MUSLIMS RESPONSIBLE FOR 'WORST YEAR IN MODERN HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION' --- not an American concern. take your war with Islam home to israel, zioboy.
On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 2:18:43 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262036/muslims-responsible-worst-year-modern-history-raymond-ibrahim > > > > *Muslims Responsible for 'Worst Year in Modern History of Christian > Persecution'* > > The driving force behind 82% of the world’s persecution of Christians. > > March 7, 2016 > > *Raymond Ibrahim* <http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/raymond-ibrahim> > > [image: Description: > http://www.frontpagemag.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/uploads/2016/03/ws.jpg?itok=JFQf3F34] > > *Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom > Center.* > > Open Doors, an organization that advocates for persecuted Christians, > recently released its *latest World Watch List* > <https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-watch-list/north-korea/>—a > > report that highlights and ranks the 50 worst nations to be Christian. It > found that 2015 *was* > <http://www.religionnews.com/2016/01/13/2015-worst-year-christian-persecution-says-open-doors/> > > the “worst year in modern history for Christian persecution.” > > Who claims the lion’s share of this unprecedented persecution? Muslims—of > all races, nationalities, languages, and socio-political circumstances: > Muslims from among America’s closest allies (Saudi Arabia #14 worst > persecutor) and its opponents (Iran #9); Muslims from economically rich > nations (Qatar #21) and from poor nations (Somalia #7 and Yemen #11); > Muslims from “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan #4) and from > “moderate” nations (Malaysia #30 and Indonesia #43); Muslims from nations > rescued by America (Kuwait #41) and Muslims from nations claiming > “grievances” against the U.S. (fill in the blank __). > > The report finds that “Islamic extremism” is the main source of > persecution in 41 of the top 50 countries—that is, 82 percent of the > world’s persecution of Christians is being committed by Muslims. As for > the top ten worst countries persecuting Christians, nine of them are > Muslim-majority—that is, 90 percent of nations where Christians experience > “extreme persecution” are Muslim. > > Still, considering that the 2016 World Watch List ranks North > Korea—non-Islamic, communist—as the number one worst persecutor of > Christians, why belabor the religious identity of Muslims? Surely this > suggests that Christian persecution is not intrinsic to the Islamic world > but is rather a product of repressive regimes and other socio-economic > factors—as the North Korean example suggests and as many politicians and > other talking heads maintain? > > Here we come to some critically important but rarely acknowledged > distinctions. While Christians are indeed suffering extreme persecution > in North Korea, these fall into the realm of the temporal and aberrant. > Something as simple as overthrowing Kim Jong-un’s regime could lead to a > quick halt to the persecution—just as the fall of Communist Soviet Union > saw the end of religious persecution. The vibrancy of Christianity in South > Korea is suggestive of what may be in store—and thus creates such fear > for—its northern counterpart. > > In the Islamic world, however, a similar scenario would not alleviate the > sufferings of Christians by an iota. Quite the opposite; where dictators > fall (often thanks to U.S. intervention)—Saddam in Iraq, Qaddafi in Libya, > and ongoing attempts against Assad in Syria—Christian persecution > dramatically rises. Today Iraq is the second worst nation in the world in > which to be Christian, Syria fifth, and Libya tenth. A decade ago under > the “evil” dictators, Iraq was ranked 32, Syria 47, and Libya 22. > > The difference between Muslim and non-Muslim persecution (e.g., communist) > of Christians is that the latter is often rooted in a particular regime. > Conversely, Muslim persecution of Christians is perennial, existential, and > far transcends this or that regime or ruler. It is part and parcel of the > history, doctrines, and socio-political makeup of Islam—hence its tenacity; > hence its ubiquity. > > Moreover, atheistic communism is a relatively new phenomenon—about a > century old—and, over the years, its rule (if not variants of its ideology) > has greatly waned, so that only a handful of nations today are communist. > > On the other hand, Muslim persecution of Christians is as old as Islam. *It > is a well-documented, even if suppressed, history* > <http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/> > . > > To further understand the differences between temporal and existential > persecution, consider Russia. Under communism, its own Christians were > persecuted; yet today, after the fall of the USSR, Russia is again > reclaiming its Orthodox Christian heritage. > > North Korea—where Kim Jong-un is worshipped as a god and the people are > shielded from reality—seems to be experiencing what Russia did under the > Soviet Union. But if the once mighty USSR could not persevere, surely it’s > a matter of time before tiny North Korea’s walls also come crumbling down, > with the resulting religious freedom that former communist nations have > experienced. (Tellingly, the only countries that were part of the USSR that > still persecute Christians are Muslim, such as Uzbekistan, #15, and > Turkmenistan, #19.) > > Time, however, is not on the side of Christians living amid Muslims; quite > the opposite. > > In short, Muslim persecution of Christians exists in 41 nations today as > part of a continuum—or “tradition”—that started nearly 14 centuries ago. > As I document in *Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians* > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1621570258&linkCode=as2&tag=uhurnetw-20>, > > the very same patterns of Christian persecution prevalent throughout the > Muslim world today are often identical to those from centuries past. > > A final consideration: North Korea, the one non-Muslim nation making the > top ten worst persecutors list, is governed by what is widely seen as an > unbalanced megalomaniac; conversely, the other nine nations are not > dominated by any “cults-of-personalities” and are variously governed: > including through parliamentarian democracies (Iraq), parliamentarian > republics (Pakistan and Somalia), one-party or presidential republics > (Eritrea, Sudan and Syria), Islamic republics (Afghanistan and Iran), and > transitional/disputed governments (Libya). Looking at the other Muslim > nations that make the top 50 persecutors’ list and even more forms of > governments proliferate, for example monarchies (Saudi Arabia #14). > > The common denominator is that they are all *Islamic* nations. > > Thus, long after North Korea’s psychotic Kim Jong-un has gone the way of > the dodo, tens of millions of Christians and other “infidels” will continue > to suffer extreme persecution, till what *began in the seventh century > reaches fruition* > <http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/08/31/how-the-islamic-world-was-forged-an-exercise-in-common-sense/> > > and the entire Islamic world becomes “infidel” free. > > Confronting this discomforting and better-left-unsaid fact is the first > real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of > Christians around the world. > > Unfortunately, however, while some are willing to point out that > Christians are being persecuted around the Muslim world—*why* that is the > case, *why* 82% of the world’s persecution is committed by Muslims from a > variety of backgrounds and circumstances—is the great elephant in the room > that few wish to address. 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