Distressingly, these Christians have been finding themselves
in the blind spot of the West: they are "too Christian" to
get the Left's attention, but too far away for the Right.
Africa's Christians are orphans. They have no "allies",
John O'Sullivan writes.

Christian families recently fled the city of Diffa, in Niger,
after Boko Haram delivered the message: "You have three days
to go or you will be killed!". "There is no Christian anymore
in this town", someone reported to the non-governmental
organization, the Barnabas Fund. The town, Arbinda, is in
Burkina Faso. Numbers are telling: 82 pastors, 1,145 Christians
and 151 households have fled from violence in the Muslim
-majority nation. Just in the last few weeks, several of the
Christian faithful and clergy have been murdered. Jihadists
killed six Christians in a Catholic church in the town of
Dablo. A pastor was murdered in an attack in Silgadji,
Catholic parades have been targeted.


Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.

=======================

Christians In Africa: "You Have Three Days To Go Or You Will Be Killed!"

Mon, 07/01/2019 - 02:00

Authored by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone Institute

* "Christianity originated in the Middle East. Thus, the displacement
or evacuation of Christians from the Middle East is very dangerous for
the safety of the region... also in the Mediterranean Sea region. Europe
is affected by this." - Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II, in Germany,
where he was inaugurating a new Coptic church for his exiled community.
Deutsche Welle, May 14, 2019.

* Regrettably, the tragedy of these Christian massacres is directly
proportional to the neglect with which they are reported in the West.

* "Islamophobia looms large; talk of Christophobia is almost
nonexistent". - Ross Douthat, "Are Christians Privileged or
Persecuted?", The New York Times, April 23, 2019.

* Algeria -- the country of origin of some of the Christian fathers
such as Augustine of Hippo -- has become a country... where officially
there are "no native Christians". How many other countries will meet the
same fate? And will the West ever come to the help of their Christian
brethren?


Persecution of Christians in the Middle East is now close to "genocide",
a UK-commissioned report just revealed. The same threat has also become
critical for Christian communities in Africa.

Some say it began in Algeria in the 1990s, when 19 monks, bishops, nuns
and other Catholics were killed during the civil war. Since then, in
Nigeria, Christian faithful have been massacred in their churches; in
Kenya, Christians have been killed in universities; in Libya, Christians
have been beheaded on beaches; in Yemen, nuns have been assassinated and
in Egypt, massive anti-Christian violence is prompting an exodus. It is
the new African archipelago of persecution.

Distressingly, these Christians have been finding themselves in the
blind spot of the West: they are "too Christian" to get the Left's
attention, but too far away for the Right. Africa's Christians are
orphans. They have no "allies", John O'Sullivan writes.

Christian families recently fled the city of Diffa, in Niger, after Boko
Haram delivered the message: "You have three days to go or you will be
killed!". "There is no Christian anymore in this town", someone reported
to the non-governmental organization, the Barnabas Fund. The town,
Arbinda, is in Burkina Faso. Numbers are telling: 82 pastors, 1,145
Christians and 151 households have fled from violence in the
Muslim-majority nation. Just in the last few weeks, several of the
Christian faithful and clergy have been murdered. Jihadists killed six
Christians in a Catholic church in the town of Dablo. A pastor was
murdered in an attack in Silgadji, Catholic parades have been targeted.

Pictured: The gate of a school in Diffa. (Image source: Roland
Hunziker/Wikimedia Commons)

Jihadists apparently want to "cleanse" these areas of Christians -- and
they are succeeding. "There is an atmosphere of panic in the town," the
mayor of Dablo, Ousmane Zongo, said. "People are holed up in their
homes, nothing is going on. The shops and stores are closed. It's
practically a ghost town".

In Nigeria, attacks on Christians never stop. The country has become a
"war zone for Christians".

"The attacks on Christians are growing more flagrant and more
aggressive," Father John Bakeni from the Maiduguri Diocese, northern
Nigeria, said. "We consider each day we live in safety a blessing
because we do not know what will happen the next day".

"We Christians are at risk of extinction and an attempt is being
made to Islamize the whole country because controlling Nigeria means
expelling Christians from all of West Africa", said Father Joseph
Fidelis Bature, a Catholic priest in the Nigerian diocese of Maiduguri,
in the Italian monthly Tempi.

Unfortunately, we Westerners have a short memory. Al Qaeda's first
attacks took place in Africa: the bombings against US embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania. Africa matters for the West. That is why we should take
this monstrous new anti-Christian persecution more seriously.
"Christianity originated in the Middle East", the Egyptian Coptic Pope
Tawadros II said in Germany, where he was inaugurating a new Coptic
church in May for his exiled community. "Thus, the displacement or
evacuation of Christians from the Middle East is very dangerous for the
safety of the region, not only in the Middle East but also in the
Mediterranean Sea region. Europe is affected by this, and the Arab
countries as well". The West should take much more seriously these
appeals from the Eastern Christian leaders.

With a secularized Europe and a Middle East close to becoming emptied of
Christians, those jihadists who are obsessed with eradicating
Christianity understand that their current ideological battlefield is in
Africa. "By 2025, 50 percent of the (world's) Christian population will
be in Africa and Latin America", wrote the scholar Philip Jenkins. The
share of the world's Christians in sub-Saharan Africa is expected grow
from 24% in 2010 to 38% by 2050. That is why jihadists there are
pursuing a horrific project of religious cleansing.

"Christianity has literally 'gone south', exploding demographically
in the developing world and augmenting ongoing sociopolitical turmoil in
places such as West Africa", the Pew Forum reports. Radical Islam wants
to stop this demographic movement, which Professor Philip Jenkins called
"the largest religious change of any kind that has ever occurred".

According to another report, in one century the number of Muslims living
in sub-Saharan Africa has increased more than 20-fold, rising from 11
million in 1900 to 234 million in 2010. At the same time, the number of
Christians has grown 70-fold, rising from 7 million to 470 million.
Sub-Saharan Africa now is home to 21% of all the Christians in the world
and 15% of the world's Muslims. "Islamic extremism has two global
centers of gravity, one in the Arab Middle East, but the other is in
sub-Saharan Africa", researcher Ron Boyd-MacMillan noted in a report for
Open Doors.

Every year, Open Doors lists the world's 50 worst persecutors of
Christians. The list include 14 African countries, called home to
"extreme" or "very high" levels of persecution: Algeria, the Central
African Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali,
Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, and Tunisia. Mali, for
instance, went from no listing to seventh place in just two years. In
Kenya last year, Islamists forced passengers of a bus to present their
identification cards. Then they separated Muslims and killed the two
Christians.

Regrettably, the tragedy of these massacres of Christians is directly
proportional to the neglect with which they are reported in the West.
"One of the basic facts of contemporary religious history is that
Christians around the world are persecuted on an extraordinary scale",
Ross Douthat recently wrote in The New York Times.

"Yet as an era-defining reality rather than an episodic phenomenon
this reality is barely visible in the Western media, and rarely called
by name and addressed head-on by Western governments and humanitarian
institutions. ('Islamophobia' looms large; talk of 'Christophobia' is
almost nonexistent.)"

Jihadists know a secret: persecution works. Algeria -- the country of
origin of some of the Christian fathers such as Augustine of Hippo --
has become a country that is 99.9% Muslim and where officially there are
"no native Christians". How many other countries will meet the same
fate? And will the West ever come to the help of their Christian brethren?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...will-be-killed

On 7/1/19 7:55 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.


Dearborn, a suburb of Ann Arbor Michigan, is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.

Not surprisingly, they have a lefty libtard university there too.

On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 9:27:46 AM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 7:55 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.


Dearborn, a suburb of Ann Arbor Michigan, is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.

Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. It shares a border with
Detroit, whereas Ann Arbor is almost 40 miles away.

Not surprisingly, they have a lefty libtard university there too.

UM-Dearborn isn't nearly as lefty libtard as the original in Ann Arbor.

Cindy Hamilton

On 7/1/19 10:11 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 9:27:46 AM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 7:55 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.
Dearborn, a suburb of Ann Arbor Michigan, is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.
Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. It shares a border with
Detroit, whereas Ann Arbor is almost 40 miles away.

Yabbut I think your girl Rashida Tlaib_4 wants to merge the two into one.

On 7/1/19 10:11 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 9:27:46 AM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 7:55 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.


Dearborn, a suburb of Ann Arbor Michigan, is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.

Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. It shares a border with
Detroit, whereas Ann Arbor is almost 40 miles away.

Not surprisingly, they have a lefty libtard university there too.

UM-Dearborn isn't nearly as lefty libtard as the original in Ann Arbor.

Cindy Hamilton

Ya' know, I did five years in southeast Michigan in the late 60's/early
70's and back then, the U of M was a fine school and even had a good
football team.

Damned shame what's happened to it- and so many others, in the
intervening years.

Around Christmas last year, I got a "spirit of giving"
please-make-a--donation form letter from the president of one of my alma
maters. To my mind, the politically correct liberal nonsense they wanted
the money for touched on being obscene.

I wrote a short, thoughtful letter back to him explaining why, at least
to my way of thinking, he and his fellow-academics had their collective
heads up their collective butts. Now I said it very nicely, politely and
inoffensively of course, but I've not heard back from him ;-)

--
Two golf pros were asked how they can identify a good golfer. The
liberal one offered an elaborate description of the grip, stance, club
construction, address and swing. The conservative said, "I look to see
where the ball lands.€�
- after @larryelder

On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 1:28:40 PM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 10:11 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 9:27:46 AM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 7:55 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.
Dearborn, a suburb of Ann Arbor Michigan, is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.
Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. It shares a border with
Detroit, whereas Ann Arbor is almost 40 miles away.

Yabbut I think your girl Rashida Tlaib_4 wants to merge the two into one.

She's not my girl. Debbie Dingell is my U.S. representative.

Cindy Hamilton

Wade Garrett posted for all of us...


Ya' know, I did five years in southeast Michigan in the late 60's/early
70's and back then, the U of M was a fine school and even had a good
football team.

Damned shame what's happened to it- and so many others, in the
intervening years.

Around Christmas last year, I got a "spirit of giving"
please-make-a--donation form letter from the president of one of my alma
maters. To my mind, the politically correct liberal nonsense they wanted
the money for touched on being obscene.

I wrote a short, thoughtful letter back to him explaining why, at least
to my way of thinking, he and his fellow-academics had their collective
heads up their collective butts. Now I said it very nicely, politely and
inoffensively of course, but I've not heard back from him ;-)


Which do you expect first? A reply or another appeal?

--
Tekkie

On 7/1/19 3:58 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
Wade Garrett posted for all of us...


Ya' know, I did five years in southeast Michigan in the late 60's/early
70's and back then, the U of M was a fine school and even had a good
football team.

Damned shame what's happened to it- and so many others, in the
intervening years.

Around Christmas last year, I got a "spirit of giving"
please-make-a--donation form letter from the president of one of my alma
maters. To my mind, the politically correct liberal nonsense they wanted
the money for touched on being obscene.

I wrote a short, thoughtful letter back to him explaining why, at least
to my way of thinking, he and his fellow-academics had their collective
heads up their collective butts. Now I said it very nicely, politely and
inoffensively of course, but I've not heard back from him ;-)


Which do you expect first? A reply or another appeal?

Well, I asked to be removed from their mailing lists so I'm sure that
will take care of it ;-)

On 7/1/19 2:13 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 1:28:40 PM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 10:11 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Monday, July 1, 2019 at 9:27:46 AM UTC-4, Emma Trohl wrote:
On 7/1/19 7:55 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Behold free speech, civil rights and the rule of law - islamic style.

Coming soon (no - coming every day) to a country near you.

Diversity is our strength - until it isin't.
Dearborn, a suburb of Ann Arbor Michigan, is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States.
Dearborn is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. It shares a border with
Detroit, whereas Ann Arbor is almost 40 miles away.

Yabbut I think your girl Rashida Tlaib_4 wants to merge the two into one.
She's not my girl. Debbie Dingell is my U.S. representative.

Cindy Hamilton


Debbie Dingelling is a lefty-libtard too.