Showing posts with label Ethiopian Christians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethiopian Christians. Show all posts

Monday, October 19, 2015

How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom - BIN



How Obama Ushered in the New Age of Christian Martyrdom


“Do you realize what you have done?” — Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
Everywhere that U.S. leadership helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of “democracy and freedom,” indigenous Christian minorities are forced either to convert to Islam or die.
Many are accepting death.
Most recently, on August 28 near Aleppo, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 Christians for saying they “would never renounce Christ” for Muhammad.
The jihadis took one group in front of a large crowd. They cut off the fingertips of a 12-year-old boy, who steadfastly refused to submit to Islam. They “severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam.” He refused, so they “also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion.”
According to a Christian leader associated with the martyrs, “They were left on their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them.” A sign saying “INFIDELS” was placed next to their crosses.
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The other eight Christians, including two women, aged 29 and 33, were also ordered to renounce Christ and embrace Islam before a large crowd. When they refused,
“The Islamic extremists then publicly raped the women, who continued to pray during the ordeal, leading the ISIS militants to beat them all the more furiously.
“As the two women and the six men knelt before they were beheaded, they were all praying.
“‘Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord’s prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus,’ the ministry director said. “One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, ‘Jesus!'”
“After they were beheaded, their bodies were hung on crosses, the ministry director said.”
The same is happening in the two other Arab nations where the U.S., under the pretext of “freedom and democracy,” overthrew the secular dictators who had long kept a lid on the jihadis: Libya and Iraq.
Late last year, Andrew White, an Anglican priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” recounted the horrific atrocities against Christians in Iraq — including seeing their children chopped in half for refusing to embrace Islam:
“ISIS turned up and they said to the [Christian] children, ‘You say the words [shehada, convert to Islam], that you will follow Muhammad.’ And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said, ‘No, we love Jesus [Yesua]. We have always loved Jesus. We have always followed Jesus. Jesus has always been with us.” They [ISIS] said, ‘Say the words!’ They [children] said, ‘No, we can’t.’ [White starts sobbing] They chopped all their heads off. How do you respond to that? You just cry. They are my children. That is what we have been going through. That is what we are going through.”
Targeting Christian children in Iraq goes back to soon after the ousting of Saddam Hussein. In June 2008, a Canadian parliamentary committee heard about how “militant Muslims” were crucifying Christian children: “Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents.”
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In one of his Facebook postings, White, who regularly posted pictures of Christian martyrs, wrote:
“The photo I was sent today was the most awful I have ever seen. A family of 8 all shot through the face lying in a pool of blood, with their Bible open on the couch. They would not convert. It cost them their life.”
White also told of how ISIS members came to a Christian man and said, “Either you convert to Islam or we kill all your children.” The father, in desperation, declared the shehada: “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” thus becoming a Muslim. He then phoned White:
“Abouna, abouna [father, father] I said the words! Does that mean Jesus doesn’t love me anymore? I have always loved Jesus but I said those words because I couldn’t see my children being killed!”
“No Elias,” White said. “Jesus still loves you — he will always love you.”
There are many historic accounts of Christians slaughtered for refusing to renounce Christ for Muhammad — whether 100,000 Georgians beheaded or burned alive, or a “mere” 813 Italians decapitated, or else “converting out of fear. A report, for instance, from Medieval Egypt states:
In 1389, a great procession of Copts who had accepted Muhammad under fear of death, marched through Cairo. Repenting of their apostasy, they now wished to atone for it by…returning to Christianity. So as they marched, they announced that they believed in Christ and renounced Muhammad. They were seized and all the men were beheaded one after another in an open square before the women. But this did not terrify the women; so they, too, were all martyred (Crucified Again, pgs. 113-114).
In Libya, earlier this year, the Islamic State released a video depicting 21 Coptic Christians being decapitated in the North African nation. While holding their victims’ bodies down, Islamic State members shoved their fingers in the Christians’ eyes, craned their heads back, and sliced away at their throats with knives. As with the recent public rape, beheading, and crucifixion of the 12 Christians near Aleppo, some of the Egyptian Christians were also seen praying to Christ. One Coptic priest later described the scene:
“The name of Jesus was their last word… With that name, whispered at the very last, their martyrdom was sealed.

ISIS terrorists prepare to murder 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya, February 2015.
Over one month before the video appeared, the BBC had falsely reported that the majority of those now slaughtered Copts were “released.” Sadly, such downplaying of Muslim persecution of Christians is standard for the BBC.
When the Islamic State released another video in April of more Christians in Libya being massacred, a masked IS spokesman addressed “Christians everywhere“:
“We say to Christians everywhere, the Islamic State will expand, with Allah’s permission. And it will reach you even if you are in fortified strongholds. So whoever enters Islam will have security… But whoever refuses will see nothing from us but the edge of a spear. The men will be killed and the children will be enslaved, and their wealth will be taken as booty. This is the judgment of Allah and His Messenger.”
The next scene portrays the captive Ethiopian Christians being shot in the back of the head or having their heads carved off.
The ongoing slaughter of Christians by the Islamic State, and the destruction of churches and antiquities, must be laid at the feet of those Western nations that, intentionally or unintentionally, paved the way for the Islamic State.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said before the United Nations, while addressing those nations that supported the “Arab Spring” — chief among them America:
Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?
Whether they realize it or not, they continue to do it in Syria — with Christians often paying the highest price.[1]

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Franklin Graham: Is The World No Longer Shocked By Christians Having Their Heads Cut Off?

Franklin Graham: Is The World No Longer Shocked By Christians Having Their Heads Cut Off?


This video purportedly shows Islamic State militants murdering Ethiopian Christians.
The evangelist wants an immediate government response. (Reuters)
ISIS released a video Sunday showing the brutal execution of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. Fifteen were beheaded. Fifteen were shot.
Evangelist Franklin Graham has had more than enough.
"Each day's news seems to reveal new horrors from militant Islam. Can it be that the world is no longer as shocked by Christians having their heads cut off and then ISIS proudly promoting this on video?" asked evangelist Franklin Graham on his Facebook page.
"We should continue to be horrified and nauseated. We should make sure our government and the current administration recognizes Islam for the danger it is, and that they are doing all they can to work against it."
From there, Graham suggested steps the Obama administration needs to take.
First, he says, our government needs to immediately look at immigration reform to halt all immigration of Muslims from countries that have active terrorist cells. Graham says the threat this poses to our nation is huge and could end up costing thousands of lives in the future if we don't act now. Second, Graham says, our government needs to take immediate military action to defeat ISIS.
"The influence of radical Islam is spreading, not diminishing. I urge you to contact your senators and representatives in Congress to express your concern and outrage—and ask them to take action," Graham wrote. "SHARE this if you agree, and continue to pray for Christians living in the midst of this threat around the world."

Monday, April 20, 2015

ISIS Executes Ethiopian Christians in Libya

ISIS Executes Ethiopian Christians in Libya

The Islamic State released a new video Sunday that appears to show the coordinated executions of dozens of Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
  
The video depicts ISIS gunmen shooting the Christians in a desert area.  It also shows ISIS killers beheading other believes on a beach.
    
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church is condemning this latest atrocity by the jihadist army.
    
"Our fellow citizens have just been killed on a faith-based violence that is totally unacceptable.  This is outrageous," a church spokesperson said.
  
ISIS may have chosen Ethiopian Christians in part because of Ethiopia's attacks on neighboring Somalia. Its population is largely Muslim. So far, the Ethiopian government has not responded to the killings.
   
The latest video is similar to one released in February that shows the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians on a Libyan beach.  The Egyptian government immediately responded to that with air strikes.
   
The new video represents the growing strength of ISIS in Libya, and comes as the terrorist group continues to show strength in both Europe and the U.S.
   
Former German rapper Denis Cuspert is featured in a new ISIS video that threatens to activate sleeper cells in Germany, Britain and Australia.
   
There's also concern in Britain about a friend of the radical Muslim Anjem Choudary taking his four children to a part of Syria controlled by ISIS.
   
In the U.S., authorities arrested six people on Sunday as part of a nationwide probe to locate those in this country that are recruiting for ISIS overseas.
"This radicalization piece cannot be underestimated," Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, warned.
"The social media campaign and savviness of ISIS and the propaganda is what greatly concerns us as Homeland Security officials because they can radicalize from within the United States – sort of the enemy within the United States," he said.
Another threat: terrorists training overseas and returning to the U.S. to launch an attack.
An Ohio man is being accused of just that after training with terrorists in Syria. The FBI says Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud was planning to kill U.S. soldiers, execution style.
 
Meanwhile, the latest ISIS execution video has not been verified.  But it appears to show the growing strength and resolve of what is clearly an international terror threat.