Tuesday, May 07, 2013

The Mass Exodus of Christians From the Muslim World


From Fox News:

A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway.  Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.  
We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being. 
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said: “The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year.”  In our lifetime alone “Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt.” 
Ongoing reports from the Islamic world certainly support this conclusion:   
Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.  
In 2003, Iraq’s Christian population was at least one million. Today fewer than 400,000 remain—the result of an anti-Christian campaign that began with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, when countless Christian churches were bombed and countless Christians killed, including by crucifixion and beheading. 
The 2010 Baghdad church attack, which saw nearly 60 Christian worshippers slaughtered, is the tip of a decade-long iceberg. 
Now, as the U.S. supports the jihad on Syria’s secular president Assad, the same pattern has come to Syria: entire regions and towns where Christians lived for centuries before Islam came into being have now been emptied, as the opposition targets Christians for kidnapping, plundering, and beheadings, all in compliance with mosque calls telling the populace that it’s a “sacred duty” to drive Christians away. 
In October 2012 the last Christian in the city of Homs—which had a Christian population of some 80,000 before jihadis came—was murdered. One teenage Syrian girl said: “We left because they were trying to kill us… because we were Christians…. Those who were our neighbors turned against us. At the end, when we ran away, we went through balconies. We did not even dare go out on the street in front of our house.”  
In Mali, after a 2012 Islamic coup, as many as 200,000 Christians fled.  
According to reports, “the church in Mali faces being eradicated,” especially in the north “where rebels want to establish an independent Islamist state and drive Christians out… there have been house to house searches for Christians who might be in hiding, churches and other Christian property have been looted or destroyed, and people tortured into revealing any Christian relatives.” At least one pastor was beheaded. 

5 comments:

Nicoenarg said...

Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.

All of us here on IBA and the Christians in the middle east already knew that. We didn't need a report.

Mohammed said that only Islam should be practiced on the Arabian peninsula and then the rest of the world.

Saddest part is that the West would rather take in Muslims as refugees than give Christians the protection they need.

Christine said...

I'm pretty sure the libs have their own particularly screwy take on this.

Christine said...

Yep, that sounds about right Nico.

Epaminondas said...

SIlly people, this is not a story otherwise more than Fox, the network of right wing tea party extremists, would be reporting it.

Nothing to see here.

christian soldier said...

and the CHRISTian leaders--where are they - and where is their 'outrage'!!!!
Carol-CS