A Christian is tortured every 3 minutes in the Muslim world.

[Mr.Canada]

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...

"Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth,"

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.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447421970&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Christians are targeted every day, every three minutes in a Muslim country. What are we going to do about it? Why does the news suppress this information?

We Christians need to open our eyes and stop believing what the news and TV is telling us. The world is a very different place then what the CBC tells us isn't it?

We need to start waking up to what's really going on in the world around us and really stop fighting amongst ourselves and unite together as Christians. Many of our Christian brothers and sisters are being targeted and killed for believing that Jesus Christ died for our sins and in the western world, what do we do? Nothing, say pass the chips and dip.

This is unacceptable, it's time for action. It's time to show our support and to try to put pressure on our government and on the news agencies to start reporting the real news, all of it. Not just what they want us to know, not just the stories with a socialist bend but all the news.

The people deserve to know the truth. We can start today. Later on today I will be editing this post with the email addresses of all the major news agencies in Canada.

[charter.rights]

I agree. When do you leave for the Middle East?

And be sure to clean your rifle before you go.

[Shwa]

Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? And while we are at it, when did Grampa Simpson convert to militant Christian evangelism? I must have missed that episode.

[GostHacked]

I had a feeling this was started by Mr.Canada. Another drive-by-post? Mr. Canada sure loves his Christians.

[DrGreenthumb]

Maybe we should do the Christian thing and torture them back eh Mr.C?

[Michael Hardner]

A Christian is tortured every 3 minutes in the Muslim world.

And he's getting pretty damn sick of it...

Doesn't Mr. Canada already have a thread on this topic ?

[GostHacked]

And he's getting pretty damn sick of it...

Doesn't Mr. Canada already have a thread on this topic ?

Multiple. Almost 6 now I guess.

[ToadBrother]

Christians are targeted every day, every three minutes in a Muslim country. What are we going to do about it? Why does the news suppress this information?\

I dunno. What are you going to do about all the Bahai attacked in Iran, the Falun Gong in China, the thousands of native children who were raped by workers for Christian organizations in Canada?

The world is filled with tragedies, but the one thing that no one need worry about is the extinction of Christianity.

[cybercoma]

Lots of people are tortured in the Muslim world. It's appalling.

[BrassTax]

I dunno. What are you going to do about all the Bahai attacked in Iran, the Falun Gong in China, the thousands of native children who were raped by workers for Christian organizations in Canada?

The world is filled with tragedies, but the one thing that no one need worry about is the extinction of Christianity.

Couldn't agree with you more here. On a side-note christians might be "tortured" in the muslim world however you might want to define that word, Here the muslim world is persecuted/discriminated against at roughly the same frequency//. I refuse to fall into the ignorant muslim hating ritual.

Remember not all muslims are extremist fundamentalists. Generalizations. pfft.

Edited December 21, 2009 by BrassTax

[Machjo]

Then how is it that a prime candidate for PM of Lebanon is a Christian?

I'm not denying that Christians get tortured in Muslim countries. I don't know if it's the case so I'll keep quiet on that. I do know though that Christians are by no means the primarey target of religious prejudice in the Muslim world though.

None of this changes the fact though that clearly from the Lebanon experience, Christians and Muslims can co-exist.

Shalom, Salam, Peace, Paco.

[M.Dancer]

This is good to know cause while the atomic clock is very accurate, we need a low tech way to keep time if society collapses....we can the the Xtian torture clock...based on 3 second intervals.

[jbg]

I agree. When do you leave for the Middle East?

And be sure to clean your rifle before you go.

Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? And while we are at it, when did Grampa Simpson convert to militant Christian evangelism? I must have missed that episode.

How about a little reciprocity. Either we're welcome there and they're welcome here or we part company peacefully.

[kimmy]

Christians do get tortured in the Muslim world. Lots of other people get tortured in the Muslim world too.

The Muslim world is, by and large, a piece of crap.

-k

[jbg]

Christians do get tortured in the Muslim world. Lots of other people get tortured in the Muslim world too.

I'm sure other Muslims get tortured in Muslim world too.

[Machjo]

How about a little reciprocity. Either we're welcome there and they're welcome here or we part company peacefully.

So if John beats Brad, we should not only distance ourselves from John but also from his kind-hearted brother Bill because he happens to be John's brother? As if it's not bad enough to not turn the other cheek to to John, we should also show our contempt to Bill because of his blood relation. Brilliant.

Or how about we treat persons as individuals and recognize that just because a person happens to live in a n oppressive country, that does not automatically mean he supports his government's policies any more than a Canadian necessarily agrees with his government's policies.

[Michael Hardner]

I'm sure other Muslims get tortured in Muslim world too.

Maybe we should just call it the religious world. Places like Uganada are Christian and not exactly postcard destinations. Let's call it the religious world.

[ToadBrother]

Maybe we should just call it the religious world. Places like Uganada are Christian and not exactly postcard destinations. Let's call it the religious world.

Religion, to put it bluntly, is just a placeholder, a tribalistic display like the color of your favorite team's jersey. To one extent or another, religion simply serves as a backdrop for a wider society. If that society fears and despises women, then the religion will declare women dangerous and needing subjugation (read the Bible, and look at how women were treated in the West even up to the 19th and early 20th centuries). If slavery is necessary for the economic system in place, why then religion declares slavery good and proper (look up the Southern Baptist Convention's history if you don't believe me).

There will always be fanatics, of course. Us English-speaking folks had our own homespun religious fanatics in the various non-comformist groups, in particular the Puritans. Some of them even managed a civil war and a coupe that saw a king relieved of the weight of his head and a rather dour government which pretty much frowned on anything resembling public displays of joy, bringing to an end a golden age of the English-speaking peoples.

Religion is the slave of the dominant members of the society. It exists, from that perspective, simply to propagate those ideologies that will best serve them. The Muslim world is no different.

[Michael Hardner]

Religion, to put it bluntly, is just a placeholder, a tribalistic display like the color of your favorite team's jersey. To one extent or another, religion simply serves as a backdrop for a wider society. If that society fears and despises women, then the religion will declare women dangerous and needing subjugation (read the Bible, and look at how women were treated in the West even up to the 19th and early 20th centuries). If slavery is necessary for the economic system in place, why then religion declares slavery good and proper (look up the Southern Baptist Convention's history if you don't believe me).

I agree with you. I couldn't find another way to group the nations together. While I do think that religion is a placeholder, those countries also wear religion on the jerseys more readily than a constitution.

[jbg]

Religion is the slave of the dominant members of the society. It exists, from that perspective, simply to propagate those ideologies that will best serve them. The Muslim world is no different.

I agree with you. I couldn't find another way to group the nations together. While I do think that religion is a placeholder, those countries also wear religion on the jerseys more readily than a constitution.

I am growing tired of people attempting to overlook and explain away the obvious; that the vast bulk of savage incidents are somehow Islam-related.

[Michael Hardner]

I am growing tired of people attempting to overlook and explain away the obvious; that the vast bulk of savage incidents are somehow Islam-related.

Not as tired as I am of having people implying a certain religion causes violence. I have been reading about this for years now, and still haven't had anybody prove that the religion is to blame.

[Oleg Bach]

Whatever happened to turning the other cheek? And while we are at it, when did Grampa Simpson convert to militant Christian evangelism? I must have missed that episode.

Real believers never reveal themselves. Hence they are never detained caught or tormented- only fools cry out the Lords name in utter vanity...and they get what they get..most so-called Christians practice the opposite..and in effect are anti-christists...As for turning the other cheek that was so the man would be forced to hit you with the flat of the hand coming up for the second blow...the flat of the hand was made to induce friendship- it was a joke of sorts---only an idiot believes in taking abuse ...and the church made millions of idiots- Christ was truthfull not allow idiotic ideas such as being smacked more than once...once is one to many.

[ToadBrother]

I am growing tired of people attempting to overlook and explain away the obvious; that the vast bulk of savage incidents are somehow Islam-related.

There are lots of savage incidents all of the world. Could you please provide the statistics by which you proclaim that the Muslim world has more than other groupings in the world?

[ToadBrother]

I agree with you. I couldn't find another way to group the nations together. While I do think that religion is a placeholder, those countries also wear religion on the jerseys more readily than a constitution.

You're coming at this from a civilization that has largely secularized itself. But that process included a period of incredible brutality. The religious wars that engulfed Europe, in particular during the Thirty Years War, but in other attrocities as well, were what ultimately "scared us straight" so to speak. Still, a whole lot of Christians joined together in Central Europe to kill a few million Jews well within the living memory of many people still alive.

I'm not saying the Muslim world doesn't have enormous problems, but religion is a convenient bit of armor for those using it to manipulate the masses in those countries, and a convenient scapegoat for those who would probably hate Islam no matter how violent or peaceable its adherents were. People seem to take this period of time as being somehow odd, and yet Islam and Christendom (in whatever form they have taken over the last 1,400 years) have spent much of their time in competition and at war. Certainly, for a rather large part of this long struggle, Christendom has been the greater aggressor, and just because we've all tossed off the chains of religious servitude and fanaticism doesn't mean that in some parts of the world, memories are still long about what has gone on.

[jbg]

There are lots of savage incidents all of the world. Could you please provide the statistics by which you proclaim that the Muslim world has more than other groupings in the world?

The latest was at Detroit Airport this weekend (link).