Interview Bat Yeor 
French Translation: DE Guez
Rome. In aftermath of September 11, 2001, the worldwide television have broadcast a video of Al Qaeda propaganda. It shows a squad of terrorists who broke into a house, they walk on a standard black and trained to shoot against a target, this target is a Christian cross. Like, small, wooden, worn around the neck Ishtiaq Masih. Imagine that you are currently browsing the valley by bus Pakistani Punjab. The bus made a stop, you stop at an inn, you order a tea. Then you pay and the landlord notice that you wear a cross around your neck because you are one of many Pakistani Christians as Anglican bishop Michael Nazir-Ali. Some underlings Islamists tell you at the entrance of the room there is a sign that warns: "Here we serve only the Muslims." You have defiled a teacup, reserved for Muslims! They start hitting you with sticks and stones, you crave their pity, but you will die shortly afterwards as a result of your injuries. This happened to Ishtiaq.
11 years ago, on the occasion of the opening, the Vatican's Synod of Bishops for Asia, Joseph Coutts, bishop of Hyderabad, Pakistan, gave words of tragic Eastern Christians:
"The prevailing attitude in Muslim countries is to consider the Christians as 'dhimmis' traitors. Islam can not and should not be placed in the same category as Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism that. Islam is a politico-religious power with expansionist tendencies. "
few days before the speech by Coutts, bishop of Faisalabad, John Joseph, was shot in the head, a court in which a Christian accused of blasphemy had been sentenced to death.
Now, as then, the world ignored the plight Christians in Muslim countries. Today, their systematic persecution is accompanied by a silence and complicity on the part of the international community, activists of human rights, media and nongovernmental organizations. A few days after Pope Ratzinger's words on "a Palestinian state, militant Islamists have desecrated 70 graves of Palestinian Christians.
This happened in the village of Jiffna, near Ramallah, the stronghold of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen. Our Lady of Jiffna was vandalized in the head and hands, it is the symbol of what Benjamin Sleiman, Catholic Archbishop Baghdad has called "the extinction of Christianity in the Middle East."
Since the First World War, 10 million Christians have been forced to emigrate from the Middle East. And, as explained Monsignor Philippe Brizard, director general of Oeuvre d'Orient, the famous French organization dedicated to the Christians of the Middle East, "the radicalization of Islam is the main cause of the Christian exodus."
There was a time when the Palestinian Territories, lived 20% of Christians today they are more than 5%. In 1920, in Turkey, there were 2 million Christians, there are only a few thousand. At the beginning of last century, Christians made up one third of the Syrian population, today they are less than 10%. In 1932, Christians accounted for 55% of the Lebanese population, now they are below the threshold of 30%.
Iran crosses the phase of its most obscurantist relationship between Christianity and the Islamic revolution, begun in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini demanded the immediate closure of Christian schools and given a month to all foreigners to leave the religious the country. The Iranian parliament is about to pass a law that provides for the death penalty for a person born Muslim father who decides to convert.
Up on the frontispiece of "Ketob Ta'limate-e Dini", the instruction manual used by religious Christians can find the photo of Khomeini. The ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples of the Middle East is underway. The diversity of the Middle East will be reduced to the flat monotony of a single religion, Islam, and a handful of idioms. Some of the victims murdered in Yemen on Monday belonged to an evangelical mission. After the attack of March against a group of South Koreans, Al Qaeda had explained very clearly in a statement:
"They bring corruption in our land and play a dangerous role in the spread of Christianity."
Meanwhile, the organization "International Christian Concern has reported finding the body of a young Pakistani Christian, who was found tortured in a canal in the region of Punjab. Litto and his name was in love with a Muslim girl. The brothers of the girl had forced him to convert to Islam. Litto refused. He was stabbed in the stomach and genitals. Meanwhile, in Karachi, a major Pakistani cities, a Christian child of 11, Irfan, got killed front of his church. It
Mario Rodriguez, director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Pakistan, who revealed this, he appealed to the world:
"The Taliban roam, threatening, in Christian neighborhoods of Karachi, terrorizing Women and inviting people to convert to Islam or face death. "
In Quetta, a Pentecostal school was closed after a threat of suicide attack. A Banu Cantt, a historic church dedicated to St. George was attacked, Bibles burned, dismembered the cross and the altar destroyed. After their attacks against Christians, the guerrillas have left inscriptions on the walls of churches: "Taliban Zindabad", "Islam Zindabad" (long live the Taliban, long live Islam ") and" Christians Islam qabol karo "( "Christians do you convert to Islam").
Non-Muslims must pay a fee to the Taliban if they want to continue to live in their homes. The "jizya" imposed on Christians, Hindus and Sikhs, consists of an annual payment of 1000 rupees per head, just over eight euros are exempt women, children and the disabled. All members of minorities must the pay for the right to live, otherwise they are forced to abandon homes and villages in which they live forever. The last
Coptic girl abducted and forcibly converted to Islam called Nermeen Mitry. It was recovered the same day by his family, who had launched a search to find her. Nermeen was abducted in the village of El Mahalla by a Muslim, Hossam Hamouda, with the help of his aunt, Leila Attia. One hundred Islamists, armed with swords and sticks attacked the five members of the family of the girl and have left the village after the Copts have been forced to reconcile with the perpetrator of the abduction.
"For every blow they gave us, they sang: 'There is only one Allah. They pulled us out of our cars saying, 'get out, followers of the religion of the dog'!
Copts Christians are being killed in Hagaz on the bank of the Nile, while returning from church. This happened while at Cairo, near the village Coptic Barack Obama uttered his words ringing on mutual respect.
Cairo is that fled in 1955, Bat Ye'or, which in Hebrew means "daughter Nile. " She is the author of the bestselling book, Eurabia, edited by Lindau. She returns with an essay "The Universal Caliphate, still with the same publisher. It is the specialist "Dhimmitude" requiring non-Muslims in Islam. Oriana Fallaci has included in his writings the term "Eurabia" and gave it a global resonance.
"What dhimmitude? And why nobody talks about? These two issues are related to me, "says Bat Ye'or in Foglio.
"dhimmitude is part of jihad is obligatory theological, political and legal. The oppression and persecution of infidels, including Jews and Christians, is the just punishment reserved for the 'kuffar' (infidels) who refuse to acknowledge the truth of Islam. They are conquered peoples, victims of jihad, dispossessed of their history, their culture, their identity, their traditions, they lost their references, their history, like the Copts in Egypt. They feel inferior to Muslims, they are hunted down and this feeds their feelings of submission and inferiority, they become humble. It's a permanent feeling of vulnerability. For over a millennium, the jihad was the military and political force that has submitted and, in most cases, destroyed civilizations Zoroastrian, Christian, Buddhist and Indian in Africa, Europe and Asia. All these aspects have turned these people. If you are going to explain dhimmitude, they refute this view, they are afraid, they are conditioned by their inferiority. They do not pose a relationship of equality with Muslims. It is safe to say that the denial of the suffering of victims of jihad and Islamic imperialism is a form of racism that makes these persecuted human beings of a second category.
Why not talk about it does not? Because the Muslim world, represented by the Organization of the Conference Islamic, which is a kind of modern Caliphate, does not accept criticism of jihad, which is a perfect war, nor that of dhimmitude Because jihad, Sunnah, sharia, Islam is all perfect and do tolerate any criticism. The humiliation suffered by the dhimmi Christians and not be criticized. The West is afraid of the caliphate and lives in his shadow.
Dhimmitude is a story taboo in Europe. And as dhimmis, we end up being unable to help the Muslim world in the criticism of its policy towards non-Muslims. We are the ones forcing the Muslim world to continue on this path. One should not talk about dhimmitude. For years, I myself was boycotted because I wanted to talk about this story. But there are Muslims who thanked me for telling the history of dhimmitude.
There are those who, like Obama in Cairo, adopted an attitude toward the Muslim world, not to protect Christians, but for political, economic and tactics. Then there are Christians who live in the Muslim world, the survivors of the Arab world, who are afraid to put themselves in danger because these communities live in extreme vulnerability. Before publishing my writings, I asked permission from my Egyptian friends. I was ready not to publish them, I knew I could endanger them. They said if you do not write it, we are lost. "
Bat Ye'or says the current climate of hatred and persecution.
"Egypt keeps the law that punishes apostasy of the death penalty, Christians converted to Islam can not return to Christianity, those who denigrate Islam were arrested. The Copts, constantly apart, threatened, humiliated, are forced to abandon their ancient homeland, to build and repair churches, we need a permit, which is rarely granted, and Christians are often attacked, their shops are looted and women frequently often raped. Jews from Egypt who returned to places of tourist presence multimillennial are not even allowed to photograph the remains of their history.
The Baha'i religion is not recognized and its faithful are deprived of their rights. These laws derived millennia of Shari'a are applied, more or less strictly, in all Muslim countries in the world. The condition of dhimmitude has transformed peoples' free and majority in their country, creators of the finest civilizations and powerful of their time in minority amnesic survivors subjected to humiliation, insecurity and fear.
Colonization Muslim by his conquests, carried out the destruction of indigenous peoples and cultures, the reduction of people in slavery and has carried out evictions, expropriations, massacres, forced conversions, and dhimmitude, c that is to say a set of discriminatory and humiliating, not very different from subjugation. Today, the dynamics and ideology that gave the impetus for these changes are still active at all levels. And few people are able to distinguish among the changes currently underway in Europe, because they do not know history and mechanisms. Today, the history of dhimmitude, that is to say, analyzing the interconnections political, economic and social inevitably led people who are targets of jihad, the decadence and disintegration, is a story banned in Europe. This occultation is motivated by the refusal of Muslim countries to recognize that their story is one of imperialism, colonization, enslavement and oppression as recognized by historians of European States and the United States, out of respect for their past. It is therefore very important to have the courage to speak, otherwise, our turn will come to us Westerners, to be the next dhimmis.
This will be our punishment, because we have been insensitive to the suffering of our brothers. I believe in justice, if we are not generous to the history of persecution, our selfishness is punished. In Dubai there are 2,000 Christians from Gaza. Refugees to whom we will never mention the existence, just as the Jews exiled en masse from Arab countries.
Who knows the name of Rami Ayyad? He was the head of the only Christian bookshop in Gaza, linked to the Protestant organization, "Palestinian Bible Society. He was stabbed to death. The brothers had to win at San Porfirio Cemetery in a funeral procession without a cross. His wife Pauline wrote a beautiful letter, "to my sweet husband, Rami Ayyad martyr."
© Foglio
Published June 19, 2009, by Mr. Macina site upjf.org
0 comments:
Post a Comment