150 million
Christians persecuted by Islam
Christian suffering
at the hands of the Moslems is of biblical proportions, according to the Open
Doors NGO
Published: Friday, November 07, 2014 11:16 AM
Giulio Meotti
"The number of persecuted Christians in the world is 150 million." There are many other figures, terrifying and dramatic, in the pages of the "Black book of the plight of Christians in the world", a unique initiative of French scholars and coordinated by journalist Samuel Lieven. Snapshots of a global and amorphous war.
Yesterday, in Pakistan, two Christians, including a pregnant woman, were burnt alive in the brick kiln where they worked. It was a pogrom with the participation of four hundred Muslims.
Haim Korsia, Chief Rabbi
of France, cries out his reaction in the face of the spread of hatred against
Christians, and establishes a comparison with the destruction
of Eastern Sephardic Jewry:
"Where are the Jewish communities once
so rich of Aleppo, Beirut, Alexandria, Cairo or Tripoli? Where are the schools
of Nehardea and Pumbedita in Iraq? And where is the flourishing of Judaism in
Esfahan and Tehran? In our memory. Driven
out, killed, decimated, persecuted and exiled, the Christians of the East are
personally experiencing the same plight as the Jews with whom they have lived for so long and have seen leaving
those places".
The NGO Open Doors declared
that the
persecution in Iraq has reached "biblical proportions". Tuesday, in Rome, the annual report of Aid to the
Church in Need was also presented.
It told that of the 20
countries in the world where religious freedom is virtually absent, 14 are
Muslim, and the others military or communist dictatorships, such as North
Korea.
We are facing what Habib Malik of Stanford University calls
"the final phase of the regional decline of Christians."
"I've got a family of Christians who do not want to convert, what do we do?".
Today Mosul appears to have been swallowed up, like Jonah in the belly of the whale.
"Between 2003 and 2009, nearly 800 Christians were executed [there] in cold blood, not counting the fifty martyrs of the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad, including two priests, killed on October 31, 2010. To date, we have exceeded one thousand Christians killed, including a bishop and five priests. More than sixty churches were destroyed. "
In the book, a jihadist from the Islamic State speaks on the
phone with his terrorist leader: "I've got a family of Christians who do
not want to convert, what do we do?". A phrase that reminded me of the
Seventh Day Adventist Tutsi pastors who, during the genocide in Rwanda,
appealed to their pastor with a letter: "We wish to inform you that
tomorrow we will be killed with our families."
There are the Christians of Ma'aloula in Syria, such as Taalab
Antoun and his two cousins, who received the ''aman", the Islamic
guarantee to be spared. Unarmed and trusting the word of the rebels, they were
killed and then beheaded.
Five hundred thousand Christians have already left Syria.
And before them, there was the story of Jean-Pierre
Schumacher, the last monk of Tibhirine, Algeria, where Islamists slaughtered
the wonderful Trappist monks who shared meals with Muslims. He was saved
because the jihadists counted wrong. Later, at the funeral of the monks, Brother
Jean-Pierre asked to open the coffin to pay his last respects to his
companions. He found that the crates contained no bodies, but only seven heads.
That massacre was the green light for future
massacres. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/15943
1 comment:
don't believe it. You are being distracted from the real culprits.
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