Yet Another Islamist Attack on Christians

September 24, 2012 By 1 Comment

TERROR ATTACK ON NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS KILLED TWO AND INJURED 45, INCLUDING CHILDREN.

The two people who died yesterday in Bauchi, Nigeria at the hands of an Islamist suicide bomber did not burn the Koran. The 48 injured in the attack weren’t extras in some amateur video insulting the Prophet Muhammed.

No, their crime was that they were Christians, which, in the eyes of the suicide bomber, a member of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, was punishable by death or injury.

Indeed, in no other country do Christ followers face greater danger than Nigeria, where Boko Haram – which translates as “Western education is sacrilege” – has publicly declared its intent to exterminate the African nation’s entire Christian population.

And that’s not just an empty threat. Since 2010, the terror group has killed some 1,400 innocents in northern and central Nigeria. Many of those attacks target Sunday church services, like yesterday’s suicide bombing at St. John’s Church in Bauchi.

While Muslim apologists continue to insist that Islam is “a religion of peace” – despite the recent murder of four Americans (including the U.S. ambassador to Tripoli) by a mob of Libyan Islamists – Boko Haram makes no such pretense.

Its jihadis are guided by a passage of the Koran that states, “Anyone who is not governed by what Allah has revealed is among the transgressors.” And those “transgressors” may be killed and maimed even as they attend Sunday church services.

What particularly offends is the suggestion in much of the the international media that attacks upon Nigeria’s Christian minority, like yesterday’s bombing of St. John’s Church, are just a continuation of “sectarian violence” between Nigeria’s Muslim and Christian populations.

But that’s just so much pro-Muslim disinformation. It suggests that Nigeria’s Christians and Islamists are battling each other; that both religions are equally responsible for bloodshed.

But nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is Nigeria’s sectarian violence has been decidedly one-sided.

There is no Christian terror group that has declared its intention to kill all the country’s Muslims. There are no Christian attacks upon mosques while the Islamic faithful are worshipping.

There are no 1,400 dead Muslims, victims of Christian violence.

There should be no mistake about what is happening in Nigeria, like other Muslim-majority countries throughout the world: Islamist terrorists are waging (un)holy war against Christians.

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Muslim-Americans Need to Stand Up For Their Country

September 13, 2012 By 2 Comments

MUSLIM LEADERS CONDEMNED THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. CONSULATE IN LIBYA.

I listened with interest yesterday as representatives of several leading Muslim advocacy organizations here in the United States issued statements in which they condemned the murder of our U.S. diplomats in Libya.

“We are outraged and shocked by the killings,” said Nihad Awad, National Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

His outrage and shock was echoed by representatives of the Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim American Society-Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, the Council of Muslim Organizations of the Greater Washington, D.C. Area, Libyan Emergency Task Force and Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center.

Well, I’m grateful that these Muslim organizations condemned the attack upon our Libyan consulate and its inhabitants. But I found their platitudes insufficient.

Because I believe it takes more than mere words for Muslim leaders – for the entire Muslim-American community, for that matter – to demonstrate solidarity with those of us who desire comity with Muslims, but who continue to be reminded of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against this country.

So words won’t do. America’s non-Muslim population is looking for tangible deeds that prove Muslim-Americans are truly with us.

Indeed, Imam Talal Eid, Islamic chaplain at Brandeis University criticized fellow Muslims for not doing enough against terrorism.

“The leaders of American Muslims should initiate a big demonstration,” he said, “to show that Muslims take the issue of terrorism seriously, otherwise people will ask what are those Muslims doing.”

Muslim Americans,” he said, “never initiated a big demonstration against terrorism and people of their own faith who commit these crimes.”

The American Islamic Congress, which wasn’t among the Muslim organizations that participated in yesterday’s news conference, agrees with Imam Eid.

“We could, as a community,” said Nasser Weddady, AIC’s civil rights outreach director, “take to the streets and protest” continuing Islamist attacks upon America.

How about Muslim-American protests outside the Libyan, Egyptian and Yemeni embassies in Washington?

Or how about a Million Muslim March on the mall in the Nation’s Capital, with Muslim leaders declaring their fealty to the United States and declaring that America’s enemies are their enemies – including those invoking “the prophet” and using the Koran to justify their acts of terror.

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Latest Proof Islam is No ‘Religion of Peace’

June 18, 2012 By 2 Comments

VICTIMS OF SUNDAY’S TERROR ATTACKS ON CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN NIGERIA

At least 21 people were killed Sunday in suicide bombings during worship services at three Kaduna, Nigeria churches.

They are the latest victims of Boko Haram, a radical Islamist sect. Its terror attacks on Nigeria’s Christian community have taken the lives of more than 560 innocent men, women and children so far this year, according to the Associated Press.

Such unholy murder of innocents attests that Islam is not the “religion of peace” its apologists claim. For Boko Haram feels perfectly justified to kill Christians – and any other non-Muslims – in the name of Islam.

In fact, violent attacks upon Christians in Muslim-majority countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia tripled between 2003 and 2010, according to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a research fellow at American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

In just the past 30 days, Muslim terrorists have murdered more than 1000 innocents and injured another 2000.

Last week’s toll included not only the 21 Christian worshippers killed in Nigeria Sunday, but also the 26 killed the day before by a truck bomb at a crowded market in Landi Kotal, Pakistan.

There were also four persons killed by machine gunfire last week, including a 90-year-old woman, in Parang, Philipinnes; 12 people, including several Christian evangelists, beaten down last week in Cairo, Egypt; and six casualties, including three children, of a Muslim grenade attack in Pattani, Thailand.

If Muslims were victims of such attacks, we would never hear the end of it. Especially if it came at the hands of the United States (orIsrael).

It would be all over Al Jazeera. There’d be a United Nations resolution condemning the attacks. President Obama would apologize for the U.S.and order reparations to the Muslim victims.

Yet, we hardly hear anything about the genocidal crusade against Christians throughout the Muslim World; hardly anything about the 3,000 victims of Islamist terrorism – Christians and non-Christians alike – over the past 30 days.

Not from the U.N. Not from human rights organizations. Not from the international media. Not from the Arab communities in the United States and other Western nations.

That’s because, while they may not condone terror, they sympathize with the “aspirations” of those behind the terror.

Those that believe the United Statesis “the Great Satan,” the epithet first used byIran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. Those that believe Israel should be “wiped off the map,” as Hamas, the Islamist terror group, declared. Those that believe that Christian minorities living in predominantly Muslim countries are “infidels” deserving of death.

Muslim terrorism is the great evil of our time; a clear and present danger that the civilized world ignores at its own peril.

For as the carnage in Nigeria demonstrated all-too-clearly, Islamist groups like Boko Haram mean to kill all of us who do not bow in obeisance to their god.

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Latest Muslim Terror Attack on Christians

April 29, 2012 By 1 Comment

ISLAMIST GROUP VOWS TO KILL ALL OF NIGERIA'S CHRISTIANS.

At least 16 Christians were murdered today while attending church services in Kano, Nigeria, the nation’s second-largest city. As many as 22 other worshippers reportedly suffered gunshot  wounds.

The massacre took place on the campus of Kano’s Bayero University. Police report that gunmen interrupted the church service and used small explosives to chase worshippers out before shooting those who fled.

This is but the latest violent attack upon Christians in Muslim-majority nations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Such attacks increased more than 300 percent between 2003 and 2010, according Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a research fellow at the America Enterprise Institute.

In no country do Christians face greater danger than Nigeria, where the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram (which means “Western education is sacrilege”) has publicly declared its intent to kill all Christians in the country.

And that was no idle threat.

In 2011, the terror group killed more than 500 Christians, while burning down or destroying more than 350 Christian churches. And Boko Haram continues its jihad against Nigeria’s Christian community in 2012, killing 54 in January, 38 this month at an Easter church service and, today, 16 murdered in Kano.

What particularly troubles is that the alarming increase in genocidal attacks against Christians witnessed not only in Nigeria, but throughout the Muslim World, has generated little outrage in the United States, Europeand the rest of the non-Muslim World.

Ali, who authored a recent Newsweek cover story on the Muslim “War on Christians,” attributes that unconscionable silence to the outsized influence of such well-financed lobbying groups as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Individuals and organizations that call attention to Muslim atrocities against Christians – like the attack this morning in Nigeria– are accused by those lobbying groups (and others) of being “Islamaphobic.”

Of course, that accusation is patently absurd. No less so than the claim that Islam is a religion of peace.

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