Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians

by Raymond Ibrahim

  156 “Two Bombs Explode Near Churches in Jos, Nigeria,” World Watch Monitor, August 2, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/nigeria/article_115792.html.

  157 “Nigeria: ‘Youths’ torch Catholic church after authorities arrest clerics in Boko Haram crackdown,” Jihad Watch, August 11, 2011, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/08/nigeria-youths-torch-catholic-church-after-authorities-arrest-clerics-believed-connected-with-boko-h.html.

  158 Stefan J. Bos, “BREAKING NEWS: 150 Killed In Attack On Nigeria Churches, Police (UPDATE),” BosNewsLife, November 5, 2011, http://www.bosnewslife.com/18906-breaking-news-scores-killed-in-attack-on-nigeria-churches-police.

  159 “Muslim Extremists Destroy Lives, Church Buildings in Nigeria,” World Watch Monitor, December 2, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/nigeria/article_123859.html.

  160 Aminu Abubakar, “Gunmen kill six at Nigerian church,” AFP, January 6, 2012, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hPLisbtdNX9nuvKGWFYm3gX7DBXA?docId=CNG.1c4b2808f2ddae15bf4d475cc7f3ee0d.2d1.

  161 Mike Pflanz, “20 killed as Nigerian gunmen attack Christian mourners,” Telegraph, January 6, 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindian-ocean/nigeria/8998421/20-killed-as-Nigerian-gunmen-attack-Christian-mourners.html.

  162 “Seven Christians Killed in Bauchi State,” World Watch Monitor, January 24, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/nigeria/article_1363497.html.

  163 “SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES NIGERIAN CHURCH DURING SERVICE; THREE KILLED,” Barnabas Aid, February 28, 2012, http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Suicide-bomber-strikes-Nigerian-church-during-service-three-killed.html.

  164 “Two Churches Targeted in Bomb Attack in Nigeria,” World Watch Monitor, February 21, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/nigeria/article_1412585.html.

  165 Ahmed Saka and Jon Gambrell, “At Least 10 Killed as Suicide Bomber Attacks Catholic Church During Mass,” CNS News, March 11, 2012, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/least-10-killed-suicide-bomber-attacks-catholic-church-during-mass.

  166 Ibrahim Garba, “At least 16 Nigerian Christians at prayer butchered after Islamists make good on threats,” Jewish World Review, n.d., http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0412/nigeria_bombing.php3?printer_friendly.

  167 “Bomb Found in Kogi,” Business Day, August 8, 2012, http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/latest/42502-bomb-found-in-kogi.

  168 “Nigerian church tries to move on after massacre,” World Watch Monitor, September 9, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/nigeria/article_1790773.html.

  169 Emeka Mamah and Suzan Edeh, “ACF, Bauchi condemn suicide bombing at St. John’s Catholic Church,” Vanguard, September 25, 2012, http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/09/acf-bauchi-condemn-suicide-bombing-at-st-johns-catholic-church/.

  170 Jon Gambrell, “Suicide Bomber hits north Nigeria Catholic church,” Guardian, October 28, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10503765.

  171 Paul Jongas and Stefan J. Bos, “BREAKING NEWS: Nigeria Militants Attack Church And Other Targets; Dozens Killed,” BosNewsLife, October 21, 2012, http://www.bosnewslife.com/24230-breaking-news-nigeria-militants-attack-church-and-other-targets-dozens-killed.

  172 Robert Spencer, “Nigeria: Muslims bomb church, ambush churchgoers, murder fourteen Christians,” Jihad Watch, November 25, 2012, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/nigeria-muslims-bomb-church-ambush-churchgoers-murder-fourteen-christians.html.

  173 “10 Killed, four churches burned in Nigeria,” World Watch Monitor, December 6, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/nigeria/article_1951963.html.

  174 Fredrick Nzwili, “Frustrated by lack of protection, Kenyan churches sue government,” Christian Science Monitor, August 29, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2012/0829/Frustrated-by-lack-of-protection-Kenyan-churches-sue-government.

  175 “Nairobi church stands strong after grenade kills boy, injures others,” World Watch Monitor, October 11, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/kenya/article_1851907.html.

  176 Ibid.

  177 “TWO CHRISTIANS KILLED IN GRENADE ATTACK ON OPEN-AIR MEETING IN KENYA,” Barnabas Aid, April 12, 2012, http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Two-Christians-killed-in-grenade-attack-on-open-air-meeting-in-Kenya.html.

  178 “Grenade Attack on Church in Kenya Kills One,” World Watch Monitor, April 30, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/kenya/article_1522556.html.

  179 Elizabeth Kendal, “Kenya: church bombings and al-Shabaab,” ASSIST News Service, July 3, 2012, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12070019.htm.

  180 Dan Wooding, “Church Attacked, Looted by Armed Mob in Kenya,” ASSIST News Service, August 19, 2012, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12080138.htm.

  181 Ibid.

  182 Joseph DeCaro, “Somalia Militants Use ‘Ex-Christians’ To Bomb Kenya Churches; Pastor Killed (Update),” BosNewsLife, November 4, 2012, http://www.bosnewslife.com/24517-somalia-militants-use-ex-christians-to-bomb-kenya-churches.

  183 David Littman, “The U.N. Finds Slavery in the Sudan,” Middle East Quarterly 3, no. 3 (1996), http://www.meforum.org/319/the-un-finds-slavery-in-the-sudan.

  184 “Church Faces Increasing Hostility in Sudan,” World Watch Monitor, October 24, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_122259.html.

  185 “Officials in Sudan Threaten to Raze Three Church Buildings,” World Watch Monitor, October 12, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_121869.html.

  186 “Muslim Extremists in Sudan Threaten to target Christians,” World Watch Monitor, September 13, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_120231.html.

  187 “Bible School, Church Buildings Attacked in Sudan,” World Watch Monitor, April 26, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1519092.html.

  188 “Sudan’s Aerial Bombing Aims at Churches in Nuba Mountains,” World Watch Monitor, March 30, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1489959.html.

  189 “Strife in Sudan stretches into several regions,” Baptist Press, May 18, 2012, http://www.bpnews.net/printerfriendly.asp?ID=37859.

  190 “Sudanese Authorities Demolish Two Church Buildings,” World Watch Monitor, June 28, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1616882.html.

  191 “Profanation of chapel even in the naval base of Toulon,” Novo Press, December 10, 2012, http://fr.novopress.info/127890/profanation-de-chapelle-meme-dans-la-base-navale-de-toulon/.

  192 “Tags musulmans sur lTéglise de Chassieu : la mairie tente déétouffer léaffaire . . . ,” Rebeyne!, September 24, 2012, http://www.lyonlemelhor.org/2012/09/tags-musulmans-sur-leglise-de-chassieux-la-mairie-tente-detouffer-laffaire/, translation by the author.

  193 “Muslims Stone Catholic Festival-Goers in France,” Islam versus Europe, October 29, 2011, http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.com/2011/10/muslims-stone-catholic-festival-goers.html.

  194 “France: Muslims stone Christians in church during Mass,” Jihad Watch, May 27, 2012, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/05/france-muslims-stone-christians-in-church-during-mass.html.

  195 Daniel Hamiche, “A mass interrupted by the ‘young’ in Dijon,” L’observatoire de la Christianophobie, September 20, 2012, http://www.christianophobie.fr/breves/une-messe-interrompue-par-des-jeunes-a-dijon?.

  196 Boris Grdanoski and Konstantin Testorides, “ Macedonian Orthodox Church Set Alight,” CNS News, January 31, 2012, www.cnsnews.com/node/508092.

  197 “Welcome to the new Catalonia: A Moroccan attacks a Catholic church at Anglès,” Vlad Tepes, September 26, 2012, http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=53611.

  198 Pam Douglas, “Molotov cocktail thrown through church window,” Brampton Guardian, October 26, 2012, http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news/article/1525339—molotov-cocktail-thrown-through-church-window.

  199 Ye’or, The Decline of Ea
stern Christianity, 85.

  200 Ibid., 105.

  201 Of course, the frequency of such attacks is much less than attacks on churches, in proportion to the much smaller numbers of monasteries compared to churches in the Islamic world.

  202 “The Automatic Assault Weapon Attack on the Monks of the Abu Fana Monastery,” Coptic Assembly of America, n.d., http://www.copticassembly.org/showart.php?main_id=1146, translated by the author at Raymond Ibrahim, “Land Dispute or Jihad?,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, June 30, 2008, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/land-dispute-or-jihad/.

  203 Mary Abdelmassih, “Egyptian Armed Forces Fire At Christian Monasteries, 19 Injured,” Assyrian International News Agency, February 24, 2011, http://www.aina.org/news/20110223210634.htm. Mary Abdelmassih, op. cit., 218.

  204 Ibid.

  205 Dan Wooding, “Egyptian Coptic Church Accused of ‘Stockpiling Weapons,’” Christian News Today, http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_258.html#.

  206 Robert Spencer, “Bremer: Arms ‘stocked in mosques,’” Jihad Watch, April 27, 2004, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/04/bremer-arms-stocked-in-mosques.html.

  207 “Muslim Brotherhood Statement on Latest Abbassiya Events, Atrocities and Arrests,” Ikhwan Web, May 5, 2012, http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=29960.

  208 VOR, “Syria: Armed Attack On Catholic Monastery,” Eurasia Review, February 26, 2012, http://www.eurasiareview.com/26022012-syria-armed-attack-on-catholic-monastery/.

  209 “Syria: christian monastery assaulted north of Damascus,” ANSAmed, August 6, 2012, ohttp://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/08/06/Syria-christian-monastery-assaulted-north-Damascus_7303597.html.

  210 “Turkey: Oldest Christian monastery at risk,” ANSAmed, July 12, 2012, http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/07/12/Turkey-Oldest-Christian-monastery-risk_7176199.html.

  211 Raymond Ibrahim, “Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin,” FrontPage Magazine, July 11, 2012, http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/.

  212 Sidney H. Griffith, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), 14.

  213 Sir William Muir, The Life of Mahomet (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878), 208, footnote 1.

  214 Sahih al-Bukhari, The Book of the Stories of the Prophets. 4:60:3448.

  215 Abu Ismael al-Azdi, translation by the author, Futuh al-Sham (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1854), 103.

  216 Adel Guindy, Hikayat al-Ihtilal, translation by the author, “Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings,” (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 88.

  217 David Nicolle, Romano-Byzantine Armies: 4th–9th Centuries (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1992), 12.

  218 Chris Stephen, “British war graves in Libya desecrated by Islamist militants,” Guardian, March 3, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/04/libya-war-graves-desecrated.

  219 Raymond Ibrahim, “Egypt’s Jihad Organizations Call for Christian Genocide,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, August 14, 2012, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-jihad-organizations-call-for-christian-genocide/.

  220 “Copts United Exposes through Formal Sources Aswan Governor’s False Claims Concerning Church of Maranib,” Copts United, n.d., http://www.copts-united.com/Arabic2011/PrintPage.php?A=44523.

  221 Raymond Ibrahim, “Tunisia: Muslims Threaten Church, Cover Its Cross with Garbage Bags,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, April 5, 2012, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/tunisia-muslims-threaten-church-cover-its-cross-with-garbage-bags/.

  222 “Tunisia–The Russian school and Christian cemetery of Montplaisir attacked,” Business News, May 4, 2012, http://www.businessnews.com.tn/Tunisie-–-Lécole-russe-et-le-cimetière-chrétien-de-Montplaisir-attaquà ©s,520,30347,3.

  223 Michael Ireland, “Historical Christian Cemetery in Iran turned into Residential Area,” ASSIST News Service, February 21, 2012, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12020093.htm.

  224 Stephen, “British war graves in Libya desecrated.”

  225 “More than 160 graves desecrated in two Catholic cemeteries, bronze crosses stolen,” Agenzia Fides, October 12, 2012, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32414&lan=eng.

  226 Mary Abdelmassih, “Coptic Christian Student Murdered By Classmates for Wearing a Cross,” Assyrian International News Agency, October 30, 2011, http://www.aina.org/news/20111030133621.htm.

  227 Gary Lane, “Ex-Muslim Boy Clings to Faith Despite Beatings,” CBN News, February 9, 2012, http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/February/Ex-Muslim-Boy-Clings-to-Faith-Despite-Beatings-/.

  228 Raymond Ibrahim, “The Strange—and Tragic—Case of Nagla Imam,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, July 15, 2010, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-strange-and-tragic-case-of-nagla-imam/.

  229 Marisol Seibold, “Egypt: Off-duty Muslim police officer boards train, shoots Christians, killing 71-year-old man,” Jihad Watch, January 11, 2011, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/egypt-off-duty-muslim-police-officer-boards-train-shoots-christians-killing-71-year-old-man.html.

  230 Myles Collier, “Abductions and Forced Conversions of Christian Coptic Women in Egypt Dramatically Increase,” Christian Post, July 19, 2012, http://global.christianpost.com/news/abductions-and-forced-conversions-of-christian-coptic-women-in-egypt-dramatically-increase-78562/.

  231 Laura Cox, “‘They wanted to hang me . . . they thought it would be an insult to Islam if I lived’: New beginning in Texas for Pakistani Christian woman who suffered savage acid attack by Muslim man who thought she was a traitor,” Daily Mail, July 12, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172338/They-wanted-hang—thought-insult-Islam-I-lived-New-life-Pakistani-Christian-woman-suffered-savage-acid-attack-Muslim-man-thought-traitor.html.

  232 “Muslims Force Expat Christian Teacher to Flee Maldives,” World Watch Monitor, October 5, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/23845/26545.

  233 Tim Hinchliffe, “Saudi Arabia arrests Colombian soccer player over religious tattoos,” Colombia Reports, October 11, 2011, http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/sports/19579-colombian-footballer-arrested-in-saudi-arabia-over-religious-tattoos.html.

  234 Mathias Hariyadi, “Indonesian Red Cross does not give in to Islamist, cross remains in logo,” AsiaNews, February 27, 2012, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Indonesian-Red-Cross-does-not-give-in-to-Islamist,-cross-remains-in-logo-24085. html.

  235 Tobias Stern Johansen, “Kristen præst flygter fra chikane i Vollsmose,” Kristeligt Dagblad, January 12, 2011, http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/402789:Danmark—Kristen-praest-flygter-fra-chikane-i-Vollsmose; Jihad Watch translation available online at http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/more-muslim-racism-against-danes.html, translation by the author.

  236 Ulises Sánchez-Flor, “El escudo del Madrid, sin la cruz en Oriente Medio,” Marca, March 30, 2012, http://www.marca.com/2012/03/30/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1333103798.html?a=ad5704e8324c4dab41fc92192b49db03&t=1356804374, translation by the author.

  237 “Swiss makes Muslims cross over billboard ads,” The Local, October 16, 2012, http://www.thelocal.ch/page/view/swiss-makes-muslims-cross-over-billboard-ads#.UONbEYnjnUO.

  238 Todd Starnes, “Do Crosses at Catholic University Violate ‘Human Rights’ of Muslims?,” Fox News, October 26, 2011, http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/muslims-want-catholic-school-to-provide-room-without-crosses.html.

  239 Mark Durie, “Islam’s Tradition of Breaking the Cross,” Gatestone Institute, March 9, 2012, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2920/islam-tradition-breaking-cross.

  PART THREE:

  ISLAM’S WAR ON CHRISTIAN FREEDOM

  1 Michael Bonner, Jihad in Islamic History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 11.

  2 Felisa Neuringer Klubes, “Obi
tuary: Majid Khadduri, Founder of SAIS Middle East Studies Program, Dies,” Johns Hopkins University Gazette, February 5, 2007, http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/05feb07/05obit.html. The quotations of Khadduri are from Majid Khadduri, War and Peace in the Law of Islam (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955), 149-152.

  3 Samuel M. Zwemer, The Law of Apostasy in Islam: Answering the Question Why There are So Few Moslem Converts, and Giving Examples of Their Moral Courage and Martyrdom (London: Marshall Brothers, 1916), 50–51, 123.

  4 “Kyrgyz Christians Face Tighter Restrictions on Religious Freedom,” Persecution, December 25, 2012, http://www.persecution.org/2012/12/25/kyrgyz-christians-face-tighter-restrictions-on-religious-freedom/.

  5 “Girl in Uganda Loses Use of Legs after Leaving Islam for Christ,” World Watch Monitor, August 11, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/uganda/article_116148.html.

  6 “Ugandan Girl Tortured for Christ Regaining Use of Legs,” World Watch Monitor, January 17, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/uganda/article_1351832.html.

  7 “Afghan clerics demand co[n]vert be killed,” USA Today, March 23, 2006, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-03-23-afghan-convert_x.htm.

  8 “Fatwa no. 14231,” Islam QA, n.d., http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/14231/Crucify.

  9 “Ruling for Blasphemy in Islam,” Islamic Voice, April 2006, http://www.islamicvoice.com/April2006/QuestionHour-DrZakirNaik/.

  10 “Qur’an, Hadith and Scholars: Muhammad the Mass Murderer,” WikiIslam, n.d., http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Muhammad_ the_Mass_Murderer#Murder_of_.60Asma.27_Bint_Marwan.

  11 Sahih Bukhari “Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maahazi),” Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (at the University of Southern California), vol. 5, book 59, no. 369, http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/059-sbt.php#005.059.369.

  12 “Shaykhul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah on the necessity of killing whoever curses the Prophet, Peace and Blessings be upon him,” Islamic Emirate, n.d., http://islamicemirate.com/Books/Ibn%20Taymiyyah%20on%20Killing%20Whoever%20Curses%20the%20Prophet.pdf.