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Islam
An anti-Christian religion
Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met in the Pakistani
capital Islamabad on Wednesday and appealed for European and other
western countries to condemn the cartoons, saying freedom of the
press did not mean the right to insult the religious beliefs of others.
– 15 Feb 2006 Wednesday
• Islam has been insulting Christian Faith since its
inception.
• Islam based its legitimacy for existence on
smearing Jews and Christians as corruptors of
their Holy Book and Covenants.
• The Islamic World has been occupying the
Temple Mount, and obstructing Jews
worshipping there.
• Islamic people do not bless Israel but curse
them.
Earlier Wednesday, the European Union condemned both the cartoons and what it called
“systematic incitement to violence” against European diplomatic missions by some
unidentified governments — an apparent reference to Iran and Syria. The U.S. has
accused Tehran and Damascus of stoking the violence against western targets.
Wednesday 15 Feb 2006
• Attitude of Tehran and Damascus is not
one of tolerance or peace.
Islamic tradition explicitly prohibits any depiction of
Allah and the Prophet.
• Islam is trying to insert and exert its power, rule,
and sovereignty on non-Islamic people, nations
and traditions.
• Muslims are trying to displace and substitute
reasonings of non-Muslims with theirs.
• We are on our way to a slippery slope where
no-one can tell how the self-censorship will
end - Jyllands-Posten editorial - 2006
God's curse be on those who insulted the prophet
Demonstrators in Karachi – Feb 2006
• Christians are not trying to voice out
threats, but blessing others in prayers and
in goodwill.
• Christians fear not the curses and threats
voiced by other gods,Allah.
• Christians ought to fear Yhwh El-Shaddai
only; and praise His Holy Name.
Thousands of supporters of hardline Islamic groups marched up to the
main business district in the north-western city of Peshawar and
attacked shops and businesses, setting a KFC outlet on fire.
The office of a Norwegian mobile phone company was also attacked.
• The most moderate Muslim will go to the street and talk against
it because this hurts the sentiments of every Muslim
• Pervez Musharraf – 13 Feb 2006
• We have 2 conflicting views of Pakistan – Most moderate Muslim vs.
supporters of hardline Islamic groups
The paper chose as its central image a visual joke about the Prophet among other
turban-wearing figures in a police line-up and the witness saying: "I don't know which one
he is".
It is presumably an ironic appeal for calm over the issue, the suggestion being that, if a
Danish illustrator were to portray the Prophet, it is not known what he looks like and is
therefore a harmless gesture.
The humour comes from the fact that the line-up also includes people like Jesus Christ,
the far-right Danish politician Pia Kjaersgaard and Mr Bluitgen himself.
• No Christian took the inclusion of Jesus Christ
as intolerable insult, or abuse.
• No Humanist express the inclusion of Danish
politician as intolerable insult, or abuse.
• Muslims scorned Jesus/God, and Christians,
and Danish politician by insisting that their
Mohammad stand out above all other figures.
Muslim writer Ziauddin Sardar likens them to anti-Semitic images
published in Europe in the 1920s and 30s, with Muslims being
demonised as violent, backward and fanatical. – Feb 2006
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How many buildings have been burnt?
How many men died?
How many demonstrators broke through police barriers?
How many demonstrators shouted out threats of death
and curses?
• How many demonstrators stormed Christian
areas/neighbourhood?
• How many demonstrations caused shops to close up
from normal daily business?
• How many still believe such people are not demonised,
violent, backward in tradition(as referring to 3rd World,
and 3rd World tradition), and fanatical? How many?
"Freedom of expression is not about doing whatever we want to do
because we can do it," Muslim writer Ziauddin Sardar wrote in the
Independent on Sunday. – Feb 2006
• Who caused deaths, voiced threats and curses,
burnt and stepped on flags, burnt and stormed
embassies their countries ought to protect, and
expressed anti-semitic sentiment?
• Who attempt to dominate expression and rights
of expressions?
• Who express invasion of their religion into the
countries of other systems of belief?
• Who restrict freedom of millions of people?
• Who have been doing all these as they seem to
be getting away with it?
"Freedom of expression is about creating an open marketplace for
ideas and debate where all, including the marginalised, can take part
as equals." - Ziauddin Sardar 2006
• Where is this freedom of expression between Muslim men and
Muslim women?
• How are marginalised Christians treated as equals in ghettos?
• How are Christians in Malaysia freely expressing themselves under
Malay Islamic law forbidding them to voice their believes to Muslims
and anyone who claim to be Muslims?
• How are Christians in Saudi Arabia freely expressing themselves
under Arab Islamic law forbidding them to worship openly, and voice
their believes to Muslims and any Arab?
• When and where are people being treated as equals in Islamic
World?
• Where do you find security guards armed with firearms outside
churches? Where is peace and goodwill?
Germany challenging Iran
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The Iranian Ambassador to Germany
is demanding a written apology from a
Berlin newspaper that printed a
cartoon of Iranian soccer players
dressed as suicide bombers.
The cartoon, published in Friday's
edition of Der Tagesspiegel [February
10], shows four soccer players
wearing Iranian shirts, with bomb belts
strapped to them, standing beside four
German soldiers in a soccer stadium.
The ambassador is threatening legal
action if no apology is offered.
(By Arutz Sheva, February 14, 2006)
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Pray that the Lord will deal with the
confrontational ways of the Islamic
fundamentalists, which is designed to
destroy life for any peoples who do not
live according to their restrictions.
Islamic action to murder
• Peshawar cleric
Maulana Yousaf
Qureshi offers 7.5m
rupees ($125,000)
and a car to anyone
who kills the
cartoonist who drew
the cartoons. The
reward is later
reportedly raised to
$1m - 17 Feb 2006
• Pray that the Lord will
deal with the
confrontational ways
of the Islamic
fundamentalists,
which is designed to
destroy life for any
peoples who do not
live according to their
restrictions.
On September 19, 2005,
a superior court in Malaysia
upheld an earlier decision that
ethnic Malay people cannot
convert from Islam.
No legal exit
Action of apostate churches
• A delegation representing
Protestant and
Evangelical churches in
Denmark travels to Cairo
in order to express
solidarity with Muslims. 17 Feb 2006
• United Church of Canada
says prophet's name has
been ‘tragically misused,'
- Friday 17 Feb 2006
• The Church keeps
looking to God/Yhwh.
Show for strength of hardline
• Correspondents say
many of the targets
attacked in Pakistan
have nothing to do
with the cartoons and
the demonstrations
have been more of a
show of strength by
the country's hardline
Islamic parties.
- 17 Feb 2006
• The Church keeps
preaching Christ
Jesus.
Iranians rename Danish pastries
Bakeries across the
capital, Tehran, are
covering up signs
advertising the
pastries and replacing
them with ones
bearing the dessert's
new name. - 17 Feb
2006 Friday
• The Church keeps
preaching Christ
Jesus.
• Christians are bearing
their crosses.
• Satan-inspired term “Palestine” was used
by the pagan Romans to spite the Jews
after defeating and dispersing them,
renaming the holy land after Israel's
ancient enemies, the Philistines.
• Muslims and Arab Muslims favor Palestine
and disown Israel(a real historic state).
• "Palestine" reflects the dark mind that
would erase the name of Israel off the map
(Psalms 83:4,5), as the wicked Iranian
leader has recently called for, and the use
of "Palestine" is totally unscriptural! We
ought to call the Promised Land of Israel
what God in His Bible has clearly named it:
Israel - not Ishmael, not Philistine.
The United Church of Canada
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"We believe that the intention of
publishing the cartoons has little to do
with freedom of expression and much
to do with incitement to racial and
religious hatred," senior church
representatives said in the letter
released to the media on Friday.
The letter was signed by Rev. James
Sinclair, general-secretary of the
church's general council and Rev.
Bruce Gregersen, general council
minister for programs for mission and
ministry.
"The answer to your question of 'why
publish such cartoons?' we believe is
simply racial hatred," they told the
Islamic Council.
"In other forms, it has been called
Islamophobia. These attitudes should
have no place in Canada."
- 17 Feb 2006 Friday
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1Sam 12v21
Psalm 78vv30-33
Ephesians 4vv17-19
Death for Afghan conversion
• It doesn't look good for Abdul Rahman. The judge in his case says
the 41 year old clearly violated Islamic law by converting to
Christianity. "If he doesn't regret his conversion, the punishment will
be enforced on him," the judge said. "And the punishment is death."
• The Chicago Tribune has changed its headline from "Afghan man
faces death for being a Christian" to "Afghan man faces death for
abandoning Islam." But both the judge and prosecutor (Rahman
doesn't have a defense attorney) have said his crime isn't just
conversion.
• "It is illegal to be a Christian and it should be punished," the
judge was quoted as saying in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Prosecutor Abdul Wasi told The Times of London, "We are Muslims
and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the
death penalty."
Afghan protest greets freeing of
Christian convert
KABUL, Afghanistan — Hundreds(700) of people
protested in a northern Afghan city Monday
against a decision to free a man(Abdul Rahman)
who faced a possible death penalty for
converting from Islam to Christianity, officials
said. - Mar. 27, 2006. 05:18 AM ASSOCIATED PRESS
• The constitution in Afghanistan is based on
Sharia law, which states any Muslim who rejects
his or her religion should be sentenced to death.
• "Abdul Rahman must be killed. Islam demands
it," said senior Cleric Faiez Mohammed, from the
nearby northern city of Kunduz. ``The Christian
foreigners occupying Afghanistan are attacking
our religion."
• Senior Muslim clerics have been united in calling
for Raham to be executed.
• Several Muslim clerics have threatened to incite
Afghans to kill Rahman if he is freed, saying that
he is clearly guilty of apostasy and deserves to
die. – 28 March 2006 AP
• “If he(Abdul) is allowed to live in the
West, then others will claim to be
Christian so they can, too. We must set
an example…He must be hanged” (Said
Mirhossain Nasri, senior cleric at
Hossainia Mosque, one of the largest
Shiite mosques in Kabul, Afghanistan
(AP)) 2006
• “If anyone changes his religion, kill
him” – The Prophet Muhammed . . . ,
baddala deenahu faqtuhu, Bukhari vol.
9, bk. 84, no. 57
The Chicago Tribune:
• "One Afghan liberal scholar, Ali Mohaqeq
Nasab, spent almost three months in jail
last fall after publishing a magazine
challenging many traditional views on
Islamic law, including the belief that
Muslims who convert to other religions
deserve to die."
• Santoro(Roman Catholic Priest), 60, was
shot and killed Feb. 5 while he prayed in
his parish in the Black Sea city of Trabzon.
Witnesses said the killer, a 16-year-old boy,
screamed "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God
is great," before firing two bullets into
Santoro's back.
• WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has photographs that
show Iraqi and U.S. forces were fired on from buildings filled
with weapons in an operation that has generated controversy
after Shi'ite accounts of a mosque massacre, Senate Armed
Services Committee Chairman John Warner, said on Tuesday.
28 March 2006
• U.S. commanders in Iraq have accused Shi'ite groups of
moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage
such accusations.
• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld showed photographs
taken immediately after the raid, "and clearly you can see all
types of armament and other military paraphernalia there,"
Warner, a Virginia Republican, said.
• Countless Web sites and passwordprotected forums -- most of which have
sprung up in the last several years -- now
cater to would-be jihadists like Irhabi 007.
The terrorists who congregate in those
cybercommunities are rapidly becoming
skilled in hacking, programming, executing
online attacks and mastering digital and
media design.
• To Our Brother Irhabi 007. Our brother Irhabi
007, you have shown very good efforts in
serving this message board, as I can see, and in
serving jihad for the sake of God. By God, we do
not like to hear what hurts you, so we ask God to
keep you in his care. - a member of Ansar in August 2004
• The God of Israel is greater than any false god.
Irhabi 007 could not be protected by Islam or
Islamic god, neither did they have power to
escape destruction. Within a few years Irhabi
was caught. - 2006
• On Tuesday [March 28] the parliament of
the Palestinian Authority [PA] approved the
new Hamas government and its guidelines:
"The Koran is our constitution, jihad is our
path, and dying as martyrs our biggest
wish.“ – 2006
• His call was answered by a standing
ovation and calls of "Allahu Akbar."
• The new PA Minister of Information, Yusuf
Rizka, said that the new Hamas
government "is a government of shahids
[holy martyrs] that will take the path of Dr.
Abdel Aziz Rantisi [a ruthless terrorist
leader killed in 2004]." – March 2006
• After the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)
publicized that the Hamas children's Web
site was encouraging children to seek
martyrdom, the Russian server (CORBINA
TELECOM Network Operations)
immediately closed down the Web site on
March 9. However, the site reopened a
couple of days later and is now being
hosted by a Malaysian Web host.
Islamicisation in Malaysia
• The president of the Consumers
Association of Subang and Shah Alam in
Selangor State has been helping to
organise efforts to stop the local
authorities in the ethnic Malay-Muslim
dominated city of Shah Alam from
demolishing a 107-year-old Hindu temple.
• A church in Johor was demolished
recently – May 2006
• Just before Christmas a newly completed church
of an indigenous community near Skudai in
Johor state was reduced to rubble, closely
monitored by Islamic department officials and
the police.
• In all cases the Muslim-dominated local
authorities say the buildings were illegal. Many
such buildings are deemed as such because
they pre-date land records. Others are put up
illegally because some local authorities seem
reluctant to grant permission for temples and
churches, but worshippers build them regardless.
• The Malay police recently ordered nonMuslim policewomen to wear Muslim
headscarves for their annual parade,
something that many non-Muslims felt set
a worrying precedent.
• And then there have been moves by some
local authorities to ban or restrict dog
ownership - conservative Muslims see
dogs as unclean - and prosecute couples
for holding hands or kissing in public.
• On May 12-2006, a Christian radio station in
Nairobi, Kenya broadcast a Swahili-language
program comparing the Bible to the Quran.
Shortly afterwards, eight gunmen attacked the
station, killing a security guard, injuring three
others and setting fire to the building. The radio
station, HopeFM, is owned by Christ is the
Answer Ministries and is based at the Nairobi
Pentecostal Church. According to one news
report, the attackers accused the radio station of
refusing to take their calls. Kenyan authorities,
along with Christian and Muslim leaders, have
condemned the attack. The radio station was
able to resume broadcasting the next day.
In Sudan 2006
• A Sudanese Anglican priest has been
arrested on charges of kidnapping a
woman who came to him wanting to
convert from Islam, according to a May 15,
2006 report from Reuters. Reverend Elia
Kumundan and at least four other
Christians were arrested on May 14
following the disappearance of the 23year-old woman in March. The authorities
believe that the church helped the woman
to either hide or to leave the country.
In Sudan 2006
• One church leader recounted how many
Christians have been forced into hiding in
fear of death. Authorities regularly harass
and threaten Christians but are careful to
avoid any indication that the harassment is
for religious reasons.
In Indonesia - 2006 May
• More than six months after three teenage girls were beheaded and
another seriously wounded in Central Sulawesi (see
http://www.persecution.net/news/indonesia54.html), police have
arrested seven Islamic militants for the attack. According to the
Jakarta Post, three of the men have confessed on video and
expressed remorse for their actions. One of the men, Irwan Irano,
also confessed to being a part of other attacks, including a deadly
attack on the Efatha Presbyterian Church in Palu in July 2004 (see
http://www.persecution.net/news/indonesia18.html)
• and the bombing of a market in Tentena which killed twenty-one
people in May
• 2005 (see http://www.persecution.net/news/indonesia36.html).
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Added: Sunday, 20 August, 2006, 06:20 GMT 07:20 UK
• There is not much that the UN can do without the cooperation of the warring countries and their backers.Here
I would like to ask my muslim bretheren, were they in a
state of coma when the taliban blasted a vital relic of
buddhistic heritage, in Bamiyan, Afghanistan during the
taliban rule? When a mosque is demolished in India, the
entire islamic world rises up with a violent protest and
issuing fatwa! so, let islamists first learn the basic
civilising nature of tolerance towards other faith
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changirachari lakshmi, chennai, India
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Muslims killing Muslims
• Snipers shoot hundreds of Shiite pilgrims
• Security forces, militias battle insurgents
along route
• BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Snipers fired on a
major Shiite religious procession in Baghdad
Sunday, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring
230, officials said. Four suspected gunmen
were shot dead by police.
- Aug. 20, 2006. 07:30 AM – T.S.
Sit in the ruins of a nation and
declare victory
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• Only a terrorist organization like Hezbollah can
sit in the ruins of a nation and declare victory for
simply surviving. Hezbollah is willing to take any
number of casualties to prick Israel much like a
mosquito would a man. So, no, there will be no
peace as long as long as Israel's opponents
think they have acheived "victory" when they
lose 10 of their own for every Israeli. Do
Hezbollah (and for that matter all Islamists) think
they can win a war with suicide bombers alone?
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Shashi, New Orleans
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