by Raymond Ibrahim
• July 24, 2015 at 5:00 am
- "This is
an administration which never seems to find a good enough excuse to
help Christians, but always finds an excuse to apologize for
terrorists ... I hope that as it gets attention that Secretary Kerry
will reverse it. If he doesn't, Congress has to investigate, and the
person who made this decision ought to be fired" — Newt
Gingrich, former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives.
- "The
U.S. insists that Muslims are the primary victims of Boko Haram...
The question remains -- why is the U.S. downplaying or denying the
attacks against Christians?" — Emmanuel Ogebe, Nigerian human
rights lawyer, Washington D.C.
- "Stop
building churches. Convert to Islam, which is the true religion.
Otherwise we will make a horrible example of you." — Javed
David, head of Hope for the Light Ministries, quoting a biker.
- The Free
Front of Algeria demands that all Christian churches remaining in
the North African nation must be closed and reopened as mosques.
- A Muslim mob
in Deder, Ethiopia attacked a Christian man and forced him out of
his home on pain of death in an effort to appropriate his land and
build a mosque on it -- despite recent court rulings confirming the
Christian man's property rights.
- Accounts of
Muslim immigrants taunting and even assaulting Christians in Italy
are increasing.
- "We are
a poor nation. These people [Christian captives] have not done
anything wrong and won't harm anyone. We as Assyrians do not have
this amount of [ransom] money you are asking for" — Bishop Mar
Mellis, Syria.
The St. Catherine of Siena Church and its
neighboring elementary school in Mississauga, Ontario were vandalized
this year by Iqbal Hessan, a 22-year-old Muslim man.
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During the height of one of the most brutal months of Muslim
persecution of Christians, the U.S. State Department exposed its double
standards against persecuted Christian minorities.
Sister Diana, an influential Iraqi Christian leader, who was
scheduled to visit the U.S. to advocate for persecuted Christians in the
Mideast, was denied a visa by the U.S. State Department even though she
had visited the U.S. before, most recently in 2012.
She was to be one of a delegation of religious leaders from Iraq --
including Sunni, Shia and Yazidi, among others -- to visit Washington,
D.C., to describe the situation of their people. Every religious leader
from this delegation to Washington D.C. was granted a visa -- except for
the only Christian representative, Sister Diana.
After this refusal became public, many Americans protested, some
writing to their congressmen. Discussing the nun's visa denial, former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich said:
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