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

In this mailing: - Raymond Ibrahim: "Hatred, Enmity, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide": The Persecution of Christians, March 2021 - Amir Taheri: Posturing is No Policy on Iran [] ["Hatred, Enmity, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide": The Persecution of Christians, March 2021]( by Raymond Ibrahim • April 18, 2021 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - 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." [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Posturing is No Policy on Iran]( by Amir Taheri • April 18, 2021 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - A nuclear armed Islamic Republic might be no more than a nuisance for the US, as is North Korea for example, while it would be an existential threat to Israel. - But what if the whole nuclear issue, built by former President Barack Obama as the core of the "Iran problem", is a diversion designed to put real or imaginary foes on a wrong trajectory? - So, is Iran enriching uranium to build a bomb? - He [Obama] cited a "fatwa" by "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei that forbids Muslims from building the bomb. (Needless to say possibly apart from Obama no one has seen the fatwa.) - What if what many see as the Islamic Republic's nuclear policy is a posture... not a policy? That posture serves the Khomeinist regime's interests by shifting the focus away from the real mischief and crimes it has been committing inside and outside Iran for four decades. - Its "exporting revolution" has already contributed to triggering and prolonging the war in Yemen. Without its involvement, the Syrian civil war may not have led to what is the greatest tragedy the world has seen in the new century. By creating Hezbollah, the mullahs have led Lebanon to the brink of ungovernability, not to say systemic collapse. By supporting the most radical rejectionist groups, the mullahs have also helped block the road to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence accord. - To forget all that, not to mention the seizing of scores of hostages and the killing of hundreds of US, British and French soldiers with roadside bombs and terror attacks in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, and over 100 terror operations in 22 countries across the globe, would be the height of naiveté and a sure sign of moral decadence. (Image source: iStock) Two months or nine months? This is the question making the rounds with regards to the latest "incident" at Natanz nuclear center where Iran is engaged in a massive uranium enrichment program. Attributed to Israeli secret services, the incident disabled some 5,000 centrifuges put in full operation two months ago as a means of exerting pressure on the new administration in Washington. Iranian experts say the infernal machine could be back in full gear within two months. Western experts say nine months is a likelier time-span. The "incident" came at a time that Tehran's envoys were engaged in indirect talks with US diplomats on a possible deal for Iran to reduce its enrichment program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions imposed by Washington, the UN and the European Union. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022