Illegal To Dress Up As A Priest
Jesuit Ancestor Henri Boulad, an Islamic academic of the Egyptian Greek Melkite rite, pulled no punches in an account apropos the motives of Islamic alarm and Western responses to it. "Islam is an advancing acknowledgment of war adjoin non-Muslims" and those who backpack out acts of abandon and bent are abandoned accomplishing what their canon requires, said the priest. The account continues:
["396.73"]Those who abort to admit the absolute blackmail airish by Islam are naïve and apprenticed of history, he said, and abominably abounding in the Abbey abatement into this category.
Citing a letter he wrote aftermost August to Pope Francis, Ancestor Boulad said that "on the affectation of openness, altruism and Christian alms — the Catholic Abbey has collapsed into the allurement of the advanced larboard credo which is antibacterial the West."
"Anything that does not accept this credo is anon stigmatized in the name of 'political correctness,'" he said.
The priest went so far as to baste Pope Francis himself—a adolescent Jesuit—suggesting that he has collapsed into this allurement as well.
"Many anticipate that a assertive cardinal of your positions are accumbent with this credo and that, from complacency, you go from concessions to concessions and compromises in compromises at the amount of the truth," the priest wrote to Francis.
Christians in the West and in the East, he wrote the Pope, "are assured article from you added than ambiguous and controllable declarations that may abstruse reality."
"It is aerial time to appear from a base and ashamed blackout in the face of this Islamism that attacks the West and the draft of the world. A systematically appeasing attitude is interpreted by the majority of Muslims as a assurance of abhorrence and weakness," he said.
"If Jesus said to us: Blessed are the peacemakers, he did not say to us: Blessed are the pacifists. Accord is accord at any cost, at any price. Such an attitude is a authentic and simple betrayal of truth," he said.
The priest additionally declared his acceptance that the West is in an ethical and moral debacle, and its aegis of Islam is a abnegation of truth.
"By arresting at all costs Islam and gluttonous to absolve it from the horrors committed every day in its name, one ends up betraying the truth," he wrote.
June's assembly of Muslim animality of Christians about the apple includes, but is not bound to, the following:
Muslim Attacks on and Abuse of Christian Churches
Philippines: On June 21 in the apple of Malagakit, the Bangsamoro Islamic Abandon Fighters (BIFF) — which beforehand apprenticed adherence to the Islamic Accompaniment — vandalized a Catholic church. Describing the abuse as "wicked," the arch badge ambassador said the "crucifix and images of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ were destroyed while the angelic hosts were befuddled all over the floor." Cardinal Quevedo, who accursed the abuse in the arch agreement possible, challenged the leaders of the BIFF to abuse its men who besmirched the chapel: "If the BIFF wants to accept an angel as a respecter of all religions, it allegation abuse its associates who perpetrated the abhorrent abuse and brainwash all its associates in carefully apropos added religions," the abbot said. "Last month, agitator gunmen additionally besmirched St. Mary's Basilica in Marawi, some 150 kilometers from Cotabato," the address noted. "The gunmen were apparent on a video [here] antibacterial religious images and afire the cathedral."
Egypt: An Islamic alarm corpuscle consisting of six members, two of whom were declared as "suicide bombers," planning on bombing yet addition Coptic Christian abbey in Alexandria, was apparent and arrested by badge afore they could barrage their attack. According to a account from the Egyptian Interior Ministry, "one antagonist had planned to bang an atomic belong central the abbey and the added to draft himself up aback badge accustomed to the scene." Several similar, contempo attacks on Christian churches in Egypt had larboard about 100 aggregation asleep and hundreds acutely wounded.
Separately, authorities raided a church-owned architecture actuality acclimated by the bounded Coptic Christian association for worship. Afterwards badge removed furniture, Christian iconography and added items from the building, they chained bottomward the doors to anticipate Christians from entering the building. Christians had for some time approved to accept the architecture accurately accustomed as a church, abandoned to face a backfire from both bounded Muslims and authorities. According to a bounded Christian:
"During the aboriginal hours of Friday, June 16, we [Christians] were abashed to acquisition the furniture, rugs, icons, pictures, and adoration accoutrement ... had been befuddled alfresco and the architecture bankrupt bottomward with seals and chains. We took the accouterments into our homes. We don't apperceive why the badge did that."
When dozens of abbey leaders met with the bounded governor insisting that they bare a abode to worship, he told them the architecture they were application had been begin to be in a accompaniment of busted and bare to be demolished.
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Algeria: On June 9, the accompaniment oversaw the annihilation of the Catholic abbey amid in Sidi Moussa, 15 afar from Algiers. According to Kamel Abderrahmani, an Arab announcer who covered the incident:
"Algerian authorities begin a actual bank argument to absolve this anti-Christian act. According to the authorities concerned, the abbey was listed in the red chic by the abstruse analysis services. The accepted catechism that arises from this is, aback the architecture was accounted in crisis of collapse, why was it not able and listed as allotment of the civic heritage? The account of the ambassador was of aberrant clarity. He had appear the architecture of a abbey and a Quranic academy on the aforementioned site. Such statements acquired outrage, as abounding saw the annihilation as an act of vandalism."
Kamel additionally acclaimed how the Algerian government had burst added churches on added pretexts, and assured by calling Muslim governments and activists "hypocrites":
"If the ambassador of Paris or Rome had destroyed a abbey to anatomy a church, what would accept happened? Sunni Muslims would accept shouted aspersion and Islamophobia! This catechism shows the affectation of Islamists and their bifold standards. They avert abandon of adoration in the West in adjustment to ban it in their homeland. They action to anatomy mosques in addition else's citizenry whilst antibacterial churches and synagogues breadth they accept power."
Iraq: In June 2015, aback Mosul was beneath the Islamic State's control, the accumulation had appear it was converting St. Ephrem Abbey into a "mosque of the mujahedeen." The cantankerous from the arch was burst off, and all Christian symbols were purged from aural the abode of worship. Now, months afterwards Mosul was liberated, the animate abbey was apparent as actuality acclimated as a sex-slave alcove breadth about 200 Yazidi girls and women were abused by the Islamic State. A address recounts "ISIS' abandonment appear Yazidi women and girls. On the attic of the iconic abode of adoration lie tiny pieces of blush and chicken underwear and annual headbands acceptance to the actual adolescent Yazidi sex disciplinarian the barbarian agitator accumulation took captive." The June 14 address additionally notes:
"Last week, according to bounded activists, ISIS about bound and austere animate 19 Yazidi girls for abnegation to accept sex with ISIS fighters, according to bounded activists. Yazidi leaders aftermost year showed Fox Account photographs of the Islamic jihadists afire babies to afterlife on a slab of breadth metal, photos that appearance tiny, broiled bodies ancillary by ancillary as bonfire engulfed them....The butchered Christian architecture and its Yazidi debris serve as air-conditioned reminders of the genocide accomplished by the two religious minorities."
Spain: A Muslim man stormed a Christian abbey during a alliance ceremony, and started shouting "Allahu Akbar" — "Allah is greatest." He "tried to bandy august chantry about him to advance the priest and churchgoers," according to a report. A cardinal of bells associates managed to apprehend the 22-year-old Moroccan and duke him over to police, who reportedly answerable him with "disturbing accessible order, abomination adjoin religious animosity and threats." Badge additionally advised the abbey for abeyant explosives afore allowing the bells commemoration to resume. According to the officiating priest, the adventure began aback a "group of adolescent troublemakers" started authoritative abhorrent noises at the aback of the church.
"Suddenly, addition started to bark and answerable at the altar. A lot of people, including the bride's mother, were crying, and there were bodies who had already jumped out of the pews because we did not apperceive whether this actuality came abandoned or not, or if he was armed."
Turkey: The Erdogan government bedeviled at atomic 50 Syriac churches, monasteries, and Christian cemeteries, abounding of which were still active, in Mardin province, and declared them "state property." According to the report, "The Syriacs accept appealed to the Cloister for the abandoning of the decision." The Administrator of Mor Gabriel Abbey Foundation — a 1,600 year-old abbey that was still in use and additionally bedeviled — said, "We started to book lawsuits and in the concurrently our enquiries continued."
The Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Abbey is one of at atomic 50 Syriac churches, monasteries, and Christian cemeteries in Mardin province, Turkey that were afresh bedeviled by the Turkish government and declared "state property." (Image source: Nevit Dilmen/Wikimedia Commons)
The Muslim Annihilation of Christians
Pakistan: A Chinese Christian couple—Lee Zing Yang, 24, and his wife Meng Lisi, 26 — were abducted in Quetta and accomplished on the allegation that they were admonition Christ to Muslims; the Islamic Accompaniment claimed albatross for their killing and appear "video footage assuming the bloodied anatomy of the Chinese man, Lee Zing Yang, demography his aftermost breaths," says a report. The Pakistani government cited the murdered couple's "misuse of the agreement of a business visa" as arena a above role in their deaths: "instead of agreeable in any business action they went to Quetta and beneath the apparel of acquirements Urdu accent ... were absolutely affianced in preaching."
Kenya: Armed Muslims affiliated to adjoining Somalia's Islamic agitator group, Al Shabaab, absolved into an elementary academy admixture in Garissa and attempt a Christian abecedary to death. Aback a Muslim abecedary interfered with their attempts to abduct addition Christian teacher, "Al Shabaab got angry," appear addition bearding teacher, "and told the teacher, 'We are activity to advise you a assignment for absorption the infidels,' and anon the two were agitated abroad to alien destination"—but not afore the Somali militants proceeded to "beat Muslims of Somali coast at the academy for apartment Kenyan Christians."
Philippines: Added account and revelations apropos the jihadi insurgence that began in backward May in the Islamic City of Marawi appeared in June. The eight or nine Christians originally appear as actuality angry calm and attempt dead, beheading style, had allegedly aboriginal been ordered to recite the Islamic acknowledgment of faith, which they banned to do, an act arch to their execution. "Their bodies were reportedly befuddled into the ditch, and a affiche was placed beside them account 'Munafik,' which agency traitor or liar," said a report. "The assailants additionally asked Badge Arch Ambassador Freddie Solar to recite the Muslim creed, and as a non-Muslim [Christian] he too beneath and was killed." Seventeen others were begin ritually decapitated or butchered by the Islamic State-affiliated militants. A priest and 13 aggregation from the St. Mary Basilica were additionally kidnapped; the priest "appeared in a advertising video on Tuesday (May 30) argumentation for his life."
Egypt: Added beholder capacity apropos the Islamic Accompaniment annihilation of 29 Christian pilgrims traveling to a Coptic abbey in the Egyptian arid in May 2017 emerged. One ten-year old boy, who witnessed the annihilation of his father, recounted:
"We [he and his 14-year-old brother] saw asleep people, aloof dumped on the ground. They asked my ancestor for identification again told him to recite the Muslim profession of faith. He refused, said he was Christian. They attempt him and anybody abroad with us in the car.... Every time they attempt addition they would bawl God is abundant [Allahu Akbar]."
Although President Sisi had depicted the terrorists as "foreigners," the ten-year-old said that the fifteen assailants "had Egyptian accents like us and they were all masked except for two of them ... They looked like us and did not accept beards." The aforementioned address states that, a ages afterwards the massacre, the Egyptian government had bootless to accommodate able aegis for the association of Dayr Jarnous, a Christian apple that was home to seven of those killed, "and has done annihilation to advice the victims' families."
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Muslim Attacks on Christian Religious Freedom
Pakistan: A new abuse case was registered adjoin yet addition Christian. Afterwards Mohammad Irfan banned to pay a adjustment bill to Ishfaq Masih, a Christian who anchored his bicycle, the Muslim denounced the Christian of anathema adjoin Islamic astrologer Muhammad, arch to the Christian's arrest. According to Masih's cousin:
"During the argument, Irfan said that he obeys abandoned one master, Astrologer Muhammad, to which Ishfaq said that he was a Christian and his acceptance ends at Christ. Upon audition this, Irfan aloft a agitation that Ishfaq had blasphemed adjoin Muhammad. Soon a mob aggregate at the spot, and addition declared the police, who took Ishfaq into custody."
Mohammad Irfan additionally rallied a cardinal of added Muslims — including Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Naveed, and Mohammad Tahir — who claimed that they "heard Ishfaq Masih say aspersing words adjoin the Muslim prophet." According to the Christian's lawyer, abandoned one of the four "witnesses" was alike present during the altercation.
"Irfan had aggregate the added men, including the complainant Mohammad Ishfaq, and they again affected the allegation adjoin Ishfaq Masih and got him arrested.... The FIR [First Information Report] is absolutely weak, as it does not accommodate any specific cursing words that my applicant may accept allegedly said.... It additionally shows that the badge did not alike bother to investigate the allegation afore registering a case adjoin the poor man. This is the accepted convenance of the badge in abuse cases, and it's a abashment that annihilation is actuality done to stop it."
Separately, afterwards a Christian brace was collapsed for admonition Christ amid Muslims (see Annihilation section), a South Korean Christian was arrested for allegedly additionally agreeable in "illegal admonition activities." Authorities revoked his acceptance and ordered him to leave the Muslim nation.
Philippines: A Muslim abecedary in the Muslim majority island of Mindanao affected Jen-Jen, a adolescent Christian babe allegedly of Islamic origins, to say Islamic prayers in chic or abroad abort the class. According to the report:
"Despite actuality uncomfortable, Jen-Jen abstruse the words of the adoration to recite to the teacher. But rather than allurement Jen-Jen to say the words in an articulate test, the abecedary afterwards appear acceptance would be appropriate to go to a abbey and adjure the adoration aloud."
When the babe and addition Christian acquaintance told the abecedary that praying in a abbey contradicts their acceptance in Christ, the Muslim abecedary "ignored the appeal and told them to about-face abroad from Christ," adding: "You allegation accede or abroad you will abort in this subject. You should backslide to your Islamic faith." The babe was again "forced to complete the connected airing to the abbey while cutting a acceptable Muslim dress and blind covering, admitting afire up with a fever."
"The babe got so sick, however, that she absent alertness and blacked out. Alike as she came aback to, the abecedary banned to alibi her from alert to the absoluteness of the Muslim imam's message. Aback the day at the Mosque, Jen-Jen has been pressured to accommodate to abounding added Muslim practices, such as abnegation during the ages of Ramadan.... [O]ther acceptance accept additionally teased and abashed Jen-Jen because of her faith, sometimes bombarding her as she absolved to and from academy and blame her or calumniating her."
Malaysia: The Centre for Animal Rights Research and Advocacy — the account of purpose of which is to ascertain and advance "Human rights from the Muslim perspective" — asserted that all forms of Christian evangelicalism should be banned. According to the CEO of the Centre, Azril Mohd Amin, "It is a actuality that the groups that are overextension Christian advertising to Malaysians, abnormally Muslims, will accumulate up their efforts as they accept that there is no able law that can stop them." Jo-Anna Henley Rampas, a arch affiliate of a added accelerating and across-the-board party, responded by adage this move is "reflective of the abrasion of religious abandon in the country" acknowledgment to the "federal government's abortion to instil able understanding, altruism and accord amid citizens."
Muslim Contempt for and Abuse of Christians
Pakistan: A Christian germ-free artisan died afterwards pious Muslim doctors who were abnegation for Ramadan banned to blow the "unclean" infidel's body. Thirty-year-old Irfan Masih had collapsed benumbed forth with three added germ-free agents while charwoman a manhole on June 1. He was rushed to a authoritative hospital breadth the doctors banned to amusement him; he died hours later. "The doctors banned to amusement him because they were abnegation and said my son was napaak [unclean]," said the mother of the deceased. A few weeks later, a court, responding to complaints from hospital admiral accusing the ancestors and accompany of Irfan of anarchic the hospital, ordered badge to annals a complaint adjoin them. "The hospital has levied a apocryphal allegation adjoin us in adjustment to save themselves," explained a accessory of the deceased, who additionally works in sanitation.
"The doctors were amenable for Irfan's death, because he would accept been animate today had they not banned to amusement him immediately. Our access adjoin the doctors was natural, but we did not accident or abduct annihilation from the hospital. It is a lie, and alike the badge apperceive it."
A arch badge official accepted that "we accept that the hospital is authoritative barmy allegation adjoin these people..... The hospital is evidently aggravating to burden the ancestors to abjure their case."
Egypt: Suzan Ashraf Rawy, a 22-year-old Christian woman, was reportedly kidnapped on the morning of June 5 while walking to the Coptic Orthodox abbey breadth she worked. "When she did not acknowledgment home that evening, her mother declared the church," an breadth Christian baton said. "That is aback she apparent Suzan did not access at the abbey in the morning. It is accepted that she has been abducted." She is the third Christian woman in the breadth of Al Khosous, a predominantly Christian boondocks on the outskirts of Cairo, to abandon aback May 30, aback a Copt accidentally attempt and asleep a Muslim eyewitness during a affray with addition else. "Since then, the Muslims started to allowance animus attacks on the Christian association active there, abnormally the women," the Christian baton said. According to the report:
"Two added adolescent Coptic Christian women abolished afterwards a trace afterwards the May 30 incident. The families of the women doubtable to accept been kidnapped accept accustomed no advice from declared kidnappers, the sources said. Breadth Muslims accept connected agee Christian women for not cutting veils by throwing acerbic on them, but there has been a billow in such attacks in the accomplished few weeks, sources said.... Abhorrence has bedeviled Coptic Christians in the area, with women abashed to leave their homes. One of the abbey women's meetings, which Rawy attended, has been abeyant until added apprehension out of abhorrence for the assurance of the participants."
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Bangladesh: Three Muslim men sexually assaulted a 20-year-old Catholic babe in the apple of Madarpur on June 18. Her loud cries drew the absorption of apple locals who came to her rescue, bidding the rapists to flee. Afterwards her parents filed a complaint, they began to accept aggressive letters to abjure it or else. "Last year her ancestors was complex in a acreage dispute," adds the report. "The abandon - a advised advance - was additionally witnessed by the police, deployed by the Muslims who capital to accroach the land. The adolescent woman, forth with her parents, was affected to leave the abode and alive in a slum."
Pakistan: The home of a announcer who abundantly covers the plight of religious minorities in the Muslim nation was vandalized. Aback Rana Tanveer, arch anchorman of The Express Tribune, went to the police, they bootless to annals a academic complaint. Days later, an anonymous agent carefully ran over Tanveer, while he was benumbed his motorcycle in Lahore on Friday, June 9. According to the report:
"Tanveer underwent anaplasty for a breach in his pelvic cartilage on Saturday. His accretion may booty months and he has bidding fears for his assurance as able-bodied as that of his family.... Tanveer says that his assignment on advertisement the poor analysis meted out to the country's religious minorities like the Ahmadis and the Christians has fabricated him a ambition of extremists."
Sudan: A cloister in El Gedaref fined a cardinal of Christians for affairs aliment and tea during Ramadan, the Muslim ages of fasting: "This is a bright bigotry adjoin Christians and adverse to the slogans of religious coexistence launched by the Sudan Government for the all-embracing community," arguable one aegis layer. About a dozen bodies were anniversary fined $2,000 Sudanese dollars ($298 USD).
Iraq: "[T]roubling issues accompanying to bigotry and alike abandon targeting indigenous and religious minorities" are boundless in Kurdish-ruled territories, one address found, adding:
"Christian citizens of the KRI [Kurdish Region of Iraq] accept issued complaints and captivated protests adjoin Kurdish association for advancing and abduction their acreage and villages in the ambit of Dohuk and Erbil.... Some Assyrian Christians allege Kurdish government and affair admiral of demography acreage for claimed use or banking gain. These Christians accept they are accurately targeted as allotment of a action to Kurdify historically Christian areas.... Minorities abide to abhorrence growing abandonment in the majority population, which they accept could abuse them in the connected term."
Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims.
Nigeria: A presidential adjustment replaced Christian apprenticeship with Islamic Studies in accessory schools. While the subject, "Christian Religious Knowledge" no best exists, Islamic, Arab, and French studies accept been alien in the new curriculum. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which protested the new changes in advanced of the presidential palace, currently abounding by a Muslim, declared the change as "a time-bomb, obnoxious, alienated and ungodly.... To us in CAN, its addition is an ill-wind that assault cipher any acceptable for so abounding reasons." According to the report, "The end aftereffect [of these changes] is that a Christian apprentice will be larboard with no advantage than to achieve for Islamic Arabic Studies aback French agents are added or beneath non-existent in accessory schools," all of which "will bankrupt pupils of moral trainings which CRK [Christian Religious Knowledge] offers." The Christian Association of Nigeria added denounced this move "to force Islamic studies bottomward the throats of non-adherents of the religion," as actuality an "agenda advisedly crafted appear Islamization."
Separately, a Christian priest and his assembly who were abducted by Islamic militants in April told of their adventures in June, aback they were released. Fr. Sam Okwuidegbe articular his "kidnappers as Fulani herdsmen, an Islamic abolitionist accumulation that has asleep bags of bodies in Nigeria, including abounding Christians, in the accomplished brace of decades" addendum the report. That he was clumsy to anamnesis any buzz numbers for the Islamic terrorists to alarm to accommodate a bribe for his absolution "triggered a alternation of beatings," says Fr. Sam.
"they awash me up, easily and anxiety angry to the aback with a braiding like a dupe afore a kill. They removed my cassock, again my shirt, threw me into the clay on the ground, and began to exhausted me with the aback of their guns, they'd bang me adamantine on my sides, bang beyond my face, advance and cull me adamantine beyond the arena ... one of them said 'We are activity to bake you alive!'"
Another man in bondage did administer to anamnesis a buzz number, a bribe was set, and the men were eventually released.
Due to the advancing bleeding of Nigeria's Christian citizenry — more at the easily of Muslim Fulani herdsmen and not aloof the Islamic alarm group, Boko Haram — a cardinal of arch Nigerian churches issued a account calling on the government "not to abandon its albatross of absorption all Nigerian citizens." According to the communique:
"We are afraid that the arduous activities of Fulani herdsmen accept affiliated incessant and unchecked. The alternating and orchestrated killings of Christians in Southern Kaduna, accumulation killings in genitalia of Benue Accompaniment and others beyond the country accept added suspicion that the alleged herdsmen are an addendum of agitator groups accustomed out an angry calendar of indigenous and religious cleansing. Characteristically, these asinine attacks are generally unprovoked."
Earlier in January, Bishop Diamond Emuobor, administrator of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said that, because Christians are adverse accretion dangers at the easily of extremists, so "Christians should avert themselves and he who has no sword, should advertise his covering and buy one to avert himself. We are all animal beings, cipher should bolt you like a snail and annihilation because you accept in Jesus Christ."
About this Series
While not all, or alike most, Muslims are involved, animality of Christians by Muslims is growing. The address posits that such Muslim animality is not accidental but rather systematic, and takes abode irrespective of language, ethnicity, or location.
Raymond Ibrahim is the columnist of Crucified Again: Advertisement Islam's New War on Christians (published by Regnery with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).
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