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Autor: Hussein Hajji Wario
Data: 01.11.2010
Category: Liberdade Religiosa, Grupos de Povos Não Alcançados, Fé no Mundo
Christians, whether of Muslim background or not, keep on suffering at the hands of Muslims in Muslim majority countries. Here are a few cases:
Two brothers, Rahid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel, were gunned down in July in their native Pakistan on false charges of blaspheming Prophet Muhammad. The court found them innocent. Some Muslims took the law into their own hands and executed them.
Hector Aleem, another Pakistani Christian, has been jailed for more than a year and a half on another false blasphemy charge. Even when Hector is innocent of this charge, the judge cannot release him for fear of retribution. Muslims have been demanding for his execution. You can watch videos of their protest here and here.
A Christian of Muslim background, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, is languishing in an Iranian jail for over a year awaiting execution. He is accused of apostasy. Even the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has joined the push for his release from prison.
Muslims kill many Christians not necessarily for apostasy, blasphemy or proselytizing Muslims but for their mere presence, which is proof to their Muslim neighbors Islam is a colossal failure. Our Christian brothers and sisters in Iraq have suffered greatly. Here is a report from the Associated Press; what happened in Baghdad defies any logic:
BAGHDAD – Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 47 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday.
A cryptically worded statement posted late Sunday on a militant website allegedly by the Islamic State of Iraq appeared to claim responsibility for the attack. The group, which is linked to al-Qaida in Iraq, said it would "exterminate Iraqi Christians" if Muslim women in Egypt were not freed.
It specifically mentioned two women in Egypt that extremists maintain have converted to Islam and are being held against their will.
The Egyptian women are wives of priests that are believed to have converted to Islam to leave their husbands, since divorce is banned by the Coptic Church. One woman disappeared in 2004 and another in July of this year.
Egypt’s Christians maintained they had been kidnapped and demonstrated for their release. Both were later recovered by police, denied any conversions and were then spirited away to distant monasteries.
In the message, the militants claim the two are still Muslim and they called upon the Vatican, which held a meeting earlier in October to discuss the fate of Christians in the Middle East, to release the women.
The death toll has risen to 58. It defies any logic someone would go about killing people over assumptions. It is very possible these two Egyptian ladies “converted” to Islam against their will when Muslims held them captives. However, when they found their freedom, they “denied any conversions” to Islam. Isn’t that enough? Why do people have to die? And why would something that transpired in Egypt, which did not result in any loss of life, adversely affect Christians in Iraq?
Whatever happened to Muslims in the West’s argument Islam “supports” religious freedom? The deeds of their fellows in Muslim majority countries and the lack of prosecution of their crimes against non-Muslims prove there is no religious freedom or justice in Islam for a non-Muslim. Western Muslims are not demonstrating against these injustices. Perhaps they know the verse from the Qur’an they often quote, “There is no compulsion in religion," indeed was abrogated and they are just fooling the unsuspecting.
Palavras-chave: Persecution, Christian, Muslim, Iraqi, Iranian, Pakistani
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After reading this article I do not feel like you really adressed the question "why do Christains suffer in muslim countries?" although I never really paid attention before to the fact that most the persecution does come from muslim countries and I found that interesting. But I wish you would have adressed the question in your artilce. I feel like there is a more thorough and complex answer to the question that has to do more with the culture and government than this article examines.
13.06.2012
Estados Unidos
I was wondering if the presence of Christians was what was triggering the violence in the countries and this article verified my analysis. But I did not realize that it could possibly mean to the muslims that their beliefs were"a colossial failure." I just thought they were encouraged to get rid of the "infidels" who ever they may be.
I do belong to Voice of the Martyr and have seen that much of the violence against Christians were coming from the Muslim community. I thought that they were thinking that Christianity was another invading force that they had to get rid of. As always, my prayers are with both parties that God will work in thier lives.
14.07.2011
Estados Unidos
In many of these countries, particularly Iran and Saudi Arabia, no one is allowed any religious freedom. No view that is in opposition to that of the ruling elite is tolerated. Consider Iran…while every non-Muslim is persecuted in every way possible, even the minority Sunni and Shi’a majority are not exempt. Any Shi’a who opposes clerical rule is silenced, jailed, or worse. Imagine any Muslim majority country and you are confronted with the fact that there is rampant persecution. But, it is important that we don’t forget that the persecution is unbiased. We must pray for the religious freedom of all peoples. All people of all faiths should be allowed to proselytize others. We Christians must place our trust in God that our message will be heard above all else and the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be embraced.
23.04.2011
Estados Unidos
Hello my brothers and sisters in Christ~
Did I read correctly? There were over 280 views and no one has commented? Please correct me if I am wrong.
To read of these incidents both here and in the news and in The voice of the Martyrs breaks my heart and soul, yet we all, at some level are and will be suffering persecution to some degree, if we are engaged in professing our faith. And so my question to whomever is reading this, are you out professing your faith? Do your neighbors, co-workers, family members and friends know who your Savior is. If so, then the chances are extremely high, unless you live in a believers paradise bubble, that you will be taunted or made fun of or talked about or much worse.... Yet, the questions is, to what extent? We as Christians here in the US, for the most part, have so little persecution that we loose touch with the stark reality that our brothers and sisters across the globe deal with, oftentimes on a daily and hourly basis.
What can we do for their plight?
We are called to give...
Give them priority in your prayers~
Give of your resources (see Voice of the Martyrs, who care for the families of the jailed and more)
Learn...learm about the Muslim faith, be like Paul who took on being like the poor to witness the poor and whatever it took to bridge build..
Thank you for reading ...a friend of mine, who is a project missionary and works specifically to bridge the gap between Muslims and Christians and I can share his info with you if you are interested in learning!
In HIs Love,
Doreen
15.11.2010
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