MUSLIM FORCED CONVERSIONS

[AGAINST GODLESS SOCIALISM]

ISLAMIC FORCED CONVERSIONS—PAST AND PRESENT

May. 16, 2013
The Blaze
Raymond Ibrahim

The lost history of Christians forced to convert to Islam—or die—is
reemerging, figuratively and literally. According to the BBC: “Pope
Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a
ceremony [last Sunday] at the Vatican—a list which includes 800
victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in
1480.They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after
refusing to convert to Islam.”

The BBC adds in a sidebar: “The ‘Martyrs of Otranto’ were 813 Italians
beheaded for defying demands by Turkish invaders to renounce
Christianity. The Turks had been sent by Mohammed II, who had already
captured the ‘second Rome’ of Constantinople.”

Historical texts throughout the centuries are filled with similar
anecdotes, including the “60 Martyrs of Gaza,” Christian soldiers who
were executed for refusing Islam during the 7th century Islamic
invasion of Jerusalem. Seven centuries later, during the Islamic
invasion of Georgia, Christians refusing to convert were forced into
their church and set on fire. Witnesses for Christ lists 200 anecdotes
of Christians killed—including some burned at the stake, thrown on
iron spikes, dismembered, stoned, stabbed, shot at, drowned, pummeled
to death, impaled and crucified—for refusing to embrace Islam.

If history is shocking, the fact is, today, Christians—men, women, and
children—are still being forced to convert to Islam. Pope Francis
alluded to their sufferings during the same ceremony: “As we venerate
the martyrs of Otranto, let us ask God to sustain those many
Christians who, in these times and in many parts of the world, right
now, still suffer violence, and give them the courage and fidelity to
respond to evil with good.”

Consider some recent anecdotes:

In Pakistan, a “devoted Christian” was butchered by Muslim men “with
multiple axe blows [24 per autopsy] for refusing to convert to Islam.”
Another two Christian men returning from church were accosted by six
Muslims who tried to force them to convert to Islam, but “the two
refused to renounce Christianity.” Accordingly, the Muslims severely
beat them, yelling they must either convert “or be prepared to
die. . . . the two Christians fell unconscious, and the young Muslim
men left assuming they had killed them.”

In Bangladesh some 300 Christian children were abducted in 2012 and
sold to Islamic schools, where “imams force them to abjure
Christianity.” The children are then instructed in Islam and beaten.
After full indoctrination they are asked if they are “ready to give
their lives for Islam,” presumably by becoming jihadi suicide-
bombers. (Even here the historic patterns are undeniable: for
centuries, Christian children were forcibly taken, converted to and
indoctrinated in Islam, trained to be jihadis extraordinaire, and then
unleashed on their former Christian families. Such were the
Janissaries and Mamelukes.)

In Palestine in 2012, Christians in Gaza protested over the
“kidnappings and forced conversions of some former believers to
Islam.” The ever-dwindling Christian community banged on a church bell
while chanting, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice
ourselves for you, Jesus.”

Just as happened throughout history, Muslims today regularly “invite”
Christians to Islam, often presenting it as the only cure to their
sufferings—sufferings caused by Muslims in the first place.

In Pakistan, a Christian couple was arrested on a false charge and
severely beaten by police. The pregnant wife was “punched, kicked and
beat” as her interrogators threatened to kill her unborn baby. A
policeman offered to drop the theft charge if the husband would only
“renounce Christianity and convert to Islam,” but the man refused.

In Uzbekistan, a 26-year-old Christian woman, partially paralyzed from
youth, and her elderly mother were violently attacked by invaders who
ransacked their home, confiscating “icons, Bibles, religious
calendars, and prayer books.” At the police department, the paralyzed
woman was “offered to convert to Islam.” She refused, and the judge
“decided that the women had resisted police and had stored the banned
religious literature at home and conducted missionary activities. He
fined them 20 minimum monthly wages each.”

In Sudan, Muslims kidnapped a 15-year-old Christian girl; they raped,
beat and ordered her to convert to Islam. When her mother went to
police to open a case, the Muslim officer of the so-called “Family and
Child Protection Unit,” told her: “You must convert to Islam if you
want your daughter back.”

Indeed, because Christian females are the most vulnerable segments of
Islamic societies, they are especially targeted for forced
conversions. In 2012, U.S. Congress heard testimony about the
“escalating abduction, coerced conversion and forced marriage of
Coptic Christian women and girls [550 cases in the last five years
alone].Those women are being terrorized and, consequently,
marginalized, in the formation of the new Egypt.”

As my new book Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians
documents, wherever there are large numbers of Muslims—whether in the
Arab World, Africa, Asia, or even in the West—Christians are being
persecuted. Forced conversions are the tip of the iceberg, and
certainly not anomalies of history.

http://www.truthandgrace.com/ISLAM.htm

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In article <be2286ec-819b-4d03...@qz2g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
AGAINST GODLESS SOCIALISM says...
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>ISLAMIC FORCED CONVERSIONS -- PAST AND PRESENT
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It's not difficult to find people made insane by
pretty much any kind of religion, and just about anywhere,
doing horrible things. If I gave you an nuclear bomb
to play with you would be one of them
-- as you have frequently admitted.