Ernie: I just finished reading a 2008 book, The Lost History of Christianity, The author. Philip Jenkins, is unaware that the Qur'an is loaded with jihad commandments and otherwise expresses contempt for other religions, but one thing he has right, in spades, is the 1000 year history of Muslim violence against Christians ( as well as Zoroastrians, Buddhists, and others ), to the extent that Christian MAJORITIES in Iraq, Syria, Turkiye, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, etc, are all gone. ALL gone. What is happening now is a concerted effort to obliterate the surviving churches.
One example, Turkiye, with a Christian population similar to the Copts in Egypt, over 10 % as recently as about 1900, is now at 1% or less. Sure, many Muslims, maybe even a majority, are uninterested in killing Christians, But a large percentage is dedicated to eliminating all rivals to Islam and they are the ones who make the difference, LETHAL difference. We are up against a Fascist religion, there really is no other way to characterize it, Billy -------------------------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 7/19/2009 6:35:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: :-( _http://www.persecutionblog.com/2009/07/iraq-seven-churches-bombed.html_ (http://www.persecutionblog.com/2009/07/iraq-seven-churches-bombed.html) Iraq: Seven churches bombed On July 11 two bombs targeted churches in the cities of Baghdad and Mosul and killed at least four people and injured 30 others, according to VOM contacts. Two bombs ripped through the St. Joseph church in western Baghdad at approximately 10:00 p.m. The next afternoon, three bombs exploded within 15 minutes of each other outside three different church buildings in Baghdad. That evening, a car bomb detonated outside a church building in the eastern region of the city. Minutes later, another bomb exploded outside a church building in Baghdad’s Dora district. Meanwhile on July 13, a car bomb detonated near Our Lady of Fatima Church in the city of Mosul. This is the latest attack on Christians in Iraq. The Christian community in Iraq is estimated to be 3 percent of Iraq’s 26 million people, or about 800,000. Since 2003, Christian leaders, churches and businesses in Iraq have been targeted by Islamic extremists. As a result, many believers have fled. = _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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