“The ethnic and religious purging of Christians today is exactly like Hitler’s ethnic cleansing of Jews in WWII,” [film director Peter] Spencer said. “True Christians are today obligated to rescue the perishing from the blades of [the Islamic State].”
Brave and bold words, and all too rare in America these days, where naming the evil is all but illegal. The ‘Orange Resistance Movement’ seem like a strong and creative response to Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Africa. Judging from the endorsements on Mr. Spencer’s site, the message seems to be catching on among Christians and Jews. Let’s hope so.
“Filmmaker’s ‘Chilling’ Warning About the Islamic State and His Message to ‘True Christians’ About Why They Must Fight Back,” by Billy Hallowell, The Blaze, September 17, 2015:
The writer and director of a feature film about a group of young people who fought to save the innocent during the Holocaust has unveiled a new movement aimed at raising awareness about the dire religious persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
Peter Spencer, director of “Return to the Hiding Place” — the sequel to Billy Graham’s “The Hiding Place” — exclusively told TheBlaze about his new Orange Resistance effort to rescue Christians being harmed by the Islamic State, and the “chilling similarities” that he sees between what’s happing now and the horrors that unfolded during the Holocaust.
“The ethnic and religious purging of Christians today is exactly like Hitler’s ethnic cleansing of Jews in WWII,” Spencer said. “True Christians are today obligated to rescue the perishing from the blades of [the Islamic State].”
The Orange Resistance movement is named for the both the color of the jumpsuits worn by victims of Islamic State extremists and for the Netherlands’ historic association with orange; the setting of the ”Return to the Hiding Place,” which is based, in part, on Dutch Christian Corrie ten Boom’s heroic acts to save Jews in the Netherlands.
Spencer said that the campaign will employ a number of tactics to get the word out about the plight of Middle Eastern Christians.
“We are working with denominations across the country to schedule screenings of our film followed by a panel discussing the terrifying parallels between Nazi Germany’s extermination of the Jews and the current hate-onslaught of [the Islamic State] and their mission to liquidate Christians, starting in the Middle East,” he said. “Groups won’t even need to sell tickets to the event.”
“Return to the Hiding Place,” which is based on a true story, tells of ten Boom’s refuge for Jews, as well as an “army of untrained teenagers” who helped rescue the most vulnerable from the horrors of the Holocaust.
“We know viewers, often intimidated and discouraged by today’s frightening news will see this film and be mobilized, encouraged that there is hope,” Spencer told TheBlaze. “Resistance is not futile … even one person can make a revolutionary difference.”
Spencer will also be selling Orange Resist shirts and bracelets in an effort to raise money to help organizations that are actively working to rescue Christians from the region, while also featuring these organizations in special video posts that will be distributed via social media.
The goal, Spencer said, is to cause “America to become aware and involved in politically vocalizing the need to intervene on behalf of Christians and Jews worldwide experiencing a second holocaust.”
“The only hope for coping is by taking action. The only way we can cope is if solutions are at hand,” he said. “These solutions will not present themselves — we have to stand and fight, get behind the cause, and put our resources into saving lives today.”
Spencer invited people to learn more about Orange Resistance here, and to purchase copies of “Return to the Hiding Place” here.
Watch the trailer for ‘Return To The Hiding Place’ here.
Angemon says
The last guy who did that was persecuted and arrested under the direct orders of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/hillary-clinton-we-are-going-to-have-the-filmmaker-arrested
patechinois says
So it’s up to self-funders to draw attention to the plight of non-Muslims in the Middle East. Where is the leader of the most wealthy Christian, no, ANY religious organization in the world? Talking about Climate Change? Forcefully supporting and promoting immigration? Even if it means a complete subjugation of Christianity? Talking in roundabout ways maybe sometimes about tolerance…uh huh….that’s a really full throated defense of Christians there Francis. Francis, you are supposed to be the shepherd protecting the flock…this is the biggest threat to the Christian flock since….the Crusades? The Romans? It’s an outrage how Francis sits this out….in fact appeases the Islamic faith. I don’t know what this Francis guy is…stupid, naive, callous, evil, all of the above? How far the Catholics have come from having a leader who fought totalitarianism all his life, to one who has promoted totalitarianism all his life.
TheDane says
Well put! I have tried in my own small way to make my country’s polticians and dumb journalists aware of the fact that one Christians is murdered – by a moslem – every 5. minutes, as Ibrahim has previously written, but the MSM is indifferent! They seem bent on wanting to destroy whatever is left of our Judeo-Christians World, by manipulating the masses into believing that the moslems are our responsibility, and that we have to import millions of them!
As a Christian I agree that we have to really fight the moslems at some point (rather sooner than later, probably), and I don’t put my Money on the Pope! He is an appeaser!
Jay Boo says
But the appeasing Pope Francis is on tour.
How might all the attention affect Islam’s fame?
Despite this pope’s liberal credentials NPR is now already using this very occasion as an opportunity to scrutinize the Catholic church’s pedophile priests. NPR is merely trying to rain on the Pope’s parade to show Muslims that NPR is willing to do Islam’s bidding while never scrutinizing Islam in the least.
Expect NPR to get a Muslim’s point of view.
EventHorizon says
Surprised? The Catholic Church is obviously opposed to Biblical teachings. Indulgences, Purgatory, Transubstantiation, and the belief that Tradition and Scripture are equal really should convince you.
82 As a result the Church, to whom the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted, “does not derive her certainty about all revealed truths from the holy Scriptures alone. Both Scripture and Tradition must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence.”
The above alone statement should be the end of the Catholic Church. It isn’t because the vast majority of Christians don’t take the Bible seriously. Enter Islam.
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
Islam marches over spiritually dead Christians throughout the world, none of this is a surprise.
Robert Spencer must see what’s going on here. Buddy, how can you still be a Catholic?
Jack Diamond says
“Rather a Turk than a Papist” was a popular slogan among certain Protestants centuries back. The Muslims want to conquer Rome today, are you for it? Have you forgotten there were Protestants who fought alongside the Ottoman Muslims at the Battle of Lepanto? The Catholic Alliance defeated the Muslims. Would you have had it otherwise? There’s plenty of blame to go around currently, but how does anticatholicism trumping the defense against Islam further anything? Maybe you’d like to defend Martin Luther’s “On the Jews and their Lies” while we’re at it. Or the Presbyterians loving up Hizballah and Iran. By the way are you including as “un-Biblical” the Coptic Church and the Ethiopian and Chaldean and Byzantine and Eastern and Russian Orthodox and Armenian etc etc..some of the ones who’ve suffered most from Islam? This is like the atheists who come here and their grudge with Christianity is more important than making common cause against Islam. It’s stupid and self-defeating.
EventHorizon says
Ibrahim Hooper would be proud. When presented with uncomfortable facts, you must attack not the information, but the person providing it. We must deflect attention away from factual criticism and focus on a response based on personal attack. BTW, CAIR is hiring.
What is Truth? You seem to believe it doesn’t exist. Because Islam is worse than Catholicism, we should not seek Truth. Have I got that straight?
How do many Muslims respond to criticism of Islam? ‘What about the Christians?’ ‘What about the Jews?’
How do you respond to criticism of Catholicism? ‘What about the Protestants?’ ‘What about the Presbyterians?'(BTW I’m neither)
Don’t worry, just because you can’t defend your beliefs doesn’t mean you can’t pretend you’re right. That’s what Islam and Catholicism(and many others) have in common. No scholar will ever be able defend either religion when faced with their own sources. Oh, and they both obviously worship Satan(Allah).
‘Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.'(Proverbs)
‘Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.'(Matthew)
It’s about Truth, nothing else.
Jack Diamond says
Guess what, we’re not here to debate Catholicism. You’re in the wrong place.
In more ways than one.
EventHorizon says
You’re right, I should really know better than to violate Sharia blasphemy laws(as applied to Catholicism) on JW. Robert Spencer risks his life to promote free speech, you go out of your way to stifle it.
Where will you permit me to criticize Islam? I better not tell any Muslims about it, right? Maybe I’ll just preach to the choir here on JW. That way, I probably won’t offend anyone.
If Mr Spencer asks me to leave, I will. Somehow, I just can’t see that happening.
‘Those who annoy Allah and His Messenger – Allah has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment.’
Hey, at lest you’re in good company.
Jay Boo says
Ignoring the big picture
EventHorizon wants to debate doctrine rather than The ethnic and religious purging of Christians today.
Judas Iscariot also Ignored the big picture and showed his true worldly intentions with indignation at the spending of 30 pieces of silver yet that was his price to betray the Christ.
EventHorizon says
Ah, the ever-present Jay Boo. Well, you’re certainly an unending source of childish nonsense. Eventually you might decide to put a little more thought into your posts, but I doubt it.
If only I cared about persecuted Christians as much as the great Jay Boo, there would be no problem here. Leftist drivel.
‘But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.'(2 Peter)
We should ignore that passage(not seek them out), Jay Boo might get mad(boohoo).
If you think world events are ‘the big picture’, it’s back to Sunday School for you(big picture books might help).
If you think quoting Scripture in criticism of Catholicism is showing ‘worldly intention’, tantamount to betraying Christ, time for you to put down the Lysol and seek help.
SoCalMike says
The same denial in the US from 193901945 is alive and well in the US today as jihadi supremacist Muslims seek to finish what Hitler started against Jews and Christians today.
Never again? What a joke!
Thank the Left wing thought police and the voluntary intellectual slaves Americans are.
We know what we can and can not think. If we think bad thoughts we aren’t nice.
And if we tell the truth about jihadis, then we are “wayyyytthists.”
Leftist scum infests us like maggots and fleas.
DeMolay says
I’d like to see atheists join in with a judo-Christian alliance, as all have a common threat. Plus atheists may appeal to an apathetic group that think religion is nonsense. Atheists have a part to play.
Katnis says
Interesting! Atheists probably have more respect for human life and human dignity than one would think. Atheists would make better neighbors than muslims.