Father Crushes Daughter's Skull With a Rock

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Unknown to the English speaking world, another grisly apostate/honor killing recently took place in the Muslim world, namely, Jordan. On August 28, 2008, days before her 21st birthday, Rana Riad Muhammad Siwahra, wife and mother of two girls (aged 3 and 5) was murdered by her father. After stabbing her with a knife five-six times in the stomach and chest, he smashed her skull in with a large rock. Afterwards, he washed his hands and went to the market where he was later arrested.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022787.php#more

Another despicable "honor" killing. Worth mentioning from the same article, is the reference to an Arabic only satellite tv program, Su’al Jar’i (“Daring Question”). The program is hosted by "...apostate Muslim converts to Christianity". According to the post, it is one of the most widely watched programs on Arabic satellite.

For the record, Su’al Jar’i airs on Qanat al-Haya (“Channel of Life” or “Life TV”), which also airs Father Zakaria Botros’ shows, and is similarly dedicated to exposing the problematic aspects of Islam, as well as focus on relevant events of the day—such as this murder. Hosted by apostate Muslim converts to Christianity—who also live in hiding—known only by their first names, Rashid and Ahmed, the show’s no-holds barred style has made it, along with Father Zakaria’s shows, one of the most watched programs on Arabic satellite.

I suspect there would be more Muslims converting to Christianity, were it not for the very real threat of being murdered for apostasy.

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I always find it amusing to point out to the college hippies and liberal artistic folk that I run into where I live how Islam is not the religion of peace. They try and argue that we must be more culturally diverse and embrace Islam while at the same time they spare so expense to trash Christianity. I hear all the arguments about the Inquisition and witch-trials and so forth and have acknowledged those events without blinking an eye. Every religion has it dark eras. I then remind them that through reformation from the people and within the church itself, those events are fairly hard to come by these days. The same can't be said for Islam. The church doesn't give the green light to bash in your daughter's head just because she got knocked-up out of wedlock. It tends to annoy liberals when I tell them the difference between Catholicism and Islam is that if you piss off the Church, they only excommunicate you, while in Islam, they execute you.

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Following one of the embedded links in the article leads to more information on Zakarias Botros, a Coptic priest.


But the ultimate reason for Botros’s success is that — unlike his Western counterparts who criticize Islam from a political standpoint — his primary interest is the salvation of souls. He often begins and concludes his programs by stating that he loves all Muslims as fellow humans and wants to steer them away from falsehood to Truth. To that end, he doesn’t just expose troubling aspects of Islam. Before concluding every program, he quotes pertinent biblical verses and invites all his viewers to come to Christ.

Botros’s motive is not to incite the West against Islam, promote “Israeli interests,” or “demonize” Muslims, but to draw Muslims away from the dead legalism of sharia to the spirituality of Christianity. Many Western critics fail to appreciate that, to disempower radical Islam, something theocentric and spiritually satisfying — not secularism, democracy, capitalism, materialism, feminism, etc. — must be offered in its place. The truths of one religion can only be challenged and supplanted by the truths of another. And so Father Zakaria Botros has been fighting fire with fire.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTUwY2QyNjA0NjcwMjExMzI2ZmJiZTEzN2U1YjYyZjE