Free Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians by Raymond Ibrahim

men to enslave and rape female captives of jihad, the one-time grand mufti of Islam’s most authoritative university, Al Azhar, refused to answer; when pressed, he became hostile and stormed off the set. 80
    Little wonder non-Muslim women surrounded by Muslims face serious problems. While, strictly speaking, a jihad must be in process for Muslims to abduct and enslave such women, this technicality is regularly rationalized away. Sharia has created a culture in which horrific abuses even beyond those actually justified by Sharia are commonplace. As will be seen below, some Muslims rationalize that, by not paying jizya, Christians are not protected and thus are fair game, as in a jihad. Other Muslims, Salafis especially, consider themselves in a constant state of jihad so long as the nation they are living in is not fully governed according to Sharia. Rationalizations are many and easy to come by in the service of vice, and the institution of Islamic sex slavery is built atop vice and perversion.

PART FIVE
     
    SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
     
    W e have now surveyed hundredreds of documented stories of Christian persecution under Islam-the overwhelming majority of which have taken place in just the last few years. To cover and document the amount of persecution Christians have experienced across the Muslim world in only the last few decades would require volumes.
    We have also seen the distinctly Islamic nature of these attacks—whether they are literally rooted in Islam’s teachings, such as the attacks on churches that follow from Islamic rules forbidding them to be built; or whether they are cultural byproducts of Islamic supremacism and contempt for Christians, such as the double standards in the courtroom, and even widespread rape and murder. The same exact patterns of persecution are evident from one end of the Islamic world to the other—in lands that do not share the same language, race, or culture— that share only Islam . This fact alone leaves no doubt concerning the root source of such persecution. Whether they arise out of doctrine or culture, all the forms of persecution we have surveyed are rooted in the Sharia—the “Islamic way.”
    And yet the question remains: Why is this humanitarian crisis so little known, and even less acted upon, by the West—the West, which not only champions humanitarianism, but reportedly has a large Christian population, especially in America? Why do Americans persist in believing that each new atrocity against Christians in the Muslim world is somehow an anomaly—an exception to the rule of tolerance that is presumed to prevail in Islam?
    At the beginning of this book we briefly touched on some reasons for the modern West’s ignorance about Muslim persecution of Christians. It is understandable that memories of the colonial period and its immediate aftermath—which, after all, are really not that long ago—would lull Americans and other Westerners into assuming that the natural state of affairs for Muslims is to coexist peacefully with Christians. Or at least it would be understandable—if not for the enormous weight of recent evidence demonstrating Muslim abuse of Christians wherever Islam holds sway, and even wherever Muslims are a majority of the population. Surely anyone who pays attention to recent events in Muslim nations must quickly clue in to the fact that the “Golden Age” of Christianity in the Islamic world is long gone.
    Apparently not.
    What is keeping our ideas about the status of Christians in the Muslim world from catching up to the reality on the ground?
    A large part of the explanation is that three enormously influential institutions in the West have skewed the story. Western academia, Western media, and Western governments—in different ways, to different degrees, and at different times—have all refused to acknowledge what Christians are suffering at the hands of Muslims. This is in keeping with their reluctance to recognize that Islam itself is