97 “Cash settlement on rape and murder of teenage Christian girl is black spot on Pakistani government,” Pakistan Christian Congress, October 21, 2010, http://www.pakistanchristiancongress.org/contents.php?section_id=37.
98 “PAKISTAN: A 12 year-old Christian is gang raped for eight months, forcibly converted and then ‘married’ to her Muslim attacker,” Asian Human Rights Commission, October 10, 2011, http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-199-2011#.TpVEqnnBJNs.email.
99 “Police in Pakistan Decline to Prosecute Rape/Beating Suspects,” World Watch Monitor, June 12, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1599572.html.
100 “Punjab: Muslims kidnap 14 year old Christian to convert her to Islam,” AsiaNews, August 25, 2011, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab:-Muslims-kidnap-14-year-old-Christian-to-convert-her-to-Islam-22456. html.
101 Michael Ireland, “Young Christian woman killed during an attempted rape in Pakistan,” ASSIST News Service, December 5, 2011, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2011/s11120020.htm.
102 “No justice for Shazia Bashir, the Christian girl raped and murdered,” Agenzia Fides, November 27, 2010, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=27881&lan=eng.
103 Jibran Khan, “Faisalabad: Christian sisters kidnapped, forced to marry a wealthy Muslim,” AsiaNews, May 27, 2011, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad:-Christian-sisters-kidnapped, -forced-to-marry-a-wealthy-Muslim-21674.html.
104 Dan Wooding, “A minor Christian girl kidnapped in Islamabad territory,” ASSIST News Service, October 30, 2012, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12100157.htm.
105 “Pakistani Higher Court orders enforced converted Christian girl to go with Muslim man,” Pakistan Christian Post, October 24, 2012, http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3887.
106 Shafique Khokhar, “Faisalabad: 16 year old Christian girl gang raped for hours by young Muslims,” AsiaNews, September 26, 2012, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad:-16-year-old-Christian-girl-gang-raped-for-hours-by-young-Muslims-25928. html.
107 OneFreeWorldInt, “OFW Neeha Video.mov,” YouTube video, March 4, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSbvmoXlus&feature=player_embedded#!.
108 “Catholic girl raped by a Muslim,” Agenzia Fides, December 18, 2010, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=28031&lan=eng.
109 Majid Khadduri, War and Peace in the Law of Islam (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955), 119, 131.
110 Soeren Kern, “Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain,” Gatestone Institute, May 21, 2012, http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3068/muslim-child-rape-gangs-britain.
111 Bat Ye’or, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 56.
112 Mark Durie, The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude, and Freedom (Australia: Deror Books, 2010), 127.
113 From Tabari’s History, “The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine,” Menorah, http://www.menorah.org/Crusades.pdf.
114 Adel Guindy, Hikayat al-Ihtilal, in translation,“Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings,” (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 17.
115 Philip Khuri Hitti, ed., The Origins of the Islamic State (New York: AMS Press, 1968), 340.
116 “Islam is the religion of forgiveness and mercy,” Voices for Peace, April 3, 2006, http://www.voicesforpeace.com/talkshop/peace/messages/916.html.
117 Ye’or, Islam and Dhimmitude, 67.
118 Ibid., 68, 121.
119 In contrast to modern interpretations that portray the European traveler as a prototypical “Orientalist” with an axe to grind against the “Other”—specifically non-whites and non-Christians—in fact, Polo occasionally portrayed the few Christians he encountered in a negative light (such as those of the island of Socotra) and frequently praised non-Christians, including Muslims. For example, he hails the Brahmins of India as being “most honorable,” possessing a “hatred for cheating or of taking the goods of other persons. They are likewise remarkable for the virtue of being satisfied with the possession of one wife.” He refers to one Muslim leader as governing “with justice” and another who “showed himself [to be] a very good lord, and made himself beloved by everybody.” William Marsden, trans., The Travels of Marco Polo (New York: The Modern Library, 2001), 298, 317, 332.
120 Ibid., 63.
121 Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude (Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 78.
122 Ye’or, Islam and Dhimmitude, 69.
123 Nonie Darwish, “Solving Poverty–The Islamic Way,” FrontPage Magazine, May 23, 2011, http://frontpagemag.com/2011/nonie-darwish/solving-poverty-the-islamic-way/. See also, Arabic video showing Huwaini making these assertions, Youtube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD8umi47m04.
124 “Islamic Group Beheads Assyrian Priest, Crucifies 14 Year Old Boy in North Iraq,” Assyrian International News Agency, October 12, 2006, http://www.aina.org/news/20061012004656.htm.
125 “Iraq: Dutch MP calls for autonomous Assyrian region in north,” adnkronos, November 18, no year, http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.1.1271835942.
126 Jim Kouri, “IRAQ’S CHRISTIAN BLOODBATH IGNORED BY OBAMA WHITE HOUSE,” News with Views, November 4, 2010, http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news224.htm ; Associated Press, “Iraqi Chrisitan Mourn 58 Dead in Church Siege,” CBS News, November 2, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/world/main7011759.shtml.
127 Michelle A. Vu, “Assyrian Christians ‘Most Vulnerable Population’ in Iraq,” Christian Post, December 5, 2006, http://www.christianpost.com/news/assyrian-christians-most-vulnerable-population-in-iraq-23863/.
128 Ravi Nessman, “Christians in Iraq targeted for persecution,” Tulsa World, May 7, 2007, http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070507_1_A15_ANAss26771&breadcrumb=religion.
129 “Iraqi Christian killed after $100,000 ransom demand not met,” Barnabas Aid, May 23, 2011, http://barnabasfund.org/UK/News/Archives/Iraqi-Christian-killed-after-100000-ransom-demand-not-met.html?&p=all&%E2%81%9Ea=774&method=PRINT&Orderby=Date%3BDESC.
130 Zvi Bar’el, “Christmas requiem for Iraq’s Christian community,” Haaretz, December 24, 2010, http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/christmas-requiem-for-iraq-s-christian-community-1.332680.
131 “FATWA THREAT AGAINST IRAQI CHRISTIANS AS PM URGES THEM TO STAY,” Barnabas Aid, December 18, 2012, http://barnabasfund.org/US/Fatwa-threat-against-Iraqi-Christians-as-PM-urges-them-to-stay.html.
132 “The Double Lives of Iraq’s Christian Children,” World Watch Monitor, October 11, 2011, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/iraq/article_121814.html.
133 “Russian Church Highlights Persecution of Christians in Syria,” Pravmir, October 24, 2012, http://www.pravmir.com/russian-church-highlights-persecution-of-christians-in-syria/.
134 “Bomb at funeral, a family beheaded: Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus,” Agenzia Fides, August 8, 2012, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32111&lan=eng.
135 “The last remaining Christian in the center of Homs killed; the convent of the Jesuits has been hit,” Agenzia Fides, October 31, 2012, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32561&lan=eng.
136 Kim Sengupta, “The plight of Syria’s Christians: ‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us,’” Independent, November 2, 2012, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-plight-of-syrias-christians-we-left-homs-because-they-were-trying-to-kill-us-8274710.html.
137 Ulrike Putz, “We’re Too Frightened to Talk,” Spiegel, July 25, 2012, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/christians-flee-from-radical-rebels-in-syria-a-846180.html.
138 From a BBC Monitoring Middle East email, “Syrian opposition army imposes jizya on Christians in Homs,” Jihad Watch, April 10, 2012, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/syrian-opposition-army-imposes-jizya-on-christians-in-homs.html.
139 Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity, 79, 108.
140 “Rableh: 280 Christians held hostage,” Agenzia Fides, September 25, 2012, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32291&lan=eng.
141 “Christians in Syria Targeted in Series of Kidnappings and Killings; 100 Dead,” Barnabas Aid, January 18, 2012, http://barnabasfund.org/Christians-in-Syria-targeted-in-series-of-kidnappings-and-killings-100-dead.html.
142 “Christians in Syria Targeted in Series of Kidnappings and Killings; 100 Dead,” Barnabas Aid, January 18, 2012, http://barnabasfund.org/Christians-in-Syria-targeted-in-series-of-kidnappings-and-killings-100-dead.html.
143 “The Orthodox priest kidnapped in Damascus found dead,” Agenzia Fides, October 25, 2012, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32518&lan=eng.
144 “Rash of Assyrian Kidnappings in Syria,” Assyrian International News Agency, November 24, 2012, http://www.aina.org/news/20121123203042.htm.
145 Nick Fagge, “Syrian rebels ‘beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs’ as fears grow over Islamist atrocities,” Daily Mail, December 31, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255103/Syria-rebels-beheaded-Christian-fed-dogs-fears-grow-Islamist-atrocities.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.
146 Tim Marshall, “Syria: Rebel Prisoners On Their Religious War,” Sky News, December 8, 2012, http://news.sky.com/story/1022491/syria-rebel-prisoners-on-their-religious-war.
147 “Salafis Besiege Church Priest for Refusing to Pay Jizya,” El Bashayer, June 23, 2011, http://elbashayeronline.com/news-143400.html, translation by the author.
148 “Imposing Jizya on Christians to address poverty” Voice of the Copts, January 6, 2009, http://www.voiceofthecopts.org/index.php/categories/op-eds/120-34imposing-jizya-on-christians-to-address-poverty.
149 Arabic report on Al Moheet, September 13, 2011, http://www.moheet.com/2011/09/13/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%87-%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82/, translation by the author.
150 Encyclopedia of Islam, ed., Juan Eduardo Campo (New York: Facts on File, 2009), 404.
151 Al Ahaly, “NGO: Armed Gangs Plunder Minia’s Copts and Impose Tributes on Them,” Coptic Solidarity, August 30, 2012, http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/797-ngo-armed-gangs-plunder-minia-s-copts-and-impose-tributes-on-them.
152 “After Dahshur, the Jizya Imposed on Copts in Asyut,” Alkhbar, August 2012, http://www.alkhabrnews.com/view/?q=5048, translation by the author.
153 “Two Coptic Christians Killed in Egypt for Refusing to Pay Extortion Money,” Persecution, January 26, 2012, http://www.persecution.org/2012/01/30/two-coptic-christians-killed-in-egypt-for-refusing-to-pay-extortion-money/.
154 “Christian Kidnapped, Abductors Demand Ransom for Release,” Copts United, March 10, 2012, http://www.copts-united.com/Arabic2011/Article.php?I=1109&A=54492, translation by the author.
155 Mary Abdelmassih, “Islamists Demand Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control,” Assyrian International News Agency, August 31, 2012, http://www.aina.org/news/2012083019958.htm.
156 Hosni Milad and Marcol Adel, “Egyptian Churches Reject the Repeated Cycle of Displacing Copts,” Akhbar el-Youm [The Day’s News], September 29, 2012, http://akhbarelyom.org.eg/news73157_1.aspx, translated by the author; Raymond Ibrahim, “Egypt’s Christians: Distraught and Displaced,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, October 5, 2012, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-christians-distraught-and-displaced/.
157 “Christian Woman Freed from Muslim Kidnappers in Pakistan,” Christian Post, March 13, 2011, http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-woman-freed-from-muslim-kidnappers-in-pakistan-49398/.
158 “Eight Christians kidnapped in Pakistan,” Daily News & Analysis, August 27, 2009, http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_eight-christians-kidnapped-in-pakistan_1285635.
159 “Attack in the Christian area: one victim and two injured in Karachi,” Agenzia Fides, August 31, 2012, http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32122&lan=eng.
160 Jeremy Reynalds, “Christian Shot Eight Times for Refusing to Pay Protection Money,” ASSIST News Service, July 22, 2009, http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09070148.htm.
161 Faisal Khan, “Christian farm workers abducted by Muslim landowners for money in Faisalabad,” AsiaNews, October 28, 2011, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christian-farm-workers-abducted-by-Muslim-landowners-for-money-in-Faisalabad-23041.html.
162 “Two Christian Hospital Workers Abducted in Karachi,” World Watch Monitor, March 7, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1436466.html.
163 Stefan J. Bos, “Pakistan Muslim Militants Kill Christian, Injure 20,” BosNewsLife, October 7, 2011, http://www.bosnewslife.com/18592-pakistan-muslim-militants-kill-christian-injure-20.
164 “Muslims in Pakistan Beat, Shoot at Christians in Land Grab,” World Watch Monitor, December 1, 2011, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_123795.html.
165 “Two Catholic Priests Kidnapped in Sudan,” World Watch Monitor, January 25, 2012, http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1364961.html.
166 Weekendavisen, “Danish ghetto: pay 1,800 dollars for being ‘black and Christian,’” Jihad Watch, March 1, 2012, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/danish-ghetto-pay-1800-dollars-for-being-black-and-christian.html.
167 “Pengeafpresning mod kirke på Nørrebro,” Ekstra Bladet, December 13, 2012, http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article1883256.ece.
168 Steven Stalinsky, “The Next Pope and Islamic Prophecy,” FrontPage Magazine, April 14, 2005, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8931.
169 Transcription from the video at Enza Ferreri, “UK Jihad Seekers Allowance is the New Form of Jizya,” Enza Ferreri (blog), http://enzaferreri.blogspot.com/2013/02/jihad-seekers-allowance-new-form-of.html#axzz2Mz7S2sLh.
170 Mary Abdelmassih, “Muslims Attack Christian Village in Egypt—1 Murdered, Homes Looted and Torched,” Assyrian International News Agency, August 9, 2011, http://www.aina.org/news/2011089052824.htm.
171 Arabic video of Muslims attacking Copts in front of the police station in Minya, mariamragy, August 12, 2011, YouTube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsccWyFVJWA.
172 “Coptic Man Loses Eye in Gunfire Attack,” Copts Arrivals, http://www.copts-arrivals.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41907, translation by the author.
173 “PAKISTAN: Call for inquiry into poisoning of Christian student nurses,” Church in Chains, August 10, 2012, http://churchinchains.ie/node/537.
174 Habib Toumi, “Lebanese star reported for smoking in Ramadan,” Gulf News, August 9, 2012, http://gulfnews.com/news/region/lebanon/lebanese-star-reported-for-smoking-in-ramadan-1.1059825.
175 For example, in December 2011, a “Montreal suburb has decided to remove a nativity scene and menorah from town hall rather than acquiesce to demands from a Muslim group to erect Islamic religious symbols,” http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/12/05/19070881.html. Contrast this with Iran, where many churches were “ordered to cancel Christmas and New Year’s celebrations as a show of their compliance and support” for “the two month-long mourning activities of the Shia’ Moslems,” a reference to the bloody flagellations and self mutilations Shias perform in memory of Imam Hussein during Ashura, http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2011/s11120044.htm. Likewise, the University of London held a Christmas service featuring readings from the Koran—Islam’s holy book that unequivocally condemns the Incarnation, which is precisely what Christmas celebrates, http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/12/royal-holloway-college-holds-islamic.html. Meanwhile, Muslims were issuing the usual fatwas banning other Muslims from even saying “Merry Christmas.”
PART FIVE: SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
1 Raymond Ibrahim, The Al Qaeda Reader (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 179. Ayman Zawahiri, discussing what the medieval Islamic hero
would do to Americans if he was alive, says “Had Saladin vanquished them [today], he would have put them to the sword!” See also 251 and 254.
2 Rodney Stark, God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 199.
3 Adel Guindy, Hikayat al-Ihtilal, [Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings] (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 88–89, translation by the author.
4 Jonathan Riley-Smith, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 236.
5 Raymond Ibrahim, “Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for ‘Destruction of All Churches in Region,’” Jihad Watch, March 14, 2012, http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/raymond-ibrahim-saudi-grand-mufti-calls-for-destruction-of-all-churches-in-region.html.
6 Clifford D. May, “‘Destroy All the Churches,’” National Review Online, March 22, 2012, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294112/destroy-all-churches-clifford-d-may.
7 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/.
8 See Rod Norland and Mayy El Sheikh, “Contrary to Gossip, Pyramids Have No Date with the Wrecking Ball,” New York Times, July 23, 2012, http://www. nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/in-egypt-rumor-of-pyramids-demise-proves-flimsy.html?_r=0; Llewelyn Morgan, “Bamiyan, Timbuktu—Are the Pyramids Next?!,” Huffington Post, July 17, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost. co.uk/llewelyn-morgan/bamiyan-timbuktu-are-the-pyramids-next_b_1673750. html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World; and Raymond Ibrahim, “Huffington Post, MSM Facilitate Destruction of Pyramids,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, July 24, 2012, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/huffington-post-msm-facilitate-destruction-of-egypts-pyramids/.
9 Raymond Ibrahim, “The Jihad on Egypt’s Pharonic Antiquities,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, November 14, 2012, http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/the-jihad-on-egypts-pharaonic-antiquities/. History is laden with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage—starting with Muhammad himself, who ransacked Arabia’s Ka’ba temple, transforming it into a mosque. But destroying the mountain-like pyramids was no small task in the pre-modern period—even though many early Muslim leaders certainly tried, some partially successfully; after gunfire was invented, Egypt’s medieval Mamluk rulers even managed to “de-nose” the Sphinx during target practice (though popular legend naturally attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon). Now, however, as Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sheikhs” observed when congratulating Morsi on his presidential victory, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids can be destroyed, just as the historic Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban.
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