It is Christmas 2009, and …Muslims are busily blowing up churches and Christians all over the Islamic world and wherever possible. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab (allegedly) tries to blow up a plane Dec 26th 2009, 16:04 by The Economist | WASHINGTON DC IN WHAT American officials are calling "an attempted act of terrorism," Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian man who claims ties to al-Qaeda, allegedly tried to bring down a plane on Friday using an improvised explosive device strapped to his leg. Northwest Airlines flight 253 was headed from Amsterdam to Detroit, and Mr Mutallab apparently tried to detonate the device as the plane began to land. In the name of political correctness, we have … “tolerated†the often aggressive demands for mosques, public prayer, minarets, and loudspeakers on our own soil even though there is absolutely no reciprocity towards … IRAQ Two days ago, in Mosul, Iraq, the Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Thomas, founded in 770 AD, was bombed [Also in Mosul] The Syrian Orthodox Parish of the Immaculate Virgin was attacked a week ago. The Syrian Catholic Church of the Annunciation , the (Chaldean) Church of St Ephrem, and the St. Theresa Church were all bombed in Mosul in the last month. EGYPT Islamist “gangs†have been forcibly converting Christian children to Islam by drugging, kidnapping, gang-raping, photographing the rapes, blackmailing, and “marrying†the female child, as young as twelve, to Muslim men. he Monastery of Abu Fana in Upper Egypt has existed since the 5th century — Last year, Bedouin Muslims attacked the monastery, “destroying a small church and burning the monastery’s farm. Nine monks and monastery employees were wounded and four others were abducted.†PAKISTAN in Sargodha, Pakistan (in or near the Punjab), a mob of Muslim villagers, armed with clubs, spades, and axes attacked a showing of a film on Jesus, injuring three part-time evangelists very seriously as well as four Christians in attendance. The mob destroyed their appliances and absconded with funds. The mob also turned on Christian villagers who tried to intervene. TURKEY December 15, 2009, in Istanbul, in response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims … threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower. INDONESIA In the rapidly Islamifying Indonesia, in Jakarta, “hundreds of Muslims celebrated the eve of the Islamic New Year last Thursday (Dec. 17) by attacking a Catholic church building under construction … 1,000 men, women and children …walking in a New Year’s Eve procession stopped at the 60 percent-completed Santo Albertus Catholic Church building, where many ransacked and set fires to it, church leaders said. SOMALIA this month executed a young Christian whom they accused of trying to convert a 15-year-old Muslim to Christianity. Members of the Islamic extremist group al Shabaab had taken 23-year-old Mumin Abdikarim Yusuf into custody on Oct. 28 after the 15-year-old boy reported him to the militants. Yusuf’s body was found on Nov. 14 on an empty residential street in Mogadishu, with sources saying the convert from Islam was shot to death, probably some hours before dawn.†PALESTINE “fifty years ago, Christians made up 70 percent of Bethlehem’s population; today, about 15 percent…Practically the only place where the Christian population is growing is in Israel.â€In the West Bank, churches, Christian cemeteries, and Christian-owned businesses have been attacked and defaced. Christians have been leaving in droves. According to Benny Avni, the current “West Bank Christian population (not counting Jerusalem)…is now less than 8 percent of the population.†the persecution of Arab Christians in Bethlehem and especially on how the Western media has refused to cover this fact. “The disappearance of living Christian communities would signal the disappearance of religious pluralism and a moderating influence from the heart of the Muslim world. Muslims persecuted, colonized, and genocidally exterminated other non-Muslim groups too. … the Hindus in India who were under genocidal attack for 700 years; the Zoroastrians and Baha’i who were under attack in Iran; and the Armenians who were genocidally exterminated by Turkish Muslims. Why believing in something blindly without questioning and critique it? A religion that does not allow wrong questions is it truly teaching you good things?
You have links to sources to go with these? I'd like to read up some more on each incident... (no sarcasm)
In the city of Nazareth, Israel. 1948 : 70% Christian, 30% Muslim. 2009: 30% Christian, 70% Muslim. The Palestinian Christians mainly escaped to the city of Haifa, to live with the jewish Israelis who protect them from the Palestinian Muslims. For this Christmas, please watch a recent blessing from Al-qaradawi, a highly respected "scholar" in the whole Arab and muslim world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Er1ccZ5rg Merry Christmas again and happy new year from Israel.
Merry Christmas to you too. Nice video by the way. The real comedy comes from watching the video first and reading the complete Wiki second. From the Wiki: If that is a moderate, what does an extremist look like?