I was talking to my Coptic friend today. He was telling me about how Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is on Egyptian TV calling for all Muslims to take to the streets in protest Friday, September 22 for what Pope Benedict VXI said last week. My friend was expressing concern that if the Muslims take to the streets on Friday that attacks will be made on the Christian Churches there. He was telling me a conversation he had had with a Muslim recently over this whole situation. The Muslim man told my Coptic friend that the Pope should apologize for his statement. My friend told that Muslim man that the Muslims should apologize for the things they have done throughout history to Christians.
First of all, I would like to tell Muslims, if you don’t like being called violent then why are you reacting with violence? All you have succeeded in doing is showing the world that the things the Pope said about you are the truth. You have now burned 6 churches in Palestine and killed a nun in the Sudan. A nun who had devoted her life to helping you. Some gratitude! But so typical of the things you do, Muslims.
But my friend was right, you Muslims owe the Christians an apology for all the things you have said and done to insult and persecute Christians. Shall we go over some of the things you Muslims have done to Christians just since beginning of the 20th Century?
1) 1.5 million Armenian Christians and Syraic Christians (Assyrians) died during the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1917. The event, which became known as the Armenian Genocide, is considered the first genocide of the 20th Century.
2) Many Assyrians have fled from the Middle East during the last 100 years, most notably during the World War 1. Many died in what some call the Assyrian Genocide. There is however neither verifiable figures for this nor proof that they were targeted as such like for the Armenian Genocide. As some Assyrians had joined pro-British or pro-Russian military forces it is possible, but not specifically documented as such, that the Ottoman authorities specifically retaliated against Assyrian civilians in order to massacre and annihilate them, which would make it an Assyrian Genocide.
3) There is an abundance of evidence since the early 1990s of oppression and persecution of Christians, including by Sudan's own Sudan Human Rights Organization, which in mid-1992 reported on forcible closure of churches, expulsion of priests, forced displacement of populations, forced Islamisation and Arabisation, and other repressive measures of the Government. In 1994 it also reported on widespread torture, ethnic cleansing and crucifixion of pastors. Pax Christi has also reported on detailed cases in 1994, as has Africa Watch. Roman Catholic bishop Macram Max Gassis, Bishop of El Obeid, also reported to the Fiftieth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, in Geneva, in February 1994 on accounts of widespread destruction of hundreds of churches, forced conversions of Christians to Islam, concentration camps, genocide of the Nuba people, systematic rape of women, enslavement of children, torture of priests and clerics, burning alive of pastors and catechists, crucifixion and mutilation of priests. The foregoing therefore serves to indict the Sudanese Government itself for flagrant violations of human rights and religious freedom.
In addition, it is estimated that over 1.5 million Christians have been killed by the Sudanese army, the Janjaweed, and even suspected Islamists in northern Sudan since 1984.
4) Oct. 28, 2001 - Lahore, Pakistan - Islamic militants killed 15 Christians at a church. On September 25, 2002 two terrorists entered the "Peace and Justice Institute", Karachi. They separated Muslims from the Christians, and then executed eight Christians by shooting them in the head.
5) 1998 – 500 Christian churches burned down in Java, Indonesia.
6) November, 1998 – 22 churches in Jakarta, Indonesia are burned down 13 Christians killed.
7) Christmas Day 1998 - 180 homes and stores owned by Christians are destroyed in Poso, Central Sulawisi, Indonesia.
8) Easter 2000 – 800 homes and stores owned by Christians are destroyed in Poso Central Salawesi, Indonesia.
9) May 23 2000 – Christians fight back against a Muslim mob in Indonesia. 700 people die.
10) June 2001 the Laskar Jihad declares Jihad against Christians in Indonesia. Muslim citizens are recruited by the thousands to exterminate Christians.
11) October 29, 2005 - 3 school girls were found beheaded near Poso. The girls, students of Central Sulawesi Christian Church, were killed by 6 unidentified assailants while on their way to class.
12) In Saudi Arabia, Christians are arrested and lashed in public for practicing their faith openly. Bibles and other non-Muslim religious books are captured, piled up and burned by the religious police of Saudi. No non-Muslims are allowed to become Saudi citizens. Prayer services by Christians are frequently broken up by the police and the Christians are arrested and tortured without even allowing them to be released on bail. People who convert to Christianity can officially be executed, although this has not in fact been done in many years.
13) In Egypt, the government does not officially recognize conversions from Islam to Christianity; because certain interfaith marriages are not allowed either, this prevents marriages between converts to Christianity and those born in Christian communities, and also results in the children of Christian converts being classified as Muslims and given a Muslim education. The government also requires permits for repairing churches or building new ones, which are often withheld. Foreign missionaries are allowed in the country only if they restrict their activities to social improvements and refrain from proselytizing. The Coptic Pope Shenouda III was internally exiled in 1981 by President Anwar Sadat, who then chose five Coptic bishops and asked them to choose a new pope. They refused, and in 1985 President Hosni Mubarak restored Pope Shenouda III, who had been accused of fomenting interconfessional strife. Particularly in Upper Egypt, the rise in extremist Islamist groups such as the Gama’at Islamiva during the 1980s was accompanied by attacks on Copts and on Coptic churches; these have since declined with the decline of those organizations, but still continue. The police have been accused of siding with the attackers in some of these cases.
And we all have heard of the attacks on Christian Churches starting back in January by Islamic mobs when a 9 year old boy was killed to the attacks on Coptic churches on Good Friday.
14) Muslims kidnapping Coptic girls in Egypt and raping them and forcing them to convert to Islam with threat of death to their families.
15) There have been anti-Christian incidents carried out in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority. Some claim that this represents a pattern of deliberate mistreatment by the Palestinian Muslims. And over the weekend the burning of 6 Churches in Palestine.
16) Though Iran recognizes Christians as a religious minority (along with Jews and Zoroastrians) after the Revolution, Muslim converts to Christianity have been arrested and often executed.
17) In the Philippines, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayyaf has attacked and killed Christians.
18) Abdul Rahman, a 41 year old Afghan citizen, was charged in Afghanistan with rejecting Islam (apostasy), a crime punishable by death under Sharia Law. He has since been released into exile in the West under intense pressure from Western governments.
Not to mention how Muslims always insult Christians:
1) Muslims say that Jesus is a human when he is the Christian God.
2) Muslims say that the Christian Holy Book the Bible is corrupted and written by Human hands and not God’s Words.
3) Muslims call Christians and Jews Pigs and Monkeys.
4) Muslims say The Koran and the Hadiths command Muslims to kill Christians and Jews.
5) Muslims make movies that have scenes depicting Christian women as sluts and whores and even have Christians having sex in their Churches. And having scenes of Muslims urinating on pictures of Jesus.
And the list goes on and on. This is just the tip of the Iceberg of Islamic insults to crimes against Christians. WHERE IS THE APPOLOGY FROM THE MUSLIMS? The silence is deafening.
Monday, September 18, 2006
The Muslim Should Appolgize To The Christians For Their Crimes Agaisnt Christians!
Posted by SweetLady_Tiger at 5:11:00 PM
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Tigress... That Muslim guy that your friend was speaking to, should be told that the Pope doesn't have to apologize for what "the Pope said". The Pope did not make a direct statement. He "QUOTED" someone from the 14th century.
He apologized in correct form. He apologized for the Muslims thinking that the statement was his own. He apologized for the Muslims being SO SENSITIVE, while they torture and kill innocent people.. JUST LIKE THE BYZANTINE EMPEROR SAID, BACK IN THE 14th CENTURY... Matter of fact, the Emperor said it DIRECTLY to a Muslim Cleric he was in discussion with...
But... God bless the Christians in the Middle East... To keep them safe
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