Islam’s ‘Slow Motion Genocide’ of Christians – IOTW Report

Islam’s ‘Slow Motion Genocide’ of Christians

Raymond Ibrahim: Iraqi Archbishop Bashar Warda made the following observation during a recent speech:  “Having faced for 1,400 years the slow-motion genocide that began long before the ongoing ISIS genocide today, the time for excusing this inhuman behavior and its causes is long since passed.”

That Muslims have cleansed non-Muslim peoples by the sword since the seventh century to the present is of course factually well-documented.   But what of the more subtle “slow-motion genocide”?  How does that work?  The answer is connected to another question:  Why did so many non-Muslims become Muslim in the first place?

Many modern day Muslims and Western apologists claim that the ancestors of today’s 1.5 billion Muslims converted to Islam due to its intrinsic appeal; that the modern day coercion and persecution committed by the Islamic State and others is an aberration.

Conversely, many Muslim and non-Muslim historical records make clear that most people embraced Islam, not out of sincere faith, but for a myriad of reasons—from converting in order to enjoy the boons of being on the “winning team” to converting in order to evade the dooms of being on the “losing team.”

Because well documented facts have little influence on the modern West’s ahistorical sense of reality, happily the exercise of common sense validates what history records: the Islamic world is built atop, not so much the physical genocide of infidels, but the spiritual and cultural genocide of their identity.  This killing of two birds with one stone was always more advantageous for Islam; for while the non-Muslim’s former religious/cultural identity is purged, his body remains to strengthen the ranks of Islam.

Consider Egypt.  In the 7th century when Islam was being formulated, it had been Christian for centuries.  Alexandria was the most important ecclesiastical center of ancient Christian learning and, along with Rome and Antioch, one of the original three sees.  Writing around the year 400—roughly two-and-a-half centuries before the Arab invasions—John Cassian, a European, observed that “the traveler from Alexandria in the north to Luxor in the south would have in his ears along the whole journey, the sounds of prayers and hymns of the monks, scattered in the desert, from the monasteries and from the caves, from monks, hermits, and anchorites.” In recent times, both the oldest parchment to contain words from the Gospel (dating to the 1stcentury) and the oldest image of Christ were discovered in separate regions of Egypt.

What made such an ancient and heavily Christian nation become Islamic?  more here

13 Comments on Islam’s ‘Slow Motion Genocide’ of Christians

  1. The Fermi Paradox asks the question: If the universe is full of habitable worlds, why ain’t we run into them yet?
    It posits that a Great Filter weeds out the majority of Civilizations, prior to Long Distance Travel Capability.
    Lazlo points out that Liberal suicide by submission to Islam, which wants to end civilization and all human life; is Our Great Filter, and maybe not the only one.
    We better step up to take this threat on, or we humans will stop here.
    Just prior to setting out to colonize our solar system.
    Its either Us or Them that will survive into the next century.
    I vote its Us.

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  2. 32,734 deadly terror attacks just since 9/11… and it just keeps going on and on, not that we would know it by our so-called “News”. Terrorists hide behind Political Correctness while depending on Liberals thinking like Liberals deluded with “Diversity” beliefs and “COEXIST” bumper-stickers. The problem is that Liberals refuse to acknowledge that you cannot co-exist with those who are sworn to kill you!

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  3. “… Speaking of government, also around the same time jihadis were giving Christians the three classic choices of Islam—conversion, subjugation, or death—a delegation of Syrian Christian clergy came to the Senate Arms Services Committee meeting room to offer testimony concerning the sufferings of Syria’s Christians. Then,

    Sen. John McCain marched into the committee room yelling, according to a high-level source that attended the meeting, and quickly stormed out. “He was incredibly rude,” the source told Judicial Watch “because he didn’t think the Syrian church leaders should even be allowed in the room.” Following the shameful tantrum McCain reentered the room and sat briefly but refused to make eye contact with the participants, instead ignoring them by looking down at what appeared to be random papers. The outburst was so embarrassing that Senator Graham, also an advocate of U.S. military intervention in Syria, apologized for McCain’s disturbing outburst. “Graham actually apologized to the group for McCain’s behavior,” according to the source, who sat through the entire meeting. “It was truly unbelievable.”

    Less dramatically but equally revealing, CIA chief John Brennan recently declared that the ideology of those offering Christians three choices is “a perverse and very corrupt interpretation of the Koran,” one that has “hijacked” Islam and “really distorted the teachings of Muhammad.” ”

    http://raymondibrahim.com/2014/03/24/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/ .

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