Peanut Gallery: My intention in posting this article is to inform not inflame. The main stream media simply won’t report honestly on the persecution of Christians around the world. So, it’s left to people like us… to shine the light in the dark places of our world.

American Christians (myself included) have very little understanding of what it means to be persecuted for Christ’s sake. These stories bring home to us the reality of people who have “counted the cost” and yet kept the faith.
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“Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the west, to India in the east, and throughout the West, wherever there are Muslims—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.”

Muslim Persecution of Christians: March 2012 | FrontPage Magazine.

Posted by Raymond Ibrahim Bio ↓ on Apr 27th, 2012

The following article was originally published by theGatestone Institute.

The war on Christianity and its adherents rages on in the Muslim world.  In March alone, Saudi Arabia’s highest Islamic law authority decreed that churches in the region must be destroyed; jihadis in Nigeria said they “are going to put into action new efforts to strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women”; American teachers in the Middle East were murdered for being or talking about Christianity; churches were banned or bombed, and nuns terrorized by knife-wielding Muslim mobs.  Christians continue to be attacked, arrested, imprisoned, and killed for allegedly “blaspheming” Islam’s prophet Muhammad;  former Muslims continue to be attacked, arrested, imprisoned, and killed for converting to Christianity.

To understand why all this persecution is virtually unknown in the West, consider the mainstream media’s well-documented biases: also in March alone, the New York Times ran a virulently anti-Catholic ad, but refused to publish a near identical ad directed at Islam; the BBC admitted it will mock Jesus but never Muhammad; and U.S. sitcoms were exposed for bashing Christianity, but never Islam.

Is it any wonder, then, that this same mainstream media ignores or at best whitewashes the nonstop persecution of Christians under Islam?  Exposing such ugly truths would undermine their narrative of Islam as the “religion of peace.” Continue reading “Muslim Persecution of Christians: March 2012 | FrontPage Magazine” →