Syria: Thousands Flee After Islamic Rebels Execute Priest, Loot, Burn Monastary In Northern Syria

Syrian Report – “On Sunday, June 23,  Syrian Catholic priest François Murad was murdered in the locality of Gassanieh, northern Syria, according to a statement from the Custody of the Holy Land sent to the Fides Agency.

Murad (49), having led a religious life and studied in Palestine, was ordained a priest and set about building a monastery in Gassanieh, Idlib.

Murad was targeted by armed militants, while he was residing at the monastery, which was dedicated to Saint Simon Stylite.

Citing the head of all Franciscans in the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Vatican News Agency said that Father Murad recently chose a monastic way of life and resorted to the monastery, with Franciscan Friars, a few weeks earlier.

‘The world must know that the support of gunmen by the west is helping extremists in killing Syrians’, Pizzaballa said, adding that, ‘with such stances, not a single Christian will remain in the East.’

According to local sources, the monastery was raided by gunmen, who proceeded to execute François Murad, loot and burn the building. Four-thousand people are reported to have since fled the area.

Christians in Syria are being increasing targeted by sectarian armed groups in Syria, of which there are between several hundred and over a thousand.” Read more.

Flashback: The Religion of Peace in Syria

• US Backed Rebels In Syria Destroy Christian Church In Deir Ezzor
• Rebels Destroy Historic Evangelical Church Of Aleppo With Explosives
• Islamist Rebels Burn Down Church In Aleppo, Ten Christians Kidnapped
• Entire Christian Family Beheaded By Suspected Islamists In Damascus
• ‘Free Syrian Army’ Rebels Executing Soldiers Were Reportedly Executing Christians
• Car Bomb Explodes In Christian Quarter Of Damascus As People Go To Church, 10 Killed
• Islamists Expel 90% of Christians from Homs, Car Bombs in Christian Districts of Aleppo and Damascus Kill 30
• Foreign Islamists Taking Over Mosques Call Upon Muslims To Kill Anyone Who Does Not Practice The Religion Of Mohammed

Mosque To Church Ratio In Afghanistan: 48,000 To 0

Luke 21:16-17, “You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.”

1 Corinthians 1:18, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

Afghans Burn Cross During Protest

Frontline Missions International – “Afghanistan ranks third among nations most severely opposed to the Cross. There are 48,000 mosques in the country—but not a single church building. Afghanistan’s population is 31 million, but estimates show there are less than 5,000 indigenous believers in this nation that has radical Islamic sharia law written into its constitution. Because of strong family traditions, any Muslim who comes to Christ is often in danger of an ‘honor killing’ by the family even before the government decides to pursue them, and Muslims who convert to Christ are subject to harsh imprisonment and possible execution by the authorities. Some make the world news, such as Abdul Rahman and Sayed Musa, who were spared from death as international efforts intervened to get them out of Afghanistan, and Shoaib Assadullah, who was brutally abused in prison before he was finally allowed to flee to Canada due to international pressures—but most others go unnoticed. Please pray both for the Gospel’s advance within the spiritual darkness of Afghanistan and also for grace for courageous believers who bear witness to Christ at great personal cost.” Source – Frontline Missions International.

Flashback: Not A Single Christian Church Left In Afghanistan, Says State Department – “There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department. This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime. In the intervening decade, U.S. taxpayers have spent $440 billion to support Afghanistan’s new government and more than 1,700 U.S. military personnel have died serving in that country. The last public Christian church in Afghanistan was razed in March 2010, according to the State Department’s latest International Religious Freedom Report.” Read more.

Flashback: American Military Continues To Submit To Islam: Cross Removed At Base In Afghanistan – “A large cross that had been prominently displayed outside a chapel on an isolated military base in northern Afghanistan was taken down last week, prompting outrage from some American service members stationed there.‘We are here away from our families, and the chapel is the one place that feels like home,’ a service member at Camp Marmal told POLITICO. ‘With the cross on the outside, it is a constant reminder for all of us that Jesus is here for us.’ ‘Not having it there is really upsetting,’ added another. ‘I walk by the chapel daily on the way to chow and the gym, and seeing the cross is a daily reminder of my faith and what Jesus accomplished for me. It is daily inspiration and motivation for me to acknowledge my faith and stay on the right path.’” Read more.

Flashback: US Marines Warned: Act More Muslim, Don’t Spit Towards Mecca – “Uncle Sam is getting a little weird. Make that a lot weird. Having dumped hundreds of billions of dollars into a sinkhole called Afghanistan — populated by misogynistic, pederastic, tribalistic and religiously supremacist primitives — to no avail, he has hit on a new plan for winning those ever-elusive Afghan ‘hearts and minds.’ Uncle Sam has decided that the answer lies in the latrine with the U.S. Marine Corps. No kidding. When nature calls, Uncle Sam has decided he wants every U.S. Marine equipped with a map and compass, or some other way of knowing direction. This is to ensure that no U.S. Marine in Afghanistan urinates in the direction of Mecca ever again.” Read more.

France: Police Arrest Six Muslims Near Paris Planning Terror Attack Against ‘Well-Known Figures’

For peaceful purposes. And with Islam set to become the dominant religion in France, it would be wise for the government to soon consider increasing their anti-terror police force …

BBC – “Anti-terror police in France have arrested six people accused of belonging to a radical Islamist cell and preparing attacks in the country.

The suspects, aged 22 to 38, were arrested in the Paris region on Monday.

‘They were planning to commit terrorist acts targeting well-known figures in France,’ an unnamed source told the news agency Agence France Press.

France raised its domestic terror alert level after its intervention in Mali.

The members of the alleged Islamist cell include one man from Benin, another from the Comoros islands and four French nationals, AFP said.

All were previously known to police.

They are reportedly suspected of being involved in armed robberies.

Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, told the Associated Press that the six remained in custody on Tuesday. They can be held for up to four days under France’s anti-terrorism laws.

Last October, French police arrested 12 people believed to be part of an Islamist terror cell planning the biggest bomb attack on France since a series of killings by the Algerian-based GIA (Armed Islamic Group) in the mid-1990s.” Read more.

Flashback: France: Two Muslim Men Attack 23-Year-Old Man … For Eating A Ham Sandwich – “A few years ago, Muslim cabbies at the Minneapolis airport began to refuse to carry passengers who were carrying alcohol. It became a big controversy, as some counter-jihad activists began asking whether the cab drivers would soon begin enforcing other Sharia rules upon their non-Muslim customers. Would they, for example, refuse to carry a passenger who had a ham sandwich? Such concerns were dismissed at the time as hysterical exaggerations of what was presented as a completely innocuous attempt by the cab drivers to exercise their religious freedom. But now, with this incident, we see the next step that we predicted all those years ago: the violent enforcement of Sharia provisions on non-Muslims — in what still is, for the moment, a non-Muslim country.” Read more.

Flashback: France: Muslim Man In Toulon Jailed For Racial Hatred Against White Man, ‘You Dirty White … This Is A Place For Arabs’ – “A court in the southern city of Toulon sentenced a local man to a year in prison this week, with nine months suspended, after he racially abused a white man and later attacked him. The assailant, aged in his thirties and of north African origins, was found to have shouted ‘You dirty white, I’m going to smash you. This is a place for Arabs,’ at the victim, who was in a carpark with five friends, both male and female, on the night of May 10th.” Read more.

Flashback: Imams’ Indoctrinating French Muslims With Culture Of Hate, Racism – “… French Jewish artist Ron Agam told the Algemeiner that, ‘It is about time now for the French authorities to radically search for these Imams and put a stop to the brainwashing on tens of thousands of Muslim kids in France.’ ‘It is unacceptable that this culture of racism and antisemitism is being tolerated by a significant number of the Muslim community, this culture must stop,’ he concluded.” Read more.

Barack Obama To Egypt’s Persecuted Christians: Don’t Protest Against The Muslim Brotherhood

According to the Obama Administration, Islamists mean well. They’re simply misunderstood. But those pesky Christians have ulterior, conservative, divisive motives and must be dealt with accordingly …

By Raymond Ibrahim, Frontpage Mag – “As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate in mass against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Morsi’s rule on June 30, the latter has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the Tahrir protests that earlier ousted Mubarak.  Among other influential Egyptians, Morsi recently called on Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros II to urge his flock, Egypt’s millions of Christians, not to join the June 30 protests.

While that may be expected, more troubling is that the U.S. ambassador to Egypt is also trying to prevent Egyptians from protesting—including the Copts.  The June 18^th edition of Sadi al-Balad reports that lawyer Ramses Naggar, the Coptic Church’s legal counsel, said that during Patterson’s June 17 meeting with Pope Tawadros, she ‘asked him to urge the Copts not to participate’ in the demonstrations against Morsi and the Brotherhood.

The Pope politely informed her that his spiritual authority over the Copts does not extend to political matters.Regardless, many Egyptian activists are condemning Patterson for flagrantly behaving like the Muslim Brotherhood’s stooge.  Leading opposition activist Shady el-Ghazali Harb said Patterson showed ‘blatant bias’ in favor of Morsi and the Brotherhood, adding that her remarks had earned the U.S. administration ‘the enmity of the Egyptian people.’ Coptic activists like George Ishaq openly told Patterson to ‘shut up and mind your own business.’ And Christian business tycoon Naguib Sawiris—no stranger to Islamist hostility—posted a message on his Twitter account addressed to the ambassador saying ‘Bless us with your silence.’

Indeed, the U.S. ambassador’s position as the Brotherhood’s lackey is disturbing—and revealing—on several levels.  First, all throughout the Middle East, the U.S. has been supporting anyone and everyone opposing their leaders—in Libya against Gaddafi, in Egypt itself against 30-year U.S. ally Mubarak, and now in Syria against Assad. In all these cases, the U.S. has presented its support in the name of the human rights and freedoms of the people against dictatorial leaders.

So why is the Obama administration now asking Christians not to oppose their rulers—in this case, Islamists—who have daily proven themselves corrupt and worse, to the point that millions of Egyptians, most of them Muslims, are trying to oust them?

What’s worse is that the human rights abuses Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been suffering under Muslim Brotherhood rule are significantly worse than the

The Mahdi Cometh: Iranian Government Spokesman Says Ahmadinejad ‘Will Return With Hidden Imam’

Mahmud Ahmadinejad

Radio Free Europe – “An Iranian government spokesman has said that outgoing President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will return with the Hidden Imam, who according to Shi’ite belief went into hiding in the 10th century and will reappear to bring justice to Earth.

‘[Allah] willing, with the manifestation of Imam Mehdi, Ahmadinejad will also return and work for the establishment of pure Islam,’ spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by Iranian news agencies.

Ahmadinejad and his close aides have been criticized in Iran over their repeated references to Mahdi and signs of his imminent coming.

Ahmadinejad came under fire in March for saying that former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be resurrected alongside Jesus and the Hidden Imam.” Source – Radio Free Europe.

Flashback: Muslims United: Thousands Of Palestinians Call For Global Islamist Caliphate To ‘Bring The Coming’ Of Islam’s Savior – The Mahdi – “Thousands of PA Arabs participated in a mass rally in Ramallah earlier this week calling for the establishment of the Muslim Caliphate – the worldwide Islamist government that will ‘bring the coming of the Mahdi.’ the Muslim messiah. The Caliphate is essentially a union of Muslim countries under the spiritual and political leadership of a single individual, the Caliph. It has been an Islamic concept since the days of Muhammad, when it was established by several of his disciples. The office of ‘official Caliph’ has been disputed at times, with rival would-be Caliphs battling each other for the title.” Read more.

Flashback: Iranian Government: ‘Jesus’ And The Mahdi Are Coming Soon! – “The following picture was sent to me from a friend in Iran. It is of a small billboard set up in various cities throughout Iran by the present Iranian government. The caption reads, ‘Quote from our Holy prophet, His Holiness Mohammad (God Bless Him): ‘I swear to God, for sure, Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) shall descend amidst my followers, the leader of [the] people on that day shall be his holiness (sic) [the] Mahdi. (May God expedite his revelation).’’ Try to imagine if the present United States government placed billboards across the nation informing and encouraging people with the message that Jesus will return soon.” Read more.

Flashback: Poll: Belief In The ‘Islamic Messiah’ Widespread In Muslim World, 672 Million Believe The Mahdi Will Soon Appear – “Last week, Pew Research firm released a comprehensive study of opinions among Muslims, and one of the questions was related to the Mahdi! Now, for the first time, a comprehensive study including tens of thousands of Muslims in more than 23 countries asked if they believed the Mahdi’s emergence was imminent and that it would occur within their lifetimes. The results conclusively prove that which I have been warning about all along… scholar of Islamic history Timothy Furnish makes the following important observations on his blog … ‘Bottom-line: Mahdism is a far stronger and more-widely held belief than even I had thought – and I’ve been preaching its pervasiveness for years.’” Read more.

‘Seditious Outrage’: Police In Germany Foil Islamist Terror Plot Seeking Mass Destruction And Death

For peaceful purposes …

Qur’an Sura 48:29a, “Mohammed is [Allah’s] apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers …”

By Allan Hall, Mail Online – “Police in Germany have raided dozens of addresses to foil an Islamist terror plot intending to use remote controlled model aircraft filled with explosives to be flown into targets.

Armed officers of the specialist G9G units raided homes in Stuttgart, Munich and Dachau after receiving information that at least one assassination attempt was being planned using the model planes as guided missiles.

Technical materials and paperwork were seized at several addresses while prosecutors spoke of plans for a ‘seditious outrage’.

German intelligence officers have been warning for some time of a home-grown attack inside the country’s borders as more and more Islamists return from Jihadist training camps in Pakistan ready to commit terrorist acts.

As well as the addresses in southern Germany, an Internet service provider in the state of Saxony was also raided. At least two men are in custody and authorities say the operations will continue as more intelligence is gathered.

No information was given about likely targets or exactly which Jihadist organisation the suspects are affiliated with.

One of the addresses raided was at the Olympic Village in Munich, scene of the 1972 Olympic massacre when fanatics of the Black September movement stormed the living quarters of Israeli athletes.

All eleven hostages later died in a shootout at Munich Airport.

Prosecutors said that the arrests were linked to a plot centred on Islamist ‘Holy war’ but gave no further details.” Read more.

Flashback: ‘We Look Forward To A European Summer’: Islamist Threatens To Attack Germany, Kill Chancellor Angela Merkel – “A German Islamist has threatened to attack Berlin this summer and kill Chancellor Angela Merkel in a video posted on the Internet, a newspaper reported on Saturday. A spokesman for Germany’s intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, confirmed its agents had seen such a video. ‘This is an Islamist battle song. It is known to the security services and is being evaluated,’ said the spokesman.” Read more.

Flashback: Downfall Part 2: German Politicians Welcome Introduction Of Sharia Law In Germany, ‘Good For Integration’ – “Most politicians in Germany have gotten the message: The quickest way to spark a career-damaging controversy is to make a facile comment about Nazis or the Holocaust. Media critics and political opponents are quick to pounce. But that isn’t the only way to attract unwanted attention, as Jochen Hartloff, the interior minister of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, found out this week. In an interview with the Berlin tabloid BZ, Hartloff said that Sharia law, in a ‘modern form,’ would be acceptable in Germany.” Read more.

Flashback: Germany: Hundreds Of Radical Islamists Riot In Bonn, 29 Police Officers Injured, 2 Stabbed – “Clashes erupted in Germany when police tried to separate competing rallies by an ultraconservative Muslim group and a small far-right march, injuring 29 officers, authorities said Sunday. More than 100 Salafist protesters were briefly arrested. The trouble in the western city of Bonn started late Saturday when hundreds of Muslims protested against the rally of about 30 supporters of the local far-right party Pro NRW, which has angered Muslims by showing unfavorable cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Strict Muslims oppose any depiction of their prophet. About 110 Salafist protesters were arrested after they started attacking security forces with stones and bottles, police said. Two of the injured police officers were hospitalized with serious wounds after being stabbed.” Read more.

Australia: Muslim Jailed For Beating Wife Says Physical Punishment Of Women Is ‘Good’ In His Culture

When Muslims insist on immigrating to the West it is not enough to simply say that they “respect” civilized society and the rule of law. They also need to obey it. Unfortunately, far too many do not …

Qur’an Sura 4:34, “Men have authority over women because [Allah] has made the one superior to the other… Good women are obedient… As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them…”

Hadith – Abu Dawud, 2142, “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.”

By Steve Butcher, The Age – “A Melbourne man who bound, gagged and repeatedly struck his wife with a piece of garden hose – and also shaved off her hair – has voluntarily bought a one-way ticket out of Australia.

Raidh Janabi said he had respect for Australia and its laws, but 27 months since beating her he has declared: ‘I’m not going to stay here anymore. (I’ll) feel better when I go far (away).’

But his departure will be delayed until he serves the next two years in a Victorian prison for recklessly causing serious injury to his now former wife.

Judge Damian Murphy on Tuesday ‘totally condemned’ Janabi’s conduct which he described as designed to humiliate her and, by cutting her hair, intended to ‘restrict her ability to socialise’.

In his sentencing in the County Court, Judge Murphy said he agreed with Janabi, 53, who described his offence as ‘twenty minutes of madness’ and that the attack showed ‘high-handed disregard’ for the integrity [of] her body and the path she had chosen for her  own life.

Fairfax Media has previously reported that he injured his wife of 22 years on February 27, 2011, at their home because he thought she had been unfaithful…

[Prosecutor Kevin Doyle] said he then struck her for 15 minutes with the hose before they left the house for a motel. On her return she went to police the next day…

Judge Murphy told Janabi that ‘in this country’ no-one is entitled to assault their wife. ‘A husband is not entitled to bash his wife,’ he said. ‘This is the law of the land.’ …

Janabi told Judge Murphy how before he came to Australia in 1996 as a political refugee that ‘our culture’ in Iraq was that ‘if a wife cheats and the husband kills her’ and he attends the police or a court ‘they said to him ‘good on you, just go home”.

‘I have respect for Australia, the law of Australia,’ he said, noting he had not once been to a police station and that ‘I’m straight and good’.

‘I love Australia, because Australia saved me,’ he said.

But he had ‘learned a lot’ and ‘paid a lot’ from and since what had happened in February, 2011, and announced he had the one-way ticket out of Australia. ‘I’m not going to stay here anymore,’ he declared…

There was no truth in his claim his wife was having an affair, Mr Doyle submitted.” Read more.

Flashback: The Treatment of Women in Islamic Culture

• Top 10 Qur’an Quotes Every Woman Must See
• Muslim Rapist: Women Have No Rights Or Opinions In Islam
• Chechnya: Women In Mortal Fear As Chechen President Promotes Islamic Honor Killings
• Israel: Local Cleric Favors Beating Women As Radical Islamic Revolution Closes In On Israeli Arabs
• Kuwait: Muslim Man Beating Wife Tells Passersby, ‘Leave Me Alone, She Is My Wife I Can Do What I Want With Her’
• Turkey: 62% Of Men Support Wife Beating, Murder Rate Of Women Increases 1400% Since Election Of Islamist Party
• UK: Muslim Husband Beats Wife, Tells Police He Is Entitled To Beat Her … Because His Islamic Religion Allows It
• Egypt: Cleric Says Islam Teaches A Man To Beat His Wife So That She’ll Treat Him With Kindness, Respect, And Know He Is Superior
• Oops: Islamic Book Promoting Wife-Beating Receives Endorsement From Muslim Politician In Canada
• Canada: ‘Beat By Hand or Stick’: Islamic Marriage Guide At Toronto Store Teaches Husbands How To Control Their Wives