The Very Perceptive Raymond Ibrahim on "For a Possible Preview of Their Future, Western Christians Should Consider the Mideast"!!

NRO Interview: For a Possible Preview of Their Future, Western Christians Should Consider the Mideast

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/for-a-possible-preview-of-their-future-western-christians-should-consider-the-mideast/ On the Ethiopians who were killed in Libya, and why we should expect more to come. NRO note: This weekend ISIS released a new video showing some 30 Ethipioan Christian men being beheaded in Libya for refusing to convert to Islam (or to pay a tax for refusing to do so). This comes two months after 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian men were martyred at the hands of ISIS for the same reason. Christians and other religious minorities are being targeted, and their future in the Middle East is in peril. Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013) and The Al Qaeda Reader (2007), and Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, talks about what we know. — KJL KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: What do we know about the Ethiopian Christians killed by ISIS? RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Like the 21 Copts slaughtered before them in February, they were likely impoverished migrant workers from the days of Qaddafi, trapped in post–“Arab Spring” Libya. ISIS killed them in two sets — the first were shot execution-style in the backs of their heads, the second had their heads hacked off. The video is horrific — the blood and gore puts Hollywood’s gory movies to shame. By way of context: Soon after Qaddafi’s overthrow, Ansar al-Sharia — the “Supporters of Islamic Law” — offered rewards to any Muslim who finds any Christians (most being from neighboring Egypt). In the past few years, scores of Coptic Christians were randomly killed — in one instance, a family consisting of a mother, a father, and their young daughter (graphic pictures here). But since Ansar al-Sharia morphed into an affiliate of ISIS, the slaughter of Christians has been even more systematic. LOPEZ: In the ISIS video they are described as “worshipers of the cross belonging to the hostile Ethiopian Church.” Is the Ethiopian Church hostile, or is this just propaganda? IBRAHIM: This is pure propaganda, more “Muslim grievances” that have no grounding in reality. Here’s another example: When ISIS slaughtered the 21 Coptic Christians, it cited hackneyed grievances against the Coptic Church. The late Coptic Pope Shenouda III was portrayed as “a U.S. agent, an abductor and torturer of female Muslim converts from Christianity, who was stockpiling weapons in monasteries and churches with a view to waging war against the Muslims and dividing Egypt to create a Coptic State.” Such is Islamic propaganda and projection — always accusing others of what Islamists habitually do... KEEP READING ALSO NEW ON RAYMONDIBRAHIM.COM: * Turkey’s Jihad on Christian Churches * Pope Francis Remembers Those Whose ‘Throats Are Cut’, Who Are ‘Burnt Alive’ or ‘Thrown into the Sea’ Only ‘Because They Are Christians’ * Raymond Ibrahim on ISIS’ Ethiopian Massacre, the White House’s Response, and the Future * Coptic Bishop: Ethiopian ‘Christians Murdered Purely for Refusing to Renounce Their Faith’ * Muslims Attack Christian Village Celebrating Easter, Stab Priest, Destroy Bibles and Crosses in Bangladesh