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France: Muslims Incensed After French City Closes Street For Jewish Holidays

09/09/2013 9 comments

Shutting down streets all across France every week during Friday prayers is a-ok for these Muslims, but closing down one street in one city during the Jewish High Holidays is an outrage …

Muslims Shut Down Street In Defiance Of French Law

Muslims Shutting Down Street In Defiance Of French Law

The Times of Israel – “The French city of Metz closed a street to vehicular traffic for the High Holidays season, provoking angry reactions from some Muslims.

Rabbin Bloch Street was closed on the afternoon of Sept. 6, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, and will reopen at the close of Yom Kippur, the night of Sept. 14, according to the website of TCRM, the public transport company of the Messine region.

The website cited ‘the Jewish holidays’ for closing the street, which has several Jewish institutions located there.

Metz, which is some 40 miles northwest of Strasbourg in eastern France, had a Jewish population of approximately 4,000 in 1987, according to the Encyclopedia Judaica. The Jewish community established itself in the city in the 16th century.

Some Muslims said the street closure reflected a double standard in the attitude of French authorities to Jewish and Muslim sensibilities in applying separation of church and state.

One of France’s leading Muslim news sites, islametinfo.fr, published an editorial on Friday saying that although ‘it is normal for residents to respect the wishes of others in special moments,’ the closure at Metz ‘begs comparison’ with a ban imposed in 2011 on street prayers by Muslims in Paris.

The street prayers at Barbes were the result of overcrowded conditions at the local mosque.

Marine Le Pen, leader of the ultranationalist Front National, compared the prayers to ‘the occupation’ — a reference to the Nazi occupation of France.” Source – The Times of Israel.

Flashback: France: Hundreds Of Muslims Defy Street Prayer Ban In Paris – “Hundreds of Muslims defied a French ban on outdoor prayer — which came into force Friday –and took to the streets and sidewalks of Paris to pray. The French government announced Thursday it was banning praying outside, with officials pledging to enforce the ban from Friday. But 200 Muslims ignored the ban and prayed on the streets in the neighborhood of La Goutte d’Or, Le Parisien newspaper reported.” Read more.

Flashback: Old Fuhrer, New Furors: Muslim Clerics In France Refer To Jews As ‘Pigs’, ‘Cancer’, ‘Filth’, ‘Microbes’, ‘Vermin’ – “In France almost every week synagogues are firebombed, kosher butchers are attacked, Jewish men are assaulted by youths taunting ‘Palestine kills the Jews’, Jewish schoolgirls are beaten by criminals jeering ‘Jews must die’, Jews are stoned leaving Sabbath worship and Molotov cocktails are hurled at Jewish cultural centers. Sometimes Jews are also gunned down in broad daylight.” Read more.

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Syria: Rebels Attack Christian Homes, Churches, Many Feared Dead, ‘Convert To Islam Or You Will Be Beheaded’

09/08/2013 14 comments

Revelation 13:15, “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.”

Here’s an update on Friday’s report of forced conversions out of Maaloula. As of today, the Christian village has now been officially captured by Islamist rebels after government forces have been forced to retreat. Residents are reporting that Christian homes and churches have been attacked by Islamsts, now numbering as many as 1500 in the town of only 3000. Christians have been shot and killed, and others are now being threatened to either convert to Islam, or be beheaded …

Revelation 20:4b, “And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

By Jamal Halaby, Associated Press – “Rebels including al-Qaida-linked fighters gained control of a Christian village northeast of the capital Damascus, Syrian activists said Sunday. Government media provided a dramatically different account of the battle suggesting regime forces were winning.

It was impossible to independently verify the reports from Maaloula, a scenic mountain community known for being one of the few places in the world where residents still speak the ancient Middle Eastern language of Aramaic. The village is on a UNESCO list of tentative world heritage sites.

The rebel advance into the area this week was spearheaded by Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front, exacerbating fears among Syrians and religious minorities about the role played by Islamic extremists within the rebel ranks.

It was not immediately clear why the army couldn’t sufficiently reinforce its troops to prevent the rebel advance in the area some 45 kilometers (25 miles) from Damascus. Some activists say that Assad’s forces are stretched thin, fighting in other areas in the north and south of the country.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said Jabhat al-Nusra backed by another group, the Qalamon Liberation Front, moved into the village after heavy clashes with the army late Saturday. He said around 1,500 rebels are inside the town.

‘The army pulled back to the outskirts of the village and both (rebel groups) are in total control of Maaloula now,’ Abdul-Rahman said.

He said pro-government fighters remain inside the village, in hiding.

Initially, troops loyal to President Bashar Assad moved into Maaloula early Saturday, he said, ‘but they left when rebels started pouring into the village.’ Now, Abdul-Rahman said, the army is surrounding the village and controlling its entrances and exits.

A Maaloula resident said the rebels, many of them sporting beards and shouting [Allahu akbar], attacked Christian homes and churches shortly after moving into the village overnight.

‘They shot and killed people. I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village,’ said the resident, reached by telephone from neighboring Jordan. ‘So many people fled the village for safety.’

Now, Maaloula ‘is a ghost town. Where is President Obama to see what befallen on us?’ asked the man.

Another resident who fled the village of 3,000 inhabitants earlier in the day said in a telephone interview that Assad’s forces deployed on the outskirts of the village, while gunmen inside refused to allow anybody in.

He said the gunmen declined to allow fleeing people to take five dead bodies out of the village with them.

He said one of the churches, called Demyanos, had been torched and that gunmen stormed into two other churches and robbed them.

Most of the gunmen are foreigners, he said, adding that he heard different dialects, mainly of Tunisians, Libyans, Moroccans and Chechens.

Another resident, a Christian man, said he saw militants forcing some Christian residents to convert to Islam. ‘I saw the militants grabbing five villagers Wednesday and threatening them (saying): `Either you convert to Islam, or you will be beheaded,” he said.” Read more.

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Australia: Muslim Father Tells Daughter She Must Never Play With Non-Muslim Kids

09/07/2013 27 comments

As a devout Muslim, he was simply obeying one of the many hateful central commandments of his “savior” …

Qur’an Sura 5:51, “O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them …”

The Indian Express – “A Muslim man in Australia asked his daughter not to play with non-Muslim children, saying that it is ‘haram’.

The Federal Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Victoria, heard that the girl had refused to play with another, fair-haired ‘non-Muslim’ girl during a visit to a family counsellor.

The girl reportedly said ‘Baba says it is haram’, as she explained to her mother that she was not allowed to play with non-Muslim children, the Herald Sun reports.

Federal Magistrate Philip Burchardt said the father was clearly a loving parent but ‘he did not appear to have an understanding of his daughter’s developmental needs’.

Burchardt ordered that the child will live with her mother and would spend time with the father every second weekend.

‘Furthermore, his conduct in seeking to alienate (the girl) both from the non-Muslim component of the Australian community and from her mother and grandmother is very disturbing,’ Burchardt said.

The father however denied telling his daughter who she could play with.

‘He denied being in the business of telling the child that it was forbidden or otherwise bad to play with non-Muslims, but the evidence of (the family counsellor) makes it plain that he does,’ Burchardt added.

The father, who is a devout Muslim, also complained to the family counsellor about his ex-wife’s dressing style.

Although he denied using denigrating words to describe his ex-wife, Burchardt said his denials were dishonest.” Source – The Indian Express.

Flashback: ‘Advance Australia’ No More

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‘Frightening’: Danish Firefighters Suffering Daily Attacks By Muslims In ‘Immigrant’ Neighborhoods

09/07/2013 28 comments

And, from the sound of it, the problem started becoming particularly worrisome in the aftermath of 9/11 …

Qur’an Sura 9:5, “… fight and slay the Pagans [non-Muslims] wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) …”

By Poul Erik Andersen, Den korte Avis (Translation) – “Firefighters saving lives and buildings when disaster occurs do it today at the risk of their own lives and health. Not so much because of the flames, but because they are assaulted while performing their vital functions in society.

Stone throwing, ambushes and petrol bombs are now commonplace when firefighters today respond to gradually more and more settlements and neighborhoods dominated by immigrants.

‘It is a frightening and disastrous development that we are experiencing, particularly in [Muslim] areas such as Vollsmose Tingbjerg and Gellerup. For firefighters, it is an unnecessarily stressful factor that could ultimately cost lives,’ chairman of the fire fighters union organization, Jesper Bronée, tells Den korte Avis…

Many firefighters have not escaped injury during their life-saving work without both physical and psychological harm, and now the fire fighters organization have identified the problem.

‘We do not have specific figures on either the extent of the problem in terms of the number of assaults during calls nor of the physical and psychological damage that firefighters have suffered after being attacked while on duty’ …

Jesper Bronée adds that many firefighters today are walking around with both physical and psychological scars after being attacked while performing their work…

Significant development of attacks on firefighters have gained momentum, particularly in the last 10 to 12 years, states Jesper Bronée…

Today, there is someone in every doorway and on street corners with stones and other weapons waiting for us … It’s scary. We’re going to save lives, and this is all we’re thinking about. The fact that we’re suddenly being attacked is something completely alien to our culture.'” Read more.

Flashback: The Lion’s Denmark

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‘Life Is Worthless Here’: ‘Religion Of Peace’ Bombs Kill At Least 15 People In Somalia Restaurant

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“Because they hate to see people peacefully spending time together” …

Isaiah 48:22, “‘There is no peace,’ says the LORD, ‘for the wicked.’”

The Guardian – “A car bomb and suspected suicide bomber have killed at least 15 people in two explosions at a restaurant in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, local police said.

At least another 20 people were wounded in the bomb attacks on the Village restaurant, Captain Ali Hussein, a senior police official, said on Saturday.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts but suspicion will likely fall on the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida affiliate which has carried out a campaign of suicide bombings since African Union forces forced it to withdraw from the city in 2011.

Mohamed Yusuf, a spokesman for the Mogadishu authorities, said: ‘First a car bomb exploded at the entrance of the restaurant, and when people converged inside a suicide bomber blew up himself.’

Isaq Hassan, a car washer who lost a colleague in the blasts, said: ‘This disaster never comes to an end.’ Pointing to dead bodies on the ground, he added: ‘See this, that and this! Life is worthless here.’

The restaurant, which was popular with government officials, was owned by a Somali businessman, Ahmed Jama, who had returned to his home country from London to set up the business. Militants, also thought to be from al-Shabaab, had previously targeted the restaurant in November. Only one person was killed in that attack by suicide bombers.

‘They attack the restaurants because they hate to see people peacefully spending time together,’ said Mohamed Abdi, an interior ministry employee at the scene. ‘They are committed to obliterating any sign of peace. Because of such attacks, it’s very hard for the government to restore security in the near future.’

In the biggest attack so far this year, in June al-Shabaab assaulted the main UN compound in Mogadishu, killing at least 22 people.” Source – The Guardian.

Somalia: Death And Hell Follows, For The Cause Of Allah …

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Muslim Cleric Praises Boston Bombers As Models For Children, Says Islam Needs Children Who Will Be Slaughterers

09/07/2013 2 comments

For peaceful purposes. Because Islam is, after all, the “Religion of Peace” …

Luke 17:1-2, “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones [children] to sin.’”

Right Side News – “Abu Dhar Al-Burmi In a recent article published in Issue 13 of Turkestan Al-Islamiyya, the Turkestan Islamic Party’s journal, an Al-Qaeda Abu Dhar Al Burmicleric praised the Boston Marathon bombing’s Tsarnaev brothers.

The cleric, Abu Dhar ‘Azzam, has appeared in many videos by Al-Qaeda affiliates, under the name Abu Dhar Al-Pakistani or Abu Dhar Al-Burmi.

‘Azzam begins his article by lamenting what he presents as the catastrophic situation of children in the Muslim world, who he says are targets for killing in Afghanistan, Burma, India and elsewhere. He faults the Muslim nation for neglecting its children not only physically but also culturally, by failing to give them a proper Islamic upbringing that will make them good believers and fighters for their religion.

He writes: ‘If we neglect the jihadi, ideological and spiritual upbringing of the new youngsters and the new generation, history will not forgive us, and the disgrace of this treason will not be erased from our foreheads. The ummah is in dire need of children [who will be] slaughterers and fighters of the infidels and the devils – children who will be ascetics by night and knights by day, children who will fight the infidels and the leaders of polytheism…’

This opening brings Abu Dhar to present the Tsarnaev brothers as a model of the kind of jihad fighters that the next generation of Muslims should be raised to emulate. He writes: “This city of Boston, where Iblis [Satan] practices, is the city from which the movement to liberate America from Great Britain began.

In the very house of unbelief, two Chechen brothers destroyed the infidels’ fortresses on April 16, 2013. During the [ensuing] search [by the authorities for the perpetrators], the elder brother died as a martyr in the field of glory and honor, Allah willing. The younger brother, Dzokhar, remained, and told his dear nation: ‘We did this operation as revenge for what America does in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan.’ …” Read more.

Flashback: Al-Qaeda: ‘Raise Your Children In The Cult Of Jihad And Martyrdom … Instil In Them A Love For Religion And Death’ – “The wife of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has congratulated Muslim women for the role they have played in the Arab Spring and urged them to raise their children for jihad… ‘I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death,’ she wrote.” Read more.

Flashback: Mohammed Morsi: We Must Nurse Our Children And Grandchildren On Hatred – “One American president after another — and most recently, that Obama — talks about American guarantees for the safety of the Zionists in Palestine. (Obama) was very clear when he uttered his empty words on the land of Egypt. He uttered many lies, of which he couldn’t have fulfilled a single word, even if he were sincere – which he is not… Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue.” Read more.

Flashback: Syrian Rebels Brainwashing Children For The Cause Of Allah, Hatred Of Non-Muslims – “Disturbing footage of Jabhat Al Nusra insurgents using propaganda to brainwash children with their Jihadist ideals. Hatred of non-Muslims and contempt of democracy being just two of them. Several young children, some of whom have already been compelled to cover from head to toe are filmed singing songs in honour of Jabhat Al Nusra which also condemn ‘kuffars’ and their ideals while pledging loyalty to Jihad …” Read more.

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Nigeria: Muslim Gunmen Attack Christian Homes, Slaughter Men, Women And Children In Their Sleep

09/07/2013 1 comment

Romans 8:35-37, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, ‘For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”

Morning Star News – “Gabriel Anthony, 25, was steeped in quiet, prayerful devotion at 5 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 1) in this northern Nigerian village when he heard gunshots.

‘Within minutes, bullets were piercing into our rooms,’ Anthony told Morning Star News. ‘I escaped from my room by jumping through the window.’

A half hour later, seven of his relatives in Adu village, Kaduna state, were dead, including his father, 60-year-old Anthony Nkom; his mother, 45-year-old Asabe Anthony; his brother, 35-year-old James Anthony; and another brother, 37-year-old Andrew Anthony. Also killed were three of his nephews – 5-year-old Meshack Aaron, 12-year-old Bulus James Anthony, and 15-year-old Happiness Anthony.

The bodies of Happiness and Meshack were buried in one grave, and those of the other five in another.

Besides these seven people, two other Christians in the village were killed and three were wounded in the attack by more than a dozen ethnic Fulani Muslims, Anthony said. All of those killed were members of the St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Adu.

As Anthony’s relatives were being shot, in another part of Adu village another set of Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked the house of Joseph Abwoi, 50, killing him and his wife, Asabat Abwoi, 40. They were buried in a single grave.

The three people wounded in the attack on Anthony’s home were grandchildren of the murdered Nkom – Godiya Andrew, 9; Shenyan Andrew, 3; and Kawot, 5, he said. While Godiya was being treated for gunshot wounds at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Kawot was taken to Kafanchan General Hospital and Shenyan was receiving treatment at the Rural Hospital Kaura in Kaduna state, Anthony said.

‘By the time the Fulani gunmen had moved to other houses in the village, the sounds of gunshots had forced the over 500 inhabitants of the village to flee into the bushes, thus escaping from being killed,’ he said.” Read more.

Flashback: Nigeria: Islamists Ambush Bus Near Jos, Slaughter All Christians For Not Worshipping Allah – “Islamic fighters have shot dead Christians in a roadside ambush near Nigeria’s central city of Jos, church representatives said Monday, September 2. Those killed in the attack, four kilometers (2.5 miles) off the Jos-Barkin Kadi Highway, were members of a Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) congregation in the nearby town of Foron, according to church officials. The Christians had been ordered out of a minibus and forced to lay on the ground before being shot …” Read more.

Flashback: Nigeria: ‘Islamic Warrior’ Delighted In Chopping Off Heads, Says Islamic Agenda Is To Force Worship Of Allah, Wipe Out Christians – “Ask him and he bluntly tells you, ‘If we ask our victim, ‘Will you become a Muslim or not and he or she refuses, we will slaughter him like a goat…’ He talked of himself as an Islamic warrior who take delight in chopping off people’s head with a stroke of his dagger… ‘You people have only been hearing of Boko Haram, but there are other deadly Islamic groups who are also part of Boko Haram sect … Whenever we heard that any of the sects were fighting Christians, we would always join them …” Read more.

Flashback: Nigeria: Thousands Flee As Islamic Militants Kill Christians, Threaten ‘Massive Bloodbath’ – “Nigerian Islamic militants have threatened a massive bloodbath after killing at least two Christians in recent days, forcing thousands of people to flee their villages along Nigeria’s northeast, refugees said Saturday June 22. The reported threats came as local believers were mourning Christian Toma Vongjen, 40, who was reportedly killed by Fulani Muslims in attacks that also left church buildings in four villages in Plateau state completely destroyed.” Read more.

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The Jerusalem Post: Radical Islam Is, In Truth, The Normative Islam

09/06/2013 10 comments

Great article, please read it in full. It is worth repeating that when it comes to the “Religion of Peace” many still attempt to create a dichotomy of “good Islam” verses “bad Islam” when, in reality, all of Islam is inherently violent and destructive. Although there are Muslims who are peaceful, they are not peaceful because of their religion. They are peaceful in spite of it. Unfortunately, this is one fact that intellectually and politically atrophied leaders in the West all too often make a concerted effort to willingly ignore …

Proverbs 10:6, “Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.”

Qur’an Sura 9:111, “… They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed …”

Qur’an: Sura 4:89, “… Kill the unbelievers [non-Muslims] wherever you find them …”

"... the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed" (Rev 13:15b).

“… the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed” (Rev 13:15b).

The Jerusalem Post – “When will we believe the threat in the words of Mohammed?  When will we believe the Muslims’ word when they proclaim their intention to kill us?  When will we believe that they proclaim their intention to wipe Israel off the face of the map?  When will we believe that they want to see the entire world including Europe and America, under submission to Islam and Muslim law?

After the Fort Hood killings of a dozen innocent people by a Muslim traitor, the Boston Marathon killings by two Muslim immigrant brothers and the beheading of a British soldier in May by two Muslim men in broad daylight, we have got to ask, what is there about Islam that stirs up these horrendous murderous actions?

We cannot forget the unbelievably horrible 9/11 destruction of the twin towers in New York or the destruction on the Pentagon in Washington, when more than 3,000 innocent people were killed.  We cannot forget the bombings of the train stations in Spain and England when scores of innocents were killed.  It is difficult for those of us who practice true Christianity to believe that human beings could be so blatantly murderous to plot and kill so many innocent people with no second thought or regrets.  They show joy when these murderous deeds are carried out.

Then too, we have to wonder why all the rest of the Muslim world heartily supports all of these incredible Muslim killings with massive demonstrations or at least with broad smiles.  It appears that not many Muslims disagree with what the murderers have done.  We cannot ignore how so many Muslim leaders keep loudly and unashamedly declaring their intentions to take over Europe and to ‘wipe Israel and the United States off the face of the Map’.

Why do so many Western political leaders keep trying to tell us that Islam is a ‘religion of peace’?  Bombings, explosions and mass killings are certainly not demonstrations of peace.  Do our leaders support them or are they so afraid of them that they continually insist on ‘political correctness’ most often at the expense of Christians.  Will they insist on PC all the way to the grave?

According to true Christian values, peace means love, kindness and compassion.  The Islamic definition of peace is to see the entire world controlled by Islam and cruel Islamic Sharia law.  Their kind of peace has most of the world in anxiety today and our Western leaders are doing little to counteract it.

Those who have made it their business to understand the fundamentals of Islam know that there really are no moderate Muslims Read more…

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No Business, No Money, No Home: Christians Forced To Flee Egyptian Town As Islamists Take Over

09/06/2013 Leave a comment

Revelation 13:16-18, “… it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate [‘psēphizō’ – reckon] the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is χξς.”

AINA – “The Coptic Orthodox priest would only talk to his visitor after hiding from the watchful eyes of the bearded Muslim outside, who sported a pistol bulging from under his robe.

So Father Yoannis moved behind a wall in the charred skeleton of an ancient monastery to describe how it was torched by Islamists and then looted when they took over this southern Egyptian town following the ouster of the country’s president.

‘The fire in the monastery burned intermittently for three days. The looting continued for a week. At the end, not a wire or an electric switch is left,’ Yoannis told The Associated Press. The monastery’s 1,600-year-old underground chapel was stripped of ancient icons and the ground was dug up on the belief that a treasure was buried there.

‘Even the remains of ancient and revered saints were disturbed and thrown around,’ he said.

A town of some 120,000 — including 20,000 Christians — Dalga has been outside government control since hard-line supporters of the Islamist Mohammed Morsi drove out police and occupied their station on July 3, the day Egypt’s military chief removed the president in a popularly supported coup. It was part of a wave of attacks in the southern Minya province that targeted Christians, their homes and businesses.

Since then, the radicals have imposed their grip on Dalga, twice driving off attempts by the army to send in armored personnel carriers by showering them with gunfire.

Their hold points to the power of hard-line Islamists in southern Egypt even after Morsi’s removal — and their determination to defy the military-backed leadership that has replaced him.

With the army and police already fighting a burgeoning militant insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, there are growing signs that a second insurgency could erupt in the south — particularly in Minya and Assiut provinces, both Islamist strongholds and both home to Egypt’s two largest Christian communities.

The takeover of Dalga has been disastrous for the Christian community in the town, located 270 kilometers (160 miles) south of Cairo in Minya, on the edge of the Nile Valley near the cliffs that mark the start of the desert.

In the initial burst of violence, the town’s only Catholic church was ransacked and set ablaze, like the Monastery of the Virgin Mary and St. Abraam. The Anglican church was looted.

Some 40 Christian families have fled Dalga since, Yoannis said. Nearly 40 Christian-owned homes and stores have been attacked by Islamists, according to local Minya activists. Bandits from the nearby deserts joined the looting and burning, they said. To ensure the spread of fear, the attackers torched houses in all Christian neighborhoods, not just in one or two.

Among the homes torched was that of Father Angelos, an 80-year-old Orthodox priest who lives close to the monastery. Yoannis’ home was spared a similar fate by his Muslim neighbors. A 60-year-old Christian who fired from his roof to ward off a mob was dragged down and killed, the activists said.

‘Even if we had firearms, we would be reluctant to use them,’ said Yoannis. ‘We cannot take a life. Firing in the air may be our limit.’

Those who remain pay armed Muslim neighbors to protect them. Yoannis said his brother paid with a cow and a water buffalo. Most Christian businesses have been closed for weeks.

Armed men can be seen in the streets, and nearly every day Islamists hold rallies at a stage outside the police station, demanding Morsi’s reinstatement.

Most Christians remain indoors as much as possible, particularly during the rallies. They say they are routinely insulted on the streets by Muslims, including children. Christian women stay home at all times, fearing harassment by the Islamists, according to multiple Christians who spoke to the AP. Most requested that their names not be published for fear of reprisals.

‘The Copts in Dalga live in utter humiliation,’ said local rights activist Ezzat Ibrahim. ‘They live in horror and cannot lead normal lives.’ …

‘They don’t want to see any Christian with any power, no matter how modest,’ Yoannis said of the hard-liners now running Dalga. ‘They only want to see us poor without money, a trade or a business …” Read more.

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Syria: Islamist Rebels Attacking Christian Town Enter Man’s Home, ‘They Tried To Force Him To Convert To Islam’

09/05/2013 3 comments

Where there is one report of an attempted forced conversion there are likely many more that are unreported …

Update: Rebels Attack Christian Homes, Churches, Many Feared Dead, ‘Convert To Islam Or You Will Be Beheaded’

Revelation 13:15, “And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.”

Qur’an Sura 9:30, “… the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of [God]; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them …”

By Ruth Sherlock and Magdy Samaan, The Telegraph – “Fighting raged through the picturesque mountain village of Maaloula, near Damascus, on Thursday, as the regime launched a counter-attack against the rebels.

‘They entered the main square and smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary,’ said one resident of the area, speaking by phone and too frightened to give his name. ‘They shelled us from the nearby mountain. Two shells hit the St Thecla convent.’

Maaloula, tucked into the honey-coloured cliffs of a mountain range north of Damascus and on a ‘tentative’ list of applicants for Unesco world heritage status, is associated with the earliest days of Christianity…

It is one of only three places in the world where Western Aramaic, a dialect of the language spoken by Christ, is still used.

Until recently, the town had managed to remain mostly unaffected by the civil war that has already claimed more than 100,000 lives. A visit by The Daily Telegraph last year found it ringed by government checkpoints but suffering from the lack of pilgrims and tourists who are normally vital to its economy.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, rebel groups, a mix of the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra and the more moderate Free Syrian Army (FSA), attacked with full force.

‘First they took a brick factory owned by a Christian guy, who is now missing,’ said the resident. ‘Then at around 5.30am, a car bomb detonated at the checkpoint at the entrance to the village.

‘Some of the rebels entered a home near the checkpoint belonging to Yousef Haddad, a Christian. They tried to force him to convert to Islam.’

A nun living in a convent in the village told the Associated press that 27 orphans living in the convent were taken to nearby caves for shelter.

Video footage posted on YouTube showed rebel fighters on a pick up truck with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the back firing erratically from inside the mountain town…

Almost a third of the Syriac Christian population has fled the rebel-held northern town of Hassakeh after Christians became targets for kidnappings and assassinations.” Read more.

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Somalia: Polio Widespread In Regions Under Islamist Control

09/05/2013 8 comments

Luke 21:10-11, “Then He said to them, ‘Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven …’”

BY DAHIR JIBRIL, allAfrica – “Al-Shabaab’s refusal to allow the supply of the polio vaccine in areas under its control is causing panic among residents at a time when aid workers are struggling to contain an outbreak of the crippling virus.

‘The polio outbreak plaguing Somalia has spread despite significant efforts to curb the disease,’ the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement August 15th, adding that insecurity is hampering efforts to contain the virus.

Six years after Somalia was declared free of the virus, at least 105 cases have been confirmed in the country, the ‘worst outbreak in the world in a non-endemic country’, according to OCHA.

Liban Nur, a 65-year-old traditional elder in the town of Bulo Burde in Hiran region, told Sabahi he was very concerned about the spread of polio since al-Shabaab will not allow the vaccine to be brought to the town.

‘Polio is widespread in the region, and this year alone I have seen more than four children who have been afflicted with polio and have not received any medical attention or the vaccine to prevent polio,’ he said.

‘Recently people have been treating themselves with traditional medicine such as herbs that grow [in Bulo Burde] that they boil and then give the extracted fluid to the children with polio,’ he said. ‘This medicine does not cure anything.’

Nur said it is difficult for families to travel to areas under government control where the vaccine is available because many are hampered by economic constraints.” Read more.

Unsealed: A Closer Look At Revelation 6 And ‘The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse’ – “Because of ‘Sharia lawlessness’ the ‘Religion of Peace’ is typified by widespread destruction and disparity, and any number of recent headlines bear this out all too well. In Sudan, for example, slavery is explicitly permitted and tens of thousands of Christians are held in bondage, taken as slaves and face starvation because of Sharia laws instituted by an Islamist government. In Mali, 4.6 million people are threatened with starvation following Islamist advances in the north. Starvation threatens more than 7 million citizens in Afghanistan as over 90% of the country’s agriculture is destroyed by drought. In Somalia, Islamist militants deprive 1.3 million people of food, clean water and health care after banning humanitarian aid. In Chad, children starve to death as Islamic ‘doctors’ with ‘healing gifts from Allah’ throw common sense to the wind. Islamists are killing aid workers in Pakistan for trying to save lives with ‘un-Islamic’ polio vaccines… As Islamists engage in an all-out war to oust Bashar Al-Assad and implement an Islamist state in Syria, a flesh-eating parasite dubbed the ‘Aleppo Boil‘ sweeps across the country … The fruit of Islam and its laws have produced and will continue to produce the type of conditions that precipitate and perpetuate all sort of pestilences, all manner of plagues, any number of conflicts and hardships both inside and outside the Islamic world.” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam

Video: Syrian Rebel Admits Using Chemical Weapons, ‘We’ll Kill Their Women And Children’

09/05/2013 6 comments

Looks like America’s Islamist “allies” in Syria have already crossed President “I-Didn’t-Set-A-Red-Line” Obama’s red line long ago. Unfortunately for many lawmakers, even news like this will not be enough to sober up the “inebriated johns” who continually rationalize the irrational …

Revelation 17:1b-2, “… the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”

By Paul Joseph Watson, InfoWars – “A video has emerged of an opposition rebel militant in Syria apparently confessing to using chemical weapons in order to follow Osama Bin Laden’s mantra of killing women and children.

The individual in the clip, Nadeem Baloosh, is a member of an insurgent group called Riyadh Al Abdeen, which is active in the Latakia area of Syria.

Baloosh speaks of ‘chemicals which produce lethal and deadly gases that I possess,’ before going on to state, ‘We decided to harm them through their women and kids.’

Baloosh ponders if it is acceptable to harm women and children before quoting the Koran, ‘Fight them as they fight you.’ He goes on to quote Osama Bin Laden (whom other rebel groups have openly praised).

‘We’ll kill their women and children like Sheikh Osama Bin Laden said – ‘until they cease killing our women and kids,’ he states.

Baloosh goes on to talk about the Syrian Army approaching the area where his rebel group was located, before stating, ‘So we had the idea that this weapon was very powerful and effective to repel them, we announced if they approached one meter, everything is permitted.’

‘We will strike them in their homes, we will turn their day into night and their night into day,’ adds Baloosh.

The footage adds to the increasing weight of evidence that suggests US-backed rebels possess and have used chemical weapons on more than one occasion, although such reports have been habitually downplayed by the mainstream media.

Earlier today Russia announced that it had compiled a 100 page report proving opposition rebels ‘were behind a deadly sarin gas attack in an Aleppo suburb earlier this year.'” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam, Wars and Rumors of War