"Oh Allah... Destroy the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Russians, and the Shiites!": The Persecution of Christians, February 2022

by Raymond Ibrahim • March 27, 2022 at 5:00 am

Authorities called on ten other Muslim converts to Christianity, who were earlier cleared of all charges, to take "re-education" classes led by Islamic clerics... Earlier, the prosecutor in the case against these Christians had said that "apostasy" from Islam was punishable under Islamic law, or sharia, "and in the hereafter," even though it was "not criminalised in the laws of Iran." — articleeighteen.com, February1, 2022, Iran.
"It's not clear why or how he [a Christian] came to be arrested. Other charges, relating to violations of Egypt's cyber-crime law and using religion to promote extremist thought, were added later without offering Gerges or his defence team an opportunity to respond.... A law banning 'insulting the heavenly religions', criminalising blasphemy, has been repeatedly used to silence Egypt's religious minorities...." — World Watch Monitor, February 9, 2022, Egypt.
"He accused me of being an infidel by converting to Christianity, and that Allah will reward them in Jannah [garden paradise] if they kill me. He said to me that it is now the right time for me to receive punishment from Allah, whereby I was going to be burned alive and the birds of the air will enjoy me as their meat.... They started beating me up as others gathered firewood, while another was sent to go for petrol because they wanted to use it to burn me alive.... They found me behind the house about 100 meters away, tied and with firewood around me." — Morningstar News, February 16, 2022, Uganda.
"Jihadists came by motorbike.... The invaders told the Christians that "they don't want to see crosses." — Catholic News Agency, February 11, 2022, Burkina Faso.
"The man, Mohammed Derrab, remains in detention for anti-conversion charges brought against him." — International Christian Concern, February 28, 2022, Algeria.
"The threats come as a result of failure to comply with the 2006 ordnance that requires non-Muslim worship to operate only in licensed buildings. However, the licensing commission has yet to issue a single permit." — International Christian Concern, February 28, 2022, Algeria.

Turkish authorities in February gave permission to turn a historic and much venerated Panagia Soumela Monastery (pictured) into a discotheque for the filming of an advertisement, which included people dancing to loud electronic music in the monastery's courtyard. Orthodox Christians responded with outrage at what they deemed the intentional desecration of a cherished site. The Monastery was founded in 386 AD and operated until the Turkish genocide of Christians, when it was abandoned, vandalized, used by smugglers, and eventually burned. After a lengthy rehabilitation in 2015-2017, the monastery was reopened for tourists — only to be immediately vandalized again, and now mocked in the context of filming an advertisement. (Bjørn Christian Tørrissen/Wikimedia Commons)

The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of February, 2022:

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: On February 25, members of the Islamic State West Africa Province murdered three Christians during an attack on Chibok, in the nation's northeast. The terrorists also destroyed a worship building belonging to the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria.

Pakistan: As many as 200 Muslims slaughtered Pervez Masih, a 25-year-old Christian video game store owner. On the evening of Feb. 13, he refused to gamble with some young Muslims who had entered his store. On the next day, Feb. 14, a mob "of 150 to 200 Muslims came to the Christian area of Lahore, some with guns, and started insulting and beating people, including Pervez," says the report.

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From Guernica to Mariupol

by Amir Taheri • March 27, 2022 at 4:00 am

To justify his invasion, Putin has cited irredentist demands coupled with kith-and-kin claims and national security interests. If adopted as acceptable behavior, Putin's scenario would be applicable to numerous other cases across the globe.
The most obvious example is that of China, where the Communist regime can threaten Taiwan on the basis of Putin's arguments. But the same arguments could also be used against Russia by China and Japan. Russia occupies large chunks of Chinese territory along with the Japanese Kuril Islands archipelago.
And what about Mexico trying to "liberate" California and Texas from the Yankee Imperialists?
If we adopt the Putin Doctrine, we end up with a lawless world in which Hitler's slogan "Force is Right" operates. We would take a giant leap back into an age in which war was the principal arbiter of relations along nations.
It would be absolute folly to ignore the message of Mariupol and not to try and stop the spiral to global hell created by a senseless war.

To justify his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has cited irredentist demands coupled with kith-and-kin claims and national security interests. If adopted as acceptable behavior, Putin's scenario would be applicable to numerous other cases across the globe. Pictured: The burnt out remains of a building destroyed by Russian army shelling in the second largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on March 6, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)

Whatever the outcome of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the crisis it triggered may have one lasting effect: the return of war as a routine instrument of politics on a global scale.

Before the invasion, there was an implicit consensus that war was something that happened in the so-called "developing world," where Arabs fought Israelis, Africans slaughtered Africans, and Indian and Pakistanis were at each other's throats.

Europe, however, was believed to have closed its book of wars for good. The Balkan wars of the 1990s were regarded as a multi-layered civil war involving component parts of the failed Yugoslav state.

Putin's invasion showed that even Europe, and tomorrow perhaps even North America, are not immune from being dragged into war by a destabilizing agent.

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