Silence on “destroy all churches” statement shows double standard

Since the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia called for the destruction of all churches on the Arabian Peninsula several weeks ago, there has been scant major media coverage of this incident. And no world leader had a press conference condemning the statement. All that could be heard were crickets chirping (with the exception of Turkey [...]

Father who killed family on Christmas was Muslim

You won’t hear this bit of information on the news, but Aziz Yazdanpanah, the man who dressed as Santa on Christmas and killed six family members, was an Iranian Muslim. He was separated from his wife, who moved out of their home, and he had some serious financial problems. Those problems became too much for [...]

Arab Spring or sharia spark?

In the early days of the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, the Western Hemisphere was so excited that FINALLY democracy was making its way into the Islamic world. However, lurking in the shadows was the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization. Yet, the Western media kept telling us the Muslim Brotherhood were moderate [...]

The myth of “three Abrahamic faiths”

I once had a pastor who told me that he made it a point to avoid any religious criticism of Jews, Catholics, and Muslims. When I asked him to explain, he stated that all of them were Abrahamic faiths, that all Christianity (Protestant and Catholic), Judaism, and Islam can trace their spiritual heritage back to [...]

Two Pakistani Christians attacked after refusing to convert

Six Pakhtoon youths in Karachi, Pakistan attacked two Christian young men who were riding a motorcycle down the street. The Muslim Pakhtoons stopped the two Christians in the street and questioned them about who they were and what their religious beliefs were. When Ishfaq Munawar and his friend Naeem Masih told the six Muslims about their [...]

Peter King disappointed by Pew Research poll of Muslims

New York Republican Congressman Peter King, who has held three U.S. House hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims, expressed his disappointment with some of the findings in a recent Pew Research poll of Muslims in America. The fact that the poll shows 21% of Muslim Americans are sure that there is support for extremism [...]

Can the Quran be considered reliable?

If a Christian happens to find themselves in a discussion with a Muslim about who’s holy book is better, some Muslims will make the claim that since the Bible is older than the Koran, the Bible should be considered outdated.  They argue that God gives updated revelations to men over time and that the Quran [...]

Angry Muslim mob attacks village in Pakistan

On the morning of April 16, 2011, an angry mob of Pakistani muslims believed to number in the hundreds attacked the village of Khokarki in the state of Punjab.  The village’s citizens, who are Christians, abandoned their homes and fled.  The mob gathered in response to an accusation by local muslims that Mushtaq Gill, 60, [...]

Muslim cleric arrested by U.S. border officers

A Muslim cleric who was deported from Montreal, Canada to Tunisia in 2007 was discovered trying to sneak into the U.S. from Mexico earlier this month.  Said Jaziri was ordered deported by a Canadian court in 2007 after it was discovered he hid a criminal conviction from Canadian authorities so he could get into Canada [...]

Praying for Christians in the Islamic world

With many headlines in the secular news within the past two months highlighting the targeting of Christians by Muslims in the Islamic world from Pakistan to Egypt, I have been praying more than usual for my brothers and sisters in Christ who are in those lands. The Western World seems to be bending over backwards [...]

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