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* Raymond Ibrahim: 'We Have to Kill Those Who Preach Christianity': The Persecution of Christians, December 2023 (Christmas Edition)
* Amir Taheri: Iran: Talk Big but Wave a Small Stick
* Lawrence Kadish: 10,000 a Day and Counting: Government's Plan to Increase Voter Base?


** 'We Have to Kill Those Who Preach Christianity': The Persecution of Christians, December 2023 (Christmas Edition) ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • January 21, 2024 at 5:00 am
* "About 37 [Christian] individuals, primarily women, children and the disabled, were burned to death in their homes.... " — christianpost.com, December 30, 2023, Nigeria.
* "Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in the Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians' lands and impose Islam...." — morningstarnews.org, December 26, 2023, Nigeria.
* "[I]t is also the existence of disbelief itself that is a 'grievance'," — Aymenn Jawad al Tamimi, December , 2023, Philippines.
* [I]n Austria, on Dec. 9, Heiligenkreuz Abbey received a bomb threat by phone. Police later confirmed that it had an "Islamist overtone". The caller had said ([link removed]) "Convert to Islam, or I'll bomb you away!".... Father John Paul commented ([link removed]) : "[I]t encourages us even more to pray and work for peace, healing and reconciliation." — puls24.at, December 11, 2023.
* "Reports include statements like, 'We have to kill those who preach Christianity, and these Christians have no place in Mauritania.'" — persecution.org, December 13, 2023.
* Two Christian evangelists, Joseph and Isaac, after Muslims beat ([link removed]) them for quoting the Koran, spent Christmas Day in jail for "blasphemy." The report does not indicate which verses were deemed so objectionable, or why. – morningstarnews.org, December 22, 2023 -- Uganda

According to a January 2 report: "Three migrants who allegedly planned an attack on Cologne Cathedral are free again. A judge let them go after just one night in custody." Pictured: Police conduct security checks on visitors at Cologne Cathedral on December 24, 2023 in Cologne, Germany, after indications of an Islamist terror threat. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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

Christmas Slaughters

Nigeria: Beginning on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day, Muslim terrorists massacred nearly 200 Christians. Well-armed Muslim Fulani tribesmen hacked, stabbed, riddled with bullets and burned alive Christians, many of whom were in the process of celebrating Christmas. According to one report:

"At least 25 communities across three Local Government Areas [in Plateau State] were targeted. Survivors recounted militia men attacking in large numbers, indiscriminately killing and destroying homes, vehicles, farmlands and other properties. About 37 individuals, primarily women, children and the disabled, were burned to death in their homes. Eight churches and parsonages were also destroyed..."

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by Amir Taheri • January 21, 2024 at 4:00 am
* Tehran needed TV clips to show that its pawns in the region are moving -- without, however, provoking a major Israeli or American retaliation.
* The fact that ISIS was able to launch a carnage operation in the middle of a solemn official memorial ceremony for Soleimani who "wiped ISIS off the face of the earth," led to suspicions that, like the Wizard of Oz, the ayatollah may be a good man, but a bad liberator of Palestine and redeemer of mankind.
* The ayatollah took the spiral stair from tragedy to farce when he ordered a missile attack on what he said was "the headquarters of Mossad" in the Middle East. Gen. Amir-Ali Hajizadeh claimed that the attack "was ordered by Imam Khamenei in person." Within minutes, however, it was established that the target had been the home of a Kurdish Iraqi businessman and the victims were him, his 11-month-old child, his Filipino cook and a business associate.
* With egg on their faces, Iran's leaders then tried to divert attention by ordering missile attacks on targets in Pakistan's Baluchistan Desert.

Iran's "Supreme Guide," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has found his comfort zone in rhetoric-land: Bark aloud but lie low. Pictured: Khamenei (R) speaks with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general Ali Akbar Ahmadian (2nd L) in an undisclosed location, in an undated photo released on May 22, 2023. (Photo by khamenei.ir/AFP via Getty Images)

Torture at ringside! This is how Antoine Blondin, perhaps the greatest contemporary French sports writer, described the agonies of hard-core fans of combat sports. They are glued to the ringside, watch the fight, see or imagine that they see the mistakes of the adversaries in the ring, wish they were in the ring to unleash the right punches and feel frustrated that all they could do is to shout "Oh no! Oh no!"

The mood described by Blondin also reflects the feelings of armchair generals who could tell you where Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, not to mention Field Marshal von Paulus, went wrong. Vicarious sorrow is as potent in fomenting the melancholy behind the farce as the pleasure offered by voyeurism.

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by Lawrence Kadish • January 21, 2024 at 3:30 am
Pictured: Illegal immigrants wait to be processed at a US Border Patrol transit center after they crossed the border from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas on December 20, 2023. (Photo by Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images)

It remains inexplicable. And then again, perhaps not.

The crisis on our southern border needs to be considered in political context, and no one can avoid describing it as anything other than "a crisis." Tens of thousands of people are daily seeking entry into our country, and the response from the White House is little more than a shrug.

Stephen Miller, a former speechwriter and policy advisor for President Donald Trump, told Fox News's Mark Levin that he believes the Biden Administration has deliberately allowed the immigration crisis to continue for the purpose of advancing its strategic agenda to change the political demographics of who goes to the polls. If that is true, it is a constitutional threat to the future of the nation that makes the Watergate scandal look like a children's kindly bedtime story.

Miller also observed that Biden's calculated immigration policy has allowed America to abdicate its sovereignty by essentially dismantling our border.

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