Friday, May 18, 2012

Muslim Persecution of Christians: April 2012

"The police are also involved in this."

by Raymond Ibrahim
May 18, 2012 at 5:00 am

"500 Muslims had gathered and were watching in amusement as the extremists chased and harassed the Christians, attempting to murder them all, for about 90 minutes."

As Easter, one of the highest Christian holidays, comes in April, Christian persecution in Muslim nations—from sheer violence to oppressive laws—was rampant: In Nigeria, where jihadis have expressed their desire to expunge all traces of Christianity, a church was bombed during Easter Sunday, killing some 50 worshippers; in Turkey, a pastor was beaten by Muslims immediately following Easter service and threatened with death unless he converted to Islam; and in Iran, Easter Sunday saw 12 Christians stand trial as "apostates."

The persecution of Christians has come to regions not normally associated with it. As in Nigeria, Muslim militants are now also running amok in Timbuktu, Mali—beheading a Christian leader and threatening other Christians with similar treatment. Sharia law has been imposed, churches are being destroyed, and Christians are fleeing Timbuktu in mass.
Categorized by theme, April's assemblage of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed in alphabetical order by country, not severity:

Church Attacks

Azerbaijan: A church in the Muslim-majority nation has "become the first religious community to be liquidated by a court since the country's harsh new 'Religion Law,' requiring all previously registered religious institutions to re-register, came into force in 2009. Greater Grace Protestant Church in the capital, Baku, "was stripped of its registration at a 15-minute hearing on 25 April. The decision, which was made in the absence of any church representatives, makes any activity by the church illegal and subject to punishment."
Indonesia: Gunmen opened fire on the GKI Yasmin church, causing much damage, in the latest attack on the building, which has been illegally sealed off by authorities since 2008 in response to Muslim demands. Another Protestant church unlawfully sealed off by the authorities—despite meeting all requirements for a permit—was met with violent opposition from Muslims when its members tried to hold a service on the street in front of their sealed-off church building. Muslim residents made death threats, played loud music, and rode a motorcycle through the congregation. A church spokesman said: "We are constantly having to change our location because our existence appears to be unwanted, and we have to hide so that we are not intimidated by intolerant groups… We had hoped for help from the police, but after many attacks on members of the congregation, we see that the police are also involved in this." Read the rest on:

The burden which Habakuk HaNavi (the prophet) did see.

Hab 1:2 Until when, Yahweh, must I cry for help, and Thou wilt not hear? Even cry out unto Thee, Chamas (violence!), and Thou wilt not save?

Hab 1:3 Why dost Thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and chamas (violence) are before me; and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

Hab 1:4 Therefore the torah is not followed, and mishpat (ordinance) doth never prevail; for the rasha (bat one) doth hem in the tzadik; therefore mishpat (justice) proceeded perverted.

Hab 1:5 [Yahweh says:] Behold ye the Goyim (peoples), and regard, and wonder marvelously; for I will work a work in your yamim (days) which, though it be told you, of it ye will have no emunah (faith).

Hab 1:6 For, hineni (behold), I raise up the Kasdim (Chaldeans), that Goy (people) bitter and impetuous, which shall march far and wide over the earth, to confiscate the mishkanot (dwelling places) that are not their own.

Hab 1:7 They are terrible and dreadful; their mishpat (justice) and their dignity shall proceed from themselves.

Hab 1:8 Their susim (horses) also are swifter than the leopards, keener than the evening wolves; and their parash (horseman) shall charge ahead, and their parash (horseman) shall come from afar; they shall fly as the nesher (eagle), swooping to devour.

Hab 1:9 They shall come all for chamas (violence); the swarm of their faces is directed forward, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

Hab 1:10 And they shall scoff at the melachim (kings), and the roznim (princes) shall be a scorn unto them; they shall laugh at every stronghold; for they shall heap dirt, and take it.

Hab 1:11 Then they sweep on like the ruach (wind), guilty men whose elohim is his own koach (power).

Hab 1:12 Art thou not mikedem (from everlasting),

[ Also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s divine nature: see Mic 5:2 [5:1] But thou, Beitlechem Ephratah, though thou be little among the Alphei Yehudah (Thousands of Yehudah), yet out of thee shall He [Moshiach] come forth unto Me [Yahweh] that is to be Moshel (governor) Yisroel; whose goings forth have been mikedem, (from everlasting), mimei olam (from the days of eternity).

Dan 7:13 I was beholding in visions of the night, and, hinei, one like a Bar Enosh (Ben Adam, i.e., Moshiach) came with the clouds of Shomayim, and came to the Atik Yomin (Ancient of Days, i.e., Yahweh), and before Him He was brought.

Dan 7:14 And there was given Him (Moshiach) dominion, and honor, and sovereignty, that all people, Goyim, tongues, should pey-lammed-chet. [i](worship as deity) (see Dan 3:12, serve, reverence as deity Him (Moshiach). His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His (Messianic) Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.],

Yahweh Elohai (my Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed them for mishpat (justice); O Tzur, Thou hast ordained them for reproof.

To say No to the mark of the beast is to say:
(And not to hate them!)

No too two states in the Land. Not to give a big part to these 'Chaldean'.
The world shall pay a big 'prize' for that! Receive judgment!
No too all the laws that goes against the commandments of Abba YHWH. No choice than to say No to Shariah law.

Not to look to the other side or to say, it’s Peace, when they try to put shariah law in your country.
But to say Yes to Abba Yahweh and His Laws special in this time when Abba Yahweh is 'testing' us:

Hab 1:12 Art thou not mikedem (‘everlasting’ also said of Moshiach, indicating Moshiach’s eternal divine nature: see Michoh 5:1[2]; see Dan 7:13-14; 3:12), Yahweh Elohai (my Elohim) Kedoshi (my Holy One)? We shall not die. Yahweh, Thou hast appointed them for mishpat (ordinance); O Tzur, Thou hast ordained them for reproof.

Please take it serious what Abba Yahweh is telling us in:

Deu 18:15 Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohim) will raise up unto thee a Navi (prophet) from among thee, of thy achim (bretheren), kamoni (like me [Moshe, Ex 32:30]); unto him ye must listen;

Deu 18:16 According to all that thou desired of Yahweh Eloheicha (your Elohimin) Chorev in the Yom HaKahal (day of the gogregation), saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh Elohav (your Elohim), neither let me see this eish hagedolah (‘great fire’) any more, that I die not.

Deu 18:17 And Yahweh said unto me, They have well-spoken that which they have spoken.

Deu 18:18 I will raise them up a Navi (prophet) from among their achim (brethren), like unto thee, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him [Yn 10:18].

Deu 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My Name), I will require it of him.

Joh 8:28 Therefore, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, When you perform the hagbah (lifting up) of the Ben HaAdam, you will have da'as (knowledge) that Ani Hu [YESHAYAH 41:4; SHEMOT 3:14-16], and from myself I do nothing, but as HaAv (the Father) of me taught me, these things I speak.

[i] Dictionary of the Talmud. M. Jastrow p. 1178 פלח