Christianity 'Close To Extinction' In Middle East

[Odinson]

I hear the christians are taking over in asia. They have some kind of mega-churches in there.

[Gary Oak]

Well Nigeria isn't in the middle east but it might as well be if you consider th behaviour of these evil muslims. Kidnapping girls to force them to convert and yet muslims think this is okay. Are islam make muslims mentally ill ?

Islamic Terror Group Demands Christian Women Convert Or Die

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The kidnapping of a young Christian woman and her forced conversion to Islam is part of an inhuman new strategy used by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram to rid the region of Christians, experts told FoxNews.com.

After her escape from captivity of the radical Islamists, the 19-year-old Hajja told Reuters

[Gary Oak]

Here are some new cases of evil muslims persecuting christians. Can you imagine their whining and terrorist activities if they ever were so victimised ? It's time for some fmore smart bombs to get dumb and blast these guys to @#$% Whe I hear political correct mindnumbed freaks complain of how poor little palestinians are kept out of Israel I always inform them on how these same poor little palaestinian animals persecute their own non muslim population far worse.....yet that for some reason is acceptable.

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[Blue Frost]

Three American Teachers Slaughtered for Christian Faith
December 16, 2013 by Raymond Ibrahim
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Why was Ronald Thomas Smith II, an American teaching at Benghazi

[Gary Oak]

How can muslims see themselves as anything but extremely evil ?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/another-dark-c ... 46241.html

[Blue Frost]

The Jihadist Cleansing of Christianity from Muslim Countries
December 25, 2013 by Robert Spencer 40 Comments
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Egyptian Copts are the largest community of Christians left in the Middle East

Christians in Muslim countries are awaiting Christmas not with joy, but with trepidation.

Fox News reported that in Iraq,

[Blue Frost]

Yet Obama, and friends love them

[Blue Frost]

More on the post you posted Gary

[Gary Oak]

Muslims apparently were even more evil than usual last year


It Was Terrifying Being A Christian In 2013 - The Most Horrific Persecution Stories Of The Year

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Despite the fact that Christians make up roughly a third of the world's population, there are still large pockets of the planet where they are targeted and hunted down simply because of their faith in Jesus Christ.

Below are just six among hundreds of stories of persecution from the bloody, painful and tumultuous year of 2013 for Christians around the globe.

1. Nigeria's Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen Slaughter 1,200 Nigerian Christians

"Statistically, we are looking at approximately 60 percent of the world's Christians that were killed for their faith last year was in Northern Nigeria," Ann Buwalda, executive director of the Jubilee Campaign.

Recently named on the U.S. terrorist's list, Boko Haram has waged war against Nigerian Christians living in the northern part of the country in hopes of driving them to the South, where the majority of Christians already reside. (The country's Muslims live predominantly in the North.)

To achieve its ends, the group, along with Fulani Herdsmen, have carried out bombings, mass shootings and kidnappings, leaving Christians fearful for their lives. The Nigerian government had attempted to grant the group amnesty in April, in hopes of them ceasing their fight, but the group rejected the offer. Still, in one hopeful sign, some church leaders suggested in November that the sophisticated guerilla operation now operates more as a "bandit gang."

2. Pakistan's Largest Attack on Christians Claims 82 Lives

"In every family, one or two people were killed, so how can we celebrate Christmas? There will be no happiness," Nasreen Anwar, 35, on the blast that killed her 14-year-old daughter in the blast and severely wounded her nine-year-old daughter, to the AFP.

Eighty-two people died after a double suicide bomb exploded immediately after a church service let out at All Saints Church in Peshawar on September 22. Within the tiny community, almost no family was untouched by the attack, which was timed and strategized for maximum carnage -- metal ball bearings were packed into the bombs.

The attack highlighted the peril of Pakistani Christians, who make up 1.6 percent of the country's 179 million population. Beyond bombings, Christians have also been victim to "blasphemy laws," or legislation that enables Muslims antagonistic to Christians to accuse and prosecute them -- at times on flimsy grounds -- of smearing their faith.

3. Islamists Torch, Destroy and Vandalize over 70 Christian Churches and Institutions

"For weeks, everyone could see these attacks coming, with Muslim Brotherhood members accusing Coptic Christians of a role in Mohammad Morsy's ouster, but the authorities did little or nothing to prevent them," Joe Stork, acting Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, remarked back in August after Islamists wrecked havoc on their Christian countrypeople.

The year 2013 means something noteworthy to every Egyptian. The military overthrew the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohammed Morsi in June, but Christians will mark this year much more grimly.

They will count the number of churches attacked (79 in August alone), a drive-by shooting at a Copt wedding in Cairo in October that killed four, and a several-month-long Islamist seize of Dalga, where the Christians that did not flee the takeover, found themselves essentially under house arrest and according to some reports, forced to pay a jizya or overseer tax to the Islamist government.

Ten percent of Egypt's population who been part of the country for hundreds of years despite years of persecution, the Christian community is resilient and yet rightfully concerned about where they will fit in in a post-Mubarak state.

4. Syria's Civil War and Rebels Increasingly Threaten and Target Christians

Despite the fact that some of Syria's Christian communities are so old that they still speak Aramaic -- the same language Christ is believed to have spoken -- a civil war that began in 2011 is threatening to displace the centuries' old community.

Once an uprising aimed at removing President Bashar Al-Assad from power, rebel groups have been increasingly dominated by Islamists who have targeted Christians specifically through kidnappings and other forms of persecution. At other times, Christians, who before the war made up 10 percent of the country's 22 million person population, have found themselves in the epicenter of the fighting.

For instance, this fall in Maaloula, a tiny hillside ancient Christian village, fighting between rebels and the Syrian government army, caused the majority of the town's residents to flee. A war that has already created more two million refugees currently seems likely only to generate more in 2014, with more of those being the country's dwindling population of Christ followers.

5. Pastor Saeed Abedini's Imprisonment in Iran - One Among Many

The 33-year-old who hails from Idaho has been imprisoned since Sept. 2012, when members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard detained Saeed Abedini for his faith. He had been visiting Iran to meet with his family and move forward on opening an orphange.

Since his imprisonment, overwhelming concerns have been expressed about Abedini's health, after he was brutally interrogated after his initial detainment, and who has had difficulty receiving medical attention from prison staff and had to fight two months to receive outside professional help earlier this year. Despite international pressure from Secretary of State John Kerry and the White House, Iran has yet to budge and Abedini's fate remains in the hands of President Hassan Rouhani's government.

He is but one Christian out of scores believed to be imprisoned in Iran for their faith.

6. Continued Hardship in North Korea

While no single story regarding the plight of North Korean Christians landed prominantly in international news this year, that can likely be attributed to the regime's secrecy, rather than any break in suffering. The country made Christian persecution advocacy group Open Doors International's World Watch List for the 11th straight year for a reason: Christians can expect to "face arrest, detention, torture, even public execution."

North Korea also banishes Christians to labor camps, one which reportedly is home to 6,000 Christians. Despite the hardship both of being a Christ-follower and citizen in North Korea, Open Doors estimates that there are up to 400,000 Christians in a country of 25 million.


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[Blue Frost]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ They never stop

[Gary Oak]

What a coincidence ! Most of these nations are muslim.

http://www.wnd.com

The isolationist regime of North Korea once again tops the Open Doors USA list of the world

[Blue Frost]

Nasty world, it's not just them it's getting worse here being socialism has creeped in the door.

[Blue Frost]

Killings of Christians by Islamists Doubled in 2013
January 17, 2014 by Majid Rafizadeh
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Egyptian Copts are the largest community of Christians left in the Middle EastAccording to Open Doors, a non-denominational group that supports persecuted Christians worldwide, the official number of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled in 2013, compared to 2012. According to the annual survey, the number of Christians killed in Syria in 2013 comes to more than the whole global total of 2012. Approximately 13 percent of the Syrian population is made up of Christians.

In the list of nations with the highest number of killings of Christians, Syria was followed by Nigeria, Pakistan, and Egypt. In its 2014 World Watch List, Somalia comes in at the top of the list

[Blue Frost]

The Ten Worst Places to be a Christian
January 24, 2014 by Majid Rafizadeh
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There are some common characteristics, intriguing trends and phenomena among the countries that have been specified as the top ten worst nations for Christians or religious minorities.

The top ten countries for persecuting Christians over the last year were ranked: North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Pakistan, Iran and Yemen, according to Open Doors USA, an organization that monitors and exposes Christian persecution around the globe. Particularly, the

[cc la femme]

In the top 10 countries for persecuting Christians over the last year

Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Pakistan, Iran and Yemen

I know there is a common factor among all of those.

Something about a common inherently violent supremacist ideology

Can't quite put my finger on it, but it will come to me

[cc la femme]

"islam" ... I knew it would come to me

[Gary Oak]

I doubt that I would enjoy living in Pakistan anymore than Pakistanis do. As we all know ... they want our destruction, want to live here though and want us to turn our countries into the same horrible disasters that islam has turned their nations into. Notice how the populace of these nations are predominately evil

April 01, 2014 | Christine Pasciuti

Christians living in Muslim dominated societies find themselves in constant fear that they may one day be accused of blasphemy - a crime that is punishable by death in some countries such as Pakistan.

The latest victim of such accusations is 27-year-old father of three, Sawan Masih, a Christian sanitation worker. Sawan was sentenced to death by hanging last week, accused by a friend with whom he quarreled in March of 2013 while both had consumed liquor, of blasphemy and insulting the Prophet Muhammad. According to a local resident, Dilawar Masih, "Both Imran and Sawan are close friends and the former has made the allegation only to settle a personal score because they had quarreled over some petty matter.

[Blue Frost]

Another, what a shame, and not a damn is cared by the liberal media.
I think I would walk 1000 miles to get away from Islam if in those countries, I for sure wouldn't have any kids to be tormented by the evil of Islam.

[Gary Oak]

Is there no end to the evil of Islam ?

The Middle East War On Christians

April 18, 2014 | Ron Prosser
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This week, as Jews celebrate the Passover holiday, they are commemorating the Bible's Exodus story describing a series of plagues inflicted on ancient Egypt that freed the Israelites, allowing them to make their way to the Holy Land. But over the past century, another exodus, driven by a plague of persecution, has swept across the Middle East and is emptying the region of its Christian population. The persecution is especially virulent today.

The Middle East may be the birthplace of three monotheistic religions, but some Arab nations appear bent on making it the burial ground for one of them. For 2,000 years, Christian communities dotted the region, enriching the Arab world with literature, culture and commerce. At the turn of the 20th century, Christians made up 26% of the Middle East's population. Today, that figure has dwindled to less than 10%. Intolerant and extremist governments are driving away the Christian communities that have lived in the Middle East since their faith was born.

In the rubble of Syrian cities like Aleppo and Damascus, Christians who refused to convert to Islam have been kidnapped, shot and beheaded by Islamist opposition fighters. In Egypt, mobs of Muslim Brotherhood members burn Coptic Christian churches in the same way they once obliterated Jewish synagogues. And in Iraq, terrorists deliberately target Christian worshippers. This past Christmas, 26 people were killed when a bomb ripped through a crowd of worshipers leaving a church in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood.

Christians are losing their lives, liberties, businesses and their houses of worship across the Middle East. It is little wonder that native Christians have sought refuge in neighboring countries

[Blue Frost]

The middle east was primarily Christian before the slaughter begin, people forget that.
Before that pagans, Jews, and Zoroastrianism.
Islam is the mass murderer over any other, and their hate filled book orders it.
You can say Christians did the same, but that would be a lie, they never killed on mass like Islam did, and many accepted Islam into their mist to be betrayed when numbers was right for them.