At Christmas, Christians in the Crosshairs in Allahstan

Subject:	At Christmas, Christians in the Crosshairs in Allahstan
Date:	Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:47:19 -0800 (PST)

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At Christmas, Christians in the Crosshairs in Allahstan
By Brenda Walker

VDARE.com readers are well aware of the War Against Christmas as an
attack by the Left, wielding immigrants, on the Western cultural
foundation of our society.

While this is vitally important, we also should not forget that
millions of Christians suffer by being unlucky residents of Muslim
countries, where their lives may be forfeit in Islam's 1400-year war
against the West.
The key question: why does America continues to welcome Muslim
immigrants at all, given their hostile behavior toward Christians in
their own countries?

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Middle East was 20 percent
Christian. Now, a hundred years later, the percentage is just five
percent=97due to Muslim terrorism and religious cleansing. So why do we
foolishly assume good will on the part of Muslims when they are
welcomed into our majority Christian society?

While Muslim immigrants (some, not all) can be enemies of America
generally, they are particularly belligerent to specific groups=97
including Christians, Jews, women, the blind, supporters of free
speech, and dog lovers (of both short-legged dogs and black canines).

It's not just the normal tribalism of all humans that affects Muslims.
Their bellicosity, ranging from daily intimidation to murder, reflects
the hunger of Muslims to remove all infidels from their territory.

And they regard the entire PLANET as their turf,=97as expressed in their
goal of universal rule by Islam, aka the one-world Caliphate as
proposed by Osama bin Laden.

As a result, insistent jihadis are inserting themselves into places
where they are not wanted, as they utilize immigration for conquest of
Europe and beyond. Meanwhile, the formerly religiously-mixed Middle
East is becoming more exclusively Islamic.

Certainly the American and other military forces have had their hands
full in pacifying Iraq. But it's significant that the safety of
Christians there has not been a priority. A recent news story in Iraq
(No Christmas celebrations in Basra, Alsumaria, December 21) noted
that local Christians could not celebrate the holiday because they
feared offending the city's Shi'ites.

The reason: Christmas this year coincides with the bloody Ashura
remembrance, which can be violent (15 were killed across the country
last year). Sensitive Muslims might become angered that Christians
were celebrating a joyful holiday while Shi'ites were in mourning mode
about the death of Mohammed's grandson in the 7th century Battle of
Karbala.

The daily stresses and threats have caused many of Iraq's Christians
to give up and leave. It's a tragic denouement after a two-thousand-
year history of Christianity in Iraq, and a population of one million
Christians prior to the 1991 Gulf War. (Under Saddam, the #2 man,
Tariq Aziz, was a Christian who helped keep the lid on anti-Christian
violence. Totalitarian regimes are good at making people behave.)

=93Behind the tinsel and carols lies the reality that Christians in Iraq
are a community under threat of extinction. Proportionally more
Christians are leaving Iraq than any other group.

=93Last week 100 Christian leaders and politicians of all religions held
an emergency meeting=97just before fresh violence broke out in the
northern city of Mosul, with attacks on churches and Christian
schools. On Tuesday a baby was killed and 40 people, including
schoolchildren, were injured in three simultaneous bombings. Two days
ago a Christian man was shot dead as he travelled to work.

=93=91It is terrible=92, said Fadi, 26, an electricity worker from Mosul wh=
o
asked that his real name not be used. =91Most of the Christians are
staying at home, or when they go out they watch their backs=92. In late
2008, killings of Christians in Mosul by insurgent groups left 40 dead
and 12,000 fleeing their homes. Fadi reeled off a string of recent,
smaller-scale attacks against Christians, fearful that the same level
of violence would return.=94 [Amid the carols and decorations, Iraq
Christians fear extinction, U.K. Times, December 19, 2009]

A Human Rights Watch report released last month said that two-thirds
of the million Christians in Iraq in 2003 had now left their homes.
About half of those had left the country.

Iraqi Christians live in dangerous territory that anyone would want to
escape. Attacks against them include bombing churches, like the
Baghdad blast on July 12 that killed four and injured 21. On the same
day, a Kirkuk city official was driving with his daughter through a
Christian neighborhood when he was pulled from the car and shot dead
in front of her.

That's the glorious Religion of Peace=97the same one praised by the Dear
Leader Obama in his June 4 Cairo speech to Muslims of the world,
bringing "a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country:
Assalaamu alaykum". (Transcript) This message was supposed to soothe
the angry beast of Islam, thanks to the magical persuasive ability of
Barack Hussein Obama. The President believed that his personal charm
campaign would find the Reset button for Islam's anti-West war that
has raged for over a thousand years.
But Islam's daily murders and terror attacks around the world continue
the same as they have since 9/11=97as counted by The Religion of Peace
website. It is informative to search for "Christian" on the body count
list.
And a Rasmussen poll, released November 2, found that only 16 percent
of Americans believed relations with the Muslim world would be better
one year from now=97the lowest level measured all year.
The Middle East is the home to three major religions. But one of those
faiths is being run out of town because Muslims can't abide anyone who
doesn't worship Allah. (For that matter, many don't even like fellow
Muslims, as the centuries-long conflict between Shia and Sunni
shows.)

For example, the town of Jesus' birth, once predominantly Christian,
is now characterized as "O Muslim town of Bethlehem" (U.K. Daily Mail,
Dec 16 2006) because of systematic persecution of Christians. Muslims
have been successfully practicing religious cleansing for centuries,
and know well how to drive out the unwanted tribe:
=93Life for Palestinian Christians such as 50-year-old Joseph has become
increasingly difficult in Bethlehem - and many of them are leaving.

=93The town's Christian population has dwindled from more than 85 per
cent in 1948 to 12 per cent of its 60,000 inhabitants in 2006.

=93There are reports of religious persecution, in the form of murders,
beatings and land grabs.=94
Elsewhere on the demographic warfare front: Palestinian Christians
were one-quarter of the population in 1948. Now they are only 2
percent and have one small town, Tiabe they can call their own.

The largest community of Christians remaining in the Middle East: the
Copts of Egypt. Their population is estimated in the CIA Factbook to
be nine percent (of 83 million!). The persecution is ongoing and
includes Islam's traditional oppression of non-Muslims plus violence
against individuals and churches.

One recent example: the rioting of hundreds against Christians in the
town of Farshoot over the rumor that a Muslim girl had been raped by a
Christian. A few days later the damage was toted up: 65 Christian-
owned shops were torched and vandalized at a cost of over $1 million.
The community refused to open their businesses without help from the
authorities, both financial restitution and prosecution of the
rioters. Plus, the girl had only described her attacker as wearing a
black jacket, and her family had not incited the mob.

Another day living as despised Christians under the Religion of
Peace.

Why don't religious leaders speak out against this violence? You may
ask.

It can be dangerous for clerics to say anything unfavorable about
Islam. In the 2006 Regensburg University lecture, Pope Benedict quoted
a negative remark by a 14th century Byzantine emperor, suggesting that
Islam might be a violent ideology. The worldwide Muslim squawk machine
immediately provoked anger and violence, with thousands of people
taking part in protests. Several churches were attacked in the West
Bank and Gaza. A Pakistan terror group issued a fatwa calling for Pope
Benedict's death. In Iraq, the priest Amer Iskender was kidnapped and
beheaded in retaliation for the Pope's speech.

You see almost none of this anti-Christian persecution reported in the
dinosaur media, since the press has chosen Muslims as designated
victims because of nonexistent "backlash" against them and other
liberal fantasies. So it was refreshing to see Sixty Minutes' recent
segment on the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church,
whose predecessors have lived in Constantinople/Istanbul since the
Emperor Constantine: Patriarch Bartholomew Feels "Crucified", December
20 (Watch).

There are no gangsters of Allah burning down the Patriarch's church.
But the Turkish government is working in more polite fashion to
exterminate the Orthodox Christians of Turkey, which now number only
4000 (down from two million in 1900). In 1971, the government closed
the Halki School of Theology, the only Greek Orthodox seminary in
Turkey. As a result, the church cannot train new priests. Since under
Turkish law the Patriarch must be born in the country, the sad end is
in sight.

=93The hallways where 100 young seminarians roamed are desolate now; the
library's priceless collection of old manuscripts lies untouched. Walk
into a classroom and it seems as if the students had just gone home
today, not 38 years ago.

=93=91This school prepared people who preached peace, preached unity,
preached love. So not giving to the church the possibility to prepare
these people, we offend human dignity,=92 Patriarch Bartholomew told
Simon.=94
The Patriarch is the equivalent of Rome's Pope to 300 million Orthodox
Christians around the world. But to the Turkish government, he is just
a local bishop. Turkey is 99 percent Muslim and it would prefer to
root out its tiny Christian diversity. Patriarch Bartholomew wants to
remain in Istanbul because of history, and because he is a loyal Turk.
But he is not welcome in his own country.

In fact, no non-Muslims are welcome in the land of Islam. Allah-free
persons may not even enter the city of Mecca. Places touted by
apologists as societies of "moderate Muslims" are rapidly becoming
more radicalized.
Indonesia has seen an increase in burqas and bombings, such as the
2002 Bali attack that killed over 200, many of whom were foreign
tourists. Turkey has pulled away from the secular democratic reforms
of Ataturk, as indicated by its election of an Islamic government.
Muslim jihadists are showing up in Thailand and are well established
in the Philippines.

My analysis here concerns mainly Christians. But Islam also murders
Buddhists, Hindus, African animists (in Darfur and elsewhere),
Zoroastrians, Sikhs=97anyone who comes into their sights.
Islam divides the planet into two parts: the lands of Muslims (dar al-
Islam, where sharia prevails) and the lands of war (dar al-Harb).
Referring to the latter, societies where other values rule (e.g.
America) are considered obligatory targets for jihad where the people
must be subjugated under the iron hand of Islam. The duty of Muslims
is to pursue one-world Islamic government.

Islam calls itself the Religion of Peace because it isn't. The Koran
promotes violence in at least 109 verses. What other religion feels
compelled to repeat its peaceful bona fides? Religion by nature is
supposed to represent the spiritual side of humanity that can reach
toward universal values of tolerance and respect. But Islam insists on
its way, period, no compromise, because it sees itself as perfect with
no need of improvement, and the rest of the world must accept its
superiority.

Do persons with such beliefs sound like good immigrant material? How
likely are Allah's soldiers to accept the traditional American ideal
of assimilation to our values of individual rights, representative
government, gender equality and separation of church and state? The
growing incidence of honor killings and "homegrown" terrorists
indicates not.

The experience of Europe should be a warning. But the diversity
enforcers in America=92s media and government still believe in a one-
world mosh pit of multiculturalism=97whether we little citizens like it
or not.
If we must have immigrants and refugees at all=97and the optimum number
based on national security, environmental protection and the economy
remains ZERO=97then Washington might consider welcoming more Christian
victims of Muslim violence instead of the perp tribe.

If Americans knew the extent of daily gratuitous violence and murder,
they would insist that we choose new neighbors more wisely.

Why would we would continue to admit hostile Muslims when there are
billions of friendlier people available?
Brenda Walker (email her) lives in Northern California and publishes
two websites, LimitsToGrowth.org and ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She
realizes that there are too many Christians (and others) to be rescued
by immigration to America. However, she thinks more Christian gun
ownership in dar al-Islam might make the often cowardly sons of Allah
think twice about attempting the traditional Islamic head removal.
As an example, Muslims residing in Switzerland were furious at the
vote against minarets. But there has been no violence in the famously
gun-loving country.