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The mass exodus of Christians from the Muslim world
By Raymond Ibrahim
Published May 07, 2013
FoxNews.com
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A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.
We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
recently said: The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and its increasing year by year. In our lifetime alone Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt.
Ongoing reports from the Islamic world certainly support this conclusion: Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.
the result of an anti-Christian campaign that began with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, when countless Christian churches were bombed
and countless Christians killed, including by crucifixion and beheading.
The 2010 Baghdad church attack, which saw nearly 60 Christian worshippers slaughtered, is the tip of a decade-long iceberg.
Now, as the U.S. supports the jihad on Syrias secular president Assad, the same pattern has come to Syria: entire regions and towns where Christians lived for centuries before Islam came into being have now been emptied, as the opposition targets Christians for kidnapping, plundering, and beheadings, all in compliance with mosque calls telling the populace that its a sacred duty
to drive Christians away.
In October 2012 the last Christian in the city of Homs
which had a Christian population of some 80,000 before jihadis
camewas murdered. One teenage Syrian girl said: We left because they were trying to kill us
because we were Christians
. Those who were our neighbors turned against us. At the end, when we ran away, we went through balconies. We did not even dare go out on the street in front of our house.
In Egypt, some 100,000 Christian Copts
have fled their homeland soon after the Arab Spring. In September 2012, the Sinais small Christian community was attacked and evicted by Al Qaeda linked Muslims, Reuters reported
. But even before that, the Coptic Orthodox Church lamented the repeated incidents of displacement of Copts from their homes
, whether by force or threat.
Displacements began in Ameriya [62 Christian families evicted], then they stretched to Dahshur [120 Christian families evicted], and today terror and threats have reached the hearts and souls of our Coptic children in Sinai.
Iraq, Syria, and Egypt are part of the Arab world. But even in black African and white European nations with Muslim majorities, Christians are fleeing.
In Mali, after a 2012 Islamic coup, as many as 200,000 Christians fled
. According to reports, the church in Mali faces being eradicated
, especially in the north where rebels want to establish an independent Islamist state and drive Christians out
there have been house to house searches for Christians who might be in hiding, churches and other Christian property have been looted or destroyed, and people tortured into revealing any Christian relatives. At least one pastor was beheaded.
Even in European Bosnia, Christians are leaving en mass
amid mounting discrimination and Islamization. Only 440,000 Catholics remain in the Balkan nation, half the prewar figure.
Problems cited are typical: while dozens of mosques were built in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, no building permissions [permits] were given for Christian churches. Time is running out as there is a worrisome rise in radicalism, said one authority, who further added that the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina were persecuted for centuries after European powers failed to support them in their struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
And so history repeats itself.
One can go on and on:
, all around the Islamic worldin nations that do not share the same race, language, culture, or economics, in nations that share only IslamChristians are being persecuted into extinction. Such is the true face of extremist Islamic resurgence.
Raymond Ibrahim
is author of the new book "Crucified Again: Exposing Islams New War on Christians
" (Regnery Publishing 2013). A Middle East and Islam specialist, he is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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The mass exodus of Christians from the Muslim world
By Raymond Ibrahim
Published May 07, 2013
FoxNews.com
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FILE -- May 4, 2013: Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, leads the Easter Mass at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) 
FILE -- May 4, 2013: Pope Tawadros II, the 118th pope of the Coptic Church of Egypt, leads the Easter Mass at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the country's 85 million people, have long complained of discrimination by the state. They are the largest Christian community in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.
We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Ongoing reports from the Islamic world certainly support this conclusion: Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.
The 2010 Baghdad church attack, which saw nearly 60 Christian worshippers slaughtered, is the tip of a decade-long iceberg.
In 2003, Iraqs Christian population was at least one million. Today fewer than 400,000 remain
The 2010 Baghdad church attack, which saw nearly 60 Christian worshippers slaughtered, is the tip of a decade-long iceberg.
Now, as the U.S. supports the jihad on Syrias secular president Assad, the same pattern has come to Syria: entire regions and towns where Christians lived for centuries before Islam came into being have now been emptied, as the opposition targets Christians for kidnapping, plundering, and beheadings, all in compliance with mosque calls telling the populace that its a sacred duty
In October 2012 the last Christian in the city of Homs
In Egypt, some 100,000 Christian Copts
Displacements began in Ameriya [62 Christian families evicted], then they stretched to Dahshur [120 Christian families evicted], and today terror and threats have reached the hearts and souls of our Coptic children in Sinai.
Iraq, Syria, and Egypt are part of the Arab world. But even in black African and white European nations with Muslim majorities, Christians are fleeing.
In Mali, after a 2012 Islamic coup, as many as 200,000 Christians fled
Even in European Bosnia, Christians are leaving en mass
Problems cited are typical: while dozens of mosques were built in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, no building permissions [permits] were given for Christian churches. Time is running out as there is a worrisome rise in radicalism, said one authority, who further added that the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina were persecuted for centuries after European powers failed to support them in their struggle against the Ottoman Empire.
And so history repeats itself.
One can go on and on:
- In Ethiopia, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes when Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes.
- In the Ivory Coastwhere Christians have literally been crucifiedIslamic rebels massacred hundreds and displaced tens of thousands of Christians.
- In Libya, Islamic rebels forced several Christian religious orders, serving the sick and needy in the country since 1921, to flee.
Raymond Ibrahim
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