CONSERVATIVE TRUTH 07/11/05
Islamic Nations Slaughter and Enslave Christians
By Tom Barrett
Publisher@ConservativeTruth.org

THERE IS NOT ONE CHRISTIAN NATION ON EARTH WHERE MUSLIMS ARE PERSECUTED. Yet
in 83% of nations where the majority of the population are Muslims, there is
systematic government persecution of Christians. (See "Religious Freedom in
the Majority Islamic Countries" in the Resources section below.) This
persecution includes imposing the death penalty for sharing the Christian
faith with a Muslim; national laws prohibiting conversion from Islam to
Christianity; destruction of churches; and murder or expulsion of Christian
missionaries. Even in the few predominantly Muslim countries where the
government does not openly participate in the persecution, it ignores and
even encourages illegal persecution by Muslims against Christians.

I spent hours going through the well-documented profiles of the forty-six
countries listed in the report mentioned above. Of these, six did not have
significant Muslim populations. Of the thirty-nine with a strong Muslim
majority, only seven could be considered to be either neutral or tolerant
toward their Christian minorities. If the United States were to treat its
roughly two million Muslims with one-tenth of the violence and humiliation
that these Islamic nations heap on their Christians, the worldwide outcry
would be immediate, and justified. Why, then, does the "Community of
Nations," including the United States, turn a deaf ear to the cries of the
persecuted Christians in Muslim nations?

The laws of most of these Islamic nations give lip service to religious
freedom. Nothing could be further from the truth. In most of the countries I
researched, the death penalty was common for converting from Islam to
Christianity (or any other religion). Christians receive no protection from
these governments when they are persecuted; indeed, most often the
governments themselves are the persecutors. Children of Christians are
stolen from their parents so that they can be raised as Muslims. Speaking
about Christianity to a Muslim can result in beatings, long prison sentences
and even death.

The most urgent situation demanding our attention today is in Indonesia,
which has the largest Muslim population of any non-Arab country. There
Islamic fundamentalists have promised a bloodbath of Christians before
Christmas. This is no idle threat; in 1996 Islamic fundamentalists
slaughtered 3,000 Christians in East Timor. More recently, a group called
Laskar Jihad, which hails Osama bin Laden as its hero, slaughtered thousands
of Christians with the help of government troops. (See "Christians
Terrorized in Muslim Indonesia" in the Resources section.)

An Indonesian military officer is quoted as saying that the government has
the power to stop the Jihad, but government officials "all the way to the
top" profit from it. Their goal is nothing less than to exterminate every
Christian in Indonesia or force them to leave. According to Steven Snyder,
the president of International Christian Concern who visited Indonesia in
November, about 15,000 Laskar Jihad troops equipped with AK-47 assault
rifles, rocket launchers and bulldozers are threatening to kill 50,000
Christians and destroy their homes and churches.

In Sudan, Christians are sold into slavery or murdered for no other crime
than naming the Name of Christ. Over two million have been murdered, and
200,000 have been sold into slavery by their government. An organization
named Christian Solidarity International (PLEASE visit C.S.I.'s website
listed in Resources Section) has raised money to buy almost 60,000 slaves
from their captors and free them. One 22-year-old Protestant girl, a virgin,
was captured by government soldiers and raped repeatedly for five days as
she was marched through the jungle tied to twenty other slaves. Many women
and children died during this march. She was then used as a slave and forced
to study Islam until bought out of slavery by C.S.I. You can read her
complete story and those of other slaves on C.S.I.'s website.

What about our "allies"? You can dress a monster up in a pinstriped suit,
teach him to speak formally and use the right fork at state dinners, and put
him in a group of diplomats for a photo opportunity, but that doesn't make
him civilized. Our "friends" in the international community, including Saudi
Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and our most recent buddy, Pakistan, are all guilty
of atrocities against Christians based on nothing other than their
profession of faith. Let me emphasize that we are not talking about a
radical minority of citizens acting on their own. We are talking about
systematic state persecution, state murder and state crimes against
humanity, all legal according to the various constitutions and laws of these
vicious nations.

Let's start with our "friend and ally," Saudi Arabia. Their "Constitution"
is the Koran. This nation, whose population is 98% Muslim, finances Islamic
terrorist groups in moderate Islamic nations which force conversion to Islam
under the threat of death. In Saudi Arabia, rape is punishable by death-
unless it is a Muslim man violating a Christian woman. The Saudis are so
rich from their oil that most refuse to do common labor, so they import six
million foreign workers. Of these, ten percent are Christians. They are not
allowed to wear a cross in public and or to celebrate Christmas, but are
forced to observe Ramadan. Christians, even tourists, have been arrested by
the Religious Police for participating in prayer meetings in private homes.
Any who speak of their faith publicly are tortured in an attempt to convert
them to Islam. Those who refuse are executed. Punishment for distributing
Bibles can range from lashes with a whip or amputation of a limb, to
beheading.

Turkey, our "military ally", is 99.8% Muslim. Recently, eight Americans were
arrested in Turkey for the "crime" of giving away copies of the New
Testament. In 1974 Turkey overran Cyprus - which is 80% Christian - and has
ruled that small nation with an iron fist since then. The Turkish government
expelled thousands of Orthodox Christians, then took a thousand-year-old
monastery and turned it into a mosque! Imagine the international outcry if a
mosque anywhere were to be stolen by a government and turned into a
Christian church.

Egypt, described by our State Department as a "friend of the United States"
is one of the worst persecutors of Christians. In Cairo an entire Christian
neighborhood was set on fire by Islamic terrorists. Children were thrown out
of windows in front of their horrified parents, churches were burned and
Christian's homes destroyed. This went on for two days without the
government doing anything to stop it. Egyptian security forces have been
accused by eye-witnesses of raping, then crucifying adolescent girls.

In Pakistan recently a 14-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped, forced to
convert to Islam, then raped and given to a Muslim to be one of his wives.
The pleas of her parents were ignored by the police. In 1997, Islamic
extremists, aided by Pakistani police, destroyed the homes of 800 Christians
as well as thirteen churches, because they had "insulted Islam." A few weeks
ago six children and nine adults were gunned down as they worshiped in a
Christian church. This terrorist nation is our newest "ally" in the war
against terrorism.

The Libyan government took a Christian Cathedral and converted it to a
mosque. In Kuwait, the nation America's military saved from a brutal
occupation by Iraq, the government tries to bribe Christians to convert to
Islam. A Kuwaiti Christian was recently condemned to die by the religious
court for converting from Islam. It should come as no surprise that 150,000
Christians have fled Iraq to avoid persecution. Over 150 Christian churches
have been demolished in Iraq, where death is the penalty for proclaiming
faith in Christ, and where Saddam Hussein has proclaimed himself "The
Defender of the Islamic Faith."

Hundreds of Christian missionaries have been murdered in Algeria and other
Islamic nations. Iran pretends to have religious freedom, but students in
all schools are forced to study Islam, as are draftees in their military
services. Conversion to any religion other than Islam brings a swift death
sentence. If space permitted, I could give hundreds of other examples of
atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians simply because of their
faith. The events I have described are happening as you read this.
Christians are being tortured today because they will not convert to Islam.
Christians are dying today because they dare to speak the Name of Christ.

Our President has stated repeatedly that Islam is a peaceful religion which
has "been hijacked by radicals." I know why he makes that statement. If Bush
said anything else, he would be labeled a hate-monger, as I am sure I will
be for speaking the truth. The facts speak for themselves. Do the research,
as I have done. Eighty-three percent of the governments of nations with a
Muslim majority kill, enslave, and persecute Christians with the blessings
(and very often, the complicity) of their Islamic clergy. I'm sure that
there are many kind, loving Muslims who live in those countries. I just
wonder why they allow such atrocities to be committed in the name of their
religion.

Most of you who have written to me about the goodness and kindness of
Muslims know only Muslims who live in this country. They have been
influenced by the values of America, which include tolerance toward other
religions, values based on the Bible. Many U.S. Muslim immigrants are as
horrified as we are by the actions of Muslims in the countries of their
birth.
God tells us in Proverbs 31:8 that we must speak up for those who cannot
speak for themselves.

President Bush needs to speak up in behalf of the good people of this nation
who are appalled by the cruelty of Islamic governments towards our brothers
and sisters in Muslim nations. Our President needs to demand that Muslim
nations treat Christians as Muslims are treated here in America. Write to
President Bush. Tell him not to be seduced by promises from liars, in order
to get their cooperation in our battle against terrorism. The war against
terrorism is a just war, but if in our zeal to punish international
terrorists we ally ourselves with religious terrorists, what have we gained?
Editor's Note: This article was first published on December 16, 2001.


INTERNET RESOURCES:

DETAILED RESEARCH on Religious Persecution in 46 Muslim Nations:
http://www.alleanzacattolica.org/acs/ac ... ndex.htm#A

"Christians Terrorized in Muslim Indonesia":
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.a ... E_ID=25599

International Christian Concern:
http://www.persecution.org/

Voice of the Martyrs:
http://www.persecution.com/

Christian Solidarity International
http://www.csi-int.org/



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