France: Anti-Muslim graffiti found on French mosque
— AP reports: “Police say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France.”
— “Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has denounced the “vile and racist desecration” of the mosque in the town of Castres.”
— “Police say the swastika in black paint and slogans including Hitler salute “Sieg Heil” in German, “France to the French” in French, and “White Power” in English were scrawled on the mosque.”
Day: December 14, 2009
Somalia: Extremists Stone Man to Death, Publicly Whip 15 Year Old Girl
— Somali Man Stoned to Death by Extremists for Adultery
— Bloomberg reports: “Somalia’s rebel Hisb-ul-Islam group had a man stoned to death for adultery in front of hundreds of people and a woman flogged for her relationship with him, Sheikh Osman Fidow, a security official for the group, said in an interview.”
— Somalia: Extremists Excute Two Men in Afgoye District
— RBC Radio: Mohammed Abubakar Ibrahim stoned to death for adultery, Sheik Osman Hassan Fidow said stoning based on “Islamic sharia law”
— “Adan Ahmed who was at the scene told RBC Radio that he was looking one of the excuted men (Abu Bakr Mohammed Ibrahim) screaming, with blood pouring from his head and chest.. he added ‘He died quickly after being hit by large pieces of rubble.’ ”
— “Ibrahim’s partner, a 15-year-old girl who did nor revealed her name, was punished with 100 lashes on her body because she is not married.”
Iran: Khamenei says election protests “anti-Islam,” as Iran State TV forgery and Iranian nuclear bomb plots reported
Iran leader says opposition protests “anti-Islam”
— Al Arabiya News Channel reports that:
— “Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned opposition leaders on Sunday to distance themselves from protesters whom he accused of acting “against Islam” as he labeled the June presidential election legal and said the case was closed.”
— Iran: Burned ayatollah photo sparks new Iranian protests
— Iranian state TV accused of faking burning of Khomeini portrait
Iran: Secret document exposes Iran’s nuclear trigger
— London Times: “Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.”
— Leaked memo identifies man at head of Iran’s nuclear program – Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
— Discovery of UD3 raises fears over Iran’s nuclear intentions
— “Critically, while other neutron sources have possible civilian uses, UD3 has only one application – to be the metaphorical match that lights a nuclear bomb.”
— Leaked ‘memo’ suggests Iran’s nuclear secrets
— Iran worked on atom bomb part in 2007: report
Iran to put on trial 3 Americans caught hiking across border
Iran to put on trial 3 Americans caught hiking across border
— Washington Post: “Iran said Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, it would try Americans Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27 who were detained by Iranian authorities after crossing an unmarked border from northern Iraq in July.”
— American hikers to go on trial in Iran
— Clinton Rejects Iranian Spy Charges Against American Hikers
American Copts Protest in NYC and LA on Anti-Christian Sectarian Violence in Egypt
ICC reports: “American Copts Protest Anti-Christian Sectarian Violence in Egypt”
“Washington, DC (December 14, 2009) – International Christian Concern (ICC) announces the commencement of three Coptic rallies to be held in several U.S. cities.”
“American Coptic Christians have coordinated demonstrations to voice their concerns over the vast increase of sectarian violence toward Christian minorities in Egypt. The rallies will be held in New York and Chicago on December 14th, and Los Angeles on December 27th.”
“Anti-Christian clashes have hit a boiling point in upper Egypt and in villages throughout the country. The Egyptian government has refused to intervene, leaving Copts defenseless at the hands of Muslim mobs. Egypt’s government has committed grave violations of human rights by failing to protect the Coptic minority and forcing the deportation of Copts from villages where anti-Christian attacks have occurred. The government has also ignored the abduction and incarceration of Coptic women by Muslim men, an overt abuse on women which directly corresponds with the UN’s definition of human trafficking.”
“Aidan Clay, ICC Regional Manager for the Middle East, said ‘These rallies will bring awareness to the flagrant rise of persecution against the Coptic Christian minority under Islamic-based coercion. ICC backs the American Coptic community in condemning the Egyptian government for deliberately allowing human rights abuses toward Christians to continue without penalty. We encourage Christians in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles to join the rallies in support of fellow Christians who are suffering in Egypt.’ ”
Please visit Free Copts online for more information. (http://freecopts.net/english/)
— Christian Post: “U.S. Coptic Christians to Rally Against Persecution in Egypt”
Egypt: “Muslim Mob” of 3,000 — Mob Attacks Christian Businesses, Individuals — Rioting Spreads in Upper Egypt
Other R.E.A.L. Reports on Copts
Connecticut: Masked Nazis disrupt Hanukkah ceremony with Nazi flags, obscenities
Connecticut: Masked men disrupt Hanukkah ceremony with Nazi flags, obscenities
— Connecticut Post reports: “Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirts of a small group of families huddled on the Sherman Green gazebo to light a menorah on the third night of Hanukkah Sunday.”
— “Neither did three masked men, who carrying Nazi flags and shouting obscenities, tried to disrupt the ceremony until they fled when police arrived.
— “The men, dressed in black, showed up just as the ceremony was beginning, stayed on the sidewalk about 20 yards from the gazebo. Each carried a flag held in outstretched arms. One flag bore a swastika, another an iron cross.”
— Rabbi Shlame Landa to Connecticut Post: “I told my wife, Miriam, on the way home, if (the masked men) came out in the rain, how much more does it say that we have to be there,” he added. “We really had to be there tonight. If not, they would have won half the battle.”
— NBC: Masked Men With Nazi Flags Protest at Menorah Lighting
Sudan/Egypt: Sudanese Convert to Christian Fears Islamist Extremists Who Hunt for Her, Son
Compass Daily News (CDN) reports:
“Muslim Relatives of Sudanese Christian Woman Pursue Her, Son”
“Native of Khartoum lives in seclusion in Egypt as brother, ex-husband hunt for her”
“A Sudanese woman who fled to Egypt after converting from Islam to Christianity is living in secluded isolation as her angry family members try to track her down.”
“Howida Ali’s Muslim brother and her ex-husband began searching for her in Cairo earlier this year after a relative there reported her whereabouts to them. While there, her brother and ex-husband tried to seize her 10-year-old son from school.”
” ‘I’m afraid of my brother finding us,’ said the 38-year-old Ali, who has moved to another area. ‘Their aim is to take us back to Sudan, and there they will force us to return to the Islamic faith or sentence us to death according to Islamic law.’ ”
“Ali said she divorced her husband, Esam El deen Ali, because of his drug addiction in 2001, before she converted to Christianity. She was living with her parents in Khartoum when she began seeing visions of Christ, she said.”
“Fearing that relatives might discover she was a Christian, in 2007 she escaped with her then-8-year-old son. Previously the family had tried to stop her from leaving on grounds that she should not travel unescorted by an adult male relative, and because they disapproved of her divorce.”
” ‘They destroyed my passport, but through the assistance of a Christian friend, I acquired a new passport and secretly left,’ she told Compass by e-mail.”
“Her peace in Egypt was short-lived; earlier this year, while Ali secretly attended church as she stayed with a Muslim relative in Cairo, the relative found out about her conversion to Christianity and notified her brother and ex-husband in Sudan.”
“They arrived in Cairo in July. She had found lodging at All Saints’ Cathedral, an Episcopal church in Cairo that houses a refugee ministry, but as it became clear that her brother and ex-husband were searching for her, refugee ministry officials moved her and her son to an apartment.”
“Ali said her brother and ex-husband sought to kill her for apostasy, or leaving Islam – with the support of relatives back in Sudan and others in the community, members of the Shaingia tribe who practice a strict form of Islam.”
” ‘Life became very difficult for me,’ she said.”
“The Rev. Emmanuel S. Bennsion of All Saints’ Cathedral confirmed that Ali’s ex-husband and brother were acting on a tip from one of Ali’s relatives when they came searching for her in Cairo. They went to her son’s school to take him back to Sudan. It was a Christian school, and the director refused to hand the boy over to them, Bennsion said.”
” ‘Since that time, she has started hiding and become afraid,’ Bennsion told Compass.”
“Ali had received financial support from family in Sudan through the relative in Cairo who notified her family of her conversion; that support has since vanished.”
“Fearing forcible repatriation to Sudan, Ali tried to go to Israel; Egyptian authorities arrested her at the border and jailed her for two months. During that time, she said, her son was put in an Islamic children’s home. A Muslim family had adopted him, but she was able to win back custody after leaving jail in October.”
” ‘We have stopped going out of the apartment or even going to church,’ she said. ‘My son can no longer go to school daily as before. We cannot live our lives as before. I cannot now participate in the Bible study or fellowships – I’m now depending only on myself for growing spiritually, and for prayer and Bible study.’ ”
“She said her only hope for living her faith openly in Christian community is to secure asylum to another country that guarantees religious freedom.”
Somali Christian Flees Refugee Camp Under Death Threat
Somali Christian Flees Refugee Camp Under Death Threat
CDN reports:
“Somali Christian Mohamud Muridi Saidi last month fled a refugee camp near Kenya’s border with Sudan after Muslims threatened to kill him.”
“For Saidi, a father of four, the recent relocation of 13,000 refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border to the Kakuma camp, where he had lived since 2002, brought its own nightmare: the arrival of Muslims from Somalia’s Lower Juba region who knew of his father’s Christian activities in his home village.”
“After Somalis four times threw stones at Saidi’s iron sheet home in the Kakuma refugee camp – once in mid-October, and again on Nov. 17, 21 and 22 – word spread that they intended to kill him. Case workers for a Lutheran World Federation (LWF) service group confirmed the death threat.”
” ‘I know the attackers are the Muslims who forced us to leave Somalia in 2002,’ Saidi told Compass in Nairobi, adding that he was unable to bring his family with him when he fled on Nov. 23. ‘They are not safe, and that is why we should be out of Kakuma as soon as possible.’ ”
“Saidi has reported the attacks to the LWF service group as well as to police in Kakuma. Case workers for the LWF service group confirmed that the stoning of his home had escalated to the threat of him being assassinated.”
Austria: Rabbi Attacked, Finger Mutilated in Vienna Hanukkah Ceremony
Vienna: Rabbi attacked during Chanukah ceremony
— Palestinian attacker bites off half of Rabbi’s finger
— Original German Report Kurier
— Translated German Report into English:
— “Palestinians Rabbi finger biting off part”
— “‘There was so much hatred in his eyes,’ said Rabbi Dov Gruzman. Der Täter, ein radikaler Palästinenser, sitzt vorläufig in U-Haft. The perpetrator, a radical Palestinians, sitting temporarily in custody”
— “The Jewish community is now calling on the government to take action ‘against radical Muslims, Terroristensympathisanten and neo-Nazi provocateurs’ resolute.”
— Arrested individual is Muhammad Sch.
Uganda: Christian Pastor Survives Assassination Attempts “by Muslim extremists”
Uganda: The Pastor From Uganda Who ‘Cannot Be Killed’, Has Reconstructive Surgery in Texas After Several Assassination Attempts
— ANS reports: “They call him “The Ghost” — the preacher who started 400 churches in Uganda — and cannot be killed.”
— “Pastor Zachariah and his wife have 12 children, he oversees 400 churches, and his home church has 2,000 members.
— “Pastor Zachariah Sserwadda has survived three assassination attempts on his life, the latest of which was March 4, 2000. Local radio reported that he was dead, according to Christi Myers reporting for TV station KTRK in Houston, TX.
— “Myers says that nine years ago the African pastor was left severely injured in a terrorist attack that killed an American missionary in Uganda. Since then, the pastor has suffered continuing pain.
— “She states that Pastor Zacariah’s car was hit intentionally in a head-on crash with a truck driven by Muslim extremists. He and a front seat passenger were seriously injured, but American missionary Anita Liebl was lying dead in the back seat. Liebl was on a visit to help in his ministry to Muslims.”