Post by Teddy Bear on Dec 10, 2013 20:02:46 GMT
One might imagine that the way the BBC goes on and on about Mandela, that they would be inspired by the values they attribute to him and adopt these for themselves.
But the point of this Mandela adoration is simply to show the world that they sound like they're of one spirit, and hope that nobody will look for any actions that might support it. Talk's cheap.
The following article from Raymond Ibrahim at the Commentator tells of a disturbing account of a recent kidnapping and likely raping of 12 Nuns in Syria by jihadist rebels. For so many reasons the BBC should be announcing this from the rooftops, if they really followed Mandela's supposed spirit.
What we get instead are 3 articles, and I'll copy what the BBC tell us about this story:
Notice the final sentence. Do you think fear might have had something to do with her statement? But the BBC will not draw that allusion, despite the myriad examples that exist that point to it.
Here's what Raymond tells us. Numerous links available on the article itself
But the point of this Mandela adoration is simply to show the world that they sound like they're of one spirit, and hope that nobody will look for any actions that might support it. Talk's cheap.
The following article from Raymond Ibrahim at the Commentator tells of a disturbing account of a recent kidnapping and likely raping of 12 Nuns in Syria by jihadist rebels. For so many reasons the BBC should be announcing this from the rooftops, if they really followed Mandela's supposed spirit.
What we get instead are 3 articles, and I'll copy what the BBC tell us about this story:
2 December 2013
UN implicates Bashar al-Assad in Syria war crimes
Meanwhile, it is unclear whether opposition fighters have abducted or evacuated 12 nuns from the ancient Christian town of Maaloula.
Syrian rebels captured large parts of Maaloula, about 60 km (40 miles) north-east of the capital, on Monday after three days of fighting.
"They forced the sisters to evacuate and to follow them... At this moment we cannot say if this is a kidnapping or an evacuation," the Vatican's ambassador to Syria, Mario Zenari, told Reuters news agency by telephone from Damascus.
3 December 2013
Syria crisis: Deadly bomb blast in central Damascus
The SOHR also reported on Monday that Islamist rebels had seized control of the town of Maaloula, which houses a historic Christian community.
Earlier the state-run Sana news agency had claimed that fighters from Islamist brigades had stormed Maaloula's St Tekla monastery and had detained some of the nuns that live there.
However, information is difficulty to verify as access for foreign journalists is restricted.
After fighting in the town in September, a nun at the monastery told the BBC she did not think the towns Christians had been deliberately targeted by rebels.
Notice the final sentence. Do you think fear might have had something to do with her statement? But the BBC will not draw that allusion, despite the myriad examples that exist that point to it.
Middle East / 4 December 2013
Syria conflict: Aleppo rocket attack 'kills at least 18'
Also on Wednesday, Pope Francis led prayers for 12 nuns from the St Tekla convent in the historic town of Maaloula.
"Two days ago they were taken away by force by armed men. We pray for these nuns,... and for all people who have been detained because of the conflict," he said.
Reports indicate that the nuns came under the custody of rebel fighters when they seized the town on Monday, although what exactly has happened to them or whether they have been removed from Maaloula is unclear.
Here's what Raymond tells us. Numerous links available on the article itself
The Islamic Jihad on Christian nuns
SEE SHOCKING UPDATE BELOW THE PIECE AS WESTERN FEMINISTS COMPARE OUR CONCERN FOR RAPED CHRISTIANS TO HOWLING DOGS (LITERALLY!): The Western mainstream claims to care about women's rights, and to abhor crimes such as rape. So why the silence when the victims are Christian nuns and the perpetrators male, Muslim extremists?
Raymond Ibrahim
Yet another phenomenon with a long paper trail in Islamic history has just taken place in Syria, even as the Western “mainstream” -- little acquainted with true history or reality -- dismisses it as an aberration. Asia News has the details:
The “reason behind the kidnapping”? Sexual abuse and rape certainly should not be discounted, as these have been the lot of thousands of women abducted by “freedom fighters” in Syria.
Indeed, a new report issued by the National Reconciliation Commission in Syria states that some 37,000 women have been raped since the war started. To keep the jihad in Syria alive, pro-war Islamic clerics have issued any number of fatwas, or Islamic rulings, permitting sexually-frustrated, female-deprived rebels to rape women.
Most of these are based on the simple fact that Islam permits jihadis, based on the example of their prophet, to copulate with any captured woman -- or, in the words of the Koran, “what your right hands possess” (see “The Jihad on Christian Women: Abduction, Rape, and Forced Conversion,” pgs. 186-199 in Crucified Again for detailed information).
One cleric permitted the abduction and rape of any Syrian woman, provided she is not Sunni. Yet apparently because there are still not enough women for the jihadi hordes, many of whom are foreigners --one Christian child was recently raped by 15 men before being killed -- Sunni Muslim women are also being targeted through sex jihad fatwas.
So would such jihadis and their clerics have any special respect for Christian nuns?
The fact is, raped nuns is a phenomenon that goes back centuries. According to Muslim historian Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (1364-1442) during his raids on Egypt, Caliph Marwan II (r.744–50) “made captive a number of women from among the nuns of several convents. And he tried to seduce one of them.”
The account describes how the enslaved nun tricked him into killing her, by claiming she had a magic oil that makes skin impenetrable: “She then took some oil and anointed herself with it; then stretched out her neck, which he smote with the sword, and made her head fly. He then understood that she preferred death to defilement.”
Writing in the 10th century, the Coptic chronicler Severus ibn Muqaffa records that “the Arabs in the land of Egypt had ruined the country…. They burnt the fortresses and pillaged the provinces, and killed a multitude of the saintly monks who were in them [monasteries] and they violated a multitude of the virgin nuns and killed some of them with the sword.”
After the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453, according to eyewitness accounts, “Monasteries and Convents were broken in. Their tenants were killed, nuns were raped, many, to avoid dishonor, killed themselves. Killing, raping, looting, burning, enslaving, went on and on according to tradition.”
Such is history -- expunged as it is in the modern West, even as it repeats itself today. Thus, in August 2013, after torching a Franciscan school in Egypt, “Islamists,” in the words of the AP, “paraded three nuns on the streets like ‘prisoners of war’” and “Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.”
Indeed, the rise in attacks on Christian nuns throughout the Islamic world further demonstrates that they are no more inviolable than other “infidel” women:
The above examples come from five countries that have little in common with one another -- neither race, language, culture, nor economics -- only Islam.
That alone should say something. But no matter.
Far from discussing Islamic history and doctrine, and how they tie to current events, the predominant Western mentality simply dismisses Muslim violence as the West’s fault, or, in the recent words of ex-nun Karen Armstrong, “We did this.” Armstrong -- who quit the nunnery only to engage in pro-Islamic mummery -- insists that what’s needed is for us to focus more on “Muslim pain, Muslim suffering.”
Such, according to the leftist mentality, are the “real” reasons why, wherever Muslim-majorities live near non-Muslim minorities, from the dawn of Islam till today, the latter are so often under attack.
Raymond Ibrahim, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution, is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians
** Since this piece was published "feminist" Left-wing writers for Britain's Guardian and Independent have become so angered that they have published/supported Youtube links on Twitter making our concern for the rights of women in the MidEast equivalent (literally) to dogs howling: Thus from Laurie Penny @pennyred:
@hadleyfreeman @thecommentator <3 here is a compilation video of puppies learning how to howl. Better use of time. youtube.com/watch?v=vridzz…
SEE SHOCKING UPDATE BELOW THE PIECE AS WESTERN FEMINISTS COMPARE OUR CONCERN FOR RAPED CHRISTIANS TO HOWLING DOGS (LITERALLY!): The Western mainstream claims to care about women's rights, and to abhor crimes such as rape. So why the silence when the victims are Christian nuns and the perpetrators male, Muslim extremists?
Raymond Ibrahim
Yet another phenomenon with a long paper trail in Islamic history has just taken place in Syria, even as the Western “mainstream” -- little acquainted with true history or reality -- dismisses it as an aberration. Asia News has the details:
"Islamist rebels have kidnapped a group of nuns from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St Thecla (Mar Taqla) in Maaloula [an ancient Christian community where Christians were earlier forced to convert to Islam or die]… “Armed men burst in the monastery of St Thecla in Maaloula this afternoon [Dec. 2]. From there, they forcibly took 12 women religious,” Mgr Zenari said …. Neither the nuncio nor the Greek Orthodox Church know [the] reason behind the kidnapping."
The “reason behind the kidnapping”? Sexual abuse and rape certainly should not be discounted, as these have been the lot of thousands of women abducted by “freedom fighters” in Syria.
Indeed, a new report issued by the National Reconciliation Commission in Syria states that some 37,000 women have been raped since the war started. To keep the jihad in Syria alive, pro-war Islamic clerics have issued any number of fatwas, or Islamic rulings, permitting sexually-frustrated, female-deprived rebels to rape women.
Most of these are based on the simple fact that Islam permits jihadis, based on the example of their prophet, to copulate with any captured woman -- or, in the words of the Koran, “what your right hands possess” (see “The Jihad on Christian Women: Abduction, Rape, and Forced Conversion,” pgs. 186-199 in Crucified Again for detailed information).
One cleric permitted the abduction and rape of any Syrian woman, provided she is not Sunni. Yet apparently because there are still not enough women for the jihadi hordes, many of whom are foreigners --one Christian child was recently raped by 15 men before being killed -- Sunni Muslim women are also being targeted through sex jihad fatwas.
So would such jihadis and their clerics have any special respect for Christian nuns?
The fact is, raped nuns is a phenomenon that goes back centuries. According to Muslim historian Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (1364-1442) during his raids on Egypt, Caliph Marwan II (r.744–50) “made captive a number of women from among the nuns of several convents. And he tried to seduce one of them.”
The account describes how the enslaved nun tricked him into killing her, by claiming she had a magic oil that makes skin impenetrable: “She then took some oil and anointed herself with it; then stretched out her neck, which he smote with the sword, and made her head fly. He then understood that she preferred death to defilement.”
Writing in the 10th century, the Coptic chronicler Severus ibn Muqaffa records that “the Arabs in the land of Egypt had ruined the country…. They burnt the fortresses and pillaged the provinces, and killed a multitude of the saintly monks who were in them [monasteries] and they violated a multitude of the virgin nuns and killed some of them with the sword.”
After the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453, according to eyewitness accounts, “Monasteries and Convents were broken in. Their tenants were killed, nuns were raped, many, to avoid dishonor, killed themselves. Killing, raping, looting, burning, enslaving, went on and on according to tradition.”
Such is history -- expunged as it is in the modern West, even as it repeats itself today. Thus, in August 2013, after torching a Franciscan school in Egypt, “Islamists,” in the words of the AP, “paraded three nuns on the streets like ‘prisoners of war’” and “Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.”
Indeed, the rise in attacks on Christian nuns throughout the Islamic world further demonstrates that they are no more inviolable than other “infidel” women:
Somalia: In response to Pope Benedict’s historical quotes which, like so many other things --including teddy bears -- so enraged the Islamic world, Muslim extremists in Somalia shot Leonella Sgarbati -- a 66-year-old nun who had devoted 30 years of her life working in Africa -- in her back. Her last words before dying in hospital were: “I forgive; I forgive.”
Pakistan: In September 2012, gunmen on motorbikes dressed in green (Islam’s color) opened fire on the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cathedral in Hyderabad, murdering at least 28 people. Their immediate target was a nun, Mother Christina.
Libya: In February 2013, after the fall of Col. Gaddafi, Islamic rebels threatened Christian nuns into fleeing the nation. They had been there since 1921, focused primarily on helping the sick and needy.
Philippines: In an article discussing a Christmas Day church bombing in a Muslim-majority region, we learn that the jihadi group responsible “has been blamed for several bomb attacks on the Roman Catholic cathedral in Jolo since the early 2000s and for kidnapping priests and nuns.”
Guinea: In June 2013, during a mob-led frenzy, Christians and their churches were savagely attacked in the Muslim-majority nation -- with some 95 Christians slain and 130 wounded -- including “the quarters of the nuns, [which] was looted before being torched.”
The above examples come from five countries that have little in common with one another -- neither race, language, culture, nor economics -- only Islam.
That alone should say something. But no matter.
Far from discussing Islamic history and doctrine, and how they tie to current events, the predominant Western mentality simply dismisses Muslim violence as the West’s fault, or, in the recent words of ex-nun Karen Armstrong, “We did this.” Armstrong -- who quit the nunnery only to engage in pro-Islamic mummery -- insists that what’s needed is for us to focus more on “Muslim pain, Muslim suffering.”
Such, according to the leftist mentality, are the “real” reasons why, wherever Muslim-majorities live near non-Muslim minorities, from the dawn of Islam till today, the latter are so often under attack.
Raymond Ibrahim, a Fellow of the Hoover Institution, is author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians
** Since this piece was published "feminist" Left-wing writers for Britain's Guardian and Independent have become so angered that they have published/supported Youtube links on Twitter making our concern for the rights of women in the MidEast equivalent (literally) to dogs howling: Thus from Laurie Penny @pennyred:
@hadleyfreeman @thecommentator <3 here is a compilation video of puppies learning how to howl. Better use of time. youtube.com/watch?v=vridzz…