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"Hatred, Enmity, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide": The Persecution of Christians, March 2021 by Raymond Ibrahim on April 18th

 


"Hatred, Enmity, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide": The Persecution of Christians, March 2021

by Raymond Ibrahim on April 18th 

  • After a mosque leaders' wife embraced Christianity, and as a form of "retribution," the imam ordered the rape of three Christian girls related to a local pastor.... — Morning Star News, March 11, 2021, Uganda.

  • "Intercourse with a girl below the age of 16 is statutory rape in Pakistan, but in most cases a falsified conversion certificate and Islamic marriage certificate influence police to pardon kidnappers." — Morning Star News, March 12, 2012, Pakistan.

  • On March 20, a court "changed a sentence of life imprisonment to the death penalty for a Christian convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in 2011".... Such petitions are "seen often as a service to Islam and as jihad or holy war against blasphemers." according to the report. — Union of Catholic Asian News, March 29, 2021, Pakistan.

  • "[O]rthodox Muslims demand to make capital punishment the only penalty for blasphemy".... The courts increasingly seem to be complying. — Union of Catholic Asian News, March 29, 2021, Pakistan.

  • "That night, our village was attacked.... I was at home with my four children. We tried to escape to the woods, but they took my eldest son and beheaded him. We couldn't do anything because we would be killed too." — Save the Children, March 16, 2021, Mozambique.

  • "In one of the worst attacks last year, the jihadists turned a village football pitch into an execution ground where they beheaded more than 50 people in three days of savage violence." — Barnabas Fund, March 30, 2021, Mozambique.

  • Algeria is becoming less tolerant of religious minorities.

On March 24, scores of people were massacred or forced to flee during an Islamic terror attack in the city of Palma, Mozambique, near a major gas plant in the Cabo Delgado province. Pictured: Internally displaced people from Palma gather in the Sports Center in the city of Pemba to receive humanitarian aid on April 2, 2021. (Photo by Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images)

Attacks on Christian Women and Girls

Uganda: After a mosque leaders' wife embraced Christianity, and as a form of "retribution," the imam ordered the rape of three Christian girls related to a local pastor; he also planned to attack the pastor's church. "When my husband interrogated me about being a Christian, I refused to answer him," the wife later explained:

"Soon a Christian neighbor told me that my husband was out to kill me, hence I should escape with my children. That particular day in the evening hours, I escaped with my five children. I am thankful that the church received us."

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