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158
“Eight Christians kidnapped in Pakistan,”
Daily News & Analysis
, August 27, 2009,
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_eight-christians-kidnapped-in-pakistan_1285635
.
159
“Attack in the Christian area: one victim and two injured in Karachi,” Agenzia Fides, August 31, 2012,
http://www.fides.org/aree/news/newsdet.php?idnews=32122&lan=eng
.
160
Jeremy Reynalds, “Christian Shot Eight Times for Refusing to Pay Protection Money,” ASSIST News Service, July 22, 2009,
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09070148.htm
.
161
Faisal Khan, “Christian farm workers abducted by Muslim landowners for money in Faisalabad,”
AsiaNews
, October 28, 2011,
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christian-farm-workers-abducted-by-Muslim-landowners-for-money-in-Faisalabad-23041.html
.
162
“Two Christian Hospital Workers Abducted in Karachi,” World Watch Monitor, March 7, 2012,
http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_1436466.html
.
163
Stefan J. Bos, “Pakistan Muslim Militants Kill Christian, Injure 20,”
BosNewsLife
, October 7, 2011,
http://www.bosnewslife.com/18592-pakistan-muslim-militants-kill-christian-injure-20
.
164
“Muslims in Pakistan Beat, Shoot at Christians in Land Grab,” World Watch Monitor, December 1, 2011,
http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/pakistan/article_123795.html
.
165
“Two Catholic Priests Kidnapped in Sudan,” World Watch Monitor, January 25, 2012,
http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/english/country/sudan/article_1364961.html
.
166
Weekendavisen, “Danish ghetto: pay 1,800 dollars for being ‘black and Christian,’” Jihad Watch, March 1, 2012,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/danish-ghetto-pay-1800-dollars-for-being-black-and-christian.html
.
167
“Pengeafpresning mod kirke på Nørrebro,”
Ekstra Bladet
, December 13, 2012,
http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article1883256.ece
.
168
Steven Stalinsky, “The Next Pope and Islamic Prophecy,” FrontPage Magazine, April 14, 2005,
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8931
.
169
Transcription from the video at Enza Ferreri, “UK Jihad Seekers Allowance is the New Form of Jizya,”
Enza Ferreri
(blog),
http://enzaferreri.blogspot.com/2013/02/jihad-seekers-allowance-new-form-of.html#axzz2Mz7S2sLh
.
170
Mary Abdelmassih, “Muslims Attack Christian Village in Egypt—1 Murdered, Homes Looted and Torched,” Assyrian International News Agency, August 9, 2011,
http://www.aina.org/news/2011089052824.htm
.
171
Arabic video of Muslims attacking Copts in front of the police station in Minya, mariamragy, August 12, 2011, YouTube video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsccWyFVJWA
.
172
“Coptic Man Loses Eye in Gunfire Attack,”
Copts Arrivals
,
http://www.copts-arrivals.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41907
, translation by the author.
173
“PAKISTAN: Call for inquiry into poisoning of Christian student nurses,”
Church in Chains
, August 10, 2012,
http://churchinchains.ie/node/537
.
174
Habib Toumi, “Lebanese star reported for smoking in Ramadan,”
Gulf News
, August 9, 2012,
http://gulfnews.com/news/region/lebanon/lebanese-star-reported-for-smoking-in-ramadan-1.1059825
.
175
For example, in December 2011, a “Montreal suburb has decided to remove a nativity scene and menorah from town hall rather than acquiesce to demands from a Muslim group to erect Islamic religious symbols,”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/12/05/19070881.html
. Contrast this with Iran, where many churches were “ordered to cancel Christmas and New Year’s celebrations as a show of their compliance and support” for “the two month-long mourning activities of the Shia’ Moslems,” a reference to the bloody flagellations and self mutilations Shias perform in memory of Imam Hussein during Ashura,
http://www.assistnews.net/STORIES/2011/s11120044.htm
. Likewise, the University of London held a Christmas service featuring readings from the Koran—Islam’s holy book that unequivocally condemns the Incarnation, which is precisely what Christmas celebrates,
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2011/12/royal-holloway-college-holds-islamic.html
. Meanwhile, Muslims were issuing the usual fatwas banning other Muslims from even saying “Merry Christmas.”
PART FIVE: SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
 
1
Raymond Ibrahim,
The Al Qaeda Reader
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), 179. Ayman Zawahiri, discussing what the medieval Islamic hero would do to Americans if he was alive, says “Had Saladin vanquished them [today], he would have put them to the sword!” See also 251 and 254.
2
Rodney Stark,
God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades
(New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 199.
3
Adel Guindy,
Hikayat al-Ihtilal
, [Stories of the Occupation: Correcting Misunderstandings] (Cairo: Middle East Freedom Forum, 2009), 88–89, translation by the author.
4
Jonathan Riley-Smith, ed.,
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 236.
5
Raymond Ibrahim, “Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for ‘Destruction of All Churches in Region,’” Jihad Watch, March 14, 2012,
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/03/raymond-ibrahim-saudi-grand-mufti-calls-for-destruction-of-all-churches-in-region.html
.
6
Clifford D. May, “‘Destroy All the Churches,’” National Review Online, March 22, 2012,
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294112/destroy-all-churches-clifford-d-may
.
7
Raymond Ibrahim, “Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids Begin,” FrontPage Magazine, July 11, 2012,
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/
.
8
See Rod Norland and Mayy El Sheikh, “Contrary to Gossip, Pyramids Have No Date with the Wrecking Ball,”
New York Times
, July 23, 2012,
http://www. nytimes.com/2012/07/24/world/middleeast/in-egypt-rumor-of-pyramids-demise-proves-flimsy.html?_r=0
; Llewelyn Morgan, “Bamiyan, Timbuktu—Are the Pyramids Next?!,”
Huffington Post
, July 17, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost. co.uk/llewelyn-morgan/bamiyan-timbuktu-are-the-pyramids-next_b_1673750. html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World
; and Raymond Ibrahim, “Huffington Post, MSM Facilitate Destruction of Pyramids,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, July 24, 2012,
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/huffington-post-msm-facilitate-destruction-of-egypts-pyramids/
.
9
Raymond Ibrahim, “The Jihad on Egypt’s Pharonic Antiquities,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, November 14, 2012,
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/the-jihad-on-egypts-pharaonic-antiquities/
. History is laden with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage—starting with Muhammad himself, who ransacked Arabia’s Ka’ba temple, transforming it into a mosque. But destroying the mountain-like pyramids was no small task in the pre-modern period—even though many early Muslim leaders certainly tried, some partially successfully; after gunfire was invented, Egypt’s medieval Mamluk rulers even managed to “de-nose” the Sphinx during target practice (though popular legend naturally attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon). Now, however, as Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sheikhs” observed when congratulating Morsi on his presidential victory, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids
can
be destroyed, just as the historic Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban.
10
The passage is worth quoting at length: “Wherever one looks along the perimeter of Islam, Muslims have problems living peaceably with their neighbors. The question naturally rises as to whether this pattern of the late twentieth-century conflict between Muslim and non-Muslim groups is equally true of relations between groups from other civilizations. In fact, it is not. Muslims make up one fifth of the world’s population but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the people of any other civilization.... Islam’s borders are bloody, and so are its innards” (256).
11
Raymond Ibrahim,
The Al Qaeda Reader
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), 216.
12
Robert Fisk, “Hosni Mubarak has fallen. Assad clings on. Yet the fate of their nations is anyone’s guess,”
Independent
, June 4, 2012,
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-hosni-mubarak-has-fallen-assad-clings-on-yet-the-fate-of-their-nations-is-anyones-guess-7814810.html
.
13
Mary Abdelmassih, “Islamists in Egypt Blame Christians for Voting,” Assyrian International News Agency, May 29, 2012,
http://www.aina.org/news/20120528191505.htm
.
14
Fisk, “Hosni Mubarak has fallen.”
15
Liam Stack and Michael Slackman, “Clashes Grow as Egyptians Remain Angry after an Attack,”
New York Times
, January 4, 2011,
http://www.nytimes. com/2011/01/04/world/middleeast/04egypt.html?_r=0
; see also, Sherine Bayoumi, “Christians clash with police in Egypt after attack on churchgoers kills 21,”
Washington Post
, January 1, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102697.html
.
16
“Nigeria unrest: Suicide bomb targets church in Jos,” BBC News, February 26, 2012,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17169935
.
17
Amro Hassan, “EGYPT: Eyewitness claims train attacker did not target Copts, state media say,”
Los Angeles Times
, “Babylon & Beyond” blog, January 12, 2011,
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/01/egypt-eyewitness-claims-train-attacker-did-not-target-copts-state-media-say.html
.
18
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, “In Egypt, Christian-Muslim Tension Is On the Rise,” NPR, February 25, 2012,
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/25/147370689/in-egypt-christian-muslim-tension-is-on-the-rise
.
19
Aminu Abubakar, “Gunmen attack prison, police station in northeast Nigeria, Agence France-Presse, March 7, 2012,
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iH561ZKZ8vdVc4tK-1jHU3CXgHCg?docId=CNG.ee14969ceeae5ee3a1cea08479b15b12.31
.
20
“Boko Haram (Nigeria)” entry, Jane’s World Insurgency and Terrorism, n.d.,
http://articles.janes.com/articles/Janes-World-Insurgency-and-Terrorism/Boko-Haram-Nigeria.html
.
21
Adam Nossiter, “Nigerian Group Escalates Violence With Church Attacks,”
New York Times
, December 25, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/world/africa/explosion-rips-through-catholic-church-in-nigeria.html?hp
.
22
“Nigeria: At Least 38 Killed in Christmas Eve Attacks,” Fox News, December 25, 2010,
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/25/nigeria-killed-xmas-eve-blasts/
.
23
Willis E. Elliott, “Though Shalt Not! The
WaPo
’s ‘On Faith Blog Spikes a Regular Contributor When He Writes on Islam,”
PJ Media
, January 17, 2011,
http://pjmedia.com/blog/spiked-by-the-wapos-on-faith-blog/?singlepage=true
.
25
Raymond Ibrahim, “Whoever Fights Us, Fights Islam,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated, December 14, 2012,
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/whoever-fights-us-fights-islam/
; Raymond Ibrahim, “A ‘Sudanese Genocide’ in Egypy?,” Raymond Ibrahim: Islam Translated,
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/a-sudanese-genocide-in-egypt/
.
26
Ayman Saleh, “SHA,” YouTube video, July 26, 2012,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kklN7kCiQm0&feature=youtu.be
.
27
“Egypt presidential candidate seeks Constitution based on Sharia Law,”
Voice of Russia
, May 13, 2012,
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_05_13/74584752/
.
28
“Obama’s Intel Chief: Muslim Brotherhood Non-Violent, ‘Secular’ Group,” Fox News, February 11, 2011; available online at
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/10/obamas-intel-chief-muslim-brotherhood-non-violent-secular-group
29
Joseph Straw, “White House visit by a terror-linked Egyptian pol violated federal law, Rep. Pete king tells Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ”
Daily News
, July 25, 2012,
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/white-house-visit-terror-linked-egyptian-pol-violated-federal-law-rep-pete-king-tells-homeland-security-secretary-janet-napolitano-article-1.1122039
.
30
“Dalia Mogahed succeeds in canceling meeting between Patriarch and Obama by order of Muslim Brotherhood leaders,”
el-Nashra
, November 22, 2011,
http://www.elnashra.com/news/show/398043/
, translation by the author.

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