Major religious leaders stand up against Islamaphobia

Monotheist priests that live from the believes of their shepple are scared !
Priceless.

Organized religion = :BS:

Fools don't see or chose to ignore the political aspects of this "religion".

Phobia is an irrational fear.
I would say if you were a christian in the Sudan or Saudi or any other 90 percent and above muslim population, you would be called a liar. They have a damn good reason to fear.

Islam haters are the majority of people.

Islam is not a 'religion'

Why should we not hate people who want us to submit or die?

ALLAH & HIS MUSLIMS ARE EQUAL-OPPORTUNITY KILLERS:






















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFuaOBuCtP0


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OK...YOU should go to jail as part of the knife attack last week on a muslim.
is that fair?
no.
see how it works now?

(Mathew 5:44) "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you, and persecute you."

(Godfather 1:1972) "Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgement."

(StarTrek 1:1968) ""If we adopt the ways of the Nazis, we're as bad as the Nazis."

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Not only does hatred turn you into your enemy, but it doesn't work. The above quotations are both wise and practical. The GOVT and NWO and MIC and GOP want you to hate commies and "islamofascists" because then you become suckers and give TPTB tens of trillions of dollars to waste on their fabricated boogie men. Boogie men they use to enrich themselves with wealth and power via imperialism and corporatism, and you're the suckers enriching them.

fringies hate what they dont know and wont bother to learn about them. We were attacked by YOUR counterpart in the muslim faith...muslim fringies!
too funny....
its not all muslims...just like all americans are not bigoted idiots like the fringies here on glp.
You are minority. Most people dont hate for the sake of hating. only sad angry fools do.

All these dipshits make their living off religion, they stand together, honor among thieves.

as a muslim on GLP thankyou for writing this thread. God bless you ....a peacemaker.

You have first hand experience?

of, F those guys, they are sucking up to maintain a tax exemption.

Major Religious LEADERS: :tomato:

where the fuck did my tomato go?

Is it ok with you if I decide not to convert to islam and at the same time desire not to have my head cut off, or is that too backward of me?

Dozens Dead in Continued Muslim Violence Against Christians [link to atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com]
[link to www.americanthinker.com]
Pakistan: Muslim groups threaten more violence against Christians
[link to www.jihadwatch.org]
MUSLIMS KILL CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA
[link to michellemalkin.com]
Muslim violence against Christians kills 27 in Nigeria
Read more: [link to www.newsobserver.com]
Christians killed in Turkey
[link to barenakedislam.wordpress.com]


Republic of Turkey
In modern Turkey, the Istanbul pogrom was a state-sponsored and state-orchestrated pogrom that compelled Greek Christians to leave Istanbul, the first Christian city in violation to the Treaty of Lausanne (see Istanbul Pogrom). The issue of Christian genocides by the Turks may become a problem, since Turkey wishes to join the European Union.[79]

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
The Turkish army controlled the territory of Northern Cyprus beginning in 1974. The United Nations has documented their systematic destruction of churches belong to the Church of Cyprus from 1974 though 2003.[83][84]

Algeria
Islamists looted, and burned to the ground, a Pentecostal church in Tizi Ouzou on January 9, 2010. The pastor was quoted as saying that worshipers fled when local police left a gang of local rioters unchecked.[85]

Iraq
According to UNHCR, although Christians represent less than 5% of the total Iraqi population, they make up 40% of the refugees now living in nearby countries.[86]

Lebanon
The war in Lebanon saw a number of massacres of both Christians and Muslims. Among the earliest was the Damour Massacre in 1976 when Palestinian militias attacked Christian civilians in retaliation for the Karantina Massacre, in which around one thousand civilians (Palestinian, Shi'ite, and others) were murdered by Lebanese Christian militias. The persecution in Lebanon combined sectarian, political, ideological, and retaliation reasons. The Syrian regime was also involved in persecuting Christians as well as Muslims in Lebanon.

Sudan
In Sudan, it is estimated that over 1.5 million Christians have been killed by the Janjaweed, the Arab Muslim militia, and even suspected Islamists in northern Sudan since 1984.[4] It should also be noted that Sudan's several civil wars (which often take the form of genocidal campaigns) are often not only or purely religious in nature, but also ethnic, as many black Muslims, as well as Muslim Arab tribesmen, have also been killed in the conflicts.

It is estimated that as many as 200,000 people had been taken into slavery during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The slaves are mostly Dinka people.[101][102]

Pakistan
In Pakistan 1.5% of the population are Christian. Pakistani law mandates that "blasphemies" of the Qur'an are to be met with punishment. Ayub Masih, a Christian, was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death in 1998. He was accused by a neighbor of stating that he supported British writer, Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Lower appeals courts upheld the conviction. However, before the Pakistan Supreme Court, his lawyer was able to prove that the accuser had used the conviction to force Masih's family off their land and then acquired control of the property. Masih has been released.[103]

In October 2001, gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a Protestant congregation in the Punjab, killing 18 people. Noone knows for sure who the gunmen were but officials think it might be a banned Islamic group.[104]

In March 2002, five people were killed in an attack on a church in Islamabad, including an American schoolgirl and her mother.[105]

In August 2002, masked gunmen stormed a Christian missionary school for foreigners in Islamabad, six people were killed and three injured. None of those killed were children of foreign missionaries.[106]

In August 2002, grenades were thrown at a church in the grounds of a Christian hospital in north-west Pakistan, near Islamabad, killing three nurses.[107]

On September 25, 2002 two terrorists entered the "Peace and Justice Institute", Karachi, where they separated Muslims from the Christians, and then murdered seven Christians by shooting them in the head.[108][109] All of the victims were Pakistani Christians. Karachi police chief Tariq Jamil said the victims had their hands tied and their mouths had been covered with tape.

In December 2002, three young girls were blown apart when hand grenade was thrown into a church near Lahore on Christmas Day.[110]

In November 2005 3,000 militant Islamists attacked Christians in Sangla Hill in Pakistan and destroyed Roman Catholic, Salvation Army and United Presbyterian churches. The attack was over allegations of violation of blasphemy laws by a Pakistani Christian named Yousaf Masih. The attacks were widely condemned by some political parties in Pakistan.[111]

On June 5, 2006 a Pakistani Christian stonemason, Nasir Ashraf, was working near Lahore when he drank water from a public facility using a glass chained to the facility. He was assaulted by Muslims for "Polluting the glass". A mob developed, who beat Ashraf, calling him a "Christian dog". Bystanders encouraged the beating and joined in. Ashraf was eventually hospitalized.[112]

One year later, in August 2007, a Christian missionary couple, Rev. Arif and Kathleen Khan, were gunned down by militant Islamists in Islamabad. Pakistani police believed that the murders was committed by a member of Khan's parish over alleged sexual harassment by Khan. This assertion is widely doubted by Khan's family as well as by Pakistani Christians.[113] [114]

In August 2009 six Christians including 4 women and a child were burnt alive by Muslim militants and a church set ablaze in Gojra, Pakistan when violence broke out after alleged desecration of Qur'an.[115]

Egypt
See also: Persecution of Copts
While the Egyptian government does not have a policy to persecute Christians, it discriminates against them and hampers their freedom of worship. Its agencies sporadically persecute Muslim converts to Christianity.[116] The government enforces Hamayouni Decree restrictions on building or repairing churches. These same restrictions, however, do not apply to mosques.[116]

The government has effectively restricted Christians from senior government, diplomatic, military, and educational positions, and there has been increasing discrimination in the private sector.[116][117] The government subsidizes media which attack Christianity and restricts Christians access to the state-controlled media.[116]

In Egypt the government does not officially recognize conversions from Islam to Christianity; because certain interfaith marriages are not allowed either, this prevents marriages between converts to Christianity and those born in Christian communities, and also results in the children of Christian converts being classified as Muslims and given a Muslim education.[116] The government also applies religiously discriminatory laws and practices concerning clergy salaries.[116]

Foreign missionaries are allowed in the country only if they restrict their activities to social improvements and refrain from proselytizing. The Coptic Pope Shenouda III was internally exiled in 1981 by President Anwar Sadat, who then chose five Coptic bishops and asked them to choose a new pope. They refused, and in 1985 President Hosni Mubarak restored Pope Shenouda III, who had been accused of fomenting interconfessional strife. Particularly in Upper Egypt, the rise in extremist Islamist groups such as the Gama'at Islamiya during the 1980s was accompanied by attacks on Copts and on Coptic churches; these have since declined with the decline of those organizations, but still continue. The police have been accused of siding with the attackers in some of these cases.[118]

Many colleges dictate quotas for Coptic students, often around 1 or 2% despite the group making up 15% of the country's population. There is also a separate tax-funded education system called Al Azhar, catering to students from elementary to college level, which accepts no Christian Coptic students, teachers or administrators.

Hundreds of Christian Coptic girls have been kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam, as well as being victims of rape and forced marriage to Muslim men.[117][citation needed]

On January 2, 2000, at least 21 Christians were killed by Muslims in Al Koshh in southern Egypt. Christian properties were also burned.[119][citation needed]

In April 2006, one person was killed and twelve injured in simultaneous knife attacks on three Coptic churches in Alexandria.[120]

In November 2008, several thousand Muslims attacked a Coptic church in a suburb of Cairo on the day of its inauguration, forcing 800 Coptic Christians to barricade themselves in.[121]

In April 2009, two Christian men were shot dead and another was injured by Muslim men after an Easter vigil in the south of Egypt.[122]

On September 18, 2009, a Muslim man called Osama Araban beheaded a Coptic Christian man in the village of Bagour, and injured 2 others in 2 different villages. He was arrested the following day.[123]

On the eve of Januray 7, 2010, after the Eastern Christmas Mass finished (which finishes around midnight), Copts were going out of Mar-Yuhanna (St. John) church in Nag Hammadi city when three Muslim men in a car near the church opened fire killing 8 people (7 Christians and a Muslim young policeman who had been standing on guard by the church) and injuring another 10.[124][125]

Saudi Arabia

"Non-Muslim Bypass:" Non-Muslims are barred from entering Mecca. An example of religious segregation.[126][127]See also: Freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is an Islamic state that practices Wahhabism and restricts all other religions, including the possession of religious items such as the Bible, crucifixes, and Stars of David.[128] Christians are arrested and lashed in public for practicing their faith openly.[129] Strict sharia is enforced. Muslims are forbidden to convert to another religion. If one does so and does not recant, they may be executed.[citation needed]

Other Muslim nations
Though Iran recognizes Assyrian and Armenian Christians as a religious minority (along with Jews and Zoroastrians) and they have representatives in the Parliament, after the 1979 Revolution, Muslim converts to Christianity (typically to Protestant Christianity) have been arrested and sometimes executed.[130] See also: Christianity in Iran.

In the 11 Northern states of Nigeria that have introduced the Islamic system of law, the Sharia, sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians have resulted in many deaths, and some churches have been burned. More than 30,000 Christians were displaced from their homes Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria.[131]

Muslims in India who convert to Christianity have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, and attacks by Muslims. In Jammu & Kashmir, the only Indian state with a Muslim majority, a Christian convert and missionary named Bashir Tantray was killed, allegedly by militant Islamists in 2006[132]. A Christian priest, K.K. Alavi, a 1970 convert from Islam[133], thereby raised the ire of his former Muslim community and received many death threats. An Islamic terrorist group named "The National Development Front" actively campaigned against him.[134]. In the southern state of India, Kerala, Islamic Terrorists chopped off the hand of a Professor due to allegation of blasphemy of prophet.

In the Philippines, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayyaf has attacked and killed Christians.[135]

In Indonesia, religious conflicts have typically occurred in Western New Guinea, Maluku (particularly Ambon), and Sulawesi. The presence of Muslims in these regions is in part a result of the transmigrasi program of population re-distribution. Conflicts have often occurred because of the aims of radical Islamist organizations such as Jemaah Islamiah or Laskar Jihad to impose Sharia,[136][137] with such groups attacking Christians and destroying over 600 churches.[138] In 2006 three Christian girls were beheaded as retaliation for previous Muslim deaths in Christian-Muslim rioting.[139] The men were imprisoned for the murders, including Jemaah Islamiyah's district ringleader Hasanuddin.[140] On going to jail, Hasanuddin said, "It's not a problem (if I am being sentenced to prison), because this is a part of our struggle."[141]

In Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman, a 41-year-old citizen, was charged in 2006 with rejecting Islam (apostasy), a crime punishable by death under Sharia law. He has since been released into exile in the West under intense pressure from Western governments.[142][143] In 2008, the Taliban killed a British charity worker, Gayle Williams, for being a Christian.[144]

In Kosovo, since June 1999, 156 churches and monasteries have been damaged or destroyed and several priests have been killed. During the few days of the 2004 unrest in Kosovo, 35 churches and monasteries were damaged and some destroyed by Muslim mobs.

In Malaysia, although Islam is the official religion, Christianity is mostly tolerated, however, in order to be a member of the majority race (the Malays), one is legally required to be a Muslim. Also, if a non-Muslim marries a Muslim, they are legally required to convert to Islam. There is much debate over whether Malaysia is a liberal Islamic state or a very religious secular state. Full article: Freedom of religion in Malaysia

In 2002, a currently unidentified gunman killed Bonnie Penner Witherall at a prenatal clinic in Sidon, Lebanon. She had been proselytizing and attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.[145]

Three Christian missionaries were killed in their hospital in Jibla, Yemen in December 2002. A gunman, apprehended by the authorities, said that he did it "for his religion."[146]

Yes, it is.

Anyone forcing this on you?

This happen in Canada? I did not know...

fuck them all

Sorry, but Islam IS a religion:

With about 1.57 billion Muslims comprising about 23% of the world's population[9] (see Islam by country), Islam is the second-largest religion in the world and arguably the fastest-growing religion in the world.

About your question: No, we not. You perhaps, but not we. Anyway, this happen in the USA? People have to submit or die?

Oh, yeah, is call criminal justice system!

I heard USA has the largest prisons in the world? True?

why don't they run a way?
let sudan , saudi is rich and as their citizens why christian in saudi run a way?

of cause good to live with prosperity and the one saying bad is never being there.

Wolves and graps.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

AMEN ALL clergy need to STFU!!!

The truth is only that.. no 'Islamaphobia' needed..
most of these so called leaders have already taken the mark anyway. how i interrupt it to be..What this really means..
You don't see any Islamic leaders coming forth against all the violence that Islam does to it's own followers much less against the infidel ..

Oh and it's only the 6th day of the month:

Latest Offerings from the Religion of Peace:
2010.09.06 (Lakki Marwat, Pakistan) - Nine schoolchildren are among nineteen innocent lives snuffed out by Holy Warrior suicide bombers.
2010.09.06 (Kabul, Afghanistan) - A 45-year-old news anchor is the target of a 'brutal beheading' near his home.
2010.09.06 (Samarra, Iraq) - Five construction workers are stabbed and shot to death in a barbaric Mujahideen attack.
2010.09.05 (Punjab, Pakistan) - An oil rig driver is killed by Islamic snipers.
2010.09.05 (Abyan, Yemen) - Three people are shot to death in an al-Qaeda ambush.
2010.09.05 (Buinaksk, Dagestan) - A Shahid suicide car bomber sends five other souls to Allah.