Christians in Afghanistan have been paralyzed with fear at the news that the Taliban has taken control of the country. Nadine Maenza, chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said the Taliban takeover ‘is the worst possible development for religious minorities. While most from these communities left Afghanistan in recent years, those that remain, and women in particular, are now in imminent danger.’

News received by Aid to the Church in Need echoed reports that leaders of underground house churches in Afghanistan had received letters from the Taliban warning them that they 'know where they are and what they are doing'.

According to Pew, around 90 per cent of the 37 million population is Sunni and 9.7 per cent Shia, with the remaining 0.3 per cent belonging to other religions. The number of Christians in the country is thought to be below 20,000, perhaps as low as 1,000. Most Christians in Afghanistan are underground, so getting a precise estimate of their number is nigh-on impossible.

There is only one Catholic church in the whole of Afghanistan, hidden away in the Italian embassy but that was forced to shut due to the pandemic. In 2018, there were an estimated 200 Catholics in the country. The Catholic charity Caritas, which has been present in Afghanistan since the 1990s, said they may now need to suspend their activities.

Open Doors, a charity that challenges Christian persecution, ranks Afghanistan as the second-worst country for believers. It says that under former president Ashraf Ghani, Christians faced ‘clan pressure’: in other words, persecution was most likely to come from friends and family. Converts to Christianity risked being killed, or at least disowned, by their family, clan or tribe. In some cases, conversion was treated as a psychiatric condition. There are cases of former Muslims being sectioned.

The constitution of Afghanistan establishes Islam as the state religion and, according to a US Department of State report, religious minorities have to exercise their faith ‘within the limits of the law’. Conversion from Islam is apostasy and can be punished by death, imprisonment or confiscation of property. Proselytizing is also punishable by death.

In Taliban-controlled parts of the country, the treatment of Christians has been harsher. In 2010, the extremist group murdered ten humanitarian aid workers during a medical mission to Badakhshan in the north. They accused them of being foreign spies and of spreading Christianity.

A man named Brother Firas — not his real name — a convert from Islam to Christianity, told International Christian Concern how the takeover move has been received by believers and how the Taliban will operate. According to the charity, he said:

“They will kill the known Christians and want to spread fear. There are already posters appearing that if you have single girls, 15 years old, you have to marry them to Taliban soldiers. Christians fear their daughters will be taken away from them and forced to marry Taliban. They will be sent to madrasas to brainwash them. The parents may or may not be killed... One man received a letter that his house now belongs to the Taliban. He is a simple man who makes crafts and his entire savings are in his house. The Taliban will take the property and assets of the Christians and all their women will be taken.

The Taliban’s swift and efficient rise to power, seemingly out of nowhere, suggests that extremist groups can lie dormant for years, ready to return. This brings to mind Isis in Iraq and Syria. Despite being militarily defeated, many of their members are still at large and therefore still pose a threat to the region’s Christians.

Fr Andrzej Halemba, former head of Middle East projects at Aid to the Church in Need, said that Christians in Syria and Iraq could yet see militant Islamism repeat the atrocities seen in Afghanistan. He said:

“Daesh wanted to eradicate Christians. The genocidal mentality is alive with Al-Nusra and other groups. If Christians can stay together and help each other, they can stay in the Middle East. If they don’t, it could be like Turkey after the terrible genocide in 1915.

Christians in Afghanistan will be bracing themselves. Will they be forced to convert back to Islam? Will they be killed if they refuse? Will their property be confiscated? Will they manage to remain undetected? To judge by the desperate and disturbing scenes of those trying to flee their country, the future is bleak for Afghanistan’s beleaguered Christian population.

Written by Fionn Shiner

Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/for-afghan-christians-the-taliban-takeover-is-a-nightmare

Wahala.

Religion of Peace!

And one slawomiir was asking, 'why are they running away'?
Isn't that a very lazy thought?
Meanwhile, one falseprophet has only just began to show he's/she's sympathetic to terrorism.

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Christians in Afghanistan have been paralyzed with fear at the news that the Taliban has taken control of the country. Nadine Maenza, chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said the Taliban takeover ‘is the worst possible development for religious minorities. While most from these communities left Afghanistan in recent years, those that remain, and women in particular, are now in imminent danger.’

News received by Aid to the Church in Need echoed reports that leaders of underground house churches in Afghanistan had received letters from the Taliban warning them that they 'know where they are and what they are doing'.

According to Pew, around 90 per cent of the 37 million population is Sunni and 9.7 per cent Shia, with the remaining 0.3 per cent belonging to other religions. The number of Christians in the country is thought to be below 20,000, perhaps as low as 1,000. Most Christians in Afghanistan are underground, so getting a precise estimate of their number is nigh-on impossible.

There is only one Catholic church in the whole of Afghanistan, hidden away in the Italian embassy but that was forced to shut due to the pandemic. In 2018, there were an estimated 200 Catholics in the country. The Catholic charity Caritas, which has been present in Afghanistan since the 1990s, said they may now need to suspend their activities.

Open Doors, a charity that challenges Christian persecution, ranks Afghanistan as the second-worst country for believers. It says that under former president Ashraf Ghani, Christians faced ‘clan pressure’: in other words, persecution was most likely to come from friends and family. Converts to Christianity risked being killed, or at least disowned, by their family, clan or tribe. In some cases, conversion was treated as a psychiatric condition. There are cases of former Muslims being sectioned.

The constitution of Afghanistan establishes Islam as the state religion and, according to a US Department of State report, religious minorities have to exercise their faith ‘within the limits of the law’. Conversion from Islam is apostasy and can be punished by death, imprisonment or confiscation of property. Proselytizing is also punishable by death.

In Taliban-controlled parts of the country, the treatment of Christians has been harsher. In 2010, the extremist group murdered ten humanitarian aid workers during a medical mission to Badakhshan in the north. They accused them of being foreign spies and of spreading Christianity.

A man named Brother Firas — not his real name — a convert from Islam to Christianity, told International Christian Concern how the takeover move has been received by believers and how the Taliban will operate. According to the charity, he said:

“They will kill the known Christians and want to spread fear. There are already posters appearing that if you have single girls, 15 years old, you have to marry them to Taliban soldiers. Christians fear their daughters will be taken away from them and forced to marry Taliban. They will be sent to madrasas to brainwash them. The parents may or may not be killed... One man received a letter that his house now belongs to the Taliban. He is a simple man who makes crafts and his entire savings are in his house. The Taliban will take the property and assets of the Christians and all their women will be taken.

The Taliban’s swift and efficient rise to power, seemingly out of nowhere, suggests that extremist groups can lie dormant for years, ready to return. This brings to mind Isis in Iraq and Syria. Despite being militarily defeated, many of their members are still at large and therefore still pose a threat to the region’s Christians.

Fr Andrzej Halemba, former head of Middle East projects at Aid to the Church in Need, said that Christians in Syria and Iraq could yet see militant Islamism repeat the atrocities seen in Afghanistan. He said:

“Daesh wanted to eradicate Christians. The genocidal mentality is alive with Al-Nusra and other groups. If Christians can stay together and help each other, they can stay in the Middle East. If they don’t, it could be like Turkey after the terrible genocide in 1915.

Christians in Afghanistan will be bracing themselves. Will they be forced to convert back to Islam? Will they be killed if they refuse? Will their property be confiscated? Will they manage to remain undetected? To judge by the desperate and disturbing scenes of those trying to flee their country, the future is bleak for Afghanistan’s beleaguered Christian population.

Written by Fionn Shiner

Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/for-afghan-christians-the-taliban-takeover-is-a-nightmare

Christians have never enjoyed freedom of worship in Afghanistan . Even during 20 years of US occupation , Christians are being killed or persecuted. All Afghanistan Christians should leave that country. Even jesus disciples fled during persecution of Christians in first century

This will be the fate of southern Nigeria when Nigeria falls to the Islamists. You guys should continue speaking English.

Religion of piss.

Stupidity is when you criticize America and call them all sorts of rubbish names but still apply for American Visa instead of one these Islamic countries

IT SEEMS LIKE ADADIKE IS NOW USING ANOTHER MONIKER


JULIUSMALEMA OJIOFOR MEKABOY



WETIN UNA GET TO TALK?

Antichristian, come and deceive yourself about how your religion is peaceful.

The peace in Islam is synonymous with buahri's electoral promises; the two are nonexistent.

Shame

Even conservative muslims are disturbed talkless of Christians. Talibans are no good. The people should rise and challenge this violent minority.

So Christians still dey Afghanista

I pity nobody.
If e sure for any of you here complaining, take up your own gun, go and fight Taliban in Afghanistan. They are not running.
Infact this is the time to prove that men and women are equal. All the noisy feminists should arm themselves, go and fight with taliban for women's right

Mastakija:
So Christians still dey Afghanista

Stupid ones that don't know their boundaries.
Any Christian complaining here should go and fight in Afghanistan.
I hate disturbances

Aljezeera will never report this because they are also anti-christians and other minority religions in Afghanistan

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Aljezeera will never report this because they are also anti-christians and other minority religions in Afghanistan

Pick up your guns and go fight.
I like Taliban, they are deaf to words but only hear gunshots. Christians and feminists should go and continue from where USA, Russia, Britain, Mongols, Alexander the Great left.
Incase you don't know, all these people I listed left this same Afghanistan in shame

SirBlack999:
This will be the fate of southern Nigeria when Nigeria falls to the Islamists. You guys should continue speaking English.

And it will never ever happen in Nigeria, Nigeria is for Christ and for him alone

I pity christians and all non Muslims in that country,May Almighty Allah be with them and protect them from any harm

Allahu Hak Bomb

The religion of short trouser.

BKayy:
I pity nobody.
If e sure for any of you here complaining, take up your own gun, go and fight Taliban in Afghanistan. They are not running.
Infact this is the time to prove that men and women are equal. All the noisy feminists should arm themselves, go and fight with taliban for women's right

You won't pity anyone because you are a Muslim terrorist.

God, i watched how they executed one of their police and i wept, Islam doesn't teach this

Since the Muslims there are not even happy
I can conclude that they are nt Muslims

It's expected. That's their aqeedah.

Am very sure it's either the Muslims in Afghanistan have fled or are hiding. They must have killed them xef . That's the first thing they did when they overthrown Afghanistan government then.

It's not surprising my post on Islam stand on Taliban didn't make front page..

They're all the same. Sects hate Islam more than christians and Jews.

They hide under the banner of Islam and do their bidah and shirk.


If you wish to get educated about who Taliban is.. and their beliefs and what Quran and Hadith said about them..

Read my thread for Islam section

Non of those self claimed Muslim sects like

Sufi
MSSN
TMC
OTM
NASFAT
TABLIG
MURIC
SHIA

and others ediots like them.. they're all terrorist. They all have same belief as Taliban. They all support them.


TALIBAN ARE NOT MUSLIMS. THEY'RE PRACTICING TALIBAN RELIGION
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JUST LIKE SHIA IS PRACTICING SHIA RELIGION
JUST LIKE MURIC IS PRACTICING MURIC RELIGION

Because someone have beards
Dresses like a Muslim
Can read Quran
Does pray like Muslim
Does fast
Went to hajj or planning to go
Believes in hijab


That doesn't make them Muslims

What makes a Muslim Muslim is following the teachings of prophet Muhammad. Practice Islam like he did.


He foresaw people like Taliban before his death. Their name was khawarij then.


He called them kufar and said they should be killed when they came forth.


Get yourself educated about what Islam is ... Don't get mis-informed

The issue of these Taliban saying women wont be casting news and so..

That's part of their beliefs.

Anybody who commit sins are kufar to them..and that's not Islam teachings.

They left kufar and they're chasing sinners.

They are collecting Christians properties and would impose taxes on them or kill them..
Yet they left

Sufi
Ashairah
Tijaniyah
Shia. .. and others fake Muslims that call themselves sects

oloyedewaris:
God, i watched how they executed one of their police and i wept, Islam doesn't teach this

Since the Muslims there are not even happy
I can conclude that they are nt Muslims

You can only deceive yourself you can't deceive the world. Even Saudi Arabi the home of Islam sponsors and finance terrorism/terrorists. So what are you saying? Their government beheads people, subject people to open shame by stoning and caning them so what are you saying. A holy land for that matter. Holy Land kor dirty land ni.

NeoWanZaeed please stop trying to defend Islam. This evil religion has gotten a bad name and image that will never fade away till the end... You people are trying hard to defend an evil religion that is causing the world pain and agony. You can see the rising Islamophobia every where in the world. Islam will destroy itself.

Hanibbal:


You can only deceive yourself you can't deceive the world. Even Saudi Arabi the home of Islam sponsors terrorism/terrorists. So what are you saying? Their government beheads people, subject people to open shame by stoning and cane them so what are you saying. A holy land for that matter. Holy Land kor dirty land ni.

NeoWanZaeed please stop trying to defend Islam. This evil religion has gotten a bad name and image that will never fade away till the end... You people are trying hard to defend an evil religion that is causing the world pain and agony. You can see the rising Islamophobia every where in the world. Islam will destroy itself.

Islam has already defended herself right from her completion. Which prophet Muhammad attested to and so his companions. How to practice Islam is right there in Quran and Hadith. This, these issues have also be ironed out..

Every Islamic sects are not part of Islam. If Muslims have amir. It's we that we wage war against them and kill them all like companions of prophet did.





Do you know why they killed the policeman? They killed him because he works for kufru government.. We Muslims understand these kufar sects very well. Sadly, people think they're Muslims..

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