“Exterminate
Christians!"
The Muslim persecution of Christians that occurred in just one
month.
Raymond Ibrahim
Raymond Ibrahim is a
Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Reprinted from the Gatestone Institute.
The following are some of the abuses Muslims inflicted on
Christians, categorized by theme, throughout the month of January, 2020:
The
Slaughter of Christians in Nigeria
During several separate incidents, militant Muslims—whether Fulani
herdsmen, Boko Haram, or generic terrorists—continued to attack and massacre
several Christians.
As one example, on Friday, January 17, Muslim Fulani tribesmen on
motorbikes raided a Christian
village at a time they knew people were congregating at the
village square where Christian fellowship often took pace. They opened
fire. “As the people fled into nearby bushes to take cover, the
attackers retreated and left,” an area resident explained.
“We are sad about these attacks on our people, which seem to be unending.” Two
young Christian girls—Briget Philip, 18, and Priscilla David, 19—were killed,
and at least three other teenagers were seriously wounded.
Separately, “[a]t least 32 people [including a pregnant woman]
were killed and a pastor’s house and church building were burned down in two
nights of attacks [on predominantly Christian regions] this week by Muslim
Fulani herdsmen in Plateau state,” a January 30 report noted.
In the early hours of January 20, gunmen invaded the Lutheran
Church of Christ, where its pastor, the Rev. Dennis Bagauri, lived; they opened
fire on “and shot him dead at
night when all persons in the area had gone to sleep,” a local confirmed.
Boko Haram (whose name roughly means “Western education is a sin”)
released another execution video.
In it, a masked Muslim child holding a pistol appears standing behind a bound
and kneeling hostage, later identified as Ropvil Daciya Dalep, a 22-year-old
Christian and member of the Church of Christ in Nations, who was kidnapped on
January 9 while traveling to his university, where he majored in biology.
After chanting in Arabic and launching into an anti-Christian diatribe, the
Muslim child proceeds to shoot Ropvil several times in the back of
the head.
On January 2, Islamic gunmen abducted Reverend Lawan Andimi, a
pastor and district chairman of the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria. After
the terrorists demanded an exorbitant ransom for his release—two million Euros,
which his church and family simply could not raise—they beheaded the
married father-of-nine on January 20. Earlier, in a
January 5 video that his abductors released, Pastor Lawan had said that
he hoped to be reunited with his wife and children; however, “[i]f the
opportunity has not been granted, maybe it is the will of God. I want all
people close and far, colleagues, to be patient. Don’t cry, don’t worry, but
thank God for everything.”
In a statement prompted
by all these unchecked killing of Christians, Kwamkur Vondip, the director of
legal and public affairs of the Christian Association of Nigeria, blasted the
Muslim-led government of Nigeria of “colluding” with the Islamic terrorists:
In the light of the current developments and the circumstantial
facts surrounding the prevailing upsurge of attacks against the church, it will
be difficult for us to believe that the federal government under President
Muhammadu Buhari is not colluding with the insurgents to exterminate Christians
in Nigeria, bearing in mind the very questionable leadership of the security
sector that has been skewed towards a religion and region. Is that
lopsidedness not a cover-up for the operation of the insurgency?.… Since
the government and its apologists are claiming the killings have no religious
undertones, why are the terrorists and herdsmen targeting the predominantly
Christian communities and Christian leaders?
The nonstop massacres of Christians which are met with impunity
from the Nigerian government also prompted Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of
Sokoto to express his disgust with the government in a January 3 report:
“The only difference between the government and Boko Haram,” he said, “is that
Boko Haram is holding a bomb.” The Nigerian government is “using the levers of
power to secure the supremacy of Islam, which then gives more weight to the
idea that it can be achieved by violence.”
The
Slaughter of Christians Elsewhere in Africa
Kenya: Armed Muslims connected with neighboring Somalia’s terrorist
group, Al Shabaab (“the youth”), murdered three
Christian teachers during a raid on a primary school in the
early hours of January 13; a fourth victim managed to survive.
Another local teacher said “We
are sad and at the same time scared because we are targeted for being non-local
government workers that belong to the Christian faith.” While discussing this
incident, a separate report adds
that
Today’s attack comes against the backdrop of a series of attacks
from the terrorist group in the last five weeks, leading to the loss of 25
people total … On December 6, 2019, four teachers were among the 11 non-local
Christian passengers killed … when al-Shabaab flagged down the bus they were
traveling in. The militants separated the passengers and killed those on the
spot who failed to recite the Islamic Shahada.
Central African Republic: Militant Muslims shot and killed two
Christian pastors as they travelled together by car after
having conducted a Christmas Day church service. According to the January 6 report,
after murdering the Christians, the “jihadists” continued “shooting, preventing
efforts to recover the bodies. The men had to be buried later at the scene of
the attack.” The report adds that
the “Christian-majority Central African Republic has been blighted by violence
since 2013, when the Seleka Islamist armed group briefly overthrew the
government…. Christian communities continue to be the targets of
attacks…. In November 2018, more than 40 people were killed and many were
forced to flee when members of an Islamist militia attacked a Christian mission
in Alindao.
Cameroon: “Not a day passes without attacks on the villages on Cameroon’s
frontier with Nigeria,” lamented Bishop Bruno Ateba in
reference to the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram’s increased incursions into
Christian villages in a January 24 report: “Boko Haram is like the beast
of the Apocalypse, or a many-headed Hydra—whenever you cut off one of its
heads, it seems simply to grow another…. Within my own diocese there have
been 13 attacks in the last weeks.” One of those attacks saw a church torched
on the feast of the Epiphany. “We are still investigating who was behind
the incident, but everything points to the fact that it was a terrorist
attack.” Bishop Barthélemy also shared his experiences: “My birthplace, the village
of Blablim, no longer exists. The terrorists have murdered a young man of
my family and totally devastated the entire village, including the house I was
born in. Everybody, with the exception of the sick and elderly, was forced to
flee to Mora, 10 miles away. It will be impossible now to gather in the cotton
harvest.”
Egypt: On January 12, a Muslim man crept up behind a Christian
woman walking home with groceries, pulled her head back with a hand full of
hair, and slit her throat with
a knife in the other hand. Nearby people restrained the
man in al-Wariq, Giza, where the incident took place. Catherine Ramzi was
rushed to a nearby medical center, where her throat was sewn with 63 stitches;
despite initial heavy bleeding, she managed to survive. The doctor told
her that had the knife penetrated one millimeter more—her now mangled
sweatshirt had provided some buffering against the knife—it would have reached
her jugulars and killed her. During an interview, she explained that she had never
before seen the man. All she heard him say during the assault is that she
“deserved it” because her “hair was exposed.” He may have also identified
her as a Christian because, like many Copts, Catherine bears a visible tattoo
of the cross on her hand.
Separately, on January 14, in the region of al-Maraj, another
Muslim man tried to slaughter a
Christian man with a sharp box-cutter in a public space.
He managed only to slice off a portion of the Copt’s ear. After Muhammad
‘Awad, 32, was arrested and questioned as to why he tried to murder Rafiq
Karam, 56, he confessed that he did not know him, but that he simply “hates
Christians.”
Attacks
on Christian Churches
Sudan: Three churches—a Sudan Internal church, a Catholic church
and an Orthodox church—were simultaneously burnt down twice over the course of three
weeks in the Blue Nile state. The arsonists are suspected to be area
Muslims. According to a January 20 statement from a human rights group
published in the Sudan Tribune,
On the evening of 28th December 2019, three churches in three
different neighbourhoods … were set on fire (burnt) at the same time by
arsonists. The worshipers quickly rebuild the three churches using the
local materials as it was before. However, for the second time, on the
evening of 16th January, the arsonists burnt down the three churches,” said the
group…. [L]ocal authorities did not take any measure to protect the
churches or to investigate the attacks.
“This incident is true, the three churches were set on fire twice
in less than a month,” a local pastor confirmed,
adding that “area Muslims were upset about the presence of the churches there,
and they are suspected in the fires.”
Philippines: On January 19, police arrested two Muslim men from the Islamic
terror group Abu Sayyaf (“the sword-forger”) before they could carry out a planned bomb attack
on a Catholic cathedral in Basilan, which both men confessed
to. Explosive materials—including more than 3 kilos (6.6 pounds) of
assorted nails, blasting caps, 1.5-volt batteries, and wires—were recovered
from their hideout. Abu Sayyaf earlier “masterminded a
twin bombing at a church on southern Jolo island in January 2019 that left more
than 20 people dead.”
Egypt: “The security apparatus prevented Copts in Faw Bahri …
from holding the New Year’s Eve prayer on Tuesday, 31 December, in the home of
a local Copt. Several Copts gathered in the building and complained about being
prohibited from completing the prayer,” the Egyptian Initiative for Personal
Rights, a Cairo based think tank with an emphasis on human rights, said in a
January 6 press release:
The building that security shut down and prevented prayer inside
of is owned by a village Copt and has been used for worship services for four
months [and apparently set on fire before
for this reason]. Security promised to rapidly secure a building permit for a
new church on a 460-meter tract of land purchased by the church a while back.
All the necessary surveys have been conducted by official bodies and a wall was
built around the plot. All that is needed to start construction is the permits.
The closest church to the village is 10 km away…. 3,000 Christians live
in the village and used to pray at the house that was shuttered by security.
They are all waiting for security to keep its promise to issue permits for the
construction of a new church.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) further
criticized the “glacial pace”
of the Sisi-government’s hitherto much lauded church construction law adopted
in September 2016. More than “three years after its adoption, the church
construction law has failed to end violations of Christians’ right to worship
and address related sectarian tensions…. [T]he process to regularize the
legal status of churches is moving at a glacial pace and lacks transparency,”
the press release added:
The EIPR has documented at least 36 cases of sectarian tension and
violence since the church construction law went into effect and through the end
of 2019, all of them associated with the worship practices. In the same period,
interventions by various state institutions led to the closure of 25 churches
and the prohibition of collective worship services in the areas in question. In
many of these cases, customary reconciliation sessions were convened that
concluded with agreements to shut down the church while promising to grant the
necessary permits when papers were officially filed. Yet, when church officials
applied for official permits, state agencies refused to grant permits or allow
them to organize religious services or mass.
Indonesia: Construction of the Bethel Church of Indonesia (GBI) My Home
church, plans for which began in 2016, was “abruptly halted”
after its building permit was revoked. The church would have served 1,200
registered congregants. In response, on January 16, Amnesty International
Indonesia in a statement urged
the authorities to annul their decision to revoke the permit:
This is a clear case of persecution and discrimination against a
religious minority. The authorities in Tanjungpinang have failed to provide any
legal justification for denying this permit and blatantly disregarded the
Constitution and their obligations to respect the right to religious freedom
and ensure equal enjoyment of human rights.
In a separate case in the same in the region, Muslims halted construction
of another church. According to the January 24 report,
Built in 1928, St Joseph’s Catholic Church needs to be renovated
and enlarged. Originally it could accommodate 100 people, but now it has more
than 700 members. Despite having all the permits, the project is opposed by a
small group of young Muslims who threaten action against public order….
Local Catholics are critical of Karimun district chief who, bowing to
extremists, has turned against the project even though it has all the required
permits.
Although area Christians had “explained to
Karimun officials [that] there will be no symbol or ornament outside the
church; no cross, no statue, no image of Mary will be displayed visible outside
the church”; and although this decision by the Christians was taken
reluctantly, as it would make the building look like “a gym or a conference
hall”—Muslims still rejected the church.
France: A suspected Muslim man was arrested for desecrating a church,
including by writing Koran verses on its walls. According to the January
16 report,
The arrest comes just under a year after another church in
Toulouse, the Notre-Dame du Taur, was vandalised by an individual who wrote
“Allah u Akbar” on the doors of the building…. Church attacks in France
have become a major issue in the last several years, with a report from March
of last year claiming that there are as many as three attacks on churches or
graveyards per day on average, with a total of 1,063 cases in 2018.
One recent attack “saw
human faeces smeared into prayer books at a church in the commune of Tarbes.”
Sweden: After a series of arson attacks on
St. Maria Syrian Orthodox Church—one of which was started by someone pouring
and lighting gasoline to its exterior—church members have begun to patrol its
premises at night in the hopes of preventing further attacks. The January
10 report adds
that, “Church attacks in Sweden are relatively uncommon in general but attacks
on communities targetted by radical Islamic Sunni extremists, such as Syrian
Christians and Shi’ite Muslims, are a concern in the country.”
Attacks
on Apostates and Blasphemers
Iran: A court
sentenced Ismaeil Maghrebinejad, 65, a Muslim convert to Christianity, to three
years imprisonment on the charge of “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs,” said
human rights group Middle East Concern in a January 22 report.
The Christian was initially charged with “propaganda against the state and
insulting the sacred Iranian establishment,” but during “a hearing on 22
October, the judge further accused Ismaeil of apostasy [that is, turning away
from Islam, which is a capital crime according to some interpretations of
Islamic law] and increased bail demands from 10 million to 100 million tomans
(US$9000). Friends provided pledges to cover the bail demands. There were
further hearings in November (when the apostasy charge was dropped), December
and January.” On January 8, he was found guilty of
“insulting Islamic sacred beliefs in cyberspace”—a reference to the claim that
“Ismaeil had forwarded a message sent to his phone that was deemed to be
insulting to the ruling Iranian clerics”—and sentenced to three year
imprisonment. According to
a human rights activist associated with the case, the sentence is “a
disproportionate reaction to something so ordinary. The other charges that
Ismaeil is facing, as well as the quashed charge of apostasy, (are) related to
his conversion to Christianity. This may reveal the real reason why he’s been
charged with something that most ordinary Iranians do on a daily basis.”
Pakistan: Muslims beat and falsely
accused a Christian man, Shahbaz Masih, 40, of blasphemy, which
led to his and his friend’s arrest. According to the January 14 report,
His [Muslim] accusers, Shahzaib and Ahmad, hold a grudge against
him for being a Christian. On 27 December the two surrounded him at the market,
dragged him to a nearby landfill where children collect paper, and beat [him
there]. His screams drew the attention of his friend Ishaq [a moderate
Muslim], who came to his aid. At that point, the attackers accused both of
blasphemy, of burning pages of the Qurʼān. A riot followed, with a nearby
mosque calling on Muslims to kill both men. When police arrived, it took the
two friends to a police station, questioned them and moved them to a prison,
where they are still being held. Human rights groups slam the cops for
giving in to extremist pressure and formally recording the case. For
their part, radicals threatened to burn the homes of Christians as well as that
of the Muslim man, “guilty” of being friends with the Christian. For this
reason, the families of the accused went into hiding at an unknown location.
Generic
Hate for and Violence against Christians
Egypt: Muslim students at a Minya school “rejected”
Mervat Seifein, a school teacher, “for the explicit reason that she is Copt,”
that is, a Christian, a report noted.
After “a routine promotion in which she replaced the previous school director
who is a Muslim,” both boy and girl “students protested and held a sit-in in
the school courtyard asking for her removal.” “We don’t want a Copt!”
they cried. Some Muslim teachers joined in the protests. Police were
unable to disperse the boys’ demonstration in the courtyard. “The girls who
demonstrated against me don’t know me,” Mervat responded,
“so why the antagonism? Simply because I am Coptic? The only explanation I can
fathom is there has been fanatic incitement going on against my promotion,
possibly by persons who are purely extremist or who have an interest in keeping
me out of that post.” Ezzat Ibrahim, a human rights activist, added that
a prompt official investigation should be conducted into the matter:
This is flagrant religious discrimination. It brings to mind
the incident in the southern province of Qena when the Islamists rose against
the appointment of a Coptic governor in the past-Arab Spring weeks in 2011, and
the State gave in and went back on the appointment. It is catastrophic
that some 50 or 100 teenage girls or boys should impose their will on the
State. And it is equally disastrous that these students were pushed to do so by
a group of fanatic Islamists. The positive official response to their
preposterous demands amounts to an invitation for religious discrimination. The
deputy minister who did that must be dismissed.
Bangladesh: Twelve Christian Rohingya refugees from Myanmar were attacked
and injured by Muslim Rohingya “due to their faith.”
(Rohingya are overwhelmingly Muslim). “[E]arly Monday [January 27, they]
attacked us, the Christians. They looted our houses, and beat up many Christian
members. At least 12 Christians have been undergoing treatment at different
hospitals and clinics,” a Christian named Saiful reported.
“We came under attack due to our faith,” he insisted. “On May 10, 11, and 13
last year, this same group of terrorists attacked us. They want us to leave
this camp. They have been attacking us systematically.” Although official
Bangladeshi reports denied or underplayed the religious dimension of the
attacks, other sources, such as the Rohingya Christian Assembly from India,
confirmed them: Muslim Rohingya “attacked the whole Christian community in
Kutupalong Camp,” the group said.
“Approximately 25 Christian families are displaced. It is winter and very cold,
the victims have many minor children with them.” The group added that
mobs armed with machetes—“hundreds in many groups”—invaded and destroyed every
Christian home at night.
Iraq: Four Christian humanitarian aid workers—three French, one
Iraqi—were kidnapped in Baghdad on
January 20. No ransom demands were made. According to the report,
“The four went missing during a time of heightened tensions in Iraq after a
U.S. drone strike on Baghdad airport that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani
and a senior Iraqi militia commander, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The attack has
drawn anger from Iraqi officials from across the political divide ….
Iran-backed militia groups have also sworn to avenge the killings.”
Iran: Authorities demolished the grave of the only
Christian to be officially executed for apostasy in the Islamic republic.
A born Muslim, Pastor Soodmand converted to Christianity before the 1979
revolution. He was arrested, tortured, and eventually executed for
apostatizing from Islam to Christianity in December 1990. Now, thirty
years later, “all that remains of
the pastor’s unmarked grave is the soil under which he was once buried.”
His daughter, Rashin Soodmand, who now lives in Europe, gave her reaction:
As a member of the family of this martyred pastor, I can say that
the recent disrespect shown to our father’s grave wounded our hearts yet
again. Our father was killed cruelly and contrary to the law. They buried
him in a place they called la’anatabad [accursed
place], without our knowledge, and did not even give our family the opportunity
to say goodbye to him, or to see his lifeless body. For years we had to
travel to this remote place to visit his unmarked grave, and we were not even
allowed to construct a gravestone bearing his name…. We will take our
appeal to any relevant national or international institution about this
disrespect and cruelty.
The report adds
that,
Rev Soodmand remains the only Iranian Christian to have been
executed for apostasy following an official court order, although others have
been sentenced to death including Rev Mehdi Dibaj and Yousef Nadarkhani.
Rev Dibaj was eventually acquitted after nine years in prison but then killed
in suspicious circumstances five months later. His body was found days after
his disappearance, in a park in a suburb of Tehran, with multiple stab wounds
to his chest. Yousef Nadarkhani was also eventually acquitted of
the charge but later rearrested on the now much more common charge of ‘actions
against national security.’ He is now serving a ten-year sentence in Tehran’s
Evin Prison.
‘Allahu Akbar’ Migrant
Knifeman Kills Two,
Wounds Seven in France
A
knife-wielding Sudanese migrant shouting “Allahu Akbar!” has stabbed two people
to death and wounded “at least” seven others in France.
The suspected
killer, said to be an asylum seeker in his thirties, was initially reported as having struck
outside a bakery in Romans-sur-Isère, in the south-east of the country, by
outlets including the MailOnline, citing local media.
However, a
later BBC report — which did not mention
the suspect’s nationality or alleged cry of “Allahu Akbar!” — said he attacked
the shopkeeper and customers at a tobacconist before moving on to a nearby
butcher’s shop.
Toutes mes pensées vont aux victimes de
l’attaque de #RomansSurIsère et à leurs proches.
L’auteur présumé a été interpellé par la @PoliceNationale.
La DIPJ de Lyon est mobilisée, sous l’autorité de la Justice, pour établir la nature et les circonstances de cet acte odieux.
L’auteur présumé a été interpellé par la @PoliceNationale.
La DIPJ de Lyon est mobilisée, sous l’autorité de la Justice, pour établir la nature et les circonstances de cet acte odieux.
Details are still emerging, but it seems the victims who have
already died do include a butcher and a customer at a tobacconist.
Christophe
Castaner, France’s interior minister, has offered his condolences to the
victims — five of whom remain in critical condition — and confirmed that the suspect is now
under arrest and investigators seeking to confirm his motives.
The suspect’s roommate is also said to be under arrest.
French Municipal
Police officers stand in a street in the centre of Romans-sur-Isere, on April
4, 2020, after a man attacked several people with a knife, killing two and
injuring seven before being arrested, according to sources close to the
investigation. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images)
Plain-clothed
Police officers stand in a street in the centre of Romans-sur-Isere, on April
4, 2020, after a man attacked several people with a knife, killing two and injuring
seven before being arrested, according to sources close to the investigation.
(Photo by JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images)
This
story is developing…
A French intellectual warns that France will have a Muslim
future
Because
of its relationship with Algeria, France has a 50-year history of Muslim
immigration, pre-dating Angela Merkel’s 2015 welcome mat. Last month, Michel
Gurfinkiel, a French intellectual who founded the Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Institution, participated in a radio interview with Gregg Roman of the Middle
East Forum. During the interview, he warned that French
demographic changes predict a future in which Islam is ascendant:
Domestically, the past fifty years of steady
immigration from Islamic countries into France is “transforming the fabric of
French society” from within. Demographic and sociological surveys indicate that
10-15% of the French population is now of Muslim origin, including 20-30% of
French citizens or residents under the age of 25. Some integrate successfully,
but many align with the most radical and militant expression of the religion.
Their rejection of France’s secular constitution is matched by resentment of
the French military’s fight against global jihadism in Africa and the Middle
East, seen as a “deliberate assault ... on Islam.”
Meanwhile,
French people, as is true for most Europeans, have lost faith in their
institutions. Christianity is declining and the French are no longer marrying
or having children. Free speech is also dying in France:
In January, a 16-year old identified only as
“Mila’ criticized Islam as a “religion of hate” on her Instagram account in
response to online harassment from a homophobic Muslim troll. The resulting
online threats of bodily harm led to Mila and her family being placed under
police protection. The French custom of satirizing or criticizing religion does
not extend to Islam, “and the main reason ... is, of course, fear,” said
Gurfinkiel. “It’s a fact that Muslims don’t react peacefully to these kinds of
[speech] as ... Christians [do], and everybody ... remember[s] ... the humorists
of Charlie Hebdo ... slaughtered by a Muslim commando a few
years ago.”
Another
sign that Islam is ascendant in a land that was once considered the cradle of
European Christianity is that churches in France are routinely desecrated.
Dr.
Peter Hammond, in his early 21st-century book about Christian genocide in
Muslim lands, Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The
Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, produced a rough rule of thumb about the
threat to a dominant culture from Islamic immigration:
As long as the Muslim population remains around
or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as
a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the
case in:
United States — Muslim 0..6%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%
Australia — Muslim 1.5%
Canada — Muslim 1.9%
China — Muslim 1.8%
Italy — Muslim 1.5%
Norway — Muslim 1.8%
At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other
ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the
jails and among street gangs. This is happening in:
Denmark — Muslim 2%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
Germany — Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%
Spain — Muslim 4%
Thailand — Muslim 4.6%
From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence
in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will
push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby
securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on
supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for
failure to comply. This is occurring in:
France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%
Philippines — 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%
At this point, they will work to get the ruling
government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under
Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia
law over the entire world.
When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they
tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In
Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. In Russia, grade-schools were
attacked. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and
threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films
about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:
Guyana — Muslim 10%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%
India — Muslim 13.4%
Israel — Muslim 16%
Kenya — Muslim 10%
Russia — Muslim 15%
After reaching 20%, nations can expect
hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the
burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:
Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%
At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres,
chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:
Bosnia — Muslim 40%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%
Chad — Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%
From 60%, nations experience unfettered
persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming
Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon,
and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:
Albania — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%
Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%
Qatar — Muslim 77.5%
Sudan — Muslim 70%
After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent
jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, beheadings, stoning, and even some
genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim,
such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:
Bangladesh — Muslim 83%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
Egypt — Muslim 90%
Gaza — Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%
Iran — Muslim 98%
Iraq — Muslim 97%
Jordan — Muslim 92%
Morocco — Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan — Muslim 97%
Palestine — Muslim 99%
Syria — Muslim 90%
Tajikistan — Muslim 90%
Turkey — Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%
France’s
Muslim population has substantially increased since Hammond wrote those words.
The tipping point is near.
France Not Enforcing Lockdowns in Muslim
No-Go-Zones
March 30, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
They do call them no-go zones for a reason.
But let's not kid ourselves. There are neighborhoods in New York
City and LA where the police won't be asking crowds to go indoors and that the
media would never dream of shaming and which won't go viral on social
media. This is the same thing except it's a symptom of a much worse problem.
There are people who follow the rules and those who don't, and those who expect
others to follow their rules.
While it has just increased the sanctions against those who do not
respect confinement repeatedly, the government decides to be more conciliatory
with offenders in the suburbs. A double standard which outrage the police.
It is not a priority to enforce closings in certain neighborhoods
and to stop gatherings in certain neighborhoods." The sentence, which
unequivocally scandalizes the police and their representatives, is signed by
the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior.
In a videoconference connecting Beauvau to the prefects of the
defense zones, Laurent Nunez expressed this concern on March 18 to see the
cities, on the verge of implosion , ignite if confinement was applied
there too strictly.
You get the idea. It's last stage colonialism. Except the colonies
are in France.
As long as the authorities don't try to exert too much local
control, but put on a show for the country as a whole, there's not much of a
problem. If they insist on trying to control the situation on the ground, there
will be a violent pushback.
Meanwhile the black market in, among other things, masks, goes on,
covertly approved of by the French government.
Katie Hopkins Video: French
Jews in Paris Under Attack
The police tell them they
can no longer protect them.
March 24, 2020
Frontpagemag.com
Katie sheds disturbing light
on French Jews in
Paris Under Attack, unveiling how the police are telling the Jewish
Parisians that they can no longer protect them.
Don’t miss it!
And make sure to watch Katie share: They Plotted to Behead Me, where she discusses: When a female Jihadi wants your head as a wedding present.
American Historians Present Jihadi Terrorists as Western Allies
Considering
that Muslims have at times allied with Europeans, sometimes even against fellow
Muslims, why present Muslim attacks on Europe throughout history as ideologically driven
— as jihads ("holy wars") against the
infidel? Why not see them all as generic wars?
This
is the main point of an apologia being leveled against my book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of
War between Islam and the West. Thus, weeks before my recent lecture at the U.S. Army
War College, another speaker was brought in to present an "alternative
view." That speaker was John Voll,* professor emeritus of Islamic history
and past associate director of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C. (This center was "gifted" 20 million dollars
from Prince Alwaleed — a Wahhabi who suggested that the 9/11
attacks were based on America's position "toward the Palestinian
cause" — for the express purpose of improving Islam's image in the West.)
In contrast with the well-known story of Muslim-Christian
military conflict, less well-known is the long history of Muslim-Christian
alliances and cooperation, even in times of conflict. Voll will
address risk of misunderstanding when the history of clashes between Islam and
the West is viewed in broad generalizations. Voll will focus his
discussion on alliances and conflicts in the modern era[.]
Voll
reasserted these themes weeks after he presented in a less than honest Army
Times report that depicted him
as "a more mainstream speaker ... who[m] CAIR-Philadelphia did not object
to" (as opposed to me):
Voll does not agree with Ibrahim's view that
Christians and Muslims are almost inevitably at odds. Extreme
advocates of this "Clash of Civilizations" hypothesis tend to deal
with only half of the historical record of relations between
the West and Islam, he said in an email.
"While the history includes many wars and
conflicts, that history also includes many experiences of cooperation
and alliances," Voll explained. "To ignore the
history of Muslim-Christian cooperations and only emphasize the conflicts is to
present a misleading narrative that opens the way for dangerous
misunderstandings of world history in general and current global affairs in
particular."
Is
this true? Yes and no. Yes, Muslims have (infrequently)
allied with non-Muslims — in this case, Europeans. No, this does not
prove that the exponentially greater, perennial attacks on every corner of
Europe were not ideologically driven by jihad. It merely proves that
Muslims are pragmatic — which Islam endorses — and willing
to ally with whoever best serves their interest.
For
instance, in its announcement, the Army War College noted that "Voll will
focus his discussion on alliances and conflicts in the modern era,
to include the history of the Anglo-Egyptian relationship, and the enemy-ally
transitions of the Sanusiyyah and the Angle-American powers of World War II and
the Cold War."
Why
the "modern era"? Could it be that, as opposed to the
twelve centuries of Islamic raids on Europe (circa. 634–1830, when Barbary was
subdued), Muslims have been remarkably weak vis-à-vis infidel Europe beginning
in the late modern era and therefore had much to gain by allying with the
infidels?
Relying
on the late modern era — the last two centuries, which Voll bizarrely claims
represent "half of the historical record of relations between the West and
Islam" — to explain the totality of Islamic-European relations (nearly
fourteen centuries) is one of the oldest tricks relied on by Islamophilic
academics: presenting rare exceptions (alliances with non-Muslims) to the rule
(jihad against infidels) as the rule itself.
This
is well epitomized by the recent book Crusade and Jihad: The
Thousand-Year War between the Muslim World and the Global North, by
William Polk, a retired professor of history at Harvard (my complete
review here). Despite its
ambitious subtitle, only some 30 of its 550 pages deal with the first
millennium (when jihad was the norm); 95 percent is devoted to the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries — the "modern era." As with Voll,
this lopsided approach allows Polk to present Muslims as not just occasional
allies of the West, but its eternal victims as well.
But
as much more balanced historians such as Bernard Lewis put it:
We tend nowadays to forget that for approximately
a thousand years, from the advent of Islam in the seventh century until the
second siege of Vienna in 1683, Christian Europe was under constant threat from
Islam, the double threat of conquest and conversion. Most of the new
Muslim domains were wrested from Christendom. Syria, Palestine,
Egypt, and North Africa were all Christian countries, no less, indeed rather
more, than Spain and Sicily. All this left a deep sense of loss and
a deep fear.
"We
tend nowadays to forget" these troubling facts precisely because those
most charged with reminding us — the professional historians of Islam, the
Volls and Polks of Western academia — go out of their way to suppress them.
Moreover,
Islam's modus operandi has always relied on circumstances. When
Muhammad was weak and outnumbered in his early Meccan period, he preached peace
and made pacts with infidels; when he became strong in his Medinan period, he
preached war and went on the offensive. This dichotomy — preach
peace when weak, wage war when strong — has been instructive to Muslims
throughout the centuries.
Indeed,
when it comes to making life easy for Muslims, particularly vis-à-vis infidels,
Islamic law (shari'a) is remarkably lenient, via the doctrine of taysir (ease). It
is why millions of Muslims — who under strict shari'a are
banned from willingly relocating to infidel nations — are flooding the
prosperous West: it is beneficial to them, even if they hate and
occasionally abuse their hosts (which, for some clerics, validates their
presence as a form of jihad).
At
any rate, ignoring the first millennium of Muslim-European history — when Islam
was as strong if not stronger than Europe, therefore regularly waging jihads on
it — and focusing only on the last two centuries — when Islam has been much
weaker than the West and therefore in need of dissembling its true feelings for
the infidel — is truly what "present[s] a misleading narrative that opens
the way for dangerous misunderstandings of world history in general and current
global affairs in particular," to quote Voll, though in reverse.
*As
an amusing side note, I actually sat in on one of Voll's classes at Georgetown
University nearly two decades ago. An apparently especially contentious
question and observation I made concerning what he was saying ended, I
distinctly recall, with a curt response and an especially dirty look — and my
deciding not to sign up for his class.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen
Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is Shillman
Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Judith Friedman Rosen Fellow at
the Middle East Forum, and distinguished senior fellow at the
Jew-Hate in France
When Jewish students avoid
going to public schools.
April 1, 2020
Stephen Brown
Last December, vandals
desecrated 107 Jewish graves with anti-Semitic inscriptions in Westerhoffen in
eastern France. Anti-Jewish graffiti was also found in the nearby town of
Schafhouse-sur-Zorn. No suspects were arrested. Earlier in 2019, in February in
Alsace, also in eastern France, 100 Jewish graves were desecrated with Nazi
symbols.
The desecration occurred just
hours before the French government’s lower legislative house was to adopt a
motion modeled on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition
of anti-Semitism which states that denying Jews their right to
self-determination is anti-Semitic.
In the same month, an Israeli
student was attacked by two strangers on the subway for speaking Hebrew into a
cell phone. His nose was broken. A 17-year-old, arrested with a stolen phone
and known to police, was taken into custody. His ethnic origin was not given.
And perhaps most frightening,
U.K.'s leading freedom fighter Katie Hopkins stated in a recent Glazov Gang video that 18 Jewish families in Paris had received letters
telling them to “get out” or be killed.
Perhaps to indicate the senders
of these poisonous letters meant business, Hopkins also cited the case of the
82-year-old Jewish woman last year who lived in one of the poorer suburbs
surrounding Paris. She was stabbed to death and thrown off her balcony by her
Muslim neighbor.
Anti-Semitic attacks are on the
increase in France. According to Wikepedia, in 2018, they rose by 69 per cent
amounting to about 500 assaults. Anti-Semitism surged during the Second
Intifada from 2002-2004 to disturbing levels.
Despite only making up one to
three per cent of the population of France, Jews are subjected to 40 per cent
of all racially or religiously motivated attacks. There are about 500,000 Jews
in France and they make up the third largest number of Jews in the world after
Israel and the United States.
Anti-Semitism has a long
history in France. From the Dreyfuss affair, in which a Jewish French officer
was convicted of treason on false charges, through to the Vichy regime.
But at no time did Jews feel
they were in such danger as today with the Muslim immigration to France. Some
Jews are now so concerned with their security that they have emigrated to
Israel with their families. In 2014, the number of French Jews leaving for
Israel for the first time exceeded the United States. Seventy per cent of Jews
are concerned about anti-Semitic insults while 20 per cent are concerned about
physical assaults. Prior to this, Jews never felt compelled by anti-Semitism to
leave France.
Muslim anti-Semitism is
virulent and also deadly. The best proof of this occurred when Mohmmed Merah, a
petty Muslim criminal, attacked a Jewish school in Toulouse and killed three
students and a rabbi. There have also been numerous other attacks on Jews and
against Jewish institutions, which are guarded by special security guards with
some coming from Israel.
Some of these, such as the one
against Ilan Halimi, are notorious. Halimi was a French Jew of Moroccan descent
who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Muslims calling themselves “gang of
barbarians.”
The problem with anti-Semitism
in France is, essentially, that hatred of Israel and the Jews has become a
major part of the identity of Muslims of north African and African origin.
“Hatred for Israel and for Jews
has become a major component of the identity of French of Arab or African background;
it is the cement of the second generation,” said Gil Mihaely, founder and
director of the Causeur, a French magazine dedicated to intellectual debate.
Mihaely further states that the
anti-Jewish demonstrations of 2014 in France, in which two synagogues were
attacked in Paris, “betray a profound need to identify oneself as an adversary
of Israel and of the Jews.”
The French historian Georges
Bensoussan also states about anti-Semitism in his country that Muslim families
in France “drink it with the mother’s milk.”
This does not augur well for
the future of a Jewish presence in France.
Anti-Semitism is so bad that
Jewish students are avoiding going to public schools.
In a “large number of schools”
students are “beaten and insulted because they are Jews,” said the president of
the council representing Jewish institutions in France in a story in Le Figaro.
“In my time we all went to
secular schools. Today not more than a third of third of Jewish children go to
secular schools, the other two thirds go to private schools, either Jewish or
Christian,’ said the president.
One high school principal was
reported to have warned Jewish students in 2017 not to attend his school for
fear of harassment and assaults.
It is also disturbing to see
members of the French left ally itself with anti-Semitic Muslims. The Communist
mayor of Valenton, a community near Paris, insulted France’s Jewish community
in 2014 when he named a street after Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.
Barghouti was actually made an honorary citizen of Valenton five years earlier.
Barghouti was sentenced by an
Israel court in 2004 to multiple life sentences for planning deadly terrorist
attacks. But that didn’t stop Valenton’s mayor from calling the terrorist “…the
face of the of the resistance of the Palestinian people against the
occupation,,,”
As a counter, Sammy Ghozlan,
founder of The National Bureau For Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, said: “The
celebration of a murderer is unacceptable.”
It is noticeable that Muslims
in France become very agitated about what they regard as Israeli crimes but
don’t utter a word about their 300,000 fellow Muslims killed in the war in
Syria or about the thousands killed in Yemen or Libya.
And when in 2012 a moderate
imam tried to mobilize people, including Muslims, to demonstrate against
Merah’s anti-Semitic crimes, only about 50 people showed up. But such apathy
now appears among the entire population. In 1990, after a Jewish cemetery was
desecrated, thousands of people showed up to protest against anti-Semitism. But
after the Merah murders, only Jews showed up to demonstrate.
As one writer stated about
Muslims and non-Muslims in France, the sentiment today is that two communities
are forming side by side who regard one another with hostility. One can see
this, in one respect, with their different attitudes anti-Semitism. And this
sentiment, the writer states, is shared by many. In other words, France is a
fractured society.
If the flight of French Jews,
and Jews from other western European countries as well, is not stopped, then
they all will wind up looking like the Muslim countries of North Africa and the
Middle East whose Jewish communities were chased out decades ago. In other
words, Hitler’s dream of a Jew-free Europe will finally be realized. Western
Europe will be ‘Judenrein’.
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