- Muslims attack Christians, burn their churches, rape their daughters and wives, and kill them.
- Christians cry out for assistance from their governments and the international community.
- The home government (run by Muslims) issues statements against the attacks, and usually insists it is pursuing the 'extremists'.
- The attacks continue and even worsen, because the Christians didn't accept their 'place' in Islamic society and dared to complain and ask for help.
The escalating persecution of Christians in Islamic countries challenges the sincerity not only of Islamic leaders in those countries, but also of so called 'Moderate' Muslims living in Europe and North America, whose mosques are often funded by the most extremist Islamic countries on the planet, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, etc.
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Continued Church Burnings challenge sincerity of Islamic Leaders; Christians pull out of Peace Conference
ICC — 12/3/2013
ICC Note: Christian churches continue to be torched in Tanzania, despite assurances by the government that it is addressing the situation. Christian leaders participated in a government-sponsored peace dialogue with local Islamic leaders. However, continued threats, provocations, and church burnings - without a government response - have led many to believe that the dialogue is ineffective. In protest, Christian leaders have withdrawn from the conference and called for an independent and direct dialogue to be established.
12/03/2013 Tanzania (Tanzania Daily News via AllAfrica.com) - THE union of church denominations in Tanga Region has resolved to pull out of the government- initiated peace platform, which requires religious leaders from both Islamic and Christian faiths, to sit together and discuss various religious issues in order to maintain peace and tranquility in the region.
The Christian leaders who represented Pentecostal, Lutheran, Anglican, Moravian and Baptist churches, met here on Friday to discuss the peace situation and the ongoing incidents of torching church buildings.
The meeting, which was chaired by Bishop Dr Jothan Mwakimage, cited the recent burning of a Lutheran church building in Korogwe town and an Evangelical Assembles of God (EAGT) church in Kalalani village in the same district as vivid examples of a breakdown of a peace accord between the major faiths in the region.
Dr Mwakimage told the church leaders that the peace platform initiated by the government involving Christian and Islamic leaders was almost useless because incidents of torching church buildings were on the increase while no culprits were arrested.
"We have come here to discus very crucial issues. The situation these days is not good. We need to come up with another peace committee to be set by ourselves because the government platform has failed to deal with the matter," said the Bishop.
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