Algerian Muslim Leader: Turn All Churches Into Mosques

Salafi campaign against Algerian churches calls for the transformation of the nation’s most important churches into mosques.

by Raymond Ibrahim — May 11, 2015

According to Abdel Fattah Zarawi, the Muslim leader of the Salafi party, also known as the Free Front of Algeria, any and all Christian churches remaining in the north African nation must be closed and reopened as mosques.

From Syria to Stateside: New Al Qaeda Threat to US Homeland

by James Gordon Meek, ABC News, via ACT! for America
January 10, 2014

Seen in this image is "Abu Dujana al-Amriki," who identifies himself as an alleged al Qaeda fighter from the U.S. American officials have not been able to identify the young man and suspect the video could be part of an Assad regime hoax.

Dozens of people from the U.S. who fought in Syria have returned home and are under FBI surveillance, but American officials fear that they haven't identified all of them, several senior officials told ABC News in interviews beginning last October.

The senior officials said that more than 50 "U.S. persons" -- a designation that covers both natural-born and naturalized citizens as well as those who have lived in the U.S. -- have returned here after battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in the Middle Eastern nation's bloody civil war. One of the senior counter-terrorism officials went further, saying the actual number of returning U.S. fighters from Syria is classified but is "much higher" than 50.

‘Muslim’ Jesus Demands Sharia Law and Jizya Tribute

by Raymond Ibrahim — 11/25/2013

Time and again, Muslims, especially those in Egypt, project Islamic thinking onto Christians: thus the Coptic church has been accused of smuggling and storing weapons in its churches to take over the nation (when in fact mosques are regularly exposed housing illegal weapons for the jihad); of kidnapping and torturing Coptic girls who convert to Islam (when in fact Muslim converts to Christianity—apostates—are regularly beat, imprisoned, and sometimes killed); and even of supporting suicide-attacks when the church speaks of Copts being martyred (because in Islam being “martyred” so often means actively sacrificing one’s life in “holy war”).

Now a well know cleric in Egypt—the same who insists that Muslim husbands must hate their non-Muslim wives—has just proclaimed that Jesus was against the idea of separation of church and state and that he supported the idea of jizya, the Koran-mandated tribute conquered non-Muslims, or dhimmis, are required to pay their overlords, “with willing submission,” per Koran 9:29.

Egypt: Christians threaten to walk out on constitution rewriting over Islamic law dispute

"While Egypt’s constitution has included a mention of Shariah law since 1971, opponents of the portion put in place say it could allow for stricter interpretations and trample non-Muslims’ rights."

Associated Press — 11/7/2013

CAIRO — Christians on a committee rewriting Egypt’s constitution threatened to walk out Thursday after disputes over portions dealing with Islamic law.

Egypt’s ultraconservative Al-Nour party [of the strict Salafi sect] — which has one member in the 50-person panel — has been pushing for adding an article defining Islamic, or Shariah, law, which critics warn could allow for stricter interpretations of what Shariah is later.

Minya, Egypt: Schools, Churches, Orphanages burnt to erase all traces of Christian presence

"Despite of what you did, we ask God to forgive you."

Asia News via Pravoslavie.ru — 8/28/2013

With at least 20 attacks against churches, Christian schools and orphanages, Minya Governorate is the part of Egypt where Islamists struck with greatest violence and brutality. "The Islamists", one resident said, "burnt and destroyed everything. Their goal was to erase all the traces of a Christian presence; even the orphanages were looted and destroyed."

Metropolitan Hilarion: ‘An Era of New Martyrdom'

This is a seminal lecture from February 2012 by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), chair of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations (DECR). He is the primary visionary and architect behind the Russian Orthodox Church's initiative to protect indigenous Christians, Orthodox and non, in the Islamic world.

The Conclusion of Ramadan...

Tallied by The Religion of Peace...

VIDEO: Morsi Supporters threaten wave of suicide bombings, to set Christians on Fire

Only a minute and a half, watch to the end to see Muslima in niqab promising to set Christians on fire.
Lord have mercy...

Dr. Mark Durie: Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood; What is the difference?

In his trademark dispassionate but no-nonsense, let the truth's own weight hit home, style, Dr. Mark Durie provides an essential article describing two of the dominant, mainstream movements within Islam today.

As we encounter these terms in news reports and articles, Dr. Durie's descriptions will help us focus on the essentials without preconceived notions or confusion.

Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood: what is the difference? Dr. Mark Durie - MarkDurie.com 06 Jun 2013 For western lay people, it can be hard to distinguish one radical Muslim from another.  What is the difference between Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood?  Are they really all that different?  And why do Western governments seem to favour and even partner with Brotherhood-backed groups, but denigrate Salafis? The 2011 People’s Assembly elections in Egypt focused the world’s attention on the Salafis when they proved to be the ‘dark horse’ of that poll, winning 25% of the seats.  This, together with the Muslim Brotherhood’s 47%, gave Islamists  almost three quarters of the seats in the Assembly. How do these two powerful Islamic groups compare? Today the Brotherhood and Salafis also figure prominently in reports from Syria.  Both brands of Islamists field rebel forces in Syria, and Brotherhood leaders dominate the Syrian National Council, which has been recognized by the Arab League and some UN states as the legitimate representative of Syria. Often the past Western politicians have made the mistake of dismissing the Salafis as marginal extremists, while being all too willing to lap up the Brotherhood’s propaganda about their democratic credentials.  A good example was David Cameron’s statement in Parliament this past week concerning the Syrian National Council, as he sought to downplay any suggestion  that the conflict in Syria had a religious basis: “When I see the official Syrian opposition I do not see purely a religious grouping; I see a group of people who have declared that they are in favour of democracy, human rights and a future for minorities, including Christians, in Syria. That is the fact of the matter.” As troubling as Cameron’s ignorance about Brotherhood ideology appears to be, even more disturbing is his intent to forward military support to rebel groups, at the very time that a report has come from Syrian refugees of genocidal measures being enacted by Islamist rebels against the Syrian Christian minority. This past week evidence has also emerged that among the insurgents who attacked the American Embassy in Benghazi in September 2012 were Egyptians, captured on video saying that ‘Dr Morsi sent us’.  Yet Dr Morsi, the Brotherhood President of Egypt, is claimed by the US as an ally, and Brotherhood operatives have had long-standing high-level access to and support from the US Government. Salafism Salafism is a movement which emphasizes close adherence to the model of the Salaf or ‘predecessors’.  These were the first few generations of Muslims. To understand Salafism, one needs to grasp why the model of the Salafs is important to Muslims. In normative Islam it is an article of faith that Muhammad is the ‘best example’ for other human beings to follow (Sura 33:21).  As a result a great many features of Islamic practice go back to what Muhammad did and said.  For example, conservative Muslim men grow beards precisely because Muhammad commanded this again and again: for example he stated that he would have nothing to do with men who shaved their beards; he gave specific instructions to men to let their beard grow; and he commanded his followers to be different from non-Muslims precisely in this, that they should not shave their beards. The example and teaching of Muhammad — the Sunna — is an absolutely central and unassailably prestigious concept for mainstream Islamic faith and practice. Knowledge about Muhammad’s example and teaching was, according to pious understanding, mediated to the world through Muhammad’s companions and the first few generations of Muslims.  The Salaf thus form the lens through which the example of Muhammad has been passed on to humanity.   Muhammad himself said that ‘The best people are those of my generation, and then those who will come after them (the next generation), and then those who will come after them [the next generation after that]’ (Sahih Bukhari 76:437).  ‘Best’ implies the most rightly guided and most deserving to be emulated. What all this means is that the Islam of the first generations of Muslims — the Salaf — is considered the purest and most prestigious form to follow. If a Muslim walks close to the Salaf in how they live, then they will be rightly guided and on the path to gaining Allah’s favour. The Qur’an even declares a blessing in paradise for all those who follow the model of the first Muslims: “The vanguard (of Islam) — the first of those who forsook (their homes) and of those who gave them aid, and (also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds, — well-pleased is Allah with them, as are they with Him: for them hath He prepared gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever: that is the supreme felicity” (Sura 9:100). Relying on such logic, the Salafi movement emphasizes the life of Muhammad, and the way of life of the first generations of Muslims.