Today, when the facts confirm the most ominous
scenarios for the future of the world, there are some who insist on praising
the Islamic society and to turn a blind eye to how dangerous is this society
for whole the world ...
But what is the true face of Islam? Really is a
danger to the world; How imminent is the risk? Our respect for the Muslim
community should stop our action against the Islamic threat? Is this a
realistic policy when Muslim society seeks the subjugation of all peoples in
its own religious and political domination?
The current global reality compels us to stop
the myth that has created, from ignorance or interest, for Islam. The beautiful
image for Islam is not true.
Trying to dispel this utopian nice picture of
Islam which methodically created by propaganda I shall present here information
about what Islam really is today.
If the international community continues to
ignore the danger coming from Iran and threatens all the world, the dark
close future which describes my novel ,
"Hidden Prophecy", unfortunately, is very possible ...
So, all the free people fighting:
è For everyone's right to freedom.
è For everyone's right to life.
è For everyone's right to freedom of
religion.
è For everyone's right to free
expression.
è For the right of humanity to safety.
è For the human rights of women.
è For the safety of our countries from
the Islamic danger.
è To combat the Islamization of Europe
and America.
è To guarantee our children a safe and
secure future.
Some interesting sites about this subject:
A general idea about
what Islam realy meens
Islam against woman
rights
Iranian university bans on women causes
consternation
By Fariba Sahraei BBC Persian
Female university students in Iran have outnumbered
men for the past decade
With the start of the new Iranian academic year, a raft
of restrictions on courses open to female students has been introduced, raising
questions about the rights of women to education in Iran - and the long-term
impact such exclusions might have.
More than 30 universities have introduced new rules
banning female students from almost 80 different degree courses.
These include a bewildering variety of subjects from
engineering, nuclear physics and computer science, to English literature,
archaeology and business.
No official reason has been given for the move, but
campaigners, including Nobel Prize winning lawyer Shirin Ebadi, allege it is
part of a deliberate policy by the authorities to exclude women from education.
"The Iranian government is using various
initiatives… to restrict women's access to education, to stop them being active
in society, and to return them to the home," she told the BBC.
Higher Education Minister Kamran Daneshjoo has sought
to play down the situation, stressing Iran's strong track record in getting
young people into higher education and saying that despite the changes, 90% of
university courses are still open to both men and women.
Men outnumbered
Iran was one of the first countries in the Middle East
to allow women to study at university and since the Islamic Revolution in 1979
it has made big efforts to encourage more girls to enrol in higher education.
The gap between the numbers of male and female
students has gradually narrowed. In 2001 women outnumbered men for the first
time and they now make up more than 60% of the overall student body.
University entrance exams are highly competitive in
Iran, with the number of female applicants increasing each year
Year-on-year more Iranian women than men are applying
for university places, motivated some say by the chance to live a more
independent life, to have a career and to escape the pressure from parents to
stay at home and to get married.
Women are well-represented across a wide range of
professions and there are many female engineers, scientists and doctors.
But many in Iran fear that the new restrictions could
now undermine this achievement.
"I wanted to study architecture and civil
engineering," says Leila, a young woman from the south of Iran. "But
access for girls has been cut by fifty per cent, and there's a chance I won't
get into university at all this year."
In the early days after the
Islamic revolution, universities were one of the few places where young Iranian
men and women could mix relatively freely.
Over the years this gradually changed, with
universities introducing stricter measures like separate entrances, lecture
halls and even canteens for men and women.
Since the unrest after the 2009 presidential election
this process has accelerated as conservative politicians have tightened their
grip on the country.
Women played a key role in those protests - from the
traditionally veiled but surprisingly outspoken wives of the two main
opposition candidates, to the glamorous green-scarved demonstrators out on the
streets of Tehran and other cities.
Some say it was the prominient role of women in 2009's
protests that has unnerved Iran's conservative leaders
Some Iranians say it was the sight of so many young
Iranian women at the forefront of the protests in 2009 that unnerved the
country's conservative leaders and prompted them into action.
"The women's movement has been challenging Iran's
male-dominated establishment for several years," says Saeed Moidfar, a
retired sociology professor from Tehran.
"Traditional politicians now see educated and
powerful women as a threat."
'Islamisation'
In a speech after the 2009 protests, the country's
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the "Islamisation"
of universities and criticised subjects like sociology, which he said were too
western-influenced and had no place in the Iranian Islamic curriculum.
Since then, there have been many changes at
universities, with courses cut and long-serving academic staff replaced with
conservative loyalists.
Many see the new restrictions on female students as a
continuation of this process.
In August 2012 Ayatollah Khamenei made another
widely-discussed speech calling for Iranians to return to traditional values
and to have more children.
It was an affront to many in a country which pioneered
family planning and has won praise from around the world for its emphasis on
the importance of providing families with access to contraception.
"People are more educated now and they are more
concerned about the size of their families," says Saeed Moidfar. "I
doubt that the government plans will change anything."
However, since the speech there have been reports of
cutbacks in family planning programmes, and in sex education classes at
universities.
It is not yet clear exactly how many women students
have been affected by the new rules on university entrance. But as the new
academic year begins, at least some have had to completely rethink their career
plans.
"From the age of 16 I knew I wanted to be a
mechanical engineer, and I really worked hard for it," says Noushin from
Esfahan. "But although I got high marks in the National University
entrance exam, I've ended up with a place to study art and design
instead."
Over the coming months campaigners will be watching
closely to track the effects of the policy and to try to gauge the longer-term
implications.
Uproar over Saudi women's 'SMS tracking'
Saudi women are banned from travelling abroad without
their male guardian's consent
A discovery that Saudi male guardians are
automatically getting text messages about cross-border movements of female dependants
has caused a Twitter uproar.
"Hello Taliban, herewith some tips from the Saudi
e-government!" read one post, while another suggested microchips.
Attention was drawn to the system when a man
travelling with his wife got an alert as they left Riyadh airport.
Saudi women are denied the right to travel without
their guardian's consent and are also banned from driving.
Reform attempts
Saudi men earlier had the option of requesting alert
messages about their dependants' cross-border movement, but it appears that
since last week such notifications are being sent automatically.
Some Twitter users have mocked the move, suggesting
also the use of microchips and ankle bracelets to track women.
Another tweet read: "If I need an SMS to let me
know my wife is leaving Saudi Arabia, then I'm either married to the wrong
woman or need a psychiatrist."
The text alerts are part of an electronic passport
system launched by the Saudi authorities last year.
The government argues that e-passports make it easier
for citizens to deal with their travel arrangements "without having to
visit the passport office".
Saudi Arabia remains a deeply conservative country,
however King Abdullah has recently introduced some cautious political and
social reforms.
In September 2011, he announced that women would be
given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections.
Islam against the U.S.
U.S.
vows to hunt down perpetrators of Benghazi attack
By the CNN Wire Staff
September 13, 2012 -- Updated
0116 GMT (0916 HKT)
Washington (CNN) -- The United States on Wednesday vowed to avenge the killings of its
ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, moving warships toward the
Libyan coast and preparing to track the suspected perpetrators with
surveillance drones, officials said.
The slain ambassador, Chris Stevens, helped save Libya's eastern city of Benghazi during last year's
revolution. He died there Tuesday night, along with another diplomat and two
State Department security officers, when a mob stormed the U.S. Consulate and
set it ablaze.
The Benghazi consulate was one
of several American diplomatic missions that faced protests after the online
release of a film that ridiculed Muslims and depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a
child molester, womanizer and ruthless killer.
But U.S. sources said
Wednesday the four-hour assault in Benghazi had been planned, with the
attackers using the protest as a diversion.
"We will not waver in our
commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act," President
Barack Obama said. "And make no mistake, justice will be done."
A senior U.S. official told
CNN that American surveillance drones are expected to join the hunt for
jihadists who may be tied to the attack. The drones are expected to gather
intelligence that will be turned over to Libyan officials for strikes, the
official said.
But two American destroyers
also are being moved toward the Libyan coast, two U.S. officials told CNN. Both
the USS Laboon and USS McFaul are equipped with satellite-guided Tomahawk
cruise missiles that can be programmed to hit specific targets.
The move "will give the
administration flexibility" in case the administration orders action
against targets inside Libya, one senior official said. The McFaul was making a
port call on Mediterranean island of Crete, while the Laboon was outside
Gibraltar, a few days away from Libya.
Libya's leaders apologized for
the attack, with Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib calling it a "cowardly,
criminal act." And Obama said that despite the inflammatory movie, the
violence was unwarranted.
"Since our founding, the
United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts
to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," he said. "But there is
absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence -- none."
U.S. and NATO warplanes helped
the Benghazi-based rebellion drive on Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi last
August. The jihadists suspected in Tuesday night's attack "are a very
small minority" who are taking advantage of a fledgling democracy, Ali
Suleiman Aujali, the Libyan ambassador the United States, told CNN's
"Amanpour."
"The good thing about
this is the majority -- 95, 98% of the Libyan people -- care not for
this," he said.
Sources tracking militant
Islamist groups in eastern Libya say a pro-al Qaeda group responsible for a
previous armed assault on the Benghazi consulate is the chief suspect. A senior
defense official told CNN the drones would be part of "a stepped-up, more
focused search" for a particular insurgent cell that may have been behind
the killings.
The FBI also is investigating,
the bureau said Wednesday.
In June, a senior Libyan
official told CNN that U.S. controllers were already flying the unmanned craft
over suspected jihadist training camps in eastern Libya because of concerns
about rising activity by al Qaeda and like-minded groups in the region.
Tuesday's attack took place on
the 11th anniversary of the al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. But
White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said assigning any
motive for the attack was "premature."
"As the president said,
make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice
the killers who attacked our people." Vietor said.
Gunfire erupted outside the
consulate about 10 p.m. (4 p.m. ET), senior administration officials told
reporters. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the
attackers broke into the consulate compound about 15 minutes later.
The main building was set
ablaze by a rocket-propelled grenade, a senior U.S. official familiar with the
details told CNN earlier. Three people -- Stevens, Foreign Service information
management officer Sean Smith and a U.S. security officer -- were inside at the
time, according to the senior administration officials who briefed reporters
Wednesday afternoon.
The security officer managed
to get out and brought others back to retrieve Smith and Stevens, the officials
said, but they found Smith dead and Stevens missing. The ambassador's body was
handed over to U.S. personnel at the airport after dawn, the officials said.
"There are reports out
there that I cannot confirm that he was brought to the hospital by Libyans who
found him," one of the officials said. "Obviously, he had to get
there somehow. No Americans were responsible for that."
Islam against Europe
Amnesty International and Muslim Discrimination in Europe
Amnesty
International omits, however, all instances of discrimination initiated by
Muslims against Christians and others in Europe who have taken them in, and who
may well feel dismayed by what might be seen as an escalating procession of
Muslim demands, threats and attacks. Nowhere does it call on Muslims to accept
responsibility – not only for problems brought about by the refusal of many of
them to accept the values of the majority, but also for their efforts to
displace these values with their own.
A new report from Amnesty International lashes out at
"widespread discrimination" against Muslims in Europe. The report
directs particular ire at laws banning Muslim veils in public spaces, and
excoriates European politicians for helping to "foster a climate of
hostility and suspicion against people perceived as Muslim."
Amnesty International omits, however, all instances of
discrimination initiated by Muslims against Christians and others in Europe who
have taken them in, and who may well feel dismayed by what might be seen as an
escalating procession of Muslim demands, threats and attacks.
The report also fails to explain why growing numbers
of Europeans are increasingly skeptical about Muslim immigration; it also fails
to mention that in country after country, Europeans have been going out of
their way to afford Muslims special benefits, rights, privileges and provisions
that do not apply to native-born Europeans, and that are establishing the
Muslim population as an entitled class in European society.
The 123-page study, "Choice and Prejudice:
Discrimination Against Muslims in Europe," says that "Muslims in Europe face discrimination in several
areas of life because of their religion," and this "blights their
individual prospects, opportunities and self-esteem and can result in
isolation, exclusion and stigmatization."
It continues, "[D]iscrimination against Muslims
in Europe is fuelled by stereotypes and negative views;" and calls on
European politicians to "adopt a more rational approach" and stop
portraying Islam "as a system of values which denies gender equality or a
violent ideology."
Amnesty International, perhaps welded to notions
political correctness, also further fails to mention actions by Muslims
themselves that might well have been responsible for fuelling the
"stereotypes and negative views" that it accuses Europeans of having.
Consider Belgium, where radical Muslims have launched
a propaganda and intimidation
campaign aimed at turning the country into an Islamic state.
Muslim neighborhoods in Brussels -- the so-called capital of Europe -- have
already become "no-go" zones for Belgian police officers, who are often pelted with rocks by Muslim
youths.
In Britain, hundreds of Muslim children every year are
subjected to forced marriages. In England and Wales, more than 65,000 Muslim women and girls have been
the victims of female genital mutilation, and another 24,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at a high
risk.
Also in Britain, tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants
are practicing bigamy or polygamy, possibly at times to collect larger social welfare payments from the
British state. At the same time, radical Muslims have launched a campaign to
turn twelve British cities, including London, into independent Islamic
"emirates" to be ruled by
Islamic Sharia law.
In Denmark, Muslim criminal street gangs have taken over large parts of Danish towns and cities; in Copenhagen, some suburbs have also been transformed into "no-go" zones, off limits to
non-Muslims. Meanwhile, over the past decade, the number of Muslim immigrants
living on social welfare benefits in Denmark has increased almost ten-fold.
In France, where there are now more practicing Muslims than practicing Roman Catholics, there are 751 Sensitive Urban Zones , also off-limits to non-Muslims apparently because they are too
dangerous; in these French "no-go" zones over which the French state has lost control, an estimated five million
Muslims currently reside.
In Germany, thousands of Muslim women and children are
the victims of forced marriage every year. At the same time, Islamic Sharia courts are operating in all major German cities, and German authorities say they
are "powerless" to do anything about them.
In the Netherlands, nearly half of Moroccan immigrants in the country between the ages of 12 and 24 have been arrested, fined,
charged or otherwise accused of committing a crime during the past five years.
Further, as Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are "unclean"
animals,
a Dutch Muslim politician in The Hague, the
third-largest city in Holland, has recently called for a ban on dogs in the city.
In Italy, Muslims have been commandeering the Piazza Venezia in Rome for public prayers; and in Bologna, Muslims have repeatedly
threatened to bomb the San Petronio cathedral because it contains a 600-year-old fresco inspired by Dante's Inferno that
depicts Mohammed being tormented in Hell.
In Spain, a high school teacher in the city of La Línea de la Concepción was sued by the parents of a
Muslim student who said the teacher "defamed Islam" by talking about
Spanish ham in a geography class. And a discotheque in southern Spanish resort town of Águilas (Murcia) was forced to change
its name and architectural design under duress after Islamists threatened to
initiate "a great war between Spain and the people of Islam" if it
did not.
Elsewhere in Spain, Muslim immigrants were accused of poisoning dozens of dogs in the city of Lérida, where 29,000 Muslims now make up around 20% of the
city's total population; again, according to local residents, as dogs are
considered "unclean." In the northeastern Spanish region of
Catalonia, Muslims have deployed "morals police" to ensure that practicing and non-practicing Muslims comply with Islamic
Sharia law.
In Switzerland, an immigrant group based in Bern said
it wants the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it "no longer corresponds to today's
multicultural Switzerland." Further, leading Islamic groups in the country
announced that they want to establish a "parallel parliament" so that all of the country's Muslims can "speak with one
voice." Based in Basel, the new parliament would straightforwardly operate
according to Islamic Sharia law.
These developments in Europe have been occurring
during just the last eight years in addition to, of course, the bombing by
Muslims of commuter trains in Spain in March 2004; the bombing of public transportation in London in July 2005; the attempted bombing of the Glasgow airport in June 2007; the attempted bombing of the Barcelona metro in January 2008; the attempted bombing of several US-bound airplanes,
including that of the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in December 2009; mass riots caused by the reprinting
of the "Mohammed Cartoons" in Denmark in 2005 and 2006; Muslim riots in Malmö, Sweden in December 2008 and in Strasbourg, France in June 2010; and Muslim threats to mobilize 10,000 demonstrators onto the
streets of London to prevent a democratically elected member
of a European government, MP Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, from entering
Britain in February 2009; and Muslim attacks on German police in May 2012.
Muslims in Europe also murdered the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in January 2004; tortured and murdered the French Jew, Ilam Halimi in January 2006; attacked the Swedish artist Lars Vilkes in July 2007; tried to murder the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in January 2010; killed French servicemen and Jews in March 2012; and attacked Spanish politician Josep Anglada in April 2012.
Muslims in Europe have also been attempting to muzzle
free speech, including by "lawfare," the malicious use of costly
court trials to intimidate Europeans into silence to shut down the discussion
of Islam. In the last few years, Muskims have initiated trials against Geert Wilders in the Netherlands; Suzanne Winter and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria; Lars Hedegaard and Jesper Langballe in Denmark; Jussi Kristian Halla-aho in Finland; Brigitte Bardot, Michel Houellebecq, and Marie Laforêt in France; and Gregorius Nekschot in the Netherlands;
Muslim gangs have also been found responsible for
"Rape Waves" in Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Sweden.
Although Amnesty International lists in its report a
litany of "discriminatory experiences" faced by Muslims in Europe, it
does not acknowledge that most European countries have granted their Muslims
minorities a host of special privileges, all in the name of multiculturalism,
and that Muslim values are increasingly influencing European public
policymaking.
In Belgium, for example, the government now pays the wages of more than 200
imams in 100 mosques in a bid to end discrimination against
Islam. At the same time, dozens of Christian churches are being turned into
mosques as Muslims demand more places to worship.
In Antwerp, the second-largest city in Belgium, an Islamic Sharia law court is now mediating family law disputes for Muslim immigrants. The
self-appointed Muslim judges running the court are applying Islamic law --
rather than the secular Belgian Family Law system -- to resolve disputes
involving questions of marriage and divorce, child custody and child support,
as well as all inheritance-related matters.
In Britain, the largest university in London plans to ban the sale of alcohol on campus to accommodate the
"cultural sensitivity" of its Muslim students; and the British Broadcasting Corporation admits that it treats Islam with more "protection and
sensitivity" than Christianity.
The British Girl Scout Association has designed new uniforms for Muslim students who had "issues"
with the existing range of clothing. Across Britain, municipal swimming pools are being closed to the general public to host Muslim women-only sessions.
In British courts, Muslim defendants are frequently
the beneficiaries of favorable judicial treatment which does not apply to British defendants.
In France, all of the slaughterhouses in the greater
Paris metropolitan area are now producing all of their meat in accordance with
Islamic Sharia law. France 2 television reports that much of the religiously slaughtered meat known as halal is
not labeled as such and is entering the general food chain, where it is being
unwittingly consumed by the non-Muslim population.
In German courts, judges are increasingly citing the Koran in civil divorce cases that involve Muslims. Muslim employees in German
supermarkets are now exempt from handling alcohol on religious grounds. Municipal authorities in towns and cities across Germany have agreed to allow Muslim girls to
wear "burkinis" in public swimming pools.
The city of Mannheim is planning to rename a Muslim-majority neighborhood, giving it a Turkish
name. At the same time, German taxpayers are paying for four new Islamic theology
departments in Tübingen,
Münster/Osnabrück, Erlangen/Nürnberg and Frankfurt/Gießen, at a total cost of
€20 million ($25 million) to train Muslim imams and Islamic religion teachers.
In the Netherlands, the National Police Union says Dutch police will not enforce a new burka ban. A court in Rotterdam has decided that Muslims may remain seated while all others rise when a
judge walks into the courtroom, because Islam ostensibly holds that all people
are equal, while the Qur'an and Islamic Sharia law also hold that women and
non-Muslims are not equal.
Elsewhere in the Netherlands, dentists open their clinics in the evenings and nights during Ramadan because
Muslim clients "cannot swallow their own saliva from sunrise to
sunset." Insurance companies and pharmacies offer special "Ramadanchecks" that offer advice on how to take medicine during the month of
daytime fasting.
In Ireland, the government recently introduced tax legislation for financial
products that comply with Islamic Sharia law.
In Italy, the southern island of Sicily is about to become the proud new home for a multi-million euro
mega-mosque, which its supporters hope will become a reference point for
Muslims in Sicily as well as the rest of Italy. In Milan, the city council says it will recognize a dozen "mini-mosques."
In Rome, the Higher Judicial Council (CSM) recently ruled that on religious grounds, Muslims may wear a veil in
Italian courts.
In Spain, the city of Barcelona recently announced
plans to build an official mega-mosque with a capacity for thousands of Muslim worshipers. The new structure
would rival the massive Islamic Cultural Center in Madrid, one of the biggest mosques in Europe. The Barcelona mayor's office said
the objective is to "increase the visibility of Muslims in Spain" and
to promote the "common values between Islam and Europe."
In the Spanish capital, the government has authorized
two radical Islamic television
stations to begin 24-hour broadcasting to Spanish-speaking
audiences from new studios in Madrid. The first channel, sponsored by the
government of Iran, will focus on spreading Shia Islam. The second channel,
sponsored by Saudi Arabia, will focus on spreading Sunni Wahhabi Islam.
In Sweden, the Social Democrats state that they want
to turn Ramadan into an official Swedish holiday.
In Switzerland, the army has drafted guidelines
outlining special conditions for meals and prayers for its rising number of Muslim recruits. The canton of Aargau has issued a 17-page guideline for accommodating Muslims in public schools
and public swimming pools. The cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt,
Lucerne, Solothurn and Zürich have all quietly changed municipal regulations to
allow Muslim women to wear the "burkini" in public spaces.
Also in Zürich, the international governing body of
football, known as FIFA, says female footballers can wear
headscarves when playing in official
competitions. The rule change, instigated by the brother of the King of Jordan,
Ali bin al-Hussein who is also FIFA vice president, is due to come into effect
on July 2.
While Amnesty International has put the entire onus
for "Islamophobia" on non-Muslims, nowhere does it call on Muslims to
accept responsibility -- not only for problems brought about by the refusal of
Muslims to adopt the values of the majority, but also for their efforts to
displace these values with their own.
As the Dutch politician Pym Fortuyn put it in a
television interview the day before he was killed for criticizing the rise of
Islam in Holland, "I think the guests are trying to take over the
house."
Amnesty International has missed an opportunity to help Muslims and
non-Muslims alike.
Islam against Greece,
my country
Pakistani 'admits
to' brutal attack on teen [UPDATE]
|
A 21-year-old
Pakistani national who has allegedly admitted to a brutal assault on a
15-year-old girl on Paros last month faced a prosecutor on the Aegean island on
Sunday.
The Pakistani
admitted to attacking the girl after a second test of his DNA matched a sample
taken from the victim, a police spokesman said. The 21-year-old allegedly told
police that he had seen the girl sitting on rocks on the Chrysi Akti beach and
had tried to steal her cellphone. When she resisted he beat her head against
the rocks until she passed out, Skai understands.
According to state
television channel Net, the 21-year-old was greeted by an angry crowd when he
arrived at the main port of Paros, under the escort of police who had
interrogated him in Athens. Suspicions had been raised after the 21-year-old,
who worked at a hotel on the beach where the girl was found unconscious, left
the island on the day of the attack. He was picked up by police in the capital
a few days later.
The girl is still
in critical condition after suffering serious head injuries in the assault.
Initial reports had indicated that the 15-year-old had been sexually assaulted
but police did not confirm this.
The lawyer
representing the girl's family, Dimitris Kousiouris, issued a statement on
Sunday thanking all the citizens who helped police with the investigation into
the teenager's assault and the media for its overwhelmingly discreet coverage
of the incident.
Turkish speakers of Western Thrace, Greece have
accused a Greek teacher who is either named Hara, Chara or Joy Nikopoulou - of
asking kids to draw a picture of Allah. The Greeks are as far as I can decipher
denying this - but whether it was a misunderstanding - or a well meaning
mistake or a complete fabrication - for many Muslims - the matter will not rest
until someone dies.
Chara Nikopoulou (W.A.), Primary School teacher in a school of Evros, (post-graduate summer school).
Chara Nikopoulou (W.A.), Primary School teacher in a school of Evros, (post-graduate summer school).
It appears that the teacher has already had run
ins with the remote peasant school - when she wanted to take the children to a
bigger city to sing Greek songs in a choir - most of the mainly Muslim parents
pulled their children out. She believes the trouble started after - she had a run
in with a cleaner at the school - who wasn't doing a very good job and when she
complained about it - the maid/cleaner came to the school and started arguing
with the children - when she asked that the woman - bring her complaints to
herself an adult - the woman went away - and her husband returned. He wasn't so
friendly - she sat down and asked him to sit at the other side of the table -
he lost his temper and either physically hit her or hit an object on the table
which then knocked her in the head (see pic on left). And there was mention of
a gun [which could have been a bad translation]
20. February 2008
I am a Greek teacher, I have Hellenism in me
Interview with Joy Nikopoulou on TV Thessaloniki
This was 2008 - and it seemed from that article she continued to teach at the school - not wanting to label the whole town - and some of the children's families came round to support her in the evening.
This accusation appears to be the latest. Part of the conflict appears to stem from the fact that she is a non-Muslim and also it some of these people - it has been said would prefer not to send their children to school - in the first place.
I am a Greek teacher, I have Hellenism in me
Interview with Joy Nikopoulou on TV Thessaloniki
This was 2008 - and it seemed from that article she continued to teach at the school - not wanting to label the whole town - and some of the children's families came round to support her in the evening.
This accusation appears to be the latest. Part of the conflict appears to stem from the fact that she is a non-Muslim and also it some of these people - it has been said would prefer not to send their children to school - in the first place.
Islam against Jews
Ahmadinejad, the Imam
Mahdi and the new islamic threat
Islam against
Christians
"Free Syrian Army"
Killing Christians, Burning Churches
A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.
A NUN who has been superior at a Syrian monastery for the past 18 years has warned that media coverage of ongoing violence in that country has been “partial and untrue”. It is “a fake”, Mother Agnes Mariam said, which “hides atrocities committed in the name of liberty and democracy”.
She told The Irish Times she was in Ireland “not to advocate for the (Assad) regime but for the facts”. Most news reports from Syria were “forged, with only one side emphasised”, she said. This also applied to the UN, whose reports were “one-sided and not worthy of that organisation”.
UN observers in Syria had been “moderate with the rebels and covered for them in taking back positions after the withdrawal of heavy equipment, as seen so tragically in Homs”, she said.
When it was put to her this suggested the whole world was out of step except for Syria, Russia and China, she protested: “No, no, there are 20 countries, including some in Latin America” of the same view.
The reason the media was being denied easy access to Syria currently was because in the Libyan conflict journalists placed electronic devices for Nato in rooms used at press conferences in that country, she said. “So Syria didn’t want journalists,” she said.
Christians make up about 10 per cent of Syria’s population, dispersed throughout the country, she said. The Assad regime “does not favour Christians”, she said. “It is a secular regime based on equality for all, even though in the constitution it says the Koran is the source of legislation.”
But “Christians are less put aside [in Syria] than in other Islamic countries, for example Saudi Arabia,” she said. “The social fabric of Syria is very diverse, so Christians live in peace.”
The “Arab insurrection” under way in that country included “sectarian factions which promote fundamentalist Islam, which is not genuine Islam”, she said.
The majority of Muslims in Syria are moderate and open to other cultural and interfaith elements, she said. “Wahhabism (a fundamentalist branch of Islam) is not open,” she added.
Christians in Syria were “doubtful about the future if the project to topple the regime succeeded”. The alternative was “a religious sectarian state where all minorities would feel threatened and discriminated against”, she said.
There was “a need to end the violence”, she said. “The West and Gulf states must not give finance to armed insurrectionists who are sectarian terrorists, most of whom are from al-Qaeda, according to a report presented to the German parliament,” she said.
“We don’t want to be invaded, as in Aleppo, by mercenaries, some of whom think they are fighting Israel. They bring terror, destruction, fear and nobody protects the civilians,” she said. There were “very few Syrians among the rebels”, she said. “Mercenaries should go home,” she said.
What she and others sought in Syria was “reform, no violence, no foreign intervention.” She hoped for “a new, third way, a new social pact where the right to auto determination without outside interference” would be respected.
Islamic
Terror Attacks on Christians
(Since 9/11) |
This is a list of targeted acts of terrorism
on Christian civilians and church workers by religious Muslims since
September 11th, 2001. These attacks have nothing to do with war, combat or
insurgency. The victims are innocent Christians who were specifically
targeted and abused solely on account of their faith by those who claim their own
religion as a motive.
There may be a few anomalies on the list, as
it is compiled by keyword search from our main database. Neither is this a
complete account of Islamic terror attacks on Christians since much of the
violence goes unreported.
(Last
updated on Sunday, December 16, 2012)
|
Date
|
Country
|
City/State
|
Killed
|
Injured
|
Description
|
12/6/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Yankaba
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christian teenagers are executed by gunmen on a motorcycle yelling,
'Allah akbar'.
|
12/3/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Lahore
|
1
|
0
|
A 72-year-old female Christian charity worker is shot in the neck by
suspected Islamists.
|
12/2/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Chibok
|
10
|
0
|
Religion of Peace proponents invade a Christian village in the middle of
the night and massacre ten residents.
|
12/1/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Gamboru
Ngala
|
2
|
0
|
Two guards die when Muslims shouting 'Allah Akbar' burn churches.
|
11/25/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Jaji
|
15
|
30
|
Two suicide bombers massacre fifteen worshippers at a Protestant church.
|
11/22/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Bichi
|
4
|
2
|
Angry Muslims riot, burn churches and kills four Christians over a rumor
of blasphemy concerning a t-shirt.
|
11/18/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
1
|
0
|
An 70-year-old retired Protestant pastor is executed in cold blood by
Islamic extremists.
|
11/17/2012
|
Sudan
|
South
Kordofan
|
3
|
3
|
Three Christian villagers are killed in two targeted bombing attacks by
the Islamic republic.
|
11/16/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
3
|
0
|
Three Christian traders are shot to death by Boko Haram.
|
11/16/2012
|
Syria
|
Aleppo
|
20
|
60
|
Sunnis detonate a bomb outside an Orthodox church that leaves at least
twenty dead.
|
11/16/2012
|
Somalia
|
Barawa
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian convert is beheaded for leaving the Religion of Peace.
|
11/15/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Madauchi-Zonkwa
|
5
|
0
|
Muslim radicals are suspected in the slaughter and burning of a Christian
family in their home.
|
11/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Gaidam
|
5
|
0
|
Five Christian iron welders are slaughtered in their own home by Boko
Haram gunmen.
|
11/4/2012
|
Kenya
|
Garissa
|
1
|
10
|
One person dies from splinter injuries when Islamists toss a grenade at a
church.
|
10/30/2012
|
Syria
|
Homs
|
1
|
0
|
An 84-year-old Christian is murdered by Sunnis.
|
10/28/2012
|
Sudan
|
Delami
|
1
|
9
|
The Islamic Republic of Sudan aerial bombs several Christian villages,
killing a 1-year-old baby.
|
10/28/2012
|
Syria
|
Jaramana
|
12
|
69
|
Twelve people outside a bakery in a Christian district are exterminated
in a targeted bomb attack.
|
10/28/2012
|
Egypt
|
Cairo
|
0
|
5
|
Five Christians are injured by Muslims trying to block their way into
church.
|
10/28/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kaduna
|
7
|
100
|
Seven worshippers are murdered when a suicide car bomber plows into a
Catholic church during mass.
|
10/27/2012
|
Syria
|
Deir Ezzor
|
5
|
24
|
Terrorists set off a car bomb in front of a church, killing five
innocents.
|
10/25/2012
|
Syria
|
Qatana
|
1
|
0
|
An Orthodox priest is horribly tortured and murdered by Muslim
'criminals'. His eyes
were gouged out.
|
10/21/2012
|
Syria
|
Damascus
|
13
|
29
|
A bomb targeting Christians on their way to church leaves thirteen dead.
|
10/21/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Atagara
|
2
|
0
|
Two people are killed when Islamic radicals torch a church.
|
10/19/2012
|
Lebanon
|
Beirut
|
8
|
78
|
A car bomb blast in a Christian suburb leaves eight dead, including
children.
|
10/16/2012
|
Indonesia
|
Masani
|
2
|
0
|
Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid murder two investigators of a church bombing by
stabbing them in the neck.
|
10/14/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Yogbo
|
30
|
0
|
Thirty people are left dead when Muslims resolve a "land
dispute" by massacring thirty Christian villagers, mostly women and
children.
|
10/14/2012
|
Egypt
|
Abdelmassih
|
2
|
3
|
Two members of a Christian family are shot to death in their own home by
a Muslim gang attempting to kidnap and convert a 24-year-old female relative.
|
10/14/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
3
|
0
|
A family of three is cut down outside their church by Islamist gunmen.
|
10/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Riyom
|
14
|
5
|
Three children and their mother are among over a dozen Christians are
slaughtered during a Muslim raid on their village.
|
10/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Dallyam
|
4
|
4
|
Muslim terrorists shoot four members of a Christian family at close
range.
|
10/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Barkin
Ladi
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christians are machine-gunned while sitting in their car.
|
10/2/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Mubi
|
26
|
15
|
At least twenty-six Christian students are singled out and executed by
Islamists at their campus. Some are shot, others have their throats cut.
|
10/1/2012
|
Syria
|
Said Naya
|
3
|
0
|
Three Christians are abducted and murdered by a Muslim 'gang'.
|
9/30/2012
|
Kenya
|
Nairobi
|
1
|
6
|
A child is killed when Religion of Peace proponents toss a grenade into a
church.
|
9/28/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Youhanaabad
|
0
|
1
|
A protestant bishop is assaulted and by angry Muslims and beaten outside
his church.
|
9/23/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Bauchi
|
2
|
48
|
A woman and a child at a church service are murdered by a Shahid suicide
car bomber.
|
9/21/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Mardan
|
0
|
12
|
Thousands of burn down a Lutheran church and thrash a dozen Christians.
|
9/16/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Hyderabad
|
0
|
1
|
Islamists angered over a Muhammad film ambush a nun and her driver
outside a cathedral.
|
9/15/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Karachi
|
2
|
4
|
Six Christians are shot at close range in their homes by Religion of
Peace gunmen.
|
9/3/2012
|
Syria
|
Jaramana
|
4
|
12
|
Sunni rebels are blamed for a car bomb blast targeting Christians in a
residential neighborhood.
|
8/29/2012
|
Syria
|
Zamalka
|
7
|
0
|
A family of seven Christians, including three children, are shot in the
street by 'Liua Islam'.
|
8/28/2012
|
Syria
|
Jaramana
|
27
|
48
|
Sunni terrorists are blamed for a car bombing attack on a Christian
funeral that leaves twenty-seven dead, including children.
|
8/28/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Karachi
|
1
|
1
|
Islamic militants open fire on a pastor, injuring him and killing a
church member.
|
8/21/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Faisalabad
|
1
|
0
|
A Muslim perpetrator is strongly suspected by the minority community in
the targeted torture and murder of a 14-year-old Christian boy.
|
8/14/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Sahiwal
|
1
|
0
|
A 14-year-old Christian girl is gang-raped and murdered by five Muslim
men.
|
8/14/2012
|
Egypt
|
Asyut
|
1
|
0
|
Salafis storm a Christian-owned store and murder the owner.
|
8/13/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Gombe
|
1
|
1
|
A guard is killed during a Religion of Peace assault on a Catholic
church.
|
8/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kombul
|
4
|
3
|
Four Christians are cut down in their homes by a Muslim raid on their
village.
|
8/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kaduna
|
0
|
1
|
Muslim's yell 'Allah Akbar' as they set fire to a church and shoot at a
pastor and his family.
|
8/10/2012
|
Philippines
|
Jolo
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian man is gunned down by Abu Sayyaf terrorists on his way home
from church.
|
8/6/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
1
|
0
|
A church pastor is shot to death in his home by two Islamists.
|
8/6/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Okene
|
20
|
9
|
Sharia proponents enter a church and open up on members with
machine-guns, slaughtering at least nineteen, including the pastor.
|
8/5/2012
|
Philippines
|
Maguindanao
|
1
|
11
|
At least one woman is killed when Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement
members overrun a Catholic village.
|
7/29/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kano
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christians are gunned down outside their homes by Boko Haram
Islamists.
|
7/26/2012
|
Egypt
|
Shubra el
Khayma
|
0
|
1
|
A Christian doctor is brutally blinded by Salafist Muslims after asking
them to stop firing weapons in celebration.
|
7/26/2012
|
Philippines
|
Sumisip
|
5
|
22
|
Abu Sayyaf terrorists attack a Christian farming village, killing at
least five.
|
7/22/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Hyderabad
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christians are shot to death by Muslim radicals.
|
7/22/2012
|
Syria
|
Damascus
|
4
|
0
|
The 'Islamic Brigade' stops a car carrying a Christian family, force them
out and then massacre them, including the two children.
|
7/22/2012
|
Philippines
|
Tumahubong
|
0
|
4
|
There are four casualties when suspected Abu Sayaaf gunmen ambush a group
of priests.
|
7/8/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Barkin-Ladi
|
23
|
1
|
Two politicians are among twenty-three Christians, including women and
children, slaughtered by Muslims during a funeral for other victims of
Islamic terror.
|
7/8/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Kot Ghulam
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian laborer is pulled out of his truck and shot point-blank by a
Muslim.
|
7/7/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kushen
|
80
|
300
|
Muslim terrorists attack twelve Christian villages and massacre eighty
innocents, including fifty taking refuge in a church.
|
7/7/2012
|
Kosovo
|
Pristina
|
2
|
0
|
A middle-aged Christian couple is found shot to death in their home in
what is presumed to be a targeted attack by members of the Muslim majority.
|
7/6/2012
|
South
Africa
|
Philippi
|
14
|
0
|
al-Shabaab is suspected in the serial killings of fourteen Christians.
|
7/1/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
9
|
0
|
Nine Christian construction workers have their throats cut by Islamists
in a 'gruesome' killing.
|
7/1/2012
|
Kenya
|
Garissa
|
18
|
66
|
Muslims throw grenades into two churches and then shoot fleeing
Christians. Some
eighteen die in the massacre, including three children..
|
6/29/2012
|
Egypt
|
El Sharqiya
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christians are reported murdered by Muslim Brotherhood activists.
|
6/25/2012
|
Somalia
|
Mogadishu
|
0
|
3
|
Three Christian converts are shot inside their home by Islamic
fundamentalists.
|
6/17/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Trikania
|
5
|
40
|
A Shahid suicide car bomber crashes through a church gate and blows up at
least five Christians.
|
6/17/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Zaria
|
34
|
125
|
Holy Warriors walk into two church services and detonate, leaving over
thirty worshipers dead in the carnage, including at least ten children.
|
6/11/2012
|
Egypt
|
Cairo
|
0
|
12
|
Several Christian students are injured by Muslims angered over their
evangelism.
|
6/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Biu
|
2
|
12
|
A woman and an usher are among two Christians machine-gunned by Islamists
during a church service.
|
6/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Jos
|
4
|
40
|
A Shahid suicide bomber detonates inside a church during Sunday morning
service, killing at least four.
|
6/4/2012
|
Tunisia
|
Tunis
|
1
|
0
|
Video surfaces of an execution earlier in the year in which a man's
throat is cut for embracing Christianity by Muslims who offer prayers as they
slice.
|
6/3/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Bauchi
|
21
|
45
|
A Holy Warrior runs his car into a church service and detonates, taking
out over twenty praying Christians. The responsible group later thanks Allah for the
victory.
|
5/23/2012
|
Iraq
|
Mosul
|
3
|
2
|
Extremists enter the home of a Catholic priest, murder his father and two
brothers, and rape his mother and sister.
|
5/21/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Benue
|
5
|
3
|
Five people in a Christian village are murdered by Muslim raiders.
|
5/19/2012
|
Nigeria
|
On-Mbaagbu
|
12
|
5
|
Muslim 'mercenaries' storm two Christian villages and slaughter seven
people, including a 2-year-old boy butchered with a knife.
|
5/15/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Quetta
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian man is shot to death while walking home.
|
5/14/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Adamawa
|
15
|
48
|
Fifteen Christian villagers are massacred by twenty Fulani raiders.
|
5/9/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Rim
|
1
|
2
|
A Christian villager is killed by Muslim attackers.
|
5/9/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Tahoss
|
7
|
1
|
Muslim activists set fire to Christian homes and then shoot those trying
to flee, killing at least seven, including two children.
|
5/8/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Dhamala
|
0
|
3
|
Three Christian women are 'beaten mercilessly' in their own home by a
Muslim gang.
|
5/1/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Riyom
|
6
|
6
|
Muslims raid a Christian village, setting fire to homes and shooting
those who fled.
|
4/29/2012
|
Kenya
|
Nairobi
|
1
|
16
|
A suspected al-Shabaab member throws a grenade into a church during
Sunday service, killing a worshipper.
|
4/29/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
5
|
6
|
The pastor is among five Christians shot to death by Boko Haram Islamists
inside their church.
|
4/29/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kano
|
16
|
22
|
Sixteen Christians, including professors and doctors, are massacred by
Islamists, who bomb their church service and then shoot them in the back as
they try to flee.
|
4/25/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Riyom
|
5
|
5
|
Four women and a 4-year-old child are among members of a Christian
village hacked to death by Fulani raiders.
|
4/12/2012
|
Macedonia
|
Smilkovsko
|
5
|
0
|
Five young Christian fishermen between the ages of 18 and 22 are brutally
slaughtered by a group of radical Muslims at a lake.
|
4/11/2012
|
Mali
|
Timbuktu
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian leader is beheaded shortly after Islamic forces take control
of the city.
|
4/9/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Dikwa
|
3
|
0
|
A civilian and guard at a church are among three people shot to death by
Boko Haram.
|
4/8/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Kaduna
|
41
|
33
|
A suicide car bomber detonates outside a church celebrating Easter. Nearly forty people lose their
lives in the carnage.
|
4/7/2012
|
Turkey
|
Bahcelievler
|
0
|
1
|
Radicals rush into a church and assault a pastor when he refuses to
embrace Islam.
|
4/7/2012
|
Mali
|
Timbuktu
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian leader is beheaded by Religion of Peace activists.
|
4/4/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
9
|
0
|
Islamic radicals fire on Christian traders at a market, killing nine.
|
4/1/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian is shot to death by Islamists on his way home from church.
|
3/31/2012
|
Kenya
|
Mtwapa
|
2
|
30
|
Two Christians are blown apart when Mujahideen toss a grenade into an
outdoor worship service.
|
3/30/2012
|
India
|
Nutangram
|
0
|
1
|
A 65-year-old widow is badly beaten in her own church by Islamic
extremists.
|
3/26/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Takum
|
2
|
2
|
Muslim 'mercenaries' attack two Christian villages and shoot a
22-year-old and an elderly man to death.
|
3/22/2012
|
Iraq
|
Mosul
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian is kidnapped and murdered.
|
3/20/2012
|
Iraq
|
Baghdad
|
3
|
0
|
Suspected al-Qaeda storm a church and kill three guards.
|
3/20/2012
|
Iraq
|
Baghdad
|
2
|
5
|
Religion of Peace bombers kill two people with a blast at an Orthodox
church.
|
3/18/2012
|
Yemen
|
Taiz
|
1
|
0
|
al-Qaeda gunmen murder an American teacher accused of being a 'Christian
proselytizer'.
|
3/18/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Suleja
|
0
|
5
|
A church is firebombed during a service.
|
3/15/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Nayi
|
10
|
4
|
A pastor is among ten people hacked and shot to death when armed Muslims
raid Christian homes around a church.
|
3/12/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Bum
|
2
|
3
|
Fulani raiders slaughter two Christian villagers.
|
3/11/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Jos
|
11
|
22
|
A suicide bomber detonates at a Catholic church during mass, killing at
least eleven worshippers.
|
3/11/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Chugwi
|
3
|
3
|
Three Christians are shot dead by Muslim gunmen in a targeted attack.
|
3/6/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Bilala
|
2
|
0
|
At least two civilians are killed as Boko Haram devotees blow up a church
and a police station.
|
3/4/2012
|
Egypt
|
Abu
Al-Reesh
|
0
|
2
|
Two nuns are injured when a Muslim mob of 1500 lays siege to a Catholic
school on rumors of a church building.
|
3/4/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Benue
|
21
|
13
|
Women and children comprise the bulk of twenty-one members of a Christian
farming community slaughtered by Fulani 'mercenaries' wielding machetes and
burning homes.
|
3/1/2012
|
Iraq
|
Sulaymaniyah
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian schoolteacher is gunned down by a Muslim student over
'religious differences'.
|
2/29/2012
|
Bangladesh
|
Madarganj
|
0
|
3
|
Three missionaries are injured when a mob, stirred up by an Islamic
seminary, throw stones at them.
|
2/26/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Jos
|
4
|
38
|
A suicide bomber detonates during a church service, killing four
worshippers including a woman and a father and 18-month-old child.
|
2/26/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Kot
Meerath
|
0
|
1
|
A Christian woman is brutally tortured and paraded for harboring alleged
'anti-Islam' views.
|
2/25/2012
|
Sudan
|
Umsirdipa
|
5
|
0
|
Five members of a Christian family are killed in a targeted attack by the
Islamic republic.
|
2/22/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
1
|
0
|
Islamists slit the throat of a pastor's 75-year-old mother and leave a
note in Arabic for her son.
|
2/22/2012
|
Pakistan
|
Faisalabad
|
0
|
2
|
A Muslim mob attacks a church and shoots one Christian while pushing
another off the roof.
|
2/19/2012
|
Israel
|
Jerusalem
|
0
|
1
|
One person is injured when Muslims hurl rocks at Christian tourists from
their mosque on the Temple Mount.
|
2/19/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Sulieja
|
0
|
5
|
Sharia advocates set off a car bomb next to a church.
|
2/11/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Potiskum
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christian brothers are murdered in cold blood by Islamists in white
robes.
|
2/9/2012
|
Syria
|
Qusayr
|
1
|
0
|
Sunni rebels pull a Christian family man out of his car and execute him
in cold blood.
|
1/30/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Potiskum
|
1
|
0
|
A guard at a church is picked off by Islamist snipers.
|
1/26/2012
|
Egypt
|
Bahgourah
|
2
|
0
|
A Christian father and son are machine-gunned by Muslims after refusing
to pay money.
|
1/24/2012
|
Norway
|
Haugesund
|
0
|
2
|
Two ex-Muslim converts to Christianity are stabbed by three attackers
shouting 'kuffar' (unbeliever).
|
1/23/2012
|
Turkey
|
Istanbul
|
0
|
1
|
A Christian laborer is severely tortured with scalding water on orders of
his Muslim employer.
|
1/22/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Tafawa
Balewa
|
9
|
12
|
Militant Muslims hurl grenades into Christian homes, killing some as they
slept and then shooting others as they tried to escape.
|
1/19/2012
|
Egypt
|
Kebly-Rahmaniya
|
0
|
2
|
A man and boy suffer gunshot injuries when a mob rampages through a
Christian town, shouting 'Allah Akbar' and burning homes.
|
1/17/2012
|
Sudan
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Khartoum
|
0
|
1
|
A church evangelist is arrested and brutally beaten by police.
|
1/15/2012
|
Syria
|
Damascus
|
3
|
0
|
Three Christians are killed in targeted attacks - two while waiting in
line at a bakery.
|
1/15/2012
|
Sudan
|
Rabak
|
0
|
2
|
Islamic militia force their way into a church and kidnap two priests, who
are then 'mistreated' in captivity.
|
1/11/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Potiskum
|
6
|
0
|
Six Christians, including a woman and a baby, are machine-gunned by Boko
Haram while on a bus at a gas station.
|
1/10/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Dalman
|
3
|
0
|
Three Christians are shot and hacked to death in a sectarian attack at a
farming community.
|
1/9/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
2
|
0
|
Religion of Peace activists shoot two Christians death in their own homes
in separate attacks.
|
1/7/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Maiduguri
|
2
|
0
|
Two Christian university students are murdered by Religion of Peace
gunmen.
|
1/6/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Adamawa
|
12
|
4
|
Islamists chanting 'Allah Akbar' barge into a church and massacre a dozen
worshippers.
|
1/6/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Mubi
|
20
|
15
|
Twenty Christians gathered for a funeral are machine-gunned at close
range by Muslims shouting 'Allah Akbar'.
|
1/5/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Mubi
|
4
|
0
|
Four Christians are gunned down by Boko Haram.
|
1/5/2012
|
Nigeria
|
Gombe
|
9
|
10
|
Muslim gunmen spray a church congregation with machine-gun fire, killing
nine, including the pastor's wife and several children.
|
1/2/2012
|
Tajikistan
|
Dushanbe
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian dressed as Father Christmas is called an 'infidel' and
stabbed to death by Muslim radicals.
|
1/2/2012
|
Somalia
|
Cee-Carfiid
|
1
|
0
|
A Christian humanitarian worker is beheaded by Religion of Peace
activists for leaving Islam.
|
Islam against free
expression
Chronology
of the reactions to Innocence of Muslims
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
This article covers the chronology of the reactions to Innocence of
Muslims. The uploading of the Innocence of Muslims films trailer resulted in protests, deaths and hundreds of injuries in
several cities in the world.[1]
Timeline
September 9
- Egyptian television airs an Arabic-language scene from the Bacile
film.
September 11
- Protesters in Cairo climb over the walls of the US Embassy and tear
down an American flag, replacing it with a black flag inscribed with
Islamic emblems. Egyptian police have surrounded the compound to block
further incursions.[2][3][4][5]
- Protestors in Cairo condemn this film promoted by controversial
American pastor Terry Jones as a "humiliation
of Muhammad under the pretext of freedom of speech".[3][4][5][6]
- The U.S. embassy in Cairo and the consulate in Benghazi were both
attacked, with the Benghazi attack resulting in the death of
ambassador J. Christopher
Stevens[7] and three
other Americans.[8]
Initially, many cited the film as the cause of the attack. Although
al-Qaeda claimed the attacks were in response to the film, the attacks
were in fact previously planned by a pro-al-Qaeda group, who carried out the
attacks independently from the rioters under the cover of the local riots
about the movie trailer.[9]
September 12
- U.S. president Barack Obama says that the United States rejects
denigration of religious beliefs.[10][11]
- Sam Bacile, supposed writer and director of the allegedly privately
produced film that motivated the attacks, has gone into hiding, while a
second person, apparently separately, claims production of the video.[12][13]
- Afghanistan blocks access to
YouTube until the
video is taken down.[14]
- Syrian rebels express outrage that the alleged privately produced video belittling
Muhammad is generating more anger among Arabs than the rising death toll
within Syria.[15]
September 13
- Protestors breach the walls of the U.S. embassy compound in Sana'a, Yemen.
- U.S. officials say they are investigating whether the protests over
Innocence of Muslims denigrating Muhammad were used as a cover by the
Benghazi consulate attackers, rather than being spurred by them.[16][17]
- The US consulate in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany, is briefly evacuated due
to suspicions over the contents of an envelope.[18]
- Yemeni police fire warning shots in the air and four people are
killed. The Egyptian ministry of health says 224 people are injured in
demonstrations around the embassy in Cairo. In Kuwait, 500 people gathered and
chanted near the embassy.[19][20]
- More details emerge about the "privately" produced
anti-Islam film that sparks unrest in the world. Sam Bacile is also the
name a Washington-based activist assumed to initiate forwarding the link
last week. One reporter points to the suspected real name of
"Abano(u)b Basseley".[21]
- In short, Florida Pastor Terry Jones and Copt Washington-based lawyer Morris Sadek are two
of the promoters of the film.[20]
- An other person, named Nakoula Basseley
Nakoula, self-identified manager of the company that allegedly produced the
film, is identified by a security official.[22][23][24][25]
September 14
- Protesters attacked the German and British embassies in the Sudanese
capital of Khartoum.[26][27]
- At least seven people were killed during protests in Khartoum, Tunis and Cairo.[26][27]
- The United States Consulate in Chennai,India was targeted by Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazagham resulting
in minor damage to the consulate and Injuries to 25 protesters after Police resort to Riot Control methods.[28]
- Protesters in Tripoli, Lebanon, set fire to a KFC and a Hardees restaurant, sparking clashes with
local security forces. One protester has been killed and 25 people have
been wounded, including 18 police officers.[26][29]
- Clashes occurred in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.[30][31]
- In the Sinai, an international
observer base near El Gorah is shot
at. Two observers are injured.[31]
- At least two American Marines and 16 Taliban fighters were killed in a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion airbase
in Afghanistan's Helmand province, according to a spokesman at nearby Camp Leatherneck.[27][32][33] The
attack was a complex and coordinated assault using several types of
weapons. The Taliban claimed that it was in response to the film, and have
also stated that Prince Harry, who is currently stationed at the base, was
the target of the attack. A hangar within the facility suffered considerable
damage, with five aircraft destroyed and three others being damaged.[34][35]
- Hundreds of Muslims protesting the film riot in Jerusalem and the Damascus Gate, and hurl
stones at police officers.[36]
September 15
- At least 4 were killed and 46 injured during protests near the
American embassy in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. The U.S. government pulled
out all non-essential personnel and urged its citizens to leave the city.[37][38]
- Egyptian riot police stormed Tahrir Square and
arrested at least 220 protesters after four days of clashes in Cairo. A
35-year old man died of birdshot wounds after clashes near
the US embassy overnight. Authorities announced the number of injured
since the beginning of protests had risen to more than 250.[38][39]
- In Yemen, a statement
from AQAP called for Muslims everywhere to attack American embassy personnel.[38]
- Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh,
denounced the attacks and urged governments and international bodies to
criminalise insults against prophets.[38]
- Violent protests occurred in Sydney, Australia, where up
to six hundred people marched. Several scuffles broke out between security
forces and protesters, with rocks and bottles being thrown.[38][40]
- Over 80 people were arrested during a protest near the US embassy on Champs Elysees in Paris, France.[38]
- Sudan refused a US government
request to station a Marine platoon at its embassy in Khartoum, forcing
authorities to pull out all non-essential personnel and advise American
citizens to avoid travelling to the country.[38]
- Al Qaeda indicated responsibility for the attack in Libya, citing
revenge for a US drone strike in June that killed Abu Yahya al-Libi, a
Libyan who served as lieutenant to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of
al-Qaeda.[41]
September 19
- A DHS report released on
September 11 and reported by Fox News on September 19 indicated that a web
statement incited "sons of Egypt" to pressure America to release
Sheikh Omar
Abdel-Rahman (the so-called "blind
sheikh) "even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone
in it." The Web statement was apparently posted on an Arabic-language
forum on September 9, two days before the attack, and was in reference to
the embassy in Egypt.[42]