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* Raymond Ibrahim: 'The Blasphemy Business': The Persecution of Christians, August 2025
* Amir Taheri: Ukraine Can Win: Is Trump Right?


** 'The Blasphemy Business': The Persecution of Christians, August 2025 ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • October 5, 2025 at 5:30 am
* "What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community... [J]ihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa.... It's very dangerous for the national security of the United States.... Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed." — Alberto Miguel Fernandez, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat, Fox News, August 7, 2025, Mozambique.
* The Islamic State (ISIS) released a newsletter praising its "mujahideen" [jihadists] for targeting and slaughtering the Christians of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique mentioned above, and urging followers to replicate these attacks in Europe.... It praises the massacres and beheadings of Christians inside churches, and attacks on Christian communities, all of which left "pools of blood." It calls on its followers to offer Christians three choices: "If they refuse Islam and the jizyah tax, the third option is murder." — MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo.
* "Our conquering ancestors ruled with swords, advancing legions and leading the way, until they terrorized the nations of their time, who came to them willingly or unwillingly, surrendering and submissive. This is the truth, and anything beyond it is false." — ISIS newsletter, reported by MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo.
* The "hearts still ache for revenge against the Christians of Europe. The call is still open to the heroes of Islam to attack them again and invade them in their own backyards and implement the divine rulings against them as their brothers did in Africa, and Allah will surely support those who support Him." — ISIS newsletter, reported by MEMRI, August 8, 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo.
* Below are some of the more notable incidents of the ongoing genocide being carried out against Christians in Nigeria....
* "The herdsmen chased and shot at farmers as if they were animals." — morningstarnews.org, September 1, 2025, Nigeria.
* "The culmination of the efforts to stop the [church's] construction took place on Sunday, July 27, 2025. The construction committee was subjected to a mass lynching by government officials and residents...." — Rev. Puput Yuniatmoko, persecution.org, August 8, 2025, Indonesia.
* "While the language of the draft agreement [between Azerbaijan and Armenia] is general in nature, it mentions combating intolerance, racism, and violent extremism. Absent from the list of vices to be countered was religious persecution and ethnic cleansing — longstanding practices of the totalitarian Azerbaijan regime." — persecution.org, August 14, 2025, Azerbaijan.
* "During detention, we were forced to drink water from Lotas [vessels typically used in toilets]. One person would open their mouth while another poured water through the same vessel." — Zakria John, morningstarnews.org, August 20, 2025, Pakistan.
* "Nabeel Masih, a 25-year-old Christian from Lahore, died... after years of neglect, abuse, and lack of crucial medical care. At 16....Masih was accused by a man named Akhtar Ali of posting a blasphemous image on Facebook....Police had the image removed to prevent unrest, erasing the only evidence that could prove whether Masih had posted it. " — morningstarnews.org, August 20, 2025, Pakistan.

On August 13, Islamic terrorists of the "Allied Democratic Forces" disguised themselves as priests and choristers, and attacked the village of Mayi Moya in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three Christians were murdered and eight abducted; shops and homes were looted and burned to the ground. Pictured: South African soldiers from a UN peacekeeping force conduct a security patrol in May Moya, on May 5, 2020. (Photo by United Nations/MONUSCO via Flickr)

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

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Mozambique and Democratic Republic of Congo: An Aug. 7 report highlights a series of brutal ISIS-affiliated massacres of Christians in both African nations.

In Mozambique, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) released photos showing operatives raiding villages, burning a church and homes, and beheading Christians.

In Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 45 Christians were slaughtered. The images depict civilians' corpses and desecrated churches and Christian homes. Discussing these, geopolitical analyst and former U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez said,

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** Ukraine Can Win: Is Trump Right? ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • October 5, 2025 at 4:00 am
* Russia could theoretically be driven out of Ukrainian lands it occupies, including the Crimean Peninsula. But there is no guarantee that such an outcome would cure Russia's affliction with defensive expansionism and its thirst for revanchist response.
* And that refers us back to the Florentine clerk: Do not wound a deadly enemy and let him live! Either kill him or turn him into a friend.
* It is to Trump's credit that, unknowingly perhaps, he has pondered both options, with a tilt towards the latter.

Russia could theoretically be driven out of Ukrainian lands it occupies, including the Crimean Peninsula. But there is no guarantee that such an outcome would cure Russia's affliction with defensive expansionism and its thirst for revanchist response. Pictured: Cadets of the Admiral Senyavin Marine Technical Academy march at a ceremony in the Russian naval base of Kronstadt on an island off the Baltic coast near Saint Petersburg on October 3, 2025. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)

"Ha! Ha!" This was how, the other day in Moscow, Russian National Security Advisor Dmitry Medvedev reacted to a quip by US President Donald Trump asserting that Kyiv "can win all of Ukraine back to original borders where this war started."

Dmitry Alexyevich, who once served as a parenthetic president of Russia, was seen in the West as a reformer who might lead his country into the European orbit, whatever that meant. Today, acting as deputy chief of Russia's National Security Council, he is President Vladimir Putin's bully boy, threatening Western nations with nuclear war.

But is the idea of winning this war against Russia just another Trumpian flash of imagination, as was his assertion a year ago that he could terminate the war in a jiffy?

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