Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians by Raymond Ibrahim Read Free Book Online Page B

found something better than Islam in its nemesis, Christianity.
    Thus in November 2011 in Nigeria, Boko Haram Muslims shot and killed two children of a former member because he “betrayed” Islam when he apostatized to Christianity—in a very dramatic manner. According to a Christian source close to the convert, the man, a jihadi at the time, “was poised to slit the throat of his Christian victim” during a jihadi raid in northern Nigeria that killed at least 130 Christians, when, not unlike Saul of Tarsus (or St. Paul), “he was suddenly struck with the weight of the evil he was about to commit.” He dropped his machete and fled to a church close by, where he pleaded for help. The pastor “immediately met with the confessed killer and joyfully led him to Christ.... After meeting the Lord, the converted terrorist [and] murderer called his former colleagues to testify what had happened to him without disclosing where he was.... Upon discovering the man’s conversion to Christianity, Boko Haram members invaded his home, kidnapped his two children and informed him that they were going to execute them in retribution for his disloyalty to Islam . Clutching his phone, the man heard the sound of the guns that murdered his children [emphasis added].” 29
    Islam’s anti-freedom laws target people of all or no religions. Many outspoken Muslim apostates in the West, for example, who never converted to Christianity, must fear execution should they ever fall into the hands of their former coreligionists. However, they are here now, alive and well in the West and warning us, precisely because they were not challenging the spiritual truths of Islam then, when they were living under its shadow—and why should they have been? If life is limited to the now, as it is in the secular worldview, why risk death, especially when merely not rocking the boat, as many “moderate Muslims” do, will save them?
    Likewise, countless are the secular, Western people who habitually blaspheme against Islam. But they live in the West, away from Sharia domination, and so are generally immune from its draconian punishments. Ironically, the people who often suffer most when Western secularists offend Muslims are the Christian minorities of the Islamic world. Whether in the time of the medieval Crusades or during Operation Desert Storm, Muslims often conflate the Christians in their midst with the Western enemy and punish them accordingly, under the concept of collective punishment (which we will explore in more detail later).
    Thus Islam’s anti-freedom laws, while applicable to lapsed Muslims and secular people who criticize Islam, have been especially devastating to Muslims who convert to Christianity, and to Christians who speak about their religion.

RECENT EXAMPLES OF ANTI-FREEDOM LAWS
     
    The following recent stories represent a sampling of what Christians are suffering under Islam’s laws against apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism. Oftentimes Christians are persecuted under two or all three of Islam’s anti-freedom laws. For example, in May 2011 in Algeria, a judge “stunned the Christian community” by sentencing Siaghi Krimo, a Muslim convert to Christianity (an apostate), to a five-year prison term and a fine of $200,000 Algerian dinars—even though prosecutors had only asked for a two-year imprisonment and a $50,000 dinar fine. Krimo’s crime was to give a CD about Christianity to a Muslim (proselytism), who later claimed the CD insulted Muslim prophet Muhammad (blasphemy). 37 Even so, the examples below are organized according to the particular anti-freedom feature of Sharia law most central to the case in question.

APOSTATES: RECANT OR DIE
     
    Like attacks on churches, some of the most heinous apostasy-related attacks are intentionally planned for Christian holy days.
    On December 24, 2011—Christmas Eve—Muslims in Christian-majority Uganda threw acid on a church pastor outside his church, severely disfiguring him,