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Muslims Force Christian To Convert To Islam, Then Brutally Behead Him

Beheading of Christian in Syria

Beheading of Christian in Syria

A Christian man was captured by Muslims in Syria, and forced him to declare the Shahadatan (“There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger). After he stated the heretical creed, they deemed him an infidel anyway and brutally beheaded him.

Our contact from Syria found the video of the beheading, which has never been exposed in the Western media until now, and provided the translation for it. You can watch it here:

http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=cbb27ccd5921

As a lesson, if you ever find yourself in such a situation as this, do not say the Islamic creed, but the Lord’s Prayer:

Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

The Syrian Christians are being persecuted every sing day, with rape, beheading, kidnapping, and all sorts of other horrific violence.

[H/T Walid Shoebat]

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Muslims Stone Girl To Death, For Using Facebook

A girl was stoned to death by Muslims in Syria just for using Facebook. Our contact, Hatune Dogan, wrote on the occurrence:

Fattoum Al Jassim is a girl from Al Raqqa State in Syria ( A syrian governorate that is controlled by DAESH, the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq ). The girl was seized red-handed (that she has an account on Facebook and uses it ) and was submitted to the Court in the city. They sentenced her to death by stoning according to the Koranic verse (non-touch adultery). The Islamic Court judges that Facebook is approaching adultery. At last, the innocent girl was killed by stoning.

[H/T Walid Shoebat]

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Obama Administration disputes Republicans’ account of U.S. Policy on Syria

(Reuters) – The Obama administration on Monday defended its policy on Syria and disputed media reports that Secretary of State John Kerry had told a group of U.S. lawmakers the current U.S. policy on Syria is not working.

Kerry met with the bipartisan group on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich,Germany, during the weekend.

Included in the group were senior Republican lawmakers John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who favor a more muscular U.S. policy to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and Democrats Chris Murphy and Sheldon Whitehouse.

McCain and Graham told reporters that Kerry said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was failing to uphold a promise to give up chemical weapons and peace talks in Geneva to put in place a Syrian transitional government were not succeeding, according to The Daily Beast.

Citing Graham’s account, the report said Kerry acknowledged that the chemical weapons plan is being slow rolled, the Russians continue to supply arms and that the U.S. strategy is going to have to change.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who was present during the meeting with the senators in Munich, said on Monday that Kerry did not say U.S. policy on Syria was failing.

“At no point did he, during the meeting, did Secretary Kerry raise lethal assistance for the opposition,” Psaki told her daily briefing. “At no point did he state what, I think, was quoted, that the process has failed.”

She added: “The secretary said during the meeting, as he said publicly – as we all have said publicly – that of course we need to keep considering what more we can do, what more we can do to put pressure on, what more we can do on the humanitarian front.”

Psaki said the administration had acknowledged more was needed to ease Syria’s humanitarian crisis.

“No one in the administration thinks we’re doing enough until the humanitarian crisis has been solved, and the civil war has ended,” Psaki said. “As you all know, there are ongoing discussion within the administration about what steps to take, what we need to do,” she added.

At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney said the comments from McCain and Graham were “a case of members projecting what they want to hear and not stating the facts of what was discussed.”

Asked whether Obama believed that the current U.S. policy on Syria was the right one, Carney responded: “Absolutely.”

“There is no other path ultimately for Syria that does not include or is not driven by a negotiated political settlement,” Carney added.

Whitehouse and Murphy, the two Democrats at the meeting, said in a joint statement that they were surprised to read the Republicans’ accounts of Kerry’s assessment.

“The characterizations reported on today do not reflect the conversation that we heard,” they said. “Neither of us recall the Secretary saying the policy of the administration in Syria was failing, nor proposing new lethal assistance for Syrian opposition groups.”

An estimated 130,000 people have been killed during Syria’s nearly three-year-old war, with around 250,000 trapped by fighting and in need of humanitarian aid.

U.N.-sponsored peace talks between the government and opposition groups, which have been supported by Washington and Moscow, ended on Friday in Geneva with no progress toward ending the civil war. The two sides are meant to resume the next round on February 10.

Meanwhile, the United States accused Damascus last week of dragging its feet on eliminating its chemical stash and asked Russia to increase pressure on Assad to speed up the operation.

Assad’s agreement to give up the chemical weapons helped avert potential U.S. air strikes, but delays in shipping them out of the country have caused many in the West to suspect Syria is stalling.

In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the delays were due to a difficult security situation and logistical issues, and Assad was not to blame.

As America’s top diplomat, Kerry has been the most vocal American figure on Syria, working closely with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to bring Syria’s warring sides together for talks, and easing concerns among Gulf allies that the U.S. is doing enough on Syria.

Men chat near buildings damaged by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Daraya, near Damascus

[H/T Reuters]

Syrian Mothers Selling Daughters as Prostitutes to Wealthy Saudis in Accordance with Sharia

(via Answering Muslims) — The Prophet of Islam allowed his followers to practice a form of prostitution called Muta. In Muhammad’s time, a Muslim could pay a woman for “temporary marriage,” which would last a few hours, days, weeks, or months (depending on the agreement). Many Muslims today claim that Muhammad eventually changed his mind about this obviously immoral practice, and that Muta is now forbidden in Islam (certain Muslim sources suggest this). But these Muslims fail to mention that some of Islam’s most trusted sources plainly declare that Muhammad never prohibited Muta. For instance, the following passage in Sahih Muslim says that Muslims were practicing Muta well beyond the lifetime of Muhammad:

Sharia in Syria

Sahih Muslim 3248—Ibn Uraij reported: ‘Ati’ reported that Jabir b. Abdullah came to perform ‘Umra, and we came to his abode, and the people asked him about different things, and then they made a mention of temporary marriage, whereupon he said: Yes, we had been benefiting ourselves by this temporary marriage during the lifetime of the Holy Prophet and during the time of Abu Bakr and ‘Umar.

Some hadith claim that it was Umar, rather than Muhammad, who outlawed Muta:

Sahih Muslim 3250—Abu Nadra reported: While I was in the company of Jabir b. Abdullah, a person came to him and said that Ibn ‘Abbas and Ibn Zubair differed on the two types of Mut’a (Tamattu’ of Hajj 1846 and Tamattu’ with women), whereupon Jabir said: We used to do these two during the lifetime of Allah’s Messenger. Umar then forbade us to do them, and so we did not revert to them.

Hence, Muslim men who want to hire prostitutes can simply point out that Muhammad, Islam’s final prophet, allowed prostitution, and that later Muslims (like Umar) cannot overrule Muhammad. Moreover, since Muhammad allowed sex with prepubescent girls, pedophiles are free to seek outchild prostitutes. That’s exactly what’s happening in Syrian refugee camps.

While the overall accuracy of this news report is excellent, the narrator makes one important (politically correct) blunder. After pointing out that Sharia allows marriage to “very young girls,” she says that this is only an “extreme interpretation” of Sharia, for “Islamic law rejects forced marriage in principle.” She seems to be confusing a few different concepts here, so let’s separate and clarify them.First, as I have pointed out, there is some disagreement in the Muslim sources as to whether Muta is allowed today. Nevertheless, since there are strong narrations reporting that Muhammad never prohibited Muta, any Muslim who signs a temporary marriage contract can easily defend his actions.Second, there is no disagreement whatsoever in the Muslim sources as to whether a grown man can marry a prepubescent girl. Both the Qur’an and the Hadith allow men to marry prepubescent girls, and Muhammad himself married and had sex with Aisha when she was only nine years old. Thus, it’s simply false to say that marriage to young girls is only allowed under an “extreme interpretation” of Sharia. Marriage to young girls is permitted under any serious interpretation of Sharia.

Third, the narrator believes that Islamic law forbids “forced marriage,” and she thinks that these marriages qualify as “forced” because the girls’ families are pressuring them. But family pressure (e.g., “You must do this for your family”) has nothing to do with the Islamic concept of forced marriage. As long as a girl or woman gives verbal consent to marriage, or even if she remains silent when asked, the marriage does not count as forced. Notice that Umm Majid (the “marriage broker”) specifically says to the girls, “I have a 70-year-old Saudi, who wants a girl no older than 13 years. Who of you wants to meet him?” One of the girls responds, “Me.” Umm Majid obtains the girl’s consent in order to make the marriage fully Sharia-compliant.

So we see once again the depressing fruits of Muhammad’s teachings and example. The Prophet of Islam allowed his followers to practice Muta. He allowed his followers to marry prepubescent girls. He allowed men to beat their wives. The result? Wealthy Saudis are taking young Muslim girls back to their hotels, beating and raping them, and it’s all perfectly in line with Sharia. (The same thing is happening in Egypt.)

Where are CAIR and ISNA when these little girls are being raped? It seems that Muslim organizations in the West are too busy complaining about Islamophobia to care much about the horrendous abuse of vulnerable little girls in the Middle East. Indeed, many Muslims get far more upset about people like me reporting the abuse than they do about the abuse itself.

You can learn a lot about a religion by noticing what tends to outrage its adherents. Welcome to Islam.

 

Leader of John McCain’s ‘Freedom Fighters’ Flees Syria, Muslim Fundamentalists Have Apparently Taken Over

If you remember the photos taken of Senator John McCain posing with terrorists when he visited Syria earlier this year, you might remember the name Salim Idris. He was one of the men McCain posed with. Idris is the leader of the ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels whom the Senator insisted the U.S. help because Idris was leading the ‘freedom fighters’ in the fight against the Assad regime.

McCain and Salim Idris

Well, Idris has fled Syria and the Muslim fundamentalists have apparently taken over.

Via WSJ:

Islamist fighters ran the top Western-backed rebel commander in Syria out of his headquarters, and he fled the country, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The Islamists also took over key warehouses holding U.S. military gear for moderate fighters in northern Syria over the weekend. The takeover and flight of Gen. Salim Idris of the Free Syrian Army shocked the U.S., which along with Britain immediately froze delivery of nonlethal military aid to rebels in northern Syria.

Perhaps one of the most absurd examples of political denial on the part of the west is the notion that there are ‘moderate’ rebels at all, especially in light of the doubling down that is apparently taking place in the wake of Idris’s exodus. The U.S. is attempting to identify the most moderate extremists:

The Islamic Front is a recently formed alliance of the largest Islamist rebel groups that excludes the two main al Qaeda-linked rebel groups—the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham—and is considered the more moderate faction among Islamist rebel groups.

The ‘more moderate faction’ among Islamists?! That is precisely the dynamic that led the U.S. State Department to put the February 17 Martyrs Brigade in charge of security against Ansar Al-Sharia at the Special Mission Compound in Benghazi. The result was that F17MB – who deserted that compound – provided intelligence to the attackers who knew every inch of that compound.

A bit later in the WSJ article is this gem:

U.S. officials said the Islamic Front offered to help protect the headquarters and two warehouse facilities from harder line groups. Then, when the Islamic Front came in and helped secure the sites, “they asserted themselves and said: ‘All right, we’re taking over,’ ” a senior U.S. official said.

Those two paragraphs from the WSJ article – possibly better than any assemblage of sentences before them – demonstrate perfectly, why the rise of fundamentalist Islam across the globe is seeing success. The west so refuses to admit who its enemies actually are that it’s willing to parse groups that all seek the same goal – an Islamic caliphate under the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella.

In this latest incarnation of good cop / bad cop, the ‘good’ cop has left the room. Having no other option, the guy being interrogated magically sees the ‘bad’ cop as two people, one of whom is better than the other.

There’s a word for that – schizophrenia. It’s also two primary psychological defense mechanisms wrapped into one – denial and projection. In the case of the aforementioned metaphor, the subject is not only denying who the bad cop is but is projecting multiple personality disorder onto the bad cop in order to reach that absurd level of denial.

To further the aside, here’s what Web MD has to say about Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder):

The dissociative aspect is thought to be a coping mechanism — the person literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience that’s too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his conscious self.

Think of all of the extremely unspeakably heinous acts that have taken place in Syria, from children beheading adults to adults engaging in cannibalism; some are even contracting a disease that can only be contracted by eating human brains. Western leaders simply do not want to face these kinds of realities (Obama and his most loyal acolytes notwithstanding).

In a more pragmatic sense, the behavior of western leaders demonstrates that the loyalties of Idris have been accepted far too easily as well. Take a look at where he went:

Gen. Idris flew to the Qatari capital of Doha on Sunday after fleeing to Turkey, U.S. officials said Wednesday. “He fled as a result of the Islamic Front taking over his headquarters,” a senior U.S. official said.

An Islamic Front spokesman also said Gen. Idris had fled to Turkey.

Turkey and Qatar are two incredibly Muslim Brotherhood-friendly countries. The former’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeks a return of the Ottoman Empire, via the Muslim Brotherhood and the latter – among other things – provided safe haven for several of Egypt’s Brotherhood leadership after the ouster of Mohammed Mursi.

Why would these countries help Idris, a supposed ‘moderate’ who is attempting to eliminate forces supported by those countries? Shouldn’t he be persona non grata if he were truly who he is portrayed to be? He’s someone who was supposedly making things difficult for the extremists, right?

Perhaps Idris was just playing a role, eh? Perhaps he was just wearing the ‘moderate’ label to make it easier for rebels to get U.S. weapons. Under that scenario, he would indeed be welcomed by Turkey and Qatar.

Don’t worry, though. McCain knows who these people are:

[H/T Walid Shoebat]

Pakistani Jihadis Transferring New Strain of Polio in Syria

[H/T The Clarion Project.

Syria Polio Strain

A strain of polio originating in Pakistan has made it way to Syria, where it has crippled more than a dozen children, according to doctors from the Kurdish Red Crescent. Jihadis, who are flooding into Syria from Pakistan, have brought the highly contagious disease, which has not been seen in Syria in 14 years. The disease has also been found in Somalia, Afghanistan and Nigeria.

Polio – once close to being non-existent globally – has resurfaced due to conservative Islamic edicts, among other reasons. In Pakistan, Taliban clerics have forbidden the vaccinations thought to be a Western conspiracy designed to sterilize Muslim women. Aid workers in the country administering the vaccines have been killed or frightened away due to threats against them.

In other cases, the vaccine has been hard to come by in the war-ravaged Muslim-majority countries. Ignorance has also contributed to the spread of the disease.

USA today reports that this week alone, 11 teachers who were involved in a polio vaccination campaign were kidnapped by jihadis and taken to the Bara area, close to the Afghanistan border in the northwest of Pakistan.

Another vaccination team was scared away in Pakistan’s Punjab’s province, where a cleric threatened a jihad against the team.

After travelers from Pakistan were found to have transferred the highly contagious disease, Saudi Arabia instituted new regulation for all Hajj pilgrims travelling from affected countries.

“Every pilgrim is to take polio vaccine before traveling to Saudi Arabia and also upon arrival at any of the international airports in the Kingdom,” according to Mazhar Nisar of Pakistan’s Ministry of National Health Regulations and Services. Those who can prove they have been vaccinated are not required.

Dr. Allias Durray, who heads the polio eradication effort in Pakistan, said, “After the Syrian polio outbreak and the flight of refugees in proximity to Turkey and European Union, it is evident that the polio virus is at the doorstep of Europe.”

Immigrants to the United States are required to be vaccinated, but there are no requirements for travelers. Speaking for the Center for Global Health at the Center for Disease Control, Donda Hansen said, “We collaborate closely with international organizations and other countries to make sure that international and U.S. guidance on vaccination for immigrants is implemented.”

Further, Hansen said, “The U.S. maintains ‘elimination status’ in the U.S. by aggressively investigating every suspected case to determine whether an importation has occurred, taking steps to prevent transmission, and safeguarding Americans.”

Largest Massacre of Christians in Syria at the Hands of Obama Supported Jihadi ‘Rebels’ Ignored by Media

[H/T The Clarion Project] — The worst Christian massacre—complete with mass graves, tortured-to-death women and children, and destroyed churches—recently took place in Syria, at the hands of the U.S.-supported jihadi “rebels”; and the U.S. government and its “mainstream media” mouthpiece are, as usual, silent (that is, when not actively trying to minimize matters).

Syrian Christians Massacred

Images of three of the six family members tortured and thrown in a well by U.S.-supported Islamic terrorists.

The massacre took place in Sadad, an ancient Syriac Orthodox Christian habitation, so old as to be mentioned in the Old Testament.  Most of the region’s inhabitants are poor, as Sadad is situated in the remote desert between Homs and Damascus (desert regions, till now, apparently the only places Syria’s Christians could feel secure; 600 Christian families had earlier fled there for sanctuary from the jihad, only to be followed by it).

In late October, the U.S-supported “opposition” invaded and occupied Sadad for over a week, till ousted by the nation’s military.  Among other atrocities, 45 Christians—including women and children—were killed, several tortured to death; Sadat’s 14 churches, some ancient, were ransacked and destroyed; the bodies of six people from one family, ranging from ages 16 to 90, were found at the bottom of a well (an increasingly common fate for “subhuman” Christians).

The jihadis even made a GRAPHIC VIDEO (with English subtitles) of those whom they massacred, while shouting Islam’s victory-cry, “Allahu Akbar” (which John McCain equates to a Christian saying “thank God”).  Another video, made after Sadad was liberated shows more graphic atrocities.

Here are the words of Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh, Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs and Hama (another detailed account, with pictures, appears here):

What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria in the past two years and a half… 45 innocent civilians were martyred for no reason, and among them several women and children, many thrown into mass graves. Other civilians were threatened and terrorized. 30 were wounded and 10 are still missing. For one week, 1,500 families were held as hostages and human shields. Among them children, the elderly, the young, men and women….  All the houses of Sadad were robbed and property looted. The churches are damaged and desecrated, deprived of old books and precious furniture…  What happened in Sadad is the largest massacre of Christians in Syria and the second in the Middle East, after the one in the Church of Our Lady of Salvation in Iraq, in 2010.

In the Iraqi attack of 2010, al-Qaeda linked jihadis stormed the church during service killing some 60 Christian worshippers (WARNING: The following images are EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: see the GRAPHIC images of the aftermath).

Syrian Christians Massacred

While the archbishop is correct that this is the “largest massacre of Christians in Syria,” it is but the tip of the iceberg of the persecution the nation’s Christian minority has suffered—including beheadings, church bombings, kidnappings, rapes, and dislocation of hundreds of thousands of Christians—since the war broke out (see Syria entries inmonthly persecution series).

A month before Sadad, another ancient Christian region, Ma‘loula, one of the world’s very few regions that still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus, was besieged by the jihadis, its churches bombarded and plundered, its inhabitants forced to convert to Islam or die.  The last  words of one man who refused were: “I am a Christian, and if you want to kill me for this, I do not object to it.”

The archbishop concluded his statement concerning Sadad by asking: “We have shouted aid to the world but no one has listened to us. Where is the Christian conscience? Where is human consciousness? Where are my brothers? I think of all those who are suffering today in mourning and discomfort: We ask everyone to pray for us.”

Serge Trifkovic—who hails from a European region especially acquainted with Islamic jihadresponds to the archbishop as follows:

That no “human consciousness” is to be found in the White House, or in the editorial offices of the leading Western media, is now a matter of well-established record. Just try searching for “Sadad” (or alternatively “Saddad”) on the websites of the Department of State or The New York Times. Ditto the leading European dailies, the CNN/BBC/RTF, the human-rights defending “NGOs” et al.

The problem, of which Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh appears unaware, is no longer in the Western elite’s mere indifference to the impending demise of Christianity in the lands of its birth, but in its active, ongoing, and open contribution to that demise. Cyprus (1974) and the Balkans (1991-9) provided the test, Iraq (2003-today) the conclusive proof. In Syria the Obama administration remains committed to supporting the rebels—ah, yes, only the “moderate” ones, like the Christian-murdering “Free Syrian Army” (discretion advised again), not “even though” the result will be the same, but precisely because it will be.

In one of the Arabic videos documenting the aftermath of the Sadad massacre, as the mutilated bodies of one family are drawn from a well (around :30 second mark), a middle-aged male relative, in tears, says: Another of Sadad’s churches, desecrated by jihadis.

Syrian Christian Massacre

The most precious in the whole universe [his family], are now gone, leaving me alone, but thank God I am still surrounded by these loving people who remain.  I want to say, let people [the jihadis] return to their minds.  The problems of the world can only be solved by knowledge and brains.  Enough insanity, the nerves of the people are shredded.  Enough, enough—return to your minds; you people, you humans—return to your humanity, enough crimes.

As a sign of the times, here is a Syrian, an “easterner,” evoking rationalism and humanity, products of Christian civilization, even as the post-Christian West is governed by anything and everything—propaganda, emotionalism, mindless indoctrination—but the twain.