The plight of converts to Christianity in Muslim countries is well known. What is less known is the plight of Muslim converts to Christianity in Western Europe. Last week Dutch television broadcast a documentary which shows how former Muslims in the Netherlands are frequent victims of intimidation and violence.Organized or unprovoked violence against one group by another group (or on behalf of another group) is rooted deeply in fear, intended to intimidate a group's and its member's views ... to coerce actions and conform attitudes consistent with those of the attackers.
An ancillary objective is to intimidate those who might find comfort in the actions and attitudes of the victims before the attack.
The attacks in the BJ article are clearly Cristophobic with the intent of spreading fear of becoming a Christian and fear of Christianity itself.
Showing posts with label Muslims. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muslims. Show all posts
Friday, November 07, 2008
OPPRESSION: Fear merchants Shanghai their losses!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
GLOBALISM: UN once again reveals its cristophobic pro-Muslim bias!
This blogger is no friend of the United Nincompoops ...Religious freedom experts criticized this week a United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution for most likely hindering Christian evangelism and spreading Sharia law.Here we have a patently pro-Muslim effort to silence all non-Muslim religions. Imagine this resolution being used against a Muslim cleric who calls for the Pope's assassination or against a Muslim cartoonist whose favorite theme is Jewish blood.
“This anti-blasphemy resolution is mostly seen to be putting a ‘chilling effect’ on Christian work and outreach around the world, and that is a very troubling development for us,” said Carol Moeller, president/CEO of Open Doors, according to Mission Network News.
The non-binding U.N. resolution was first introduced by Pakistan and the Organization of the Islamic Conference at the U.N. Human Rights Council in 1999. It was amended to include religions other than Islam, and has since passed every year.
In 2005, Yemen proposed a similar resolution before the General Assembly and now the 192-nation Assembly is set to vote on it again.
All that's needed is one complaint to bring down the wrath of the NGOs; radical Islam's threats and intimidations are taken seriously enough to allow for this kind of preferential treatment.
Globalism is the name, one-world religion is the game. The prince of the power of the air is still active in this age.
MUSLIMS: Iraqi Muslims step up Christian pogroms!
A systematic effort to rid Iraq of its Christian citizens has been going on since 2003 ...The most senior Catholic cleric in Iraq warned that Christians in his country face “liquidation” if the Iraqi government and the U.S. military do not step-up protection for religious minorities in Iraq.Iraq is a perfect example of the Butterfly Effect (the law of unintended consequences). Some of the people we had intended to aid through our overthrow of Saddam Hussein are the very people we have most disturbed,
“We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence,” said Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako, reported Agence France-Presse on Friday. “The objective is political.”
Sako’s comment comes after police reported earlier this week that seven Christians have been killed in separate attacks this month. Police found bullet-riddled bodies of seven Christians in October, with the latest body of a Christian day laborer found on Wednesday.
Since the U.S.-led Iraq war in 2003, more than 200 Christians have been killed, dozens of churches bombed, and more than half the Iraqi Christian population have left the country, according to the archbishop.“We believe it is the responsibility of Americans who occupy our country to protect Iraqis,” Sako said.One can not dogmatically insist cristophobia is at work here, but the Muslims certainly do fear and hate Christians, and teach others to fear them and hate them as well.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
PERSECUTION: Ancient orthodox body under serious persecution!
Orthodox Christianity under threat | International Herald Tribune
HT - Orthodox Christianity under threat | EuropeNewsWhen Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and his Islamic-rooted party came under fierce fire this summer from secularists, who came close to persuading the country's supreme court to bar both from politics, he called the campaign an attack against religious freedom and a threat to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.Turkey is a secular state with a majority Muslim population; you fools who think there's no threat from this "peaceful" religion are setting up your grandkids and their children for serious heartache and suffering.
Yet in nearly six years in power, Erdogan has shown no inclination to extend even a modicum of religious freedom to the most revered Christian institution in Turkey - the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the spiritual center of 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world. As a result, Turkey's persecution of the Patriarchate looms as a major obstacle to its European aspirations, and rightly so.The Ecumenical Patriarchate, which was established in the fourth century and once possessed holdings as vast as those of the Vatican, has been reduced to a small, besieged enclave in a decaying corner of Istanbul called the Phanar, or Lighthouse.
Almost all of its property has been seized by successive Turkish governments, its schools have been closed and its prelates are taunted by extremists who demonstrate almost daily outside the Patriarchate, calling for its ouster from Turkey.
PERSECUTION: Muslims continue taking what is not theirs!
Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem | Arutz Sheva
HT: Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem | Iconoclast/NERYou think they won't be in your grandchild's backyard some day ... perhaps sooner? Fool! Their asymmetrical form of warfare doesn't need tanks or aircraft!
Just as they've done to Israel for centuries, they've done and will continue to do to Christians today and tomorrow!The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a "sharp demographic shift" in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city's total population today.The report goes on ...
It is estimated that, for the past seven years, more than one thousand Christians have been emigrating from the Bethlehem area annually and that only 10,000 to 13,000 Christians remain in the city. International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims."There are many examples of intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion," he said. PA officials are directly responsible for many of the attacks, and some Muslims who have converted to Christianity have been murdered.Of course nothing is done! The world is preoccupied with the mythical mistreatment of Muslims.
As people with "dhimmi" status, Christians living in Palestinian-controlled territories are not treated as the equals of Muslims. He says: "They are subjected to debilitating legal, political, cultural, and religious restrictions. This has become a critical problem for the Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Christians have pondered for centuries who (demographically) will overrun Israel and commit the abomination of desolation, flipping the switch which brings about the prophetic fulfillment of the Lord's vengeful return (also)!
I am now convinced we needn't look to Rome or to some ten nation European confederacy to find those responsible! Fortunately, they lose ... badly! Maranatha!
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
ANTI-FREE SPEECH: Prayer now "grossly insulting & inflammatory"!
Amazing and frustrating are the words that come to my mind; amazing that the Western World can't see what is going on, and frustrating that only a few do [WARNING - Pat Condell can be profane]!Oxford’s Christians apologise to Muslims for daring to pray during Ramadan | Cranmer
HT - British Muslims Offended by Christians Praying during Ramadan | Brussels JournalCranmer is most disturbed, if not a little irritated, to read that a Christian group in Oxford has apologised to the city’s Muslims for having the audacity to organise a day of prayer during Ramadan. Oxfords Muslims found it ‘ill-conceived and insensitive’, not to mention ‘grossly insulting and inflammatory’.More ...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
VATICAN: A growing problem around the world!
Reuters is reporting ..."Christianophobia" is a growing problem around the world and it must be fought with the same determination as anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, the Vatican said on Friday.More from Reuters ...Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican's foreign minister, spoke in the wake of attacks against Christians in India that have left at least 13 people dead this week.
Mamberti, addressing a conference in northern Italy, said religious freedom was a vital part of international relations and human dignity.
More from NER ...
Friday, August 29, 2008
SACRILEGE: It is finished means it is finished!
What do you get when you combine a German art museum, a German artist, and a green German frog? No, not a Kermitmeister!
Just as in the case with the Danish Muhammad cartoons debacle, this is a cause for the Christians of the world to unite and burn buildings ... heck, whole cities ... well at least a few old cars.An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials. [...]I could find no record of Pope Bennie actually described as angry ... apparently the author (Ariel David) of this piece needed an adjective real bad.Earlier in August the pope had written a letter to Franz Pahl, the president of the Trentino-Alto Adige region that includes Bolzano, denouncing the sculpture.And it is this that CW wants to highlight; ridicule of key or fundamental aspects of a person's orthodox faith is an extreme form of disrespect for that person and their faith.
It "has offended the religious feelings of many people who consider the cross a symbol of God's love and of our redemption," Pahl quoted the pope as writing in the letter.
Pahl himself has long opposed the display of "Zuerst die Fuesse" ("First the Feet" in German), even staging a hunger strike this summer and saying he would not seek re-election unless it was removed.
To this end I understand Islam's negative reaction to the Danish cartoons. However, I vehemently disagree with their expression of upset.Pahl said he was outraged by the museum's decision to keep the work, which he claims "pokes fun at the Catholic population and offends religion and the pope."Just guessing, but I could be easily convinced that the artist had some personal issues he was dealing with.
The 1990 wooden sculpture shows the crucified frog nailed through the feet and hands like Jesus Christ.The museum said the 3-foot (1-meter) -tall sculpture has nothing to do with religion, but is an ironic self-portrait of the artist and an expression of his angst.Nuff said!
"With humor and a tragicomic sense, which belongs to art since the times of Greek tragedy, Kippenberger ... faces his condition of suffering, which he expresses in many works, also, for example, in a video in which he crucifies himself," the museum said in a statement.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
PURPOSE: Cristophobia's raison d'etre!
Cristophobia Watch's "reason for being" is fundamentally stated in our inaugural post, but our inspiration arrived by observing and experiencing the egregious hypersensitive and reactionary behavior of Muslims crying Islamophobia.
Apparently, they are "offended" by any thing related to a kafir (a non-believer) and even remotely touching upon Islam.
Their hypocritical cries of racism (Muslims are not a race) and bigotry are shrill in light of the manifold and daily instances of Muslim extremism and Muslim terrorism in our world.
The SHEEP'S CRIB decided Islam's anti-Christian activities and bigotry needed more exposure ... however, to avoid the charge of Islamophobia, it was decided to include all reports of Cristophobia, which will, by default, include cristophobic events, activities, or statements by Muslims.
However, our fundamental aim is glorifying the Lord and defending the faith; since attacks on Christians are attacks on His family; we feel the term Cristophobia is the appropriate nomenclature for this blog since all attacks on His family are attacks on His person and His works.
CRISTOPHOBIA: About Cristophobia Watch
Cristophobia Watch was initiated in August 2008 in order to document activities and events which advocate a fear of and hatred for Christian people and Christianity as a religion.
Cristophobia Watch is determined to impede the progress of the bigoted and fascist ideology of extremists and others in their global effort to erode the foundations of Western Civilization and its Judeo-Christian heritage.
Cristophobia, as a tool of secular and political extremism, is strongly advocated by liberal, political radicals and other irrational organizations; it has gained much ground in the European Union and in non-democratic nations throughbut the world; even our neighbor to the north, Canada, has a nested and virulent form of Cristophobia.
Cristophobia Watch will regularly post opinion columns, news items, and web content which match the editorial template of this website, culled from Cristophobic sources, as well as from those sources opposing Cristophobia and Cristophobics. An effort will be made to hold editorial comment to a minimum.
Cristophobia Watch began posting 22 August 2008.
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