EDITORIAL -- A jihadi group occupying the Syrian town of Raqqa recently gave Christian minorities living there three choices: 1) convert to Islam, 2) remain Christian but pay tribute and accept third-class subject status, or 3) die by the sword. According to the BBC, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria issued a directive: citing the Islamic concept of … [Read more...]
‘Largest Massacre of Christians in Syria’ Ignored
EDITORIAL - One of the worst Christian massacres—complete with mass graves, tortured-to-death women and children, and destroyed churches—recently took place in Syria, at the hands of the U.S.-supported jihadi "rebels"; and the U.S. government and its "mainstream media" mouthpiece are, as usual, silent (that is, when not actively trying to minimize … [Read more...]
Behind Benghazi: Muslim Brotherhood and Obama Admin.
EDITORIAL - Evidence that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was directly involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where Americans including U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens were killed, continues to mount. First, on June 26, 2013, I produced and partially translated what purported to be an internal Libyan … [Read more...]
How ‘Religious Defamation’ Laws Would Ban Islam
EDITORIAL - As the Islamic world, in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continues to push for the enforcement of "religious defamation" laws in the international arena — theoretically developed to protect all religions from insult, but in reality made for Islam — one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if … [Read more...]
Grand Mufti Calls for ‘Destruction of All Churches in Region’
EDITORIAL - According to several Arabic news sources, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is "necessary to destroy all the churches of the region." The Grand Mufti made his assertion in response to a question posed by a delegation from Kuwait: a Kuwaiti parliament member recently called for the "removal" of … [Read more...]
Hillary Clinton Promises to Save Egypt’s Christians?
EDITORIAL - Soon after Sunday's Maspero massacre, where the Egyptian military slaughtered Christians demonstrating over the destruction of their churches—including by running them over with armored vehicles—some Egyptian media began reporting that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, having seen enough, declared that the U.S. plans on directly … [Read more...]
The Egyptian Military’s Crimes Against Humanity
CAIRO, Egypt - Sunday, the Egyptian military opened fire on thousands of Christians protesting in Maspero, Cairo. In the words of one Christian eyewitness, armored vehicles "came at great speed and drove into the crowds, going backwards and forwards, mowing people under their wheels. The most horrible scene was when one of the vehicles ran over a Copt's … [Read more...]
Egypt: Destroying Churches, One at a Time
CAIRO, Egypt -- What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a few weeks go by without a church being destroyed, or without protesting Christians being attacked and slaughtered by the military? The latest chaos in Egypt—where the military opened fire on unarmed Christians and repeatedly ran armored vehicles over them, … [Read more...]