'If We Like, We Will Kill You, Too': The Persecution of Christians, November 2023

by Raymond Ibrahim • December 24, 2023 at 5:00 am

A few November headlines from the ongoing jihadist-genocide of Christians in Nigeria follow...
Coptic Christians suffer the double injustice of living under systematic discrimination by the Egyptian government, and also from regular members of Egyptian society who attack Copts and their property with impunity. The reality for Copts in Egypt is one of life as second-class citizens.
"Most of the native population converted to Islam over six centuries to escape the jizya [protection tax] and humiliations of dhimmi status. The term 'Copt' came to define the native Christian population that had not converted to Islam..." — Coptic Solidarity, a human rights organization, in a report titled, "Advocacy of Hatred Based on Religion or Belief."

On November 23, a Muslim man of Algerian origin stabbed a group of preschool children attending Saint Mary's Catholic primary school in Dublin, as the children were leaving school. Three children — two girls and a boy aged between 5 and 6 — and a care assistant who tried to defend them, were stabbed in the assault. In response to the stabbing, angry Irish citizens took to the streets and rioted (pictured) that evening. (Photo by Peter Murphy/AFP via Getty Images)

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of November 2023.

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Pakistan: A Muslim man murdered a young Christian because he was "driven by a strong hatred for Christians and Jews." On Nov. 9, around 3 a.m., Muhammad Zubair broke into a Christian household while everyone was asleep. After opening fire on Farhan Qamar, 20, the youngest of four siblings, the intruder held the entire family hostage at gunpoint for nearly 40 minutes, preventing them from going near the fatally injured youth. According to the slain man's father, Ul Qamar:

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This Was Mine: Disputes as Old as History

by Amir Taheri • December 24, 2023 at 4:00 am

Trying to grab a piece of someone else's land has always been a favorite trick by rulers in domestic difficulty to divert attention from their own incompetence or worse.
Russia's series of successes has encouraged other nations to rekindle the embers of their own old irredentist ambitions. Argentina is beginning to beat the drums again about its claim on the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, which are under British rule. Last month, Buenos Aires reminded everyone that under its 1994 constitution, the islands belong to Argentina.
To be sure, a full list of all formal irredentist claims and counter-claims would be much longer than what is offered in this piece.
Sadly, there seems to be no mechanism to prevent the old demons of irredentism from causing trouble across the globe.

After the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 and its annexation of some of Georgia's territory, many assumed that that was the end of the newest chapter in the history of land-grabbing. How wrong they all were. Following that we witnessed the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and of Luhansk and Donetsk in 2022 at the expense of Ukraine. Pictured: A destroyed Russian tank on the border of Donetsk and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, on September 22, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii Stepano/AFP via Getty Images)

Trying to grab a piece of someone else's land has always been a favorite trick by rulers in domestic difficulty to divert attention from their own incompetence or worse.

It is, therefore, no surprise that as international order begins to break down for lack of an authority to enforce it and with the United Nations an empty shell, old irredentist dreams return to haunt more and more nations.

This back-to-the-future through the past episode started with the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008. Moscow's argument was that South Ossetia, a Muslim-majority enclave in Georgia was, in fact, a part of Ossetia, which had been annexed by Russia in the 18^th century. It mattered little that Russian Ossetia had converted to Orthodox Christianity.

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