"Police Made No Effort to Find Her": The Persecution of Christians, November 2024

by Raymond Ibrahim • December 22, 2024 at 5:00 am

"The [US State] department's annual reports on human rights and human trafficking do not mention Coptic women in their sections on Egypt.... the secretary of state should raise the issue directly with Sisi at their next meeting." — "Egypt's Disappearing Women," Washington Examiner, November 14, 2024.
"Under U.S. law, a portion of the $1.3 billion in military aid that Egypt receives each year is contingent on Cairo's efforts to improve its record on human rights. When the next review of Cairo's record begins, the safety of Coptic women should be front and center." — "Egypt's Disappearing Women," Washington Examiner, November 14, 2024.
"Migrant youths" have been terrorizing a small Swiss town, Soyhières... "sowing terror" in the small village of 433 people.... the "same group of migrant youths has been seen in the night roaming with knives and carrying a small axe...." The police, apparently, are powerless: "due to their age, the youths cannot be prosecuted." — rmix.news, November 27, 2024.
A court sentenced Tomaj Aryankia, an Iranian convert to Christianity, to 10 years' imprisonment for "propaganda against the Islamic Republic through promoting Christianity." Iranwire.com, November 18, 2024, Iran.

According to a November 14 report on Egypt, "Coptic Christians remain a target of persecution; hundreds of young women have been kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and coerced into marriage. Pictured: Christian women pray during the Good Friday procession at the Church of St. George in the city of Mahalla in the north of Egypt, on April 14, 2017. (Photo by Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)

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

The Muslim Rape and Forced Conversion of Christian Girls

Pakistan: On Nov. 7, a Muslim man brutally raped a teenage Christian girl. The Muslim, Ansar Shah, initially went up to Eman Khuram, 18, as she was walking home late in the evening (as the eldest daughter, since the family's father had abandoned them, she had been working long hours every day). He told her that he had kidnapped her younger brother, and unless she got on his motorcycle and rode with him, he would kill the boy. Terrified, she complied. He drove her around for 30 minutes, during which time he continued issuing threats, until he finally stopped at a secluded brick factory.

Continue Reading Article

Has al-Sharaa 'Freed' Iran from Spending on the Region?

by Amir Taheri • December 22, 2024 at 4:00 am

["Liberator of Damascus" Ahmed al-Sharaa alias Abu-Mohammed] al-Jolani may have done Iran two more favors.
First, he has shown that spending money and blood on killing other peoples to keep a hated tyrant in power isn't good politics or economics. Even the dumbest or most hoodwinked policymakers in Tehran may have gotten that message.
Secondly, if Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wishes to replace Iran's Khomeinist cabal as pretender to leadership of the Islamic world, let it taste some of the witches brew...

Pictured: Ahmed al-Sharaa, alias Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of Syria's jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, is greeted at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on December 8, 2024. (Photo by Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP via Getty Images)

In most government offices in Tehran, the first thing a visitor encounters is a cardboard effigy of the late General Qassem Soleimani, presented as "the greatest military commander in Islamic history." Also labeled as "the martyr Haj Qassem," his bust adorns public squares and sport stadiums in more than 100 Iranian towns and cities.

Eulogized as the leader who defeated the United States, humbled Israel and conquered Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and parts of Yemen, Haj Qassem is one of the trio that dominate Khomeinist mythology, the other two being the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the current "Supreme Leader" Ali Khamenei.

But what if the tide is turning against Haj Qassem? Plans to install his bust in more of Iran's 1,000 towns and cities have been quietly "postponed" in recent days, and the narrative about his derring-do adventures toned down in the official media and Friday sermons.

Continue Reading Article