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"Islamic! Islamic!"Muslim Persecutions of Christians, April, 2015

byRaymond Ibrahim

June 20, 2015 at 5:00 am

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6001/islamic-persecution

He could hear from inside his room where he was hiding the gunmen opening

doors and inquiring if the people inside were Muslims or Christians.

"The motorbike riders got down from their bike and started beating [Christian

journalist] hamim Masih and... warned him that if he did not stop reporting on

Christian issues! the knew his famil and home and would teach him and his

famil a lesson." # $a%ir . &atti! 'akistan Christian Congress 'art.

"The cit of Mosul alone had () churches. $ow there is not a single one. The

buildings ha*e been destroed. +our hundred churches ha*e been destroed in

ria. ... The same is happening in $igeria! 'akistan! and $orthern ,frica." #

'atriarch -irill of Moscow and ,ll ussia

"/hat happened to Christians in 0raq and ria... does not recei*e ,rabic media

co*erage that befits human beings! whate*er their religion." # Hani

$aqshabandi! audi writer.

Islamic State Slaughters Christian Ethiopians

Just two months after the Islamic State [IS] published a video depicting its membersslaughtering 21

Coptic Christians in Libya, on Sunday, April 19, the jihadi Islamic groupreleased another video of

more Christians in Libya -- approximately 30 Ethiopians -- disparaginglyreferred to by an IS

spokesman as "worshippers of the cross" -- being butchered for not paying jizya, extortion money

demanded of the "People of the Book" who refuse to convert to Islam, according to Koran 9:29.

Some of the Christians were shot execution-style in the back of their heads, the others had their

heads carved off, like the Copts before them.

The IS spokesmanfurther addressed "Christians everywhere":

We say to Christians everywhere, the Islamic State will expand, with Allah's permission. And it will

reach you even if you are in fortified strongholds. So whoever enters Islam will have security, and

whoever accepts theDhimmahcontract [subjugated, third-class treatment and social status] will have

security. But whoever refuses will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear. The men will be killed

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and the children will be enslaved, and their wealth will be taken as booty. This is the judgment of

Allah and His Messenger.

In a statement, the Coptic Christian Church of Egypt pointed out that the Ethiopian martyrs, like the

21 Copts before them, were "murdered purely for refusing to renounce their faith."

Al Shabaab Murders 147, Separates Muslims from Christians

On April 2 in Kenya, gunmen from the Somali Islamic group, Al Shabaab -- "the [Islamic] youth" --

stormedGarissa University, singled out Christian students, and murdered them, beheading some. A

total of 147 people were killed in the attack -- making this jihad more "spectacular" than the 2013 Al

Shabaab attack on theWestgate Mall in Nairobi, which left 67 people dead (then too, Islamic

gunmensingled out Christians for slaughter).

Islamic gunmen werecareful to separate Christians from Muslims before beginning the carnage,

eyewitnesses said. (While Kenya is 83% Christian, it still has an 11% Muslim minority.) Collins

Wetangula, vice chairman of the student union, said he could hear, from inside his room where he

was hiding, the gunmen opening doors and inquiring if the people inside were Muslims or Christians.

"If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun I thought I was going

to die."

Al Shabaab has a long history of singling out Christians from among Muslims for slaughter

(here are four examples). Other jihadi groups, includingBoko Haram and theIslamic State, also

make it a point to select out Christians before slaughtering them -- a fact often omitted by the

"mainstream media."

Egyptian Churches under Attack

On April 5, as Coptic Christians were celebrating Palm Sunday, achurch was attacked in Alexandria,

Egypt. Gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on the church during the night, injuring a police officer and

two civilians.

On April 12, Easter Sunday according to the Orthodox calendar,two explosions targeting

churches took place in the Zagazig area. One car explosion took place near a Coptic Orthodox

church and another bomb exploded near the Evangelical Church in the same area. Although no

casualties were reported, large numbers could have easily resulted, based on precedent. For

example, on January 1, 2011, as Egypt's Christians ushered in the New Year, car bombs went off

near the Two Saints Church in Alexandria, resulting in 23 dead worshippers and dozens critically

injured.

Muslims rioted because President Sisi had agreed that Copts could build a church in Al-Our, where

13 of the 21 Christians beheaded by the Islamic State had grown up, and where their families still

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live. Local Muslims arose in violence soon after Islamic prayers on Friday, April 3. They shouted that

they would never allow a church to be built, that "Egypt is Islamic!" By nightfall, Molotov cocktails and

stones were thrown at another Coptic church, cars were set ablaze -- including one belonging to a

relative of a man decapitated by the Islamic State -- and several people were injured.[1]

A day later, on April 4, Muslims rioted and attacked the Christians of the village of Gala', Samalout

district. After waiting for years to repair their dilapidated church (see pictures), local Copts finally

received all the proper permits to begin restoration. Soon Coptic homes, businesses and persons

were attacked with hurled rocks. Christian-owned farms were destroyed and their crops uprooted.

Islamic slogans were constantly shouted, including "There is no god but Allah" and "Islamic! Islamic!"

After waiting for 44 years, the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in the city of Sohag, finally received the

necessary permit to build a new church. Muslims rioted andburned down the tent the Christians had

erected to worship under. The Christians of Nag Shenouda were forced to celebrate Easter in the

street (picture here). When one of them tried to hold a worship service in his home,a Muslim mob

attacked him and his household.

More Islamic Attacks on Christian Churches

Syria: The Islamic State destroyed at least three churches under its control:

On Easter Sunday, the Islamic Statedestroyed the Virgin Mary Church -- an Assyrian church built

and consecrated in 1934 -- in Tel Nasri, northeast Syria. Tel Nasri, loosely translated as "Christian

Hill," is one of the dozens of Assyrian Christian villages along the Khabur river; all were attacked and

occupied by the Islamic State in late February (morehere andhere).

On April 28, the St. Odisho Assyrian Church in Tel Tal, and the St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in

Aleppo, were also destroyed.

Nigeria: A Muslim mob set fire to a church in a Christian village in Nigeria's northern Kano State on

April 1. Muslims were searching for a young man in order to kill him; he had renounced Islam and re-

converted to Christianity. The mob with machetes also attacked Christian villagers, torched the home

of a pastor, and killed one of his daughters. According to a local official, General Dikko:

The church and all the properties were burnt down in the presence of the Christian community

despite all pleadings for them to stop the destruction. The arsonists gathered cornstalks and put

them inside the church in order to cause greater damage.... We have the right to belong to any

religion of our choice and live anywhere in this country. We call on the authorities at all levels to rise

up to their responsibilities of protecting lives and properties of every citizen in this country.

Pakistan: Two assailants on motorbikesopened fire on the main gates of a church and Christian

school in Lahore; in the crossfire, two passersby were injured.

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Malaysia: On Sunday, April 19, a Muslim mob of approximately 50 people rioted and

protestedagainst a small Protestant church in the capital of Kuala Lumpur The object of their wrath

was thecross atop the building of worship. Members of the mob said that the cross, the central

symbol of Christianity, represented "a challenge to Islam" and could "influence the faith of young

people." The cross was removed.

More Muslim Slaughter of Christians

High Seas: On April 16, during a recent crossing from Libya, Muslim migrants threw as many as 53

Christians overboard, according to police in Sicily. Thereported motive was that the victims

"professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim." Anotherreport said that the reason

the Christians were thrown overboard is because a boy was seen praying to the Judeo-Christian

God. Muslims commanded him to stop, saying "Here, we only pray to Allah." Eventually the Muslims,

in the words of a witness, "went mad," and started screaming, "Allahu Akbar!;" then began hurling

Christians into the sea.[2]

Nigeria: "All 276 Christian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 may have been among a

group of women slaughtered by Boko Haram last month [March], Nigerian media reported Monday,

April 6,"[3] according to a "U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights."

Syria: Islamic rebels fired rockets at a Christian neighborhood in Aleppo on the night of April 10-11.

The attack left massive destruction in the eastern section of the predominantly Assyrian and

Armenian Sulaymaniyah district. At least 40 people, mostly Assyrians -- including women and

children -- were killed. An Assyrian Catholic Cathedral was also shelled, injuring three civilians. "Our

Easter feast has turned to grief," a nun in Aleppo said: "Some people woke up to find themselves

without a home and others did not see the life died under the rubble because they were victims of

violence."

Egypt: A Muslim man repeatedlystabbed a Christian woman with a knife, then threw her body into a

canal. The Coptic woman, Gamila Basilious, 48-years-old and married, lived in Minya. According to

police reports, the man, Mahmoud Hassan Abdulhamid, came to her door inquiring about her

husband. When he discovered her husband was not present, he took advantage of the situation by

attacking her with a knife, repeatedly stabbing her neck and chest. As "infidels," Coptic Christians

are regularly attacked in Egypt. The attacks include kidnapping, church attacks, and random

slaughter.

Islamic Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytization

Uganda: Five Muslim men gang-raped and beat a Christian pastor's 17-year-old daughter. The

attacks were reportedly done in "retaliation" for the pastor's refusal to stop Christian worship services

in a Muslim-majority region. The girl was approaching the New Hope Church building where her

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father serves as pastor when she was abducted and taken to nearby bushes by the rapists. In her

words:

The five Muslims took hold of me, and they raped me there. I tried to scream, but they threatened to

kill me. One of them said, "Your father should stop this prayer meeting of trying to change Muslims to

become Christians and close the church building — we have warned him several times.

The suspects fled when church members arrived for an all-night prayer vigil. They rushed her to a

local clinic, where she was treated for serious injuries and mental trauma. According to her father,

"The girl still has problems communicating. She just says a few words and then keeps quiet. She

needs trauma counseling." Earlier, the father had received messages threatening him and

demanding he cease holding Christian worship services. One text message said, "Be you informed

that we do not want your church in this area. If you continue worship here, then you will live to regret

it."

Bangladesh: A Muslim mobattacked a former Muslim and his wife for converting to Christianity. The

couple was attacked while coming home after being baptized. The man was slapped across the face

by a Muslim imam in front of the convert's two young children. The Islamic mob further broke the

fence of the new Christians' family home and said they would chase the "apostates" out of the village

for leaving Islam. The man who baptized the couple was also attacked, beaten by the mob at his

home, and later lost his job.

Egypt: Gad Yunan, a Coptic Christian teacher, and five of his Coptic students were arrested on the

charge of "contempt of religions." Their "crime" was to have made a 30-second video on Yunan's

iPhone, poking fun at the Islamic State -- which Egypt's Muslims and authorities apparently equate

with making fun of Islam, even as Muslims in the West insist that IS has "nothing to do with Islam."

Yunan was "banished" from his village of al-Nasriya in an effort to appease local Muslims; they had

reacted to the video with violence, including pelting the homes and businesses of Christians with

stones. According to Khamis, Yunan's brother: "I don't see any insulting of Islam in the video. They

were joking and making fun of Daesh (the Arabic acronym for IS), not Islam. My brother didn't intend

to insult the Islamic religion." [4]

Ethiopia: Gemechu Jorgo and Sheikh Amin -- two men who weredistributing Bibles in Ethiopia's

Melka Belo region -- were arrested. Islamic law bans the advertisement and dissemination of any

religion other than Islam. While imprisoned, both men endured harassment and physical abuse by

authorities. At one point, Jorgo reminded District Administrator Jamal Adam of his constitutional right

to practice his Christian faith freely. In response, the Muslim administrator used Jorgo's Bible to slap

him in the face three times. Amin, formerly a Muslim sheikh and prayer leader of a mosque, is a

recent convert to Christianity. While in prison, officials persistently pressured the apostate to

renounce Christ and return to Islam. He refused. Both men were eventually released. Ethiopia is a

Christian-majority nation, although Muslims make up about one-third of the population.

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Uzbekistan:Reports appearing in April told of the harassing, jailing and fining of several Christians

for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief. One of the prisoners of conscience -- Council

of Churches Baptist Doniyor Akhmedov -- was fined more than three years' official minimum wage

after his release from 15 days in jail. Other prisoners of conscience to be jailed for short periods

include a Protestant in Bukhara, who received seven days' imprisonment for "illegal" religious activity,

and another Protestant, who received 10 days' jail time for "teaching religion illegally." Their identities

remain anonymous for fear that they might suffer further reprisals. Nine more Protestants were fined

for "illegally storing" Christian literature and materials. Their homes were raided by police, who

confiscated Christian books, CDs and DVDs. "Religious minorities face tight scrutiny in Uzbekistan

as they are unable to openly practice their beliefs without facing major penalties such as jail terms or

heavy fines," Forum 18 News reported.

Dhimmitude: Generic Violence and Hostility against Christians

France: On April 15, 215 Christian gravestones and crosses in the cemetery of Saint-Roch de

Castres (Tarn) weredamaged and desecrated (pictures here). The man responsible was later

arrested.According to the prosecutor, Charlotte Beluet: "The suspect, arrested at 12:45 on Thursday,

matches the description given by a witness, a cemetery employee, who came across the man

dressed in a white djellaba [Arab/Muslim garb], and followed him... The man repeats Muslim prayers

over and over, he drools and cannot be communicated with: his condition has been declared

incompatible with preliminary detention." He was hospitalized on the assumption that he is "mentally

unbalanced."

Iraq: The Islamic Statepublished pictures of its members destroying Christian tombstones and

crosses in cemeteries under its control, including Mosul's oldest Christian cemetery near the Syrian

Orthodox Cathedral. IS quoted Islamic scriptures justifying its actions. Several jihadi websites posted

these pictures. Some include Islamic State members using sledgehammers to destroy gravestones

and efface the crosses carved on them.

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An Islamic State member is shown destroying a Christian tombstone in Mosul, Iraq, in April 2015 !Image source" M#M$I%

Bangladesh: On Easter day, a Catholic Christian village made up of tribal Khasia people

wasattacked by Muslims. The Muslim owner of a tea plantation, Syed Ara Begum, along with a

Muslim mob, attacked the Christian village as its population was celebrating Mass. The plantation

owner is reportedly seeking to seize the Christians' land. Apparently after hearing the cries of his

flock, Fr. James Kiron Rozario ran to the site of the attack. Once there, the crowd of Muslims

attacked him with a knife, seriously wounded him and threatened to kill him. The Muslim mob went

on to steal items worth almost $4,000. They also destroyed Bibles, crosses, holy pictures, musicalinstruments and homes; and randomly killed chickens and goats. According to Msgr. Bejoy N.

D'Cruze OMI, Bishop of Syleht, "We live in fear. ... We want justice and security for our priests and

our faithful. We hope that the government will find a peaceful solution and that our people can live

free from tensions.... They [Catholic Khasia] are a very peaceful community but often fall victims of

the Bengali [Muslim] majority."

Pakistan:

On the morning of April 17, suspected Islamic gunmen opened fire on St Francis High School, a

Catholic school founded in 1842 in Lahore and long considered one of the finest schools in the city.One student and two security guards were injured and taken to hospital. Although the motive behind

the attack has yet to be established, Christian lawyer Sardar Mushtaq Gill, a prominent Christian

rights official in Pakistan, said in a statement that this "new attack witnesses the deterioration of the

situation of Christians in Pakistan and spreads even more fear."

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On March 29, Shamim Masih -- a Christian reporter exposing Muslim persecution -- wasattacked in

Islamabad by two men on a motorcycle. According to the leader of the Pakistan Christian Congress

party, Nazir S. Bhatti "The motorbike riders got down from their bike and started beating Shamim

Masih.... [They] broke his arm and warned him that if he did not stop reporting on Christian issues,

they knew his family and home and would teach him and his family a lesson." As usual, police failed

to register the incident. In the words of Bhatti: "as Shamim Masih is a Christian journalist... the police

and administration are not paying any attention or interest to investigate this incident."

On April 1, Islamic militants shot and wounded the brother of the Christian lawyer and activist Sardar

Mushtaq Gill. This is the latest attack on Gill and his family by Islamic militants, apparently angered

at him for criticizing the controversial blasphemy laws -- an excuse routinely used to attack Pakistan's

Christian minority. According to the human rights official, "Pervaiz Gill [his brother] suffered a bullet

wound to his lower back, and was rushed to Jinah Hospital in Lahore where it was removed."

However, "the police is not arresting the shooter," publicly identified as Muhammad Bilal; "Our life

remains under threat if the shooter is not arrested." Last August, Gill's home was sprayed with

bullets during the night, for the second time.

Syria: Since the city of Idlib fell to Islamic rebels on March 28, its Christian inhabitants have been

attacked, and a 57-year-old Greek Orthodox priest,Ibrahim Farah, head of the Greek-Orthodox

parish dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was kidnapped. As of last reports, Farah, who chose to remain

in the city and tend to other Christians unable to flee, was awaiting a "trial."

Encouraging Words, No Actions

Because the Muslim persecution of Christians is growing exponentially, more Christian and political

leaders are beginning to mention it, although there is no commensurate response. During a Mass in

April,Pope Francis said that today's Church is a "Church of martyrs." He continued:

In these days how many Stephens there are in the world! Let us think of our brothers whosethroats

were slit on the beach in Libya [by the Islamic State]; let us think of the young boy who wasburnt

alive by his; let us think of those migrants thrown from their boat into the open sea by other migrants

because they were Christians; let us think — just the day before yesterday — of those Ethiopians

assassinated because they were Christians... and ofmany others. Many others of whom we do not

even know and who are suffering in jails because they are Christians... The Church today is a

Church of martyrs: they suffer, they give their lives and we receive the blessing of God for their

witness.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia -- who oncewrote a letter to Barack Obamabeseeching the

president to reconsider his foreign policies that enable the persecution of Christians in Syria --spoke

again of the threat of Christian extinction in the Mideast:

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I regularly get reports of horrible crimes that are committed there against Christians, especially in

northern Iraq. I have visited those places and I remember that there were many churches and

monasteries there. The city of Mosul alone had 45 churches. Now there is not a single one. The

buildings have been destroyed. Four hundred churches have been destroyed in Syria... Now

Christianity is the most persecuted religion. The same is happening in Nigeria, Pakistan, and

Northern Africa.

According to Saudi novelist and writer, Hani Naqshabandi, "Our religious institutions do not give us

room to exercise free thought... They [Saudi institutions] said that the Christian is an infidel, a

denizen of hell, an enemy to Allah and Islam. So we said, 'Allah's curse on them.'" He also stated the

little-known fact that "Christians are in need of protection ... What happened to Christians in Iraq and

Syria, and further regions like Algeria, does not receive Arabic media coverage that befits human

beings, whatever their religion."

Even United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron, regularly criticized for being too soft on

Islamists, said the following remarks during hisEaster message:

We have a duty to speak out about the persecution of Christians around the world too. It is truly

shocking that in 2015 there are still Christians being threatened, tortured, even killed because of their

faith. From Egypt to Nigeria, Libya to North Korea. Across the Middle East Christians have been

hounded out of their homes, forced to flee from village to village; many of them forced to renounce

their faith or brutally murdered. To all those brave Christians in Iraq and Syria who practice their faith

or shelter others, we will say, "We stand with you."

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 some — by no means all — of 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.

[1] According to a local priest and Coptic spokesman, the Muslim assault on a Coptic Christian

church proposed to be built, with President Sisi's permission, to honor the 21 Coptic Christians who

were slaughtered by the Islamic State in Libya, was all too typical and a reminder that Islamic Sharia

sentiment continues to trump the sovereignty of the Egyptian state. During aninterview he said:

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First, what happened is that, when we make a decision for the church but then cannot implement this

decision [to build the church] because some of the Muslims do not want it, because they don't want

the church—this is, first and foremost, a failure of the state and its authority and a failure of the rule

of law. When a group comes to oppose [with violence, several Copts were injured], and the police

leaves them free, this is like a disease that will spread everywhere.

Today, for example, there is a decision, but there are say 3-4 Brotherhood or Salafis opposing it, and

the government appears protesting with them—in this case, you have given everyone who wants to

oppose [with violence] the opportunity to oppose.

[2] According to the Associated Press:

Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in the high seas assault, which they

learned of while interviewing tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in Palermo

Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by the ship Ellensborg.

The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred, police said in a statement.

The survivors said they had boarded a rubber boat April 14 on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers

aboard, part of the wave of migrants taking advantage of calm seas and warm weather to make the

risky crossing from Libya, where most smuggling operations originate.

During the crossing, the migrants from Nigeria and Ghana — believed to be Christians — were

threatened with being abandoned at sea by some 15 other passengers from the Ivory Coast,

Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau.

Eventually the threat was carried out and 12 were pushed overboard. The statement said the motive

was that the victims "professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim."

The surviving Christians, the statement said, only managed to stay on board by forming a "human

chain" to resist the assault...

[3] The influential newspaper,This Day, cited Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein as saying that "The recent

recovery of territories in northeastern Nigeria has brought to light macabre scenes of mass graves

and more obvious signs of killings by Boko Haram." He cited various reports obtained by his office in

Geneva which "include the murder of the wives of combatants, women and girls actually held inslavery."

[4] One Coptic shop owner told of the wild reaction of Muslims after they found out about the video:

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There were three or four marches in different places in the village, as our village is a very big village.

They were chanting slogans against Christians and Christianity. They were chanting: "With our souls

and blood, we will defend you, oh Islam! We will not leave you; we will take revenge for you!"

They were pelting Christian homes with stones, pounding threateningly on doors and windows,

attacking shops owned by Coptic Christians. They destroyed the door of my shop and they destroyed

a photo studio owned by the father of one of the boys.

For three days we were living in terror and panic. We stayed in our homes and our children didn't go

to their schools. We also couldn't go to church to attend the masses for [Coptic] Holy Week.

Another local Copt described how his home was attacked:

On Thursday evening (9 April), the Muslim demonstrators attacked our home. They pelted it with

stones and insulted us. They were shouting, "Oh kafirs (infidels), we can't let you live here. We will

oust you from our village." They also stole the windows from our home.... We were unable to go to

the church during these events. Also, we didn't go to the church on Saturday to attend the Easter

mass. Until now, we have been staying at our homes and are afraid that the attacks against us will

be renewed.

Raymond Ibrahim is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War in Christians(published by

Regnery in cooperation with Gatestone Institute, April 2013).

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