Why Has the Church Abandoned the Christians of the Middle East?

by Judith Bergman/Gatestone Institute

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  • Why is the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is the symbolic head of 85 million Christians worldwide, expressing shock at yet another terrorist attack perpetrated by the Islamic State?
  • Had he paid more than just fleeting attention to his fellow Christians in Iraq and Syria, he would know that the Islamic State has been slaughtering Christians in the Middle East since 2006. How much more time did he need?
  • Without referring by name to the Islamic State, and speaking as if some invisible force of nature were at play here, Pope Francis I deplored “thousands of people, including many Christians, driven from their homes in a brutal manner; children dying of thirst and hunger in their flight; women kidnapped; people massacred; violence of every kind.”

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was interviewed recently about the Paris attacks and asked about his reaction. “Like everyone else – first shock and horror and then a profound sadness…” he replied. “Saturday morning, I was out and as I was walking I was praying and saying: ‘God, why — why is this happening?'”

Welby is the principal head of the Anglican Church and the symbolic head of the Anglican Communion, which stands at around 85 million members worldwide and is the third largest communion in the world — after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. This is a man with an extremely high public profile, and millions of Christians looking to him for spiritual guidance.

But why is a man who is the symbolic head of 85 million Christians worldwide expressing shock at yet another terrorist attack perpetrated by the Islamic State? Had the Archbishop of Canterbury paid more than just fleeting attention to his fellow Christians in Iraq and Syria, he would know that the Islamic State has been slaughtering Christians in the Middle East since 2006. Between 2004 and 2006, before the Islamic State evolved out of Al Qaeda in Iraq, it hardly showed less zeal to root out Christianity even then.

The Archbishop had eleven years to get used to the idea of people being made homeless, exiled, tortured, raped, enslaved, beheaded and murdered for not being Muslims. How much more time did he need?

The Archbishop of Canterbury had more wisdom to offer in the interview. “The perversion of faith is one of the most desperate aspects of our world today,” he said, explaining that Islamic State terrorists have distorted their faith to the extent that they believe they are glorifying their God. But it is unclear how he is as qualified an expert in Islam as Islamic State “Caliph ” Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, who possesses a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Baghdad.

Christians, Yazidis and persecuted Muslims in the Middle East can probably point to aspects of the world more desperate than “the perversion of faith,” but then again, the Archbishop does not seem too preoccupied with the situation on the ground.

Fortunately, others are. In a piece for The Atlantic, “What ISIS Really Wants,” Graeme Wood spent time researching the Islamic State and its ideology in depth. He spoke to members of the Islamic State and Islamic State recruiters; his conclusions were the following:

“The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.

“Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, “the Prophetic methodology,” which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn’t actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it.”

Members of the Islamic State are shown on the Libyan coast, preparing to behead a group of Ethiopian Christians. (From a video released in April 2015)

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[T]he problem with moderate Muslims is not that they are jihadists but that they are Muslim

Right Now 59% of Americans Have a Favorable View of Muslims – Wait for a Few More San Bernardinos

(There is no way to ascertain whether 59% of Americans have a favourable view of Muslims. I find that claim rather doubtful.– SY)

By Bernie / Plancks Constant

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Which Will America Choose?
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Ihave long maintained that the United States should not allow Muslims into our country, nor to build mosques, nor allow them to join our military.

Those who do not understand Islam will argue that 99% of Muslims are peaceful and that only a small percentage are extremist. In my article Deporting Muslims and Banning Mongoose, I wrote:

[T]he problem with moderate Muslims is not that they are jihadists but that they are Muslim.

Jihadists will not turn America into a Muslim country no matter how many cities they blow up, no matter how many buildings they bring down, no matter how many innocent lives are lost in a coffee-shop suicide bombing; no, I am not worried about extremists, there are only a few hundred thousand of them at most anyway. The problem is the tens of millions of moderate Muslims who infiltrate a country.
Once we have imported a few million more Muslims, then the natural process of immigration and fertility will take over. Muslim immigrants will bring their wives, sisters, mothers, brothers, uncles, fathers and any other relatives. These other family members, once here, will achieve what the terrorists with their suicide vests cannot: the conversion of our land into an Islamic craphole.

Won’t happen? It happened to the more than 50 countries that were at one time Muslim-free and are now Islamic nations.

That is why Trump is right about banning Muslim immigration. Those who understand the threat posed by Islam agree with Trump. Liberals have a mental disease which prevents them from seeing that threat clearly. That is why Republicans tend to agree with Trump while Democrats, sad to say, do not.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey found that 57 percent of all those polled opposed Mr. Trump’s idea. Wait until we have an epidemic of San Bernardinos, then we will see how many turn in favor of a ban on Muslim immigration. I believe one day the western world will have to begin deporting Muslims when it becomes unbearable.

Listen to his reasons why a ban is necessary in this video:

I found this comment interesting:

As usual the media have it wrong. Even the right leaning FOX News has it wrong. Trump said stop all Muslims from entering the country until we figure out what is going on. He did NOT say round up all Muslims. He id NOT say stop all Muslims from entering the country forever. He could not have been more clear, except to add that many Muslims (those who believe and subscribe to the Islamic “religion”) may belong to that group of Islamists who believe in and practice a political takeover of other ideologies, countries and religions.

Firstly, Islam is NOT a religion. But, IF it were, it would also have to be declared as also a political movement. Yes, we do not want a political movement coming into the USA that has the intent of destroying the USA.

(That comment suggests that a religion has to be ‘good’,  or for the ‘common good’, which Islam is not. However, there is no requirement for a religion to be good,  and Islam doesn’t require its adherents to be good, except in spreading Islam and to relieve the unbelievers of their wealth and their heads.–SY)

Yes, until “we” (our totally politically correct and corrupt political administration) figure “it: out. “It” being the 5 simple (stupid-non-sense) vetting questions which allow practically anyone to jihadists enter the USA. viz “Do you intend to do any harm?” Duh? They are jihadists. They are going to KILL people. Of course they would not lie. Double Duh!

That’s a vetting process? Yes, let’s figure out what is going on, by God!

Trump as Hitler? Hardly. The media spun it so much that even Benjamin of Israel does not even want to see Trump. Wake up Benny! Krauthammer use your brain.

Culture of denial over Islam lets evil gain a foothold

Rita Panahi
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A protest against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

IF you listen to those in this country who promote the most cowardly brand of moral relativism imaginable, then Islam and its extremists are no worse than those of other religions.

That may have been true 500 years ago, but in the 21st century only one religion is at the centre of terror attacks around the world.

However, it’s not only global terrorism that demands Islamic introspection, but also the retrograde beliefs that subjugate women, condemn homosexuals to torture and death and validate attitudes that are abhorrent to the civilised world.

But no matter how many innocent people continue to be suppressed, brutalised or slaughtered in the name of Allah, there are those who refuse to accept the religion is in desperate need of reform.

In Australia the level of public debate has degenerated to such an extent that reasonable commentary pointing out indisputable facts about Islam’s many ills, and increasing victim count, is treated not just with just derision but a vicious, hyperbolic backlash.

Even a piece that repeatedly makes all the “not every Muslim” caveats is labelled racist, Islamophobic, inflammatory and destructive.

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Pat Condell: We Want The Truth (About Islam)

Pat Condell: We Want The Truth (About Islam)

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According to Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, the 2014 terrorist attack in Martin Place “wasn’t a terrorist event”:

Perhaps the Martin Place atrocity was merely – how can I say it? – Middle Eastern connected.

Paris:

Another attempted murder in Paris:

A teacher has been attacked in Paris by a masked Islamic State supporter wielding a box cutter and scissors.

Turns out the French teacher was lying about the attack, according to police.

The Paris teacher who was apparently stabbed in the neck by an assailant who shouted pro-Isis slogans made the story up, French prosecutors have announced …

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Muslim Agitprops Side With Red Diaper Babies To Take America Down

Zacharia is no “secular Muslim”, this is the son of an imam. Zachary is a strategically positioned Muslim agitprop  who constantly, consistently denigrates America, its values, its people. His business is sowing doubt, hatred, he confuses the gullible, he minimises the threat, he equivocates and writes like a snake slithers.”Secular” my foot!

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Boston Submits!
Sharia in Boston: Judge Orders Pastor to Learn and Study Islam

Boston Judge Paul Yee Jr ordered Pastor Daisy Obi to “respect the rights of all Muslims and to take an introductory course on Islam.” Now the highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide whether the judge violated the landlord’s constitutional rights.
After the Boston jihad bombing, it appears the city of Boston has utterly surrendered and submitted to Islam. Boston Strong? More like ‘Boston Submits.’

A judge ordered Pastor Daisy Obi to respect the rights of all Muslims and to take an introductory course on Islam.  | Pamela Geller
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 Saudi prince  al Waleed bin Talal who demanded Trump quit is a big Clinton Foundation donor who reportedly enjoys dwarf-tossing…

Saudi Prince Silent Amid Tweeted Jabs From Trump, Coulter and Stone

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has ducked for cover amid a light barrage of tweeted jeers from Donald Trump, Ann Coulter and Roger Stone that dared disagree with his royal decree on Friday that Trump exit Americans’ 2016 presidential race. (Breitbart)

Alternative Universe:

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Report: U.S. Missed Terrorist’s Social Media Posts on Jihad

Report: U.S. Missed Terrorist’s Social Media Posts on Jihad

MSNBC Guest: ‘We’re Engaging in Terrorism’ Against the Muslim Community

MSNBC Guest: ‘We’re Engaging in Terrorism’ Against the Muslim Community

Any resistance to the Islamic expansion program is terrorism for this Islamo-spokesturd in the service of CAIR, a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.

 Islamic State Issues Fatwa Against Children with Down Syndrome, Murders 38 Disabled Infants

Islamic State Issues Fatwa Against Children with Down Syndrome, Murders 38 Disabled Infants…

Extremism Fears: Seventy Paris Airport Workers Have Security Passes Revoked

Jitters: Seventy Paris Airport Workers Have Security Passes Revoked

Of course they are not just “airport workers”, they are Mohammedan infil-traitors, soldiers of allah who are biting their time and who will strike when the time is right.

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Moonbattery

The ineffectiveness and incompetence of the Department of Homeland Security under the clueless moonbat Jeh Johnson may have you wondering what possible qualifications he might have, other than being black and a bundler of campaign donations for Obama. He has exactly one. Like Obama himself, he is a red diaper baby:

While speaking to Muslims [since the San Bernardino attack], Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson revealed why he’s so protective of them. He compared growing suspicions cast on them to the plight of his communist kin.

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There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that doesn’t alienate young Muslims….

A group of Muslim lawyers Muselmanic shysters is concerned that applying control orders to 14-year-old terror suspects will further marginalise and alienate young people.

The proposal, being examined by a joint parliamentary committee, is part of the government’s fifth tranche of counter-terrorism laws introduced since the shooting of NSW police worker Curtis Cheng.

The NSW Muslim Legal Network believes such moves appear to be geared towards regulating potentially at-risk youths from Islamic com…

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The Archdimbulb of Canterbury is very generous with other peoples money:

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has urged Britain to “demonstrate our shared humanity” and welcome more refugees.
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Culture of denial over Islam lets evil gain a foothold

Rita Panahi/Herald Sun

A protest against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

IF you listen to those in this country who promote the most cowardly brand of moral relativism imaginable, then Islam and its extremists are no worse than those of other religions.

That may have been true 500 years ago, but in the 21st century only one religion is at the centre of terror attacks around the world.

However, it’s not only global terrorism that demands Islamic introspection, but also the retrograde beliefs that subjugate women, condemn homosexuals to torture and death and validate attitudes that are abhorrent to the civilised world.

But no matter how many innocent people continue to be suppressed, brutalised or slaughtered in the name of Allah, there are those who refuse to accept the religion is in desperate need of reform.

In Australia the level of public debate has degenerated to such an extent that reasonable commentary pointing out indisputable facts about Islam’s many ills, and increasing victim count, is treated not just with just derision but a vicious, hyperbolic backlash.

Even a piece that repeatedly makes all the “not every Muslim” caveats is labelled racist, Islamophobic, inflammatory and destructive.

Continue reading Culture of denial over Islam lets evil gain a foothold

Our enemy knows a lot more (about us) than we know about them…

You need to understand the basics. You need to read and understand that our enemy knows a lot more than we know about them. And they have managed to advance their agenda much further than most of us begin to realise.

Islamic Timelines Fueling Jihad

boom-timeline-bicubicGates of Vienna,  December 9, 2015,  by Sonia Bailley:

Summary: With the convergence of two Islamic timelines (al Qaeda, OIC) to destroy the West culminating THIS month (the OIC’s timeline ending Dec. 9th), along with the Muslim Brotherhood’s engagement in violent jihad, as opposed to the softer jihad of dawah (inviting non-believers to Islam, meant only as a preparatory phase to violent jihad), Westerners, as predicted by Major Stephen Coughlin, are in for the biggest shock of their lives in the dark times ahead, beginning this week, especially now that the caliphate has been re-established.

These two Islamic timelines, in addition to two Muslim Brotherhood documents — all of which were ignored by Western leaders — are mobilizing jihadists worldwide. The Muslim Brotherhood’s primary mission of dawah, which shakes the identity and faith of Westerners, making them more vulnerable to Islamic conversion and submission, has reached its goal and is ready to be superseded by the next jihad phase, that being all-out war, or violent jihad. All Islamic groups are working together to wage violent jihad on the West. Their intention to do so began ever since the first caliphate was abolished in 1924.

All-out war with the West has begun. With the culmination of two Islamic timelines imposing Islamic law or Sharia worldwide converging this month, in fact one this week, things are bound to get worse. More deadly terror attacks are expected worldwide as a result of this, as forecasted by Major Stephen Coughlin, a former U.S. army intelligence officer and Pentagon expert on Islamic law of jihad. The timelines are building momentum in parallel, with one plan using violent jihad to destroy the West, and the other using soft jihad to destroy Western civil liberties through the use of Sharia-compliant UN resolutions and hate speech codes to curtail any discussion or analysis of Islam.

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French Kicking Down Doors, Closing Down Mosques, Finding A LOT of ‘War-Grade’ Weapons

French Kicking Down Doors, Closing Down Mosques, Finding A LOT of ‘War-Grade’ Weapons

While President Obama responds to the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 by urging Americans to “reject discrimination” and embrace gun control, French authorities are actually taking the real and present danger of radical Islamic terrorism seriously. Over the last few days, they kicked down doors, closed three mosques (with plans to close potentially more than a hundred), and in the process found an alarming number of weapons, ammo, and terrorist propaganda.

“In 15 days we have seized one-third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year.”

FRENCH INTERIOR MINISTER BERNARD CAZENEUVE

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Quranulla revisited

No charges after Cronulla rally arrests
Two men arrested at rallies marking the tenth anniversary of the Cronulla riots have not been charged.
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Masked Antifa thugs attacked a peaceful anti-Islam Barbecue crowd in Koranulla, who commemorated the greatest betrayal of the Australian people by its government.

“Anti-racism activists” turn violent at Cronulla rally

Of course they are not “anti-racism”, they are the usual suspects, violent red-green rabble.

People regarded as being anti-Islam protesters have been set upon by members of a large anti-racism crowd numbering in the hundreds that has gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the Cronulla riots.
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Cronulla protests: what is the anti-fascist group Antifa?

Finally even the Fairfax Press are recognising the dangers of ANTIFA who want to destroy democracy and capitalism. The same Rent-A-Crowd covering their faces and inciting violence. The police only arrested two of the low life mongrels at Koranulla trying to gate crash a friendly BBQ.

Dressed in black, faces covered, members of Antifa are the self-appointed enemies of the far-right.
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‘They are going to need bullets to stop us’: Cronulla ‘rally’ outnumbered by police
The much hyped 10-year commemoration of the 2005 Cronulla attracted a crowd of 120 today, well outnumbered by members of NSW Police, the Riot Squad and…
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Previously:

If going to Cronulla today- remember, we are not them.

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It was obvious that what had happened pre-riot was an attempt to create a muslim-dominated no go zone for Australians.

So go today simply because we can. Because in spite of the cowardly politicians we have, it is OUR country. We are not afraid.

It is not us who are so pathetic that we had to leave our country after we had destroyed it.

It is not us who are the parasites.

It is not us who are so deluded that we believe that we can destroy what belongs to God and still have His favour.

It is not us who cloak ourselves in the self righteousness that is the pride of Islam but to any other human group on this planet would be just shame.

So, eat your pork sausages and drink your beer and celebrate what it is to be Auzzie and deservedly proud. And then vote accordingly, as a proud Australian.

Bizarre drivel from the extreme left Guardian:

In a bizarre appearance in the federal court, Party for Freedom.org.au‘s Nick Folkes has agreed he won’t go ahead with a memorial rally marking 10 years since the Cronulla riots – but says he has the right to hold a barbecue instead.