Tag: Islamic extremism

Hate speech fuels violence vs. Turkish non-Muslims

April 22, 2016 Turkey Armenians, Churches, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kurds, Minorities, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Religious freedom, Sunni, Turkey

A new report analysing freedom of religion or belief in Turkey faults both strong nationalism and the Erdogan government’s public endorsement of a Sunni Muslim identity for rising levels of hate speech against the nation’s religious minorities. According to studies cited in the April report by Christian Solidarity Worldwide, “religious . . . Read More

Islamists close Indonesian church weeks after it opened

April 12, 2016 Indonesia Bekasi, Bogor, GKI Yasmin, Islamic extremism, Jakarta, Protestants, Santa Clara

In 2010, Bogor’s GKI Yasmin church was sealed and padlocked by order of the mayor and city government. They now hold Sunday services outside the church, and stage monthly services outside Indonesia’s Presidential Palace. To date, they have held 115 such services.World Watch Monitor An Islamist group in Indonesia . . . Read More

Another Bangladeshi Christian leader murdered

March 23, 2016 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Islamic extremism, Rangpur

A Muslim convert to Christianity who was an active evangelist in northern Bangladesh has been hacked to death by suspected Islamists, local sources told World Watch Monitor. Hossain Ali, 65, a father of three, was killed on 22 March in Kurigram when he was out walking. Three assailants on motorbikes attacked . . . Read More

Egypt sentences ‘anti-Islam’ teens to 5 years

February 25, 2016 Egypt Blasphemy, Copts, Egypt, Gad Younan, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Minya

Three Egyptian Christian students accused of “offending Islam” were sentenced today (25 Feb.) to five years each, Coptic news site Watani said. Muller Atef, Albert Ashraf and Bassem Amgad were given jail terms, while a fourth, Clinton Maged, is due to be remanded in a juvenile facility for five years, according . . . Read More

Burkina Faso: Australian Christian woman freed

February 8, 2016 Burkina Faso Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Burkina Faso, Djibo, Islamic extremism, Ken Elliott, Kidnapping, Ouagadougou

Islamic militants have freed an Australian woman who was kidnapped with her husband last month in Burkina Faso, . Jocelyn Elliott and her husband Ken, a medical doctor, were snatched on 15 Jan. by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) from Djibo, near the border with Mali. The couple, who are . . . Read More

Clerics tell Muslims to protect minorities

January 29, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Belgium, Europe, France, Islamic extremism, Marrakesh, Morocco, United Arab Emirates

More than 250 Muslim scholars, from over 120 countries, have called for religious freedom for non-Muslims in majority-Muslim countries. In a declaration signed on 27 January in Marrakesh, Morocco, the clerics said that it is wrong to discriminate against religious minorities in Muslim countries. They paid particular attention to Muhammad’s . . . Read More

Kuwait: MPs reject building new churches

January 28, 2016 Kuwait Churches, Islamic extremism, Kuwait, Sharia

Kuwait has backtracked on plans to build new churches, reports Christian Today. News that a number of sites had been allocated for church building was reported to the local press by Ahmad al-Manfoohi, general director of the Municipality. But after some Kuwaiti members of parliament announced they will reject the . . . Read More

Muslim who protected Christians dies of wounds

January 20, 2016 Kenya Islamic extremism, Kenya, Nairobi

Salah Farah took several bullets in December when he refused to obey gunmen who ordered him and all other Muslims off a bus in Kenya. He would not leave the Christians on the bus alone to be slaughtered. Nearly a month later, in a Nairobi hospital, Farah died of his wounds, . . . Read More

Niger: a year after 70 churches destroyed in anti-‘Charlie’ riots

January 20, 2016 Niger Charlie Hebdo, Islamic extremism, Mahamadou Issoufou, Niamey, West Africa, Zinder

Demolishing Boukoki’s EERN church, damaged in the anti-Charlie’ riots in 2015, ahead of its rebuildingWorld Watch Monitor A year has passed since the churches in the West African country of Niger experienced the worst attacks in their history, in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. On . . . Read More

Christian murders continue in Bangladesh

January 14, 2016 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Burial, Islamic extremism, Jamaat-ul-Mujahedin Bangladesh

The killing of a 75-year-old pastor on 6 January by Islamic extremists is the latest in a series of attacks on Bangladesh minorities. A group claiming to be the Islamic State claimed responsibility for Pastor Khaza Somiruddin’s murder, in addition to a series of , death threats and in the . . . Read More

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