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* Raymond Ibrahim: 'The Victims Are Sold in Catalogs Like Property': The Persecution of Christians, October 2025
* Amir Taheri: Ukraine: Russia's Hollow Victory


** 'The Victims Are Sold in Catalogs Like Property': The Persecution of Christians, October 2025 ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • December 21, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The assaults resulted in the beheading of 30 Christians, widespread arson, and the destruction of at least five churches and 100 homes. Many other Christians — including women and their daughters — were herded away. — Daily Express, Ocotber 8 2025, Mozambique.
* [S]ince Boko Haram's terrorist insurgency began in 2009, jihadist groups have torched and destroyed 19,100 churches, averaging nearly 100 each month. In that time, 125,009 Christians were slaughtered, as well as "60,000 Liberal Muslims... unless urgent action is taken, within the next 50 years Christianity in Nigeria is set to disappear." — International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, August 10, 2o25, Nigeria.
* "Since the law regarding night clubs and entertainment places passed in 2000, human trafficking and sexual slavery have been practiced with the approval of the state (including the police and other state institutions). Women and girls below the age of 18 are trafficked, abused as sex slaves and their passports are seized by the state [in charge of the Turkish-occupied territory in Cyprus]. The victims are sold in catalogs like property, like animals." — Derya Dogus, Turkish Cypriot politician, X.com, September 28, 2025, Cyprus.
* The family reported the rape to police, who "collected evidence, and the medical report confirmed the assault.... Despite this, Haroon [the Muslim rapist] secured pre-arrest bail, leaving the family vulnerable to threats." — British Asian Christian Association, October 16, 2025, Pakistan.
* The Muslims spray-painted "F**k Israel" and posted pro-Palestinian/Hamas stickers on the church. The Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization CAIR demanded that the charges be dropped against the three Muslims, because "graffiti is the language of the unheard," and because vandalizing a church was a First Amendment right. — The Post Millennial, October 5, 2025, United States.
* [A] 49-year-old blind Christian, Nadeem Masih, was arrested after a Muslim accused him of insulting Islam's prophet, a charge punishable by death under Section 295-C of Pakistan's blasphemy laws. Masih, who earned a meager living providing a weighing scale for merchants, had long faced harassment from local Muslims.... In jail, Masih was beaten and coerced into admitting a false charge. — Morning Star News, October 31, 2025, Pakistan.
* "We were simply holding a [Christian] burial service. It was meant to be a quiet, respectful moment to honor the departed. Instead, it ended with arrests. One of the women with us was told to pay nearly a thousand dollars or stay in prison." — Persecution.org, October 20, 2025, Sudan.
* "A battle over church assets started several years ago, with the government favoring Muslim business interests taking over assets owned by ... churches in Khartoum and in other states of Sudan." — Morning Star News, October 29, 2025, Sudan.

On Oct. 8, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) terror group launched a series of savage attacks targeting Christian communities in the Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces of Mozambique. The assaults resulted in the beheading of 30 Christians, widespread arson, and the destruction of at least five churches and 100 homes. Pictured: One of the 30 houses burnt down on March 6, 2024, during an attack by ISMP on the village of Pulo, in Cabo Delgado province, photographed on March 26, 2024. (Photo by Juan Luis Rod/AFP via Getty Images)

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

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Mozambique: On Oct. 8, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) terror group launched a series of savage attacks targeting Christian communities in Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces. The assaults resulted in the beheading of 30 Christians, widespread arson, and the destruction of at least five churches and 100 homes. Many other Christians—including women and their daughters—were herded away. The Muslim terrorists later boasted of their handiwork by releasing photos of themselves beheading and shooting civilians at close range.

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by Amir Taheri • December 21, 2025 at 4:00 am
* In exchange, [Zelensky] wishes to get unspecified security guarantees from the US, something that Trump might grant on his social media accounts, knowing that an ironclad legal guarantee may never happen.
* The future of the occupied Crimean Peninsula doesn't appear to be part of the current negotiations. As none of the members of the United Nations has recognized Russian annexation, its status will remain uncertain.
* Afflicted by one of the lowest birthrates in the world plus a demographic hemorrhage that has driven millions of young Russians into exile, Russia lacks the extra population needed to build colonies and empires.
* Putin may find out that even if he is allowed to annex part of Donbas, he would fail to Russify them. Russia's historic sense of insecurity, arguably the core cause of its aggressiveness, would not be addressed by a flimsy glacis, which in time would need a further glacis to offer it security.

Russian President Vladimir Putin may find out that even if he is allowed to annex part of Donbas, he would fail to Russify them. Russia's historic sense of insecurity, arguably the core cause of its aggressiveness, would not be addressed by a flimsy glacis, which in time would need a further glacis to offer it security. Pictured: Putin holds his annual end-of-year press conference in Moscow on December 19, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

The latest haggling over ending the war in Ukraine appears to be focused on three elements, two of which could be labeled "promissory" and one "instant delivery."

The instant delivery bit concerns an agreement to let Russia keep the chunk of Donbas it has conquered. That is what US President Donald Trump calls "territorial concession" by Ukraine.

In his latest meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seemed to have accepted such an outcome with the caveat that it be regarded as de facto rather than de jure.

In exchange, he wishes to get unspecified security guarantees from the US, something that Trump might grant on his social media accounts, knowing that an ironclad legal guarantee may never happen.

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