans today who are resistant to Islam.
Because the jihad is as old as Islam, it has been championed by diverse peoples throughout the centuries — Arabs in the Middle East, Moors (Berbers and Africans) in Spain and Western Europe, etc. Islam's successful entry into Eastern Europe was spearheaded by the Turks, specifically that tribe centered in westernmost Anatolia (or Asia Minor) and thus nearest to Europe, the Ottoman Turks, so-named after their founder, Osman Bey. As he lay dying in 1323, his parting words to his son and successor, Orhan, were for him "to propagate Islam by your arms."
This his son certainly did; the traveler Ibn Batutua, who once met Orhan in Bursa, observed that although the jihadi had captured some one hundred Byzantine fortresses, "he had never stayed for a whole month in any one town," because he "fights with the infidels continually and keeps them under siege." Christian cities fell like dominoes: Smyrna in 1329, Nicaea in 1331, and Nicomedia in 1337. By 1340, the whole of northwest Anatolia was under Turkic control. By now and to quote a European contemporary, "the foes of the cross, and the killers of the Christian people, that is, the Turks, [were] separated from Constantinople by a channel of three or four miles."
By 1354, the Ottoman Turks, under Orhan's son, Suleiman, managed to cross over the Dardanelles and into the abandoned fortress town of Gallipoli, thereby establishing their first foothold in Europe: "Where there were churches he destroyed them or converted them to mosques," writes an Ottoman chronicler. "Where there were bells, Suleiman broke them up and cast them into fires. Thus, in place of bells there were now muezzins."
Cleansed of all Christian "filth," Gallipoli became, as a later Ottoman bey boasted, "the Muslim throat that gulps down every Christian nation — that chokes and destroys the Christians." From this dilapidated but strategically situated fortress town, the Ottomans launched a campaign of terror throughout the countryside, always convinced they were doing God's work. "They live by the bow, the sword, and debauchery, finding pleasure in taking slaves, devoting themselves to murder, pillage, spoil," explained Gregory Palamas, an Orthodox metropolitan who was taken captive in Gallipoli, adding, "and not only do they commit these crimes, but even — what an aberration — they believe that God approves them!"
After Orhan's death in 1360 and under his son Murad I — the first of his line to adopt the title "Sultan" — the westward jihad into the Balkans began in earnest and was unstoppable. By 1371, he had annexed portions of Bulgaria and Macedonia to his sultanate, which now so engulfed Constantinople that "a citizen could leave the empire simply by walking outside the city gates."
Unsurprisingly, then, when Prince Lazar of Serbia (b. 1330) defeated Murad's invading forces in 1387, "there was wild rejoicing among the Slavs of the Balkans. Serbians, Bosnians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Wallachians, and Hungarians from the frontier provinces all rallied around Lazar as never before, in a determination to drive the Turks out of Europe."
Murad responded to this effrontery on June 15, 1389, in Kosovo. There, a Serbian-majority coalition augmented by Hungarian, Polish, and Romanian contingents — twelve thousand men under the leadership of Lazar — fought thirty thousand Ottomans under the leadership of the sultan himself. Despite the initial downpour of Turkic arrows, the Serbian heavy cavalry plummeted through the Ottoman frontlines and broke the left wing; the Ottoman right, under Murad's elder son Bayezid, reeled around and engulfed the Christians. The chaotic clash continued for hours.
On the night before battle, Murad had beseeched Allah "for the favour of dying for the true faith, the martyr's death." Sometime near the end of battle, his prayer was granted. According to tradition, Miloš Obilić, a Serbian knight, offered to defect to the Ottomans on condition that, in view of his own high rank, he be permitted to submit before the sultan himself. They brought him before Murad and, after Miloš knelt in false submission, he lunged at and plunged a dagger deep into the Muslim warlord's stomach (other sources say "with two thrusts which came out at his back"). The sultan's otherwise slow guards responded by hacking the Serb to pieces. Drenched in and spluttering out blood, Murad lived long enough to see his archenemy, the by now captured Lazar, brought before him, tortured, and beheaded. A small conciliation, it may have put a smile on the dying martyr's face.
Murad's son Bayezid instantly took charge: "His first act as Sultan, over his father's dead body, was to order the death, by strangulation with a bowstring, of his brother. This was Yaqub, his fellow-commander in the battle, who had won distinction in the field and popularity with his troops." Next Bayezid brought the battle to a decisive end; he threw everything he had at the enemy, leading to the slaughter of every last Christian — but even more of his own men in the process.
So many birds flocked to and feasted on the vast field of carrion that posterity remembered Kosovo as the "Field of Blackbirds." Though essentially a draw — or at best a Pyrrhic victory for the Ottomans — the Serbs, with fewer men and resources to start with in comparison to the ascendant Muslim empire, felt the sting more.
In the years following the battle of Kosovo, the Ottoman war machine became unstoppable: the nations of the Balkans were conquered by the Muslims — after withstanding a millennium of jihads, Constantinople itself permanently fell to Islam in 1453 — and they remained under Ottoman rule for centuries.
The collective memory of Eastern Europeans' not too distant experiences with and under Islam should never be underestimated when considering why they are significantly more wary of — if not downright hostile to — Islam and its migrants compared to their Western liberal counterparts.
As Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán once explained:
We don't want to criticize France, Belgium, any other country, but we think all countries have a right to decide whether they want to have a large number of Muslims in their countries. If they want to live together with them, they can. We don't want to and I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of Muslim people in our country. We do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries, and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see[.] ... I have to say that when it comes to living together with Muslim communities, we are the only ones who have experience because we had the possibility to go through that experience for 150 years.
And those years — 1541 to 1699, when the Islamic Ottoman Empire occupied Hungary — are replete with the massacre, enslavement, and rape of Hungarians.
Note: The above account and its quotes were excerpted from the Raymond Ibrahim's recent book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.
Islam's Greatest Victory: The Fall of Constantinople
So the “Sultan swore… that his warriors would be granted the right
to sack everything, to take everyone, male or female, and all property or
treasure which was in the city.”
Jihad: Islam's Engine
Tunisian radical imam Mahmoud Jebali, who is set for deportation
after coming to Italy as an illegal immigrant, threatened to kill prison
officers.
Islam's Greatest Victory: The Fall of Constantinople
Of all of Islam’s conquests
of Christian territory, the most symbolically significant occurred today, on
May 20, 1453, when Constantinople fell. For not only was “New Rome” a
living and direct extension of the ancient Roman Empire and current capital of
the Christian Roman Empire (or Byzantium), but its cyclopean walls had
prevented Islam from entering Europe through its eastern doorway for the previous
seven centuries.
On becoming Ottoman sultan,
Mehmet, or Muhammad II (b. 1432, r. 1451-1481) -- “the mortal enemy of the
Christians,” to quote a contemporary prelate -- made ready for war.
Throughout the spring of 1453 the city watched helplessly as his forces made
their way to and surrounded Constantinople by land and sea. One contemporary
remarked that Muhammad’s “army seemed as numberless as grains of sand,
spread... across the land from shore to shore.” In the end, some one hundred
thousand fighters came.
Muhammad commenced
bombardment on April 6. Although he tried to go over, through, and under the
walls, he made little headway. Some six weeks after he had started
pummeling Constantinople, he was no nearer his goal.
So he assembled and exhorted
his men for one last-ditch effort: “As it happens in all battles, some of you
will die, as it is decreed by fate for each man,” he began. “Recall the
promises of our Prophet concerning fallen warriors in the Koran: the man who
dies in combat shall be transported bodily to Paradise and shall dine with
Mohammed in the presence of women, handsome boys, and virgins.”
Even so, Sultan Muhammad
knew that rewards in the now were always preferable to promises in the
hereafter. As Sheikh Akshemsettin had earlier told him, “You well know, that
most of the soldiers [particularly the dreaded Janissaries] have in any case
been converted [to Islam] by force. The number of those who are ready to
sacrifice their lives for the love of Allah is extremely small. On the other
hand, if they glimpse the possibility of winning booty they will run towards
certain death.”
Any Muslim still uninspired
by the boons of the here or hereafter was left with a final thought: “If I see
any man lurking in the tents and not fighting at the wall,” warned the sultan,
“he will not be able to escape a lingering death,” a reference to Muhammad’s
favorite form of punishment, impalement (which Vlad the Impaler -- “Dracula” --
wasintroduced to
while a “ward” in the sultan’s court). Muhammad’s “announcement was
received with great joy,” and from thousands of throats came waves of
thundering cries of “Allahu Akbar!” and “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad
is his prophet!”
“Oh! If you had heard their
voices raised to heaven,” wondered a Christian behind the wall, “you would have
been struck dumb with amazement… We … were amazed at such religious fervor, and
begged God with copious tears to be well disposed towards us.”
The all-out assault was set
for May 29. Fanatics of all sorts were set loose to inspire the men on
the previous day. Wandering “dervishes visited the tents, to instill the desire
of martyrdom, and the assurance of spending an immortal youth amidst the rivers
and gardens of paradise, and in the embraces of the black-eyed virgins [the
fabled houris].”
Criers swept throughout the camp to horn blasts:
Children
of Muhammad, be of good heart, for tomorrow we shall have so many Christians in
our hands that we will sell them, two slaves for a ducat, and will have such
riches that we will all be of gold, and from the beards of the Greeks we will
make leads for our dogs, and their families will be our slaves. So be of good
heart and be ready to die cheerfully for the love of our Muhammad.
Finally, on May 29, around 2
a.m., Muhammad unleashed all hell against Constantinople: to blasting sounds of
trumpets, cymbals, and Islamic war-cries, cannon fire lit the horizon as ball
after ball came careening into the wall.
After the initial
bombardment, wave after wave of hordes came, all desirous of booty or paradise
-- or merely of evading impalement. With ladders and hooks, they fought,
clawed, and clambered onto the wall. “Who could narrate the voices, the cries
of the wounded, and the lamentation that arose on both sides?” recollected an
eyewitness. “The shouts and din went beyond the boundaries of heaven.”
After two hours of this,
thousands of Ottomans lay dead beneath the wall. Regardless, Muhammad
continued ordered more waves of Turks to crash against the wall. They built and
clawed atop human pyramids of their own dead and wounded, all while cannon
balls careened and crashed -- to no avail. Having the high ground, the
Christians slew countless Muslims. “One could only marvel at the brutes,”
conceded a defender. “Their army was being annihilated, and yet they dared to
approach the fosse again and again.”
By 4 a.m. nonstop cannon
fire had made several breaches. A small detachment of Turks entered the city
through a minor doorway which the defenders had left open during the chaos.
One Hassan -- “a giant of a
beast” -- slew all before him and inspired other Turks to press in behind him.
They quickly planted the Islamic flag, causing consternation among the
defenders. When a well-aimed stone took Hassan down, he continued swinging his
scimitar on one knee until, riddled and “overwhelmed by arrows,” he was
welcomed into paradise by the houris. “By then, the whole host of the enemy
were on our walls and our forces were put to flight.” Thousands of invaders
flooded in and slaughtered the outnumbered defenders; others were trampled
underfoot and “crushed to death” by the press of men.
Crying, “The City is lost,
but I live,” Emperor Constantine XI stripped and flung off his royal regalia
and “spurred on his horse and reached the spot where the Turks were coming in
large numbers.” With his steed he “knocked the impious from the walls” and with
“his drawn sword in his right hand, he killed many opponents, while blood was
streaming from his legs and arms.” Inspired by their lord, men shouting “Better
to die!” rushed into and were consumed by the oncoming throng. “The Emperor was
caught up among these, fell and rose again, then fell once more.”
Thus “he died by the gate
with many of his men, like any commoner, after having reigned for three years
and three months,” concludes a chronicler. And on that May 29, 1453, the
2,206-year-old Roman state died with him, and “the saying,” observed another
contemporary, “was fulfilled: ‘It started with Constantine [the Great, who
founded Constantinople, or “New Rome” in 325] and it ended with Constantine
[XI].’”
Even so, by holding out
against Islam for as long as it did -- eight centuries -- Constantinople
had saved the West. As Byzantine historian John Julius Norwich explains,
“Had the Saracens captured Constantinople in the seventh century rather than
the fifteenth, all Europe -- and America -- might be Muslim today.”
Note: The above account was
excerpted and adapted from the author’s recent book, Sword and
Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.
Unless noted otherwise, all quotes come from contemporary eyewitnesses and
primary sources documented therein.
Jihad: Islam's Engine
Right
from the start, violent jihad served as the engine of Islam under the command
and supervision of Muhammad himself. To understand how quickly Islam
spread around the world, we must see the timeline of Islam.
After
Muhammad's death in 632 A.D., his friend Abu Bakr was named caliph and
ruler of the Islamic community, or Ummah. Muhammad's followers in a
short time occupied a vast geographic area; conversion to Islam was
heightened by Islamic missionaries, who intermingled with local
populations to promulgate the Islamic teachings. It
resulted in Islam's spread outward from Mecca toward both
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the creation of the
Muslim world.
In
no time at all, Islam spread like a pandemic. Once it attacked the
mind of its victims, this debilitating disease was capable of transforming them
into helpless pawns that had no choice but to execute what they were directed
to do.
Here
is the truth, as bitter as it may be. Islam is the culprit. Islam
is anything but a religion of peace. Violence is at the core of
Islam. Violence is institutionalized in the Muslim's holy book,
the Qur'an, in many verses:
Qur'an:
9:5: "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them
captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of
war."
Qur'an:
9:112: "The Believers fight in Allah's cause; they slay and are slain,
kill and are killed."
Qur'an:
8:39: "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief
[non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole
world)."
Qur'an:
8:65: "O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are
twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there
are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels
are a people devoid of understanding."
Qur'an:
9:38: "Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to
go forth and fight in Allah's Cause you cling to the earth? Do you
prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth,
He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your
place."
That's
what the Qur'an commands the believer repeatedly – to make jihad on even the people
of the book, Jews and Christians. Islam
essentially invented the idea that Christians, Jews, and pagans are an
abomination and offensive to Allah and that their very existence represents an
attack upon the self-defined Islamic right to reign over the
world. Allah thus enlists Muslim believers to eradicate by force
those who offend him and, by disbelieving, prevent his rule. True
Muslim believers therefore become the enforcers, hit men and mercenaries for
their god, in order to establish a global caliphate for their parasitic
clergy. Their targets are artificially constructed adversaries.
Muslim
believers hence are instructed to fear the "great Satan" and are told
that if they do not live up to Allah's calls to jihad, they themselves are
offensive to Allah and to their families.
Now,
the only question that remains is the extent of a Muslim's obedience to the
Qur'an and the Sunna, the life examples of Muhammad. To be sure, a
great many Muslims are not following the dictates of the Qur'an verbatim, as
they should, since they consider it to be the literal immutable perfect words
of Allah.
Furthermore,
nowhere do I say all Muslims believe in shedding the blood of
others. Yet the commandments of the Qur'an to believers are clear
and emphatic. It is for this reason that an innumerable number of
Muslims do engage in jihad and suicide volunteers vie with one
another to offer their services to their handler leaders.
A
true Muslim does not and cannot believe in freedom of choice. In the
religion of Islam – Submission – everything is up to Allah, as clearly and
repeatedly stipulated in the Qur'an. The raison
d'être for the Muslim is to be unconditionally submissive to the will
and dictates of Allah. Everything a "good" Muslim does is
contingent upon the will and decree of Allah, he is indoctrinated to
believe.
To
cut to the chase, we need to eliminate some disinformation and myths about the
"war on terror." We are not fighting
terrorism. We are engaging in an ideological battle between freedom,
conservatism, democracy, individual rights, capitalism, and
"Christian" ethics and Islamofascism, communism-socialism, theocracy,
and tyranny.
There
are also internationalist, dictatorial, globalist forces that seek to use the
conflict to create an international government and the unification of all
religions by the destruction of nationalism, patriotism, individual rights, and
sectarianism.
It
is not "fanatical," "radical," or "extreme" Islam
that we are fighting, but normal, orthodox, canonical, typical, accepted,
traditional Islam, straight from the mouth of Muhammad. Islam is
violent in direct proportion to its mission and scripture. The
so-called fanatics and terrorists are only upholding the truth of their
principles.
In
short: We must begin to declare Islam evil, not from a sectarian perspective,
but from a universal, humanist one. Every encroachment of Islam as a
religion must be rejected and discouraged by all people everywhere. Any
leftist who attempts to give aid and comfort to this religion of hate must be
denounced and frustrated at every turn. Otherwise, get used to your
radioactive suit and your fallout shelter, a standard of living – and a level
of freedom – one tenth of what you have today.
‘I Will Kill You and Eat Your Corpses’: Deported Radical Imam
Told Prison Guards
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Tunisian radical imam Mahmoud Jebali, who is set for deportation
after coming to Italy as an illegal immigrant, threatened to kill prison
officers.
The
31-year-old imam came to Italy illegally through the port in Lampedusa and was
well-known to police having committed several violent crimes in the past.
Italian authorities initially jailed him on a conviction for robbery but were
finally able to expel him to Tunisia this week, Il Giornale reports.
While in a prison in Padua, the Tunisian is said to have
become a leader among the radical Muslims with an officer from the Central
Investigation Unit of the Penitentiary Police (NIC) saying, “He had never
had a quiet attitude, he was controversial and arrogant with the
agents, he had begun to intensify his religious practice so much that he became
a charismatic leader for other Muslim prisoners.”
Four Rochdale grooming gang members are STILL in Britain with one living back at home again a decade after abusing girls as young as 12
- Four of the men have not bee deported despite holding dual Pakistani citizenship
- The men are among nine people who were convicted of abuse back in 2012
- Shabir Ahmed, Qari Abdul Rauf, Abdul Aziz and Adil Khan have dual citizenship
- Ahmed, 66, known as 'Daddy' is currently serving a 22-year jail term for rape
The victims of a notorious Rochdale grooming gang have been 'failed again' after it emerged four men have still not been deported a decade after preying on girls as young as 12.
Shabir Ahmed, 66, Qari Abdul Rauf, 50, Abdul Aziz, 48 and Adil Khan, 49, were among nine men convicted in 2012 of a catalogue of serious sex offences against vulnerable victims in Rochdale.
As the only groomers to have dual UK-Pakistani citizenship, they were at risk of being deported back to Pakistan - but none of the four appear to have been deported or be facing deportation.
Shabir Ahmed, left, and Adil Khan were among nine men to have been convicted of grooming girls in Rochdale in 2012. Along with Abdul Aziz and Qari Abdul Rauf, they were the only members of the gang to have dual British and Pakistani citizenship which means they could be deported by authorities given the serious nature of their crimes
Abdul Aziz and Qari Abdul Rauf, pictured, also have dual citizenship. The Home Office refused to comment whether deportation proceedings were active against any of the four men
Ahmed, known as 'Daddy' in the gang, is still serving a 22-year jail term for rape but Rauf is back living at his home address in Rochdale and Aziz has also been seen in the town, locals say.
Khan's exact whereabouts are not known.
One woman who was abused wet herself and ran into a shop after spotting her attacker in the town centre recently, according to locals, and another victim bumped into her abuser in a nightclub only last week.
The Home Office will not say whether a decision has been made to deport any of the four.
A spokeswoman said: 'We do not routinely comment on individual cases.'
Maggie Oliver, the detective who resigned from Greater Manchester Police and turned whistle-blower over the botched Rochdale inquiry, said: 'It doesn't surprise me they won't be straight with their answers after all this time because they don't want a public backlash.
'Ultimately the truth does have a way of coming out. The process most of these girls have been through has led them to expect very, very little from the authorities.
'They expect nothing and are not disappointed. They have been failed again and again and again.
'They do see some of these men around Rochdale on a fairly regular basis.
'It is really distressing for them, there's nothing that the girls can do. It's actually disgraceful.'
In 2016, then-home secretary Theresa May ruled it would be 'conducive to the public good' to deprive the four of the right to remain in the UK.
They then fought, and lost, a long legal battle against deprivation of UK citizenship, losing a final Court of Appeal ruling in July last year.
Eight judges, including the Master of the Rolls Lord Justice Sales, have now heard their case and upheld rulings all four should lose UK citizenship rights.
It has been heard across a series of hearings spanning three years, for most of which the four were legally aided.
Theresa May, who was Home Secretary when the men were jailed said the four dual citizens should be deported
At a previous hearing, judges noted the decision to strip an individual of UK citizenship, called a deprivation order, does not automatically lead to deportation order.
They said it was 'reasonable to assume', however, that a deprivation order is a prelude to a deportation.
Lawyers said it is probable the four will invoke the European Convention on Human Rights to argue their right to a family life would be impinged if they were removed from the UK.
Ms Oliver added: 'Once you commit these horrific offences your human rights should come second.
'It makes me really angry and it's really upsetting whey you think what they have done that they even have any rights.'
Former taxi driver Aziz, a father-of-three, regularly took his young victim to different flats around Rochdale, where she was plied with cannabis and vodka and coerced into sex with men who paid him cash.
Referred to as 'The Master' by the gang, he played a 'leading role' in the grooming.
Jailed for nine years in May 2012, he was released in December 2015 after serving three years and seven months.
Rauf, a father-of-five, trafficked a 15-year-old girl for sex, driving her to secluded areas to have sex with her in his taxi and ferry her to a flat in Rochdale where he and others had sex with her.
He was jailed for six years and released in November 2014 after serving two years and six months of his sentence.
A neighbour told the Press Association he has a night-time driving job.
Khan got a girl, 13, pregnant but denied he was the father then met another girl, 15, and trafficked her to others using violence when she complained.
He was sentenced to eight years, released in 2016 and was last known to be living in Manchester.
For two years from early 2008, girls as young as 12 were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped in rooms above takeaway shops and ferried to different flats in taxis where cash was paid to use the girls.
Police said as many as 47 girls were groomed.
Nazir Afzal, the lawyer credited with pursuing the groomers, overturning an earlier decision not to prosecute, said: 'I am concerned that despite the efforts that have been made to ensure they are no longer a threat to women and girls in this country, that they remain in this country and the process continues and is prolonged.'
Billy Howarth, founder of Parents Against Grooming UK in Rochdale, said: 'We demand an explanation as to why they have not been deported.
'That was one of the promises, that these men would be removed from the country so they would not have to set eyes on them again.
'People are going mad over it, especially the people who live on the same streets with them.'
A spokeswoman for current Home Secretary, Rochdale-born Sajid Javid, has been approached for comment.
A staff member at the office for Rochdale MP Tony Lloyd said no-one was available for comment.
UK Foreign Secretary Writes 40 Letters to Persecuted Christians
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UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written some 40 letters to persecuted Christians to assure them of the support of the British government, the religious freedom watchdog group Open Doors revealed last week.
“I cannot begin to imagine the horrors of what you have suffered,” Mr. Hunt wrote to a Nigerian woman named Esther, who was kidnapped as a teenager by Boko Haram jihadists. “I stand in awe of the great faith that has given you the strength to rebuild your life and dignity.”
“I want you to know that you are not alone that British diplomats continue to raise your situation that we continue to fight your corner and that we stand with those who are being denied the basic rights to practice their faiths,” said Hunt, an Anglican who has taken a leading role in making known the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East and elsewhere.
An Open Doors spokesperson named Erin James she was “absolutely thrilled to see [Mr Hunt] engaging with Christians like this,” adding that the minister’s letter meant the world to the Nigerian woman.
“Esther was completely shocked when this letter came through,” she said. “She couldn’t believe that he even knew who she was. So it’s so wonderful to see that girl realise how supported she is, how loved she is by Christians in the UK and around the world.”
Mr. Hunt’s behind-the-scenes work for persecuted Christians has been matched by bold public advocacy.
During an official visit to Ethiopia last May, Hunt said that western governments have been “asleep on the watch” as anti-Christian persecution has raged in different parts of the world.
The minister commissioned a comprehensive report this spring that revealed widespread organized persecution of minority Christians in their traditional Middle East homeland, of a magnitude approaching genocide.
The report found that millions of Christians in the region have been uprooted from their homes, while others have suffered kidnapping, imprisonment, discriminated, and even death.
Rather than improving, the lot of Christians around the world is worse than ever, the report said, with extensive discrimination across south-east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in east Asia.
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