Hagia Sophia: Religion As Politics

Hagia Sophia: Religion As Politics Author: Christopher Black for Journal NEO Sultan Abdul Hamid II, in the face of a rising secular nationalism in the late 1800s, that culminated in the Young Turk movement, tried to restore the influence of the Ottoman Empire among Islamic nations and the Empire’s many peoples by stressing the importance of Islam and the Ottoman Caliphate, of the role of the Ottomans as the protectors of Islam and, in the modern world, a bulwark against western colonialism. Over a hundred years after he left power, after…

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No War On Christianity – London will blare Islamic call to prayer during Ramadan as churches remain closed

No War On Christianity – London will blare Islamic call to prayer during Ramadan as churches remain closed By Paul Smeaton for Life Site News GNN Note – WOW! The depths of self loathing that must be reached to not fully understand what is happening here. ****** The words in the Adhan state: ‘Allah is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no god except Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to salvation.’ A London suburb totalling a mere 15…

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Xi’s China Ends 2019 With The Worst Religious Persecution In The Country’s History

Xi’s China Ends 2019 With The Worst Religious Persecution In The Country’s History By Helen Raleigh for The Federalist Increased religious persecution in China has failed to curtail the growing number of Christians, which has reached more than 100 million today — more than the 90 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. Dec. 30, 2019, was a day when people who live in the free world were busy planning ahead and getting ready for New Year’s Eve celebrations. But for China’s outspoken Wang Yi, the founding pastor of China’s most…

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WSJ Decries Brutal ‘New War’ on Africa’s Christians

WSJ Decries Brutal ‘New War’ on Africa’s Christians by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D. for Breitbart Islamist Fulani raiders are waging a barbaric war on Nigeria’s Christians, the Wall Street Journal reported this week, in a brutal campaign to rid the country’s Middle Belt of non-Muslims. In his first-hand account of the atrocities in the former British colony, Bernard-Henri Lévy writes the Fulani extremists now pose a greater threat than the Islamic terror group Boko Haram, and are responsible for systematic jihadist attacks involving burning, raping, maiming, pillaging, and killing. Lévy describes the…

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Genocide: China Bulldozing Uighur Cemeteries to Make Them More ‘Civilized’

Genocide: China Bulldozing Uighur Cemeteries to Make Them More ‘Civilized’ by Frances Martel for Breitbart The Chinese Communist Party has razed dozens of Uighur Muslim cemeteries in western Xinjiang province to create more “civilized” areas, the Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday. China has taken over Uighur burial rites and replaced them with Communist Party-controlled cremations staged in “burial management centers” that ban religious activity surrounding the handling of a person’s remains. Uighur locals and activists have accused China of attempting to erase the ethnic minority’s history and uproot them…

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CAIR Declares ‘Complete Victory’ After Judge Rules Terror Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights

CAIR Declares ‘Complete Victory’ After Judge Rules Terror Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights By Patrick Goodenough for CNS News GNN Note – If this doesn’t terrify you, you need to pay closer attention. ****** The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has hailed as a “complete victory” a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. government’s watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of Americans named on it. Judge Anthony Trenga of the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Wednesday that the FBI-administered watchlist, formally known as the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), “fails to…

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Rashida Tlaib Rejects Israel’s Offer to Visit Grandmother: ‘Treating Me Like a Criminal’

Rashida Tlaib Rejects Israel’s Offer to Visit Grandmother: ‘Treating Me Like a Criminal’ by Joshua Caplan for Breitbart GNN Note – You are a criminal that should be removed from office and deported immediately if not sooner. ****** Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said Friday she will not visit her grandmother in Israel’s West Bank after the Jewish state granted her entry to do so under humanitarian circumstances. “When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can’t…

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Austria: Islamic Extremism Is Still Number One Terror Threat

Austria: Islamic Extremism Is Still Number One Terror Threat by Chris Tomlinson for Breitbart An Austrian intelligence report states that radical Islamic terrorism is still the number one security issue in the country, with returning Islamic State fighters a chief concern. The report, which comes from the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BVT), states that returnees from the Middle East are difficult to predict in their actions and pose a danger due to possibly having combat experience acquired overseas, Kronen Zeitung reports. By the end of last year, the…

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Hungary Decries ‘Wall of Silence’ Concealing Christian Persecution

Hungary Decries ‘Wall of Silence’ Concealing Christian Persecution by Thomas D Williams, Ph.D. for Breitbart ROME — Despite massive persecution of Christians on a global scale, a “wall of silence” has been erected around the problem, lamented a Hungarian minister Monday. Mr. Tristan Azbej, Hungary’s “State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians,” sent around a summary of a speech he gave two weeks ago at the 2019 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, hosted by the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC., in which he explains why Hungary has focused attention on…

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SCHOOL BOSSES FORCING ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION

SCHOOL BOSSES FORCING ISLAMIC INDOCTRINATION from WND Faith ‘The jihad will march along and every citizen in time will be affected by it’ Top teachers in effectively are forcing Islamic indoctrination on students in Britain, with a growing movement to strip parents of their legal right to remove their children from objectionable religious classes. Britain’s Independent newspaper reported a study showed that while the law allows parents to remove their children from classes that violate their faith, most headteachers believe parents should be stopped from withdrawing children from religious education over…

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