Muslims Persecute Christians

The world looks the other way. I don't know what the hell is wrong with people that they can't see the threat from radical Muslims who take such preaching very seriously: In the Koran, it says, "Islamic law mandates the death penalty for apostates from Islam, in accordance with Muhammad’s command: 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.' Many Muslims take this dictum quite seriously today. In August 2007, Mohammed Hegazy, an Egyptian convert from Islam to Christianity, was forced by sentences of death pronounced against him by Islamic clerics to go into hiding. An Afghani, Abdul Rahman, was arrested in February 2006 -- for the crime of leaving Islam and becoming a Christian. And converts from Islam to Christianity are not the only ones being victimized. In March 2007, Islamic gangs knocked on doors in Christian neighborhoods in Baghdad, demanding payment of the jizya. Christians all over Iraq live increasingly in an atmosphere of terror. Women have been threatened with kidnapping or death if they do not wear a headscarf; liquor store owners in Iraq have likewise been threatened. A onetime Iraqi liquor store owner now living in Syria lamented that 'now at least 75% of my Christian friends have fled. There is no future for us in Iraq.' " I know there are such intemperate "rulings" in the Christian Bible too. But no one takes them seriously any more. Unfortunately, way too many radical Muslims take such words literally and many former Muslims have suffered because of it. (Jihad Watch/Human Events, 9/25/07)