Anna Sekulow wrote: The ACLJ has received confirmation that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is alive in Iran as of today, March 26, 2012. New false reports about Pastor Youcef’s execution continue to surface – whether these reports originate from a misinformation campaign initiated by the Iranian regime or just uninformed sources is unknown. Many of these [...]
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Youcef Nadarkhani Still Alive
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Religion, tagged Iran on March 27, 2012 |
Top Saudi Cleric’s Call to Destroy Churches
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Religion on March 23, 2012 |
Patrick Goodenough wrote: Ten days after Saudi Arabia’s foremost religious leader called for a demolition of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – in line with a purported injunction by Mohammed – the U.S. government and other allies of the kingdom have yet to react. Major media outlets also have largely ignored the incident; a [...]
Robert Spencer wrote: Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists, voted unanimously last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the parliamentarians declared, would “never” be Israel’s ally. In [...]
Christians, Jihadists, and the Fate of Syria
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Politics, Religion, War, tagged Terrorism on March 12, 2012 |
Raymond Ibrahim wrote: Christian minorities, who, at 10% of the Syrian population, have the most to gain from a secular government and the most to suffer from a Sharia-state, have no choice but to prefer Assad. They are already seeing aspects of the alternative. A recent Barnabas Fund report titled “Christians in Syria Targeted in [...]
Mocking Jesus (But Not Mohammed)
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Religion, tagged The Media on March 4, 2012 |
From The Christian Institute: The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. He justified the astonishing admission of religious bias by suggesting that mocking Mohammed might have the “emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography”. But Jesus is fair game because, he said, Christianity [...]
Gingrich: You Don’t Apologize to the Enemy
Posted in Christianity, Islam, News, Politics, War, tagged Elections, Terrorism on February 27, 2012 |
Newt Gingrich said: When you have enemies who are determined to kill you, you owe it to the American people to tell the truth about the people who are opposing us. We have been systematically and methodically mislead by our leader. This is much deeper than Obama. We had the same problem with our State [...]
Andrew C. McCarthy wrote: On second thought, who cares if Karzai apologizes? Our troops do not belong in Afghanistan. They have given more than enough, way more. So has our country. If our government believes the Taliban and other factions are our enemies, allied with al-Qaeda to kill Americans, then we should unleash our military [...]
Gingrich on the Qur’an Shootings
Posted in Islam, News, Politics, tagged Elections, Terrorism on February 24, 2012 |
I’m near the end of a busy week, but I didn’t want anyone to miss this. I like people who say it like it is, and Newt is one of those people. From CNSNews.com: Campaigning in Washington State, Gingrich said Afghan President Hamid Karzi owes the U.S. an apology for the shootings. “There seems to [...]
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Sentenced to Death
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Religion, tagged Iran on February 22, 2012 |
From FoxNews.com: A trial court in Iran has issued its final verdict, ordering a Christian pastor to be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, according to sources close to the pastor and his legal team. Supporters fear Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two who was arrested over two years ago [...]
ACLJ Petition for the Release of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Politics, Religion, tagged Iran on February 21, 2012 |
Patrick Goodenough wrote: On Friday, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution condemning the Iranian government “for its state-sponsored persecution of religious minorities” in violation of international covenants and calling on Iran “to exonerate and immediately release Youcef Nadarkhani and all other individuals held or charged on account of their [...]
Franklin Graham: Obama Helps Islamists, Ignores Christian Persecution
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Politics, Religion, tagged Terrorism on February 21, 2012 |
This is probably all over the news, but just in case its not, Franklin Graham made a serious faux pas by telling the truth on MSNBC. That doesn’t happen a lot, so I’m sure it was a shock for everyone involved. From Newsmax.com: Reverend Franklin Graham says President Obama has “given Islam a pass,” including [...]
Arab Fever
Posted in Islam, Israel, tagged Trivia on February 20, 2012 |
Jay Nordlinger wrote: You know Bernard Lewis, the historian who is the dean of Middle East scholars, and a friend of National Review, and an NR cruiser. But did you know that he was leading a plot to divide Egypt into four separate states? Oh, yes. MEMRI — the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute [...]
Muslim Stone Christians on Temple Mount
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, Israel, News, Religion on February 20, 2012 |
Ryan Jones wrote: A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by the stone-throwers. Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several of them minors, for their role in the attack. [...]
Student Quits Choir Over Islamic Song Praising Allah
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, Religion on February 16, 2012 |
Marti Lotman wrote: A Colorado high school senior felt compelled to quit his school’s choir after seeing that they would be singing a song espousing that “there is no truth except Allah,” reports Fox News. James Harper, a student at Grand Junction High School, sent an email to Mesa County School District 51 officials, detailing [...]
We Love Death — You Love Life
Posted in Christianity, Faith, Islam, News, tagged Bible on February 15, 2012 |
From Jihad Watch: Officials believe he was trying to martyr himself when he flew down the roadway at 100 mph before slamming his car into another vehicle. Nobody was killed in the crash. In the 911 recording, Medunjanin — the sound of traffic in the background — tells the operator, “This is Adis. We love [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day, Rushdie: drop dead
Posted in Islam, tagged Iran, Terrorism on February 14, 2012 |
Robert Spencer wrote: Most people associate February 14 with romance, but for Salman Rushdie, it has vastly different associations. On February 14, 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie for writing his book The Satanic Verses — and this death sentence has been perpetually reaffirmed by Iranian leaders, though no [...]
Robert Spencer on Islam’s View of Christianity
Posted in Christianity, Faith, History, Islam, Religion, Theology, Videos on February 13, 2012 |
This is worth watching. The audio quality is bad for the first eight-and-a-half minutes, but it gets better after that. From Jihad Watch: Robert Spencer speaks at Franciscan University, November 2011
Syrian Christians Fear Genocide
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Religion, War on February 11, 2012 |
More on this, from TheNewAmerican.com: Catholic bishops are warning that if the Bashar al-Assad (…) regime in Syria falls to Islamists, there may well be a mass genocide of Christians, such as seen in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Though Christians cannot support the brutality of the Assad dictatorship, few believe that rule [...]
Iran must attack Israel by 2014
Posted in Islam, Israel, War, tagged Iran on February 9, 2012 |
From JPost.com: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s strategist provided the legal and religious justification for the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people, in a document published on conservative Farsi website Alef. Reports of the document began to circulate the internet this week. The document, written by strategy specialist Alireza Forghani, outlined the reasons [...]
Jimmy Carter’s Long Delayed Second Term
Posted in History, Islam, Israel, Politics, Religion, War, tagged Iran, Terrorism on February 7, 2012 |
Robert Spencer wrote: As the Iranian regime inches ever closer toward constructing nuclear weapons, as even Hillary Clinton has acknowledged it is trying to do, these words become more than just empty braggadocio and saber-rattling. The U.S. and Israel have one man to thank for the advent of a genocide-minded regime that considers them both [...]
