In one of Mosul’s streets, members of the Islamic State tied a man to an electric pole and pasted on his torso a sign that reads: "False Witness." According to Ankawa, eyewitnesses said that IS members had tied the man to an electric pole in the Bab Toub neighborhood in downtown Mosul because he had lied to the Islamic State regarding the ownership of a bottle of cooking gas … [Read more...]
Old Armenian Church Bombed in Syria
A number of Christian churches, some around 200 year old, were bombed by Islamic rebels last Friday in Aleppo, Syria. Among them was the Armenian Catholic Cathedral, St. Rita -- or, "Our Lady of Pity," built in 1830 -- which was left partially destroyed. According to the Aleppo-based Rev. Fr. Krikor Milad, the bombing took place at around 5:30 a.m., while everyone slept: … [Read more...]
How the West Destroyed Libya
FrontPage Magazine The full impact of Western intervention in Libya was recently highlighted during a televised interview of Worlds Apart. Hanne Nabintu Herland, a Norwegian author and historian who was born and raised in Africa for 20 years, was the guest. At one point while talking about Libya, Herland firmly asserted that “In a just world, the political leaders in the … [Read more...]
Christians Burned Alive: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2014
Gatestone Institute Both in the Islamic world and the Western world, Muslims continued to attack and slaughter Christians. In Pakistan, "A mob accused of burning alive a Christian couple in an industrial kiln in Pakistan allegedly wrapped a pregnant mother in cotton so she would catch fire more easily, according to family members who witnessed the attack," reported NBC … [Read more...]
Responses to Argentina
Federico Gaon, a journalist for Infobae, an Argentine news website, recently asked me a number of questions which were translated and published here. A year ends and another begins, and the Middle East long could occur from year to year. So much so, that four years into the "Arab Spring", the expected wave of democratization among Muslim countries was swept by civil war and … [Read more...]