YOU REALLY WANT GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT BIDEN AND HARRIS' OPEN BORDERS?
Sanctuary California: Three-Time Deported Illegal Alien Charged with Double Murder in Stabbing Spree
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/you-really-want-joe-biden-and-la-raza.html
DO A SEARCH FOR HOW MANY AMERICAN (legals) MURDERED BY MEXICANS.
Masked Mass Murder
Five years since Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 innocents in San Bernardino, California.
On December 2, 2015, employees at the Inland Regional Center in
San Bernardino, California, were gathering for a holiday party when they heard
multiple popping sounds outside. Some thought it might be fireworks but the
center was under fire from Islamic terrorists Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen
Malik. The black-clad pair gunned down two victims then headed inside. A National
Police Foundation report provides a chilling account.
“Suddenly, a door swung
open and a person clad in all black, with a mask shielding his or her face,
stepped inside, wielding what appeared to be an automatic rifle. Without saying
a word, the person, now believed to be Farook, opened fire.” Then Tashfeen
Malik followed. “She also wore all black and entered the room shooting.
Together, the shooters fired more than 100 rounds.” The shooters then
“hastily departed, heading out to a black SUV they had parked just outside,
leaving behind a chaotic scene of noise, fear, and pain.”
In the ensuing chase,
Farook fired at least 81 rounds at the police, wounding one officer. Police
took down the terrorists with little collateral damage and inside the SUV they
found a trigger apparatus to detonate bombs the Muslims had planted at the
Regional Center, where they had already taken 14 lives: Robert Adams, Isaac
Amianos, Bennetta Betbadal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Juan Espinoza,
Aurora Godoy, Shannon Johnson, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Ngyen,
Nicholas Thalasinos, Yvette Velasco, and Michael Wetzel.
Isaac Amanios, 60,
immigrated from Eritrea to California in 2000 to escape
violence and repression. Bennetta Betbadal, 46, fled to America with
her family to “escape Islamic extremism and the persecution of Christians that
followed Iranian Revolution.”
On December 2, in his first
response from the White House, President Obama said it was
still an active situation and “we don’t yet know what the motives of the
shooters are.” In a December
6 statement, the president failed to mention a single victim and did
not name the shooters, both Muslims.
Farook was American and
Pakistani-born Malik held a green card but “we have no evidence that the
killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas,” or part of “a
broader conspiracy here at home.” In closing, the president said, “Muslim Americans are our friends
and our neighbors, our co-workers, our sports heroes,” as well as “our men and
women in uniform.”
California attorney
general Kamala Harris, in a December
17 statement, said “we must seek justice for those who lost their
lives in the recent attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.” The attorney general
failed to name any of the victims and her priorities seemed to lie elsewhere.
“Ultimately,” Harris
said, “not only is it immoral and contrary to our values to stoke fear and cast
aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American
Muslims, but it is also strategically unwise. This very community is a critical
ally in the short and long term fight combatting terrorism and radicalization
here at home and across the world.”
Harris was joined by
officials from the Muslim Public Affairs Council and CAIR, whose Los Angeles
director Hussam Ayloush said “Islamophobic and xenophobic rhetoric by certain
public figures has made Muslim communities an easy target for hate crimes.”
Attorney general Harris, Ayloush added, “exemplified leadership” by addressing
“the spike in hate crimes against American Muslims and other minorities.”
In a statement
one year later, Harris recalled “those who lost their lives and the
loved ones they left behind,” but named not a single victim or any of the
“brave first responders.” Those were the San Bernardino police, but the word
“police” does not appear. In similar style, Farook and Malik were not named,
and Harris does not mention their possible motive for “the tragedy that took
place.” Like the president, Harris hailed the Muslim community as an ally
against terrorism. In this case, it wasn’t.
Muslim convert Enrique
Marquez procured weapons for Farook and Malik, and in February of 2017, Marquez
pleaded guilty
to federal terrorism charges. Rafia Farook, mother of Syed, claimed
she knew nothing of his deadly plans, but she shredded a map her son had made
for the attack. As the U.S.
Attorney announced on March 3, 2020, Rafia Farook, agreed to
plead guilty to a one-count of “alteration, destruction, and mutilation of
records.”
Nothing has emerged about
members of the Muslim community attempting to stop the attack. Likewise, the
FBI only came into play after the jihadists had murdered 14 people. The mass murder could
well foreshadow what conditions would be like under a Biden-Harris
administration or the reverse. The FBI would look the other way at Islamic jihadists and
politicians would pass off terrorist mass murders as “tragedies” that simply
“took place,” with no connection to Islam.
Conditions would be the
same as under the “composite character” president David Garrow exposed in the
2017 Rising Star: The Making of Barack
Obama. He’s the president who called Nidal Hasan’s mass murder at Fort
Hood “workplace violence,” and said “the
future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of
Islam.”
The newly released A Promised Land hints that the
composite character expects to keep leading from behind and calling the shots.
What goes around comes around.
OPERATION
OBOMB: Barack Obama, Eric Holder and their bankster paymasters plan coup.
Barack Obama
was famous not wanting to leave office when his term was done and well known
for projecting a sense of entitlement to power.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/lawyer-barack-obama-and-his-attack-dog.html
Biden positions, after doing nothing, save for
the end, at best, to help Biden's presidential campaign, suggesting that the
hollow-victory Biden administration is just a placeholder for the return
of an Obama third term. It's a sign that Obama éminence grise is
more than a little active, behind the scenes as she always is.
“Obama’s new home in
Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said
that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the
“resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features lectures
by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
WHY DOES JOE BIDEN WANT TO
IMPORT THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS?
Biden has pledged a staggering 700 percent
increase in refugees from the most violent terrorist hotspots anywhere on
earth. RAYMOND IBRAHIM
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/murdering-muslims-every-day-these.html
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
promised on Wednesday that Muslim Americans would serve at “every level” of his
administration. In a video message to civil rights organization Muslim
Advocates, Biden repeated his pledge to repeal the Trump administration's travel
ban on his first day in office. The former vice president added that he
would push for legislation to fight a rise in hate crimes in the United States,
according to media reports. “As president, I'll work with you to rip the
poison of hate from our society, honor your contributions and seek your ideas,”
Biden said in the video address. “My administration will look like
America, Muslim Americans serving at every level,” he added. RAYMOND IBRAHIM
THE MUSLIMS KNOW HOW GOOD
OBOMB WAS TO THEM!
Biden’s Biggest Fundraisers
are Tied to Islamic Terrorists
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/why-do-muslim-terrorist-love-joe-biden.html
The Iran Lobby, the Pakistan Lobby, and the Muslim Brotherhood are
funding Biden.
“Of course, one
of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful and angry”
is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein
Obama was president for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
Vienna
terrorist posed with weapons before killing four in gun rampage: Police probe
social media images as it's revealed killer was jailed for trying to join ISIS
but freed early and deemed 'incapable of attack'
GRAPHIC IMAGES
EVEN AFTER THE SAUDI INVASION OF AMERICA 9/11 ARE WE SAFE FROM
MUSLIM TERRORIST?
Lessons
from the Fort Hood Terrorist Attack
Expect more “workplace violence” if a Harris-Biden-Obama
administration becomes a reality.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-anti.html
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Lessons
from the Fort Hood Terrorist Attack
Expect
more “workplace violence” if a Harris-Biden-Obama administration becomes a
reality.
November
5, two days after the election, marks the eleventh anniversary of Nidal Hasan’s
terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan’s murder of 13 Americans could easily
have been prevented, but the previous administration chose to look the other
way.
U.S.
Army Major Nidal Hasan came to the attention of the FBI for the 18 emails
he sent to terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki. Maj.
Hasan, a self-described “soldier of Allah,” wanted Awlaki’s permission to kill
American soldiers and innocent civilians in the cause of jihad. “Please keep me
in your Rolodex in case you find me useful,” Hasan wrote, “and please feel free
to call me collect.”
That
rang alarms at the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Diego, and agents
alerted the Washington Field office. The WFO response said: “Given the context
of his military and medical research and the content of his, to date,
unanswered email messages from al-Awlaki, WFO does not currently assess Hasan
to be involved in terrorist activities.” The FBI boss dropped the case and that
was a matter of policy.
President
Obama refused to link Islam with terrorism and on his watch the FBI focused on
Americans who advocated limited government and valued constitutional rights
such as the First and Second Amendments. Islamic terrorists took full
advantage.
On
November 5, 2009, at Ford Hood, U.S. soldiers were getting their final medical
checkups before deploying to Afghanistan. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army
psychiatrist, yelled “Allahu akbar” and began gunning down the soldiers. His
victims, all unarmed included private Francheska Velez, 21, who was
pregnant. The Muslim major killed two other women that day along with 10 men,
more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center
in 1993.
Hasan
also wounded more than 40 others, including Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford, who
played dead before fleeing the building. Major Hasan chased down Lunsford, an
African-American, and shot him seven times, including one bullet in the
back. Major Hasan shot Sergeant Shawn Manning in the chest and pumped four
rounds into Sgt. Patrick Zeigler. Hasan would have killed many more
if civilian police officer Kim Munley had not wounded the terrorist.
The
administration of POTUS 44, proclaimed the murder spree a case of “workplace
violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence. This rendered
Hasan’s victims ineligible for medals and other benefits related to combat. The
following April, the White House declined Sgt. Lunsford’s request to meet with
the president and explain the raw deal the government had dealt the Fort Hood
victims.
In
August, 2013, a panel of 13 military officers handed down a death sentence
for Hasan. The sentence has yet to be carried out, and Hasan remains an
enthusiastic supporter of Islamic terrorism. His case bears stark contrast to
FBI actions against Gen. Michael Flynn.
The
“composite character,” David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack
Obama did not want Gen. Flynn to become National Security
Advisor, least of all with Trump in the White House. So the president targeted
Flynn to facilitate action against Trump that would continue during his
presidency.
In
the course of his duties, Flynn came into contact with foreign nationals under
routine surveillance by U.S. intelligence. American citizens in such encounters
are normally redacted, but Democrats duly “unmasked”
the identity of Gen. Flynn and leaked the information to the
establishment media, a “10-year
felony,” according to former prosecutor Trey Gowdy.
Samantha
Power, Obama’s ambassador to the UN, made unmasking requests for Flynn on
November 30, 2016, and then on December 2, 7, and 14 – two requests that day –
and December 23. Power’s seventh unmasking request came on January 11, 2017, days
before Trump took office.
On
December 14 and 15 of 2016, CIA boss John Brennan made unmasking requests for
Gen. Flynn. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper put in requests on
December 12, 28, and again on January 7, 2017. FBI director James Comey
requested to unmask Gen. Flynn on December 15, 2016, and on January 12, 2017,
vice president Joe Biden made his request to unmask the general.
The
DOJ dropped the case against Flynn but judge Emmet Sullivan has now pushed the
case past the November 3 election, now in dispute. So Joe Biden might take
another shot at Flynn, under guidance from Biden’s former boss.
On
Tuesday November 17, Penguin
Random House will release A Promised Land, the
first of two volumes by former president Barack Obama. He will provide thoughts
on “how we can heal the divisions in our country going forward and make our
democracy work for everybody.”
The
addled Biden may give way to Kamala Harris who is already referring to the “Harris
administration.” Kamala or Joe, the author of A Promised Land and
the novel Dreams from
My Father clearly expects to call the shots.
Terrorist
mass murder may again be transformed into workplace violence. Nothing will
happen to the Democrats’ coup clan, and the FBI will again target those
deplorables who cling to their constitutional rights. As President Trump says,
we’ll have to see what happens.
Video:
Church Militant’s Exclusive Interview with Raymond Ibrahim on Islam and the
West
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/video-church-militants-exclusive-interview-raymond-raymond-ibrahim/
Biden Vows to Surrender to Iran, Then Negotiate
"Say it ain't so, Tehran Joe."
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares.
This was after 9/11.
Now, after decades of swimming in Iran Lobby cash, including in this election, Joe's got a plan. "Surrender first, strategy later."
President-elect Joe Biden established a sequence for how he plans to deal with Iran, and it starts with reentering the 2015 nuclear deal without conditions.
After reentering the deal, Biden told Friedman, the United States, “in consultation with our allies and partners, we’re going to engage in negotiations and follow-on agreements to tighten and lengthen Iran’s nuclear constraints, as well as address the missile program.”
Bound to work. Is this how Hunter used to negotiate with the Chinese? "I'll give you everything you want. Then we'll negotiate how much I get."
Somehow I don't think so.
But the media cheers this as normalcy restored and real leadership as the election fraud rolls on. The mullahs are certainly cheering and shouting, "Death to America".
That's also the motto of the Biden campaign.
'The Muslims Threatened to Kill Me'
The outrageous terror Christians experienced at the hands of Muslims in just one month.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article first appeared on the Gatestone Institute
The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of October, 2020:
Slaughtered Christians and Terrorized Churches
France: On October 29, a Muslim man wielding a knife entered the Notre Dame Cathedral of Nice and, while shouting “Allahu Akbar [Allah is greater],” beheaded a Christian woman and stabbed two others to death. According to one report:
“Married Nadine Devillers, 60, was the first person attacked by Tunisian knifeman Brahim Aoussaoui, 21, who slit her throat near the baptismal font. After he tried to decapitate Devillers [other reports state the beheading was complete], Aoussaoui hacked 54-year-old sacristan Vincent Loques to death as he prepared for the first Mass of the day. Brazilian-born Simone Barreto Silva, 44, was then stabbed multiple times but managed to escape the church, running to a nearby burger bar where she succumbed to her injuries. The mother-of-three’s last words to paramedics were: ‘Tell my children that I love them’. On arrival, French police shot Aoussaoui 14 times as he screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’ … a phrase he kept shouting even after being sedated and put into an ambulance.”
According to an interview with his mother, the 21-year-old murderer had “start[ed] praying and taking his religion more seriously a few months ago.” A Koran and several extra knives were found in his possession after the attack.
Hours after the attack, police shot and killed another man, who was also shouting “Allahu Akbar,” while threatening passers-by with a handgun in Montfavet. And two weeks earlier in Paris, an 18-year-old Muslim beheaded a teacher, Samuel Paty, for showing a cartoon of Muhammad as part of a discussion of free speech and expression in class.
Discussing the recent church attack, Nice’s mayor, Christian Estrosi, said “Enough is enough. It’s time now for France to exonerate itself from the laws of peace in order to definitively wipe out Islamo-fascism from our territory.” France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that France was “at war with Islamist extremism... an enemy that is both internal and external.”
Democratic Republic of Congo: On October 28, Islamic militants raided a village where they slaughtered at least 18 people “in an atrocious way,” and torched their church to the ground. “It really creates pain in our hearts, a total panic in the village,” said a local official. “We don’t know if tomorrow the ADF will come back here again.” ADF is an acronym for the Allied Democratic Forces, “an Islamist militant group” which has been terrorizing the Christian majority nation and slaughtering Christians for more than two decades.
Armenia: Armenian churches that have come under Azerbaijani control have been desecrated—despite promises from the authorities to protect them. In one instance, a soldier—unclear whether an Azeri or a jihadi mercenary from Syria or Iraq—was videotaped standing atop a church chapel, where the cross had been apparently broken off, and triumphantly shouting “Allahu Akbar!”
Days earlier, on October 8, the Azerbaijani forces shelled and destroyed Holy Savior, an iconic Armenian cathedral which was “consecrated in 1888 but was damaged during the March 1920 massacre of Armenians of the city by Azerbaijanis and experienced a decades-long decline.”
Syria: An unknown person hurled a grenade at an Armenian church in Hasakh; two people were injured. No group claimed the attack. Arguing that “Armenians have always been targeted in the region,” the report elaborates:
“In November of 2019, Armenian priest Hanna Ibrahim, and his father Ibrahim Hanna Bido were shot and killed by sleeper-cells on their way from Hasakah to Deir al-Zor in order to restore the Armenian memorial church in Deir al-Zor… This is a clear example of extremists groups specifically targeting religious Armenian figures and sites. That being said, the recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is likely to give added fuel to the fire when it comes to persecution of Armenians. Especially when you consider the claims that Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups are being sent to Azerbaijan.”
Austria: On October 29, a Muslim mob consisting of some 50 people entered and rioted inside a church in Vienna while screaming “Allahu Akbar.” Police acted fast and managed to disperse the crowd—much of which had gathered around the baptismal font and confessionals—and make some arrests. Discussing this incident, Integration Minister Susanne Raab remarked: “Parallel societies are the breeding ground for violence. We have to fight every form of extremism and Islamism right from the start in order to prevent it from getting worse. It is good that the police intervened....”
Two days later, on October 31, another Muslim man, a 25-year-old Afghan, stormed into St. Stephen’s Cathedral where he started to cry out “Islamist slogans.”
Italy: A “half naked,” 25-year-old Muslim man of North African origin broke into and terrorized a convent for nuns. According to the October 3 report, the man shouted “Allahu Akbar” several times while breaking down the front door of the Heart of Jesus Convent in the historic center of Mazara del Vallo. On entering, he turned the rooms where the nuns live “upside down” and hurled some of their property outside a window. Luckily, the nuns were not in their rooms but rather eating in the refectory; they eventually fled and hid outside the building. Due to all the “bustle and screams,” an Italian living near the convent alerted police, who arrested the Muslim as he tried to flee the scene. The same report states that a few weeks earlier, another North African migrant created fear and panic by screaming Allahu Akbar and pretending to be armed in the streets of Ferrara, Italy.
Mali: After spending nearly five years in captivity of an Islamic group, and after rejecting invitations to embrace Islam, Beatrice Stöckli, a Swiss missionary who had been evangelizing in Mali and assisting mostly women and children since 2000, was executed. Another French charity worker who was also abducted in 2016, converted to Islam during her captivity, and was released on October 8 shared this information. A later report offers more details:
“[Stöckli] was killed … by members of the Islamist terrorist organisation Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslim (JNIM). An affiliate of al-Qaeda in Mali and West Africa, JNIM has been responsible for numerous attacks on Christians and Westerners since its formation in March 2017. Beatrice Stöckli was kidnapped by armed men from her home in Timbuktu in northern Mali in January 2016. She had been previously abducted in April 2012 and endured nine days of torture and threats at the hands of jihadist group, Ansar al-Dine, before she was freed. On her release, she decided to return to Timbuktu to continue her missionary work.”
Armenia/Azerbaijan/Turkey: Although the region of Nagorno-Karabakh is ethnically Armenian, it was allotted to Azerbaijan after the dissolution of the USSR, causing problems since and culminating in open war throughout October. Several reports and testimonials, including by an independent French journalist, confirmed that Turkey was funneling jihadi groups that had been operating in Syria and Libya—including the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Hamza Division, which kept naked, sex slave women in prison—to this latest theater of conflict. Discussing why Turkey was so heavily involved, Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia’s prime minister, said Turkey had returned “to continue the Armenian Genocide.”
Anti-infidel rhetoric and logic also motivated the mercenaries funneled into the theater of war by Turkey. A captured one confessed that he was “promised a monthly 2000 dollar payment for fighting against ‘kafirs’ in Artsakh, and an extra 100 dollar for each beheaded “kafir.” (Kafir, often translated as “infidel,” is Arabic for non-Muslims who fail to submit to Islamic authority, which makes them enemies by default.)
Attacks on Converts to Christianity
Iran: On October 14, Mohammad Reza Omidi (Youhan), a Christian convert, received 80 lashes for drinking wine, as part of holy communion. As the report explains,
“It is illegal for Muslim Iranians to drink alcohol, but exceptions are made for recognised religious minorities, including Christians. However, Iran does not recognise converts as Christians. This lack of recognition is also the reason Youhan spent the last two years in prison and is now living in internal exile—because of his membership of a house-church, which is the only available Christian fellowship for converts in Iran.”
This is not the first time Youhan was whipped. He first received 80 lashes, alongside another convert, in 2013 and for the same reason: sipping wine during communion.
Somaliland: During an October 5 press conference, a Somaliland police colonel announced that a husband and wife had been arrested for being “apostates and evangelists spreading Christianity.” Police reportedly entered the couple’s house after being alerted by “suspicious activities.” On finding Christian materials inside their home, police apprehended and hauled away the couple, who have three children. During the same conference, the police colonel reiterated that “whoever dares to spread Christianity in this region, should be fully aware that they won’t escape the hand of the law enforcement officers and that the spread of Christianity will not be allowed and is considered blasphemy.” He further encouraged citizens to report on those they suspect of being Christian.
Somalia: On October 9, Muslim youths mauled and hospitalized the 7-year-old child of a Christian convert. “My son was attacked by three boys who beat him and injured his private parts,” the father, whose name is withheld, explained: “He suffered a swollen and injured face as well as an injured left hand from a knife. My son lost a lot of blood and was rushed by one of the secret believers to a nearby dispensary in Dhobley.” After explaining how his son, who spent three days hospitalized, “is still suffering the effects of the attack and needs specialized medication,” the father discussed how he and his family, which includes five children, have been on the run since 2012, when “Muslims [first] discovered my new faith in Christ.” Early on, his wife also converted and, when her Muslim father learned of it, “He was so furious he forcefully entered into my room and destroyed some of my belongings, beddings and utensils. Then he turned to my wife and began slapping her and beat her with a stick, which led to a miscarriage of a 6-month fetus.” The Muslim father seized his daughter, along with her husband’s possessions, and went to a distant location. Years later, after the convert and his wife, who had remained Christian, were reunited, in November 2018, “my father-in-law and other Muslims organized to kill me while I was coming from the market. Three men stopped me and started beating me with sticks and blows. I became unconscious.” In July 2019 his father-in-law again “entered my house and started quarreling and uttering abusive words and immediately began slapping her [his wife] in front of me, and then he took her away the second time and locked her in his house while she was eight months pregnant.” The husband reported the abduction and police eventually recovered his wife. “After three days, she gave birth. My father-in-law was locked down in the jail cell [in Kenya]. The Muslims threatened to kill me, so I requested the police to release him, which they did.” The family has since been still on the run:
“It is not possible to get justice in this part of Somalia where almost everyone is a Muslim. We are being hunted down like wild animals because of putting our faith in Issa [Jesus]. Always our security is at stake. We need prayers and financial support for the treatment of my son.”
General Hate for and Abuse of Christian Minorities
Pakistan: On October 13, Ali Azhar, 45, kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and “married” Arzoo Raja, a 13-year-old Christian girl. On that same day her parents registered a kidnapping case with local police. Two days later, on October 15, “we were summoned to the station,” explained her father Raja Lal, “where we were shown documents which claimed that Arzoo was 18 and had willingly converted to Islam after marrying Ali Azhar.” Despite the fact that the National Database and Registration Authority records Arzo as being born on July 31, 2007 and is therefore 13-years-old, and despite the fact that sexual intercourse with girls under 16 is statutory rape and carries a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison in Pakistan, on October 27, the High Court of Sindh ruled in favor of the kidnapper/husband by relying on a Sharia stipulation that abrogates all the rules for those who convert to Islam. According to the court order,
“The petitioner [the 13-year-old] initially belonged to the Christian religion. However, after the passage of time, the petitioner understood and realized that Islam is a universal religion and she asked her parents and other family members to embrace Islam but they flatly refused. Subsequently she accepted the religion of Islam before the religious person of Madressah Jamia Islamia. After embracing Islam, her new name is Arzoo Faatima; per learned counsel, petitioner contracted her marriage to Azhar of her own free will and accord without duress and fear.”
On hearing this decision, Rita Masih, the girl’s mother—who was apparently banned from entering the courthouse and who, with her husband, had fallen at and “even touched the feet of police to meet their daughter”— cried for her daughter with open arms outside the courthouse: “Arzoo, come to your mama. He will kill you.” She eventually fainted on the concrete. Earlier, when the girl saw and tried to go to her mother, her Muslim abductor/husband snatched and took her into the courtroom. Discussing this matter, Samson Salamat, the Christian chairman of an interreligious organization, explained how he was “distressed and disappointed with the position taken by the honorable court”:
“I am distressed and disappointed with the position taken by the honorable court. A sexual act with a minor is felony even if she is willing. The court has validated a rape despite the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014 that punishes contractors of child marriage with up to three years’ imprisonment. Can a judge, an army officer or a Pakistani politician tolerate handing over their minor daughter to a middle-aged man? What is the future of minority girls in Pakistan? Our courts favor the powerful. We still don’t have strong calls from a joint minority platform on forced conversions.”
This is the second forced conversion/marriage of an underage Christian girl in Karachi alone. In order to justify marriage to Huma Younus—a 14-year-old Christian girl who was also abducted, forced to convert to Islam, and wed to a Muslim man— on February 3, 2020 the Sindh high court in Karachi ruled that men may marry underage girls once they have their period, in direct compliance with Sharia, but against Karachi’s own laws. “Our daughters are insecure and abused in this country,” Huma's mother later remarked. “They are not safe anywhere. We leave them at schools or home but they are kidnapped, raped, humiliated, and forced to convert to Islam.”
Similarly, in August 2020, Maira Shahbaz, a 14-year-old Christian girl, escaped from the home of Mohamad Nakash—her kidnapper, whom the Lahore High Court had recently ruled is her legitimate husband despite her and her family’s objections. She fled to a police station, where she gave testimony, including on how she was being “forced into prostitution” and “filmed while by being raped,” with threats that the tape would be published unless she complies with the demands of her rapist/husband and friends. “They threatened to murder my whole family,” the girl said. “My life was at stake in the hands of the accused and Nakash repeatedly raped me forcefully.” She and her family are currently in hiding.
In a separate incident of “religious hatred” in Pakistan, a Muslim man and his son beat and humiliated a Christian woman in public for arguing with him. On October 12, Balqees Bibi, the Christian woman, called out in public to a relative—whose name is distinctly Christian—thereby angering Muhammad Abass Butt. “Abbas was [always] full of religious hatred against my mother,” her son explained. “He often expressed his anger against Christians in the street, but everyone ignored him to avoid disputes.” On that day, “Abbas started abusing my mother saying, ‘Oh choori! Shut your mouth!’ When she argued with him, he slapped her and dragged her into the street.” The report adds that
“Abbas was angry that Bibi, a person he considered socially lower than him due to her religious identity, had argued with him in public. As Abbas beat Bibi, he also used an extremely derogatory slur for Christians which labels them as untouchables. After the attack, Bibi and her family registered a police complaint against Abbas (FIR # 372/20). However, there [sic] police have yet to arrest Abbas or his son who reportedly joined his father in beating Bibi.”
Egypt: On October 3, Magda Mansur Ibrahim, a 20-year-old Christian, disappeared while traveling to her college. Three days after her parents contacted and pressured police and local officials to act, a video of the missing girl appeared on October 6. In it she claimed that she had secretly converted to Islam six years ago and had now married a Muslim man and therefore wished to be left alone. In an interview, however, her father said he was convinced that the video was made under duress. He also asked if it was reasonable to believe that a 14-year-old girl could be theologically attuned enough to secretly convert to and clandestinely practice Islam for six years within a Christian household. Moreover, “How am I to believe,” the girl’s father inquired, “this video when Rania ‘Abd al-Masih and the Alexandrian girl [Christine Zarif] both previously published similar videos and in the end they returned and we learned that they had acted under pressure?” (This is a reference to two other Christian women in Egypt who, after disappearing, also reappeared on videos as eager converts to Islam, only for the truth—that the videos were made under duress—to come out later.) The father then made an impassioned plea:
“As an Egyptian, I have rights—including the right to see my daughter and sit with her and make sure she is okay. If she wishes to follow another path [Islam], that is her right, but my right is to see her …. I therefore ask State Security, the Minister of Interior and President Sisi to look into [the plight of] my daughter because I know that she is not safe and is under pressure. I will never forfeit my daughter …. She is not some “chicken” I can forget about; she is my flesh and blood…. I am poor and at death’s door [literally, “God’s door”], but … even if they were to publish a million such videos, it is my right to see her. As for the video, I am a father and know well how my daughter talks, and she [appeared] terrified and her face changed. As the very least reflection of my rights as a citizen, State Security should move and investigate [the whereabouts] of my daughter. Is it that hard for the Egyptian police to return the girl?”
A few days later, Magda was reported as having been returned to her family. However, and as with the case of Ranya ‘Abd al-Masih, the 20-year-old’s return seems to be conditional on the family not asking questions, speaking to the press, pressing charges, or even knowing the responsible parties.
In a separate incident in Egypt, on October 5, Muslim mobs attacked Christian homes and beat their inhabitants in the village of Dabous in Samalout. “The cause of the story,” explained Mina, a Christian resident, occurred two days earlier, when “two Muslim men who don’t belong to our village beat a young Coptic kid [aged 10]. The Coptic men didn’t accept that,” and a fight erupted: Muslims—and their dignity—were injured. Two days later, “retaliatory” attacks began with one Muslim man striking a Christian father and his son with a hose while they were traveling on motorbike; they fell and were injured. By the end of that day, on October 5, “all of the Muslims gathered to beat the Copts,” said Mina. “They damaged the windows and doors, and injured around five or six persons.” Another local Christian man described the incident:
“The attack started with a Muslim woman screaming. The extremists attacked the Copts’ houses, [even though] there were security bodies whose job it is to protect the church. They did not call the police, but the Copts did. Then the police came, and the extremists escaped to the farms and grass.”
While discussing how a car belonging to a Christian man was destroyed, Mina said that village Muslims had promised to make amends, and that “my father has gone to the police station to follow the situation, but I will stay home. They are treacherous and traitorous.”
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