A Chinese pastor who was arrested during the recent government crackdown on Christians is thanking God for the “opportunity of going to jail.”
Huang Yizi, 40, is facing up to seven years in prison for his speaking out against the government’s destruction of Christian churches. He was arrested in August when police dragged him from his home in front of his wife and two children.
The official charge is “gathering crowds to disturb social order.”
Beijing rights lawyer Zhang Kai says Yizi is doing well and that from what he can see there is no basis to charge him.
“As a defense lawyer and judging from the evidence so far I don’t think Huang’s actions constituted any crime. Personally, I believe Huang’s arrest is directly related to the general crackdown on churches in Zhejiang.”
Chen Guangcheng, a human rights activist in China, said that the communist government is actually more dangerous than terrorist group ISIS.
“I believe that we have underestimated the threat from the Communist regime like China. They are many, many times more dangerous than the terrorist groups out there. I believe the people will realize later this is true,” Chen said.
A teen girl who stood up to the Taliban and survived an attempted assassination has received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala Yousafzai is the first teenager to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala was a teen advocate for girls being given an education, which went against the edicts of the Islamic terrorist group. The Taliban tried to assassinate the then 15-year-old as she traveled to school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in October 2012. The bullet struck above her left eye and grazed her brain but did not cause fatal damage.
She was flown to Britain where she received treatment and now attends school. She is still a worldwide advocate for the rights of women in Islamic countries and to raise awareness of the treatment of women by Islamic groups such as the Taliban and ISIS.
“The extremists were and they are afraid of books and pens,” Yousafzai said in a speech last year at a UN youth assembly. “The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women. The power of the voice of women frightens them.”
“The terrorists thought that they would change my aims and stop my ambition,” Yousafzai said last year. “But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.”
The United Nations is saying that unless action is taken to stop the Islamic terrorist group ISIS from overtaking the city of Kobani, “thousands will most likely be massacred.”
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says that Kobani is on the verge of suffering the fate of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica where 8,000 were killed by Serbs in 1995.
“If this falls, the 700, plus perhaps the 12,000 people, apart from the fighters, will be most likely massacred,” de Mistura said. The United Nations believes 700 mainly elderly civilians are trapped in the town itself and 12,000 have left the center but not made it across the border into Turkey.”
“Do you remember Srebrenica? We do. We never forgot and probably we never forgave ourselves. When there is an imminent threat to civilians, we cannot, we should not, be silent.”
The threat of the massacres of Kurds in the city is causing problem in Turkey, where Turkish Kurds are rising up against the government for their not stepping in to help stop the killing of their kin.
Christian relief group Samaritan’s Purse announced they will be airlifting almost 90 tons of aid and supplies to those who have been forced to leave everything behind to flee the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.
“Winter is coming to the area, making a difficult situation even worse for these families,” read a Samaritan’s Purse press release. “The airlift will bring critical supplies to the region, including winter coats for children, blankets, warm socks, sleeping bags and shelter materials.”
Items in the airlift include over 2,500 kerosene heaters for families to keep their makeshift homes warm.
Christian groups working in the area have decried the lack of support for Christians and other minorities that are fleeing the murderous Islamic group.
“I think you’re seeing the rise of ISIS because of a lack of attention to the freedom of expression within the Middle East. You have extremist groups within Islam, like ISIS. It’s not true of every person who is Islamic. But there are extremist groups like this who want to force people to convert to Islam at the point of a gun,” David Curry, the CEO and president of Open Doors USA, told The Christian Post in an interview in September.
“Unless we understand that threat, not just to Christians in the region but to people worldwide, we’re not going to respond properly. I think it has risen because of a lack of attention and a lack of concern for Christians and other minority groups.”
A woman who had been “duped” into joining the Islamic State terrorist group is speaking out in an attempt to keep other women from being deceived into joining the murderous organization.
The woman, a 25-year-old who had been an ISIS patrol officer and whose name has been kept secret by CNN to protect her, said she fled the group just before U.S. airstrikes in September.
“I don’t want anyone else to be duped by [ISIS],” the woman speaking under the alias of “khadija” told CNN. “Too many girls think they are the right Islam.”
Khadija said a Tunisian man that she met through an online dating service influenced her. He spoke glowingly about the terrorist group, saying they were not terrorists and that the media was slandering their group. He said they were just trying to “implement true Islam.”
She joined the man in Raqqa and was part of a women’s patrol unit that would beat any woman not wearing the correct Sharia clothing. She said that once she saw ISIS’ brutality first hand, she could no longer support the group.
She now is living in fear in Turkey that ISIS has her marked for death.
“A girl who is merry, who loves life and laughter… who loves to travel, to draw, to walk in the street with her headphones listening to music without caring what anyone thinks,” she said. “I want to be like that again.”
The Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is continuing to follow in the footsteps of ISIS as they beheaded another seven people.
The seven were murdered in the northeastern Nigerian town of Ngamdu during the night as people slept. Resident woke in the morning to find the seven bodies on display.
“[The murderers] slit their throats just the way people slaughter goats,” a Ngamdu resident told reporters.
Fifteen terrorists were killed in the Ngamdu area two weeks ago when local militia rose up and drove the terrorists out of the town. The group vowed to get revenge on the town because of the killings.
The Nigerian government has been helpless in stopping the terror group from overtaking about two dozen towns in the northern part of Nigeria. The group claims they have an Islamic caliphate.
Australia’s government has announced plans to keep radical Islamist preachers from entering their nation.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he was ordering the moves because of rising tensions in the nation following a series of raids in the Muslim community of men who are directly connected to ISIS and other Islamic terrorist organizations.
“What we want to do is to ensure that known preachers of hate do not come to this country to peddle their divisive extremist message,” Abbott during a press conference in Sydney. “What I’m doing is declaring that we will henceforth have a new system in place which will ensure that preachers of hate can’t come to Australia to peddle their extreme, divisive and alien ideologies.”
Australia says at least 160 citizens have gone to the Middle East to work for ISIS and 20 have returned to the country and are under surveillance.
Australian Muslims claim they are being unfairly targeted in not allowing preachers of their own choosing form entering the country.
A teenager is under arrest in Illinois after he attempted to join the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.
Mohammed Hamzah Khan, 19, was arrested Saturday at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago as he waited to board a flight to Vienna, Austria. The teen’s travel plans were to carry him to Turkey where he would cross the border into Syria and join ISIS.
The FBI’s Join Terrorism Task Force said they searched Khan’s home and found handwritten notes of support for ISIS and jihad. There was a letter he had written to his parents that they were supposed to find after he left outlining his plans.
“My dear parents, there are a number of reasons I will be going to the blessed land of Shaam [Syria] and leaving my home,” it read, according to a federal complaint. “We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day. I do not want my kids being exposed to filth like this.”
Khan faces 15 years in prison on charges of providing material support to terrorists. He remains in custody.
Islamic terrorist group ISIS has conducted another beheading of a westerner.
The terrorists released a video called “Another Message to America and Its Allies” where it showed news footage of the British Parliament voting to send troops against ISIS. Then the video cuts to UK citizen Alan Henning kneeling on the ground.
“I am Alan Henning,” he says. “Because of our parliament’s decision to attack the Islamic state, I, as a member of the British public, will now pay the price for that decision.”
The video cuts to black during the actual beheading and then shows the body of Henning on the ground after the murder.
“Obama, you have started your aerial bombardment of Shams (Syria), which keeps on striking our people,” the terrorist who committed the murder says, “so it is only right that we continue to strike the neck of your people.”
The group then threatens to kill U.S. Army veteran Peter Kassig.
British Prime Minster David Cameron said the video highlights the depravity of the killers.
“The brutal murder of Alan Henning by ISIL shows just how barbaric and repulsive these terrorists are,” Cameron remarked in a statement following the release of the video. “Alan had gone to Syria to help get aid to people of all faiths in their hour of need. The fact that he was taken hostage when trying to help others and now murdered demonstrates that there are no limits to the depravity of these ISIL terrorists.”
The head of the FBI has confirmed that an al-Qaeda cell that was struck last month in Syria is likely still working on a plan to attack the United States and its allies.
“Given our visibility we know they’re serious people, bent on destruction,” FBI Director James Comey said. He added they’re looking to make the attack “very, very soon.”
The revelation came during an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
Comey said that at least a dozen Americans have been confirmed to be fighting alongside the ISIS terrorists and al-Qaeda related groups. He said that anyone confirmed to be associated with the terrorists and then return to the United States will be tracked “very carefully.”
Comey said that Americans should be more confident in the government after 9/11.
“[The government is] better organized, better systems, better equipment, smarter deployment. We’re better in every way that you’d want us to be since 9/11.”