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December 3, 2010
Re: Islamists Targeting Christians 'Wherever They Can Reach Them'
Topics: Political News and commentariesRaymond Ibrahim, in his piece at PJM providing an "understanding the recent carnage in Baghdad, wherein Islamists killed over fifty Christian worshippers":
In 2006, when Pope Benedict quoted history deemed unflattering to Islam, Christians around the Muslim world paid the price: anti-Christian riots ensued, churches were burned, and a nun was murdered in Somalia. That was then. Days ago, when a Christian in Egypt was accused of dating a Muslim woman, twenty-two Christian homes were set ablaze, to cries of "Allah Akbar." Countless other examples of one group of Christians in the Muslim world being "punished" in response to other Christians exist.As Ibrahim goes on to point out, the phenomenon of "attacking one set of Christians, or non-Muslims in general, in response to another" is nothing new among Islamists ... and has roots in Islamic law. It is a reminder of yet another troubling aspect of Islamic doctrine and history to be added to offensive jihad (obligation to wage war against the infidels), taqiyya (deceit to gain advantage over perceived enemies of Islamic law or to avoid persecution), wala wa bara (disloyalty to all things non-Muslim, including the American people and their government), etc. ... that is alive and well in the 21st century. Treating one set of non-Muslims as hostages, to be abused as a form of retaliation to their coreligionists ... "far or near, singly or collectively " - another tactic to assume leverage against the infidel.In fact, the recent carnage in Baghdad, wherein Islamists stormed a church during mass, killing over fifty Christian worshippers, was a "response" to Egypt's Coptic Christian church, which Islamists accuse of kidnapping and torturing Muslim women to convert to Christianity. (Ironically, the well documented reality in Egypt is that Muslims regularly kidnap and force Christian women to convert to Islam: these accusations are part of a new trend whereby Islamists project their own crimes onto the Copts.) And the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamists who perpetrated the Baghdad church massacre have further threatened Christians around the world:
All Christian centres, organisations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets for the mujahedeen (holy warriors) "wherever they can reach them" ... Let these idolaters [Christians of the world], and at their forefront, the hallucinating tyrant of the Vatican [Pope Benedict], know that the killing sword will not be lifted from the necks of their followers until they declare their innocence from what the dog of the Egyptian Church is doing.Of course, the clause "wherever they can reach them" is an indicator that it is the Islamic world's Christians who will especially be targeted -- since they are most easily reached.
Take the time to read the entire article ...
Posted by Richard at December 3, 2010 11:12 AM
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