Boletim da Perseguição aos Cristãos: 19/11 a 30/11/2010

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Bulletin of Christian Persecution

November 19, 2010 - November 30, 2010

November 19, 2010 Egypt (Hat tip to Kitman TV via GatesofVienna) A brilliant new documentary from Swiss television detailing the harsh persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt. Related update HERE on the November 15th firebombing attack over the rumors of a romance between a Christian and Muslim. Indonesia More than 50 people from Islamic groups demonstrated against a church, chanting for it to stop worshipping during its Sunday service November 22, 2010 Iraq (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Iraq's Christian community comes under attack, again. Gunmen shoot and kill two shop owners in cold blood. Iraq (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Terrorist attacks against Christians have caused those living in Mosul to consider leaving the city according to Emil Shamoun Noona, the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul. Russia (Hat tip to Weasel Zippers via JihadWatch) The Moscow Patriarchate has condemned the attack on an Orthodox church in Ingushetia. He said that the church bombing was an attempt to spark an interreligious feud between Christians and Muslims. November 23, 2010 Pakistan Around 250 hard-line Muslims staged a demonstration in the central Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, warning the president not to pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for insulting Islam. More HERE. Afghanistan The the trial of a disabled man who faces the death penalty for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity has been postoned. Said Musa, 45, was to appear without a lawyer in front of a court where a judge was expected to use 'sharia', the word for Islamic law, to reach a verdict. November 24, 2010 Bangladesh Selim Panni refers to Jews and Christians as true evils and preaches killing them or raping female members of Jewish and Christian societies as "divine task". Egypt (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Muslims burn crosses and throw stones at Coptic Christians. Update HERE. November 25, 2010 Egypt One person died and 68 others were injured when Egyptian security forces halted construction on a Coptic church which according to the Sharia is against Islamic law. Update HERE. Tanzania Radical Islamists are suspected in the demolition of two church buildings on the island of Zanzibar as members of the congregations have since received death threats from Muslims. November 26, 2010 Iran A detained pastor of a major network of Christian house churches in Iran will be executed by hanging for "apostasy", or abandoning Islam. Pakistan Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari will not immediately pardon a Christian woman who has been sentenced to death for allegedly insulting Islam. More HERE. Egypt (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Al-Azhar attempted to persuade Egypt's Coptic Church to rebuff a US report claiming that Christians in Egypt were discriminated against. The Coptic Church had for the first time welcomed an annual US report on religious freedoms, saying there was indeed discrimination against Christians in Egypt. Iraq New death threats against Christians are terrorizing families and causing them to flee. Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for seven hand written messages found in various locations throughout Baghad. November 27, 2010 Iraq Iraqi security forces have detained a dozen militants suspected of helping take Christians hostage in a church siege that killed scores of worshipers and two priests last month. Pakistan A court in Pakistan has freed a Christian man who was wrongly jailed for 25 years for blasphemy after he allegedly defiled the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by touching it with unwashed hands. Algiers (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Algeria will put on trial four converts to Christianity from Sunday for "illegally opening a place of worship." Under a 2006 Algerian law Muslims or non-Muslims can only practise their religion after authorities agree to a place of worship. November 28, 2010 Pakistan A Christian teenager "wrongly" convicted of "blasphemy" against Islam was still recovering Sunday, November 28, after Muslim inmates nearly stoned him to death in a prison in Pakistan's northwest Punjab province. Pakistan The father of a Christian executive kidnapped in Pakistan's Punjab province said he fears his son will be killed on orders of senior Muslim managers. November 29, 2010 Ethopia A Christian in Ethiopia's southern town of Moyale who languished in jail for more than three months after he was accused of desecrating the Quran has been sentenced to three years of prison. November 30, 2010 Egypt Christian Copts worldwide were shocked and enraged at the use of live ammunition by Egyptian state security forces against unarmed Coptic protesters, causing the death of three Coptic young men while a four-year old child suffocated from tear gas thrown inside the chapel. Produced by Political Islam.com Publisher: Bill Warner; Edited by Asma Marwan Permalink Read more at www.politicalislam.com

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Boletim da Perseguição aos Cristãos: 1/11 a 18/11/2010

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Bulletin of Christian Persecution

November 1 - November 18, 2010

November 1, 2010 Iraq Jihadis kill 58 Catholic Christians in church in Iraq. Update HERE. See photos HERE (Hat tip to AtlasShrugs Warning: graphic images). UPDATE: Exiled Archbishop calls on Iraqi Christians to leave the country. UPDATE: Christian refugees head for France. Russia Two Russian Orthodox churches and one Baptist church were targeted by arsonists on Monday night. One of them was almost burnt to the ground. More HERE. November 2, 2010 Turkey On the night between 28 and 29 October, unknown assailants entered, in the cemetery of the island of Panagia Imvros and seriously vandalised 78 graves. Bangladesh Muslim villagers last month beat a 63-year-old Christian convert and his youngest son because they refused to return to Islam. November 3, 2010 Iraq Al qaeda group says Christians are legitimate targets for 'terrorism." November 5, 2010 Azerbaijan Police burst into a private home and arrested 4 of Baptist Christians "guilty" of praying together. Kuwait Islamic fundamentalists preventing the construction of a church in Kuwait.(Sharia law that says that Christians cannot build new churches or fix old ones). November 7, 2010 Israel (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Israeli authorities have charged the imam of a mosque in Nazareth with inciting violence against Pope Benedict and supporting al Qaeda and "global jihad." Malaysia (Hat tip to InfidelsAreCool ) Muslim converts to Christianity in Malaysia have been taken to Islamic camps to try to force them back to Islam. November 8, 2010 Iraq (Hat tip to JihadWatch) In another attack against Christians in Iraq, a week after the massacre in the Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad, two worshipers were killed. November 9, 2010 Pakistan A Christian woman is sentenced to death for committing blasphemy against Islam by speaking of how Jesus had died on the cross for the sins of humanity and asking Muslim women what Muhammad had done for them. More HERE. November 10, 2010 Iraq A string of anti-Christian bombings has cost six more lives in the wake of the Baghdad church bloodbath, sowing panic in Iraq's 2,000-year-old minority on Wednesday, many of whom now want to flee. More HERE. November 11, 2010 Iran Senior Islamic cleric calls on the Pope to "react to U.S. crimes and to… consider the Qur'an as holy as the Gospels and Torah and condemn the disgraceful act of torching the Qur'an. November 13, 2010 Egypt Muslim/Christian tensions boiling up in Egypt. Iran An Iranian Christian pastor was sentenced to be hung for apostasy. Europe An article on Christian refugees who are fleeing from Iraq to Europe and there is no mention of the cause. Why? Afghanistan Afghan convert to Christianity goes on trial for aspostasy. Background on this story HERE. November 15, 2010 Canada A Roman Catholic bishop speaks out about the persecution of the massacre of Iraqi Christians. Egypt Muslim attackers in upper Egypt started fires in Coptic Christian houses while Copts were still inside. Update HERE. November 16, 2010 Nigeria Muslim gunmen raided Ranwianku, attacking villagers with rifle fire and machetes; homes were burned and cattle killed. November 17, 2010 Mid-East (Hat tip to InfidelsAreCool) The Arab Christians of the Mid-East are being driven to extinction. November 18, 2010 Pakistan A man accused of blasphemy was shot and killed near his home in Lahore shortly after being granted bail by a court. November, 2010 Special Report from France Translated (Hat tip to derville, via AtlasShrugs) derville said... . . . As you probably know, Christian cemeteries in France are profaned about every two days: "In 2008, 275 Christian places of worship have been vandalized (146 cemeteries and 129 churches, chapels and shrines). The following year, the figures rose from 42% to 180 and 209. And for the first half of 2010, we are already at 288 acts listed, all Christian places of worship included. "(...) This increasingly aggressive climate against Christians now lead to church attacks. Christians stoned during mass in the Church of Viguier (5th November) Tuesday, November 2, around 18:30, when he celebrated Mass for the deceased in the presence of about sixty followers, two teenagers of North African origin have entered the church whose doors were obviously open. "They started throwing stones at people, and hard pine cones. They must have been 13 or 14 years old. A woman was slightly injured. [...] "With previous generations, we have the best possible relations. We even received last year the wishes of the Muslim community for Christmas. But there is a young generation with a more and more aggressive behavior, "says Bruno Garrouste. More HERE (Hat tip to IslamInEurope). Insulting tags and feces thrown on St. John Church in Avignon (12th November) For several months, Father Gabriel's church St. John's, has been the target of obscene and offensive tags and excrements. Last week, the fire was set at Cypress adjacent to the religious building, threatening to spread flames to the church. For this priest, "these acts have a direct link with what is happening in Iraq where Christians were attacked." At the outset, Father Gabriel talks about inter-community tensions and denounces "an increasingly aggressive climate and violence maintained by a small group of young people 12/13 years up to 16 years old." A few days before the burning of Cypress, a youth entered the church during mass, urinating on the porch saying, "We'll toast you all, you and your church." Produced by Political Islam.com Publisher: Bill Warner; Edited by Asma Marwan Permalink Read more at www.politicalislam.com

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Considerações sobre a perseguição muçulmana dos cristãos do Oriente

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In 2006, when Pope Benedict quoted history deemed unflattering to Islam, Christians around the Muslim world paid the price: anti-Christian riots ensued, churches were burned, and a nun was murdered in Somalia. That was then. Days ago, when a Christian in Egypt was accused of dating a Muslim woman, twenty-two Christian homes were set ablaze, to cries of  “Allah Akbar.” Countless other examples of one group of Christians in the Muslim world being “punished” in response to other Christians exist.

In fact, the recent carnage in Baghdad, wherein Islamists stormed a church during mass, killing over fifty Christian worshippers, was a “response” to Egypt’s Coptic Christian church, which Islamists accuse of kidnapping and torturing Muslim women to convert to Christianity. (Ironically, the well documented reality in Egypt is that Muslims regularly kidnap and force Christian women to convert to Islam: these accusations are part of a new trend whereby Islamists  project their own crimes onto the Copts.) And the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamists who perpetrated the Baghdad church massacre have further threatened Christians around the world:

All Christian centres, organisations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets for the mujahedeen (holy warriors) wherever they can reach them.”… Let these idolaters [Christians of the world], and at their forefront, the hallucinating tyrant of the Vatican [Pope Benedict], know that the killing sword will not be lifted from the necks of their followers until they declare their innocence from what the dog of the Egyptian Church is doing.

Of course, the clause “wherever they can reach them” is an indicator that it is the Islamic world’s Christians who will especially be targeted — since they are most easily reached.

This phenomenon — attacking one set of Christians, or non-Muslims in general, in response to another — has roots in Islamic law. The Pact of Omar, a foundational text for Islam’s treatment of dhimmis (i.e., non-Muslims who refused to convert after their lands were seized by Islam) makes this clear. The consequences of breaking any of the debilitating and humiliating conditions Christians were made to accept in order to be granted a degree of surety by the Muslim state — including things like giving up their seats to Muslims, as a show of “respect” — were stark: “If we in any way violate these undertakings for which we ourselves stand surety, we forfeit our covenant [dhimma], and we become liable to the penalties for contumacy and sedition [that is, they become viewed as “unprotected” infidels, and thus exposed to the same treatment, including slavery, rape, and death.].”

Moreover, the actions of the individual affect the entire group — hence the “hostage” aspect (everyone is under threat to ensure that everyone behaves). As Mark Durie points out, “Even a breach by a single individual dhimmi could result in jihad being enacted against the whole community. Muslim jurists have made this principle explicit, for example, the Yemeni jurist al-Murtada wrote that ‘The agreement will be canceled if all or some of them break it…’ and the Moroccan al-Maghili taught ‘The fact that one individual (or one group) among them has broken the statute is enough to invalidate it for all of them’” (The Third Choice, p.160).

This notion, that the actions of one affect all, plays out regularly in Egypt. According to Bishop Kyrillos, “every time there is a rumor of a relationship between a Coptic man and a Muslim girl [which is forbidden under Islamic law], the whole Coptic community has to pay the price: ‘It happened in Kom Ahmar (Farshout) where 86 Coptic-owned properties were torched, in Nag Hammadi we were killed and on top of that, they torched 43 homes and shops and now in Al-Nawahed village just because a girl and a boy are walking beside each other in the street, the whole place is destroyed.’”

Worse, as the world continues to shrink, the Muslim world’s indigenous Christians are being conflated with their free coreligionists in the West: perceptions of the latter affect the treatment of the former. Race or geography is no longer important; shared religion makes them all liable for one another. A dhimmi is a dhimmi is a dhimmi.

For example, aside from the Baghdad church massacre, Iraq’s Christians have long been targeted “over their religious ties with the West. … Christians specifically were targeted by Church bombings and assassination attempts owing to a perceived association with the aims and intentions of the occupying forces.” Little wonder more than half of Iraq’s Christian population has emigrated from the country since the U.S. toppled Saddam’s regime.

Historical precedents to this phenomenon are aplenty. Whereas the Copts today are cited as the reason behind the massacre of Iraqi Christians, nearly a millennium ago, Copts were massacred when their western coreligionists — the Crusaders — made inroads into Islam’s domains. Again, the logic was clear: we will punish these Christians, because we can, in response to those Christians.

It should be noted that this approach applies to all non-Muslim groups — Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. — living amidst Muslim majorities. Yet, because Christians are the most visible infidel minority in the Islamic world, most modern examples relate to them. The Copts are especially targeted because they compromise the largest Christian bloc in the Middle East. (Centuries before the Muslim conquests, Egypt was a bedrock of Christianity, and Alexandria arguably equal to Rome in authority. The result is, after centuries of persecution, there is still a viable Christian presence in Egypt — much to the Islamists’ chagrin.)

Treating non-Muslim minorities as hostages can even have international consequences. According to Jewish writer Vera Saeedpour, the Turkish government pressured Israel’s policies, including by threatening “the lives and livelihood of the 180,000 Jews” in Turkey:

In the Spring of 1982 when Jews scheduled an International Conference on Genocide in Tel Aviv, they invited Armenians to participate. Ankara protested. The Israeli Government moved swiftly to get organizers to cancel insisting that the conference as planned would threaten “the humanitarian interest of Jews.” The New York Times explained what “humanitarian interest” meant. Organizers were told by Israeli officials that Turkey meant to sever diplomatic relations and had threatened “the lives and livelihood of the 18,000 Jews” in the country. (NYT 6.3.82 and 6.4.82) To drive home the message, Ankara even sent a delegation of Jews from Istanbul who warned that they could be in jeopardy if the conference included Armenians. Chairman Elie Wlesel was first quoted as saying, “I will not discriminate against the Armenians, I will not humiliate them.” Later, citing threats to the lives of Jews in Turkey, he resigned.

All this is a reminder that yet another aspect of Islamic doctrine and history — to be added to jihad, taqiyya, wala wa bara, etc. — is alive and well in the 21st century. Treating one set of non-Muslims as hostages, to be abused as a form of retaliation to their coreligionists — far or near, singly or collectively — is just another tactic to assume leverage against the infidel.

Raymond Ibrahim is the associate director of the Middle East Forum, the author of The Al Qaeda Reader, and a guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College. Read more at pajamasmedia.com

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Os 33 monges de Yang Kia Ping, mártires às mãos dos comunistas chineses

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33 Martyrs of Yang Kia Ping Theresa Marie Moreau at Veritas Est Libertas writes of the story of the 33 martyrs of the Trappist Monastery of Yang Kia Ping. The photo to the right is of Father Chrysostomus. Theresa tells of his fortitude at the final ludicrously unjust people's trial before he was shot with several of his brothers. Here is just a small section: Father Chrysostomus Chang plumbed the depths of his human will for a supernatural strength. With only a few minutes remaining of his life in the material world, he lifted his thoughts to the spiritual. Through screams from the mob, he addressed his confreres at his side one last time, to prepare them not for death, but for life, everlasting life. “We’re going to die for God. Let us lift our hearts one more time, in offering our total beings,” he said.

After being shot, the bodies of the holy monks were thrown into a sewage ditch where wild dogs came to lick their blood. The whole account tells of unspeakable active cruelty combined with the deliberate neglect of basic human needs. To make people walk around in soiled clothes because they have not been allowed to relieve themselves seems to me a particularly diabolical aspect of persecution from the French revolution onwards. It is designed to degrade the humanity of a person and break their spirit. It did not succeed with these holy monks. On the other hand, Theresa tells a tale of heroism, and the spiritual life lived with perfect fidelity even under the pressure of cruel physical and mental torture. Do read the whole story. These men should be canonised. Read more at the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com

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Beato Redento da Cruz, religioso, mártir, †1638

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Segunda-feira, dia 29 de Novembro de 2010 Beato Redento da Cruz, religioso, mártir, +1638 Saber mais sobre os Santos do dia Chamava-se Tomás Rodrigues da Cunha e nasceu em Paredes de Coura, em 1598, no seio de uma família nobre. Com 19 anos embarcou para a Índia e notabilizou-se como capitão da praça de Meliapor. Mas optou por outro caminho: o da ordem carmelita onde recebeu o nome de Redento da Cruz. Nos finais de Outubro de 1638, foi enviado com o Padre Dionísio da Natividade a Achem, na Samatra, onde foi denunciado como espião e posto a ferros. Os mouros decidiram negociar a libertação dos cativos, mediante a sua conversão ao Islão. Perante a recusa de abjurarem da sua fé, foram condenados a atrozes suplícios e à morte a golpes de azagaia. Read more at evangelhoquotidiano.org

 

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Beato Dionísio da Natividade, religioso, mártir, †1638

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Segunda-feira, dia 29 de Novembro de 2010 Beato Dionísio da Natividade, religioso, mártir, +1638 Saber mais sobre os Santos do dia Chamava-se Pierre Berthelot e nasceu na Flandres, onde hoje é a Bélgica, em 1600. Era navegador e, por vicissitudes várias, serviu a armada holandesa quando tinha vinte anos. Mas, em breve, trocou o reino da Holanda pelo de Portugal, onde foi nomeado cosmógrafo e piloto-mor. Em Goa, tentou em vão ser jesuíta. Mas, em 1635, acabou por ser aceite na ordem carmelita, onde recebeu o nome de Dionísio da Natividade. Já carmelita, participou na defesa de Goa mas, em 1638, quando se dirigia a Samatra acompanhando uma embaixada real, foi apanhado pelos mouros que o quiseram forçar a aderir à religião islâmica. Seguia com ele o irmão Redento da Cruz. Os dois, com mais sessenta companheiros, resistiram até ao martírio que ocorreu nos finais desse mesmo ano. Read more at evangelhoquotidiano.org

 

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Piedade muçulmana exige homicídio dos supostos blasfemos

E garante o Paraíso aos homicidas.

Que religião tão perversa. Satânica.

Sobre a perversidade da lei paquistanesa da blasfémia, leia http://nadadistoenovo.blogspot.com/2010/11/crista-paquistanesa-condenada-prisao.html.
Sobre os fundamentos teológicos islâmicos (passe o oxímoro) para a pena capital aos blasfemos, ler http://nadadistoenovo.blogspot.com/2010/11/pena-de-morte-para-blasfemia-no-islao.html.

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Ningún buen musulmán tolera a un blasfemo y el que lo mata va al Paraíso

Latif Masih, de 22 años y perteneciente a la Iglesia protestante (presbiteriana) abrió una tienda de telefonía móvil en su pueblo, Godhpur, en la región paquistaní del Punjab.

Un vecino musulmán llamado Ijaz Ahmed, hijo del ayatolá de la aldea, quería quedarse con el negocio. Tras varias agresiones físicas sin motivo alguno, a finales de mayo la Policía le fue a detener. Le llevaron ante el juez del distrito. ¿La acusación? Había sido visto quemando hojas del Corán.

Latif permaneció cinco meses en prisión provisional hasta que el denunciante, el propio Ijaz Ahmed, dudó en una declaración judicial. Aun así, al cristiano se le impuso una fianza. Volvió a su pueblo a primeros de noviembre. Como relata su madre, Masih Rubina Bibi, dos hombres armados con pistolas se acercaron hasta la casa y le conminaron a que los acompañara. Latif, resignado, los siguió. No se alejaron mucho, sólo unos pasos, antes de dispararle cinco tiros. Los asesinos huyeron en una moto. «Había varios policías en la calle, pero no intentaron detenerlos», se quejaba su madre, testigo de la brutalidad.

El jefe de la Comisaría local, Rafique Ahmed, se encoge de hombros: «Ningún buen musulmán tolera a un blasfemo».

La tragedia de Latif puede repetirse en el caso de Asia Bibi. Como advertía Fides Tahira Abdullah, musulmana y activista de derechos humanos, aunque el presidente Zardari haya concedido el indulto, «Asia saldrá de la cárcel, pero su vida estará en grave peligro. Los líderes islámicos dirán que una culpable de blasfemia ha sido liberada y querrán hacer justicia por su cuenta. Cualquiera puede matarla porque a quienes defienden el nombre del Profeta se les otorga el paraíso».

El indulto del presidente de Pakistán a Asia Bibi (que aún sigue en prisión) ha sido respondido con manifestaciones de islamistas en contra de esta decisión, pidiendo que se aplique la “ley antiblasfemia”.

El culpable de blasfemia es condenado a morir en la horca, el castigo que contempla la legislación del país por insultar a Muhammad. Las voces de la comunidad internacional clamando que fuera indultada Asia Bibi se intensificaron en los últimos días, tanto de entidades protestantes como católicas (con intervención incluida del Papa).

El perdón de la pena de muerte fue anunciado a la cadena CNN por el gobernador de Punjab, Salma Taseer. "No va a ser víctima de esta ley" contra la blasfemia, aseguró. Bibi, de 45 años, fue acusada de insultar al profeta y de cuestionar el Corán durante una acalorada discusión con unas compañeras de trabajo musulmanas, después de que estas se negaran a beber agua de un cubo que Asia Bibi había tocado, al considerarlo profanado y contaminado por manos cristianas.

No queda está claro que Asia Bibi –aunque de momento haya salvado su vida- vaya a ser puesta a corto plazo en libertad, tras 15 meses encarcelada. Su abogado ha presentado un recurso contra la sentencia ante el Tribunal Supremo que está pendiente de resolución. Está también por ver cuál será la reacción al presunto perdón presidencial de los islamistas. Ante el temor a que se produjeran disturbios, Bibi fue trasladada a un lugar seguro, por miedo a que su vida pueda correr peligro si los islamistas “aplican la ley” por su cuenta durante su encarcelamiento.

Una marcha convocada por grupos religiosos islámicos partió esta pasado sábado 27 de noviembre de Islamabad para exigir que el Gobierno no derogue la ley antiblasfemia ni conceda el indulto a Asia Bibi, entre otras demandas.

Un portavoz del Movimiento Sunnita aseguró que los manifestantes partieron de Islamabad y llegaron a la vecina ciudad de Rawalpindi pese al gran despliegue de fuerzas de seguridad. El portavoz del Movimiento Sufí cifró en 8.000 las personas que forman la marcha, pero una fuente de la Policía de Islamabad rebajó el número de manifestantes a unos centenares. Únicamente personas que confunden el bien con el mal, lo justo con lo injusto, lo recto con lo torcido, pueden catalogar a esta ideología islamista como Civilización. Zapatero, los relativistas éticos, los nostálgicos del Gulag y los amorales pueden creer que es posible la alianza con estos incivilizados y torticera y falsamente proclaman que es una Civilización. ¿Qué castigo recibirían todos estos multikultis, relativistas éticos, los herederos de Stalin, los Zapateros, los Zerolos, y los extrema izquierdistas, en Pakistán? A todos estos les convendría vivir un largo tiempo bajo la Shari´a para aprender más sobre la “civilización” que tanto admiran y por la que sienten tanta fascinación. Estos Zapateros y extrema izquierdistas son indiferentes ante la Ley de antiblasfemia y ante sus víctimas,  y no piden juzgar a los líderes islamistas como criminales contra la Humanidad. Ningún juez de la Audiencia Nacional pide someter a juicio a los dirigentes pakistaníes. Sólo tienen fuerza para vilipendiar a aquellos que consideran débiles, como a líderes israelíes y al Papa. Esto si que les reporta aplausos del rebaño de los mononeuronales del Pensamiento Políticamente Correcto. NOTAS Fuentes: El País, EFE, La Razón. Edición: ProtestanteDigital.com http://www.protestantedigital.com/new/nowleernoticia.php?n=18444 Read more at www.religionenlibertad.com

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Resistência à islamização da Holanda por parte dos cristãos

Se a Europa vier a resistir à islamização em curso, há-de ser através da afirmação dos seus valores cristãos, e não do multiculturalismo indiferentista.
Veja-se, a este propósito: http://www.zenit.org/article-26656?l=portuguese

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Christian school in The Hague bans teacher in Islamic headbag.

Dutch News- An orthodox Christian primary school in The Hague on Friday refused to accept a fill-in teacher because she was wearing an Islamic headscarf. School head Teun Klaver said the school had imposed strict rules on clothing around seven years ago. The school bans all religious clothing and attributes unless they relates to the Christian faith. Orthodox religious schools are run privately but receive government funding. They may only ban religious symbols under very strict circumstances, a spokesman for the equal opportunities commission told the Volkskrant. Read more at barenakedislam.wordpress.com

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Cristã paquistanesa condenada a prisão perpétua por tocar no Alcorão

Acusação,ainda para mais, ao que parece, falsa. A lei da blasfémia paquistanesa cria condições para que, no meio de um qualquer desentendimento, uma parte acuse a outra de blasfémia - "ofensa" ao Alcorão, ao "profeta" Mafoma, ao islão em geral - o que deixa o acusado em perigo de vida, porque, se escapar no sistema de justiça, arisca-se a ser linchado por uma multidão cega de ódio ao infiel - inculcado na mente muçulmana pelo Alcorão e pela Suná de Mafoma -, devidamente acicatada num piedoso sermão de 6ª-feira, instados a seguir o exemplo do profeta Mafoma e a pôr em prática os ensinamentos alcorânicos.

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From the Pakistan Christian Post:

Lahore: November 25, 2010. A court in Pakistan has freed a Christian man who was wrongly jailed for 25 years for blasphemy after he allegedly defiled the Koran, the Muslim holy book, by touching it with unwashed hands.

Munir Masih, had consistently denied the allegations against him, arguing that they were false and made maliciously by a Muslim neighbour whose child had been involved in a quarrel with his 10-year-old son.

He has been freed on bail but his wife, Ruqqiya Bibbi,who was also given a 25-year sentence for the offence, is still in jail awaiting the outcome of her application for bail.

They are both appealing against sentence and conviction after Muhammad Nawaz, the man who accused them, admitted they were innocent and indicated that was willing to submit an affidavit to confirm this.

CLAAS (Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement), a London and Lahore-based group fighting for the rights of Christians persecuted in Pakistan, said the case demonstrated how the country’s severe blasphemy laws continue to be misused.

“We are very delighted by the success of this case and pray for Ruqqiya to be freed next week,” said CLAAS directors Nasir Saeed and Joseph Francis in a joint statement.

“But we are still concerned about the many other innocent victims of this law who are being jailed, and suffering immensely, because of their faith,” they said.

“CLAAS continues to campaign for the repeal of the blasphemy law and urge the government of Pakistan to amend the law,” they added.

Munir, a labourer, will be released on Saturday November 27 after a decision on Tuesday November 23 by Mr Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry at the High Court in Lahore to grant him bail with a surety bond of 100,000 rupees (£733).

His wife’s application will be heard at the High Court next week.

The pair had previously lived together at Karmawali Mustifabad Tehsil in the Kasur district of the country with their six children – Sonia, Amna, Ameer, Akash, Muqadass and Shabir.

Their ordeal began on 8 December 2008 when a Muslim boy slapped Muqadass, then aged five, across the face, prompting his elder brother, Ameer, 10, to defend his brother by striking the boy back. That evening the boys’ parents turned up at the family’s home with their relatives and began abusing Ruqqiya. Shortly afterwards the couple were accused by their neighbours of defiling the Koran and they were arrested. The offence carries a life sentence under the Pakistani Penal Code.

In January 2009 the pair were released on bail only to be reported by same neighbours the following February of insulting Muhammad, the founder of Islam, an offence which carries the death penalty under Section 295-C of the code.

During a bail application in May 2009 about 50 radical Muslim clerics tried to storm the courtroom while others promised to kill Ruqqiya and Munir whatever the outcome of their trial.

They were released from custody in October 2009 after CLAAS filed a third application for bail and went into hiding.

In February this year a jury in Kasur cleared them of defaming Muhammad but convicted them of the lesser offence. They were sentenced to life on March 2. CLAAS filed their recent appeal for bail with the High Court, through its lawyers Tahir Gul Sadiq, Nasir Anjum and Tanvir Gill. The organisation hopes that the family will be reunited for Christmas. Read more at womenagainstshariah.blogspot.com

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Manifestantes Islâmicos opõem-se ao perdão de Ásia Bibi (2)

Matar em defesa do bom nome de Alá!

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Righteous anger?

Friday afternoon post-khutbah rage. "Pakistan Muslims warn of anarchy over Christian," by Waqar Hussain for AFP, November 26 (thanks to all who sent this in):

LAHORE, Pakistan -- Pakistani Muslims threatened protests and anarchy if the government pardons a Christian mother sentenced to death for blasphemy, calling hundreds of demonstrators onto the streets on Friday. Demonstrators marched in the eastern city of Lahore after the most influential Sunni Muslim alliance in Pakistan urged the government not to grant mother-of-five Aasia Bibi clemency. A crowd of several hundred called for "Jihad" and pledged to sacrifice their lives to protect the honour of the Prophet Mohammad, an AFP reporter said.

Once again the mainstream media assumes all its readers are Muslim, naming Muhammad a "prophet" without qualification.

The rally was organised by a subsidiary of banned charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which the United Nations has blacklisted as a terrorist organisation. "We will hold nationwide protests if the government pardons the Christian woman," the subsidiary's chief coordinator, Qari Yaqub, told participants. Politicians and conservative clerics have been at loggerheads over whether President Asif Ali Zardari should pardon Bibi, who was sentenced on November 8 to hang under controversial blasphemy laws for defaming the Prophet Mohammed. "The pardon would lead to anarchy in the country," the head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem, told AFP. "Our stand is very clear that this punishment cannot be waived." [...] Bibi was arrested in June 2009 after Muslim women labourers refused to drink from a bowl of water she was asked to fetch while out working in the fields. Days later, the women complained that she made derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Bibi was set upon by a mob, arrested by police and sentenced on November 8.... Read more at www.jihadwatch.org

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Entrevista: Cristãos no Irão à beira da extinção?

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Visto que os cristãos fogem em grande número do Irã, tanto por razões políticas como religiosas, a comunidade cristã corre verdadeiro perigo de extinção, afirma o jornalista e observador das Igrejas do Oriente Médio, Camille Eid. Camille Eid é libanês e vive na Itália onde é professor do idioma árabe na prestigiada Universidade Católica de Milão e na Universidade Biccocca Milão. Ele é também presidente da Federação Árabe Fenícia que estuda a cultura árabe. Nesta entrevista, Camille Eid explica como é a vida para um cristão que vive no Irã e como e por que os cristãos persas são proibidos pelos muçulmanos de orar no idioma persa em seus cultos a Cristo.

Pergunta: O Irã tem 99% de muçulmanos e o islã é a religião do Estado. As raízes da Igreja no Irã são muito antigas e remontam ao século II. O cristianismo é a religião mais antiga do Irã? Camille Eid: Não, temos duas comunidades mais antigas que o cristianismo. Em primeiro lugar, temos a comunidade zoroástrica, que remonta a vários séculos antes da chegada do cristianismo e do islã. Em segundo lugar, temos a comunidade judaica. A comunidade zoroástrica soma cerca de 20 mil pessoas, e a judaica, entre 20 e 35 mil. Estas duas comunidades são mais antigas que a cristã.

Pergunta: Hoje, o Irã é mais de 99% muçulmano. Como o islã permeia a vida cotidiana? Camille Eid: Se você estiver nas ruas de Teerã, ou em qualquer parte do país, verá o retrato dos mártires, do Aiatolá. Se você usar o telefone de uma cabine pública, escutará a voz do imã Hussein lhe dizendo o que fazer.

Pergunta: Assim que você tira o telefone do gancho, ouvirá imediatamente uma voz (gravada) do imã? Camille Eid: Sim. E nas escolas são permitidas diversas disciplinas, mas por meio da perspectiva que se baseia no Alcorão e no Hadit e outras ciências islâmicas.

Pergunta: A imagem do Aiatolá está estampada na capa dos livros de catecismo? Camille Eid: Exatamente. E pode ser uma forma de mostrar que os cristãos estão sob a proteção do regime e são considerados dhimmis (pessoas protegidas) na lei Sharia islâmica. É uma forma de dizer que vocês (os cristãos) estão sob nosso regime (islâmico).

Pergunta: Eu ia lhe perguntar sobre as patrulhas que fiscalizam se as mulheres se vestem de modo adequado. Camille Eid: É assim. Algumas vezes utilizam a linha dura e outras, não, dependendo do regime. Sob Khatami, por exemplo, foram um pouco mais liberais porque as crianças podiam mostrar um pouco de sua cabeça. Sob Ahmadinejad é mais restrito.

Pergunta: Atualmente a restrição é maior com a vestimenta completa? Camille Eid: Sim. Só se deve mostrar o rosto. Há mulheres que cobrem as mãos e o rosto.

Pergunta: O número de cristãos é de cerca de 100 mil em uma população de 71 milhões. Como são vistos os cristãos no Irã? Camille Eid: Os cristãos são vistos como minorias étinicas porque são predominantemente armênios, e sírio-caldeus. Temos 80 mil armênios ortodoxos que também são chamados de armênios gregorianos ou apostólicos, 5 mil católicos armênios, e cerca de 20 mil sírio-caldeus, e mais outras comunidades como igrejas latinas, protestantes, que, todas juntas, somam entre 100 e 110 mil cristãos. São vistos como minorias étnicas e, como tais, não é permitido que celebrem seus ritos em parsi (o idioma persa), mas sim em armênio ou caldeu.

Pergunta: Para distingui-los como estrangeiros?- Camille Eid: Não só por isso, mas para evitar que sejam atrativos e compreendidos pelos iranianos locais.

Pergunta: Para evitar que os iranianos se sintam atraídos pela fé cristã? Camille Eid: Sim, para evitar que os iranianos compreendam o que os cristãos dizem. Só houve um caso; foi em Teerã poucos dias depois da morte do Papa João Paulo II, e o sacerdote leu as Escrituras em parsi na presença das autoridades. Este foi um caso excepcional.

Pergunta: Mas ainda assim o Parlamento reserva três assentos para os cristãos. Portanto, os cristãos têm voz dentro da estrutura parlamentarista? Camille Eid: De fato, a República Islâmica conservou a Constituição de 1906, que reserva cinco assentos para as minorias – três para os cristãos, um para os zoroástricos, e outro para os judeus.

Pergunta: Os direitos cristãos estão garantidos pela Constituição? Camille Eid: Não. No artigo 13, é mencionado que todos os iranianos são iguais pela raça e pela língua, mas não se mencionada nada pela religião. No artigo 14, se me permite lê-lo: “todas as comunidades não muçulmanas se absterão de tomar parte em conspirações contra o islã e contra a República islâmica do Irã”. E por último, o artigo 19 estabelece: “todos iranianos de qualquer grupo étnico devem gozar dos mesmos direitos e a cor, raça ou língua não oferecem privilégio algum”. Aqui também não há nenhuma referência à religião.

Pergunta: Mas não diz, dentro do artigo 13 da Constituição, que os cristãos são permitidos de expressar seus desejos e praticar sua fé? Camille Eid: Sempre que não formem parte de conspirações contra a República do Irã. O que significa isso? Significa protestar contra o regime? O problema do Irã é ser um regime teocrático. Assim a oposição ao regime como uma ação política pode ser interpretada como agir contra a República Islâmica. Dentro da comunidade islâmica, estão os liberais e os conservadores. Ao protestar contra o Aiatolá Khamenei estão protestando contra o corpo político do regime ou contra o religioso? Quando o regime político e religioso tem a mesma formação, um ataque contra o corpo político é considerado um ataque a um aspecto religioso do regime teocrático.

Pergunta: Quais as restrições que os cristãos enfrentam em sua vida diária? Camille Eid: Bem, para os cristãos é difícil encontrar trabalhos na administração pública. Mesmo diretores de colégios cristãos são muçulmanos, mas com uma exceção. Em Esfahan, há três ou quatro anos, quando o governo nomeou um armênio para o Colégio Armênio. Mas na maioria dos casos os diretores das escolas cristãs são muçulmanos. Isso para os poucos colégios cristãos que ficaram após os confiscos de 1979 e 1980. Outro exemplo no Exército. Há alguns anos descobriram que um oficial, o coronel Hamid Pourmand, havia se convertido ao cristianismo. Foi processado e foi levado à corte marcial, mas graças à pressão internacional pôde abandonar o Irã. É muito difícil que os cristãos estejam em cargos altos do governo no Irã.

Pergunta: Que vida tem um muçulmano convertido? Camille Eid: Nada pode confessar sua fé dentro do Irã. Só é possível se for ao estrangeiro. Conheço duas famílias iranianas na Itália que são convertidas. Uma das famílias cruzou a fronteira entre Irã e Turquia no inverno. Foi difícil, mas conseguiram asilo. Dentro do Irã não podiam expressar ou mostrar sua fé porque enfrentariam a morte. Não é Fácil.

Pergunta: Queria tocar na questão da fuga de cristãos do Irã após a revolução islâmica de 1979. Cerca da metade da população cristã abandonou o país e existe, até onde pude ler e entender, cerca de 10 mil famílias que abandonam o Irã a cada ano. O que significa isso para a comunidade cristã no Irã? Camille Eid: Tanto os muçulmanos quanto os não muçulmanos sofrem com a pressão política, mas os cristãos sofrem o dobro, porque é o aspecto político do regime que é questionado pela maioria dos iranianos e, sobre este fato, há a pressão religiosa para os não muçulmanos. Essa é a razão desta fuga massiva e, de fato, há um verdadeiro perigo de desaparecimento, de uma extinção do cristianismo no Irã.

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Esta entrevista foi realizada por Mark Riedemann para o programa de TV “Lá onde Deus chora”, um programa semanal produzido por Catholic Radio and Television Network (CRTN), em parceria com a organização cristã católica Ajuda à Igreja que Sofre. Mais informação em www.aisbrasil.org.br, www.fundacao-ais.pt

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O genocído dos cristãos do Médio Oriente às mãos dos muçulmanos

Khaled Abu Toameh [http://www.hudson-ny.org/author/Khaled+Abu+Toameh] é cidadão israelita, filho de pai judeu e mãe muçulmana; identifica-se como israelita palestiniano e muçulmano. É jornalista do Jerusalem Post [http://www.jpost.com/].

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Muslim Genocide of Christians Throughout Middle East

by Khaled Abu Toameh

It is obvious by now that the Christians in the Middle East are an "endangered species."

Christians in Arab countries are no longer being persecuted; they are now being slaughtered and driven out of their homes and lands.

Those who for many years turned a blind eye to complaints about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East now owe the victims an apology. Now it is clear to all that these complaints were not "Jewish propaganda."

The war of genocide against Christians in the Middle East can no longer be treated as an "internal affair" of Iraq or Egypt or the Palestinians. What the West needs to understand is that radical Islam has declared jihad not only against Jews, but also against Christians.

In Iraq, Egypt and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being targeted almost on a daily basis by Muslim fundamentalists and secular dictators.

Dozens of Arab Christians in Iraq have been killed in recent months in what seems to be well-planned campaign to drive them out of the country. Many Christian families have already begun fleeing Iraq out of fear for their lives.

Some have chosen to start new lives in Jordan, while many others are expressing hope that they could be resettled in North America or Europe.

In Egypt, the plight of the Coptic Christian minority appears to be worsening. Just this week, the Egyptian security forces killed a Coptic Christian man and wounded scores of others who were protesting against the government's intention to demolish a Christian-owned structure.

Hardly a day passes without reports of violence against members of the Coptic Christian community in various parts of Egypt. Most of the attacks are carried out by Muslim fundamentalists.

According to the Barnabas Fund, an advocacy and charitable organization based in the United Kingdom, "Fears for the safety of Egyptian Christians are growing after a series of false allegations, violent threats and mass demonstrations against Christians in Egypt."

Muslim anger was ignited by unfounded accusations that Egyptian Christians were aligned with Israel and stockpiling weapons in preparation for war against Muslims.

The Barnabas Fund noted that Egyptian authorities have been accused of complicity for political reasons in the escalating sectarian crisis.

Palestinian Christians have also been feeling the heat, although they their conditions remain much better than those of their brothers and sisters in Iraq and Egypt.

Last week, the Western-funded Palestinian Authority in the West Bank arrested a Christian journalist who reported about differences between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and senior Fatah operative Mohammed Dahlan. The journalist, George Qanawati, manager of Radio Bethlehem 2000, was freed five days later.

In the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, the tiny Christian community is also living in fear following a spate of attacks by radical Islamic groups.

The failure of the international community to pay enough attention to the dangers facing the Christians encouraged radical Muslims and corrupt dictatorships to step up their assaults on Christian individuals and institutions.

When Muslim fanatics cannot kill Christian soldiers or civilians in the mountains of Afghanistan or on the streets of New York, they choose an easy prey: their Arab Christian neighbors. Read more at www.hudson-ny.org

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