{"id":1083842,"date":"2021-12-04T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1083842"},"modified":"2021-12-04T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T17:29:13","slug":"let-us-prey-how-a-christian-suicide-bomber-exposed-muslims-faking-conversions-to-avoid-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/let-us-prey-how-a-christian-suicide-bomber-exposed-muslims-faking-conversions-to-avoid-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Prey? How A \u2018Christian\u2019 Suicide Bomber Exposed Muslims Faking Conversions To Avoid Deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flet-us-prey-how-a-christian-suicide-bomber-exposed-muslims-faking-conversions-to-avoid-deportation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1083842&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The contradictions between the West\u2019s mercy and self-loathing collided so violently that it produced what may be a first: an alleged \u201cChristian\u201d suicide bomber.<\/p>\n<p>On November 14, Emad Al Swealmeen hailed a taxi to the Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital, where the explosive device he carried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishlegion.org.uk\/get-involved\/remembrance\/remembrance-events\/remembrance-sunday\">detonated<\/a>&nbsp;earlier than he intended. It is not known whether the 32-year-old Iraqi national intended to blow up the hospital or the nearby Liverpool Cathedral, which was holding a service for Remembrance Day, the UK version of Memorial Day. He knew the latter building intimately; he had been confirmed there in 2017. He lost his asylum case in 2014 and an appeal in 2015, but he took a five-week Alpha Course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/impossible-to-know-if-asylum-seekers-converting-to-christianity-are-genuine-says-church\/ar-AAQXVuK\">changed his name<\/a> to Enzo Almeni. and was baptized in the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>His attack came just a month after a British court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-berkshire-58900715\">turned down<\/a> an appeal from another unlikely convert, Khairi Saadallah. The 25-year-old Muslim, who fought in the <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/04\/reagan-would-not-support-obama-on-libya\/\">Libyan revolution<\/a> that turned the nation into a <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/09\/obamas-analysts-oops-we-put-muslim-radicals-in-charge-of-libya\/\">haven for Islamist terrorists<\/a>, publicly \u201cconverted\u201d to Catholicism after arriving in the UK. Yet, witnesses say he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/reading-attack-khairi-saadallah-christian-muslim-b1783246.html\">shouted, \u201c<em>Allahu akbar<\/em>\u201d<\/a> and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/khairi-saadallah-terrorist-who-murdered-three-in-brutal-reading-attack-gets-whole-life-sentence-12184977\">Allah accept my <em>jihad<\/em><\/a>\u201das he stabbed three British men to death last June. \u201cI\u2019m going to paradise for the <em>jihad,<\/em> what I did to them,\u201d he said, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Not all perpetrators commit murder. A 32-year-old man who came to the UK illegally from Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/7990792\/iranian-rapist-faked-christian-conversion\/\">raped<\/a> a 17-year-old girl in 2012. Although the judge said he believed the man\u2019s putative conversion to Christianity was an immigration ploy, he allowed the man to stay in the UK, because Iran punishes \u201capostates\u201d from Islam with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.radiofarda.com\/a\/hundreds-death-penalty-iran\/29149660.html\">the death penalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These three criminal cases brought a spotlight to the unseemly scandal of Muslim asylum seekers pretending to convert to the Christian faith with the hope that it will halt their deportation. As newly professed \u201cChristians,\u201d these illegal immigrants would face persecution if the government returned them to their home country. \u201cOnce you are a baptised Christian it is really not conceivable that you would be deported to a Muslim country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/679386\/Muslims-converting-Christianity-Britain-immigration-loophole\">quipped<\/a> Rev. Peter Wilcox, who was then the dean of Liverpool\u2019s Anglican Cathedral, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Critics call the cynical strategy \u201cpray to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The power of false conversion with the UK\u2019s Home Office is so powerful that Arabic-language ads placed by human smugglers on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10211397\/Priti-Patel-accuses-church-helping-asylum-seekers-game-converting-Christianity.html\">encourage<\/a> Muslims to convert to Christianity upon arrival. It appears that many Muslim migrants have taken them up on the offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of a single example of somebody who already had British citizenship converting here with us from Islam to Christianity,\u201d said Rev. Wilcox. He added that some 200 Muslims from Iran alone converted to Christianity inside his parish between 2012 and 2016. His fellow Liverpool clergyman, Rev Mohammad Eghtedarian (himself a convert from Islam), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/954826\/church-of-england-faces-questions-over-asylum-seeker-conversions-emad-al-swealmeen\">said<\/a> flatly, \u201cThere are many people abusing the system.\u201d Other churches saw similar numbers. The vicar of a church in Stockton-on-Tees told the media that he baptized 100 Iranians from 2012 to 2016 but not a single British citizen between June 2015 and June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden \u201crevival\u201d among Muslims facing deportation has raised eyebrows that they are using the church to manipulate the state. A British tribunal <a href=\"https:\/\/tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk\/utiac\/aa-06457-2015\">ruled<\/a> in 2017, \u201cThe number of Iranians attending the [Liverpool] cathedral was \u2018improbably large\u2019 for them all to be genuine converts.\u201d Wilcox also seemed cognizant of the consequences of turning down a refugee as opposed to a native-born \u201cmiddle-class\u201d British citizen. \u201cRefuse Jemima baptism, and she goes to school somewhere else. Refuse Mohammed baptism, and he gets deported,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Their newly adopted creed does not figure into every immigration debate; authorities say it did not affect Al Swealmeen\u2019s case. But his case raised the question of whether the UK immigration system is facing systemic abuse by false conversion.<\/p>\n<p>UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, who oversees immigration, has described the current asylum process as \u201ca complete merry-go-round,\u201d which \u201chas been exploited, quite frankly, by a whole\u201d publicly funded, \u201cprofessional legal services industry that has based itself on rights of appeal, going to the courts day in, day out at the expense of the taxpayers through legal aid.\u201d Records show that, in some cases, Church of England officials asked officials not to deport their \u201cnew\u201d members.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of England, in turn, said that it has instructed its clerics to test the catechumen\u2019s faith as thoroughly as possible, but it can do no more. \u201cWe are not aware of any evidence to suggest a widespread correlation between conversion to Christianity, or any other faith, and abuse of the asylum system,\u201d the CoE replied. \u201cIt is not the role of clergy to establish the legitimacy of asylum claims and to assess security implications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some have questioned the role played by the fundamentalist Islamic interpretation of the concept of <em>taqiyya<\/em>,&nbsp;which \u201cmay involve disguising or suppressing one\u2019s religious identity,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/taqiyyah\">according<\/a> to the Encyclopedia Britannica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contradictions between the West\u2019s mercy and self-loathing collided so violently that it produced what may be a first: an alleged \u201cChristian\u201d suicide bomber.On November 14, Emad Al Swealmeen hailed a taxi to the Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital, where the explosive device he carried detonated\u00a0earlier than he intended. It is not known whether the 32-year-old Iraqi national intended to blow up the hospital or the nearby Liverpool Cathedral, which was holding a service for Remembrance Day, the UK version of Memorial Day. He knew the latter building intimately; he had been confirmed there in 2017. He lost his asylum case in 2014 and an appeal in 2015, but he took a five-week Alpha Course, changed his name to Enzo Almeni. and was baptized in the Church of England.His attack came just a month after a British court turned down an appeal from another unlikely convert, Khairi Saadallah. The 25-year-old Muslim, who fought in the Libyan revolution that turned the nation into a haven for Islamist terrorists, publicly \u201cconverted\u201d to Catholicism after arriving in the UK. Yet, witnesses say he shouted, \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d and \u201cAllah accept my jihad\u201das he stabbed three British men to death last June. \u201cI\u2019m going to paradise for the jihad, what I did to them,\u201d he said, according to police.Not all perpetrators commit murder. A 32-year-old man who came to the UK illegally from Iran raped a 17-year-old girl in 2012. Although the judge said he believed the man\u2019s putative conversion to Christianity was an immigration ploy, he allowed the man to stay in the UK, because Iran punishes \u201capostates\u201d from Islam with the death penalty.These three criminal cases brought a spotlight to the unseemly scandal of Muslim asylum seekers pretending to convert to the Christian faith with the hope that it will halt their deportation. As newly professed \u201cChristians,\u201d these illegal immigrants would face persecution if the government returned them to their home country. \u201cOnce you are a baptised Christian it is really not conceivable that you would be deported to a Muslim country,\u201d quipped Rev. Peter Wilcox, who was then the dean of Liverpool\u2019s Anglican Cathedral, in 2016.Critics call the cynical strategy \u201cpray to stay.\u201dThe power of false conversion with the UK\u2019s Home Office is so powerful that Arabic-language ads placed by human smugglers on social media encourage Muslims to convert to Christianity upon arrival. It appears that many Muslim migrants have taken them up on the offer.\u201cI can\u2019t think of a single example of somebody who already had British citizenship converting here with us from Islam to Christianity,\u201d said Rev. Wilcox. He added that some 200 Muslims from Iran alone converted to Christianity inside his parish between 2012 and 2016. His fellow Liverpool clergyman, Rev Mohammad Eghtedarian (himself a convert from Islam), said flatly, \u201cThere are many people abusing the system.\u201d Other churches saw similar numbers. The vicar of a church in Stockton-on-Tees told the media that he baptized 100 Iranians from 2012 to 2016 but not a single British citizen between June 2015 and June 2016.The sudden \u201crevival\u201d among Muslims facing deportation has raised eyebrows that they are using the church to manipulate the state. A British tribunal ruled in 2017, \u201cThe number of Iranians attending the [Liverpool] cathedral was \u2018improbably large\u2019 for them all to be genuine converts.\u201d Wilcox also seemed cognizant of the consequences of turning down a refugee as opposed to a native-born \u201cmiddle-class\u201d British citizen. \u201cRefuse Jemima baptism, and she goes to school somewhere else. Refuse Mohammed baptism, and he gets deported,\u201d he said.Their newly adopted creed does not figure into every immigration debate; authorities say it did not affect Al Swealmeen\u2019s case. But his case raised the question of whether the UK immigration system is facing systemic abuse by false conversion.UK Home Secretary Priti Patel, who oversees immigration, has described the current asylum process as \u201ca complete merry-go-round,\u201d which \u201chas been exploited, quite frankly, by a whole\u201d publicly funded, \u201cprofessional legal services industry that has based itself on rights of appeal, going to the courts day in, day out at the expense of the taxpayers through legal aid.\u201d Records show that, in some cases, Church of England officials asked officials not to deport their \u201cnew\u201d members.The Church of England, in turn, said that it has instructed its clerics to test the catechumen\u2019s faith as thoroughly as possible, but it can do no more. \u201cWe are not aware of any evidence to suggest a widespread correlation between conversion to Christianity, or any other faith, and abuse of the asylum system,\u201d the CoE replied. \u201cIt is not the role of clergy to establish the legitimacy of asylum claims and to assess security implications.\u201dSome have questioned the role played by the fundamentalist Islamic interpretation of the concept of taqiyya,\u00a0which \u201cmay involve disguising or suppressing one\u2019s religious identity,\u201d according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. \u201cOaths taken with mental reservation, for example, are justified on the basis that God accepts what one believes inwardly.\u201d Islamic extremists have apparently coopted a program intended to aid the very vulnerable Christians their fellow radicals persecuted in their home countries.Others cite the baptismal jihad as an example of the West\u2019s self-hating ideology infecting religious institutions. The former Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali, who recently converted to Roman Catholicism, noted that the Church of England is \u201cpermeated by activists who each have a single-issue,\u201d such as \u201ccultural correctness,\u201d \u201dmulti-culturalism (which actually encourages communities to live separately) or critical theory on race.\u201dWoke church officials \u2014 and, alas, such persons exist \u2014 may well hanker to help refugees stay in the UK for their own ideological reasons. But the magnet of asylum-driven false conversions was created by the throne, not the altar. There is little evidence Great Britain\u2019s churches have done anything to attract Muslims to convert to Christianity (nor, indeed, anyone else). The state incentivized false conversions by refusing to enforce immigration law, even when it relates to a hotbed of terrorism, and even when the judge believes the conversion was demonstrably disingenuous. Since the state created the crisis, it is up to the state to remove the incentive. While clergy should not be na\u00efve about the possibility of ulterior motives, not even the best priest, pastor, or vicar can determine the sincerity or falsehood of their newly baptized member\u2019s putative post-arrival conversion.The state must alter and amend its immigration policies so that Christian churches can perform their vocations to baptize Muslim converts with confidence. Part of that training must be to highlight the persecution of Christians around the world and stand in solidarity with them. Clergy must also teach their flock that persecution is a sign of Christians\u2019 union with their Lord (John 15:20) and that martyrdom carries the highest heavenly reward (Revelation 12:11). As the early Christian apologist, Tertullian wrote, \u201cThe blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.\u201dBut does the average British MP have enough faith in his own country to defend it from hostile forces adulterating its historic faith in order to kill its people? One can only pray.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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