Al Qaeda: Christians Leave Iraq or Have Throats Slit

11/20/2008
Catholic News Agency (www.catholicnewsagency.com)

�There�ll be no room in Iraq for the Christian infidels from now on.�

BAGHDAD (CNA) - A Christian bishop in Iraq has received a threatening letter from an Islamic extremist group belonging to Al Qaeda which orders Christians to leave the country �immediately and permanently.�

The text of the letter, reportedly written by the Islamic extremist group Ansar al-Islam, was published in Arabic on the website of Al-Ittihad, an online daily news service, SIR reports.

The letter reads:�The Secretary General of the members of the Islamic Brigade decided to give the Christian crusader infidels of Baghdad and the other provinces the last warning, to leave Iraq immediately and permanently and join Benedict XVI and his followers, who have trampled on the greatest symbols of humanity and Islam.�

�There�ll be no room in Iraq for the Christian infidels from now on,� the letter continues, threatening that those who remain will have their throats slit as �it is happening to the Christians of Mosul.� This is more than likely a reference to a recent attack on two sisters who were killed by Muslim extremists.

Iraqi Christians have faced severe persecutions in recent years, with some being forced to pay the �jizya� or protection money and some women being made to wear a headscarf, which is known as the hijab. The Christian community has also suffered forced conversion to Islam, rapes, murders and the destruction of homes.

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Islam has the world's record of genocide. Its victims, over more than
1,350 years, number in the hundreds of millions, many more than the
victims of the Holocaust and World Communism combined. Muslim genocide is
still ongoing in the Sudan, Ivory Cost. Mauritania, Somalia, the
Philippines, Indonesia, and, to a lesser extent in other Muslim countries.

"The massacres perpetuated by Muslims in India are unparalleled in
history, bigger than the Holocaust of the Jews by the Nazis; or the
massacre of the Armenians by the Turks; more extensive even than the
slaughter of the South American native populations by the invading Spanish
and Portuguese." - Francois Gautier

More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the
Spanish Inquisition combined. Islamic terrorists murder more people every
day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years.

"A Muslim apostate once suggested to me a litmus test for Westerners who
believe that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance: try making that
point on a street corner in Ramallah, or Riyadh, or Islamabad, or anywhere
in the Muslim world. He assured me you wouldn't live five minutes."

Islam is at perpetual war with the non-Islamic world (the Qur'an 4:76,
60:4). Muslims must hate
the non-Muslims, humiliate them, distrust them, deceive them at every
opportunity, and kill them when the situation is appropriate. This is the
stipulation of the central doctrine of Islam. A Muslim who does not
emulate this cardinal premise of Islam is not a Muslim at all.

Killing, assassination, terrorism and bloodshed are the DNA codes of
Islam. Even if the whole world converts to Islam, the true Muslims will
continue perpetrating bloodshed. If they don't get the blood of infidels,
they kill one another. This is the legacy of 1400 years of Islamic rule.
The best example is Pakistan or Iraq where 97% of the population is
Muslim, yet there is bloodshed of Muslims by Muslims. A Pakistani suicide
bomber killed at least fifty Muslims (worshippers) while they were praying
in a mosque on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. This is the stark proof that
violence and killing are inseparable from Islam.

Terrified, many non-Muslims often ask: what do the Islamist terrorists
want? They want to convert the entire world into an Islamic Paradise.
There is no surprise in this. During his days, Muhammad had asked the
Muslims to terrorize the world until Islam rules supreme (Quran 3:85, 5:3,
5:33). Qur'an exhorts the Muslims to keep fighting (with swords, not
spiritually) until they perfect the world through Islamic purification and
domination (Qur'an 9:5, 9:29, and 9:33). In
reality, it means imposing on the non-Muslims (or the non-Arabs) the
Arabic and Bedouin culture (also known as Islam) by force, murder and
terrorism.

We must recognize that the real enemy is not the terrorists. Rather, it is
Islam.

"Christians believe that "love conquers all." Well, love does not conquer
Islam." - Bill Warner

"Just as cancer cannot be reformed... Islam can't be reformed either and
it must be eradicated for the world to be saved." - Ali Sina

"The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic law...In an
Islamic state, there is in principle no law other than the shar'ia, the
Holy Law of Islam...The idea that any group of persons, any kind of
activities, or any part of human life is in any sense outside the scope of
religious law and jurisdiction is alien to Muslim thought." - Bernard
Lewis

"Apologizing to the Muslims for the Crusades is a complete betrayal to the
Crusaders who sacrificed their lives to stop Muslim invasion." - Galadriel
(anonymous evangelical Christian)

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