Persecution
The Daily Jot receives hundreds of emails each week. Many of them proclaim that Christian persecution has come to America. They cite as evidence the political correctness movement that limits free speech, the government cracking down on home schooling, the news media ridiculing Christians who speak about God in the public square, how the government has taken God out of public schools, how abortion is costing millions of lives each year, and the list goes on and on. These, my brothers and sisters, are legitimate concerns and most likely the signs of what is coming in the future if we do not get united and stand against them. But persecution. No. Not when you see what is going on in other countries.
Years ago, I watched a cell phone video of a woman in a Muslim village who was tried and convicted of adultery. In reality, she was raped by her husband’s brother. But there were not four male witnesses to collaborate her claim. She was placed in a white bag and dragged out to a hole and buried up to her waste. Then all the men at the trial stoned her to death. They yelled profanity to her as they killed her. This is the type of justice we see in Islamic countries. While it is not Christian persecution, it is what comes with Islam everywhere this evil system is allowed. It has anchored in America. There are places in Minnesota and Michigan where Sharia law is only a City Council or County Commissioner vote away.
Sudan is a bloodthirsty Islamic country. The Muslims there have killed most of the Christians. When they ran out of Christians to kill, the Arab Muslims started killing the African Muslims. Meriam Ibrahim is a 27 year old mother of a 20 month old and is pregnant with her second child. She was raised Christian by her mother as her Muslim father was “absent.” Her husband is also a Christian. Under Sharia Law, she is considered Muslim because her father was Muslim. Therefore, her marriage to a Christian is not only void, but constitutes adultery. A court sentenced her to 100 lashes. Additionally, unless she denounced her Christian faith, she faced death by stoning.
At the Court’s deadline, she stood and told the court, “I am Christian.” She was sentenced to death by stoning. This is Christian persecution. This is Islam, the religion which the occupant of the Oval Office says its call to prayer “is one of the prettiest sounds on earth.” In his 2010 Ramadan greeting he said the rituals of Ramadan “remind us of the principles that we hold in common and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” Christians have nothing in common with Islam. As 2 Corinthians 6:14 asks, “what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” The same holds true for Christians and those politicians who advocate godlessness. They need to be stopped before they bring destruction upon us all.
