Christmas Slaughter

In this mailing: Raymond Ibrahim: Christmas Slaughter Lawrence A. Franklin: Nigeria: Presidential Elections Amid Specter of Boko Haram Christmas Slaughter Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2014 by Raymond Ibrahim  •  February 1, 2015 at 5:00 am "They chopped children in half. They chopped all heads off. How do you respond to that? That is what we have been going through. That is what we are going through." — The Reverend Canon Andrew White, "Vicar of Baghdad". "At dawn on Christmas Day, the barbaric regime of Iran hanged 7 people in mass execution in Shiraz." — NCR-Iran. There are always more and more frequent cases where the blasphemy law is used to target religious minorities or to settle cases of disputes or private rivalries, or simply as an instrument of blackmail." — Shardar Mushtaq Gill, Pakistani Christian lawyer. Sudan's security agents and police have "broad powers to arrest Christians and other lowly-regarded people without cause, for creating public disturbance. The Christians were released after paying a fine of $250 each." — Morning Star News. Islamic law holds that new churches are never to be built in Muslim lands and existing ones never repaired. Even so, many of these partially wrecked churches continue to be used, and are even packed, during church services. A Nigerian army emplacement in Maiduguri. (Image source: TV360 video screenshot) Once again, the month of Christmas witnessed some of the most barbaric attacks on Christians throughout the Islamic world. After Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the "Vicar of Baghdad," told of how the Islamic State [S] "chopped [Christian] children in half; they chopped their heads off," he offered the following anecdote: IS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, "You say the words [the shehada, to convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad." And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, "No, we love Jesus [Yesua]. We have always loved Jesus. We have always followed Jesus. Jesus has always been with us." They [IS] said, "Say the words!" They [children] said, "No, we can't." [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off. How do you respond to that? You just cry. They're my children. That is what we have been going through. That is what we are going through. Continue Reading Article Nigeria: Presidential Elections Amid Specter of Boko Haram by Lawrence A. Franklin  •  February 1, 2015 at 4:00 am If Boko Haram successfully purges the moderate Muslim elites in the northern states, Nigeria may well split into two separate nation-states, as did the Sudan. There would be a Muslim country in the north under Sharia law -- if Boko Haram stopped there, a call that is doubtful. And there would be another country in the south, governed by the existing Federal Constitution. A religious-ethnic map of Nigeria. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) Nigeria's former dictator and perennial coup plotter, Mohammadou Buhari[1], may well defeat incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the country's upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for February 14 . Buhari, a northerner and a Muslim, has vowed to end Boko Haram's reign of terror in the northeast of the country. Boko Haram has been responsible for the deaths of at least 10,000 Nigerians in 2014, mostly Christian and Muslim civilians, as well as many Nigerian soldiers and police.[2] According to Boko Haram documents, the terrorist group wants to purge the ruling political and religious elites in Nigeria's 12 northern states, which are already governed by Islamic Sharia law.[3] Continue Reading Article

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