Islam in Asia > Arrested for being gay, Afghan was sodomized in prison by Taliban; Pakistani hacked to death for being the wrong kind of Muslim; Islamic Hysteria in Bangladesh

 

Afghanistan: Taliban arrest a man for homosexuality

and then rape him in prison

Dec 6, 2024 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

You might wonder the Taliban would arrest a man for homosexuality and then rape him. The idea was to humiliate and degrade him. As long as the rapist doesn’t declare he is “gay,” and as long as he marries and has children, all will be well.

‘My whole body was praying for my death’: LGBTQ Afghans say they face abuse in detention as Taliban crackdown intensifies

by Billy Stockwell, CNN, November 19, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Warning: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence.

It was the early hours of the morning when a guard entered Sohrab’s cell – a small, dark room with a barred window and a blanket on the floor – in Kabul’s sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison last August.

The 19-year-old was escorted to another room in the complex, where he heard a Taliban member order the prison guards to leave and stop anyone else from entering. Panic set in, for Sohrab knew what these words often preceded. He had experienced physical violence at the hands of the Taliban before.

“He grabbed me from behind, tore my clothes apart and raped me,” Sohrab – whose name has been changed for security reasons – told CNN in October. “For several days after that I had severe pain and bleeding.”

Sohrab was being detained at Pul-e-Charkhi on the charge of sodomy, after family members found out about his and his boyfriend’s clandestine romance last year, he said. News of their relationship had spread through their tight-knit community, leading to his arrest and forced confession.

Sohrab spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, following his release from prison after two months. On his release, Sohrab said the Taliban warned that if he was arrested again, he would face execution….

https://jihadwatch.org Read on blog or Reader Pakistan: Ahmadi Muslim hacked to death with an axe for being the wrong kind of Muslim By Robert Spencer on Dec 8, 2024 The Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill other Muslims (4:92), but many Sunnis (and Shia as well) consider the Ahmadiyya to be hypocrites or apostates, and thus believe that they can lawfully be killed in jihad operations. Ahmadi man killed in axe attack in Pakistan PTI, December 6, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Lahore, Dec 6 (PTI) A trader belonging to the Ahmadi minority community was axed to death allegedly for his faith in Punjab province of Pakistan, police said on Friday. According to police, Tayyab Ahmad, 40, was present at the shop of his brother in Rawalpindi city, some 275 km from Lahore, when an unidentified man attacked him with an axe, leaving him critically injured.... Police said during the initial investigation that it appears that Ahmad was killed for his faith. Quoting eyewitnesses, the police said. "The young assailant during the attack kept on saying that “I have warned you Qadianis (Ahmadis) to leave this place”. According to Ahmad's brother Tahir Qamar, a few days ago, a group of religious extremists had also attacked his shop by throwing stones and warned him to leave this place for being Ahmadi. The deceased's family suspected that elements of radical Islamists, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), might be behind this heinous act....   https://jihadwatch.org Read on blog or Reader Bangladesh: Muslims raid over 100 Hindu-owned properties, loot millions over alleged blasphemy By Ashlyn Davis on Dec 9, 2024 After Dhaka, Comilla and Chittagong, rabid jihadists have again attacked minorities in Bangladesh, this time in Sylhet, and under the centuries-old, tried and tested pretext of "blasphemy." The rise of social media has made the job of these religious fanatics even easier, as they have to put little imagination or effort into making up a marketable story. They just allege that someone belonging to a non-Muslim community has made a random Facebook post, and within seconds, they assemble into crowds of hundreds and charge through non-Muslim areas, destroying everything that gets in their way. i.e. Islamic Hysteria On Wednesday, December 4, such a fanatic mob ran riot through Hindu-owned homes and businesses in the Dowarabazar area of Sunamganj in Bangladesh's Sylhet. The unrest started at sundown, gathered momentum through the night, and continued until past midnight, leading to significant damage to Hindu-owned property. An allegedly offensive Facebook post again triggered the attack on the Hindu minorities. It has been reported that the Muslims had gathered to hold a procession in order to protest a post that a Hindu boy made, and that the Muslims deemed offensive. However, as we have seen throughout history, such protests are never peaceful. All too many Muslims are oblivious to or contemptuous of the concept of finding a solution through dialogue, and are always prepared to take to the streets with their rustic weapons and draw the blood of their non-Muslim, weak, defenseless opponents. We have no details on what was the content of the post that triggered a swarm of Muslims to rum amok through Hindu areas, except that it was an image of some kind. We don't even know if there is any veracity in the claim that a Hindu youth had made an offensive post. We have frequently observed in the past how violent Muslim mobs have acted on mere rumors, looting and causing bloodshed, and investigations after the destruction proved that no Hindu had done anything to trigger such reactions. This time, too, a mere buzz about an alleged offensive post drove gangs of irate Muslims to embark upon their occasionally violent spree. The attackers wrecked and robbed dozens of homes and shops. Several gold stores owned by the Hindus were also burgled. The mob ransacked the local Loknath Temple, and valuables worth over 1,500,000 Bangladeshi taka ($12,500) were stolen. According to reports, at least 30 residential properties and more than 100 shops were destroyed in these attacks. The Muslims also targeted the house of Gaur Das, an eminent leader of the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, and his family temple was torn down, also. And yet there was no action from the Bangladeshi authorities against the rioters. Not that they are sitting idle. The Officer-in-Charge at the Dowarabazar police station, Zahidul Haque, confirms that a 21-year-old Hindu youth, Akash Das, has been detained for posting an image on social media that offended collective Muslim sentiments. The boy was presented in court and accused of hurting the religious sentiments of Muslims. The court denied him bail and sent him to jail. Now, what about the hurt sentiments of the Hindus whose homes were torn down and temples vandalized and looted? As usual, Bangladeshi authorities found no foul play there, and it goes without saying that no action was taken against any of the rioters. Although Khokan Roy, general secretary of the temple in Sunamganj, confirmed that valuables worth 1,500,000 Bangladeshi taka were stolen, and the Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council condemned the attack on the minorities, the Yunus government's police found no evidence of violence and riots. OC Zahidul said police had not received any reports of vandalism or attacks in the area due to the incident. "The village is remote, and most houses are dilapidated, with no concrete buildings." Deputy Commissioner Md Ilias Mia only hinted at possible premeditation behind the attack, and attempted to downplay its virulence by suggesting that the scale of the damage was likely exaggerated. Nevertheless, he is admitting there was violence.

OMG Catholics sell historic church to Muslims for half the price of a house in Buffalo > Have they no fear of God?

 

In my not so humble opinion, the Catholic Church well deserves to die. The number of lives they destroyed through child sex abuse and through high rates of gay priests and bishops, and bishops who enabled pedo priests to float around the country, if not the world, and practice their perversion, has nothing to do with genuine Christianity. 

But to build great cathedrals and churches at the expense of hard-working Catholics and then give them to an ideology that has proven itself the enemy of Christ for 1400 years, is just insane. Do they think God will endorse this madness?

Dying Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo,

New York Sells Historic Churches

to Muslims for Mosques

Aug 13, 2024 1:30 pm By Jules Gomes

Sacred steeples sold to sound a different call as bishop redefines evangelism

The diocese of Buffalo, New York, which is in the process of shutting down approximately half of its churches, has sold another historic sanctuary at a bargain-basement price.

The scandal-plagued diocese, which has been buried under an avalanche of clerical sex abuse lawsuits, has traded its historic Gothic St. Ann’s Church and Shrine for $250,000 to Buffalo’s Muslim community, for conversion into a mosque and an Islamic Center.

CATHOLIC BACKLASH

Catholics reacted with outrage after well-known Catholic priest, Fr. Ronald Vierling, drew attention to the sale on Monday. Vierling’s post on the social media platform X has attracted over 10 million views at the time of writing.

“No anger should be directed against the Islamic community,” wrote Vierling. “No doubt the changing demographics of the area and the inability to financially support the complex made the continuance of St. Ann as a viable parish impossible.”

“This scenario is being played out in once large, urban dioceses across the country,” the priest warned.

“Terrible. I know a dozen Catholics who would have pulled together to buy the building instead of letting it get sold off,” Catholic award-winning radio show host David J. Reilly replied, adding: “Sometimes the diocese chooses to not sell to certain groups like the SSPX & FSSP.”

“Muslims get a church for $250k but I can’t buy a house in a decent neighborhood for less than $500k,” a Catholic lamented.

Saint Ann’s Church, built by German immigrants in 1886, had fallen into disrepair and was decommissioned in 2013. Bishop Richard J. Malone – who in 2019 resigned as head of the diocese over allegations of sex abuse cover-up – had slated the building for demolition, as the diocese had estimated repairs could cost at least $12 million. Malone, however, changed his mind and said that the new plan was to put the property up for sale.

The Downtown Islamic Center, which purchased the property from the diocese through its affiliate Buffalo Crescent Holdings, said it would spend the millions of dollars necessary to renovate the historic structure.

“We’re looking to put several million dollars into this in the next year, in the church alone,” Talha Bakth, president of the Downtown Islamic Center, told the Buffalo News. “The space will be able to be used for worship within a year or two.”

Buffalo Crescent Holdings is also purchasing a former rectory at the complex that had been converted to apartments in a separate transaction, the media added.

QUEEN OF PEACE CHURCH CONVERTED TO JAMI MASJID

In 2007, the diocese sold the Queen of Peace Church for $300,000 to the Muslim Society of Buffalo, which converted the building into the Jami Masjid (mosque).

Since Islam prohibits the depiction of a human or living being in sacred iconography, Muslim volunteers painted all the Catholic murals sky blue, removed statues at the altar, and replaced the church’s well-preserved stained-glass windows with plain, frosted glass.

The main altar was removed entirely and replaced by a carpeted space for reading. The church’s former apse, the area behind the main altar where the choir would sing, has been screened off as a prayer space for women.

Today, the Jami Masjid has Turkish carpets instead of pews and Arabic calligraphy adorns the Gothic brackets. The orientation of prayer has changed so the imam stands along the eastern wall of the building, so that when worshippers can face Mecca when they offer their prayers and bow.

ST. AGNES CHURCH CONVERTED TO BUDDHIST SHRINE

In 2009, the Buffalo diocese sold St. Agnes Church to the International Sangha Bhiksu Buddhist Association for conversion to a Buddhist temple and meditation center. The historic church, which was consecrated on December 9, 1883, had served German and Italian immigrants for over a century.

The church closed its doors on October 21, 2007, and remained empty for two years before Vietnamese monk Thich Minh Tuyen bought it in 2009 for $250,000. It reopened in 2012 as a Buddhist temple after the iconography, including the crucifix and images of the Stations of the Cross, was removed.

The Buddhist occupants also added three 2,000-pound sitting Buddhas shipped from Canada, and six standing Buddhas, that cluster around a shrine in the narthex. The monks also replaced six pews with carpets for worshippers, but left the remaining pews intact for those who cannot sit on the floor.

The new owners also hung Buddhist banners alongside the intact stained glass windows, intending to combine Buddhist iconography with the existing Catholic themes.

‘CHURCHES ARE NOT POKER CHIPS’

Attorney Brody Hale, co-founder and president of the St. Stephen Protomartyr Project, which works to preserve Catholic churches for sacred use, lamented the sale and conversion of churches into non-Christian places of worship.

“A church as defined by canon law is a sacred edifice,” he told FrontPage Magazine. “Churches as sacred buildings have fundamentally more protections under canon law than parishes.”

“This is not what churches are supposed to be used for according to canon law. Churches are not poker chips a bishop can use to cash out when he’s in a bind,” Hale stated.

MILLIONS SPENT ON CLERICAL SEX ABUSE SCANDALS

Earlier in May, the Buffalo diocese announced plans to merge approximately 34% of the 160 parishes across Western New York and reduce places of worship by 38%.

Bishop Michael Fisher said the mergers were due to financial pressures brought about by the filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020, after scores of clerical sex abuse lawsuits were filed under the Child Victims Act; as well as a priest shortage, aging congregations, and declining Mass attendance.

The consolidation would bring the number of parishes from 160 to a projected 106, and the number of worship centers from 196 to a projected 121.

Last year, the Buffalo diocese offered $100 million, in addition to any insurance funds, to settle 891 clerical sex abuse cases. The diocese said it would sell its 795 Main Street headquarters, the former Christ the King Seminary campus, and other “non-essential” property to cover half the settlement.

More than $15 million has already been paid to attorneys for the diocese in its bankruptcy and the state Attorney General’s investigation.

DIOCESE FAILS TO EVANGELIZE THE LOST

Interestingly, the diocesan website has a drop-down menu titled “How We Evangelize” on its opening page, but the word “evangelization” seems to be re-defined with no mention of any attempts to reach people of other faiths or no faith.

Instead, the subcategories under the menu lists buzz phrases such as “Cultural Diversity,” “Catholic Education,” and the controversial “Catholic Charities,” with events like a diocesan “Multicultural Mass” and an annual “Cultural Diversity Celebration Dinner.”