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* Raymond Ibrahim: 'I Saw You Come Out of the Church': The Persecution of Christians, March 2025
* Amir Taheri: When Tehran Demands the Impossible


** 'I Saw You Come Out of the Church': The Persecution of Christians, March 2025 ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • May 4, 2025 at 5:00 am
* "Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise]... so I wanted to get that Jannah." — Hanifa Hamiyat, a Muslim woman who poisoned and killed three people: a young Christian couple, as well as her own 18-year-old daughter, who accidentally ate the same poisoned food the Muslim woman had offered to the Christians; Morning Star News, March 28, 2025, Uganda.
* "Pure genocide" experienced by Christians at the hands of Muslims, headlines.... – Nigera
* "During the time I was there, Ali did bad things with me... He also beat me whenever I used to cry for my parents and told him that I wanted to go back home. I was kept locked in a room most of the time." — Saba Masih, age 12, kidnapped, and forced by her kidnapper to convert to Islam and marry him. When her father reported the kidnapping to the police, "the police deliberately misstated Saba's age," writing down that she was 16, even though her father kept insisting she was 12; Morning Star News, February 7, 2025, Pakistan.
* [E]ven in Indonesia, which is often presented as an exceptionally moderate Muslim nation, Christians are being persecuted for blasphemy.... — Morning Star News, March 21, 2025, Indonesia.
* Coptic Christians, for some inexplicable reason, must have become the most careless and fire-prone people in the world: more Coptic churches than any other kind seem to keep "accidentally catching fire." — Coptic Solidarity, March 17, 2025, Egypt.

On March 8, three Muslim converts to Christianity received a combined total of 42 years in prison for practicing their faith: Narges Nasri, who was pregnant, and two men, Mehran Shamloui, and Abbas Soori. Pictured: Evin Prison in Tehran, where the three Christians are imprisoned. (Image source: Ehsan Iran/Wikimedia Commons)

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of March 2025.

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Uganda: On March 16, Hanifa Hamiyat, a Muslim woman poisoned and killed three people: a young Christian couple, as well as her own 18-year-old daughter, who accidentally ate the same poisoned food the Muslim woman had offered to the Christians for sharing Christ with the daughter. The Christian woman she killed was six months pregnant. When local leaders later questioned Hanifa, she confessed to poisoning the food, saying:

"I never intended to kill my daughter, but my plan was to kill the neighbors because of taking my daughter to church during this holy month of Ramadan. Our imam had assured us that when you kill a kafir [infidel], Allah rewards one with a Jannah [paradise] called Firdausi, so I wanted to get that Jannah."

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** When Tehran Demands the Impossible ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • May 4, 2025 at 4:00 am
* There is, of course, one non-judicial way to make sure a deal sticks: Remove the root causes of enmity. For example, let's start by releasing the US hostages and make sure that no further hostages are taken during what remains of Trump's term.
* Then join the rest of the world in the Financial Action Task Force accords against money laundering and funding terrorism. Iran is part of a blacklisted trio that includes North Korea and Myanmar.

Judging by comments and leaks from the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff -- although problems remain -- things are going smoothly. Trump himself keeps saying that he expects "a good agreement" without spelling out what that means. The fact, however, is that so far nothing has happened. Pictured: A combination of photos showing Witkoff (L) and Araqchi. (Photos by Evelyn Hockstein and Amer Hilabi/AFP via Getty Images)

For the past two weeks, I have been bombarded by questions from colleagues and "experts" from across the globe wondering how to assess the current round of talks between Tehran and the Trump administration in Washington.

The typical question is: what is going on?

Judging by comments and leaks from the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff -- although problems remain -- things are going smoothly. Trump himself keeps saying that he expects "a good agreement" without spelling out what that means.

Tehran pundits muse about an historic turnaround that would see the US investing over a trillion dollars in Iran while the regime is given the green light to continue merrily enriching the uranium it does not need. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian goes further by talking about "rebuilding the whole region in peace and with prosperity for all."

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