Muslims Claim Lion’s Share of Christian Victims | Canada Free Press
By Raymond Ibrahim — Bio and Archives March 8, 2016
Open Doors, an organization that advocates for persecuted Christians, recently released its latest World Watch List—a report that highlights and ranks the 50 worst nations to be Christian. It found that 2015 was the “worst year in modern history for Christian persecution.” Who claims the lion’s share of this unprecedented persecution? Muslims—of all races, nationalities, languages, and socio-political circumstances: Muslims from among America’s closest allies (Saudi Arabia #14 worst persecutor) and its opponents (Iran #9); Muslims from economically rich nations (Qatar #21) and from poor nations (Somalia #7 and Yemen #11); Muslims from “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan #4) and from “moderate” nations (Malaysia #30 and Indonesia #43); Muslims from nations rescued by America (Kuwait #41) and Muslims from nations claiming “grievances” against the U.S. (fill in the blank __).
Open Doors, an organization that advocates for persecuted Christians, recently released its The report finds that “Islamic extremism” is the main source of persecution in 41 of the top 50 countries—that is, 82 percent of the world’s persecution of Christians is being committed by Muslims. As for the top ten worst countries persecuting Christians, nine of them are Muslim-majority—that is, 90 percent of nations where Christians experience “extreme persecution” are Muslim.
Still, considering that the 2016 World Watch List ranks North Korea—non-Islamic, communist—as the number one worst persecutor of Christians, why belabor the religious identity of Muslims? Surely this suggests that Christian persecution is not intrinsic to the Islamic world but is rather a product of repressive regimes and other socio-economic factors—as the North Korean example suggests and as many politicians and other talking heads maintain?
Here we come to some critically important but rarely acknowledged distinctions. While Christians are indeed suffering extreme persecution in North Korea, these fall into the realm of the temporal and aberrant. Something as simple as overthrowing Kim Jong-un’s regime could lead to a quick halt to the persecution—just as the fall of Communist Soviet Union saw the end of religious persecution. The vibrancy of Christianity in South Korea is suggestive of what may be in store—and thus creates such fear for—its northern counterpart.
In the Islamic world, however, a similar scenario would not alleviate the sufferings of Christians by an iota. Quite the opposite; where dictators fall (often thanks to U.S. intervention)—Saddam in Iraq, Qaddafi in Libya, and ongoing attempts against Assad in Syria—Christian persecution dramatically rises. Today Iraq is the second worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Syria fifth, and Libya tenth. A decade ago under the “evil” dictators, Iraq was ranked 32, Syria 47, and Libya 22.
The difference between Muslim and non-Muslim persecution (e.g., communist) of Christians is that the latter is often rooted in a particular regime
The difference between Muslim and non-Muslim persecution (e.g., communist) of Christians is that the latter is often rooted in a particular regime. Conversely, Muslim persecution of Christians is perennial, existential, and far transcends this or that regime or ruler. It is part and parcel of the history, doctrines, and socio-political makeup of Islam—hence its tenacity; hence its ubiquity.
Moreover, atheistic communism is a relatively new phenomenon—about a century old—and, over the years, its rule (if not variants of its ideology) has greatly waned, so that only a handful of nations today are communist.
On the other hand, Muslim persecution of Christians is as old as Islam. It is a well-documented, even if suppressed, history.
To further understand the differences between temporal and existential persecution, consider Russia. Under communism, its own Christians were persecuted; yet today, after the fall of the USSR, Russia is again reclaiming its Orthodox Christian heritage.
North Korea—where Kim Jong-un is worshipped as a god and the people are shielded from reality—seems to be experiencing what Russia did under the Soviet Union. But if the once mighty USSR could not persevere, surely it’s a matter of time before tiny North Korea’s walls also come crumbling down, with the resulting religious freedom that former communist nations have experienced. (Tellingly, the only countries that were part of the USSR that still persecute Christians are Muslim, such as Uzbekistan, #15, and Turkmenistan, #19.)
Time, however, is not on the side of Christians living amid Muslims; quite the opposite.
In short, Muslim persecution of Christians exists in 41 nations today as part of a continuum—or “tradition”—that started nearly 14 centuries ago. As I document in Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians, the very same patterns of Christian persecution prevalent throughout the Muslim world today are often identical to those from centuries past.
A final consideration: North Korea, the one non-Muslim nation making the top ten worst persecutors list, is governed by what is widely seen as an unbalanced megalomaniac; conversely, the other nine nations are not dominated by any “cults-of-personalities” and are variously governed: including through parliamentarian democracies (Iraq), parliamentarian republics (Pakistan and Somalia), one-party or presidential republics (Eritrea, Sudan and Syria), Islamic republics (Afghanistan and Iran), and transitional/disputed governments (Libya). Looking at the other Muslim nations that make the top 50 persecutors’ list and even more forms of governments proliferate, for example monarchies (Saudi Arabia #14).
The common denominator is that they are all Islamic nations.
Thus, long after North Korea’s psychotic Kim Jong-un has gone the way of the dodo, tens of millions of Christians and other “infidels” will continue to suffer extreme persecution, till what began in the seventh century reaches fruition and the entire Islamic world becomes “infidel” free.
Confronting this discomforting and better-left-unsaid fact is the first real step to alleviating the sufferings of the overwhelming majority of Christians around the world.
Unfortunately, however, while some are willing to point out that Christians are being persecuted around the Muslim world—why that is the case, why 82% of the world’s persecution is committed by Muslims from a variety of backgrounds and circumstances—is the great elephant in the room that few wish to address. For doing so would cause some long held and cherished premises of the modern West—chief among them the twin doctrines of religious relativism and multiculturalism—to come crashing down.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/muslims-claim-lions-share-of-christian-victims
Don’t Let Your Pastor Politicize You | Canada Free Press
Don’t Let Your Pastor Politicize You
By Judi McLeod — Bio and Archives March 8, 2016
If you are one of the faithful still going to church on Sunday, don’t be the fertile ground that lets your pastor politicize you.Even if it’s only for the sake of situational awareness, take stake of what is happening in many of the mainline churches, whose pastors have become the latest breed of political activists, trading the Gospel of Christ for politics, all for the 30 pieces of silver called government grants.Political activists at the pulpit, derelict in duty, have conveniently forgotten that it is the souls and not the politics of the faithful that need saving.
Notice how many churches now mimic Big Brother Government when it comes to dictating to you what is true charity?
The government and its increasingly politically active churches have decided on your behalf that amnesty is the charity of our day.
Big Brother Government never chooses charity based on altruism but on hardline politics, the kind that guarantees them their survival.
The same government/church charity Selection Committee turn a deaf ear to persecuted Christians , to war veterans and to the poor who struggle more than ever in every parish and congregation in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Catholic and non-Catholic—are killing off charity by making it so obvious that they are transitioning over to government official ambassador status in the distribution of Free StuffGenuine generosity and loving one’s neighbour, which spring from the human heart and conscience, can never be legislated. Like Social Justice, they can only be painstakingly socially engineered.Church goers have always given generously to both the poor and the ongoing upkeep of the churches they attend.Read any church bulletin to see how much these good souls are putting into the collection basket each Sunday.The churches of the current day—Catholic and non-Catholic—are killing off charity by making it so obvious that they are transitioning over to government official ambassador status in the distribution of Free Stuff.Pastors gone political do not have a monopoly on alms for the poor even though they go to great lengths to portray themselves as the holier than thous.Charity from scripture, the kind we are cautioned not to speak about, is nothing like government-imposed charity. Charity from the faithful, based on pleasing God Almighty, is far more natural, far more trustworthy than government charity because government charity is only extended in expectation of re-election potential.If the priest or pastor at your church insists on making politics and not the Gospel of Christ the mainstay of his homilies, find another church. If the priest/pastor of the next church goes the same way, find another one.The current trend of closed-down churches, means putting more miles on the drive to church, but in the process you can become a Nomad for Christ.Never let a pastor politicize you even if he happens to be Fr. Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., President of Seattle University.“Catholic students are asking for help at Seattle University because a group of pro-abortionists plastered the Catholic campus with flyers for a pro-abortion event that features a speaker from Planned Parenthood. (TFP Student Action, March 1, 2016)“The flyer that advertised the event—initially posted with campus approval—is highly offensive, anti-Catholic, and even sacrilegious. It features an image of the holy rosary. But the Crucifix was removed and replaced with a contraceptive device—a direct mockery against Our Lord Crucified.
“Thank God, Seattle University Students for Life and The Cardinal Newman Society spoke out against the scandal. As a result Seattle University president, Fr. Stephen Sundborg, S.J. responded with orders to remove the pro-abortion flyers.
“Shockingly, however, the pro-abortion event was not canceled, just postponed. In a message to the Newman Society on Feb. 25, Fr. Sundborg says:
“The event will not be taking place this evening [Feb. 25] and the students involved in the planning will be looking to include additional viewpoints and perspectives before seeking to reschedule it.”
Wait a second. The right to life is not up for grabs. Nor does the pro-life truth need to give “equal” air time to Planned Parenthood and its pack of lies—especially on a campus that purports to be Catholic.”Never let a pastor politicize you even if he’s the pope.“In a February 8 interview with one of Italy’s most prominent dailies, Corriere Della Serra, Pope Francis praised Italy’s leading proponent of abortion – Emma Bonino—as one of the nation’s “forgotten greats,” comparing her to great historical figures such as Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman. (LifeSiteNews, Feb. 26, 2016).“Knowing that his praise of her may be controversial, the Pope said that she offered the best advice to Italy on learning about Africa, and admitted she thinks differently from us. “True, but never mind,” he said. “We have to look at people, at what they do.”
“At 27, Bonino had an illegal abortion and then worked with the Information Centre on Sterilization and Abortion which boasted over 10,000 abortions. There are famous photos of Bonino performing illegal abortions using a homemade device operated by a bicycle pump. Arrested for the then-illegal activity she spent a few days in jail and was acquitted and entered politics.
“When she was appointed Italy’s foreign minister in 2013 there was a general outcry from life and family leaders at the appalling situation.
“Responding to the Pope’s praise of Bonino, pro-life leaders in Italy expressed disbelief. “How can the pope praise a woman that is best known in Italy for practicing illegal abortion and promoting abortion?” commented Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, who was until last year the head of the Rome office of Human Life International.
“Luca Volonte, an Italian politician and the president of the pro-life Novae Terrae Foundation, told LifeSiteNews he believed the Pope “was not really informed about how much Mrs. Bonino has done in Italy and at the international level to promote abortion and euthanasia.” Even though he admits “she did well in Egypt,” he adds that even there “she promoted her anti-life values.” The Pope, said Volonte, “was wrong and worse were the members of His secretariat for not informing him.”
“The Pope’s possible ignorance of Bonino’s stance is unlikely given his justifications in the interview. She has been for decades the most prominent supporter of abortion in Italy. Moreover, the Pope already received criticism for his contact with Bonino in 2015 when he called her about her cancer and invited her to the Vatican.”
NEVER let political pastors be the cause of YOU losing YOUR faith. Better they should lose theirs than yours.
Do not retreat into despair and give up on your faith. Go over their heads, by going directly to Jesus, the greatest pastor of them all.
God protect us all from the wickedness and snares of the devil and the doers of evil, especially those who come dressed in robes.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/dont-let-your-pastor-politicize-you
Corey Calls Reporter “Delusional” After She Says He Assaulted Her. Ovomit State Dept. says all Patriots Delusional.
Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, assaulted a Breitbart.com reporter, Michelle Fields according to Fields and at least one eye witness. According to Michelle Fields, “Someone had grabbed me tightly by the arm and yanked me down. I almost fell to the ground, but was able to maintain my balance. Nonetheless, I was shaken.”
The Washington Post’s Ben Terris was an eye witness. Terris saw what Lewandowski did. Thereafter, reports on the subject note that Lewandowski told another Breitbart reporter he had mistaken Michelle Fields for someone else.
[S]ources said Lewandowski acknowledged to Breitbart’s Washington political editor, Matthew Boyle, that he did manhandle Fields.
Lewandowski’s explanation to Boyle, said these sources, was that he and Fields had never met before and that he didn’t recognize her as a Breitbart reporter, instead mistaking her for an adversarial member of the mainstream media.
After all of this transpired, Politico produced an actual audio recording from when the assault happened, which included the voices of Michelle Fields and Ben Terris discussing Lewandowski’s involvement.
Michelle Fields also took pictures of the bruises caused by the assault.
In a normal world all of this would lead to Lewandowski’s dismissal. Rick Tyler was dismissed from the Cruz campaign over a Facebook post. Here we have audio, eyewitnesses, and bruises.
The response of the Trump campaign is to deny it. Lewandowski, overnight, took to Twitter to call Michelle Fields a liar. Donald Trump says the Secret Service told him nothing happened.
In a normal world people would not defend Donald Trump. In a normal world we would not hear the “b*tch got what she deserved” defense nor the “she’s a liar” defense. Here we have had both.
It is beyond appalling and more evidence that neither Trump nor his ardent supporters have any sense of shame or propriety and we should not expect growth on those fronts if Trump is the Republican nominee.
This is another reason why opposition to Trump is not about issues. It is about values. The people who enter Donald Trump’s orbit are corrupted and compromised and lose their sense of right and wrong and their willingness to hold themselves to account.
We are witnessing open rebellion against a Republican Party that failed to hold itself accountable. But the people rebelling have no intention of holding themselves accountable either.
This is beyond shameful and at this point I hope lists are made of prominent Trump supporters in the media and they are all shunned and shamed in perpetuity. If they will so easily compromise their integrity for Trump, they should not be listened to or valued ever again.
http://theresurgent.com/trump-campaign-manager-assaults-reporter-then-calls-her-a-liar/
Vote for Ted Cruz
Vote for Ted Cruz
Editor’s note: The following column represents a personal political endorsement by Joseph Farah, the editor and founder of WND.com, and not a corporate editorial endorsement. It’s been a strange 2016 election cycle. On the Democratic side, it’s a contest between a former senator and secretary of state who should and could be indicted at any moment… (more…)
10 tough questions for Bernie
10 tough questions for Bernie
Editor’s note: Joseph Farah is on vacation. The following is a repeat of his popular column from Feb. 12. The proof that the media are in the tank for unlimited government is the lack of grilling candidates like Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, get from what we euphemistically call the “mainstream” press. One of Sanders’ pet… (more…)
Why do candidates still talk about ’11 million illegals?’
Why do candidates still talk about ’11 million illegals?’
Illegal immigrants are getting a push from the White House to demand citizens’ rights. From President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the left, to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the right, they all talk about what to do with the “11 million” illegal aliens residing in America. The Democrats and many in the GOP establishment… (more…)
U.S. Catholic Bishops raking in millions in tax dollars to to colonize American towns with MUSLIM invaders
U.S. Catholic Bishops raking in millions in tax dollars to to colonize American towns with MUSLIM migrants posing as refugees from Middle Eastern and African countries
We are all ‘xenophobes’ now— including any governors with concerns about a state’s right to control the resettlement of expensive (and often hostile and potentially dangerous) Muslim refugees, many of whom will live on welfare for the rest of their lives, to their states.
RRW The New York Times continues its attacks on Red State Governors who are fighting against the wholesale dumping of unscreened Muslim migrants in their states (ny-times-editorial-board-screams-xenophobe-in-editorial-against-concerned-governors)
But there is one little line in the editorial that I found interesting, but apparently the great minds at the NY Times have no concern for the FACT that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is deciding which refugees go where.
Who ELECTED the Bishops?
Obviously the Times doesn’t give a crap about States’ Rights or what governors think, but how can they justify the fact that NO elected official or legislative body is making a decision to foist expenses on state and local taxpayers, change the cultural make-up of American towns and possibly endanger people.
Here is the line I found so troubling, but apparently the NYT does not: ….in fact resettlement decisions are made by mainstream social agencies like the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (But the funding for them comes from US taxpayers)
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and its subsidiaries (Catholic Charities) are federal contractors paid millions upon millions every year by YOU to resettle refugees in your communities with no opportunity for you to question those decisions.
The Founding Fathers could not have imagined such a thing when crafting our Constitution.
Have a look at a 2014 Annual Report for the USCCB Migration Fund. Citizen taxpayers are paying the majority of the Bishops’ budget. And note that, in addition to the $79.5 million in federal grants and contracts, that the over $3 million in ‘travel loan collection fees’ is also your money (in a budget of $85.9 million).
They could not exist without their hands in your wallets!
By the way, if the lawsuit against the governor in Indiana (which the NYT crows about) is dead, there is a potentially very successful States’ Rights lawsuit that will soon (we hope) come out of Tennessee. More here.
There is no way that the US Supreme Court could ever find this arrangement ‘Constitutional’ if a case could get there. In fact, I wonder if there is any case challenging the power of federal contractors generally on Constitutional grounds?
If this whole federal contracting business was blown to bits, we would all be a lot better off!
Swedish rape crisis boils over as media stay silent
Swedish rape crisis boils over as media stay silent
Sweden was once one of the safest countries in the world, until it began focusing on a multicultural immigration program. Men and women in Sweden have been swimming together in public pools quite peaceably for more than 100 years. But as the government has welcomed tens of thousands of Muslim migrants to be resettled in the… (more…)
Keeping your kids in gov’t school: Insane
Keeping your kids in gov’t school: Insane
For conservatives, watching the rise in popularity of Bernie Sanders as a presidential contender was something like watching a train wreck. How could young people be so enamored of an avowed, unashamed socialist? The answer is simple: They are the products of our appalling public schools. On Thursday Drudge ran a story, headlined as “For people… (more…)
Airline boots Christian for ‘prayer’ on phone
Airline boots Christian for ‘prayer’ on phone
A Christian business analyst was booted from a flight from the United Kingdom to Amsterdam when his seatmate, reading on the man’s smartphone as he typed messages, apparently saw the word “prayer” and reported him to authorities as a possible security threat. The Christian Institute said the Christian man, Laolu Opebiyi, who was born in Nigeria,… (more…)
World Nations on path to De-Nationalize & Globalize | Canada Free Press
World Nations on path to De-Nationalize & Globalize
By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh — Bio and Archives March 7, 2016
I have described in my book, “Liberty on Life Support,” the American economy and the country in general as a comatose patient. There was even a widely circulating cartoon on social media picturing Uncle Sam on a hospital gurney, attached to life support, barely clinging to life. At first glance it may seem a gross exaggeration until you actually look at the national debt clock, understand the true state of the economy, the condition of the socialist and collectivist education driven by Common Core, and the political power and corruption.
I have described in my book, “Liberty on Life Support,” the American economy and the country in general as a comatose patient. There was even a widely circulating cartoon on social media picturing Uncle Sam on a hospital gurney, attached to life support, barely clinging to life. At first glance it may seem a gross exaggeration until you actually look at the national debt clock, understand the true state of the economy, the condition of the socialist and collectivist education driven by Common Core, and the political power and corruption.It seems that fundamental changes are occurring around the globe, driving countries to de-nationalize, to destroy their sovereignty, and to globalize under the guidance of the same U.N. elites who know what is best for an “overpopulated planet” that is going to be destroyed by a manufactured global warming Armageddon.
If we accept the financial terms dictated by the trillion-dollar climate change industry, too vested into its own financial gain to care about the inhabitants whose lives and futures are expendable to the whims of the few billionaires, we might be spared our doomsday fate by allowing ourselves to be literally taxed to death. Money always solves problems for bureaucrats; why not tame Mother Nature with taxed money as well?
My friend Mircea Brenciu compared Romania, our country of birth, to a sick patient who is being experimented upon by transnational groups that are intravenously administering “transfusion” therapies that are not in the best interest of the patient. It is an experiment that is supposed to prepare the patient for integration into the “European civilization” as defined by the technocrats in Brussels.
The formulas, used to tear the patient away from “the collectivist mindset through brutal and inadequate methods” and to integrate him into private property and personal initiative and responsibility, have created “grave fissures in the social order.”
These transfusions seem to be quite toxic to the sick patient, especially when the treatment is administered against the will of the people. Once the patient is infused with so much globalism, the arteries are left wide open and the patient is likely to die, unable to defend himself from the onslaught of foreign body invasions. At such a point, nationalism will disappear, sovereignty will be gone, and the strange idea of global citizenship will become mandatory.
We pledge allegiance to an International Flag
People who deny that such a globalist movement exists, may have been surprised when kindergarten students from PS75 in New York City were “made to create an American flag with the flags of 22 other nations superimposed over the stripes.” The words below the flag stated: “We pledge allegiance to an International Flag.”
Alienating people from their national roots, from their identity, culture, language, and history, will certainly endanger their safety and survival. This transfusion of globalism is likely to change the patient from a solid nationalist grounded in history into a Frankensteinish metamorphosis that will remove the patient’s spine. In the end, the country may go the way of the former Yugoslavia, divided by faceless bureaucrats according to their interests.
The fundamental transformation around the globe is not going to leave any country unscathed or unaffected. The master plan is composed of many treaties, partnerships, committees, organizations, and other foundations for the “public good.” Unfortunately, the good public had no input into its own plans, never got a seat at the planning table.
Certain developments occurred in the western world that are promoted and advanced by the main stream media and academia:
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The institution of family has been discouraged and derided; fertility rates have dropped precipitously among the civilized world.
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Large groups of people have left their countries for economic reasons or were displaced by war and tribal rivalries.
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Increasing health issues due to poor nutrition or poisoning of the food supply with unnecessary toxic substances used as “preservatives.”
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The dumbing-down of education, glorifying mediocrity and bad behavior, excusing violence, deriding honor, love, kindness, patriotism, respect, sacrifice, diluting and destroying the work ethic, and erasing history, culture, and ancestors of note.
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Destruction of the societal cohesion united under one nation and one God.
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The excessive and massive spending that put many countries into huge and unpayable national debts, affecting the future of generations to come.
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Giving up sovereignty to an international body such as the United Nations or a transnational entity like the European Union, or to a partnership such as the Trans Pacific Partnership.
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The damage to Christianity and the Church through its transformation into a political body that advocates collectivism.
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The destruction of capitalism and private property.
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Corruption and harm to the rule of law.
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Promotion and advocacy of atheism, pornography, and deviant life styles as the forced norm.
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Endorsing abortion, the sale of body parts, and trafficking of human organs and of sex slaves.
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Societal reorganization around the climate change industry under a master plan called Agenda 2030.
Whether this profound crisis across the globe can motivate citizens to save the comatose patients remains to be seen. Experimental global change to de-nationalize and the fundamental transformation of western societies, whether planned or not, can have intense and long-lasting consequences.
http://canadafreepress.com/article/world-nations-on-path-to-de-nationalize-globalize