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The Crucifixion of Christianity in Islam
“On the American
battleships, the musicians
on board were ordered to play as loudly as they could
to drown out the screams of the pleading [Christian]
swimmers. The English
poured boiling water down on the unfortunates who reached
their vessel ...”
“‘The
jihadis shouted: Convert to Islam, or you will be crucified like Jesus,’
Youssef said with a shaky voice in his daughter’s
al-Qassaa apartment.”
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“He
was a Christian walking in a Muslim enclave, carrying wood to sell.
In these tense days, that is enough reason to die in the Central African
Republic. A Muslim mob confronted Pumandele, 23, on a side street and
pushed him around. Then, they threw him into a ditch. At least one man
stabbed him before his throat was slit. ...The Muslims did this,” one
of his relatives screamed. “They cut his neck like a cow. They are going
to kill all of us.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/lynching-of-christian-man-by-muslims-is-sign-of-chaos-in-central-african-republic/2014/02/09/ecd02e54-91d5-11e3-b3f7-f5107432ca45_story.html
For
some much needed perspective, let us go back a mere 90 years to the
week of September 13, 1920, when:
“... the persecution of Christians culminated in their final expulsion
from the newly founded Republic of Turkey in the early 1920s [and]
churches [were] demolished or converted into mosques, and the communities
that used to worship in them [were] dispersed or dead. The burning
of Smyrna and the massacre and scattering of its 300,000 Christian
inhabitants is one of the great crimes of all times. It marked the
end of the Greek civilization on Asia Minor. ... Sporadic killings
of Christians, mostly Armenians, started immediately after the Turks
conquered it on September 9, 1922 and within days escalated to mass
slaughter ... Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Chrysostomos remained
with his flock. ... The Muslim mob fell upon him, uprooted his eyes
and, as he was bleeding, dragged him by his beard through the streets
of the Turkish quarter, beating and kicking him. Every now and then,
when he had the strength to do so, he would raise his right hand
and bless his persecutors, repeating, “Father, forgive them.” A
Turk got so furious at this gesture that he cut off the metropolitan's
hand with his sword. He fell to the ground and was hacked to pieces
by the angry mob.
The carnage culminated in the burning of Smyrna ... The remaining
inhabitants were trapped at the seafront, from which there was no
escaping the flames on one side, or Turkish bayonets on the other
... English, American, Italian, and French ships were indeed anchored
in Smyrna's harbor. Ordered to maintain neutrality, they would or
could do nothing for the 200,000 desperate Christians on the quay
... occasionally, a person would swim from the dock to one of the
anchored ships and tried to climb the ropes and chains, only to
be driven off. On the American battleships, the musicians on board
were ordered to play as loudly as they could to drown out the screams
of the pleading swimmers. The English poured boiling water down
on the unfortunates who reached their vessel ... that was the end
of Christianity in Asia Minor.”
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The great “Christian”
nations of that time: America, England, France, and Italy — fully
able to prevent this atrocity that claimed the lives of over one quarter
million innocent Christians — were not only witness to it, but by their
carefully calculated political neutrality were complicit in it.
In that fearful and unmitigated slaughter of Christians by Muslim Turks
in 1920, not only had Christianity ceased to be in Asia Minor,
but it had ceased as a religious and moral conscience in the West.
Political expedience trumped ... and trampled ... the very fabric of
Western culture that had been woven by Christianity for 2000 years.
For short-sighted political gain it forfeited — and repudiated — the
very patrimony from which it sprung in the false belief that placating
Islam redounded to the benefit of the West. After nearly 20 years of
unrelenting war in Muslim countries (remember ... to purportedly defend
Muslim “civilians” against fellow Muslim “militants” — not to defend
helpless third-class Christians deprived of nearly all rights against
Muslims and absolutely intolerant Islamic courts and states) ... that
continues to this day, we have come to understand that we cannot placate
Islam, nor, sadly, appear able to peacefully co-exist with it.
We have come to
understand — but we have learned nothing.
Like children,
we deliberately close our eyes and pretend that what is happening is
not happening and that our pretension will magically culminate
in reality. It will not. Our brothers and sisters living under the menace
of Islam know this painfully — and if those who continue to propagate
the illusion that Islam is compatible with Christianity (despite
what Muslim clerics, courts and states maintain to the contrary)
or that it is benign toward the values — especially the secular
values — they most cherish in the West, then they justly deserve, by
their indifference, to live under a Caliphate ... instead of under Christ.
Editor
Boston Catholic Journal
Totally Faithful to the Sacred
Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Holy See in Rome
“Scio
opera tua ... quia modicum habes virtutem, et servasti verbum
Meum, nec non negasti Nomen Meum”
“I
know your works ... that you have but little power, and
yet you have kept My word, and have not denied My Name.”
(Apocalypse
3.8)
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