Another Bloody Christmas

Every year around Christmas time, Islamic jihadis take the opportunity to victimize Christians on or around one of the holiest days of the Church year. The international media and global “human rights” organizations generally take little or no notice, as they operate according to a paradigm in which Christians are always white oppressors and Muslims are always brown victims. Any story that doesn’t fit that narrative is swiftly consigned to the memory hole. And so as in other years, these stories got little notice, and the global jihad against Christians and Christianity continues virtually unopposed.

Most notoriously, on Dec. 20, Taleb Abdulmohsen, a Saudi migrant plowed his car into the Christmas Market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing five people and injuring over 200. The perpetrator, however, had claimed for years that he had left Islam and despised his former religion; German Foreign Minister Nancy Faeser consequently announced that he was “obviously Islamophobic,” and the attack is being treated as an outbreak of that dread disease.

Never mind that several people who knew Abdulmohsen disputed the claim that he had left Islam at all, and that his attack was of a type that jihad groups have repeatedly called for. Never mind also that it strains credulity that a foe of Islam would have targeted Christians rather than Muslims. The narrative was once again preserved.

Other attacks, however, were harder to explain away, and so they were simply ignored. International Christian Concern reported that “on Sunday, Dec. 22, armed men killed 14 Christians, including a pregnant woman and a 1-year-old girl, shortly after a Christmas carol service at the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA).” The “armed men” were, beyond the shadow of any doubt, Islamic jihadis.

Then, just before Christmas in Turkey and Syria, Muslims went out of their way to destroy Christmas trees. Islamic law forbids the subjugated people of the book (Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians) to make public display of their religious festivals. The dhimmis “are forbidden…to ring church bells or display crosses…recite the Torah or Evangel aloud, or make public display of their funerals or feastdays” (Reliance of the Traveller, o11.5 (6).) In light of the fact that the media ignores Islamic doctrine and law and persists in the fantasy that Islam is peaceful, tolerant and benign, it’s no wonder that these incidents were largely ignored.

An incident on Christmas morning in Bangladesh got similar treatment. OpIndia reported on Christmas Day that “17 houses belonging to the Tripura Christian community were set ablaze in Bandarban’s Lama Upazila.” The arson “occurred in the early hours of December 25, while residents were away attending prayers in a neighbouring village, as there is no church in their village. There was nobody in the village when the attack took place.” The perpetrators were, of course, Islamic jihadis.

On the same day in France, according to the French-language Le Figaro, a Muslim walked into Saint-Louis church in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and began screaming “Allahu akbar.” As agog worshipers watched, the intruder “then headed towards the altar before showing his posterior.” The contempt for Christianity that Islam instils bodes ill for the future of France, but French President Emmanuel Macron and co. dismiss such concerns as “Islamophobia,” so all will be well.

And in Nigeria, Sahara Reporters reported that “bandits, suspected to be herdsmen,” that is, Islamic jihadis. “launched a brutal attack” on Christmas Day, “leaving over 12 persons dead and seven children abducted.” A local man, Jato-Aka Lawrence Akerigba, said: “The attackers invaded Yaav and Mbakyol council wards of Turan community at about 4pm when most residents were at home with their families enjoying the cool breeze of the yuletide, killing 12, injuring scores, and abducted children while others were still missing.”

Then on the day after Christmas, again according to Sahara Reporters, “some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed a Catholic Church priest, Reverend Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo, in Anambra State.” Fr. Okonkwo, “who was also a trained pharmacist, was fatally shot dead by the assailants on Thursday, the Boxing Day in the Ihiala area of the state.” This followed the “abduction of a 75-year-old retired Anglican Archbishop, Most Reverend Godwin Okpala, whose whereabouts remain unknown.”

And so another Christmas week passed with more Christians dead, injured, and abducted. In other words, it was like every other week of the year.