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Westgate Mall Today, West Edmonton Mall Tomorrow – Don’t Think It Can’t Happen

09/23/2013 Leave a comment

As a virulent Islamist ideology metastasizes throughout the Islamic world and the number of Muslims now living in the West continues to rise, it is becoming increasingly apparent that it is not a matter of if an attack like the one that took place in Kenya this past weekend could ever happen in one of our cities. It is a matter of when …

The “Prophet” Mohammed, Al Bukhari Hadith 2977, “I have been made victorious with terror.”

Qur’an Sura 33:21, “Indeed in Allah’s Messenger (Mohammad) you have an excellent example to follow for him who hopes in (meeting with) Allah and the Last Day…”

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By Jerry Philipson, Canada Free Press – “Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya is an upscale mall popular with foreigners and expatriates and middle-class and well-to-do Kenyans. Yesterday afternoon it was packed with shoppers when heavily armed gunmen burst in and began shooting and killing non-Muslims…unbelievers…infidels…in cold blood.

People who identified themselves as Muslims or who the gunmen thought were Muslim were allowed to leave and were unharmed.

Non-Muslims … unbelievers … infidels … were shot and killed. As of this writing 69 people are confirmed dead and another 175 have been wounded. The situation is still ongoing and the number of dead and wounded is expected to rise once it becomes resolved. Women, children and the elderly are among the dead and wounded.

The gunmen are identified as belonging to al-Shabab, a Somali Islamist terrorist group that has sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda and is fighting to make Islam and Sharia supreme in Somalia. Kenya was targeted because as part of the African Union it is sending soldiers to Somalia to fight the Islamists there, the mall was targeted because of its popularity with foreigners and expatriates and because it is partially Israeli owned and non-Muslims … unbelievers … infidels were targeted because the Islamist murderers wanted to sow terror and send a message to the Kenyan government and decided that slaughtering them was the best way to do it, slaughtering non-Muslims … unbelievers … infidels being permissible, legitimate and obligatory according to Islam.

The West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is the largest shopping mall in North America and one of the largest in the world … it was the largest in the world until 2004. There are over 800 stores and services in the mall and it attracts anywhere between 60 and 150,000 shoppers per day. People come from all over Canada, the United States and the rest of the world to shop there. Read more…

Historian: We Are Now Watching ‘The Effective Extinction Of Christianity From Its Birthplace’

09/23/2013 3 comments

Matthew 24:22,27, “And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened… For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

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Historian Tom Holland:

Historian Tom Holland: “Medieval scale of horror …”

Lapido Media – “MIDDLE EAST historian Tom Holland told a briefing in London last night that the world is watching the effective extinction of Christianity from its birthplace.

In an apocalyptic appraisal of the worsening political situation in the region, a panel of experts provided a mass of evidence and statistics for the end of the region’s nation states under the onslaught of militant Islam.

‘In terms of the sheer scale of the hatreds and sectarian rivalries, we are witnessing something on the scale of horror of the European Thirty Years War,’ said Holland.

‘It is the climax of a process grinding its way through the twentieth century – the effective extinction of Christianity from its birthplace.’

The event titled ‘Reporting the Middle East: Why the truth is getting lost’ at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall, sought answers to the ‘anaemic’ coverage of attacks on Egypt’s Christians on 14 August.

Pre-planned destruction of scores of ancient churches, monasteries, schools, orphanages and businesses had gone unreported for days across the West, Nina Shea, Director of the Hudson Institute Religious Freedom Centre in Washington said.

After the Islamists swept multiple elections during the first revolution in 2011, US newspapers asking how it would change Egypt suggested merely that women would be prohibited from wearing skimpy clothes, and Sharm el-Sheikh would close as a tourist destination.

This was ‘utterly trivial’ she said.  Persecution of Copts, who dated their church to Gospel writer St Mark in Alexandria, was at its worst since the fourteenth century, with ‘horrific levels of violence’.

‘It has been the worst persecution in 700 years against the oldest, largest remaining Christian minority in the Middle East.’

The media had failed to ask the most basic questions, she said.  ‘Why were the Read more…

Kenya: Al Qaeda-Linked Militants In Mall Attack A ‘Multinational Collection From All Over The World’

09/23/2013 2 comments

Zechariah 5:3a, 8a, “… This is the curse [“alah“] that goes out over the face of the whole earth … This is Wickedness …”

Here’s an update on this story. It is now believed that the Islamic militants who stormed the Westgate Mall in search of non-Muslims to kill are part of a multinational collection of terrorists from all over the world. Although the number of dead has been revised downward slightly from 68 to 62, the number of those reportedly missing still remains high at 63 …

A Red Cross assistant helps a child outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 (AP)

A Red Cross assistant helps a child outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013 (AP)

Fox News – “Kenya’s interior minister says two male Islamic militants have been killed and more hostages have been freed as military forces led a new rescue operation Monday inside a mall in Nairobi.

Fox News has confirmed that Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the two militants died and some hostages were freed in the latest efforts to end the ongoing siege waged by al-Shabab, a Somali group with ties to Al Qaeda. Lenju did not provide the current number of militants still believed to be in the mall, but said the amount of hostages left was minimal.

Sustained gunfire was heard coming from the Westgate mall and four loud blasts shook the building Monday morning, sending plumes of thick smoke into the sky, and signaling a new attack on the militants who have been holding hostages inside since Saturday. The gunmen holed up inside the mall had caused the smoke by setting mattresses on fire in a supermarket as a decoy, according to a Reuters report.

Officials say at least 62 people were killed and 200 wounded in the weekend attack, while 63 were reported missing.

Kenya Chief of Defense Gen. Julius Karangi said he believes the attackers are from many countries. ‘We have an idea who these people are and they are clearly a multinational collection from all over the world,’ he said.” Read more.

North American And European Muslims Reportedly Among The Group Of Attackers – “There are believed to be between 10-15 gunmen involved in the attack, officials said. Sources within Al-Shabaab told CNN that nine names listed on a Twitter site — now suspended — were people who were among the alleged hostage-takers. Three of the alleged attackers are from the United States, two are from Somalia and there is one each from Canada, Finland, Kenya and the United Kingdom, according to the list.” Read more.

Jihad Group Says Muslims From Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, Maine, And Arizona Among Kenya Mall Jihadists – “If this turns out to be true, it will raise important questions about what the mosques these men attended are preaching and teaching, and what law enforcement was doing among Muslims in the areas from which they came. The only problem is that no one will ask those questions.” Read more.

Islamists Slaughtered Any Man, Woman Or Child Who Could Not Recite The Qur’an – “It said last night on Twitter that Samantha Lewthwaite, the ‘white widow’ of London 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, was ‘in their ranks’ and a ‘brave lady’… The attack saw men, women and children slaughtered if they could not recite the Koran or name the mother of the Prophet Mohammed. As well as boasting Lewthwaite was with them, Al Shabaab claimed two British men from London, Liban Adam, 23, and Ahmed Nasir Shirdoon, 24, were among the ‘holy warriors’ in the attack. The group is said to be highly organised, with huge amounts of ammunition as well as night vision equipment.” Read more.

Pakistan: At Least 85 Christians Massacred After Suicide Bombers Attack Historic Church In Peshawar

09/22/2013 7 comments

Behold the lawless fruit of the “gracious” and “merciful” deity of Islam. Just one day after Muslims began slaughtering at least 62 in Kenya, another 85+ are massacred and mutilated in the name of murderous mayhem …

Revelation 6:9-11, “… I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’ Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.”

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By Emily Allen, Mail Online – “Two suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in Pakistan today killing 85 people in the deadliest-ever attack on the country’s Christian minority.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in the city of Peshawar, saying it would continue to target non-Muslims until the US stopped drone attacks in the country’s remote tribal region.

The latest drone strike came on Sunday when missiles hit a pair of compounds in the North Waziristan tribal area, killing six suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The attack on All Saints Church, which also wounded 140 people, underlines the threat posed by the Pakistani Taliban at a time when the government is seeking a peace deal with the militants.

The attack occurred as hundreds of worshippers were coming out of the church in the city’s Kohati Gate district after services to get a free meal of rice.

Survivors wailed and hugged each other in the wake of the blasts. The white walls of the church, which first opened in the late 1800s, were pockmarked with holes caused by ball bearings or other metal objects contained in the bombs to cause maximum damage.

Blood stained the floor and was splashed on the walls. Plates filled with rice were scattered across the ground.

The attack was carried out by a pair of suicide bombers who detonated their explosives almost simultaneously. Authorities found body parts and have been trying to determine their age.

The blasts killed 85 people and wounded another 140. The dead included women and children.

The number of casualties from the blasts was so high that the hospital was running out of caskets for the dead and beds for the wounded, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, a former information minister of surrounding Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province who was on the scene.” Read more.

John 16:2b-3, “… the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God. This is because they have never known the Father or Me.”

Flashback: Christians In Pakistan Told To Convert To Islam Or Leave, ‘Otherwise They Will Face Consequences’ – “Last Sunday when Church service was over, more than dozen Muslim criminals gathered in front of Church and started harassing Christian girls who were leaving after services. Ahmed Bhatti and Muslim home owners of area ordered their Christians tenants to convert to Islam otherwise vacate their properties. They have vacated some shops that were run by Christians. One Christian man had his Gospel music on in the shop; they beat him up and kicked him out from that shop on gunpoint. Ahmed Bhatti on his microphone was shouting, ‘I am giving Christians this invitation to convert to Islam otherwise they will face consequences’ while announcement was made gathering of Muslims were raising Islamic Slogans.” Read more.

Kenya: Islamic Gunmen Attack Non-Muslims At Shopping Mall In Nairobi, Hundreds Killed And Wounded

09/21/2013 4 comments

For peaceful purposes …

Qur’an Sura 3:56, “As to those who reject [the Muslim] faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter …”

Qur’an Sura 9:41, “Go forth, light-armed and heavy-armed, and strive with your wealth and your lives in the way of Allah! …”

Fox News – “Dozens of hostages are holed up in an upscale shopping mall in Kenya’s capital, forced to hide from gunmen following an attack by members of an Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group on Saturday that left at least 68 dead and 175 injured.

The Kenyan military remained in a tense standoff with Islamic extremists in Nairobi throughout Sunday, as exchanges of gunfire between both sides were heard inside the mall, Reuters reports.

After night fell, Kenyan police began a ‘major’ assault on the militants. ‘This will end tonight,’ Kenya’s Disaster Operation Center said.

The announcement came after Associated Press reporters said they heard a large explosion followed by silence.

Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, said in a national address Sunday that security forces had managed to isolate the ‘criminals’ in one place inside the building, according to Reuters. Two helicopters were seen flying over the mall.

There are between 50 to 200 hostages and most of them are hiding in various places inside the mall, Fox News confirms. They are not being held by the hostage-takers. There are between 10 to 15 militants currently inside the mall, with at least one being female.

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said earlier Sunday that ‘quite a number of people still being held hostage.’

But some of the people in hiding managed to escape, according to Kenyan media reports.

Cecile Ndwiga said she had been hiding under a car in the basement parking garage.

‘I called my husband to ask the soldiers to come and rescue me. Because I couldn’t just walk out anyhow. The shootout was all over here — left, right– just gun shots,’ she said.

Police said that 49 people had been reported missing, according to a statement released by Kenya’s Red Cross.Read more.

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Pakistan: Muslim Killer Cites ‘Blasphemy’ In Slaughter Of Christian, Witnesses Stand Idly By

09/20/2013 Leave a comment

Devout Muslims who are willing to die for their “prophet” are often willing to see you die for him, too. And thus we bear witness to Sharia lawlessness yet again …

Morning Star News – “Shouting that he was killing ‘an infidel who blasphemed against Muhammad,’ a Muslim in Karachi on Saturday (Sept. 14) slit a Christian’s throat as police and others looked on, according to the slain man’s son.

George Masih told Morning Star News that his father, 58-year-old Boota Masih, worked as a gold scavenger in Karachi’s Liaquatabad Gold Market for 30 years, and that the Muslim who killed him also gathered gold dust from jewellers’ rugs or work carpets at the market.

Police informed the family that a Muslim, later identified as Muhammad Asif, had killed Boota Masih by slitting his throat with a dagger and then stabbing him multiple times.

‘We were told that Asif kept shouting that my father was an infidel and had spoken derogatory words against Muhammad [Islam’s prophet] as he mercilessly stabbed him,’ Masih said. ‘A large number of people, including four policemen and private security guards of the market, witnessed the entire scene, but no one tried to stop the killer, who walked away waving the dagger in his hand.’

A police spokesman told Morning Star News that the four policemen stationed at the market said they were not present at the scene of the murder.

Masih said the family had registered case No. 226/13 with the Liaquatabad Police Station, but that police were making little effort to arrest the murderer. Liaquatabad, a bastion of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement party accused of involvement in Karachi crime rings, is notorious for abductions, extortion and murders/assassinations. Boota and his family live in another area.

‘We asked everyone in the market if my father had said or done anything to deserve such a brutal death, but not one person complained against him,’ he said. ‘They all said that he was a humble man and had never committed blasphemy as alleged by the killer. But if my father was innocent, why did the people just stand there and watch him being killed in this manner?’

He added that when police came to the murder scene, no one came forward to record a statement.

‘Even if my father had said something to offend the killer, is this how he should have been punished?’ he said. ‘The entire market testifies to his humility, but not one of them has come on the record to bear witness to the crime.’

Masih said that the police attitude had not changed, as officers had yet to make an arrest.

‘After my father’s killing in the presence of so many people, it is quite clear that any Muslim can get away with murder just by claiming that they had killed a blasphemer,’ he said.” Read more.

Flashback: Even The Mere Accusation Of ‘Blasphemy’ Can Mean Death

Egypt: Islamists Vow To Target Christians After Muslim Extremists Arrested In Delga

09/20/2013 1 comment

The summation of the law of YHWH, the One True God of the Bible, hangs upon loving the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, strength and loving your neighbor as yourself. But what remains when God’s law to love is trampled under foot? Where there is no such love, there is only lawlessness. As we can see, such lawlessness is the summation of the “law of Allah” for it is not hung upon loving God and neighbor. It is hung upon the inherent hatred of the God of Israel and the desired destruction of the Israel of God. Today, this lawlessness runs rampant far and wide all across the Muslim world …

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10, “The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”

Matthew 24:12, “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”

Matthew 7:22-23, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”

Church Destroyed By Muslims

Church Destroyed By Muslims

The Christian Post – “After security forces stormed the village of Delga earlier this week and arrested a number of extremists wanted for assaulting police and vandalizing local churches, Egypt’s Islamic party Gamaat Islamiya threatened to target Copts in retaliation.

In a statement issued by its political arm, the Building and Development Party, it said: ‘Any harassment to Delga’s locals will ignite a state of ill-feelings towards its Christian locals, which needs to be prevented.’

‘The crackdown on Delga was made due to its anti-coup stance … ,’ according to the statement. ‘This campaign has proved that all claims of weapons stashed in the village are lies, as according to its announcement there was little or no resistance.’

‘The Islamic current has been freed of charges accusing it of assaulting Christians; as the attacks were made by thugs who have strong ties to security services,’ the statement continued.

‘These campaigns on villages that oppose the coup, in order to terrorize them, have failed. Instead, Delga’s locals demonstrated the same day the village was stormed, making it a symbol of steadfastness,’ the statement concluded.

Copts in the village of Delga had been blockaded in by Islamists, who harass them, attack their homes and businesses and force them to pay ‘Jiziya,’ a religious extortion tax. Several homes, and churches were also been looted and burned.” Read more.

Flashback: Muslim Cleric: ‘I Hate Christians And Am Disgusted By Them’ – “Dr. Abdullah Badr—an Egyptian Muslim scholar, Al Azhar graduate, and professor of Islamic exegesis, who spent ten years in prison under Mubarak, but, along with any number of Islamic terrorists and agitators, was released under Morsi—recently gave an excellent summation of the second half of the highly divisive Muslim doctrine of wala’ wa bara’ (or, ‘Love and Hate’)—namely, that the true Muslim should love and help fellow Muslims, while hating and being disgusted by non-Muslims.” Read more.

Flashback: Muslim Brotherhood: We Must Nurse Our Children And Grandchildren On Hatred Of Jews And All Who Support Them – “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.” Watch video.

Turkmenistan Policeman To Relative: ‘I’ll Tear Your Head Off’ If You Convert To Christianity

09/19/2013 Leave a comment

For peaceful purposes …

Qur’an Sura 8:12b, “… terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an.”

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service – “Police in the Turkmen city of Mary have resumed pressure on relatives, friends and members of the Protestant congregation led by former religious prisoner of conscience Pastor Ilmurad Nurliev. One police officer threatened to ‘tear off’ the head of one of his relatives if she adopted ‘their faith’, Pastor Nurliev told Forum 18 News Service from Mary on 17 September. ‘We’ve got no peace,’ his wife Maya added. Officials are interrogating all those they can find who signed the church’s rejected 2007 registration application.

Denied state registration, Pastor Nurliev’s community – Light to the World Church – has been unable to meet for worship in recent years ‘because of the circumstances’, he lamented to Forum 18.

The interrogations, threats and insults come as Turkmenistan has adopted a new Code of Administrative Offences which will come into force on 1 January 2014. The new Code prescribes new punishments for religious activity in defiance of Turkmenistan’s claims to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in Geneva (see below).

Numerous religious communities have been raided and individuals have faced fines under the current Code of Administrative Offences for exercising the right to freedom of religion or belief. These include the leader of a Baptist children’s summer camp in Mary raided in late June …

The most recent trouble for Pastor Nurliev, his relatives and church members began on Sunday 15 September, he told Forum 18. ‘Yesterday [16 September] I was summoned to the Criminal Investigation Department, where I was questioned by officer Rahman Rahmanov.’

Many of his relatives, his wife’s relatives, and all those they could find of the dozen or so church members who signed the 2007 registration application have been summoned, had their fingerprints and photos taken, been forced to write statements and been subjected to threats and insults, he said. ‘They told me it was because of people like us that Syria is facing conflict.’

Pastor Nurliev said police even wanted to know about people on the registration application who had died or moved away or no longer had contact with the church.

Maya Nurlieva, the pastor’s wife, was summoned to the local police station on 16 September, where Captain Sapar Atabayev interrogated her for three hours. ‘He threatened, insulted and shouted at me for all that time,’ she told Forum 18. She had to provide a written account of her life, including information on when she became a Christian.” Read more.

Flashback: Churches Raided, Crosses Burnt, Fathers Arrested: ‘Arab Spring’ In The Caucasus And Central Asia Spelling Doom For Local Christians – “Mirroring what is happening in the world, there is an Islamic revival in the Caucasus and Central Asia, with all that it means for local Christians… The fall of dictatorship, in a pattern similar to that of post-war Iraq and the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, seems to have ‘liberated’ the radical elements within the Muslim communities…Uzbekistan (just under 30 million people), Kazakhstan (16-17 million), Tajikistan (7-8 million), Kyrgyzstan (5-6 million), which is particularly topical now because it is where the family of the Boston bombings suspects lived for a time, and Turkmenistan (just over 5 million), for a total population of 64.7 million in 2012, the vast majority of whom are Muslim.” Read more.

Muslim Persecution Of Christians: July 2013, Attacks Escalate In Egypt And Nigeria

09/19/2013 Leave a comment

Matthew 10:22, “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.”

By Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute – “On July 4th, the day after the Egyptian military liberated its nation from Muslim Brotherhood rule, Christian Copts were immediately scapegoated and targeted. All Islamist leaders—from Brotherhood supreme leader Muhammad Badi, to Egyptian-born al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri, to top Sunni cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi—made a point to single out Egypt’s Copts as especially instrumental in the ousting of former Islamist president Morsi, a claim that ushered in a month of slaughter against the nation’s Christian minority.

Among other events in July, unprecedented numbers of Christian churches were attacked, plundered, desecrated, and torched. According to one Egyptian human rights lawyer, ‘82 churches, many of which were from the 5th century, were attacked by pro-Morsi supporters in just two days.’ Al-Qaeda’s flag was raised above some churches; anti-Christian graffiti littered the sides of other churches and Coptic homes. Due to extreme anti-Christian sentiment, many churches ceased holding worship services until recently. Dozens of Coptic homes and businesses were also attacked, looted and torched.

In the Sinai, a young Coptic priest was shot dead in front of his church, while the body of Magdy Lam’i Habib, a Copt, was found beheaded and mutilated. Four other Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in the province of Luxor. Entire towns and villages have been emptied of Copts, including the eviction of more than 100 Christian families from El Arish in the terror-infested Sinai.

Coptic Pope Tawadros II left the papal residence at St. Mark Cathedral —which had been savagely attacked when Morsi was still president— for a time due to death threats, and temporarily discontinued holding services.

The rest of July’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes, (but is not limited to,) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, and not according to severity:

Attacks on Christian Worship: Churches and Monasteries

Guinea: During a mob-led frenzy, Christians and their churches were savagely attacked in the Muslim-majority nation; some 95 Christians were slain and 130 wounded. In Nzérékoré, five churches, as well as the homes of pastors, were attacked by Muslim mobs. One priest recounted the violence: ‘The two Catholic and Protestant churches have all been ransacked and burned… Almost all the houses and shops belonging to Christians or people affiliated with Christians, have not escaped the fury of the attackers.’ Similarly, the Catholic area, including the quarters of the nuns, was looted before being torched. In Moribadou, the violence lasted three days and saw at least 10 churches destroyed.

Indonesia: According to the Annual Report published by IndonesianChristian.org, a Protestant organization monitoring the nation’s Christian community, the pressures against Christian communities in Aceh ‘have become intolerable. Within a year, with non-existent legal pretexts, 17 house churches have been closed: these also include

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Christian Leader In Syria: Christians Will Be Massacred By Islamists If Syrian Army Leaves Aleppo

09/17/2013 2 comments

The Islamist rebels even said so themselves: convert to Islam, leave, or die

Qur’an Sura 9:29-30, “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book … the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!”

CO – “According to Moussalli, roughly 200,000 Christians still reside in the war-torn streets of Aleppo. He warns that if the Syrian Army retreats due to attacks by Islamist rebels, the Christians ‘will be massacred.’

Moussalli is the patriarchal vicar of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Jordan, which borders Syria on the south. He has spent many years attending to the spiritual needs to Christians who have fled from Iraq (along the western border) into Amman, Jordan.

Father Moussalli was among more than 50 regional Christian leaders who joined with Muslim scholars, who met at a conference in Amman against Western military intervention into the region.

Not surprisingly, very few – if any of the scholars gathered there saw much use in military intervention. Father Moussalli harshly criticized the West for supporting the Islamist rebels in Syria. ‘If we [the West] are bombing Syria now, where are all the Christians going? There are two million,’ he told the BBC.

Currently, there are about 2.5 million Christians in all of Syria, and an estimated 220,000 in Aleppo, of which about 10 percent have fled because of the rebel attacks, Moussalli says.

Ignatius Joseph Younan, patriarch of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, added at the conference that ‘We stress that we reject foreign interference in Syria.’

Overall, there was high condemnation for the war drums being pounded upon by the West against Syria – and elsewhere. ‘We don’t accept any intervention by foreign powers to protect minorities,’ Pope Anba Tawadros II, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, in Egypt said. ‘It [intervention] is basically a pretext to advance their countries’ interest in the Middle East.'” Read more.

Flashback: Syria: Islamists Execute 15-Year-Old Boy From Aleppo In Front Of Parents For ‘Heretical Comment’ – “Members of an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents on Sunday as punishment for what the group regarded as a heretical comment, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mohammad Qataa was shot in the face and neck a day after being seized, said the pro-opposition monitoring group, which is based in Britain and uses a network of observers across Syria.” Read more.

Flashback: Syrian Rebels: Anyone Cursing Allah Is Given 3 Days To Repent, But Anyone Cursing Mohammed Is Killed Immediately – “Mohammed Katta’s mother witnessed the execution of her son in three stages. She was upstairs at home when she first heard the shouting. The people of the neighbourhood were yelling that ‘they have brought back the kid’, so she rushed out of her apartment… ‘I heard them say, ‘People of Aleppo and people of Shaar! Anyone who curses [Allah] is given three days to repent. Anyone who curses the Prophet is killed immediately’,’ Nadia Umm Fuad said.” Read more.

Flashback: Syria: Foreign Islamists Taking Over Mosques Call Upon Muslims To Kill Anyone Who Does Not Practice The Religion Of Mohammed – “‘Christians,’ he explained, ‘are terrified by these militias and fear that in the event of their victory they would no longer be able to practice their religion and that they would be forced to leave the country.’ … ‘As soon as they reached the city,’ the bishop said, ‘Islamist guerrillas, almost all of them from abroad, took over the mosques. Every Friday, an imam launches their messages of hate, calling on the population to kill anyone who does not practice the religion of the Prophet Muhammad.” Read more.

Media Silent As Muslims Ethnically Cleanse 60,000 Christians In Philippines

09/16/2013 44 comments

By Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Mag – “When thousands of Muslims become refugees, then you can’t get the media to shut up about it for weeks. Thousands of Muslim migrants invading Burma became ‘refugees’ and the media has spent the better part of a year ranting about how evil the Buddhists are.

But when Muslim terrorists attack a Christian city creating tens of thousands of refugees, you couldn’t pay the media to cover the story, whether it’s in Syria, Egypt or closer to home in the Philippines.

Philippine troops have started to battle their way into coastal villages in the south where Muslim rebels have held scores of residents hostage in a six-day standoff, sparking fierce clashes that have killed 56 people and displaced more than 60,000, officials said Saturday.

President Benigno Aquino III said more firefights were expected but assured more than 62,000 displaced villagers being sheltered at a sports complex in Zamboanga city that the rebels’ capability to sow trouble has been degraded and the government was working to end the crisis soon.

Zamboanga is the 6th largest city in the country and 3/4 Christian and an obvious target for the MNLF Muslim terrorists (who are of course denying responsibility and blaming a rogue leader). It’s an obvious target because of its central influence in Mindanao. It’s the city that Muslims want. And it’s likely that the MNLF is finding shelter in the Muslim parts of the city.” Source – Frontpage Mag.

Flashback: Philippines: Muslim Rebels Armed With Chainsaws Attack 11 Towns To Share The Message Of Islam – “A breakaway group of Muslim rebels armed with chainsaws and guns launched simultaneous attacks across 11 towns in the southern Philippines on Monday, leading to clashes with troops. Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) attacked an army detachment, touching off gunbattles in the southern province of Maguindanao, the army and police said.” Read more.

Flashback: Philippines: Christian Pastors Face Death For Ministering To Muslims – “The Philippines is a mostly Christian nation, but in the south, Muslim fundamentalists are trying to build an Islamic state. Christians there face persecution and even death… Because of this, persecution against Christians is strong. This year, at least four house churches closed down after their pastors and lay leaders were killed by Muslim extremists…” Read more.

Flashback: Philippines: Christian Father Of 13 Beheaded By Suspected Muslim Extremists In Mindanao – “MacArthur Arbado, an elder at the Bible Baptist Church in Carmen, Cotabato, was murdered on November 10 as he returned to his farm. The attackers shot him in the leg, back and abdomen before decapitating him with his own machete. MacArthur leaves behind his wife, Lolita, and 13 children.” Read more.

Syrian Rebel Slits Throat Of Christian Man Refusing To Deny Christ, Taunts Fiancé That Jesus Didn’t Save Him

09/14/2013 7 comments

Unless this “rebel” repents of his wickedness, a day is coming when not even “Allah” nor the “prophet” himself will be able to save him …

Revelation 13:15, “The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.”

Matthew 24:29, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.”

Revelation 6:15-16, “Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb …”

2 Thessalonians 2:8, “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

Revelation 20:10, “and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

Syria: Islamist Rebel Beheads An 'Enemy' Of The 'Prophet'

Syria: Islamist Rebel Beheads An ‘Enemy’ Of The ‘Prophet’

BY LEONARDO BLAIR, Christian Post – “Ghastly attacks on Christians mocked as ‘Crusaders’ in Syria continued unabated as Jihadists reportedly forced one man to convert to Islam at gunpoint and slit the throat of another Christian woman’s fiancé and then told her, ‘Jesus didn’t come to save him.’

Residents who fled from the ancient town of Maalula in Syria told AFP that jihadists ambushed the town last week and forced a man to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

‘They arrived in our town at dawn… and shouted ‘We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders,’ said one woman identified as Marie in Damascus, where many people from Maalula fled after rebels first attacked that town on Sept. 4…

‘I saw people wearing Al-Nusra headbands who started shooting at crosses,’ the Christian senior told the AFP. One of the shooters, he said, ‘put a pistol to the head of my neighbor and forced him to convert to Islam by obliging him to repeat ‘there is no God but God’…Afterwards they joked, ‘he’s one of ours now’.’ …

Another Maalula resident, Rasha said the jihadists brutally murdered her fiancé Atef, who was a part of the town’s militia.

‘I rang his mobile phone and one of them answered,’ she said…

Rasha said the man told her Atef was asked to denounce his faith and convert to Islam and he refused.

‘Jesus didn’t come to save him,’ the rebel taunted.” Read more.

Unsealed: A Closer Look At Revelation 6 And ‘The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse’ – “As one reporter wrote recently in The Telegraph, Christianity is ‘close to extinction‘ in the Middle East because of Islam. And indeed, the United Muslim Nations International — an Islamist organization seeking Muslim world domination and the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate — minces no words in its declaration that ‘Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth … Islamic Power has returned upon the face of the earth and the Revived Global Caliphate has set eyes on the West to once and for all rid the world of Christianity and there is nothing you can do about it’ [7]. But there is One who can, and who will, do something about it …” Read more.