Christians Under Attack

Fordham’s fabled offensive line that strung together 25 consecutive wins. After his college days he became an assistant football coach, first at Fordham, then at the United States Military Academy and then with the New York Giants of the National Football League (The NFL). In January 1959 he became head coach of the Green Bay Packers. In two years he took a team that had won only one game in twelve to the NFL’s championship game. He never had a losing season. He won three straight NFL championships (1965-67). That was as good as it got in the days before the Super Bowl. He won 105 games with the Packers and lost only 35. Rival NFL coach Norm Van Brocklin said, “ You have to hand it to Lombardi; he took those drunks off their bar stools and made world champions out of them.” Lombard had a simple philosophy. “Winning isn’t everything,” he said. “It’s the only thing.”

On November 1, 2006, Mohammed Riaz, sprayed gasoline throughout his home in Accrington, Blackburn, Lancashire, while his wife and four daughters slept. Riaz was from Pakistan. He had spent the first 22 years of his life in the notorious North West Frontier. Hell had only a half-acre in Wyoming and fewer devils per capita than Pakistan’s ‘Frontier’ province. There are more Tombstones and Dodge Cities in the land of the Pashtuns than Sonnybrook Farms. Rooster Cogburn would have needed a bodyguard and a head start to get from the Marshal’s office to the corral.

Mohammed married Caneze Khanan, an Anglo-Pakistani woman who had been sent to Pakistan by her father to find a husband. It wasn’t a shotgun wedding. No need for that. Point the Qur’an at the bride-to-be and the deed was done. And then it was off to England for the happily married couple. Years passed and problems developed. According to an acquaintance, Caneze “started to develop her own circle of friends and allowed the girls to express themselves in a more western way.” One of the girls wanted to be a fashion designer. Maybe that was the last straw. Mohammed set fire to the house. Caneze awoke but was overcome by smoke trying to protect her three-year-old daughter. The other three girls died elsewhere in the house.

Vince Lombardi said, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” For many Muslims, “Islam isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” Lombardi had a life outside of football—a vigorous, robust life. Riaz had no life outside of Islam.

Samaira Nazir, 25, was a businesswoman. Friends described her as “strong-willed and well-educated.” She had studied tourism at Thames University. She was sent to Pakistan in 2004 for the usual reason—to ‘find a husband.’ She rejected her suitors, apparently wanting no part of an arranged marriage, and returned to England. Unbeknownst to her family, Samaira had fallen in love with a Mr. Mohammed, an Afghan asylum-seeker. They had kept their romance a secret for years. When Samaira told her family she wanted to marry Mr. Mohammed, they became upset—very upset.

At the police station, Samaira’s brother, Azhar Nazir, told the arresting officers that his sister “had to be stopped.” Samaira was summoned to the family home in Southall, Middlesex. Azhar, 30, and a 17-year-old cousin stabbed her repeatedly and then slit her throat. Nazir was found guilty of murder and is in Old Bailey. Samaira’s father fled to Pakistan to avoid prosecution. Police believe Azhar Nazir’s two daughters, aged two and four, were forced to watch the killing as a lesson.

“Winning isn’t everything,” said Lombardi, “it’s the only thing.” In Islam, “Religion isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” Similar philosophies? Lombardi never shot a quarterback or set fire to the locker room. Maybe he prayed, maybe he prayed often. He was a Christian and the Good Book says you don’t shoot quarterbacks or burn your house down to rid yourself of an embarrassing spouse. Riaz and the Nazirs were reading from the wrong book.

Someone like Dennis Kucinich or Chris Matthews might say, surely, these things happen and they happen in all societies but they are isolated incidents. Have you anything more recent? Well—yes, in the past few days, three Palestinian women were murdered in the Gaza Strip. Each had been shot numerous times so it is not always by fire and sword. Officials have not ruled out ‘honor killings.’ How could they? In Islam every male is a Godfather with more power over family affairs than Mario Puzo ever dreamed of and woe to the wife, daughter or sister who should besmirch the family reputation with lewd or lascivious behavior, real or imagined.

The toll? An average of 25 women are murdered every year in ‘honor killings’ in the Gaza Strip, Samaria and Judah. “It isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”

There’s more. In the village of Allah Bux Brohi, in Sindh Province on the Indo-Pakistani border, two young women, described as ‘girls’ by the press, were dragged into the street by their uncles and hacked to death in a killing that would have shocked Jack the Ripper. They surrendered to the police, said they did nothing wrong and felt no remorse. Lombardi would have been furious if one of his Packers had deliberately hurt a player on another team. Not only would it have been un-Christian, it would have provoked retaliation. Lombardi always played smart. Islam not only tolerates ‘honor killings,’ it uses them to keep women in line.

The ‘girls’ were buried without religious rites—which was best, perhaps, because it would have been an insult to end insults: Adolph Eichmann praying over the dead at Buchenwald—and the family refused to accept condolences.

Lombardi left his philosophy on the playing field with his game plan; he didn’t take it home with him. He was a great man—greater than Mohammed. If more Muslims left their religion in the mosque, maybe—just maybe—Caneza Riaz and her four daughters and Samaira Nazir and thousands and thousands of others would still be alive. But don’t count on it—according to the recent Gallup poll, 84 million Muslims believe 9/11 was justified and another 840 million would do nothing about it. “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is His Prophet.” “Islam isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.”

There will be more ‘honor killings’ in the weeks and months and years to come. They will not stop until Islam stops. Few Muslims will mourn the victims—not Louis Farrakhan, not Keith Ellison, not Allah. It’s one hell of a way to start the 21st Century.

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