Google enforcing Sharia Law, blocking ads containing the keyword 'jihadwatch'

At some point this blog will no doubt be shut down by Google. Before that happens I hope to have an independent hosting service lined up to host Facing Islam. But no matter what we do,  the 'powers and principalities' will do all they can to stamp out any public presentation of True, Apostolic, Orthodox Christianity, and any true, Apostolic, Patristic, Christian criticism of Islam. 

I have not experienced any problems yet of this nature. That is no doubt due in large measure to the fact that I have never tried to monetize this blog. I have been criticized by some family members for not doing so, but to me, it is far more important to do all I can to expose the lie of Islam and advance the Truth of Jesus Christ as lived and experienced in the Orthodox Church, than to try to make a few dollars from your clicks on distracting ads.

I do hope at some point to offer some ebooks of my writings for sale here. We'll see what happens when the time comes.

True Christianity itself is being criminalized. We are heading into a period of intense persecution even in the West, and a time for Christians to retreat to the catacombs.

Google is now disapproving ads containing the keyword “jihadwatch”

by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, September 17, 2017:

I heard from two writers Saturday who told me that Google had banned their book ads because they contained the keyword “jihadwatch.” Note that both writers say that their ads had not been active for years.

I’ve written a great deal lately about how the Left is using Charlottesville as its Reichstag Fire moment to crush all dissent, and this is yet another manifestation of that effort. They’re doing everything they can to deny all access to the means of communication to those whose opinions they hate. It’s a frankly authoritarian agenda.

On Saturday morning, I received this email from Mark Durie, the author of The Third Choice and many other excellent books about Islam, Sharia, and jihad. Durie subsequently wrote me: “It seems that even googling ‘jihadwatch’ is deemed an act of hatred.”

Pew Report: Christianity Most Persecuted Faith Worldwide

• A Baker’s Dozen of the chief miscreants were Muslim states: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.
• The rise of anti-Semitism is particularly worrisome, especially in Europe.
• Religious persecution occurs in virtually every Muslim state.

Related:

• Persecution of Christians a Significant Indicator of Future World Chaos (based on Open Doors 2015 World Watch List)

Report: Christianity Most Persecuted Faith Worldwide
by Doug Bandow, CNS News, March 19, 2015

'Our Lady' church in Baghdad, 2010.

Americans take religious liberty for granted. It is the First Freedom, guaranteed by the First Amendment. But four of five people around the world lack the freedom to worship and live faithfully. And the percentage of the world’s population lacking religious liberty recently edged upward. Attacks on Jews hit a recent peak. Even Americans cannot afford to take their freedoms for granted.

The Pew Research Center, with Peter Henne as lead researcher, recently issued its latest study on religious liberty. The report makes for a sad read. Many organizations address religious persecution, which occurs in virtually every Muslim and authoritarian state, plus a diverse mix of other nations. Pew also assesses equally threatening social antagonism, ranging from discrimination to hostility to violence.

In some nations governments take the lead in suppressing the faithful, imposing a range of restrictions backed by the state. Examples include bans on particular faiths, prohibitions on conversion, and restrictions on religious practice. In other countries the people make their societies unfriendly to minority beliefs, imposing a wide range of less formal sanctions. Such behavior includes harassment, intimidation, and violence, including murder. The overall global environment to religious faith is hostile. Concluded the study: “restrictions on religion were high or very high in 39 percent of countries. Because some of these countries (like China and India) are very populous, about 5.5 billion people (77 percent of the world’s population) were living in countries with a high or very high overall level of restrictions on religion in 2013, up from 76 percent in 2012 and 68 percent as of 2007.”

BIPARTISAN GOVT REPORT FAULTS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR IGNORING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS

Pro-Muslim, Anti-Christian 'Obama Doctrine' exposed in Government Report.

Good to see an actual bi-partisan government report drawing attention to what Raymond Ibrahim, I and others have been reporting on for years now. But the wording and emphasis of the report's conclusions are not strong enough. 

The foreign and domestic policy choices and alliances of President Barak Hussein Obama reveal a strategic shift in U.S. orientation. In fact, we can point to and identify a specific "Obama Doctrine" which confers preferential treatment and standing upon Muslim nations and extremist groups, at the direct expense of basic safety, freedom and aid to indigenous Christians abroad, and Christian believers and organizations, including Christian churches, at home.

Regarding foreign policy, the Obama administration has explicitly allied with Islamic extremists in Egypt, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, its official support providing direct aid, "soft power," and diplomatic cover for what more than one non-partisan conference has termed an "apocalyptic," "genocidal" persecution of Christians of "biblical proportions."

Raymond Ibrahim terms the Obama Doctrine as "Obama's Proxy War on Mideast Christians," and I have written very strongly against the Obama Doctrine, including the following original articles: 

• On The Wrong Side of History (July 2013)
• Obama Doctrine makes U.S. a 'Sinister Bystander' (July 2013)
• The Obama Doctrine: Known by its Fruits (Sept. 2012)
• Repealing the Edict of Milan: Obama as the anti-Constantine (Oct. 2013)

REPORT FAULTS OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOR IGNORING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS

by William Bigelow, Breitbart News — May 7, 2014

A new report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan group, asserts that the Obama administration is turning a blind eye to persecution of Christians by Muslims in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, as well as persecution of Christians in North Korea.

Dwight Bashir, the commission's deputy director of policy and research, told FoxNews.com:

While the Obama administration should continue to shine a spotlight on abuses through public statements, it also should impose targeted sanctions to demonstrate that there are consequences, too. By not utilizing an existing legislative tool, the United States risks sending the message that it prefers a nuclear deal to standing up for the rights of the Iranian people. The United States should not be confronting such a scenario in the first place.

The worst 16 countries that violated religious freedom were listed in the report. Iran, the report stated, had gotten even less tolerant after "purportedly moderate President Hassan Rouhani" ascended to the presidency last year. Of Iran, the report added, “As of February 2014, at least 40 Christians were either in prison, detained or awaiting trial because of their religious beliefs and activities.”

Morad Mokhtari, an Iranian human rights researcher who is Christian, stated that Rouhani “has not been effective in changing the judicial system” and there is no way to ascertain if he will challenge Iran’s sharia law.

Saudi Arabia was targeted in the report, which stated, “Not a single church or other non-Muslim house of worship exists in the country.” Some Saudi Arabian textbooks in 2013 and 2014 “justified violence against apostates and polytheists and labeled Jews and Christians ‘enemies.’"

Barack Obama never brought up the Saudi intolerance when he visited the country in March, despite the fact that a bipartisan group of 70 members of Congress asked him to discuss human rights with the Saudi government.

The Existential Elephant in the ‘Christian Persecution’ Room

by Raymond Ibrahim, via CBN News — January 17, 2014

2014 World Watch List global map of Christian persecution (darker colors more severe).

Open Doors USA recently released its widely cited 2014 World Watch List—a report that highlights and ranks the 50 worst nations around the globe persecuting Christians.

The one glaring fact that emerges from this report is that the overwhelming majority of Christian persecution around the world today is being committed at the hands of Muslims of all races, languages, cultures, and socio-political circumstances: Muslims from among America’s allies (Saudi Arabia) and its enemies (Iran); Muslims from economically rich nations (Qatar) and from poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); Muslims from “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan) and from “moderate” nations (Malaysia and Indonesia); Muslims from nations rescued by America (Kuwait) and Muslims claiming “grievances” against America (fill in the blank __).

A common denominator, a pattern, exists, one that is even more extensive than Open Doors implies.  According to that organization’s communications director, Emily Fuentes, “of the 50 worst nations for persecution, 37 of them are Muslim,” or 74%.

In fact, while this number suggests that the other 13 countries making the top 50 are not Muslim—for example Kenya and Ethiopia—those doing the persecution there are.

In other words, those persecuting Christians in 41 of 50 nations are Muslims; that is, a whopping 82% of all persecution around the globe is being committed by the adherents of Islam — sometimes in Christian majority nations; for example, the Central African Republic which, after the 2013 Islamic takeover, now ranks #16, “severe persecution” (the Christian-majority nation did not even appear in the previous year’s top 50).

As for the top ten absolute worst nations, where, according to the 2014 World Watch List, Christians suffer “extreme persecution,” nine—that is, 90%—are Muslim.  (Indeed, Open Doors’ global map of Christian persecution can easily be confused with a global map of the Islamic world, with the exception of China (ranked 37, “moderate persecution”) and some sporadic countries dominated by crime and godless tyranny, Columbia, North Korea, etc.)

Similarly, a recent Morning Star News report listing 2013’s ten most horrific anecdotes of Christian persecution around the world finds that nine out of ten—again, 90%—were committed at the hands of those professing Islam.

Serbs In Kosovo-Metohija Are Not Forgotten – Patriarch Irinej

InSerbia via OCP — 1/4/2014

Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Photo from: www.novosti.rs

BELGRADE – Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Irinej addressed his traditional Christmas epistle to Orthodox believers in Serbia who celebrate the holiday according to the Julian calendar, with special emphasis on the position of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) where suffering and injustice persist.

“Unrest and violence rule in Kosovo-Metohija. For decades and centuries, they have been robbing us of that province, of the historical Old Serbia,” said Patriarch Irinej in the epistle read at the Patriarchate, which he addressed on behalf of all bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

“To our brothers and sisters in Kosovo-Metohija we say: be aware that you are not alone and forgotten, the entire Serbian nation and the justice-loving people of the world are with you,” Patriarch Irinej said, calling on the Serbs in KiM to live in peace, harmony and love, both with each other and everyone else.

For more on Kosovo and Serbia, see my previous posts:

• Orthodox Church in Kosovo turned into public toilet and garbage dump
• If Kosovo Is The Price, Than We Say 'Thank You But No Thank You' To EU – Patriarch Irinej
• The Orthodox Christian Holocaust: 1894 to the Present
• Patriarch Irenej: Serbia Must Not Renounce Its Spirituality
• Patriarch Irinej Voiced Expectation That Russia Will Help Resolve Kosovo Issue
• Albanian extremists attack children’s buses in Kosovo
• For Kosovo Serbs, Pentecost on the Ruins
• Serbs' Sufferings in Kosovo Continue

FREE SYRIAN ARMY FSA "MODERATES' BEHEAD 24 PASSENGERS ON BUS, INCLUDING A MOTHER AND HER 40-DAY OLD BABY

More of John McCain's "moderates" and Obama/Kerry's "secular" rebels. This is why Putin called out Sec. John Kerry as a liar yesterday, for indicating the Syrian Opposition was secular, when he knows it is not. If anything, America should be protecting the Christians, Kurds and religious minorities, and working with Russia at the conference table, as Putin has repeatedly urged...

via Atlas Shrugs — 9/4/2013

FSA Muslim Terrorists Behead 24 Passengers on Bus to Include a Mother and Her 40-day old Baby Sharia Unveiled (source: http://en.alalam.ir/news)

Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant stopped the bus on the road in Talkalakh and killed everyone before setting the bus on fire. 

According to media reports, the attack was carried out because the passengers who were from three different villages in Ras al-Ain, supported anti-terrorist Kurdish groups which were formed recently to defend Kurdish population against anti-Syria terrorists. 

Bodies of the mother and her 40-day old infant were also seen among the dead, which were recognized by their relatives.  

Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim warned on Friday that the Kurd minority is facing an ethnic cleansing by al-Qaeda terrorists.

Bombing Into Unintended Consequences in Syria

This analysis omits any mention of the persecuted Christian minorities in Syria, or of how the Al-Nusra jihadist rebels have made it clear their goal is to impose a Sharia state in Syria and expel or exterminate all Christians. American involvement against Assad's government places us, as with Egypt, on the Wrong Side of History. But this seems to be Obama's goal, as he aids extremist Muslim groups throughout the Islamic world, and wages a Proxy War on Mideast Christians.

Bombing Into Unintended Consequences in Syria

by Abigail R. Esman — IPT News — August 30, 2013

In the Netherlands these days, politicians discuss revoking the passports of citizens who join the opposition to Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria. In Belgium, the government threatens to revoke benefits for Belgian nationals who do the same. And in America, the New York Times reported only a month ago on the growing threat to the West as Western Muslims rush into the fight against Assad. In fact, only this past August 20, the Washington Free Beacon reported that "[s]ignificant numbers of American and European jihadists are traveling to Syria to join Islamist rebels, prompting new fears of a future wave of al Qaeda terror attacks in the United States and Europe, according to U.S. officials."

Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard Address: VIDEO and TEXT

Here is the original broadcast video, with English translation, and the complete text to follow along. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a prophetic voice, and nowhere is that more evident than in this rightly famous address. Fr Seraphim Rose focused on many of Solzhenitsyn's observations, of course from an Orthodox Christian viewpoint, therefore they may be considered together.

I assure you, you will be stunned at what he says about the loss of courage in the West, about the Press, about every aspect of his analysis.

If you have the means to watch this on a large screen TV (through an AppleTV or other set-top box with YouTube), I would urge you to make it an event for your family and friends, or for your parish. Pop some popcorn, hand out notepads, even pause every so often to discuss some radical point or another. This is not a past event for us to venerate, but a call to prayer, to repentance, to action, and to witness (martyria).

A World Split Apart

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard Commencement Address

PRAVMIR — Posted June 8, 2013

Thirty-five years ago today – on June 8, 1978 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who had arrived in the United States three years earlier, delivered the commencement address at Harvard University. The “Harvard Address,” as it has popularly come to be known, is most likely Solzhenitsyn’s most famous work of non-fiction. Famous, that is, but little read. On its thirty-fifth anniversary, we offer this prophetic work for our readers’ reconsideration.

I am sincerely happy to be here with you on this occasion and to become personally acquainted with this old and most prestigious University. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today’s graduates.

Harvard’s motto is “Veritas.” Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. And even while it eludes us, the illusion still lingers of knowing it and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth is seldom pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. There is some bitterness in my speech today, too. But I want to stress that it comes not from an adversary but from a friend.

Three years ago in the United States I said certain things which at that time appeared unacceptable. Today, however, many people agree with what I then said…

The split in today’s world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them already capable of entirely destroying the other. However, understanding of the split often is limited to this political conception, to the illusion that danger may be abolished through successful diplomatic negotiations or by achieving a balance of armed forces. The truth is that the split is a much profounder and a more alienating one, that the rifts are more than one can see at first glance. This deep manifold split bears the danger of manifold disaster for all of us, in accordance with the ancient truth that a Kingdom – in this case, our Earth – divided against itself cannot stand.

Sen. Rand Paul defends Christians in Syria from Obama and Al Qaeda

This is precisely the position to take, and Senator Paul's reasoning is perfectly sound. Both morally and theologically it is imperative that the Christian West aid and defend persecuted Christians in the Islamic world, where they face certain genocide at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, the Salafists and Wahhabists, and other Islamist extremists.

But Obama, by siding with these extremist factions, is throwing the Christians to the wolves, and abetting religious and ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the entire Muslim world.

Rand Paul to Obama: Don't Use U.S. Weapons to kill Christians in Syria
by Awr Hawkins, Breitbart News — 8/30/2013

In an August 29 interview on Gov. Mike Huckabee's radio show, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) pressed President Obama to think before attacking Syria in a way that will result in the deaths of any of that country's minority Christian population. 

According to The Hill, Paul said Obama needs to realize there are more "Christians living in Syria... than just about anywhere else in the Middle East," and "they're on the other side in this war."

Paul made it clear there is no room for recklessness or haphazardly lobbing cruise missiles into the country. He added pointedly,  "I don't want to see my kids or weapons of the United States being used to kill Christians in Syria."

Paul told Huckabee that if Obama is "contemplating war, or contemplating offensive action against Syria," he should come before "a joint session of Congress." The Kentucky Senator said Obama should try to "convince [Congress] of the need for it. He should try to convince us how it's in our national security."

Added Paul: "To my knowledge, there is no evidence that Syria is any threat to any U.S. personnel here, abroad or anywhere."

Pope Francis, other Christian leaders condemn Western intervention in Syria, Warn of 'World War'

“The disappearance of the Christians is a danger not only for Syria, but for all of Europe.” [The presence of Christians in the Middle East] is “the essential condition for a moderate Islam, which exists thanks to the Christians.” — Syrian-born Patriarch Gregoire III Laham

by Hilary White, LifeSiteNews via Pravoslavie.ru — 8/29/2013

Pope Francis, as well as other Christian leaders in the Middle East and around Europe are sounding the alarm of a possible global conflict should the US and other western powers launch an attack on Syria. The Syrian Chaldean Catholic bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, warned of a possible "world war" if the West intervenes in Syria. In an interview with Vatican Radio yesterday, the Syrian Chaldean Catholic bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, said that armed intervention in Syria could unleash a “world war.” “If there is an armed intervention, that would mean, I believe, a world war. That risk has returned,” he said. The comments follow an urgent appeal by Pope Francis this weekend for the world’s powers not to intervene in the escalating Syrian conflict. On Sunday, Pope Francis called on the international community to do everything they could to avoid military action, calling for them “to be more sensitive to this tragic situation and make every effort to help the beloved Syrian nation find a solution to a war that sows destruction and death.” “The increase in violence in a war between brothers, with the proliferation of massacres and atrocities, that we all have been able to see in the terrible images of these days, leads me once again raise my voice that the clatter of arms may cease," he said during the Angelus. "It is not confrontation that offers hope to resolve problems, but rather the ability to meet and dialogue.” Bishop Audo added to Vatican Radio, “We hope that the Pope’s call for real dialogue between the warring parties to find a solution can be a first step to stop the fighting.” L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s quasi-official paper, also criticised the threats by Western powers, accusing US President Obama of pursuing a policy of “political expediency” rather “than of substance.”

Decade of Violence Threatens To Uproot Iraq's Christians

The Religious Cleansing of Christians gets worse.

By Bassem Francis Hanna, AL Monitor, via AINA — 8/22/2013

This fall, Rafael Aichoa, an Iraqi Christian in his 40s, will emigrate to Australia, joining the rest of his brothers and relatives. Aichoa realized that his connection to his ancestors' land had completely come to an end late last year, when he discovered his parents' mutilated bodies.

Only four months earlier, Aichoa had found the body of his brother Edmond dumped in a trash pile in Baghdad's southern Doura district.

Unlike Aichoa's parents and brother, Saad Touma, a young Christian Iraqi, succeeded in escaping from his captors in the winter 2008. Now, along with the rest of his family, Touma is preparing to leave the relatively safe Iraqi Kurdistan Region for Turkey as a prelude to permanent migration to Europe.

Like thousands of other Iraqi Christians, Aichoa and Touma fear that the circle of violence in Iraq will widen to include all parts of the country. This is especially true after al-Qaeda succeeded in carrying out attacks that have killed more than 2,600 Iraqis and injured 6,000 others in the past three months. Most of the victims were young Iraqis, with the bombings targeting soccer fields, cafes and popular markets throughout Iraq. Furthermore, on July 21, al-Qaeda freed more than 600 of its field commanders and fighters after launching calculated raids against the Taji and Abu Ghraib prisons, using about 100 mortar shells, 12 suicide bombers and nine car bombs.

Indonesia's President Expresses Concern Over Religious Intolerance in His Country

This report drives home the warnings Fr Daniel Byantoro of the Indonesian Orthodox Christian Mission has been sounding for many years. Wherever Islam grows to 10% or more of the population, persecution of non-Muslims is the result. Indonesia is a Muslim majority nation, and like all Muslim nations, over the past decade has seen a sharp increase in persecution of Christians (and other minorities). For more info, see the Friends of Indonesia website here.

Indonesia's President Expresses Concern Over Religious Intolerance in His Country ICC Note: The president of the world's most populous Muslim country has recently expressed concern over the growing religious intolerance that has spread across Indonesia. According to a recent report by Human Rights Watch, violent incidents of persecution against Indonesia's religious minorities, including Christians, has been on the rise since 2012. Indonesia's president has said he was concerned and will take steps to insure the religious freedom of all people living in Indonesia.  8/19/2013 Indonesia — ICC (The Irrawaddy) - Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was concerned by growing religious intolerance in the country with world’s largest Muslim population, which many analysts say his administration has failed to contain. Indonesia has recently seen a series of increasingly violent attacks on religious minorities like Christians, Shia Muslims and members of Ahmadiyah, a small Islamic sect which is considered heretical by mainstream Muslims.

REPORTED LIST OF CHURCHES AND CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS ATTACKED IN EGYPT SINCE WEDNESDAY WILL ASTONISH YOU

The Blaze — 8/15/2013

A wave of devastating violence swept through Egypt Wednesday as the government attempted to disband the supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi from their sit-ins.  According to the Associated Press, 638 people have now been confirmed killed, and nearly 4,000 are injured.

The fighting is far from limited to the Islamists and the military, however. Since Wednesday’s violence began, there have also been a wave of attacks on churches and Christian institutions.

The damaged interior of the Saint Moussa Church is seen a day after it was torched in sectarian violence following the dispersal of two Cairo sit-ins of supporters of the ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, in Minya, south of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (Photo: AP)

Amira Mikhail at Nile Revolt compiled a shocking list with the help of Mai El-Sadany, Amir Beshay, “aggregating information that was shared online about attacks on churches and their institutions around Egypt.”

“Please note that this is a work-in-progress and information so far is unverified although most is backed up with tweets and photos,” she wrote. “We are hoping to continue the efforts to verify details...”

Though there may be some changes made to the list, what has been assembled so far is staggering.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in Destructive 12-hour Rampage

Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney via Pravmir — 8/15/2013

Muslim extremists burn yet another church in Egypt

in a wild rampage yesterday.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has been accused of destroying 47 Christian churches, monasteries, schools and hospitals in a violent rampage through the capital.

Many people have been killed or injured in the recent clashes which have reverberated around the world.

On Saturday this week the Coptic Orthodox Dioceses of Sydney and Melbourne will hold simultaneous ecumenical services for people of all denominations and faiths to pray for the victims of sectarian violence in Cairo yesterday when more than 278 lost their lives, and for Egypt’s Christians whose lives are in increasing danger.

Yesterday as the world focussed its attention on the events unfolding in Cairo, the members of the Muslim Brotherhood went on a 12-hour rampage against Christians in cities and towns across Egypt.

More than 47 of the nation’s churches were destroyed along with monasteries, convents, community centres, Bible Society offices. In addition Members of the Brotherhood attacked nuns, assaulted priests, kidnapped a pastor and his wife and set fire to 17 Coptic homes, destroyed Coptic-owned pharmacies, hotels and businesses and bookshops.

Situation for Christians Worsens in Sudan

Everything described below is taken straight from the Conditions of Omar and the terms of the Islamic dhimma contract, which exists to terrorize and oppress Christians, so as to demoralize and humiliate them into submitting to Islam.

FOR 2011-2012 170 PEOPLE IN SUDAN ACCUSED OF "APOSTASY"

Pravoslavie.ru — 8/14/2013

The situation of Christians in Sudan has worsened since separation of the South Sudan. The president Omar Al-Bashir has already stated more than once that he wishes to make Sudan "a Muslim state" with no equality of rights for members of other religious communities, reports the Pro Oriente foundation. According to Sharia law, the death penalty is given denouncing Islam in Sudan, although the country has signed the Universal declaration of human rights. For the last 20 years, no respective sentences have been passed; however, in only 2011 and 2012, about 170 people were accused of "apostasy" and arrested. According to non-governmental organizations that are active in Sudan, the authorities have arranged an intensive search for converts. The search is concentrated mainly in the Nuba mountains, where the separatist movement is strong. Since 2011, the number of closed and confiscated church buildings and other Christian institutions has been increasing. Arrests of Christians take place regularly. In April last year, the government openly declared that there would be no permits for building of Christian churches any more.

Ancient Egyptian Christian Monastery Set Aflame

by Raymond Ibrahim — 8/15/2013

As Muslim Brotherhood supporters continue their jihadi rampage on Egypt’s Christian churches—several dozens have now been attacked—it’s important to remember that their hostility is not simply directed to churches, but any and every expression of Christianity, including crosses, Bible stores, and even remote monasteries. Most recently, for instance, early Thursday morning (Egyptian time), hundreds of pro-Morsi rioters set fire to the Virgin Mary Monastery, also known as Muharraq Monastery, in Quwsaya, Asyut—one of the oldest monasteries in the world, which held many ancient Coptic manuscripts, likely now all turned to ash. Its flames reached surrounding Coptic Christian homes, setting some 15 aflame.

As I relate in Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, Islamic attacks on Coptic monasteries are as old as Islam’s invasion into Egypt itself, that is, nearly 1400 years. Thus the persecution of Egypt’s indigenous, most original, inhabitants, the Christian Copts, continues unabated, in the same patterns, and in the name of Islam — that is, in the name of the Muslim Brotherhood, which, to its automaton-like devotees, is synonymous with Islam itself.

Pat Buchanan: Post vs. Putin — Whose Side Are You On?

This is yet another welcome article from Patrick J. Buchanan, holding up for admiration the resurgent Russia, who is striving to hold Christian ideals and morality aloft for all the world to follow. You'd almost think Mr. Buchanan has read some of my recent articles on Russia:

• Resurgent Russia: The Hope of Persecuted Christians
• The West's Blind Spot Towards Russia
• On the Wrong Side of History

Russia now towers above the increasingly decadent and evil West, led by Obama and Cameron, who support cannibalistic Syrian rebels and Muslim extremists, enable genocide against Christians throughout the Islamic world, enable infanticide in America through "4th trimester" abortions and the HHS mandate, demand nations accept the militant homosexual agenda, and dare to condemn the world's strongest, most luminous Christian nation.

Whoever supports Obama is supporting the agenda of Antichrist. Choose your side wisely.

POST V. PUTIN — WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?

SOURCE: Human Events via Pravoslavie.ru
By: Patrick J. Buchanan

The culture war has gone global. And the divisions are not only between, but within nations. “Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law,” wailed Jay Leno. “I mean, this seems like Germany. Let’s round up the Jews. Let’s round up the gays. … I mean, it starts like that.” Leno was speaking of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Obama eagerly agreed: “I have no patience for countries that treat gays or lesbians … in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them. … Nobody is more offended than me by some of the antigay and lesbian legislation that you’ve been seeing in Russia.” Leno and Obama were referring to a new Russian law prohibiting “homosexual propaganda.” Moscow is also warning foreigners, including visitors to the winter Olympics in Sochi, that propagandizing for gay rights can get them two weeks in detention. No kiss-ins allowed. “Medieval,” howled The Washington Post. “Mr. Putin’s war” on gays and lesbians is “part and parcel of his lapse into xenophobia, religious chauvinism and general intolerance.” Monday’s New York Times has a front-page story — “Gays in Russia Find No Haven, Despite Support From the West” — featuring photos of roughed-up protesters. Our moral and cultural elites have put Putin on notice: Get in step with us on homosexual rights — or we may just boycott your Sochi games. What this reveals is the distance America has traveled, morally and culturally, in a few short years, and our amnesia about who we Americans once were, and what it is we once believed.

Syrian Rebels to Assyrians: Convert to Islam to Keep Your Jobs

Al Thawrah, Syria (AINA) -- Accounts by Assyrian refugees from al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah) reveal the real face of the Islamist undercurrent within the Syrian opposition. Furthermore, these accounts serve as a stark and chilling reminder of what has already been suffered by non-Muslim communities in Iraq since 2003.

On February 11, rebel fighters from the al-Nusra Front took control of the city and its strategic dam, the largest of its kind in the country. They also seized control of the three quarters that housed dam workers - many of whom were Christian Assyrians. Whilst they allowed the dam's original staff to remain in the city in order to continue its operation, management and upkeep, those who were not Sunni Muslim were not afforded the same privilege.

"Everything is now in Jabhat al-Nusra's hands," complained one Assyrian refugee, "All the Muslims stayed there, but if any Christians want to go back they have to become Muslim or else they will be killed."

Egypt: Muslims torch seven Christian homes and five Christian-owned businesses

From Jihad Watch. Note the introductory comments:

This story starts out blaming both sides equally and then gets around to mentioning in the fourth paragraph that all the destroyed properties were Christian-owned. Muslim Brotherhood supporters blame the Christians for the ouster of Morsi.

"Egypt: Fifteen Injured in Sectarian Clashes in Minya," from Aswat Masriya via AllAfrica.com, August 4 (thanks to AINA):

Fifteen people were injured, including one police officer and three conscripts, in confrontations between supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi and residents of Minya's Beni-Ahmed village late on Saturday.

Sectarian tension that erupted at a Coptic Christian's cafeteria on Saturday between the villages' Christians and Muslims escalated to both sides hurling stones and Molotov cocktails and firing shots at one another.

An eyewitness said that the confrontations led to the torching of seven residences, the destruction of five vehicles, a kiosk, a coffee shop, two supermarkets and a pharmacy.

All destroyed properties belonged to Coptic Christians who make up Egypt's largest minority - estimated at about ten percent.

A security source said that police forces halted attempts of residents of a neighboring village to join the confrontations.

Security efforts were enhanced in the governorate as Sate Security forces used teargas to disperse the clashes and contain the chaos.

Tens of Muslim assailants also attacked the Evangelical Church in the governorate and hurled stones at the residences of Coptic citizens following the spreading of a rumor that Coptic assailants torched a mosque in a neighboring village.

Eyewitnesses said that the front of the church was destroyed in the attack.

Syria: Jihad violence emptying entire Christian towns

Both sides are persecuting the Christians, pressuring them to convert to Islam.

UK Telegraph, via Jihad Watch — 8/2/2013

Towns and villages in Syria that have been home to Christians for hundreds of years are being steadily emptied by sectarian violence and targeted kidnappings.

Tens of thousands Syriac Christians – members of the oldest Christian community in the world – have fled their ancestral provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasakah in northeastern Syria, residents have said.

"It breaks my heart to think how our long history is being uprooted," said Ishow Goriye, the head of a Syriac Christian political Hasakah.

Mr Goriye, told The Daily Telegraph how, over the past two years he has watched as Christian families from Hasakah pack their possessions on the rooftops of their vehicles and flee their homes "with little plan to come back".