Rachel Blacklock

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

I wrote that Jews and Christians should stand together.

The comments filled up with Muslims and leftists telling me it should be Christians and Muslims. Same floor. Same root. Brothers of the book.

Last year that brotherhood killed 4,849 of us.

Christians are the most persecuted group on earth. 388 million now live under high or extreme persecution. More than one in seven Christians on the planet.

Of those 4,849 killed for their faith, 93 percent died in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigeria alone: 3,490 people, murdered for being Christian. 125,000 have been killed since 2009. Around 32 a day right now.

Go look up who killed them.

Boko Haram and ISWAP in Nigeria. Al-Shabaab in Somalia, where not one open church remains. Islamic militias in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, handing villages the choice of conversion, jizya or flight. The ADF in Congo, beheading villagers in Allah's name. ISIS in Mozambique. The Taliban in Afghanistan, where a Christian has no legal existence at all. The blasphemy laws in
Pakistan, where Christian girls of twelve are abducted, forcibly converted, and handed back to their kidnapper by a court. The Copts in Egypt, bombed inside their own churches.

Iraq had one and a half million Christians in 2003. Today under 250,000. Syria had more than two million. They are gone.

That is not crossfire. That is a direction.

Now the part where the conversation always gets shut down.

Islam was not built as a private faith. It was built as a state. Muhammad was lawgiver, judge and commander in one.

Christianity began with a man on a cross who said his kingdom was not of this world.

Islam began in Medina with an army. Classical jurisprudence divides the world into dar al-islam and dar al-harb, the house of Islam and the house of war. The objective is that the first expands until the second no longer exists.

And people want it. Pew surveyed 38,000 Muslims across 39 countries. 99 percent
in Afghanistan want sharia as the official law of the land. 84 percent in Pakistan. 86 percent in Malaysia. Nearly eight in ten across sub-Saharan Africa.

That is not the fringe. That is the centre.

Now try this.

A Muslim stands up and says: Jesus is God.

In that second he is no longer a Muslim. Placing anything beside Allah is shirk, and according to the Quran it is the one sin that is not forgiven. Sura 5:72 says it plainly: whoever calls Christ God is an unbeliever.

What does it cost? At least 22 countries criminalise leaving Islam. In roughly a dozen of them it can cost your life. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Mauritania, Qatar, the Emirates, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Maldives, Brunei.

Elsewhere you lose your marriage instead, your children, your inheritance, your citizenship. In Malaysia, Lina Joy fought six years for the legal right to leave Islam. She lost.

And outside the courtrooms, the family is waiting.

A Christian who converts to Islam in the West gets a welcome ceremony and a post on social media. A Muslim who converts to Christianity changes his name, moves city, and never tells his mother.

There is your same root.

So no.

If that solidarity were real, it would run both ways. Where were the marches for the 3,490 Nigerians? Where was the Friday sermon about the burned churches in Burkina Faso?

It does not exist. Solidarity that only switches on when it can be aimed at a third party is not solidarity. It is an alliance against someone.

There is not one Muslim-majority country where Christians hold full and equal rights. Not one.

Meanwhile there are Western countries where Muslims hold more rights than Christians hold anywhere in the Muslim world. The whole case sits inside that asymmetry.

And let us not pretend this only happens out there. We carried the ideology forward ourselves. Not under force. Out of politeness. CONTINUES👇🏽

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@BoyGeorge חזק ואמץ

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

🤣🤣🤣

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Absolute evil. Where are the mass demonstrations in the west against this horror?

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

I woke up this morning filled with grief and rage.

Three more protesters were hanged this morning in Iran. Publicly, from cranes, to show the consequences of dissent.

A fourth young woman, Anahita Azarshab, was shot and killed for protesting the hangings.

If you haven’t breathed a word about them, don’t you dare speak up to protest the war on their killers.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

#Shalom

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@KTHopkins - I am so glad your books came prior to my holiday (was worth turning round on our way to the airport to get them from the doorstep after the EVRI man delivered them). I needed your realistic and humorous perspective whilst on holiday and can’t thank you enough 💕

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@KTHopkins , I know you said your books are on there way. They didn’t arrive for my birthday 🥺 and have my 2 week holidays coming up so hoping they arrive for then 🤞….please ☺️🙈😂
PS loved seeing you live!! You def need to come to Gateshead again!!

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Thousands of Iranians have been murdered for fighting for their freedom against the Islamic regime in the last 72 hours.

The United Nations? Silent.
Human rights organizations? Silent.
Amnesty International? Silent.

Their silence is deafening.

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/4JO1lYFsnl
If the regime does fall, this will be a seismic event, reshaping the region and world politics. Yet from Western liberals, there’s been little more than pursed lips.

The reason is that the uprising is not just against the regime but against the repressive tyranny of Islam itself. This is intolerable to Western liberals, because their belief that the Israelis and Western imperialism are always the villains, and Muslims are always their victims, is essential to their self-image as morally virtuous people.

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@SkinnydipLondon - why can’t you respond to my messages or send me my refund for the stuff I sent back and ordered from ASOS? This is awful customer service 😔

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@AsdaServiceTeam your service at the Shrewsbury Pharmacy is appalling! Opened 15 mins late. Long waits. Have you read your google reviews? I wish I had before coming here!!!

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@Halfords_uk - poor customer service! Website - does not work, In store- no help and being charged to replace your faulty products despite warranty, customer service phone number - lack of knowledge and hung up when reading what your website states.

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@KTHopkins - do you know if your book be back in stock before Christmas? 🎄

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@AntSpeaks Wonder if she is getting info from her mate Francesca Albernese who is so full of 💩

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@realMaalouf I don’t understand what they are saying but if that is the issue and they want to live in an Islamic country then I’d think logically move to an Islamic country 🤷‍♀️
If I felt so strongly about living in a cold country and I didn’t like the cold then I would move to a hot country.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

I’m so ashamed of this government and of what Britain has become.

Hamas declares VICTORY after the U.K. recognises Palestine.

Our most shameful moment is now.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

https://t.co/qbgsefVanV

[Rachel Blacklock @RachelBlac63385]

@DisrespectedThe There was more outrage for the woman who wanted the baseball from the child 🙈 society is messed up 🥺