John L. Allen, author of the 2013 bestseller The Global War on Christians and Associate Editor of Crux Catholic journal, finds that in general, “religion is undervalued” throughout the State Department 2014 “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which derives from the administration’s “demotion of religious liberty to a second-class right,” listed only as a sub-heading. The Obama-Kerry […]
Where are the Protests to Ban Islam’s Black Flag?
Even Southerners are calling for the retiring of the Confederate Flag. Where are the Moderate Muslim protests to ban the Black Flag of Islam? Over at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher has a really stirring piece in which he grapples with the complexity and pain of the guerre du jour, the movement to finally banish […]
Iran: Pastor “viciously beaten” in prison, told only way out is to deny Christ
Prison dawah, Islamic style. Now imagine if a Muslim imam were incarcerated in Greece, an Orthodox Christian nation, and Christian inmates were savagely beating him in order to force him to convert to Christianity. Wouldn’t the Western media take notice then? Pastor Saeed is one of the great Christian confessors of our time. His wife, Naghmeh […]
Iran sentences 18 Christians to prison in new crackdown on Christianity
“Charges include evangelism, propaganda against the regime, and creating house churches to practice their faith,” with prison sentences up to 24 years. Iran’s persecution of Christians is so harsh and relentless that it’s hard to keep up with it, as a quick search here on Jihad Watch proves. And to think that the Obama administration had […]
Imprisoned Sudanese pastors facing death penalty barred from seeing lawyers, family
The two pastors were recently moved to a notorious high-security facility in North Khartoum, Sudan, where they have been isolated since at least early June. Update on this story. “Imprisoned Sudanese Pastors Facing Death Penalty Barred From Seeing Lawyers, Family Following Visit by American Pastor,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post via Pravoslavie, June 10, 2015: […]
Muslim persecution of Christians worsens in Palestinian territories, Israel
Christians fear ISIS influence is expanding. Mob violence against Christians, anti-Christian billboards and graffiti, and jihadist rhetoric have Christians concerned: “Feeling afraid. Feeling cornered. Feeling, ‘Maybe this is not my place. Maybe I just need to get out of here. I don’t want to deal with them. I don’t trust them anymore.’” Just as in Egypt, imams […]
‘Do the Muslims Love Their Children Too?’: Reapplying Sting’s Cold War anthem to a new war
In Europe and America, There’s a growing feeling of hysteria… . . . But what may save us, me and you, Is if the [Muslims] love their children too. —Adapted from ‘Russians’, by Sting, 1985. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Sting’s solo career with his critically acclaimed, […]
Australia: Islamic State collecting radioactive material to make ‘dirty bomb’
Jihad Watch has been warning about the threat of jihadis developing radiological WMDs and “dirty bombs” since at least 2004, when it was reported that global theft and smuggling of radiological materials had increased more than six-fold from 1996 to 2003. Just last September, the U.S. State Department set aside for a moment its top priorities of […]
Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey closing Christian schools because of their “missionary work”
The Turks are irked by Christians being… well, Christians. And they can’t have that in the Islamic Republic of Turkey, so the official position is that Christian schools “do not have a right to promote Christian values.” But for us to draw attention to this is “Islamophobic.” As an important historical side note, the once […]
US officials decline to meet with Muslim Brotherhood delegation to Washington
This clearly seems to be the direct result of Egypt summoning the U.S. ambassador in Cairo to the “woodshed” over Washington’s continued support for the jihadist group. High-ranking State Department officials met with MB members as recently as January, and the Obama administration has been secretly backing the Brotherhood since at least as early as 2011 and Presidential Study Directive 11 […]