Tag: Islamic extremism

South Sudanese Christians trapped in hostile North

April 19, 2012 Sudan Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Kosti, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan

As tensions between Sudan and South Sudan turn into military combat on the border, predominantly Christian citizens of southern origin trapped in Sudan fear the Islamic government and Muslims in general will turn on them, sources told World Watch Monitor. Officially foreigners though many of the half million southern Sudanese . . . Read More

Islamic extremists beat, mock Christians

April 12, 2012 India India, Islamic extremism, West Bengal

Islamic extremists in India attacked a Christian prayer meeting in West Bengal state, beating a 65-year-old widow and other women less than a month after they helped drive a young woman out of her home and village for her faith. Islamists in Nutangram, Murshidabad district forced their way into the . . . Read More

Court in Egypt sentences young Christian for ‘insulting Islam’

April 6, 2012 Egypt Asyut, Blasphemy, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Prophet Muhammad, Salafism

In a show of partiality to Muslims who go unprosecuted for like offenses against Christianity, a juvenile court in Egypt on Wednesday (April 4) sentenced a Coptic Christian teenager to three years in prison for allegedly insulting Islam. Gamal Abdou Massoud, 17, denies the charges. The court claimed that he . . . Read More

Explosion at Christian meeting in Kenya kills boy, woman

April 3, 2012 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mombasa, Sharia

An 8-year-old boy died today from injuries after suspected Islamic extremists on Saturday (March 31) threw a grenade into a Christian revival meeting near Kenya’s coastal town of Mombasa that instantly killed a woman and injured at least 30 people. Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti said Islamic extremists from . . . Read More

Sudan’s aerial bombing aims at churches in Nuba Mountains

March 30, 2012 Sudan Islamic extremism, Khartoum, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Refugees, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan

After Khartoum denied that it had bombed civilians earlier this month, Sudanese aerial strikes last week were aimed at church buildings and schools in Kauda, South Kordofan state, a humanitarian aid worker said. Antonov airplanes dropped bombs on Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23), destroying some houses and cattle . . . Read More

Christians targeted in Sudan’s ‘ethnic cleansing’

March 20, 2012 Sudan Episcopal Church of Sudan, Islamic extremism, Kadugli, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Refugees, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, SPLM-N, Sudan

The “ethnic cleansing” that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has undertaken against black Africans in the Nuba Mountains is also aimed at ridding the area of Christianity, according to humanitarian workers. By targeting Christians among people who are also adherents of Islam and other faiths in the Nuba Mountains, military force . . . Read More

Parents, Islamic extremists beat young woman in India

March 20, 2012 India India, Islamic extremism, West Bengal

A young woman was thrown out of her home this month for daring to give thanks for healing in Christ’s name in a predominantly Muslim village in India’s West Bengal state, and then her parents helped Islamic extremists to beat her nearly unconscious. The attack on Rekha Khatoon, 22, took . . . Read More

Nuns traumatised after school attack in Egypt

March 16, 2012 Egypt Aswan, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Trauma

Two nuns in Upper Egypt faced “unimaginable fear” – with one later hospitalised over the emotional trauma – when 1,500 Muslim villagers brandishing swords and knives trapped them inside a guesthouse last week and threatened to burn them out. The next day, the assailants frightened children at the school; attendance . . . Read More

Two Christian hospital workers abducted in Karachi, Pakistan

March 7, 2012 Pakistan Islamic extremism, Karachi, Kidnapping, Pakistan, Proselytism, Sindh, Taliban

Authorities do not know who abducted two Christian hospital employees in Karachi last week, but police sources said they suspected the kidnappers had links with banned terrorist organisations. There is a strong possibility that Islamic extremists took the two workers of South Korea-based Good Samaritan Hospital, Issac Samson and Indrias . . . Read More

Suicide bombers attack worship service in Jos, Nigeria

February 26, 2012 Nigeria Bauchi, Boko Haram, Borno, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Islamic extremism, Jos, Maiduguri, Niger, Nigeria, Potiskum, Sharia, Yobe

Two suicide bombers from the Boko Haram Islamist sect drove a car laden with bombs into the worship service of a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) congregation here this morning, killing at least one Christian and injuring dozens of other church members, sources said. A man claiming to be . . . Read More

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