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Friday, July 14, 2023

Intro to Shamim Mehmood Opinion of Pakistan Mobilizing Muslim Protests Over Sweden and France

Shamim Mehmood (Photo from Daily Parliament Times 3/22/21)

 

Intro by John R. Houk, Blog Editor

Opinion by Shamim Mehmood

© July 14, 2023

 

These days as an American concerned about the Globalist/Marxist path the USA has openly hurdled toward since Barack Obama gained the reins of power, I have focused on American Liberty and resisting the despotism seeping into American government and resisting the Marxist Critical Race Theory transforming America away from its Christian moral roots.

 

THERE WAS A TIME my focus was on Islam as an anti-Christian threat to the American heritage of Liberty and Christianity. During those days I focused much time on persecuted Christians in Muslim dominated nations. A huge source of information came from Shamim Mehmood – a Christian-Pakistani national. In those early days I knew him more as Shamim Masih and later (I don’t recall how) as Shamim Mahmood. I suspect much of the names are cultural thing for Christians trying to live and survive in an openly Islamic State. A few days ago, he contacted me on Telegram under the name Shamim Mehmood.

 

Shamim sent a brief journalistic opinion on how his homeland – Pakistan – is officially fomenting hostile protest of the actions on non-Muslims in France and Sweden.

 

Since many in my circles ignore the press these days recognizing it more as a propaganda mouthpiece for Globalist-Marxist transformation, I am convinced many are unaware that massive Muslim immigration to Europe has began wake up ethnic Europeans that Islam exists to force conversions or submit to the rules of Islamic Supremacy or else.

 

As such, those who demonstrate a dislike of Islam’s cultural impositions on the various European cultures of independent nations have been labeled by governments and the international press as Islamophobic racists (though I don’t fear Islam in a phobic manner, I do resist its culture as abhorrent to my Christian faith. THAT MEANS, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT I’M LABELED AN Islamophobic racist).

 

I don’t want to take too much away from Shamim’s July 10 opinion he sent to me to share, but many who think as I do and those ridiculed awakened Europeans have either read the hate in Islamic revered writings (Quran, Hadith & Sira) or have experienced the violence of Islamic Supremacism.  

 

For context on Shamim’s opinion on Pakistan government actions over occurrences in France and Sweden. France exploded into George Floyd-style rioting by Muslim youths over French Police shooting 17 year old Nahel Merzouk after fleeing in his car. If you listen to the Press and Globalist-Marxists, the shooting was the result of pervasive anti-Muslim racism in France. My guess is the shooting resulted closer to the Muslim Immigrant reputation for violence against non-Muslims. The kid may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and may have fled due to French Police beginning to become aggressive to Muslim Immigrants which are now becoming generationally indigenous. Opinions on the French situation which you might have to sift through the Left-Wing view: HERE, HERE & HERE.

 

The incident in Sweden that really chap the hide of Muslims causing massive protests and Muslim outrage – particularly in Muslim dominated nations – when a Christian from Iraq (Salwan Momika) living as a refugee in Sweden torched a Quran outside a Stockholm Mosque and actually got Swedish government permission to do so. AGAIN, you may have to sift through the Left-Wing perspective: HERE, HERE & HERE.

Salwan Momika torching Quran in Sweden 6/28/23 (Photo from Free Press Journal)

 

After the Shamim Mehmood opinion piece I’m going to share some videos relevant to Pakistan Muslim persecution of Christians which I pray enlightens readers to the hypocrisy of Muslim going nuts when they believe their faith has been blasphemed according to their so-called revered writings. The first video is a Facebook video interview I placed on my Bitchute Channel from March 2021 of Shamim describing his abduction, interrogation and torture by four Pakistani-Muslims.

 

JRH 7/14/23

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Anti-Islam Events in France & Sweden Displeases Pakistan

 

By Shamim Mehmood

Sent July 10, 2023

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Pakistan officially declared to arrange protests against the anti-Islam events happening in France and Sweden in the past few days led by the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif. [Blog Editor: Wikipedia Profile, Recent speech of political double-speak at Pro-CCP SCO Council Meeting – 7/4/23]

 

The state officially condemned the incident and said any anti-Islam move can't be tolerated in any shape of the freedom of speech/expression.

 

Different religious groups (some of them are called or declared militant by the government from time to time) have taken part in aggressively and have arranged protest rallies against the burning of the Quran in Sweden and France. [Blog Editor: I have not been able to locate recent Quran-burning in France. HOWEVER, Growing dislike for Muslim immigrants (some of which now can claim generational habitation) undoubted led to a police shooting resulting in the death of 17 year-old Nahel Merzouk sparked Muslim youth rioting in France a la George Floyd style. The Pakistan-government rabble rousing of its Muslim population is so full of hypocrisy since Pakistan is one of world’s biggest perpetrators of violence against its own Christian population.] The protesters raised slogans demanding the action should be taken against those involved in that incident and have expressed their anger by chanting anti-Christians' slogans and desecrating the sign of the cross at various places.

 

Reportedly, some Christians' religious leadership in Gujranwala (city of Punjab province) have been part of these rallies as well.

 

Principally I am not in favor of such actions, the reason behind that is that people living in the developed countries are neither aware nor can imagine the problems of the Christians people living in the Muslim dominated countries. And by such acts, their lives can become hell there. (A video clip can be seen in which the followers of Islam are recording their protest by desecrating the sign of the cross [Blog Editor: I attempted to locate a recent video clip of Pakistani-Muslims desecrating a Christian Cross with no luck. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist because Pakistani-Christians have experienced decades of Muslim violence over the most trivial perceptions of insults against Islam. AND it doesn’t take much to insult Islam because Islamic revered writings call for abhorrent violence against non-Muslim resistance to submission. You can do a Youtube search of your choice of wording and find decades of Muslim violence against Pakistani-Christians that had zero World mass protests against Western located Mosques or Muslim Embassies. Here is one news article example from 2005 under the title, “Christians hold open-air mass after Muslims torch churches”.]) Well, let me try to present an overview and practical steps can be taken by the state or people in large against such kind of incidents rather than this show.

 

It is to remember that the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) [Blog Editor: Of possible information Interest: OIC organization in relation to India (2/16/22); Video on OIC censorship Jihad (4:51-minutes 7/8/15) & 65 page PDF dated 6/5/15 entitled – “THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION’S JIHAD ON FREE SPEECH”] emergency meeting was called in and displeasure showed there as well. It can be considered that OIC members agreed and were settled-down by just issuing a statement.

 

Pakistan being an OIC member did not raise any question there though Pakistan [Pakistan to OIC 7/7/23: “Pakistan asks OIC to chalk out strategy against rising Islamophobic incidents”] can do that, but they staged protest rallies across the country and to show more love than others. Realistically it looks just formalities, because Pakistan can take some practical steps to show their love for Islam for example: Pakistan can officially call off its diplomatic relations with both European countries France and Sweden. And can demand to [not] restore its relations until they punish those individuals under blasphemy [of insulting Islam].

 

But it will not happen because Pakistan cannot face the damages taking such steps.

 

Secondly all those Pakistani [nationals] wanting to show their love for Islam, they can right away leave French and Swedish nations and move to their respective homelands. But I am sure neither state nor individuals will do so due to their personal benefits.

 

If this is not the case, should it be understood that the love and contempt of Islam is exhibited only when poor Asia Bibi  [SlantRight 2.0 & CPCR] or Sawan Masih or Zafar Masih [Blog Editor: After conducting a search on Duck Duck Go, I found a Christian Post story of the brother Zafar Masih telling the story of his sister Shazia Imran being kidnapped and gang raped then murdered by four Pakistani-Muslims: Christian woman abducted, killed for refusing to convert to Islam in Pakistan; By Morning Star News; The Christian Post; 7/4/23] [are] accused.

 

In fact, it is called hypocrisy! Isn't it?

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: INTERVIEW SHERAZ KHAN WITH SHAMIM MEHMOOD – DESCRIBES ABDUCTION, INTERROGATION & TORTURE IN PAKISTAN

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published July 14th, 2023 16:42 UTC

 

“A Pakistani Christian journalist was allegedly abducted and tortured by unidentified people in Islamabad on March 19.” The quote is from the original Facebook Video title in 2021: https://fb.watch/lNaikACTVA/

 

I’ve noticed in this interview there was polite but a little incredulity by the interviewer. You can decide. Notice in Sheraz Khan frame there is a Barack Obama photo. ANYWAY, Shamim relays his version of abduction, interrogation and torture in March 2021 in Pakistan. THANKFULLY, I’ve discovered Shamim now lives in the USA.

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Blog Editor: Below are links to a couple of posts on Shamim’s abduction by Muslims. The second post is a PDF from Persecution.org that implies a 3-month government Muslim crackdown against Christians perceived maybe embarking on breaking Pakistan’s stringent Blasphemy Laws:

 

o   Assaulted for hours after being kidnapped, Shamim Mehmood; By Staff Reporter; Daily Parliament Times; 3/22/21

 

o   Factsheet: Christian Persecution in Pakistan; Persecution.org; Quarter January 2021 PDF (8 pgs.)

 

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Bitchute VIDEO: 5 REASONS CHRISTIANS SUFFER IN PAKISTAN

Posted by SlantRight2

First Published July 13th, 2023 18:53 UTC

 

Original video from Youtube Channel Global Christian Relief (https://www.youtube.com/@globalchristianrelief/videos). Youtube video under shorts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mvy32E7Fy_4
Date posted: 6/16/23.

 

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Blog Editor: Here is a 3 and half minute of hypocritical support for Muslims protesting the burning of their Quran in Pakistan:

 

Youtube VIDEO: Pakistan Protests Against Quran Burning Despite Sweden's U-Turn As Outrage Envelopes Muslim Nations


 
Posted by TIMES NOW

Posted on Jul 5, 2023

 

MORE DESCRIPTION

 

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Blog Editor: AND NOW the actual face of Muslims in Pakistan toward Christians displaying their FULL hypocrisy when it comes to desecration and blasphemy:

 

Youtube VIDEO: 'Forced Conversion' Row: Mob Vandalises Church, Damages Statues in Chhattisgarh | The Quint


 
Posted by The Quint

Posted on Jan 3, 2023

 

On Monday, 2 January 2023, a protest organised by a group of tribals, led by right wing leaders, in Narayanpur district over alleged ‘forced ‘conversion of members of tribal community into Christianity turned violent, leaving a church vandalised.

 

An FIR has been lodged against 40+ people, and 9 others, including BJP's Narayanpur district president Roop Sai Salam, have been arrested so far.

 

A video of the incident captured a man vandalising a statue of Virgin Mary installed on the premises of the church. Another statue of Jesus Christ was damaged in the incident, too.

 

MORE TO READ

 

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Youtube VIDEO: Christian in Pakistan Given Death Penalty Over Blasphemy as Persecution Expert Reveals Awful Details


 
Posted by CBN News

Posted on Jun 15, 2023

 

A persecution watchdog is voicing profound concern about a Pakistani man who was reportedly given the death penalty after being accused of blasphemy. David Curry, CEO of Global Christian Relief, told CBN's Faithwire "Pakistan has some of the most difficult and stringent blasphemy laws in the world."

 

He described these regulations as "vigilante-type laws" that open the door to false accusations against Christians and other groups — claims that can lead to the death penalty. "[It] allows anybody to accuse somebody else of blasphemy within the Islamic law," he said. "And the reason why it's so problematic is because of the court system and the way these are adjudicated. You have somebody who's making a claim that, in most cases, can't be substantiated."

 

Beyond that, Curry said the definition of "blasphemy" is overly broad, meaning any offense deemed problematic by the accuser is all that's needed to wage a charge. Being a Christian, alone, could spark problems for some in places like Pakistan, with false claims also being perpetuated. "Punishment in Pakistan is the death penalty, so there's no proportionality to a particular situation," he said. "Anybody can make a charge that can't be validated."

 

Curry said blasphemy charges unfold "regularly" in Pakistan. As CBN's Faithwire previously reported, the most recent case involves Noman Masih, 22, who was recently handed the death penalty by a court in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, after being found guilty of blasphemy. Listen to Curry discuss his story and blasphemy more broadly.

 

MORE TO READ

 

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Youtube VIDEO: Gravitas: The Abysmal state of Christians in Pakistan


Posted by WION

Posted on Apr 10, 2023

 

Pakistan's Christian community is increasingly coming under attack. The Pak mission at the UN is facing calls to take concrete action. Molly Gambhir reports.

 

MORE TO READ

 

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Blog Editor: AND I RAN into this Jihad Watch post as I was preparing this today:

 

Germany: Qur’an burned, thrown out window of moving vehicle outside mosque

 

By CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

July 14, 2023 9:00 AM

Jihad Watch

 

The intense reaction of multitudes across the Muslim world (including the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) demonstrates the expectation that free societies can and will be pressured into conforming to Islamic blasphemy laws. Most recently, the UN Human Rights Council passed a Pakistani resolution calling for action against “hatred of religion” (a.k.a. offense to Islam). Now it’s backfiring. More specifically:

 

The resolution calls for the “review” of Western laws and calls on Western nations to “plug gaps that may ‘impede the prevention and prosecution of acts and advocacy of religious hatred.’”

 

Islamic leaders globally continue to condemn a Qur’an burning while turning a blind eye to the widespread persecution of Christians in Islamic countries. But how well is this strategy working, as the Muslim world and the West stand at a crossroads?

 

Many people recognize the danger of submitting to Sharia blasphemy tenets, and so the pressure that is being put on Western societies may well backfire.

Mosque-Germany

 

“Quran burnt, thrown from moving vehicle outside mosque in Germany,” Anadolu Agency, July 10, 2023:

 

Quran was burned and thrown from a moving vehicle in front of a mosque in southwestern Germany, the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) confirmed Monday.

 

The incident happened in front of the Mimar Sinan Mosque in the town of Maulbronn, located in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, from a moving vehicle.

 

Osman Adıbelli, director of the mosque association, said the incident took place on the night of Saturday, July 8.

 

“After the incident, when we reviewed surveillance footage of our mosque, we saw that an object was thrown in front of the mosque from a vehicle on the main street. Around 4:45 a.m. (0245GMT), our congregation members who came for morning prayers noticed a burned Quran at the entrance of the mosque,” he explained.

 

Adıbelli said they have filed a criminal complaint over the incident and added: “Due to the reflection of the headlights of the vehicle approaching the front of the mosque we do not know the license plate number or how many individuals were involved in the attack.”…

 

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Monday, December 12, 2016

Which Button is Acceptable?


I ran across this awesome photo post about Leftist hypocrisy about Flag burning and Free Speech issues. The photo has probably made the rounds on G+ Communities but I found it at the Crusader Community on Dec 06, 2016 posted by Sylvan Khater.

Khater this is an awesome analogy that should drive the point about nutty multiculturalists!


Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Burning the Quran will Factor in the News Again

Burn Quran - Terry Jones
John R. Houk
© June 18, 2012

I know that most sane people believes that Terry Jones is a Muslim-hating crank covered in the auspices of a Christian Church and an academic doctorate. The thing is though his politically incorrect agenda to burn Qurans and stand on the roof tops proclaiming that Islam is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution is absolutely a good thing.

The Quran commands Muslims to convert, humiliate or kill Jews and Christians. Why? Jews and Christians believe the Bible (Pentateuch-Torah for Jews and both Old Testament and New Testament for Christians) is the Word of God while the Quran is a collection warped lies plagiarized from the Bible. The Quran actually claims the Holy writings of the Bible that pre-date Mohammed and the Quran is a pile of paper deception.

As an American Christian the anti-Liberty, Jew-Hatred and Christian-hatred embedded in the Quran, the Hadith and the Sira are quite enough to peacefully expose the nature of Islam and Sharia Law as it affects the Constitution, Judaism and Christianity. I placed the words ‘peacefully expose’ to remind non-Muslims living under the authority of the U.S. Constitution cannot and must not use violence against another religion even a theopolitical religion such as Islam. In America Religious Freedom and Free Speech are guaranteed by the very Constitution that purist Muslims desire to destroy. HOWEVER, Religious Freedom and Free Speech does not give a pass to anyone – religious or political ideology or both – to commit acts of violence against people living under the rule of law defined by the U.S. Constitution. Acts of violence aimed to illegally bring down Constitutional government is treason and should be treated as such.

Terry Jones is not committing ANY acts of violence against people when he publicly announces he is going to burn 2,998 Qurans representing the deaths of Americans by Muslims killing in the name of Allah just as the Quran commands to do against those that refuse Islamic Supremacism. Note the violence perpetrated on 9/11 was done by Radical Muslims against working Americans who for the most part had no idea their political system under the U.S. Constitution insulted Islam so much that Islamic honor required retribution.

Leftists are blind multiculturalists so I can see their extreme dislike of Terry Jones. Most upstanding Conservatives especially Republicans condemn Terry Jones because they have brainwashed that criticism of Islam is hate-speech thanks to the hard work of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the multiculturalist mindset of European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) complicity with the OIC agenda to squash all criticism of Islam.

In writing all this below is the latest public announcement from Terry Jones announcing another World Burn the Quran day scheduled for September 11, 2013. The synopsis below the video directs you to go to the website Stand Up America for more details.

JRH 6/18/13
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Posted by StandUpAmericaNow Youtube Channel
Posted Apr 12, 2013

Stand Up America Media Release
WORLDWIDE BURNING OF 2,998 KORANS ON SEPTEMBER 11th, 2013

By Dr Terry Jones
Email Sent: June 17, 2013 5:22 AM
Sent from: Stand Up America Now
Tampa Bay, Florida - location securedWorld Wide Burning 2998 Korans

We have secured a location in the Tampa Bay area for our September 11th event. We will be releasing the location in the near future.


The radical hand of Islam shows itself with violence against anyone who dares to stand up and speak the truth. We at Stand Up America Now will not back down. We will not be silent.

Abraham Lincoln said,
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

On September 11th, 2013, to remember those who were murdered by radical Islam, and to send Islam a very clear warning, that they will not get their foothold in the American Constitution as they have done in Europe, we will be holding an International Burning of 2,998 Korans, representing one for each individual who was murdered in the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
 

President Obama is a aggressively working to convince the American public that criticism of Islam is a violation of a Muslim’s civil rights. The American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee met last week with top Department of Justice official, Bill Killian. Both groups agree: federal civil rights laws are violated by those who post "inflammatory documents" aimed at Muslims on social media.

Peaceful speech and expression is fully within our civil rights!  Criticism of Islam cannot be avoided, especially in light of recent events. While this scrutiny is to be considered "inflammatory," the murderously inflammatory words of the Koran and the teachings of Islam's leaders are protected.  We are on an extremely dangerous path as a nation!


The Boston Marathon attack: murders in the name of Islam
 Tsarnaev Bros at Boston


The Woolwich, UK, killing of British soldier Lee Rigby
The Woolwich, UK, killing of British soldier Lee Rigby


The stabbing of a soldier in France, again by a Muslim
The stabbing of a soldier in France, again by a Muslim

ALL committed by men acting on the teachings of Islam and the Koran!





Stand Up America Now, invites you to send Korans to: 
5805 NW 37 Street, Gainesville, Florida 32653





Thank you,
Dr Terry Jones
Stand Up America Now


This poster was featured in a recent Inspire Magazine published by al Qaeda in Yemen. (Source: MEMRI.org)
This poster was featured in a recent Inspire Magazine published by al Qaeda in Yemen. (Source MEMRI.org)

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John R. Houk
© June 18, 2012
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

When will the West Understand what is Actually Outrageous?


John R. Houk
© April 13, 2011


The Quran Burning incident sponsored by Pastor Terry Jones has moved into the old news of the past. The incident that occurred on March 19 caused an outrage in the Muslim world that resulted in Muslims attacking Christians and their property. This was particularly the case in Afghanistan in which some U.N. workers that I presume the crazed Muslims believed were Christians (chances are the U.N. workers were Western secularists more than practicing Christians) were assaulted, killed and beheaded.

Of course condemnations came from the West and even the U.N. which was levied at Muslims who were probably connected to the Taliban enemies American troops are fighting. Unfortunately though, the condemnations of the murdering Muslims were soon followed by denunciations of the considered outrageous act of burning the Quran from Western and American outlets.

I have to qualify my reason for saying “unfortunately”. I say unfortunately because I do not consider the Quran burning an outrageous act. I do consider Pastor Jones’ publicizing of the event and the national MSM picking up the story as bad judgment on Pastor Jones’ part.

Part of the mission of NATO coalition under American leadership to secure Afghanistan from the radical Islam of the Taliban and al Qaeda is to win the support of supposed sane minded Muslim citizens. This was the success point of the Iraq Surge that has rendered Islamic terrorism into incompetence and has given the new Iraq government a good path to govern their own nation without massive American troops entrenched into a quagmire of blood. The Muslim populace became weary of Islamic terrorism targeting Muslim citizens and began to choose American troops as the lesser of two evils in their perspective of living lives without daily violence and murders.

If the American strategy is similar in Afghanistan then the public nature of burning a Quran which was picked up on rapidly by Taliban propagandists did indeed harm the military mission in Afghanistan. In other words Burn the Quran day did not help our American troops fighting for the American way of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Thus we see and hear of military leaders like General Petraeus condemning the Quran burning in no uncertain terms.

Now here is an angle to the Quran burning that I discovered thanks to (STOP) RadicalIslam.com. That website did a cross post of Raymond Ibrahim’s article entitled, “Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians - Which is Worse?

Ibrahim’s point is that the MSM went out of its way to condemn Pastor Terry Jones and the burning of the Quran as an evil incitement and a hate-act effrontery toward Islam. AND YET, the MSM never places front and center the worse effrontery toward Christianity of Muslim Supremacism continually persecuting Christians by suspending their civil rights, assault, property destruction (including Churches), defacing of Christian symbols of worship (INCLUDING THE BIBLE), forced conversions, murder and rape. These horrendous acts occur in the Muslim Middle East on a habitual basis. The persecution is not an odd exception to the rule. The persecution of Christians is THE RULE!

Pastor Terry Jones sponsored one Quran burning in 2011. Did you read that? ONLY ONE! If chose to look for it you will discover the persecution of Christians occurs at least on a weekly basis in the Muslim world. The Christian fear of persecution is undoubtedly on a daily basis in the Muslim world. A good place to check on the constant persecution of Christians is the website ironically named The Religion of Peace.

So let’s rethink this question in light of what really happens in the Muslim world: Which is worse – burning a Quran in America or the torturous daily fear of persecution in Muslim dominated nations?

Be sure to check out Raymond Ibrahim’s article on this kind of thinking.

JRH 4/13/11
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Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians - Which is Worse?

By Raymond Ibrahim
April 8, 2011
(STOP) RadicalIslam.org
Originally Published: FrontPageMag.com


The now infamous Koran burning by Florida pastor Terry Jones has created hysteria in the Muslim world. In Afghanistan alone, some twenty people, including U.N. workers, have been killed and beheaded to screams of “Allahu Akbar!” Western leaders around the globe—including Obama and members of Congress—have unequivocally condemned Jones’ actions (without bothering to point out that freedom of expression is a prized American liberty). Many are even blaming the deaths in Afghanistan directly on Jones; Bill O’Reilley says he has “blood on his hands.”

Yet, as Western leaders rush to profess their abhorrence at what one American did to one inanimate book, let’s take a quick look at what many Muslims are doing to many living and breathing Christians around the Islamic world—to virtually no media coverage or Western condemnation:



• Afghanistan: A Muslim convert to Christianity was seized and, according to sharia’s apostasy laws, awaits execution.

      • Bangladesh: A Christian man was arrested for distributing Bibles near Muslims. Since Wednesday, thousands of Muslims have been rioting, injuring dozens—not because of Jones, but in protestation of women’s rights.
      • Egypt: A Muslim mob burned down another Coptic church and dozens of Christian homes; when Christians protested, the military opened fire on them while crying “Allahu Akbar,” killing nine. Another mob cut a Christian man’s ear off “according to sharia.”
      • Ethiopia: Muslims went on a rampage burning down nearly 70 churches, killing at least one Christian, and dislocating as many as 10,000. Christians living in Muslim majority regions are being warned to either convert to Islam, abandon their homes, or die.
      • Malaysia: Authorities detained and desecrated thousands of Bibles.
      • Pakistan: Two Christians were shot to death as they exited church; a Christian serving life in prison for “blasphemy” died in his cell under suspicions of murder.
      • Saudi Arabia: An Eritrean Christian has been arrested for sharing his faith with Muslims and is facing the death penalty; other missionaries continue to languish in Saudi prisons.
      • Somalia and Sudan: Christian girls—including a mother of four—were recently abducted, raped, and killed for embracing Christianity.

    It should be borne in mind that none of these atrocities were performed in retaliation to Jones’ Koran burning; they’re just business as usual in the Muslim world. Moreover, the above list is but a quick and cursory sampling of the very latest in Christian suffering under Islam. Were one to include persecution from just a few months back, one could also mention the jihadist attack on a Baghdad church, killing 52 Christians; the New Year’s eve Coptic church explosion, killing 21; Muslim rampages that destroyed several churches in Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Philippines; Iran’s “round up” of some 70 home-worshipping Christians; and Kuwait’s—a nation that owes its very existence to U.S. war sacrifices—rejection to build a church.

    Then there are the countless atrocities that never make it to any media—the stories of persistent, quiet misery that only the victims and local Christians know.

    One would have thought that all this was at least equally deserving of media attention and Western condemnation as the burning of a Koran. This is especially so considering that, whereas only Jones is responsible for his actions, many of the aforementioned savageries—arresting and executing Christian missionaries and Muslim apostates, destroying or outlawing churches, seizing and desecrating not one but thousands of Bibles—are carried out at the hands of Muslim authorities and governments deemed U.S. “friends-and-allies.”

    Such is the surreal and increasingly irrational world we live in, where irate Muslims and groveling Westerners obsess over the destruction of one book while ignoring the destruction of many human lives; where a guaranteed and hard-earned American right—freedom of expression—receives a lot of condemnatory huffing and puffing from those charged with protecting it, while murderous, barbarous—in a word, evil—behavior is devoutly ignored.

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    When will the West Understand what is Actually Outrageous?

    John R. Houk
    © April 13, 2011
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    Destroying One Koran vs. Destroying Many Christians - Which is Worse?


    Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum and author of The Al Qaeda Reader.
    Copyright © 2009 (- 2011) Clarion Fund, Inc. All rights reserved.

    Monday, April 4, 2011

    Quran Burning and Afghanistan



    John R. Houk
    © April 4, 2011

     Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan have used the Quran burning (about 17 minute mark) inside the walls of Pastor Terry Jones’ Church is being used as a propaganda tool to enrage the Muslim Afghan majority. There have been violent protests by Muslims over an incident enacted by a Pastor fed up with the theopolitical nature of Islam which embraces violence as a propagation tool and as a submission tool against Muslim believers and non-Muslims (kafir) alike.

    Military commanders among the NATO forces battling the Taliban have ran into a public relations problem with the Afghan populace who have been ingrained with Islamic Supremacism hence the rioting. Part of the strategy against the Taliban is to win the sympathy of the Afghan people for the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai and antipathy toward the purist Islam of the Taliban. NATO commanders have begun condemning the burning of the Quran in the small Church in Florida.

    I have no doubt the United Nations will cite it’s don’t blaspheme Islam (Defamation of Religions) resolution to condemn Pastor Jones probably with a call for criminal charges because the religion of peace executed seven U.N. workers in Afghanistan.

    With the NATO commanders coming down strong in condemning the Quran burning undoubtedly to appease the populace they are fighting to keep free from intolerant purist Islam of the Taliban, could there be a move in America to criminalize those of us that openly condemn the violent nature of Islam. Will Christians who evangelize in America be accused of hate because part of that preaching is telling the Good News of deliverance from participating in the dark world that promotes violence and moral impurity?

     Islam promotes violence against non-Muslims determined to not bowing down to Islamic Supremacism and against Muslims who have determined to walk away from submission to Islam. Pastor Terry Jones allowed the Quran to burnt in such a public manner may have been a mistake; however its symbolism to expose that Islam is inimical to America’s Christian foundation and inimical to the U.S. Constitution is a valid act.

    Where is the outrage over how Islam persecutes Christianity in Muslim lands? Christianity is violated by the ability of Muslims to destroy property, kidnap children to force conversion, kidnap women to force conversion or to rape and squelch any form of Christian worship including the open use of the Holy Bible in public. This treatment of Christians occurs all over Muslim dominated nations even in Afghanistan.  

    The question should be: Is Quran burning by a small group in a small Church an incitement to global hatred or is the open persecution of non-Muslims in Muslim lands incitement?

    JRH 4/4/11