Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all non-Muslims continues...

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[miltonim]

The purpose of this thread is to post links to articles on FreeRepublic on the topic of Muhammad-inspired persecution of Christians, Jews and all other non-Muslims

For example:

Muslim Rioters Destroy 13 Churches
www.barnabasfund.org
Nigeria
November 21, 2003
Posted on 11/30/2003 1:49 PM EST by miltonim

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Anti-Semitism infuses scarf debate. French schools fight deeply rooted racism
France 2004
Excerpt: It’s an undercurrent that Sarah Aguado, a precocious 13-year-old, knows well. As the only Jew in a school with a large Muslim minority, she was repeatedly insulted and attacked and finally forced to flee.

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Turkish Government Closing Churches (Prayer Needed)
December 2001
Excerpt: we will be given 7 days to bring ourselves into conformity or else be shut down! Two newly opened buildings in other provinces were sealed this week and a couple of Turkish pastors questioned about their status by Turkish security officers."

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Saudi Arabia releases Christian leaders
December 2001
Excerpt: The Saudi Ministry of Interior arrested the men after receiving reports in June of their participation in Christian gatherings that included Saudi converts to Christianity. Saudi law applies the death penalty to citizens who choose to abandon Islam.

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Muslim campaign in Nazareth part of overall strategy eliminate Christians
(1999-2001) December 2001
Excerpt: The radical Muslims have constructed an illegal prayer tent from which they taunt worshippers and ridicule the Christian beliefs of those who visit Nazareth.

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Blast kills reveler in Jakarta, churches bombed on Sulawesi island
December 2001
Excerpt: quoted witnesses as saying men on motorbikes hurled explosive devices at the churches.

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Christians Remain In Saudi Prisons For Practicing Faith.
January 2002
Excerpt: Saudi Arabia continues to imprison Christians who are found practicing their faith.

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Chritmas Eve killing in Kosovo
Yugoslavia January 2002
Excerpt: The victim entered the shop from the rear door and when he proceeded to the front door to unlock it, he stepped or tripped on the wire and triggered the grenade

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A Body and Spirit Broken by the Taliban
Afghanistan (1999-2000) January 2002
Excerpt: Osman said that Sayed could barely move or talk when he first saw him in a Kabul hospital in early 2000. He said the blows to his head and spine had caused severe nerve damage, leaving him incontinent and making it hard for him to control his hands, feet and speech.

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Muslim Separatists Terrorize Filipinos With Kidnappings for Money and 'Marriages'
(1990-2002) January 2002
Excerpt: The Filipino hostages were forced, through threats and persuasion, to convert to Islam. "They said my family would be safe if I became a Muslim," Mr. Guillo said. "They took me to the river. They put me under the water and said some things I didn't understand. And then they said we were brothers and they would not cut off my head. It was not an idle threat. On June 11 the kidnappers beheaded a third American hostage, Guillermo Sobero of Corona, Calif. "

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Christian missionary work among Muslims of the South
Thailand February 2004
Excerpt: In a country ruled according a Buddhist philosophy of tolerance, the deaths provoked by Islamic fundamentalism seem to be undermining the country's very national government.

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CHRISTIANS ATTACKED IN INDONESIA
January 2002
Excerpt: Catholic and Protestant residents of the predominantly Christian Rutong village in Ambon, Indonesia, had to cancel their worship services last Sunday, January 13, when their village was attacked by unidentified gunmen.

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Christians claim torture by Saudis: 'Each of us were flogged 80 times with a flexible metal cable'
Saudi Arabia January 2002
Excerpt: Three Ethiopian Christians detained for the past six months without charges claim they were severely beaten and tormented this week under the authority of a Saudi prison official in Jeddah.

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Christian woman to be stoned to death
Sudan February 2002
Excerpt: "The trial was conducted in Arabic, which is not her language, and there was no translation of the proceedings in order to ensure that she understood fully the case against her."

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Death by Stoning Highlights Risks To Christians Under Islam
February 2002
Excerpt: "The fact that only the woman has been tried for the crime of adultery particularly suggests discriminatory application of this harsh law,"

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For Outsiders, Worship Is Risk in Saudi Arabia
January 2002
Excerpt: At a secret location every Sunday evening, a young Catholic priest does a dangerous thing. He says Mass.

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Coptic Church Attacked In Southern Egypt
February 2002
15 Coptic homes burned, with a number of others looted

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Indonesian Christians Butchered In Islamic "Crusades"
July 2001
Excerpt: "They told us we must convert or they would cut our throats," recalled the shy 14-year-old. Like hundreds of other Christians she fled into the jungle when her village on the tiny Indonesian island of Kesui was attacked by Islamic militants. The threat to Marina’s life was genuine. Two teachers from a neighbouring village had already been beheaded when they refused to convert. "So we knew we had no choice."

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Sudan Jihad forcing Islam On Christians, Using Rape and Killing
March 2002
Excerpt: Villagers in several areas of the northeast Upper Nile region say that when women are captured by government forces they are asked: "Are you Christian or Muslim?" Women who answer "Muslim" are set free, but typically soldiers gang-rape those who answer "Christian" then cut off their breasts and leave them to die as an example for others.

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Arsonists torch Jewish school near Paris (on the same day as bombing in Turkey)
France November 2003
Excerpt: Fire gutted the Merkaz HaTorah Jewish secondary school in the Paris suburb of Gagny in the Seine-Saint-Denis region Saturday morning at 3am.

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CNN Turk: Explosion rocks Neveh Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey; 23 reported dead
November 2003
Excerpt: I believe it is early morning in Turkey, so this around the time Jews go to the synagogue for Sat. Morning religious services