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The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by victorvick(m): 8:21am On Nov 23, 2015
Muslims Impose New Law On Christians: ‘If You Reject Islam And Accept Christ As Your Savior, We Will Force Your Children To Worship Allah’
by Ted on November 9, 2015 in Featured,
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By Theodore Shoebat
The Islamic nation of Iraq is imposing a new law on Christians: if you reject Islam and accept Christ as your Savior, then your children will be forced to be Muslim. According to one report:
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An Iraqi law that forces children of Christian converts to be legally recognized as Muslims will lead to Christianity’s extinction, says Bishop Rabban al-Qas.
Al-Qas, the senior Catholic Bishop in the Dohuk area of Iraqi Kurdistan, has spoken out against the Iraqi parliament’s rejection of an amendment to a law that forces children who have one parent who converted from Islam to be automatically considered a Muslim upon birth.
The Bishop asserts that the law discriminates against Christians and other religious minorities and doesn’t give the child the ability to eventually choose his or her own faith. The changing of one’s religious affiliation can be a difficult task considering accusations of apostasy, a serious offense under Islamic law, are generally hurled around when someone converts.
Christian legislators proposed an amendment to the law that would have given children the ability to choose their religious affiliation once they reach the age of 18, which prevents them from automatically being labeled as a Muslim against their will.
Although the measure received backing from members of a number of political parties and religious groups, the measure failed miserably when it came time for a vote. Only 51 members voted in favor of the amendment, while 137 members voted against it.
Al-Qas recently spoke with Asia News and explained that the parliament’s failure to amend the law will have serious “repercussions in Kurdistan,” which has not yet been affected by the legislation.
“Once it was possible to change religion at the age of 18,” al-Qas explained. “Now that is outlawed. This is a serious decision by the government in Baghdad behind which one finds fanatical groups and extremist groups that did their utmost to ensure that parliament would reject the amendment.”
With the rise of the barbaric Islamic State terrorist organization having driven hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities from their homes and out of the country, al-Qas feels that the law that imposes Islam on children of converts only further promotes the idea that non-Muslims are not welcome in Iraq.
“We are facing a genocide in a country that knows only death and liberticidal laws,” al-Qas asserted, adding that there is “neither freedom nor respect” in Iraq.
Al-Qas, who along with his priests provide humanitarian support to Christian refugees from Mosul who have been pushed out of their homes by IS, added that the law only encourages the remaining Christians to leave the country. He said the law will accelerate the process of Christianity’s extinction from the biblical region.
“It is not just a political project. There are also traces of an Islam that wants to eliminate minorities — a faith that prevents you from coming back or change if you are Muslim. If you change your religion, it will be forever. Such a mentality has nothing that is human,” al-Qas asserted. “Not only have they taken homes and property from Christians, but now they also want to take their willpower, hope, freedom of religion and freedom to choose for the future.”
Earlier in the week, Canon Andrew White, who was the only Anglican vicar in Iraq before he fled the country after his life was threatened by IS, told Christian Today that the persecution being faced by Iraqi Christians today is the worst ordeal Christians in Iraq have ever had to endure.
“The big question is, will there be Christians in the Middle East in five years?” White wondered. “Christianity will probably survive. It has been through so much. But this is the hardest thing it has been through
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Adeoba10(m): 8:25am On Nov 23, 2015
Typical xample of La cram La pour.....
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by BrightEye(m): 8:30am On Nov 23, 2015
End time law! grin
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Nobody: 8:37am On Nov 23, 2015
It's well. Christians should be steadfast. God is in control
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Nobody: 8:38am On Nov 23, 2015
Muslims will kill a member of theirs that embraces christianity but christians will never commit theirselves to perpetuate such. This revelation in itself is eye-opening.
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Biodun37: 8:48am On Nov 23, 2015
As we all come together to condemn this act, let us also do the same to Chinese gov't for banning Islamic worship & other discrimination against Islam by the west & other xtian dominated countries
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Nobody: 9:01am On Nov 23, 2015
Biodun37:
As we all come together to condemn this act, let us also do the same to Chinese gov't for banning Islamic worship & other discrimination against Islam by the west & other xtian dominated countries

Your violent brothers caused it all. It's been banned in Angola and UK is also threatening to ban it, France for one, after the attacks are insisting on ban, I think Russia too, Japan is following suit.. It's what you get for violence, God help you fellows anyways.

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Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Biodun37: 10:21am On Nov 23, 2015
then accept whatever comes your way from the Muslims stronghold too & stop bickering
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Annunaki(m): 10:24am On Nov 23, 2015
Biodun37:
As we all come together to condemn this act, let us also do the same to Chinese gov't for banning Islamic worship & other discrimination against Islam by the west & other xtian dominated countries

Any right thinking govt will ban islam in their country, you only need to read the quoran to know it's a hate filled terror inspiring religion and we see the evidence from the attrocities the true followers of islam are perpetuating all over the world.
Re: The Agony Of Been A Christian In Muslim Countries by Nobody: 10:33am On Nov 23, 2015
Biodun37:
then accept whatever comes your way from the Muslims stronghold too & stop bickering

Smh.

It's people like you who gives islam a bad name. What have you gained from trouble making? If given a chance may even form a sect totally worse than ISIS.
Here we are talking peace, did they "just ban" it? Something led to the ban, tell yourself the truth, suppose you are the president of Islamic Republic nd Christians take up arms and force your children into christendom ,rape your girls, kill some of your boys and make them prisoners of war, how would you feel? This is what happens in most nations as we speak, your brothers do all this and kill our children, yet, we still do not fight back, and you do this for religion. Religion is meant to serve God, not breed animals. Islam has been dented, and other than seek peace, you talk about whatever befalls the nations.....bear in mind China has a population of about 1.6billion, you haven't talked of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and other Asia regions.
When these people ban islam, and others follow suit, it won't be as you see it now, it would be worse than it is now.

And mind you, Chinese are no Christians, if that's where your driving at. Their primary religion is Buddhism. And they could get as satanic as north Korea. In the madness of ISIS, I have never heard they taken their campaign there. Those ones will even kill ISIS in their homes and Praying Mosques.

Preach peace, no one wants trouble this days.

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