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* Raymond Ibrahim: 'He Targeted My Child for Sexual Exploitation': The Persecution of Christians, August 2024
* Ruthie Blum: News Flash for DC: Diplomacy Gets You Slaughtered


** 'He Targeted My Child for Sexual Exploitation': The Persecution of Christians, August 2024 ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • September 24, 2024 at 5:00 am
* Muslim militants slit the throats ([link removed]) of about 26 people inside a church: "All non-Muslim men over the age of 12 were separated out before being killed. – acnuk.org, August 30, 2024 — Burkina Faso
* "So let everyone know that the role of Christians in Lebanon has ended! You have become a minority in this country, and yet you still hold high positions... Nobody would accept this issue. The coming generations will... not accept that the president must be Christian; he must be a Sunni Muslim or Shi'ite." -- Reda Saad, pro-Hezbollah commentator, x.com, August 18, 2024
* "We informed the police about the accused, but they still did not take any action, giving sufficient time to Asad to convert the minor child and contract an Islamic marriage with her.... Fairy is just 12 years old. She had no access to a cell phone and rarely went out of the home by herself...." -- Parveen Shaukat, mother of Fairy Shaukat,12, abducted, converted and married by Muhammad Assad; morningstarnews.org, August 28, 2024 – Pakistan
* "The accused not only kidnapped the child, he converted her and contracted an Islamic marriage to save himself from prosecution [a common practice by kidnappers to sexually exploit underage non-Muslim girls]." -- Sumera Shafique, Christian attorney; morningstarnews.org, August 28, 2024 – Pakistan
* "Women who disappear and are never recovered must live an unimaginable nightmare. The large majority of these women are never reunited with their families or friends because police response in Egypt is dismissive and corrupt." -- Coptic Solidary report ([link removed]) , "'Jihad of the Womb': Trafficking of Coptic Women & Girls in Egypt", copticsolidarity.org, September 10, 2020 -- Egypt
* On August 5, a Muslim migrant from North Africa was arrested for robbing ([link removed]) a church in Turin. There were many other acts of arson, desecration (including of a Christian cemetery), statue breaking, and thefts targeting churches in Italy throughout the month of August, including here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here
([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , and here ([link removed]) . – torinotoday.it, August 6, 2024 – Italy
* On Sunday, Aug. 18, a mob consisting of local officials forcibly dragged ([link removed]) a Christian pastor from his church and sealed off its site on the dubious claim that the place had originally belonged to the government.... "What was disappointing was those people who closed my church were my friends...." morningstarnews.org, September 3, 2024 -- Indonesia
* On Aug. 30, a massive fire "broke out ([link removed]) " in the Coptic Christian Diocese of Beni Suef in Egypt, consuming all of the five-story Christian building's contents.... [T]his is only the latest of many churches in Egypt—see here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , here ([link removed]) , and here ([link removed]) —to be torched and immediately attributed to "faulty wires" and other natural causes. In one month alone, August 2022, a full 11 churches ([link removed]) reportedly
"caught fire."... Also "interesting" is that "accidental" fires in mosques—which outnumber churches in Egypt by a ratio of 40 to 1—are completely unheard of." – copticslodarity.org, September 2, 2024 -- Egypt

On August 4, the tabernacle of Saint Pierre Church, in Lège Cap-Ferret, France, was broken and set on fire, and its religious statues and icons were smashed on the floor. (Image source: Henry Salomé/Wikimedia Commons)

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of August 2024.

Muslim Slaughter of, Violence against, and Hate for Christians

Burkina Faso: According to an Aug. 30 report, Muslims had slaughtered more than 100 Christians, and kidnapped many more in just three months, between late May and late August. During the latest reported atrocity, which occurred on Sunday, Aug. 25, Muslim militants slit the throats of about 26 people inside a church: "All non-Muslim men over the age of 12 were separated out before being killed." Not content with killing, they also vandalized the church, "tried to desecrate the tabernacle, and painted inscriptions on the wall that had a fresco of the Sacred Heart of Jesus."

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** News Flash for DC: Diplomacy Gets You Slaughtered ([link removed])
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by Ruthie Blum • September 24, 2024 at 4:00 am
* Then there's Kirby's delicacy in describing how "it doesn't appear like Mr. Sinwar is prepared at all to keep negotiating in good faith—especially after he murdered six hostages in a tunnel ... execution-style."
* When, one wonders, did he ever negotiate "in good faith?"
* Somebody should let [US National Security spokesman John] Kirby know that "all those people"—as well as the majority of Israelis throughout the country—have been urging Netanyahu to eliminate the threat through serious military action beyond tit-for-tat strikes of attrition.
* Stephanopoulos pressed him further. "So, what is the U.S. doing exactly to advance a diplomatic initiative?" he asked.
* "We have been involved in extensive and quite assertive diplomacy," Kirby said proudly, clearly referring to pressure on Israel from the White House and State Department.
* [Kirby] failed to clarify that Hezbollah attacked Israel, unprovoked, a day after Hamas committed the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust. Nor did he bother to remind Stephanopoulos that both are Iranian proxies. He did stress, however, that "we don't believe military action is in either side's best interest."
* Here's a news flash for him and anyone else who hasn't been facing a seven-front war of annihilation: Diplomacy gets you slaughtered. Military action, which is the only option in this case, should be welcomed—and victory championed—not hampered, by Israel's professed allies.

Here's a news flash for White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby and anyone else who hasn't been facing a seven-front war of annihilation: Diplomacy gets you slaughtered. Military action, which is the only option in this case, should be welcomed—and victory championed—not hampered, by Israel's professed allies. Pictured: Kirby talks to reporters at the White House on September 18, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

On ABC's Sunday program, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby acknowledged sheepishly that Hamas is holding up a deal with Israel that would see the end of the war in Gaza and the release of at least some of the hostages.

The fact that something so obvious requires repeating is beyond outrageous. Nevertheless, it's made necessary by the choir of voices blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu for the absence of an arrangement with Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and his army of mass murderers.

Asked by Stephanopoulos whether it's true that the "Gaza ceasefire talks have gone cold," Kirby replied:

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