IN MY SHOES: What It’s Like To Be A Christian Living Under Sharia Law
In this Washington Times op-ed Sudanese immigrant William Ochan Levi, who runs Operation Nehemiah, describes his experiences as an “infidel” living under Shariah law to explain why he opposes the Ground Zero mosque:
In 1983, the government of Sudan imposed Shariah law on the entire country, including the Christians of southern Sudan. Soon I, a southern Sudanese Christian, began to see the effects, including the confiscation of land, destruction of churches, forced conversion to Islam, raping of women and severing of limbs for violating Shariah's dictates. For my part in a student demonstration opposing the regime, I was later arrested and tortured.
In 1988, I fled Sudan for this country. A year later, a military coup in Khartoum brought the most extremist, pro-Iranian forces to power. In the years that followed, the radical Islamist regime unleashed a full-scale jihad against South Sudan. It killed more than 2 million southern Sudanese and drove several million more from their homes. Its leaders encouraged the revival of the African slave trade. Countless women and children were herded into cattle cars and shipped north for brutal lives of slavery across the Middle East.
And Levi has this warning for libs and the MSM making the stunningly ignorant claim that the Muslim conquest of Cordoba, Spain, represented a “golden era” of interfaith tolerance and respect during which Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in harmony:
For Sudan, the imposition of Shariah was the latest step in a process begun more than a millennium ago, when Islamic forces destroyed the Nubian Christian kingdoms and replaced the churches they destroyed with mosques. The building of mosques near sites of Islamic conquests or successful military actions later became common throughout much of the world, including Cordoba, Spain, for which the proposed Ground Zero Mosque project is named. They became unmistakable portraits of victory and of the domination and control exercised by the victors, who plundered cities and converted captives at the point of a sword. In 1683, the whole of Europe was threatened until the king of Poland came to its aid at Vienna's gates. That happened on Sept. 11, a date al Qaeda chose in striking America nine years ago. [Emphasis, The Stiletto.]
The leaders behind the mosque to be built next to Ground Zero deny that their goal is to follow this fundamental historical pattern. Yet the likely result will be the same, regardless of motive. Throughout much of the Muslim world, the sight of a brand-new mosque rising over the ruins of the Twin Towers will … serve as a triumphal rallying cry for terrorist groups like al Qaeda, which will seize upon the symbolism as a recruiting tool. Its leaders will proclaim it as evidence of divine favor accorded radical jihadism and specifically the Sept. 11 attackers.
Only in today’s topsy turvy world of moral relativism, historic amnesia and multicultural miasma, can Christian victims of genocide at the hands of Muslims be scorned by the likes of Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his insensitive ilk for opposing Sharia law and the Ground Zero mosque.
The battle before the gates of Vienna took place on the 12th, near as I can find out. But the Muslims use a lunar year so an anniversary may not fall on the same Western style date every year. The campaign to kick the PLO out of Jordan (Black September took its name from it) began September 16th, 1970. The Camp David accords were signed September 17th, 1978. I don't know what September 11 of 2001 was an anniversary of using a lunar calendar without leap years.
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