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by Raymond Ibrahim • October 2, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* When the 12-year-old girl was produced at court and said that she had converted of her free will and married her Muslim kidnapper, the judge—ignoring the girl's young age and distraught demeanor—ordered the accused released and the girl returned to him, even though there was massive contrary evidence to indicate that the girl was being coerced to lie under duress. The evidence included a voice recording of her Muslim husband threatening to butcher the girl's two brothers if she failed to support him in court. — Morningstar News, August 23, 2022, Pakistan.
* "Police and judiciary tend to support those who commit crimes such as forced conversions, child marriages and sexual violence because they believe they will receive a heavenly reward for helping convert someone to Islam, regardless of how intentional or coercive the conversion is." — Sherkan Malik, human rights activist, Morningstar News, August 23, 2022, Pakistan.
* "In the rare cases where a girl is returned to her family, the culprits are never held accountable. In other words, the supposedly law-preserving authorities act as implicit, if not explicit, partner in such heinous crimes." — Report, copticsolidarity.org, August 9, 2022, Egypt.
* "I am writing to you out of deep concern for the safety and well-being of the indigenous Coptic women and minor girls in Egypt who have been increasingly targeted for trafficking, forced marriage, and forced conversion." — Petition, copticsolidarity.org, August 9, 2022, Egypt.
* [T]hroughout the month of August... a total of eleven Coptic churches in Egypt supposedly "caught fire," none of which was reported in the Western press.... In every one of those eleven fires, Egyptian authorities denied arson as a possible cause, citing instead "natural" or accidental causes such as faulty wiring, electric overloads, and so on, even though there was obvious foul play in at least one case.... — copticsolidarity.org, August 31, 2022, Egypt.
* "Constant killings and maiming of innocent Christians by terrorists and herdsmen bandits [Muslim Fulani] have become very common here in Taraba state," said Ayuba Matthew, a local. "So also, kidnappings of Christians has become a problem." — Morningstar News, August 17, 2022, Nigeria.
* "Incitement against the Copts is daily in Egypt! Accusing the Copts of being infidels [kuffar] is daily in Egypt! Mockery of Christianity and the sacred things of Christianity and the accusation that the Bible is distorted [moharraf] occurs daily in Egypt!" — Magdi Khalil, noted author, YouTube, August 15, 2022, Egypt.
* "They forced me to sing Christian songs as they began chopping off my husband's hand." .... Apparently fearful of worse repercussions, the "family has yet to file a police report." — Morningstar News, August 16, 2022, Egypt.
* A recent video report found that, although Christians make up only 1.6% of the Muslim nation's population, they account for 90% of Islamabad's sanitation workers.... [M]any sanitation job listings in Pakistan often advertise "for non-Muslims only": working in garbage all day is for "infidels," not ritually clean Muslims. — dw.com and Morningstar News, August 11, 2022, Pakistan.
* Although deemed by some Westerners as a relatively progressive Arab nation, Qatar continues to indoctrinate its children with hate for and violence against "infidels," including Christians and Jews.... — impact-se.org, July 2022, Qatar.

Although deemed by some Westerners as a relatively progressive Arab nation, Qatar continues to indoctrinate its children with hate for and violence against "infidels," including Christians and Jews. Pictured: The skyline of Qatar's capital Doha. (Photo by Karim Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images)

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

The Jihad on Christian Girls

Pakistan: After refusing to review evidence from a Christian couple trying to recover their 12-year-old daughter from a married Muslim man accused of kidnapping her and forcing her to convert to Islam and marry him, Muslim judge Sadaqat Ali Khan threw the case out of court on Aug. 18.

When the parents first reported the kidnapping, her kidnapper, Imran Shahzad and his wife Adiba, were brought in for questioning. However, when the 12-year-old girl was produced at court and said that she had converted of her free will and married her Muslim kidnapper, the judge—ignoring the girl's young age and distraught demeanor—ordered the accused released and the girl returned to him, even though there was massive contrary evidence to indicate that the girl was being coerced to lie under duress.

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by Amir Taheri • October 2, 2022 at 4:00 am
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* Today's Damavand [volcano] s made of a new generation of Iranians who don't give tuppence about the Islamic Republic's arcane narrative, and prefer life in the modern world, warts and all, to the North Korean-style society that "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei is trying to impose on Iran.
* The uprising was triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old woman on a family visit to Tehran.
* Within 24 hours of her death, allegedly as a result of beatings by security agents, Amini's name was known to almost all Iranians and, within 48 hours, it had become a symbol of resistance to tyranny across the world.
* By the time of writing this column, we had received the names of 84 people, including nine women and six children, killed by security, while semi-official figures put the number of arrests at over 1,800.
* The uprising has spread to over 300 towns and cities, some of which are witnessing protests for the first time in recent history.
* Early in its existence, the Khomeinist regime established self-preservation as its highest goal. Khomeini called it "the obligation of obligations" (oujab al-wajebat in Arabic), asserting that to protect the regime, even Islam could be set aside.
* Regime protection forces, excluding the national army, number over 600,000 men. Islamic security is organized in nine different units, at least four of them trained and equipped for crushing street protests.
* All security units, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), benefit from numerous advantages, notably salaries that are 30 percent higher than comparable ones in the national army.
* The latest uprising is different from previous ones in a number of ways.... This time, the almost unanimous call is for regime change.
* Until this writing, Khamenei, who shed tears for the death of George Floyd in the United States, has been silent on the eruption that threatens his regime.

The anti-regime uprising in Iran has spread to over 300 towns and cities, some of which are witnessing protests for the first time in recent history. Pictured: Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, in Tehran on September 21, 2022. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

"The white giant in chains!" This is how Bahar, one of Iran's greatest contemporary poets, describes Mount Damvand, the towering volcano that looms over the horizon in the Tehran region.

At the end of his qasida (ode) Bahar pleads with the volcano to end its silence with an explosion of fire and lava to "cleanse the world of tyranny and corruption".

For the past two weeks, the nationwide uprising across Iran has reminded many Iranians of Bahar's poem with the question: Has the volcano begun its final eruption?

Today's Damavand is made of a new generation of Iranians who don't give tuppence about the Islamic Republic's arcane narrative, and prefer life in the modern world, warts and all, to the North Korean-style society that "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei is trying to impose on Iran.

The uprising was triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman on a family visit to Tehran.

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