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Christians and Churches Attacked in the WestMuslim Persecution of Christians, September 2014

byRaymond Ibrahim

December 24, 2014 at 5:00 am

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"You have a cross on Do you know what we do to people like you?"

Muslim in Denmark.

Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way into the church, cut [the pastor],

his wife and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of

the three of them before setting the building on fire... We only found the

charred remains of the three of them in the morning. I heard them shouting

at the top of their voices, saying they must obliterate any traces of

Christianity in the town." Eyewitness account, Nigeria.

Each year, approximately 1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to

Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a case of this nature reaches thelaw courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often declare that

their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is

closed.

The Muslim persecution of Christians in September started making prominent appearances not just

in the Islamic world, but also in the Westin America, Australia and Europe.

In the United States, in Columbus, Indiana, three churches were vandalized on the same night. The

words most frequently sprayed were "Infidels!" and "Koran 3:151." The verse from the Koran states,

"We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve [or "infidels"] for what they have

associated with Allah [reference to Christian Trinity] of which He had not sent down [any] authority.

And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the residence of the wrongdoers."

Father Doug Marcotte of Saint Bartholomew's Catholic Church, one of those vandalized, said,

"There's a lot of bad stuff being done in the name of Allah and so when people see this happening in
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Columbus, whether that was truly the person's intent or there's something else going on, it makes

people nervous. It makes people upset. It makes them scared."

Meanwhile, in Australia, AAP reported that "Church-goers in Sydney's west have been left shaken

after a stranger shouted death threats from a car bearing the Islamic State flag. The car drove past

Our Lady of Lebanon Church at Harris Park on Tuesday and witnesses claim it had a flag similar to

those brandished by Islamic State jihadists hanging out the window." A church official said the

people in the car threatened to "kill the Christians" and slaughter their children:"They were strong

words and people were scared of what they saw." Witnesses saw a flag outside the window with the

words, "There is only one god and Muhammad is the prophet." And as happens frequently in

Muslim-majority nations, police security was later dispatched to patrol the Harris Park church while

hundreds partook of the mass inside.

People in a car bearing a jihadist flag verbally abused parishioners at the Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Sydney, Australia inSeptember, threatening to "kill the Christians" and slaughter their children.

In Denmark2013's "happiest country in the world"Christians of Middle Eastern backgrounds

continued to experience "harassment, verbal attacks and in some cases direct violence from

Muslims," reports TV2, especially in Muslim-majority areas, such as Nrrebro. One Christian, "Jojo,"

born in Denmark of Lebanese parents, shared her experiences. Once when sitting in her parked car,

several Muslims surrounded it, harassing her about her Western attire. When one of them noticed

she was wearing a cross, he said "Well, you have a cross onthenyou are also a Christian f***ing

whore.Do you know what we do to people like you? Do you know what we do to people like you?

You get stoned [to death]."

Another Christian woman of Iranian background recounted how she and her son are harassed on

the Muslim-majority block where they liveand where she stands out for not wearing ahijab, the
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Islamic veil: "My son is being called everything. I get called all sorts of things. Infidel. Filthy

Christians. They tell me I ought to be stoned to death. My son was beaten at the bus stop. He was

called pig, dirty potato (Muslim slang for Danes), and that 'you and your mother should die."'

Islamic dreams of conquering Europe were prevalent. A senior analyst in Spain warned that,

because Islamists see the Iberian peninsula as being "under Spanish and Portuguese

occupation,"greater risk of terrorism exists therethan in other Western areas. Because Iberiaor, in

Arabic, Al-Andaluswas under Islamic domination for centuries, many Muslims consider it part of

the Islamic world, or Dar al-Islam, which needs to be reconquered, no less than Israel, also seen as

occupied Islamic territory.

More pointedly, in the Islamic State [IS], in a lengthy message partially addressed to the

"crusaders"a reference to the Westsome members declared, "We will conquer your Rome,

break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah." Members of the IS also

invoked a statement attributed to Muhammad, that Constantinople would be conquered before

Romeand it was, in 1453. The implication was that the Eternal City of Rome would be next.

Around the same time, Rome responded by rejecting a motion to name a street after the late Oriana

Fallaci, a veteran journalist who had once written that, "the Muslim world is attempting to conquer

the West in the name of Islam." In explaining their decision, local politicians described Fallaci's

writings as containing "religious hatred," or "Islamophobia."

In Canada, while 80 special Muslims went to the trouble of attending a Muslim rally on behalf of

persecuted Christians, sadly, another rally, an extremist Al Quds Day Anti-Israel Hate Fest, drew

approximately 6,000 participants.

The rest of September's roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but

is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not

necessarily according to severity.

Muslim Attacks on Churches

East Jerusalem:A Christian church was attacked numerous times:On September 29, young

Muslim men, with ties to a Palestinian militant group, wired shut the door of the Living Bread Church

and sprayed a gaseous substance at those inside. An earlier gas attack had already occurred on

September 17. Hours before the second attack, someone threw a rock through one of the windows

of the church, and the day before that, Sunday, September 28, a Palestinian and others assaulted a

church member as he was emptying trash into a dumpster outside the church.

On Sept. 21, a Palestinian militant, without warning, ran up behind a church leader, Karen Dunham,

and knocked her to the pavement: "This guy charged me as fast as he could," she said. "He came

up behind me and just slammed into my back, and I fell and I hit the ground. My face is bruised.
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There's bruises on the side of my cheek, on my face, on my head, on my knee, cuts on my head,

and my wrist was fractured."

Egypt: A Christian priest in Egypt appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene on behalf

of yet another church being threatened by "religious extremists." So far, local authorities have done

nothing. Four years ago, the Coptic Church of St. Abram in Shubra al-Khaima received a permit to

build an additional building. During those same four years, seven "thugs"in thewords of the

reporthave prevented it from being built. The "thugs" had mobilized local Muslims to threaten and

demonstrate against the church. "The priest lamented that 'after suffering many long years' they

finally managed to acquire the permit to build, but then the next obstacle presented itself in the

person of the aforementioned seven 'thugs' who constantly harass, and incite Muslim mobs, against

the church, whenever it tries to exercise its right to build the services building. Islamic law forbids the

building of new churches or the renovation of existing churches."

Iraq: Islamic State militants "completely destroyed"the ancient Green Church in Tikrit. They packed

the church with explosives and detonated them --completely destroying the ancient church,which

belonged to the Assyrian Church of the East. Almost from the time it was built in the seventh

century, when Islam overran Iraq, the church had been attacked, ransacked, and destroyed by

Muslim rulers and others, but was restored on the orders of Iraq's late President Saddam Hussein in

the 1990s.

Nigeria: Many more churches and a Christian university,Kulp Bible College,were forced to shut

down as a result of the advances of the Islamic jihadi group, Boko Haram. In one instance, a pastor

reported that "Boko Haram violence has been getting worse every day, and our members are fleeing

the area by the thousands. Recent attacks in Borno and Adamawa states where our churches are

located have seen Boko Haram take over the Army base. As a result, about 350 Christians have

been killed."

Separately, in Kaduna state, where "Muslim Fulani assailants seem driven to rid the area of

Christianity and use the land to graze their cattle," according to church leaders, 46 Christians,

including two pastors, were slaughtered in raids. According to an eyewitness,

"Suddenly we heard sounds of gunshots around our village. The pastor was still in the pastorate

when the Muslim Fulani gunmen forced their way onto the church premises. They cut him, his wife

and a daughter with a machete, and then tied the hands and feet of the three of them before setting

the house on fire. The three of them were burned to ashes in the living room of the pastorate. We

only found the charred remains of the three of them the following morning.... The gunmen then came

onto the church premises and began shooting. I heard them shouting at the top of their voices,

saying they must obliterate any trace of Christianity in the town."

Although Muslim Fulani have historically had property disputes with Christian farmers, Christian

leaders say attacks by the herdsmen constitutea war "by Islam to eliminate Christianity" in Nigeria.
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Sudan: In the latest incident of a nearly two-year wave of church demolitions, closures and

confiscations,security agents padlocked a 500-member church building,the Sudan Pentecostal

Church [SPC] in Khartoum. The church also houses the Khartoum Christian Center (KCC). "The

church is concerned that the building might be sold by the government, which renders more than

500 worshippers to have no place for worship," a source told the Morning Star News. The Islamist

government appears to be seeking any pretext for closing churches, sources said. In this instance,

the space for the church was originally designated as "office space." But, as one source asked,

"How do you close a church building that has been in operation for 20 years in the name of the

church being meant for offices?" The church has a deed showing that it owns the building and

property -- a situation that raises the question of the government's right to sell it.

On June 30 bulldozersdemolishedthe Sudanese Church of Christ in the Thiba Al Hamyida area of

North Khartoum as church members watched, while security personnel threatened to arrest them if

they tried to block the bulldozers, church members said.

Syria: TheIslamic State destroyed the Armenian Genocide Memorial Churchin Der Zor, seen as the

"Auschwitz" of the Armenian Genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians perished in Der Zor

and the surrounding desert during the genocide. In the summer of 1916 alone, more than 200,000

Armenians, mostly women and children, were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Armenia's foreign

minister issued a statement calling the church's destruction a "horrible barbarity," and referred to the

Islamic State as a "disease" that "threatened civilized mankind." The church was built in 1989-90 and

consecrated a year later. A genocide memorial and a museum housing the remains of the victims of

the genocide were also located in the church compound. Thousands of Armenians from Syria and

neighboring countries gathered at the memorial every year on April 24 to commemorate the

genocide.

Pakistani Rape and Dhimmitude

Four young Muslims gang raped a 15-year-old Christian girland filmed it. The girl's father,

although he was threatened against filing a complaint, went to police, who confirmed the

existence of a video that corroborates the violence. The video will apparently be introduced

as evidence against the youths. A lawyer, Mushtaq Gill, issued a statement that, "Many

Christian girls continue to be victims of sexual assault by young Muslims, who go

unpunished" and that, "in this case there is also a video, flaunted as a trophy."

Two Christian women were abducted, forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men.Lawyer Mushtaq Gill said, "A Christian girl, Sairish, forced to marry a Muslim in 2009, in her

heart never abandoned the faith and continued to pray to Jesus Christ even after her

marriage. After a few years she found the courage to rebel against the situation and run

away.... Her life is now in danger because if she declares herself Christian, Muslims may

accuse her of apostasy and the punishment would be death." Each year, approximately

1,000 women in Pakistan are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men. Whenever a
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case of this nature reaches the law courts, those women, under threat and blackmail, often

declare that their conversion and marriage were decisions freely made, and the case is

closed.

Another Christian family fled their hometown, Lahore,to save their daughters from forced

conversion to Islam.According to the Justice and Peace Commission, the two sisters, aged

12 and 8, were studying in public schools, where learning to recite the Koran is mandatory.

Apparently, because the girls recited the shehada, the Islamic declaration of faith, "an

Islamic cleric, the father of a student stated that these girls had become Muslims and thus

needed to be taken from their Christian parents and entrusted to adult Muslims." The parents

pulled their daughters out of school, but then the headmaster and other Muslim teachers

"warned the parents to send them back to school, offering the family financial aid regarding

the school fees." The parents quit theirjobs and fled the region.

Police arrested 15 Christians and booked 45 other members of the minority community

under the blasphemy lawfor allegedly desecrating Muslim gravesin a village in Punjab

province. According to the AP, "The case was registered after a local cleric filed a complaintalleging that the Christians had desecrated over 400 Muslim graves to occupy the land in

Chak village in Faisalabad, about 150 kilometres from Lahore." Rights groups said it was a

spurious charge meant to prevent the Christians from acquiring the land. In fact, the

accusations werelater proven false.

Dhimmitude: Islamic Discrimination Against Christianity

Egypt:Iman Sarofim, a 39-year-old Christian mother of five, returned home to her familyafter being

kidnapped.Initially it was believed that she had voluntarily converted to Islam and fled her family to

be with a Muslim man. The woman contacted the family from Suez, where she had been brought bythe kidnapper. The return of the woman was celebrated by neighbors and relatives in the city of

Gabal al-Tir. Her disappearance had been the cause of clashes between Copts and police, who

believed the narrative that she had voluntarily left. In retaliation, police officers entered the homes of

dozens of Coptic families and violently arrested dozens of Christians. Separately, Ehab Karam,a

Coptic dentist, was killedafter he was abducted by unknown persons, most likely for ransom. The

kidnapping of Copts for ransom has evidently become a regular part of life in Egypt for Christians,

particularly in Upper Egypt. Last February, for instance, police dismantled a crime network that for

months had been organizing kidnappings, robberies and extortion against the local Coptic

community. "Unfortunately," said the Coptic Catholic Bishop of Assist, Kyrillos William, "the

phenomenon continues and there are no signs of improvement. Police operations are episodic andineffective, they are unable to solve the problem."

Iraq:The Islamic State decreed thatall schools in Mosul and the Nineveh Plainwhich bore Christian

names, some since the 1700s, must be changed. Also, the teaching of the Syriac language and

culture and Christian religious education has been abolished. Reports indicate that the Islamic State
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took these moves "in order to erase all traces of cultural and religious pluralism in the conquered

areas and turn schools into propaganda tools of jihadist ideology among the new generations."

Saudi Arabia: In the Eastern Province city of Khafji, "religious police," or agents from the

Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,raided a house where at least 27

Christians,mostly expatriates from various Asian nationalities, were gathered. The Christians,

including children, were accused of practicing Christianity in a house church, and were arrested and

detained overnight. Authorities also confiscated musical instruments and copies of the Bible. The

house had been placed under surveillance after a citizen reported that his Indian neighbor had

converted his home into a Christian church. After witnessing a large number of individuals enter the

home, officers raided the house. The only religion allowed to be practiced in public in Saudi Arabia is

Islam. In the land of the prophet, no public places of worship for non-Muslims are permitted to exist.

Turkey:According to the Armenian magazine,Agos, many of the primary and secondary education

books being used for the current school year stilldescribe the Armenians and other Christian

communities as enemy forcesat the service of foreign powers, including Russia and England, after

the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. One eighth-grade history book tries to whitewash the

Armenian genocide, which is portrayed as a "necessary deportation," never as a massacre.

Uzbekistan: Security forces reportedly raided the home of Pastor Stanislav Kim in Chirchik, 20 miles

northeast of Tashkent, the capital. They detained 11 teenagers and three adults, who had gathered

there for a volleyball game, and questioned them for more than four hours before releasing them.

Officials also searched the pastor's home andconfiscated a New Testament, a Bible, several other

Christian books,more than 100 slides of hymns, as well as some computer equipment. Voice of the

Martyrs, which says there are at least 65 unregistered congregations scattered throughout

Uzbekistan, said in a statement, "Please pray that this pastor and his son will not face fines, but will

soon be acquitted of any perceived wrongdoing. Ask God to strengthen each believer who was

present during this unwarranted raid so that they will not give in to governmental intimidation and

pressure, but instead be emboldened to serve our Lord faithfully."

About this Series

While not all, or even most, Muslims are involved, persecution of Christians is expanding. "Muslim

Persecution of Christians" was developed to collate someby no means allof the instances of

persecution that surface each month.

It documents what the mainstream media often fails to report.

It posits that such persecution is not random but systematic, and takes place in all languages,

ethnicities and locations.
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Raymond Ibrahimis author ofCrucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War in Christians(published

by Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).

Previous reports

August, 2014

July, 2014

June, 2014

May, 2014

April, 2014

March, 2014

February, 2014

January, 2014

December, 2013

November, 2013

October, 2013

September, 2013

August, 2013

June, 2013

May, 2013

April, 2013

March, 2013

February, 2013

January, 2013

December, 2012 November, 2012

October, 2012

September, 2012

August, 2012

July, 2012

June, 2012

May, 2012

April, 2012

March, 2012

February, 2012 January, 2012

December, 2011

November, 2011

October, 2011

September, 2011

August, 2011
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