[NRO via RaymondIbrahim.com]
Prominent indicators confirm that the U.S. is the chief facilitator of the persecution of Christians around the world today.
According to the recently released 2014 World Watch List, which ranks the 50 nations where Christians are most persecuted, Syria is the third worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq is fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four countries receive the strongest designation, “extreme persecution” (other designations are “severe,” “moderate,” and “sparse” persecution).
Aside from being so closely and harshly ranked, these four nations have something else in common: heavy U.S. involvement. Three—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—were “liberated” thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring “freedom fighters” against the regime, many of whom would be better labeled “terrorists.”
The Syrian situation alone indicts U.S. foreign policy. According to Reuters:
Open Doors, a non-denominational group supporting persecuted Christians worldwide, said on Wednesday it had documented 2,123 “martyr” killings, compared with 1,201 in 2012. There were 1,213 such deaths in Syria alone last year, it said. “This is a very minimal count based on what has been reported in the media and we can confirm,” said Frans Veerman, head of research for Open Doors. Estimates by other Christian groups put the annual figure as high as 8,000.
While most Americans are shielded from the true nature of the war by the U.S. media’s reluctance to report on it, Arabic media, websites, and activists daily report and document atrocity after atrocity—beheadings and bombed churches, Christians slaughtered for refusing to convert to Islam, and countless abducted for ransom or rape—at the hands of those whom the U.S. supports.
It’s enough to point out that “the largest massacre of Christians in Syria,” to quote a top religious leader, was left wholly unreported by any major U.S. news network.
At any rate, the statistics speak for themselves: Syria, which used to be religiously tolerant, is now, in the context of the United States’ trying to bring “democracy” to it, the third worst country in the world in terms of “extreme persecution” of Christians.
The Blaze reports that Dr. David Curry, president of Open Doors,
charged that the Obama administration has essentially declined to make the protection of religious minorities a priority . . . “There are many instances where the vacuum of leadership and spokesmanship has created a real problem,” said the human rights leader. “I would say that every significant data point on this year’s ‘2014 Watch List’ is worse—and I think a factor in it is a lack of leadership from Western governments including . . . the U.S. in terms of religious freedom.”
But it’s worse than that. Far from taking any action or providing leadership—or simply ceasing to support the terrorists responsible—the Obama administration recently tried to go to war with Syria on behalf of the “freedom fighters,” amazingly, in the name of “human rights” (Apparently the unsubstantiated rumor that Assad massacred people is enough for the U.S. to go to war, but the ongoing and well-documented massacres of Christians and other civilians at the hands of the opposition is not enough for the U.S. to stop supporting them.)
What’s worse, even the most misinformed mainstream-media-watching American today knows that the so-called “Arab Spring,” which was hailed to justify U.S. support for “rebels” of all stripes—in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood (which months ago destroyed some 80 churches); in Libya, al-Qaeda, which has turned Benghazi into a terror zone; and now the “freedom fighters” in Syria—is not what it was touted to be.
In other words, at this point, whenever the U.S. intervenes in an Islamic nation, Islamists come to power. This is well demonstrated by the other three nations to which the U.S. brought “democracy” and where Christian minorities suffer “extreme persecution”:
- Afghanistan: The supposedly “moderate” Karzai government installed by the U.S. upholds many of the draconian laws enforced by the Taliban—including the apostasy law, fiercely persecuting those who seek to convert to Christianity—and, in 2011, under U.S. auspices, it destroyed Afghanistan’s last Christian church.
- Iraq: After the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, Christian minorities were savagely attacked and slaughtered, and dozens of their churches were bombed (see here for graphic images). Christians have been terrorized into near-extinction, with well over half of them fleeing Iraq.
- Libya: Ever since U.S.-backed, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists overthrew Qaddafi, Christians—including Americans—have indeed suffered extreme persecution. Churches have been bombed; Christians have been tortured and killed (including for refusing to convert); and nuns have been threatened.
Surely a common theme emerges here: Where the U.S. works to oust secular autocrats, the quality of life for Christians and other minorities takes a major nosedive. Under Saddam, Qaddafi, and Assad, Christians and their churches were largely protected… Keep reading

exdemexlib says
What do you expect from Obama, when he won’t even lift a finger to help prevent genocide and slavery of Black Christians because he can’t bear to REALLY criticize Muslims.
It will be with great shame, that history remembers the first Black president as not only not doing anything to abolish slavery and genocide against Blacks, but that it even INCREASED during his administration.
He still has time in office left to fix it …
Let’s hope he doesn’t waste the remaining time and make it worse.
JessieJames says
He still has time in office left to fix it …
Let’s hope he doesn’t waste the remaining time and make it worse.
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You have got to be kidding, exdemexlib, your thinking is still demlib if you honestly believe the basturd in the white house really cares about Christians. obama is a confessed muslim and he hates Jews and Christians and has never made a secret of this fact. No one in their right mind would ever expect any help coming from the obama administration. The A-hole is Satan incarnated.
86Mo says
Fix it? That assumes he would want to fix it and that he’s not doing this deliberately.
This is a man who loathes Christianity. We knew that years ago when we saw him mocking the Bible in public! Go look up the video on YouTube!
Between that, his disgraceful treatment of Israel, his complete ignoring of the massacre of Christians, and his constant siding with Muslims, it is clear where his loyalties lie! (Hint: It’s not with America, not with Israel, not with freedom, and most certainly not with Christians.)
j says
too late to fix the Middle -East…..it’s a volcano about to blow it’s stack at any second…………..The middle East has determined to destroy all nations………ONE little spark and …KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!Then the Socialists will pick up the pieces and build……………..A NEW AND IMPROVED WORLD ODOR!!!WELCOME TO THE WORLD POLICE POWERS ACT.
RonCo215 says
Let’s hope?! That’s a waste of time! This president is doing exactly what he planned on doing! Killing everything that is not muslim!
Erl Roe says
Obama is the lowest piece of human body waste to take centre stage in the US a closet Muslim member of the Moslem Brotherhood … he has them riddled in his administration
Jay Boo says
What will Pres. Obama have to say about this in his speech tonight ???
LemonLime says
The website Raymond Ibrahim links to shows the broader problem of Islam: In its list of Christian persecution around the world, the worst 27 nations are divided into “Extreme Persecution” (top 14) and “Severe Persecution” (15 through 27). Only one of those top 27 is non-Islamic or due to non-Islamic factors (the lunatic megalomaniac regime of Communist North Korea) while only three are in the subsequent list (Vietnam, Laos, Colombia):
Extreme Persecution
North Korea
Somalia
Syria
Iraq
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
Maldives
Pakistan
Iran
Yemen
Sudan
Eritrea
Libya
Nigeria
Severe Persecution
Uzbekistan (oft touted as populated mostly by “cultural Muslims” who are supposed to be MINOs (Muslims in Name Only))
Central African Rep.
Ethiopia (the “Christian” non-Islamic-hellhole touted by JW commenter “Semeru”)
Vietnam
Qatar
Turkmenistan
Laos
Egypt
Myanmar (Burma)
Brunei
Colombia
Jordan
Oman
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: Confirmed, U.S. Is Chief Facilitator of Christian Persecution
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Absolutely appalling—America should be a beacon of freedom.
Things were bad enough under well-meaning but largely clueless George “Islam is a religion of peace” Bush—they are *many* times worse under Obama, who seems to be deliberately enabling Muslim persecution of Christians.
More:
…these four nations have something else in common: heavy U.S. involvement. Three—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—were “liberated” thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring “freedom fighters” against the regime, many of whom would be better labeled “terrorists.”
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Some of this is pure ignorance—a failing to understand, even after over a decade, that Muslims when unleashed are “free” to be more Islamic—and that means oppressing and brutalizing Christians and other Infidels.
But again—Obama, beginning with his infamous Cairo speech, has been giving Islam the green light.
Do I believe that all of this increased savagery is due to US enabling? I *do not*. We didn’t start the “Arab Spring”, but US and other Western enabling *sure as hell hasn’t helped*.
And, as noted, the media is also complicit in whitewashing the persecution of Christians, which in places like Iraq and Syria are full-fledged genocide.
More:
charged that the Obama administration has essentially declined to make the protection of religious minorities a priority . . .
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Yes—the US will not even condemn the persecution of Christians, nor are they—or the rest of the West—giving priority to Christians seeking asylum.
* Shameful.*
dumbledoresarmy says
Ethiopia is dismissed by Lemonlime/Voegelinian, above, as “an Islamic hellhole”.
This is not accurate. It is not accurate as a description of the *population*, which at last count was 60.7 percent Christian and 34 percent Muslim – that is, Muslims do not have an absolute majority. There is a small remainder who are neither Muslim nor Christian. And it is not accurate as a description of the state, which does not describe itself as “Islamic” (and in which the overarching system of law and government is not Islamic, either).
Yes, there is persecution of Christians, by Muslims, in those parts of Ethiopia where Muslims have become locally/ regionally demographically dominant (the adoption of a federal system giving a lot of autonomy to assorted regions, has given Muslims opportunity to persecute *regionally*); but the situation is still not the same as it is in countries where the entire government is run by Muslims, where Muslims are the overwhelming majority of the population, or in a country where the Muslims have seized power despite being a quite small minority (which is the case in the Central African Republic). What countries like Ethiopia and Nigeria require, if the broader Infidel world had any sense, is massive encouragement and support to undertake a crackdown on Muslims by the central (non-Muslim) government, punishing severely all Muslim attacks on non-Muslims.
Description of Ethiopia in my Christian sourcebook, “Operation World”, which integrates information from sources such as the CIA world factbook. Their approach is sober and they try very hard to get as full and accurate a picture as possible.
Here is their summary of the religious situation:
“North Ethiopia was one of the first Christian nations – from the 4th century. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church was the state church from 1270 until the 1974 [communist] revolution. The Marxist regime persecuted Christians, especially evangelicals, with many churches destroyed and congregations scattered. Since 1991 there has been freedom for worship and witness. **Increasingly active and ambitious Islamist [sic – dda] groups threaten the delicate balance of religious powers, even as Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical groups make overtures to one another and begin to work together** [my emphasis – dda].
IN other words: the Marxists attacked the church (and I do recall reading somewhere that in Ethiopia the Marxists favoured the Muslims over the Christians); from 1974 until the fall of the marxists, most of the persecution came from *marxists*.
Incidentally, from 1974 onward, despite persecution, the number of *evangelical* Christians is estimated at having grown rapidly, to about 20 percent of the population. Christians of all traditions are reading the Bible (this largely due to the work of the Bible Society, which works with all traditions) and there are a mass of translation projects – no less than *35*. This would include languages spoken by Muslims.
The paragraph on Islam reads: “Islam is becoming a greater challenge. Ethiopia has remained a bastion of Christianity withstanding Islamic advance for centuries. Muslims now target this nation for Islamization – educational, employment and financial incentives are offered, **a massive mosque-building programme is underway** [my emphasis – and note: where else are massive mosque-building programmes being undertaken? – USA, UK, everywhere in the western world…dda], and thousands of wells are being drilled [and I’ll bet that you are only allowed to use those wells if you say the shahada first – dda]. Violent – even murderous -reactions against evangelical outreach [this would be when intrepid Ethiopian Christians start evangelising in areas populated mostly by Muslims – dda] create a climate of religious tension and fear, but this same violence causes many other Mulims to consider Jesus…FRom only a few hundred believers 10 years ago, there are now **tens of thousands of believers from a Muslim background**”.
So the picture is not one of unrelieved gloom and doom. I wouldn’t ‘assume the sale’.
The real tragedy is that no western nation is currently clear-headed enough to be able to give those Ethiopian Christians who are *in positions of authority* the assistance, information and encouragement they would need in order to be able to resist Islamisation in all its modes, and specifically, to take back control of such portions of their country as are currently in danger of becoming “no go” zones ruled by Muslims.