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99
“Police in Pakistan Decline to Prosecute Rape/Beating Suspects,” World Watch Monitor, June 12, 2012,
http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1599572.html
.
100
“Punjab: Muslims kidnap 14 year old Christian to convert her to Islam,”
AsiaNews
, August 25, 2011,
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab:-Muslims-kidnap-14-year-old-Christian-to-convert-her-to-Islam-22456. html
.
101
Michael Ireland, “Young Christian woman killed during an attempted rape in Pakistan,” ASSIST News Service, December 5, 2011,
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2011/s11120020.htm
.
102
“No justice for Shazia Bashir, the Christian girl raped and murdered,” Agenzia Fides, November 27, 2010,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=27881&lan=eng
.
103
Jibran Khan, “Faisalabad: Christian sisters kidnapped, forced to marry a wealthy Muslim,”
AsiaNews
, May 27, 2011,
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad:-Christian-sisters-kidnapped, -forced-to-marry-a-wealthy-Muslim-21674.html
.
104
Dan Wooding, “A minor Christian girl kidnapped in Islamabad territory,” ASSIST News Service, October 30, 2012,
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2012/s12100157.htm
.
105
“Pakistani Higher Court orders enforced converted Christian girl to go with Muslim man,”
Pakistan Christian Post
, October 24, 2012,
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=3887
.
106
Shafique Khokhar, “Faisalabad: 16 year old Christian girl gang raped for hours by young Muslims,”
AsiaNews
, September 26, 2012,
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Faisalabad:-16-year-old-Christian-girl-gang-raped-for-hours-by-young-Muslims-25928. html
.
107
OneFreeWorldInt, “OFW Neeha Video.mov,” YouTube video, March 4, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSbvmoXlus&feature=player_embedded#!
.
108
“Catholic girl raped by a Muslim,” Agenzia Fides, December 18, 2010,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=28031&lan=eng
.
109
Majid Khadduri,
War and Peace in the Law of Islam
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1955), 119, 131.
110
Soeren Kern, “Muslim Child-Rape Gangs in Britain,” Gatestone Institute, May 21, 2012,
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3068/muslim-child-rape-gangs-britain
.
111
Bat Ye’or,
Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide
(Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 56.
112
Mark Durie,
The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude, and Freedom
(Australia: Deror Books, 2010), 127.
113
From Tabari’s History, “The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and the Conquest of Syria and Palestine,”
Menorah
,
http://www.menorah.org/Crusades.pdf
.
114
Adel Guindy,
Hikayat al-Ihtilal
, in translation,“Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings,” (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 17.
115
Philip Khuri Hitti, ed.,
The Origins of the Islamic State
(New York: AMS Press, 1968), 340.
116
“Islam is the religion of forgiveness and mercy,”
Voices for Peace
, April 3, 2006,
http://www.voicesforpeace.com/talkshop/peace/messages/916.html
.
117
Ye’or,
Islam and Dhimmitude
, 67.
118
Ibid., 68, 121.
119
In contrast to modern interpretations that portray the European traveler as a prototypical “Orientalist” with an axe to grind against the “Other”—specifically non-whites and non-Christians—in fact, Polo occasionally portrayed the few Christians he encountered in a negative light (such as those of the island of Socotra) and frequently praised non-Christians, including Muslims. For example, he hails the Brahmins of India as being “most honorable,” possessing a “hatred for cheating or of taking the goods of other persons. They are likewise remarkable for the virtue of being satisfied with the possession of one wife.” He refers to one Muslim leader as governing “with justice” and another who “showed himself [to be] a very good lord, and made himself beloved by everybody.” William Marsden, trans.,
The Travels of Marco Polo
(New York: The Modern Library, 2001), 298, 317, 332.
120
Ibid., 63.
121
Bat Ye’or,
The Decline of Eastern Christianity under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude
(Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 2010), 78.
122
Ye’or,
Islam and Dhimmitude
, 69.
123
Nonie Darwish, “Solving Poverty–The Islamic Way,” FrontPage Magazine, May 23, 2011,
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/nonie-darwish/solving-poverty-the-islamic-way/
. See also, Arabic video showing Huwaini making these assertions, Youtube video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD8umi47m04
.
124
“Islamic Group Beheads Assyrian Priest, Crucifies 14 Year Old Boy in North Iraq,” Assyrian International News Agency, October 12, 2006,
http://www.aina.org/news/20061012004656.htm
.
125
“Iraq: Dutch MP calls for autonomous Assyrian region in north,” adnkronos, November 18, no year,
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.1.1271835942
.
126
Jim Kouri, “IRAQ’S CHRISTIAN BLOODBATH IGNORED BY OBAMA WHITE HOUSE,” News with Views, November 4, 2010,
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news224.htm
; Associated Press, “Iraqi Chrisitan Mourn 58 Dead in Church Siege,” CBS News, November 2, 2010,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/world/main7011759.shtml
.
127
Michelle A. Vu, “Assyrian Christians ‘Most Vulnerable Population’ in Iraq,”
Christian Post
, December 5, 2006,
http://www.christianpost.com/news/assyrian-christians-most-vulnerable-population-in-iraq-23863/
.
128
Ravi Nessman, “Christians in Iraq targeted for persecution,”
Tulsa World
, May 7, 2007,
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070507_1_A15_ANAss26771&breadcrumb=religion
.
130
Zvi Bar’el, “Christmas requiem for Iraq’s Christian community,”
Haaretz
, December 24, 2010,
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/christmas-requiem-for-iraq-s-christian-community-1.332680
.
131
“FATWA THREAT AGAINST IRAQI CHRISTIANS AS PM URGES THEM TO STAY,” Barnabas Aid, December 18, 2012,
http://barnabasfund.org/US/Fatwa-threat-against-Iraqi-Christians-as-PM-urges-them-to-stay.html
.
132
“The Double Lives of Iraq’s Christian Children,” World Watch Monitor, October 11, 2011,
http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/iraq/article_121814.html
.
133
“Russian Church Highlights Persecution of Christians in Syria,”
Pravmir
, October 24, 2012,
http://www.pravmir.com/russian-church-highlights-persecution-of-christians-in-syria/
.
134
“Bomb at funeral, a family beheaded: Christians and Druzes targeted in Damascus,” Agenzia Fides, August 8, 2012,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32111&lan=eng
.
135
“The last remaining Christian in the center of Homs killed; the convent of the Jesuits has been hit,” Agenzia Fides, October 31, 2012,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32561&lan=eng
.
136
Kim Sengupta, “The plight of Syria’s Christians: ‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us,’”
Independent
, November 2, 2012,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-plight-of-syrias-christians-we-left-homs-because-they-were-trying-to-kill-us-8274710.html
.
137
Ulrike Putz, “We’re Too Frightened to Talk,”
Spiegel
, July 25, 2012,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/christians-flee-from-radical-rebels-in-syria-a-846180.html
.
138
From a BBC Monitoring Middle East email, “Syrian opposition army imposes jizya on Christians in Homs,” Jihad Watch, April 10, 2012,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/04/syrian-opposition-army-imposes-jizya-on-christians-in-homs.html
.
139
Ye’or,
The Decline of Eastern Christianity
, 79, 108.
140
“Rableh: 280 Christians held hostage,” Agenzia Fides, September 25, 2012,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32291&lan=eng
.
141
“Christians in Syria Targeted in Series of Kidnappings and Killings; 100 Dead,” Barnabas Aid, January 18, 2012,
http://barnabasfund.org/Christians-in-Syria-targeted-in-series-of-kidnappings-and-killings-100-dead.html
.
142
“Christians in Syria Targeted in Series of Kidnappings and Killings; 100 Dead,” Barnabas Aid, January 18, 2012,
http://barnabasfund.org/Christians-in-Syria-targeted-in-series-of-kidnappings-and-killings-100-dead.html
.
143
“The Orthodox priest kidnapped in Damascus found dead,” Agenzia Fides, October 25, 2012,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32518&lan=eng
.
144
“Rash of Assyrian Kidnappings in Syria,” Assyrian International News Agency, November 24, 2012,
http://www.aina.org/news/20121123203042.htm
.
145
Nick Fagge, “Syrian rebels ‘beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs’ as fears grow over Islamist atrocities,”
Daily Mail
, December 31, 2012,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255103/Syria-rebels-beheaded-Christian-fed-dogs-fears-grow-Islamist-atrocities.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
.
146
Tim Marshall, “Syria: Rebel Prisoners On Their Religious War,”
Sky News
, December 8, 2012,
http://news.sky.com/story/1022491/syria-rebel-prisoners-on-their-religious-war
.
147
“Salafis Besiege Church Priest for Refusing to Pay Jizya,”
El Bashayer
, June 23, 2011,
http://elbashayeronline.com/news-143400.html
, translation by the author.
148
“Imposing Jizya on Christians to address poverty”
Voice of the Copts
, January 6, 2009,
http://www.voiceofthecopts.org/index.php/categories/op-eds/120-34imposing-jizya-on-christians-to-address-poverty
.
150
Encyclopedia of Islam
, ed., Juan Eduardo Campo (New York: Facts on File, 2009), 404.
151
Al Ahaly, “NGO: Armed Gangs Plunder Minia’s Copts and Impose Tributes on Them,” Coptic Solidarity, August 30, 2012,
http://www.copticsolidarity.org/cs-releases/797-ngo-armed-gangs-plunder-minia-s-copts-and-impose-tributes-on-them
.
152
“After Dahshur, the Jizya Imposed on Copts in Asyut,”
Alkhbar
, August 2012,
http://www.alkhabrnews.com/view/?q=5048
, translation by the author.
153
“Two Coptic Christians Killed in Egypt for Refusing to Pay Extortion Money,”
Persecution
, January 26, 2012,
http://www.persecution.org/2012/01/30/two-coptic-christians-killed-in-egypt-for-refusing-to-pay-extortion-money/
.
154
“Christian Kidnapped, Abductors Demand Ransom for Release,” Copts United, March 10, 2012,
http://www.copts-united.com/Arabic2011/Article.php?I=1109&A=54492
, translation by the author.
155
Mary Abdelmassih, “Islamists Demand Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control,” Assyrian International News Agency, August 31, 2012,
http://www.aina.org/news/2012083019958.htm
.
156
Hosni Milad and Marcol Adel, “Egyptian Churches Reject the Repeated Cycle of Displacing Copts,” Akhbar el-Youm [The Day’s News], September 29, 2012,
http://akhbarelyom.org.eg/news73157_1.aspx
, translated by the author; Raymond Ibrahim, “Egypt’s Christians: Distraught and Displaced,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, October 5, 2012,
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-christians-distraught-and-displaced/
.
157
“Christian Woman Freed from Muslim Kidnappers in Pakistan,”
Christian Post
, March 13, 2011,
http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-woman-freed-from-muslim-kidnappers-in-pakistan-49398/
.

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