'Tortured and Raped Multiple Times': The Persecution of Christians, September 2024

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  October 27, 2024 at 5:00 am

• "Typically, kidnapped girls in Pakistan, some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic 'marriages' and are then pressured to record false statements in favor of the kidnappers...." — morningstarnews.org, September 24, 2024, Pakistan.

• Headlines of the "pure genocide" of Christians from the month of September follow.... — Nigeria.

• "Muslims who abducted a 17-year-old Christian girl and gang-raped her for 10 days are threatening her family to pressure them to withdraw charges, even as police have failed to arrest most of the suspects." — morningstarnews.com, September 30, 2024, Pakistan.

• Muslims murdered, hacked to pieces, and dumped the remains of a Christian man into a Cairo canal.... Mina Musa, 21, had left his family home in Minya for a new job in Cairo.... He was responding to an advertisement on social media to assist an elderly person in Cairo. The notice included the offer of a generous salary, along with broader networking opportunities in the field of physical therapy..... The authorities managed to track the young man down to a Cairo apartment. On breaking in, they found parts of Mina's body.... Last reported, divers were searching in the canal for Mina's head. — copticsolidarity.org, October 5, 2024, Egypt.

• "I WILL BOMB THE POPE. I'M A TERRORIST...JUST BE CAREFUL...WAIT FOR NEWS YEEE." — posted on social media, morningstarnews.com, September 10, 2024, Indonesia.

• "Khosravi said the main goal of detention isn't always punishment or even to gather information, but to break a prisoner at such a fundamental level that they are shattered permanently.... Another Christian, forced to listen to the cries of a woman screaming in a near-by cell, was convinced by guards that it was his wife being raped repeatedly, he said." — morningstarnews.org, October 1, 2024, Iran.

• On September 18, Christian mother of four was sentenced to death on a "blasphemy" conviction.... The reason she was handed the death sentence has less to do with actual evidence and everything to do with extremist pressure groups, Hameed [her lawyer] said... "If you analyze all cases of 295-C, you will see that all the convictions of the trial court are overturned by the superior courts." — morningstarnews.org, September 19, 2024, Pakistan.

• "Nearly 3,000 persons have been accused of blasphemy in Pakistan since 1987..." — morningstarnews.org, September 19, 2024, Pakistan.

• "These are Christians who are out to convert our people to a wrong religion." — Sheikh Kalimu, Islamic leader, morningstarnews.com, September 23, 2024, Uganda.

• "After 1994 [when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power], the authorities tried to make Yemen an Islamic state. They wiped out our identity as Christians and refused to write 'Christian' on documents. Christians had to write either 'Muslim' or leave a blank space.... When I got full marks in Islamic education, they would reduce my grades, because they told me 'a Christian couldn't be equal to a Muslim.'... [A]ll the nuns were later killed.... In 2018, the authorities refused to renew our passports unless we wrote the word 'Islam' in the religion section of the application form, as we were told: 'There are no Christians in Yemen.'" — Badr, Yemeni Catholic woman living in Aden, catholicnewsagency.com, September 25, 2024, Yemen.

On September 12, a Muslim man and two accomplices kidnapped a 16-year-old Christian girl in Jaranwala, Pakistan, then forced her to convert to Islam and marry him. Pictured: A Christian district of Jaranwala, on December 25, 2023. (Photo by Amna Yaseen/AFP via Getty Images)

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

Pakistan: Forced Conversion and Rape of Christians

On September 12, a Muslim man and two accomplices kidnapped a 16-year-old Christian girl, then forced her to convert to Islam and marry him. Her parents were away at the time, but when they returned, neighbors said they had seen the gun-wielding suspects bundling their daughter, Diya Iftikhar, into a white Suzuki van and fleeing the scene. "We were terrified," said the mother, Shaida, "because Ghazaal and his accomplices were involved in the Aug. 16, 2023 attacks on churches and homes in Jaranwala. They are notorious for their criminal activities, including sexual harassment of Christian girls." Four days later a video was sent to the parents of the underage girl saying she had converted to Islam and married of her own free will:

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US Election: On 6 November Skies Won't Fall

by Amir Taheri  •  October 27, 2024 at 4:30 am

• [T]he fact is that the US remains the "indispensable nation" it has been at least for the past century or so.

• By continuing his never ending monologue, Trump tells the voters more and more about himself. Harris, in contrast, talks to hide herself.

The real issue in this election is which of the two candidates Americans, or at least the 50 percent who vote, will feel more akin with. And that in itself is a huge question, huge enough to make this election historic. Pictured: Campaign signs for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump along a rural highway on September 26, 2024 near Traverse City, Michigan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

It is late night in Paris when the phone jolts me out of my pre-sleep somnolence. It is a fellow-Iranian who wants to know who I think will be the United States' next president.

As I mumble in search of an answer, the distant caller darts: So who will win?

"The winner will be the American system," I say, and immediately realize that this might sound more like a dodge than a proper answer.

Nevertheless, I stick with my answer because I know that citing either Donald J. Trump or Kamala Harris as the possible winner will lead to an avalanche of speculation about what will happen if he or she ends up in the White House.

The avalanche has been sliding down for weeks as pundits across the pond project contradictory predictions.

The Washington Post, a Harris cheer-leader, claims that Trump's win will push the world back into the 1930s when the slogan "Might is Right" led to the Second World War.

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Recalling 'The War of the Wizards' and Democracy's Ace in the Hole

by Lawrence Kadish  •  October 27, 2024 at 4:00 am

America's military is now recruiting executives in the technology sector for the purpose of making them "weekend warriors." During World War II, among the citizens who donned Army uniforms was William "Big Bill" Knudsen. A former General Motors executive, he was commissioned as a lieutenant general and proudly wore the uniform throughout the conflict. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt placed him in charge of America's armaments production program, with instructions to convert our peacetime industrial base into one that would outproduce our combined enemies on virtually every essential weapon. After his appointment, he turned around and created a team of proven industrial leaders to assist him in meeting the demands of our fighting forces. Pictured: The production line for the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter and ground-attack aircraft, on March 11, 1941, in Buffalo, New York (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

The Pentagon is finally discovering what our nation knew some 85 years ago.

If you want to create the cutting edge weapons that you need in the quality and quantities required to protect our nation, you need to turn to some very smart people in the business world.

Recent media reports reveal that America's military is now recruiting executives in the technology sector for the purpose of making them "weekend warriors."

It has been done before, and with war-winning results. If only the Biden White House had opened a history book four years ago.

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