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Europe Should Learn Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’
Frontpagemag.com ^ | December 17, 2014 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 12/17/2014 4:47:23 AM PST by SJackson

Europe Should Learn Ethiopia’s ‘Islam Lesson’

Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On December 17, 2014 @ 12:40 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage | 2 Comments

Originally published by VIE.

Yet another Christian church was destroyed by Muslims in Ethiopia—this time by local authorities.

Heaven’s Light Church, which served some 100 evangelical Christians, was demolished last November 28.  The church had stood and functioned in the Muslim-majority city of Harar for five years.  In the days preceding the destruction, officials forcibly removed the church’s exterior sign and warned believers not to worship there, citing complaints by a local Muslim.  Officials further told church members who had previously congregated at the church “not to gather under what remains of the church building.”  Accordingly, Christians are now meeting in homes of individual believers.

Prior to the demolition of the church, when some Christian leaders protested, they were illegally detained, released only after community members, “outraged by the wrongful detentions,” called “for their immediate release,” reported International Christian Concern, a rights advocacy group supporting the Christians:

These are no isolated incidents, explained ICC, adding that it had documented “numerous ongoing land rights battles between churches and their local governments across Ethiopia.”

In many cases, ICC said, “churches have been operating peacefully for decades on land given to them by now-deceased former congregants.”

However efforts by local majority Muslim populations to “eliminate the public presence” of churches resulted in the forceful closure, destruction and demolition of several church buildings in recent years, according to ICC investigators.

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ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa, Cameron Thomas, accused Ethiopia of violating the rights of devoted Christians. “Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they’ve sworn to uphold, are violating Christians’ rights by forcibly closing, destroying and demolishing churches across Ethiopia,” the official said.

If this is the treatment Christian churches receive by Muslim officials and politicians—“sworn to uphold” the rights of every citizen, not just Muslims—one can imagine the treatment churches receive by Muslim mobs.  One example suffices:

In 2011, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes when “Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes” in a Muslim-majority region in western Ethiopia.  At least one Christian was killed, many injured, and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 displaced.  Around the same time, in another area that is 90% Muslim, “all the Christians in the city woke up to find notes on their doors warning them to convert to Islam, leave the city or face death.”

For those few Western observers who live beyond the moment and have an interest in the “big picture”—the world bequeathed to future generations—it is well to reflect on the question of numbers in the context of Ethiopia.  As Jonathan Racho, another official at ICC, earlier said, “It’s extremely disconcerting that in Ethiopia, where Christians are the majority, they are also the victims of persecution.”

That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers.  This reflects what I call “Islam’s Rule of Numbers,” which holds that, wherever and whenever Muslims grow in number—and thus in strength and confidence—so too does Muslim intolerance for “the other” grow (video explanation here).

This naturally has lessons for the West, especially European nations like Britain and France that have a significant and ever-growing Muslim population—and where church attacks and even beheadings are now taking place.

By way of final illustration, the reader is left with the story of Islam’s entry into Ethiopia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations.  According to Islamic tradition, in 615, when the pagan Quraysh were persecuting Muhammad’s outnumbered followers and disciples in Arabia, some fled to Ethiopia seeking sanctuary. The Christian king, or “Negus” of Ethiopia, welcomed and protected these Muslim fugitives, ignoring Quraysh demands to return them—and thus reportedly winning Muhammad’s gratitude.

Today, 14 centuries later, when Islam has carved itself a solid niche in Ethiopia, accounting for 1/3 of the population, Muslim gratitude has turned into Muslim aggression—not least a warning to Western states.



TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ethiopia; europeanunion

1 posted on 12/17/2014 4:47:23 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 12/17/2014 4:48:57 AM PST by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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3 posted on 12/17/2014 4:53:09 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: SJackson

Liberals never learn the lessons of history. If they believe that islam is a religion of peace it must be. If they say “coexist”, like magic we must be coexisting. Facts don’t matter and can just be ignored.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 5:00:11 AM PST by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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The forces of evil will always seek the destruction of all that is good. When they have grown to a substantial proportion of any population their demands and despoliation will increase and dominate. We have seen the forces of evil at work in every institution in our land: government, the military, schools, business, churches and social institutions such as marriage,family and even the blessed birth of babies. Nothing is left that is sacred or holy. Muslim is but one manifestation of the scourge of evil.
Progressivism and tyranny abound in every nation, no less so here in the cradle of liberty. There must be a purge and cleansing of every form of evil if we are to survive as the people of G-d.
Once again, Hebrews, the chosen of G-d, will lead the way. Christ will bring the light of the world again into the darkness to which we have descended. Be vigilant. Gird your loins. His day is nigh.


5 posted on 12/17/2014 5:01:12 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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The Ethiopians will only take so much from these Muslims, and then they will be slaughtered without mercy. This is the history of Ethiopia.

Let the Muslims bring it. And watch what happens. ( Same as in Somalia courtesy of the Ethiopian Army.)


6 posted on 12/17/2014 5:03:37 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SJackson
...warned believers not to worship there, citing complaints by a local Muslim.

If an American Christian had done this in the US, what would have happened?

7 posted on 12/17/2014 6:07:33 AM PST by CPOSharky (I was born with nothing, and I still have most of it.)
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Ooooooh...those tolerant peaceful moozlums.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 6:10:19 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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The Ethiopians will only take so much from these Muslims, and then they will be slaughtered without mercy. This is the history of Ethiopia.

please let it be soon. I love good news stories.

(While I do pray for the conversion of the mohammedan, I also recognize that a moslem convert can never be trusted as they are commanded by islam to lie. Therefore it is best if they are converted and sent immediately to their reward, lest they be proven to be moslem liars seeking to destroy ever more innocents)

9 posted on 12/17/2014 6:10:44 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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That Muslims are an otherwise peaceable minority group in Ethiopia, but in enclaves where they represent the majority, they attack their outnumbered Christian countrymen, suggests that Muslim aggression and passivity are very much rooted in numbers.
Not just Europe, btw. Thanks SJackson.
10 posted on 12/17/2014 7:01:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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islamic cancer spreads


11 posted on 12/17/2014 7:01:55 AM PST by onedoug
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To: SJackson

You mean Europe has forgotten the FIRST lesson that Islam taught it?


12 posted on 12/17/2014 1:33:21 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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