title: hillary campaign launching attacks on the fbi
text: americans seek to help persecuted christians  government helps muslims the people of the united states get it but the obama administration could care less october   
  originally published by the gatestone institute raymond ibrahim is a shillman fellow at the david horowitz freedom center 
  as the muslim persecution of christians continues to reach critical proportions around the world see report below the average american shows much more concern than the current administration soon after it was revealed that the obama administration has taken in  muslim refugees but only  christianseven though christians are approximately  percent of syrias population and are classified as experiencing a genocide therea poll found that more than three quarters of american respondents agreed with the statement it is important to me that the next us president be committed to addressing the persecution that some christians face around the world eg imprisonment beheadings rape loss of home and assets 
  the deliberate targeting and killing of christians in europe also reached unprecedented levels in modern times most notably on the morning of july   allahu akbar  shouting muslims stormed a small church in france during morning mass they forced yearold fr jacques hamel to his knees slit his throat and  critically injured  a nun before being killed by police it was later revealed that police had known that church was being targeted and had even been monitoring one of the murderers for at least oneandahalf years 
  later when a journalist asked pope francis if fr jacques was  killed in the name of islam  the pope disagreed he argued that he hears of christians committing violence every day in italy this one who has murdered his girlfriend another who has murdered the motherinlaw and these are baptized catholics there are violent catholics if i speak of islamic violence i must speak of catholic violence the logic of the popes statement seems to be that violence done in direct contradiction of the judeochristian gods commandmentssuch as the murder of wives and mothersinlawis identical to violence done in accordance with allahs commandments to wage jihad on infidels 
  in isiscontrolled territories in iraq and syria reports of christians being tortured to convert maimed crucified burned alive beheaded or sold into sex slavery continued to emerge in iraq a report says that christians and other minorities in iraq are facing persecution at unprecedented levels and are at the verge of extinction  the christian population has dwindled from  million to  in the last decade according to some estimates however minority rights group put that the number at anywhere between  to  
  a former isis member exposed some of the atrocities the group commits in syria they were extremely brutal killing women and the elderly who did not obey them they abused and mutilated their dead bodies they cut up the corpses tied them to the back of the cars and dragged them along they would find them and publicly execute them i witnessed many executions 
  the remainder of julys roundup of muslim persecution of christiansmost of which was not committed by isisincludes but is not limited to the following muslim slaughter of christians 
  nigeria  two armed muslim tribesmen murdered rev joseph kurah an evangelical pastor while he was working on his farm they repeatedly hacked him to death with machetes a local muslim reportedly hired the assassins after he got into an argument with the christian leader since  muslim fulani have murdered thousands of christians and destroyed hundreds of churches according to a separate report  in just june and july muslim fulani tribesmen targeted and invaded several christian majority villages they killed  people destroyed  churches and countless christian properties and farms muslims hacked a female christian preacher to death in the outskirts of abuja eunice elisha a minister from the redeemed church of god was found dead in a pool of her own blood after she went out to preach in the streets a month earlier on june  a muslim mob beat bridget agbahime the wife of a christian pastor to death with iron rods on the accusation that she blasphemed against muhammad about one million christian children whose families have been displaced or affected by the violent activities of boko haram and muslim fulani herdsmen are starving churches which are currently the primary supporters of these children have gone beyond capacity and tens of thousands of children are expected to die of starvation and disease if they do not receive aid from elsewhere according to the report boko harams sevenyear rebellion has left  people dead and more than two million displaced 
  philippines  attacks and murders of christians around mindanao island which has a large muslim population are on the rise fr sebastiano dambra who has lived in the region for  years is calling on authorities to find proper solutions to stop the agony of the christian community he said a christian was killed in jolo a few days ago a reliable source told me that  christians have been targeted to be killed or kidnapped soon the christian community is suffering a form of persecution from those who are guided by bad elements who claim to do it in the name of islam 
  kenya  muslim gunmen from al shabaab murdered pastor john as he was returning home from facilitating a peacemaking training seminar the jihadis ambushed the bus he was in killing the pastor and six other people including children 
  democratic republic of congo  suspected muslim militants armed with guns and machetes slaughtered nine christians in the north kivu region they also looted homes seizing food and cattle as plunder the area which is  percent christian has seen more than  killed over the last year and a half 
  pakistan  the  muslim bombing of the all saints church in peshawar which killed more than  christian worshippers claimed its latest victim  after battling internal injuries she had received three years earlier from the attack cecilia a yearold christian nurse died from bomb fragments embedded in her body that had turned cancerous according to the report with tearstained eyes her husband noted that we are still losing loved ones after the attack forced conversion rape and murder of christians 
  libya  a report documents the sufferings that christians experience at the hands muslim militants when they migrate through libya in an effort to reach europe in one instance  women were abducted and kept as sex slaves underground and repeatedly raped by various jihadis for almost a year one of the christian women amal  said they took the christians to tripoli and kept us underground  we didnt see the sun for nine months sometimes we didnt eat for three days other times they would give us one meal a day half a piece of bread the christian woman described how they were pressured into converting to islam under threat of death and beaten with hoses or sticks sometimes they would frighten us with their guns or threaten to slaughter us with their knives 
  islamic state  isis has been making use of social mediaincluding facebook and mobile apps like whatapp and telegram to sell enslaved christian and yazidi girls to a wider network of sadists and pedophiles one telegram posting showed a picture of a young girl with the caption virgin beautiful  years old the posting states her price has reached  and she will be sold soon 
  nigeria another report says that the muslim terrorist group boko haram has murdered  people almost all of whom were christian for refusing to convert to islam they also forced  women and young girls to marry their fighters 
  pakistan  muslims kidnapped and forced a yearold christian girl to convert to islam last may her father pled with them for weeks to release his daughter they eventually pretended to relent told him to meet them somewhere so they could return his daughter and once he arrived shot him dead  the girl remains with the rapists the slain fathers widow and three other daughters are hiding in their home in fear of further reprisals from the kidnappers according to najma bibi the girls mother several months after my daughters kidnapping the police have not done anything because we have no money to defend our rights we live in a hopeless situation we need help i pray that my daughter will continue to place hope and faith in jesus christ muhammad iqrar a muslim man assaulted and raped sonia nasar a yearold christian girl although the rapist fled when her father rushed to the scene after hearing the cries of his daughter sonia was left in critical condition he said that he expects no justice or follow up from local authorities some of whom are associated with the rapist sobia nadeem a christian girl studying for a masters degree in physics was abducted by a group of muslims forced to convert to islam and forced to marryat gunpointa man named mohammad hamza in lahore although the girl managed to escape back to her parents home she was taken to court where her family had to prove that her conversion and marriage were performed under force numerous reports continued to appear indicating that nonmuslim students most often christians are being forced to convert to islam through the public school system teachers force them to recite the shahadawhich when said before muslim witnesses makes the reciter a muslimand force them to study muslim beliefs and practices this often occurs in conjunction with denigration of the christian faith due to ongoing christian protests the punjab government said it would launch an inquiry muslim attacks on christian churches and symbols 
  turkey  during the july  failed coup attempt at least two churches were attacked  one of the attacks happened in trabzon a group of  people attacked santa maria church with paving stones and hammers to smash the windows said the report one church leader in istanbul said im not optimistic about the plight of christians in turkey bear in mind weve had a roman catholic bishop murdered weve had clergy threatened weve had one priest murdered  years ago any christian leader if theyre being honest would say that some of whats going on is quite alarming 
  nigeria  on friday july  muslims attacked a catholic church they were angered that christians were praying in the church on friday islams holy day when muslims congregate and pray in mosques according to a christian church leader sometime around pm some muslim youths in their hundreds left their mosque after their friday jumat prayer and rushed to the church premises climbed the wall and destroyed everything in the church the windows the altar musical instruments the chapel the security man in the church premises was beaten to a pulp some women holding a prayer meeting were chased away the seminarian who is resident in the premises was also beaten up and chased away 
  iraq  according to a new report  all  churches and monasteries inside mosul are reportedly now occupied by isis who have looted burned and destroyed property in addition to removing the buildings crosses christians unable to flee are forced to pay large extortion money jizya or risk instant execution 
  sudan  a report notes that by continuously bombing christian and nonmuslim indigenous regions near south sudan and targeting churches and pastors homes for destruction the government is trying to cleanse the nation of christians and create a homogenous muslim state in recent years hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the violence their homes crops churches schools and hospitals destroyed 
  indonesia  despite receiving all legal documents and permits a catholic family trying to construct a shrine to the virgin mary on their own land since  continued to face growing threats from local muslims in  a muslim mob set fire to the shrine site and brought construction to a halt most recently in july muslims stormed the house of a catholic leader and ordered him to stop the work even though he has a building permit issued by the authorities muslim attacks on christian apostates blasphemers and preachers 
  egypt  according to a report  just like the biblical character daniel in the lions den an egyptian muslim who converted to christianity found himself at the mercy of ferocious attack dogs that were unleashed by his jailers to torture and possibly kill him however law student majed el shafie had god on his side and just like in the story about daniel the savage animals miraculously did not harm himto the utter astonishment of his prison guards he was however tortured by the muslim guards themselves 
  uganda  another muslim convert to christianity has lost his family home and business and now lives in a small shanty as a result of his apostasy the extended family of the yearold man a former muslim imam stormed and eventually appropriated his ancestral home in an attempt on his life of that night he said i heard people talking outside my house around  pm saying that they wanted to take away my life and we cannot watch the whole family turning to christianity he complained to the local council after his relatives also destroyed his business but their intervention had no effect and he now lives without any means to provide for himself 
  pakistan  nadeem james a yearold christian man and father of two was arrested in gujarat district after a muslim angry with him accused james of texting a poem deemed blasphemous of muhammad according to the accuseds brother we were not at home when the police raided our house to arrest nadeem however when the cops couldnt find any of us in the premises they took away two women of the family  my wife and the wife of my elder brother faryad around the same time local mosques began calling on megaphones that if he didnt surrender himself christian homes would burn nadeem surrendered himself and the women were released the charge against my brother is completely baseless nadeem is uneducated and could not have possibly sent that text message im certain that yasir bashir muslim accuser downloaded the supposedly blasphemous text onto nadeems phone and then forwarded it to his cell number to build a case against my brother yaqoob masih  a christian sanitary worker was accused of committing blasphemy against islam in hyderabad according to the report masih collected waste from the streets and dumped it at a specific location however bakash muslim accuser without verifying tortured masih with a stick accusing him of committing blasphemy by burning pages of a book which reportedly carried islamic verses masih was packing the garbage and waste in a trunk when bakash accused him of blasphemy masih was hospitalized from his injuries a muslim doctor who treated a dying christian man with medicine that was donated through zakat islamic charity received death threats  the christian was on the verge of dying without treatment in his defense the muslim doctor said he did not know the man was a christian or that it was against some interpretations of islamic law to use muslim charity money to help nonmuslims 
  iran  three azerbaijani pastors were arrested in tehran during a visit no reason was given to family and local legal experts according to the report this is the latest in a succession of pastors who have been imprisoned by iranian authorities over many years for accusations ranging from apostasy to evangelism and ebrahim firouzi who has been under arrest since  under vague charges 
  suffered physical abuse at the hands of prison guards when he was forced to attend an appeal hearing dhimmitude muslim contempt and hostility for christians 
  bangladesh  christian and hindu businesses received notices from a banned islamic organization ordering them to uphold a number of islamic customs or be killed these include hanging banners with allahs name keeping copies of the koran putting pictures of the kaba in mecca removing pictures or statues of their own religions creating a place for muslims to pray and banning music and female workers 
  pakistan  the government in the raiwind district flooded a christian graveyard with sewage water and desecrated all the graves in response protesting christians complained that even in the grave they can receive no peace in pakistan 
  sudan  authorities insulted forcefully arrested and jailed  christians when they attempted to stop them from seizing an evangelical school on church property which authorities plan on giving to muslim businesses later authorities returned to the same christian school gave letters of dismissal to the christian headmistress vandalized her office and replaced her with a teacher of their own choosing 
  egypt  after a christian man was stabbed to death and many christian homes and a church burned by angry muslims because of a rumor that a church was going to be built coptic christian bishop makarious of alminya was interviewed on television church authorities in egypt are regularly diplomatic and sensitive to what they say but makarious made many revealing comments although only christians no muslims were killed and hurt he wondered why the government and media continue to describe these incidents as clasheswhich suggests two quarrelling partieswhen the reality is always that one side attacks the other within minutes of the start of one of the attacks  muslims instantly appeared fully armed as if ready for war he added as long as the attackers are never punished and the armed forces are portrayed as doing their duty this will just encourage others to continue the attacks since even if they are arrested they will be quickly released when the host asked questions about who is released and why suggesting that perhaps those released are in fact innocent of any wrongdoing against the christians the bishop replied well what do you think when the actual attackers themselves are arrested with complete proofs and evidences against them but then they are still declared innocent and released this happens every single time about this series 
  the persecution of christians in the islamic world has become endemic accordingly muslim persecution of christians was developed to collate someby no means allof the instances of persecution that surface each month it serves two purposes 
   to document that which the mainstream media does not the habitual if not chronic persecution of christians 
   to show that such persecution is not random but systematic and interrelatedthat it is rooted in a worldview inspired by islamic sharia 
  accordingly whatever the anecdote of persecution it typically fits under a specific theme including hatred for churches and other christian symbols apostasy blasphemy and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who offend islam sexual abuse of christian women forced conversions to islam theft and plunder in lieu of jizya financial tribute expected from nonmuslims overall expectations for christians to behave like cowed dhimmis  or thirdclass tolerated citizens and simple violence and murder sometimes it is a combination thereof 
  because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities languages and localesfrom morocco in the west to indonesia in the eastit should be clear that one thing alone binds them islamwhether the strict application of islamic sharia law or the supremacist culture born of it 
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