Last month IRD hosted a breakfast meeting at which some 30 attendees heard from Sister Hatune Dogan, a nun in the Syrian Orthodox Church that ministers to victims of persecution in Iraq and Syria.
According to the Gates of Vienna blog, whose founder served as the videographer for Sister Hatune and for our other speaker, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, “Sister Hatune’s principal mission is the thousands of little girls who are assaulted, raped, tortured, and mutilated by Islamist terrorists and jihad fighters. She also ministers to refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria.”
Sister Hatune was born and spent her first years in southeast Turkey, but as her family was Christian and experienced persecution at the hands of the Islamists, they fled to Germany.
In “Get Away! You’re a Dirty Gavur!” (infidel) the first video excerpt from Sister Hatune’s talk, she tells of an experience in her home country of Germany that clearly demonstrates the reality of the Koran as it affects relationships between Sharia-adherent Muslims and non-Muslims. Gates of Vienna explains that this is “the story of two little boys in Germany who had once been friends. Then the little Turkish boy, Mohammad, started taking Koran classes, and learned that he was not allowed to make friends with Christians and Jews.” The boy rejects his former friend, Tobias, even though his father is always greeting the non-Muslim neighbors with a smile.
“The son is still small, he is practicing,” says Sister Hatune. “But the father plays taqiyya. Taqiyya is ‘having two faces.'”
Other videos of the presentations of both Sister Hatune and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff will be posted in the coming days.
If you would like to help support Sister Hatune’s work with the persecuted, and particularly with the refugees from Iraq and Syria, you can reach her at hatune@web.de.
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