Muslim Persecution of Christians: January 2012'Good Muslims Cannot Convert to Christianity'
by Raymond IbrahimStonegate Institute
February 9, 2012
- She was flogged -- given 40 lashes as hundreds of Muslim spectators jeered -- for embracing a "foreign religion."
- The happy cheers of Christian children singing carols "became terrified whimpers" when four Muslims, one of them with an axe, barged into the church, slapped the children, wrecked the furniture, and kicked the altar -- for "disturbing their prayers."
The beginning of the New Year saw only an increase in the oppression of Christians under Islam, from Nigeria, where an all-out jihad has been declared in an effort to eradicate the Muslim north of all Christians, to Europe, where Muslim converts to Christianity are still hounded and attacked as apostates. According to the Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, "The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it's increasing year by year"; in our life time alone, he predicts "Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt."
Illegal immigrants are barred from refundable tax credits, such as the earned income tax credit for lower-income workers, but a 1997 law enacting the child tax credit does not exclude them from collecting that separate benefit – and they sure are taking advantage! The Treasury Department says that in the 2010 filing year more than $4.2 billion in child credit refunds went to 2.3 million people who filed tax returns but didn’t have Social Security numbers proving they were citizens or legal workers, a four-fold increase over five years earlier!