Kristne er udryddelsestruede i det meste af verden

Vatikanet advarer. Fra 27. september 2011:

Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican’s foreign minister told the UN summit

Det skriver Canada.com. Det blev det stærkt islamiserede FN nok ikke ked af at høre. Raymond Ibrahim har lavet en oversigt for september 2011 – posten her er en slags opsamling eller “siden sidst”:

Muslim Persecution of Christians: September, 2011

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 12, 2011

An especially busy month in the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world, September also witnessed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton release the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. Ironically, aside from Iran and Sudan, none of the countries that habitually appears in this series was designated among the “countries of particular concern,” defined by the State Department as countries that are “engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”

Egypt, for instance—which this year alone has seen over fifty Christians killed, their many churches burned or bombed, and their daughters kidnapped and forcibly converted—was not listed as a “country of particular concern,” despite the fact that the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government commission, has recommended that the State Department designate it so.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Kan også læses her hos Middle East Forum. Ibrahim uddyber sin analyse af Hillary Clintons udtalelser:

Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians?

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 13, 2011

Soon after Sunday’s Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military slaughtered Christians demonstrating over the destruction of their churches—including by running them over with armored vehicles—some Egyptian media began reporting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having seen enough, declared that the U.S. plans on directly intervening in Egypt.

Of course, Hillary said no such thing. According to Al Ahram:

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch. Ibrahim har endnu en artikel om kristnes forhold – mere om den dødsdømte iranske præst:

Islamism’s Predictability

Apostasy, Execution, and Lies

by Raymond Ibrahim – October 6, 2011

As one ponders the fate of Yousef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor on death row for refusing to renounce Christianity, it is well to reflect that, for all the talk that Islam is perpetually “misunderstood,” it is actually immensely predictable and consistent; not only do its patterns cross time and space, but their manifestations are often identical.

Mere HER hos Middle East Forum. Kan også læses her hos Jihad Watch.

Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, beaten and raped for eight months until she converted to Islam

By Wil Longbottom on 13th October 2011

• Asian Human Rights Commission claim girl was lured on shopping trip by friend before she was kidnapped.
• Abductors drove her 120 miles before raping her, then forced her to sign marriage papers
• Victim managed to escape eight months later, but police refuse to prosecute rapists because they are tied to militant Islam group

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. British Pakistani Christian Association har en tilsvarende artikel her.

Asia Bibi tortured by prison officers

by Nasarani ki Himmet – 14 October 2011

According to a Pakistani newspaper, the Express Tribune, Asia Bibi, the poster-victim of Pakistan’s wicked blasphemy laws has been tortured by one of wardens at the Sheikhupura jail where she is imprisoned in solitary confinement awaiting a death sentence for defending her Christian faith. The warden Khadeeja allegedly tortured her after claiming he found ‘prohibited items’ in her cell. Other prison staff watched and did nothing to stop the attack. (Well, she’s only a kuffir Christian, after all…..) Thankfully, it appears that (eventually) the culprit has at least been suspended from duty (for how long, we shall have to see).

Don’t forget to pray for Asia Bibi and also her family, who are being threatened and isolated by Islamic militants.

Mere HER hos British Pakistani Christian Association. Lignende artikel her i The Pakistan Express Tribune.

Caroline Glick synes, det er uklart, hvad Vesten ønsker at opnå  med sin tavshed. For Europas vedkommende er det nu helt indlysende. Det er europæerne, man vil af med. I sidste halvdel af artiklen kommer der en del interessante taloplysninger om Mellemøstens kristne:

The forgotten Christians of the East

By Caroline B. Glick – October 10, 2011

It is unclear what either Western governments or Western churches think they are achieving by turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world.

On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt’s state television headquarters in Cairo. The 1,000 Christians represented the ancient Christian community of some 8 million whose presence in Egypt predates the establishment of Islam by several centuries. They gathered in Cairo to protest the recent burning of two churches by Islamic mobs and the rapid escalation of state-supported violent attacks on Christians by Muslim groups since the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Mere HER i The Jerusalem Post. Family Security Matters her. Townhall her. Caroline Glick her. Se også denne skarpe leder i Investor’s Business Daily:

• Killing A Religion

Diana West om kopterne i Egypten:

Like Good Little Dhimmi, West Stays Silent About Coptic Oppression

By Diana West – October 16, 2011

I am looking at a reproduction of an engraving of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher, said to the be the site of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and burial. The church in this image, based on an 1856 photograph, has neither cross nor belfry. It stands in compliance with the Islamic law and traditions of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, which ruled Jerusalem at the time.

Mere HER hos AINA. WorldNetDaily her. The Washington Examiner her. Diana West her. Vesten kan skam også godt være med:

Facebook, Google, Apple Censoring Religious Speech?

By Stephanie Samuel | Sep. 16 2011

The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) group sounded the alarm Thursday about new media outlets such as Facebook, Google and Apple, which they say have written policies that violate the fundamental rules of free expression, particularly concerning religious free speech.

The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing the various content policies of social networking websites. What they found was disturbing: new media platforms Facebook, Apple, Comcast, AT&T and Google have adopted policies to censor lawful viewpoints expressing Christian views or controversial ideas on “hot button issues.” Some platforms, such as Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s search engine, have already started to use those policies to remove orthodox Christian viewpoints considered “offensive” or too controversial.

Mere HER i The Christian Post. Barnabas Fund har en tilsvarende artikel her. Og flere eksempler. Nu skal man købe en tilladelse til at læse Biblen i Californien. I hvert fald hvis man har inviteret mere end 3 gæster:

• Christian Concern: American couple fined for holding bible study in own home

Barnabas Fund har desuden en guide, der fortæller, hvilke firmaer der sælger halalprodukter - et par af dem findes også i Danmark. Så ved man hvilke forretninger, man bør undgå:

• UK retailer halal guide

Tilsidst en historisk artikel:

The Battle That Saved the Christian West

by Mariano Navarro on Oct 11th, 2011

What some call “the battle that saved the Christian West” took place 440 years ago October 7th. It is a historical event of such importance — and of such relevance to the struggles of today — that I would be remiss not to mention it. Sadly, a cursory look on-line indicates that few people — save military historians, some traditionalist Catholics and a few rarae aves — seem to know much about it.

At about 11:00 a.m. October 7th in 1571, 300 Ottoman ships from Turkey clashed with a scraggly alliance of European naval armies in the tranquil waters between the Albanian coast and the Peloponnesus. Under the command of the 25-year-old Don Juan of Austria​, the illegitimate son of Charles V and half-brother of Philip II of Spain, some 212 Christian ships from Genoa, Venice and Spain — as well from the Papal States and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta — had formed the “Holy League” to stop the advance of the Ottoman Armada.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. The Grendel Report her.

Andre kilder: The Telegraph, The Irish Times, WorldWide Religious News, The Percecution Times, Barnabas Fund, Religion.dk, Wikipedia,

Hvorfor faldt Sovjet-blokken?

The Gorbachev Files – Secret Papers Reveal Truth Behind Soviet Collapse

By Christian Neef – August 11, 2011

Communist hardliners staged a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev 20 years ago, and the Soviet Union collapsed soon afterwards. Previously unknown documents, which SPIEGEL has obtained, show just how desperate the last Soviet leader was as he fought to retain power — and how he begged Germany for money to save his country.

There is one moment — a single decision — that some people still hold against Mikhail Gorbachev today, 20 years later.

Gorbachev, the last leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and last president of the Soviet Union, his wife and his closest confidants had survived the attempted coup by the KGB, the military leadership and the interior minister. They returned to Moscow from their house arrest at Gorbachev’s vacation home in the Crimean resort of Foros. Their plane landed in the capital at 2:15 a.m., local time, on August 22, 1991.

Mere HER i Der Spiegel. Jeg har valgt at linke til print-versionen for at undgå det der pjat med sideinddeling.

Opdatering: Foreign Magazine har en foto-serie fra perioden her.

Tyrkiet: Erdogans ottomanske rige

Turkey: Erdogan’s New “Ottoman Region”

by Harold Rhode – July 13, 2011

Erdogan’s recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey’s foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that this victory is as important in Ankara as it is in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, under Ottoman times, an important Ottoman city; that his party’s victory was as important in a large Turkish city, Izmir, on the Western Anatolian coast, as it is in Damascus, and as important in Istanbul as it is in Jerusalem.

What does all this mean? At the very least, this victory speech signals a wish for Ottoman cultural colonialism and imperialism. The places Erdogan names were all part of by the Ottoman Empire; the territory of the modern Turkish Republic is what remained after World War I and Turkey’s War of Independence from the occupying Allied forces. Turkey forms only the central part, and relatively small fraction, of what had been the Ottoman Empire, which at its height extended deep into southern Europe, and included most of today’s Arab world and even beyond.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Ny NATO-rival?

Vesten snorksover. Det kunne gå hen at blive helt katastrofalt. SCO kan nå langt, før foretagendet braser sammen som den mesalliace, sammenslutningen vitterligt er:

Potential NATO Rival to Fill Security Vacuum in Afghanistan?

By Daniel Vajdic – June 22, 2011

Last week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, was hailed by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi for its “historic significance.” And in many ways it was historic. But for an event that brought together heads of state from China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, the most recent SCO Summit received surprisingly scant attention in the United States. Here’s what you likely missed:

• Participants expressed concern about events in the Arab world while supporting “the drive of regional states in the path of democratic development in accordance with their specific cultural and historical characteristics.”

• Afghan President Hamid Karzai formally requested SCO observer status, which gives non-members the ability to participate in some of the organization’s activities.

Mere HER i The American.

Anne Bayefsky om FN, hykleri og Iran

For anden gang på få timer har Veritas Universalis en artikel af Anne Bayefsky:

U.N. Hypocrisy On Full Display

By Anne Bayefsky | March 04, 2011

Today, Iran officially becomes a member of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. Only three days ago, the U.N. General Assembly voted to suspend Libya’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council in a desperate bid to save the Council’s tattered reputation and itself.

But not a single state, including the United States, has indicated anything but smooth sailing for today’s membership of Iran on the U.N.’s top women’s rights body.

The double-talk surrounding the Libyan maneuver was breathtaking. It was only nine months ago, after getting to know Qaddafi over four decades, that the General Assembly had elected Libya to serve on the U.N.’s top human rights body. And Libya still serves on the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the U.N. Commission on Information, and the Executive Board of U.N. Women.

Mere HER hos Fox News.

Andre kilder: National Post, The Vancouver Sun, Times Colonist, Ynet News,

Kasakhstan i oprør: præsidenten i badebukser

Det er ligefør man synes, at folk i Kasakhstan snakker sort. Men man kræver åbenbart en avis lukket, fordi den har bragt et billede af en solbrændt, glad og smilende præsident, der spadserer i strandkanten i almindeligt badetøj. Meeen 54 pct. af indbyggerne er muslimer, sååå deeet…

Kuriosum: avisen hedder “Ytringsfrihed”. Man kan se billedet på linket til Reuters nedenfor – det er mildt sagt et trivielt foto.

Andre kilder: Reuters, Yahoo News, The New Scotsman,