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From USA Today:
- Catholic Cardinal/patriarch Of Antioch Says, Muslims To Conquer Europe With Religion And Procreation
I would add the words "migration" (invasion) and "violence" in there too, but yeah. From Breitbart: In a stunning interview, the Maronite patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, has contended that Islam has a clear, two-pronged strategy...
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UPI: Christians arrested in Iran Published: Jan. 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM TEHRAN, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Amid widespread outrage over Christian persecution, Iranian authorities said they arrested dozens of Christians who had converted from Islam. Tehran Gov. Morteza...
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Historic First: Muslim Preaches at Oxford College ChapelFrom the Oxford Mail: TWO religious leaders are claiming an historic first after an Islamic Imam preached at a Christian chapel. For the first time in Pembroke College’s 500-year history,...
- Richard Dawkins Dreads A Non-christian World
IS THE COLLAPSE OF CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN OPENING THE GATES TO ISLAM? Prof. Richard Dawkins, formerly a militant atheist, is now getting worried that the collapse of Christianity in Britain is destroying a 'bulwark against something worse'. From...
- It's Islam Stupid
Amil Imani wrote an article for Islam Watch (in my opinion one of the best anti-Jihad sites on the internet) explaining that the problem with terrorism isn't so much extremism as it is Islam itself. This is one of the things that we need to understand...
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USA Today Column: Islam and Christianity not comparable
From USA Today:
"Christians Have Waged Their Own Holy Wars" was yet another annoying headline, this one in the Miami Herald. It seems that every time someone is beheaded, shot (by children, no less), or burned alive by ISIL, there is this inevitable handwringing over the violent history of — Christianity.
Confused? So am I. Precisely what the Crusades or the Inquisition have to do with events in the Middle East is not clear. One suspects that attacking Christianity fits neatly into a domestic agenda.
Yes, Christianity is not only Islam's chief global rival, it is a barrier to the American Cultural Left's social vision (think abortion and gay marriage). Whatever the motivation, this ignores a serious (and growing) foreign threat.
For their part, Christians, in spite of their supposedly violent natures, have accepted all of this rather passively. Indeed, to be a Christian apologist these days seems to involve a lot of apologizing for being a Christian at all.
This alone should be sufficient evidence of Christianity's peaceful nature. I mean, I don't hear many Muslims apologizing for the Muslim invasion of Europe (which preceded the Crusades by almost 400 years), for the recent scandal of some 1,400 children systematically raped by Muslim men in Rotherham, England, or for the oppression of women and religious minorities in Islamic states.
Charlie Hebdo is illustrative of my point.
That the magazine lampooned Muhammad we all know. What is little known is that between 2005 and 2015, the magazine devoted 38 covers to obscene and offensive depictions of religion or religious figures. Of those, 21 were aimed at Christianity while only seven targeted Islam.
Yet those seven covers netted two terrorist attacks and 16 people dead. Were Christians truly as violent as Muslims, there would have been no less than six Christian attacks on Charlie Hebdo. There have been none.
There are many other examples of the very different responses Christians and Muslims have had to unflattering depictions of their religion: Martin Scorsese (director of "The Last Temptation of Christ") is still alive while Theo Van Gogh (director of "Submission") is dead, shot eight times in the street and a butcher knife left in his chest. Richard Dawkins has made a fortune attacking Christianity and lives handsomely in Oxford while Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger who was publicly lashed 50 times for his criticisms of Islam, is in jail awaiting 950 more lashes. And Salman Rushdie lives under the perpetual threat of assassination while Rushdie's friend and fellow writer Christopher Hitchens enjoyed celebrity status among the Christians he denigrated.
- Catholic Cardinal/patriarch Of Antioch Says, Muslims To Conquer Europe With Religion And Procreation
I would add the words "migration" (invasion) and "violence" in there too, but yeah. From Breitbart: In a stunning interview, the Maronite patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, has contended that Islam has a clear, two-pronged strategy...
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UPI: Christians arrested in Iran Published: Jan. 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM TEHRAN, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Amid widespread outrage over Christian persecution, Iranian authorities said they arrested dozens of Christians who had converted from Islam. Tehran Gov. Morteza...
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Historic First: Muslim Preaches at Oxford College ChapelFrom the Oxford Mail: TWO religious leaders are claiming an historic first after an Islamic Imam preached at a Christian chapel. For the first time in Pembroke College’s 500-year history,...
- Richard Dawkins Dreads A Non-christian World
IS THE COLLAPSE OF CHRISTIANITY IN BRITAIN OPENING THE GATES TO ISLAM? Prof. Richard Dawkins, formerly a militant atheist, is now getting worried that the collapse of Christianity in Britain is destroying a 'bulwark against something worse'. From...
- It's Islam Stupid
Amil Imani wrote an article for Islam Watch (in my opinion one of the best anti-Jihad sites on the internet) explaining that the problem with terrorism isn't so much extremism as it is Islam itself. This is one of the things that we need to understand...