Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians

by Raymond Ibrahim

  105 John Sanidopoulos, “Abet Hasman: A Crypto-Christian in Greek Politics,” Mystagogy, May 16, 2012, http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2012/05/abet-hasman-crypto-christian-in-greek.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mystagogy+%28MYSTAGOGY%29.

  106 Emir Fethi Caner and H. Edward Pruitt, The Costly Call: Modern-Day Stories of Muslims who Found Jesus (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2005).

  107 Jeremy Reynalds, “Young Christian Convert Forced to Flee Due to Pressure,” ASSIST News Service, December 15, 2011, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2011/s11120067.htm.

  108 “Family of Convert in Pakistan Seeks to Track Him Down,” World Watch Monitor, December 8, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_124365.html.

  109 “Blasphemy laws in Pakistan: Offenses relating to religion: Pakistani Penal code,” Rationalist International, http://www.rationalistinternational.net/Shaikh/blasphemy_laws_in_pakistan.htm. See also, “Pak SC rejects petition-challenging death as the only punishment for blasphemy,” Pakistan News, April 22, 2009, http://www.pakistannews.net/story/492878.

  110 Umer Nangiana, “CRSS report: 52 murdered in two decades over blasphemy,” International Herald Tribune, September 8, 2012, http://tribune.com.pk/story/433305/crss-report-52-murdered-in-two-decades-over-blasphemy/.

  111 “Use and Abuse of the Blasphemy Laws,” Amnesty International, July 1, 1994; available online at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6a9aa4.html.

  112 Dean Nelson, “Shahbaz Bhatti killing: What hope now for Pakistan’s Christians?” The Telegraph, March 2, 2011, http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/deannelson/100078316/shahbaz-bhatti-killing-what-hope-now-for-pakistans-christians/.

  113 Aryn Baker, “In Pakistan, Justifying Murder for Those Who Blaspheme,” Time, March 21, 2011, http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2058155,00.html.

  114 “Bhatti Murder Case in Pakistan Increasingly Murky,” World Watch Monitor, May 25, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1558131.html

  115 “Pakistani Mother Condemned for ‘Blasphemy’ Allegedly Beaten,” World Watch Monitor, October 20, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_122162.html.

  116 “Pakistani Woman Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ for Refusing Islam,” World Watch Monitor, March 12, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1442048.html

  117 “Woman Accused of ‘Blasphemy’ Illegally Held in Jail,” World Watch Monitor, April 10, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1500457.html.

  118 Jibran Khan, “Christian teacher accused of blasphemy in Lahore,” AsiaNews, February 23, 2012; available online at http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christian-teacher-accused-of-blasphemy-in-Lahore-24056.html.

  119 “Christian Acquitted of ‘Blasphemy’ Charge in Pakistan,” World Watch Monitor, April 17, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1508387.html; “Pakistani Families Flee after Another Bogus ‘Blasphemy’ Charge,” World Watch Monitor, June 15, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_113735.html.

  120 “Mentally retarded Christian charged under Blasphemy in Pakistan,” Pakistan Christian Post, June 22, 2012, http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3590.

  121 “Pakistani Christian Accused of ‘Blasphemy’ after Billiards Dispute,” World Watch Monitor, May 22, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1550261.html.

  122 “Muslim threaten to burn Christian’s homes tonight in Punjab,” Pakistan Christian Post, August 8, 2012, http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/viewnews.php?newsid=1834.

  123 “Christian in Pakistan Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ after Argument,” World Watch Monitor, December 26, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1313522.html.

  124 “Christian Girl, Family in Pakistan Expelled over Misspelling,” World Watch Monitor, September 28, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_121025.html.

  125 “False accusations of blasphemy against a Christian, the court invites him to ‘leave the country,’” Agenzia Fides, September 15, 2011, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=29849&lan=eng.

  126 Luiza Oleszczuk, “Christian Accused of Blasphemy in Pakistan Dies in Jail,” Christian Post, September 20, 2011, http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-accused-of-blasphemy-in-pakistan-dies-in-jail-56005/.

  127 “Christian Man Accused of Blasphemy Dies in Pakistan Prison,” Barnabas Aid, September 21, 2011, http://barnabasfund.org/Christian-man-accused-of-blasphemy-dies-in-Pakistan-prison.html.

  128 “Pakistani Christian Sentenced for ‘Blasphemy’ Dies in Prison,” World Watch Monitor, March 15, 2011, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/98521.

  129 “Rioting Muslims Damage Church, Properties in Pakistan,” World Watch Monitor, May 2, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_111763.html.

  130 Stacy L. Harp, “Agnes Nuggo Another Pakistani Christian Woman Faces Blasphemy Charge,” The Voice of the Martyrs, February 23, 2011, http://www.persecutionblog.com/2011/02/agnes-nuggo-another-pakistani-christian-woman-faces-blasphemy-charge.html.

  131 “Five Christians murdered in a week under Pakistan’s blasphemy law,” Mission Network News, December 1, 2010, http://mnnonline.org/article/15028.

  132 “Pakistan Christian Congress condemn arrest of 16 years Christian boy under blasphemy,” Pakistan Christian Post, October 11, 2012, http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3851.

  133 Cynthia Farahat, “In protection of religion or protection from it?,” Ahewar, February 24, 2008, http://www.ahewar.org/eng/show.art.asp?aid=546.

  134 Along with the independent sourcing provided for the following stories, Magdi Khalil, who is closely involved with all these cases, augmented the information presented here.

  135 Mary Abdelmassih, “Egyptian Christian Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for ‘Insulting the Prophet,’” Assyrian International News Agency, March 2012, http://www.aina.org/news/20120304191519.htm.

  136 “Egypt arrests Christian teacher for ‘insulting Islam’ on Facebook,” Russia Today, July 31, 2012, http://rt.com/news/coptic-arrest-islam-facebook-484/.

  137 Arabic article, translation by the author, “Two Years Prison for School Administrator,” Al Ahram, June 24, 2011, http://digital.ahram.org.eg/articles.aspx?Serial=549900&eid=725.

  138 “After Attacks, Christian Leaders in Indonesia Decry Lax Security,” World Watch Monitor, February 11, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/indonesia/32936.

  139 “Wrongful Conviction in Ethiopia Robs Christian of Children,” World Watch Monitor, May 17, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/ethiopia/article_1541743.html.

  140 “Tunisia blasphemy bill threatens free speech: HRW,” Agence France-Presse, August 3, 2012, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iVZHjY05k7pFnUkmf412-mVXqeCA?docId=CNG.3012aa25793d245b04367a928a3d5bf9.351.

  141 “Swedish Christian Worker Dies from Pakistan Shooting,” Morning Star News, December 13, 2012, http://morningstarnews.org/2012/12/swedish-christian-worker-dies-from-pakistan-shooting/.

  142 Mindy Belz, “A Rush of Life,” WORLD Magazine, March 12, 2012, http://www.worldmag.com/2012/03/a_rush_of_life.

  143 Mindy Belz, “A Blessed Legacy,” WORLD Magazine, March 6, 2012, http://www.worldmag.com/2012/03/a_blessed_legacy.

  144 “American Teacher Killed in Iraq,” Wall Street Journal, March 1, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203753704577255092300395360.html#articleTabs%3Darticle.

  145 “Jeremiah Small, Teacher Slain In Iraq, From Religious Washington Family,” CBS, March 1, 2012, http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/03/01/jeremiah-small-teacher-slain-in-iraq-from-religious-washington-family/.

  146 Kawa Abdulla, “Exclusive Interview With Father of Student Who Shot His American Teacher,” R
udaw, March 15, 2012, http://www.rudaw.net/english/interview/4527.html.

  147 Mathias Hariyadi, “Accused or proselytising, American family attacked by Indonesian extremists,” AsiaNews, September 15, 2012, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Accused-or-proselytising,-American-family-attacked-by-Indonesian-extremists-22643. html.

  148 Abdulla, “Exclusive Interview.”

  149 “US missionaries injured by Muslim mob in Bangladesh,” New York Post, February 29, 2012, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_missionaries_injured_by_muslim_Nx6m7PDupWuGhmT9aDl3K.

  150 Jeremy Reynalds, “Christianity Grows in Afghanistan, Despite Islamists’ Threat,” ASSIST News Service, September 13, 2012, http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2012/s12090079.htm.

  151 “Taleban ‘agree to free Koreans,’” BBC News, August 28, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6966756.stm.

  152 “Five Afghan Christians Martyred,” World Watch Monitor, September 9, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/afghanistan/2004/newsarticle_3340.html/.

  153 Paul Marshall, “Apostates from Islam,” Weekly Standard, April 10, 2006, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/059fpgrn.asp.

  154 “Algerian faces 5 years in prison for sharing Christian faith,” World Watch Monitor, December 2, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/13314/article_1945783.html.

  155 “Christian in Bangladesh Goes to Prison for Evangelism,” World Watch Monitor, March 23, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/bangladesh/article_99015.html.

  156 Al-Masry Al-Youm, “Sectarian fights over proselytizing injure 12 at Assiut University,” Egypt Independent, October 6, 2012, http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/sectarian-clashes-assiut-university-over-proselytizing-12-injured.

  157 “Security Message for U.S. Citizens Threat Information Directed Against U.S. Citizens,” Embassy of the United States, Cairo Egypt, September 28, 2012, http://egypt.usembassy.gov/sm-092812.html.

  158 “Suspected Islamists Burn Down Two Homes in Ethiopia,” World Watch Monitor, April 21, 2011, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/ethiopia/article_111313.html.

  159 Tom O’Connell, “Iran Launches Bible-burning Campaign,” Newsmax, August 26, 2011, http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/iran-bible-burning-christians/2011/08/26/id/408824.

  160 “More arrests and Bibles seized in Iran,” Christian Today, August 24, 2011, http://www.christiantoday.com/article/more.arrests.and.bibles.seized.in.iran/28492.htm.

  161 “SEVERE RESTRICTIONS AGAINST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH IN IRAN,” Persecution, March 19, 2012, http://www.persecution.org/2012/03/22/severe-restrictions-against-assembly-of-god-church-in-iran/.

  162 “Jammu and Kashmir’s top Islamic cleric summons Christian priest to Sharia court over conversions of Muslims,” Jihad Watch, October 28, 2011, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/jammu-and-kashmirs-top-islamic-cleric-summons-christian-priest-to-sharia-court-over-conversions-of-m.html.

  163 M Saleem Pandit, “Kashmir’s ‘mufti azam’ summons Christian priest to explain alleged conversions,” Times of India, October 28, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com//articleshow/10518322.cms?intenttarget=no.

  164 Eric Young, “30,000 Bibles Detained by Malaysian Gov’t, Claim Christian Leaders,” Christian Post, March 11, 2011, http://m.christianpost.com/news/30000-bibles-detained-by-malaysian-govt-claim-christian-leaders-49377/.

  165 “Malaysian Christians Seek to End Restrictions on Malay Bibles,” World Watch Monitor, April 6, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/malaysia/article_110442.html.

  166 Boo Su-Lyn, “On Facebook, fans of Jais church raid swell over 23,000,” Malaysian Insider, September 3, 2011, http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/on-facebook-fans-of-jais-church-raid-swell-over-23000/.

  167 Ahmed Nazeer, “Custom seize two men carrying books about Christianity,” Minivan News, September 30, 2012, http://minivannews.com/society/custom-seize-two-men-carrying-books-about-christianity-44580; Jeremy Reynalds, “Christian Deported from Madives for Bringing in Literature: Bangladeshi development worker blacklisted from island country,” ASSIST News Service, December 1, 2012, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12120004.htm.

  168 World Watch Monitor,“Moroccan Convert Serving 15 Years for His Faith,” Christian Post, September 18, 2010, http://www.christianpost.com/news/moroccan-convert-serving-15-years-for-his-faith-46828/.

  169 “Moroccan Islamists Use Facebook to Target Christians,” World Watch Monitor, June 17, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/morocco/21797.

  170 Azimazi Momoh Jimoh et al., “Troops swoop on Boko Haram, claim end of sect is near,” Guardian Nigeria, January 24, 2012, http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74858:troops-swoop-on-boko-haram-claim-end-of-sect-is-near &catid=1:national&Itemid=559.

  171 “Muslim Extremists in India Attack, Threaten Christian Women,” World Watch Monitor, August 5, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/india/article_116022.html.

  172 “Evangelist Shot Dead in Pakistan,” Christian Post, November 18, 2011, http://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelist-shot-dead-in-pakistan-62358/.

  173 “A Christian Pastor kidnapped in Pakistan,” Pakistan Christian Post, August 15, 2012, http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3685.

  174 Noel Tarrazona, “Christian Preschool Learning Center Threatened with Closure,” ASSIST News Service, December 25, 2011, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2011/s11120110.htm.

  175 Sophia Kishkovsky, “Russian Priest Killed in Church,” New York Times, November 19, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/world/europe/20moscow.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=sysoyev&st=cse&.

  176 “Islamists claim killing of Russian priest,” Agence France-Presse, December 25, 2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJOiv_HtszrmgOpKIJWuc5203W3A.

  177 “Two Indian Christians Languish in Saudi Prison,” World Watch Monitor, March 28, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/saudiarabia/article_99127.html.

  178 David Wood, “Christian Evangelist Mussie Eyob Faces Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia,” Answering Muslims, April 7, 2011, http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2011/04/christian-evangelist-mussie-eyob-faces.html.

  179 “ERITREAN CHRISTIAN ESCAPES SAUID EXECUTION, FACING DANGER AT HOME,” Barnabas Aid, July 25, 2011, http://barnabasfund.org/Eritrean-Christian-escapes-Saudi-execution-facing-danger-at-home.html; DeCaro, “Christian Deaths Climb.”

  180 “Saudi detains dozens for ‘plotting to celebrate Christmas’,” Al-Akhbar, December 27, 2012, http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-detains-dozens-plotting-celebrate-christmas.

  181 “Muslim Militants Slay Long-Time Christian in Somalia,” World Watch Monitor, September 18, 2009, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/somalia/9494/.

  182 “Islamic Extremists Kill Another Church Leader,” World Watch Monitor, October 1, 2009, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/somalia/10010/.

  183 “Two Sudan Coptic priests arrested after ‘baptism’,” Agence France-Presse, December 19, 2012, https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/international/two_sudan_coptic_priests_arrested_after_baptism.

  184 “Christian Woman in Darfur, Sudan Arrested for Evangelizing,” World Watch Monitor, May 24, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_113015.html.

  185 “Sudan Threatens to Arrest Church Leaders,” World Watch Monitor, January 18, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1355342.html.

  186 “Police Beat, Arrest Evangelist in Sudan,” World Watch Monitor, January 20, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1357887.html.

  187 “Turkey: Three killed in attack on Bible publishing house,” Jerusalem Post, April 18, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=58470.

  188 CNN, “Bible attack suspects detained,” Jihad Watch, April 19, 2007, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/04/we-didnt-do-this-fo
r-ourselves-but-for-our-religion-our-religion-is-being-destroyed-let-this-be-a-le.html.

  189 Orhan Kemal Cengiz, “Who ordered the murder of Christians?,” Today’s Zaman, July 3, 2012 , http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-285416-who-ordered-the-murder-of-christians.html.

  190 “CHRISTIANS IN TURKMENTISTAN FACE UPSURGE IN HARASSMENT, THREATS, AND FINES,” Barnabas Aid, September 10, 2012,Aidhttp://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christians-in-Turkmenistan-face-upsurge-in-harassment-threats-and-fines.html.

  191 “ELDERLY CHRISTIAN MAN QUIZZED OVER PUBLISHING POETRY IN TURKMENISTAN,” Barnabas Aid, February 15, 2012, http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Elderly-Christian-man-quizzed-over-publishing-poetry-in-Turkmenistan.html.

  PART FOUR: CLIMATE OF HATE

  1 Marshall G. S. Hodgson, The Venture Of Islam: Conscience and History, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), 59.

  2 Daniel Pipes, In the Path of God: Islam and Political Power (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002), 91–92.

  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), 57.

  4 Ibid., 3.

  5 Raymond Ibrahim, “Muslim Prayers of Hate,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, November 7, 2011, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-prayers-of-hate/.

  6 Dave Bohon, “Saudi Arabia Deports 35 Ethiopian Christians it Detained,” New American, August 9, 2012, http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/12400-saudi-arabia-deports-35-ethiopian-christians-it-detained.

  7 William Marsden, trans., The Travels of Marco Polo (New York: The Modern Library, 2001), 264.

  8 Roman Kozhevnikov, “‘Father Christmas’ stabbed to death in Tajikistan,” Reuters, January 3, 2012, http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/01/03/tajikistan-fatherchristmas-idINDEE80202N20120103.

  9 Edward William Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (London: J.M Dent and Sons, 1908), 283, footnote 1.