Last week I was interviewed on Reel Talk with Audrey Russo. Topics included Obama's predictable polices that empower the Islamic State; the enforcement of blasphemy laws in Pakistan; IS and social media; jihad in Italy; and what Assyrian Christians seeking sanctuary in Beirut bodes. Click here to listen to the 25-minute interview. … [Read more...]
Italy: Muslim Beats Schoolgirl for Wearing Crucifix
A Muslim schoolboy of African origin beat a 12-year-old girl at a school in Italy because she was wearing a crucifix around her neck. According to ANSA news agency, the African boy “punched the girl violently in the back at the entrance to a middle school in the town of Terni on Thursday [May 14] and the girl’s mother caught the boy, who subsequently told Carabinieri … [Read more...]
Italy: Muslims Threaten and Insult Catholic Procession
On Sunday, May 10, after church mass, a group of young Muslim immigrants interrupted a Catholic procession in honor of the Virgin Mary. They hurled verbal insults, shouts, and threats as the group passed in front of the Islamic Cultural Center in Conselice, a small town in lower Romagna. Approximately 100 Catholic Christians, including several small children, were preparing … [Read more...]
Ominous Sign of Future: Muslim Migrants Throw Christians Overboard
The fate of the murdered Christian migrants is the image of our future, unless we form a human chain to resist our attackers. By Ralph H. Sidway The shared experience. How people, often from very different backgrounds, countries, nationalities and races, and even religions, can bond in simple human camaraderie, especially when going through difficult challenges and trials … [Read more...]
For ISIS, ‘All Roads Lead to Rome’
By Ralph H. Sidway The Islamic State has named many targets, including the “lands of al-Haramein” (two holy places), i.e. Saudi Arabia. But its most significant goal seems to be Rome. When the Islamic State released its video in February of the beheading of 21 Coptic Christian Egyptians on the coast of Libya, they titled it, “A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the … [Read more...]