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Hatred: Islam's war on christianity
From the bestselling author of Why Catholics Are Right, a new book examining the history, reasoning, theology, and politics behind the great genocidal phenomenon of modern times: the Islamist war on Christianity.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published April 30, 2013
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Michael Coren
33Ìýbooks29ÌýfollowersMichael Coren is an English-Canadian columnist, author, public speaker, radio host and television talk show host. He has been the host of the television series The Michael Coren Show for six years. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on CFRB radio.
He has writen more than ten books, including biographies of H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and C. S. Lewis. His latest book, Why Catholics are Right, will be published in 2011.
He has writen more than ten books, including biographies of H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and C. S. Lewis. His latest book, Why Catholics are Right, will be published in 2011.
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March 15, 2015
3.5 stars. I'm very wary of being too positive in my review because I realize with such an incendiary title, it's likely to be misconstrued that I, myself, am anti-Islam. And I think the positives of the book are overlooked when the title is so obviously baiting.
The book is very researched and the thesis is troubling. The unfortunate part is that the evidence does support the message of the book, which is to say that Christians are being persecuted throughout the world by Islamic fundamentalists and this pattern is not restricted to certain cultures or ethnicities. The common link is the religion -- not the region.
It's particularly troubling that there is no present-day example of a nation with majority Muslim population where Christians are treated as equals, which leads to a certain hopelessness about finding a future of coexistence. And it's incredibly saddening that the plight of all these people is not being talked about in mainstream media for fear of being seen as Islamophobic when truly that should not lead us to ignore the cruelty of Blasphemy laws or the jizya. An important read even if there are issues with the rhetoric being a bit too forceful for my taste.
The book is very researched and the thesis is troubling. The unfortunate part is that the evidence does support the message of the book, which is to say that Christians are being persecuted throughout the world by Islamic fundamentalists and this pattern is not restricted to certain cultures or ethnicities. The common link is the religion -- not the region.
It's particularly troubling that there is no present-day example of a nation with majority Muslim population where Christians are treated as equals, which leads to a certain hopelessness about finding a future of coexistence. And it's incredibly saddening that the plight of all these people is not being talked about in mainstream media for fear of being seen as Islamophobic when truly that should not lead us to ignore the cruelty of Blasphemy laws or the jizya. An important read even if there are issues with the rhetoric being a bit too forceful for my taste.
November 10, 2014
Scholarly work
Islamists are persecuting and murdering Christians all over the world. Where in the world is Network news or our political leaders who downplays the atrocities perpetrated by Muslims against Christians and religious minorities? The murder of Christians, ethnic Kurds and others by Muslims are not episodic, but it is by design. It is part of a master plan to bully, threaten, intimidate and destroy or subject to mass evacuation. How would our politicians and media pundits would react if Christians were murdering Muslims, blowing up mosques, and driving Muslims from their homes.
This book is not rhetoric of the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries, but it is the most pernicious example of Christian genocide since the Holocaust. The recent rise of ISIS and it's atrocities in Iraq and Syria has continued unabated with numerous examples of death and destruction of some of the most ancient Christian communities. There is a significant complacency among much of Muslim population and the liberal media that there is no such thing Islamic terrorism. One example is the mass killings at Our Lady of Salvation Syrian Catholic Cathedral in on October 31, 2010, when ISIS murdered at least fifty-eight people and wounding more than seventy-five. For the first time in 1,600 years, Sunday prayers were cancelled at the Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Mary and Priest Ibram in Degla, in Egypt. In Cairo, Franciscan nuns watched as the cross over the gate to their school was torn down and eventually the school itself was torched. Christians are systematically tortured, raped, beaten, arrested, forcibly converted; crucified, exiled, and murdered. Tragically the rest of the world, including Western countries are doing very little to stop this holocaust.
Middle East is the homeland of the Christian Church. Where is it heading to? At the current level of Muslim intolerance, Christians and religious minorities may be wiped out in Middle East within two to three generations. Quran preaches that non-Muslims pay a head tax, never preach publicly about their faith or try to convert Muslims into other faiths. Christians have to lead a life of subservience. Criminal laws punish non-Muslims much more harshly than Muslims, but Muslim men are treated with utmost respect by the Islamic law. These laws are currently in force in most Islamic countries.
We need awareness and need authors like Michael Coren to write their scholarly work about Islam so that the message is carried thorough to the larger population.
Islamists are persecuting and murdering Christians all over the world. Where in the world is Network news or our political leaders who downplays the atrocities perpetrated by Muslims against Christians and religious minorities? The murder of Christians, ethnic Kurds and others by Muslims are not episodic, but it is by design. It is part of a master plan to bully, threaten, intimidate and destroy or subject to mass evacuation. How would our politicians and media pundits would react if Christians were murdering Muslims, blowing up mosques, and driving Muslims from their homes.
This book is not rhetoric of the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries, but it is the most pernicious example of Christian genocide since the Holocaust. The recent rise of ISIS and it's atrocities in Iraq and Syria has continued unabated with numerous examples of death and destruction of some of the most ancient Christian communities. There is a significant complacency among much of Muslim population and the liberal media that there is no such thing Islamic terrorism. One example is the mass killings at Our Lady of Salvation Syrian Catholic Cathedral in on October 31, 2010, when ISIS murdered at least fifty-eight people and wounding more than seventy-five. For the first time in 1,600 years, Sunday prayers were cancelled at the Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin Mary and Priest Ibram in Degla, in Egypt. In Cairo, Franciscan nuns watched as the cross over the gate to their school was torn down and eventually the school itself was torched. Christians are systematically tortured, raped, beaten, arrested, forcibly converted; crucified, exiled, and murdered. Tragically the rest of the world, including Western countries are doing very little to stop this holocaust.
Middle East is the homeland of the Christian Church. Where is it heading to? At the current level of Muslim intolerance, Christians and religious minorities may be wiped out in Middle East within two to three generations. Quran preaches that non-Muslims pay a head tax, never preach publicly about their faith or try to convert Muslims into other faiths. Christians have to lead a life of subservience. Criminal laws punish non-Muslims much more harshly than Muslims, but Muslim men are treated with utmost respect by the Islamic law. These laws are currently in force in most Islamic countries.
We need awareness and need authors like Michael Coren to write their scholarly work about Islam so that the message is carried thorough to the larger population.
April 23, 2015
Well researched but a chore to read, which is odd for me to say because I enjoy Michael Coren very much. However, this particular piece reads more like a chronology of Islamist attacks on Christians than a cohesive book.
A painful experience.
A painful experience.
July 20, 2024
3.5
This book is incredibly researched and the message or should i say the warning to the West is quite clear and dire. Its a hard read as its more reference than insight. Islam does not exist well with Christians as it treats Christians (and all non Muslims) with a tolerance at best and violence at its worst. The author lists all the terrible actions that were done to Christians by Muslims in each locale based on his research. Those listed actions are 90% of the book. Bottom line, its quite a message and wakening call and should be read by all people, Muslim and otherwise.
Ahimsa papa j
This book is incredibly researched and the message or should i say the warning to the West is quite clear and dire. Its a hard read as its more reference than insight. Islam does not exist well with Christians as it treats Christians (and all non Muslims) with a tolerance at best and violence at its worst. The author lists all the terrible actions that were done to Christians by Muslims in each locale based on his research. Those listed actions are 90% of the book. Bottom line, its quite a message and wakening call and should be read by all people, Muslim and otherwise.
Ahimsa papa j
August 20, 2017
Boring. Just a catalog of attacks against Christians by Muslims , country by country. I already knew they hated and killed Christians.
January 20, 2015
Presumption is Deadly
Coren discusses convenient denial in the west resulting from caustic political correctness and a focus on economic interests over the plight of human beings in great distress. Eerily similar to the warnings of Niemöller , Coren suggests the west conveniently ignores the fate of others, urging action before it is too late.
Coren discusses convenient denial in the west resulting from caustic political correctness and a focus on economic interests over the plight of human beings in great distress. Eerily similar to the warnings of Niemöller , Coren suggests the west conveniently ignores the fate of others, urging action before it is too late.
December 5, 2014
Stupid ignorant Canuck! Those monkey westerners, despite of all the money and access they have to Information, still fail miserably to hate and oppose Islam 'constructively enough to destroy its momentum' using the right scholar/scientific apparatus.
December 25, 2014
Meticulously researched.The section on the Crusades should be an eyeopener to those who glibly assume they know the facts.
January 25, 2015
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