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MEMRI reports that an official website edits out calls by a prominent imam for attacks on Israel:
It should be noted that the website www.alminbar.net, which regularly posts Al-Sudayyis's sermons, edited out the above segment, as did the Saudi Gazette, which regularly reports on his sermons
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#2This is a great post, tsar lazar. Do you have any direct exposure to or contact with the circumstances of Christians in Muslim countries, or any links you can point us to with regard to them?
#3Vik:
Yes, there are many, but care is needed. As with many unpopular facts ignored by the "mainstream" media, it takes some perseverence to find good, solid, accurate sources of information. There are many "anti-Islam" sites out there that are full of hyperbolic rhetoric with little or no real substance. Many times, for information on the persecutions of Christians in Muslim lands you have to actually search for material on the particular region and go from there.
In general, I would recommend anything written by Bat Ye'or as a great starting point. Her books are very well-researched and well-written. As for other materials, I include a selection of sites that I have found to be fairly solid and make good starting-points for further digging. A few are "regional" sites featuring Kosovo, Egypt, etc.
As for direct experience, yes I do. I am Serbian Orthodox (though not an Ethnic Serb) and I have many friends that make regular trips to Jugoslavija. Many Christian churches (both Roman Catholic and Orthodox) were destroyed by Muslim militias during the Balkan Wars in the 80s and 90s. The Albanian Muslims continue to desecrate and destroy churches and monasteries in the Kosovo region of Serbia---and all is done while NATO troops look on. As an American citizen I am appalled at the US role in Kosovo, for although the forces there are saving Christian lives, their mandate does not allow them to protect holy sites, including several that are central to Serbian Orthodoxy.
I also have two good friends who were present in Constantinople (Istanbul) during anti-Christian pogroms a few months ago. These are common occurances which are never reported in the mainstream media, and which our government overlooks since Turkey is a long-standing NATO ally. I am very pro-US, but there are times when my heart aches at some of the deals we make.
www.dhimmi.org
www.kosovo.com
www.islamreview.com
www.persecution.com/index.cfm
www.copts.net/index.asp
www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/
This should come as no surprise to anyone who is not a liberal or a Muslim apologist. You need only look at the current plight of the Orthodox in Kosovo and Byzantium (Istanbul), the Copts and other Christians in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East---indeed, the severe restrictions imposed upon any non-Muslims in any nation dominated by Islam. The myth of "Islamic tolerance" is widespread and currently in vogue, and the historical and contemporary realities are grossly ignored by the media.
Just as troubling is the current rush to differentiate between the "moderate" Muslims and the Jihadi who are labeled as "radical." The difficulty here is that the radicals are, in fact, taking the teachings of Muhammed to their logical conclusion as any close reading of the Qu'ran reveals. This is, I think, why the response of the "moderates" has been so conspicuous by their timidity or outright absence.