 Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday. "Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth," said Reverend Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International (OFWI), who will head a delegation of human rights activists, members of parliament from Canada and religious personalities. During their visit to Israel the delegation will hold a conference on human rights and persecuted minorities at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. The conference will provide new statistics on the persecution of minorities in Muslim countries. El Shafie said that between 200-300 million Christians are being persecuted in the world, 80 percent of whom lived in Muslim countries and the rest in communist and other countries. Members of the delegation will meet with Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon and Mayor ofJerusalem Nir Barkat in the hope of enlisting Israel to champion their cause. OFWI is a human rights organization whose headquarters are located in Toronto, Canada. The organization numbers some 3,000 members, divided into 28 branches that are active in countries all over the world, including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and even Iran. El Shafie, 32, was born in Cairo to a distinguished Muslim family of lawyers and judges. Through a Christian friend he was exposed at an early age to hatred toward the Christian minority in Egypt. He decided to convert to Christianity, wrote a book about it and as a result became an outcast and a victim of oppression. In 1998 he was arrested, imprisoned, tortured and condemned to death. El Shafie managed to escape, fled to the Sinai, where a Beduin family hid him for two months, and crossed the Israeli border on a jet-ski.
He was arrested in Israel and was imprisoned for over a year in Beersheba, until he was released through the assistance of the UN, Amnesty International and the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, which managed to obtain political asylum for El Shafie in Canada, where he emigrated. He founded OFWI in 2004. JPost H/T: Atlas 
 Comment se fait-il que seules les nations occidentales soient accusées de « diffamer » la religion ?L’Amérique, comme tant d’autres pays occidentaux, se désole de ses relations tendues avec le monde islamique. En juin, le président Barack Obama s’est rendu au Caire pour s’exprimer contre « la crainte et la méfiance » qui règnent entre l’Occident et l’Islam. Pourtant, les gouvernements musulmans exigent le respect pour l’islam mais refusent le même respect aux minorités religieuses vivant à l’intérieur de leurs propres frontières. Le récent vote des Suisses interdisant la construction de minarets dans ce pays européen est la dernière controverse à provoquer des protestations des musulmans à travers le monde. Pourtant, les gouvernements islamiques ne sont pas en position de protester contre l’intolérance occidentale et « l’islamophobie ». La plupart des nations musulmanes sont répressives ou n’autorisent qu’une liberté politique limitée. Le plus souvent, les états islamiques bafouent les droits humains fondamentaux et pratiquement tous persécutent les chrétiens, les juifs et les autres minorités religieuses. Beaucoup d’états autoritaires — et tout particulièrement les pays communistes ou anciennement communistes — bafouent la liberté religieuse et d’autres libertés afin de conserver le contrôle politique. Mais les nations musulmanes sont pratiquement uniques dans leur volonté de persécuter les minorités religieuses afin d’atteindre des objectifs religieux, comme le montre clairement le dernier rapport du Département d’état sur la liberté religieuse à l’étranger. Lire la suite...
Source: NRO (Traduction par Poste de veille)
 From CAN: The Human Rights Service organization of Norway writes that a town of 6500 in Denmark called Tingbjerg is dramatically changing due to high Muslim immigration and birthrate.
The report says that residents are complaining that many Muslims are not assimilating and are changing Danish society. “As the neighborhood has become increasingly Muslim, it’s also been increasingly plagued by gang violence, burglaries, car-burnings, vandalism, and other offenses,” the report says. “Over the years, the members of Tingbjerg’s non-Muslim minority have come to feel increasingly vulnerable and ill at ease in their community.”
The homosexual pastor of a church in Tingjerg fled the town this month due to persecution from Muslim youth.
His church has been repeatedly vandalized and broken into, and his personal property has been stolen. The church is now for sale. Two journalists from Denmark’s TV-2 station tried to do a story on the church and were threatened by two Muslims who demanded that they delete the tape because they did not want to be seen on TV. The two then smashed the windows of the station’s van. The TV station also ran a letter from one resident describing how they had seen Muslim youth set a dumpsters and buildings on fire and carried wagons of stones to attack those who tried to stop them.
The resident claimed that the local police initially failed to stop their crimes because of the stones and had to come back “dressed for combat.” World Threats
Jihad against Buddhists riding motorcycles to the market Another great victory for the courageous mujahedin in Thailand. "Three Buddhist [sic] killed in Thai south," from The News International, September 10 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): YALA: Suspected Islamic insurgents in Thailand's troubled south shot and killed three Buddhist men, setting the body of one of the victims on fire, police said Thursday.
In the capital town of Pattani province, gunmen shot dead a Buddhist security guard working at an office for military veterans as he rode his motorcycle to a market late Wednesday, police said.
The attackers then torched the 42-year-old's body and his motorcycle in the middle of the road in front of terrified onlookers, they said. Gunmen shot dead a deputy village chief on the same day, also in Pattani province, police said.... Source: JihadWatch.org
5,000 Pakistani Hindus flee forced conversions, kidnappings, rape Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Land of the Pure: "Fearing Taliban, Pak Hindus take Thar Express to India," by Vimal Bhatia in the Times of India, September 10 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): JAISALMER: In the past four years, some 5,000 Hindus may have crossed over from Pakistan, never to return. It has not been easy abandoning their homes, sometimes even their families, but they say they had no choice: they had to flee the Taliban.
It started as a trickle in 2006, the year the Thar Express was flagged off. The weekly train starts from Karachi, enters India at Munabao, a border town in Barmer, and runs up to Jodhpur. In the first year, 392 Hindus crossed over.
This grew to 880 in 2007. The next year, the number was 1,240, and this year, till August, over 1,000 have crossed over. They just keep extending their visas and hope to become Indian citizens.
Incidentally, these are official figures. Sources say there are many more who cross over and melt in the local milieu. And officials have a soft corner for these people, most of whom have harrowing stories to tell.Ranaram, who used to live in the Rahimyar district of Pakistan’s Punjab, says he fell prey to the Taliban. His wife was kidnapped, raped and forcibly converted to Islam. His two daughters were also forcibly converted. Ranaram, too, had to accept Islam for fear of his life. He thought it best to flee with his two daughters; his wife was untraceable.
Dungaram, another migrant, says atrocities against Hindus in Pakistan have increased in the past two years after the ouster of Musharraf. "We won't get permanent jobs unless we convert to Islam."
Hindu Singh Sodha, president of Seemant Lok Sangathan, a group working for the refugees in Barmer and Jaisalmer, says there's unfortunately no proper refugee policy in India even though people from Pakistan reach here in large numbers.
He said in 2004-05, over 135 families were given Indian citizenship but the rest are still living illegally in the country and are often tortured by police because they don't have proper citizenship certificates. "In December 2008, over 200 Hindus were converted to Islam in Mirpur Khas town of Pakistan. But there are several others who want to stick to their religion but there’s no safety for them in Pakistan."
Immigration officer at Munabao railway station, Hetudan Charan, says the arrival of Hindu migrants had suddenly increased as over 15 to 16 families were reaching India every week. “None of them admit they are to settle here but seeing their baggage, we easily understand,’’ he said.... Source: JihadWatch.org
 Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year-old teacher, journalist and human rights activist, is awaiting execution in Iran's notorious Evin prison. The Islamic regime calls him a terrorist, but his real crime is being a Kurd. Mr. Kamangar taught at an elementary school in the northwestern Iranian city of Kamyaran, where he was a member of the Kurdistan Teachers Union and wrote for various underground human rights publications. He secretly taught his Kurdish students their banned language and told stories about their culture and history. He was detained by Iranian police in Tehran in July 2006 when traveling to visit his brother, a Kurdish activist. He disappeared into the Iranian prison system with no word to his family or friends. After many months, a horror story emerged. In a November 2007 letter smuggled from prison, Mr. Kamangar detailed the many forms of torture to which he had been subjected, including beatings, whippings, electric shocks and solitary confinement in cold, squalid cells. He was deprived of sleep, denied clean clothes and given barely edible food. At one prison, he was subjected to something called "the chicken kebab" administered by the warden, which involved being trussed up and whipped. He was denied medical care to treat his broken body until he was near the point of death. Read more ...Source: The Washington TimesH/T: J.R.
ISTANBUL, March 27 (Compass Direct News) – Just over a month since Pakistan’s fertile Swat Valley turned into a Taliban stronghold where sharia (Islamic law) rules, the fate of the remaining Christians in the area is uncertain. Last month, in an effort to end a bloody two-year battle, the Islamabad administration struck a deal with Taliban forces surrendering all governance of Swat Valley in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Sources told Compass that after the violence that has killed and displaced hundreds, an estimated 500 Christians remain in the area. Traditionally these have been low-skilled workers, but younger, more educated Christians work as nurses, teachers and in various other professions. The sole Church of Pakistan congregation in Swat, consisting of 40 families, has been renting space for nearly 100 years. The government has never given them permission to buy land in order to build a church building. Read more ...Source: Compass Direct NewsH/T: Jihad Watch
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Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday.
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