Non-Muslims are in an increasingly precarious position in rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey. While august institutions and government bodies wring their hands over “Islamophobia,” the Muslim persecution of Christians continues apace, and the persecutors are growing bolder and more aggressive in the face of the prevailing international indifference.
“Red Alert! Protestant Couple ‘Security Threat’ to Turkey!,” by Burak Bekdil, Gatestone Institute, October 22, 2016:
Over the past several years Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pressured Greece to construct a mosque in Athens. He has criticized the country which boasts the only European capital without a mosque. He does not hide his passion for mosques worldwide.
In 2015 Erdogan proposed the construction of a mosque in secular, Communist-ruled Cuba. Also in 2015, he went to Moscow for the inauguration of the biggest mosque in the Russian capital.
Earlier this year Erdogan pleasantly announced his presence at the opening of the biggest mosque in Amsterdam. The mosque is called “Hagia Sophia,” named after a Greek Orthodox Christian basilica built in 537 AD in Constantinople, reflecting the typical Muslim extremist obsession with “conquest.” Recently Erdogan has also been eyeing Iraq.
As recently as April, Erdogan attended the opening ceremony of a culture center and mosque in Maryland, United States. The complex, the only one in the United States to feature two minarets, was constructed in the style of 16th century Ottoman architecture, with a central dome, half domes and cupolas, echoing Istanbul’s Suleymaniye Mosque. At the ceremony, Erdogan said: “Unfortunately, we are going through a rough time all around the world. Intolerance towards Muslims is on the rise not only here in the United States but also around the globe.” Intolerance toward Muslims?
Back in Turkey, an article published in the monthly magazine of the country’s powerful (and wealthy) Islamic Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet in Turkish) warned of the spreading new “religion” of Jediism — the religion of the Jedi knights from the Star Wars film series. But not all “religious tolerance” stories in Turkey are equally off the wall.
Synagogues in Turkey have quietly tightened security. Scholar Rifat Bali, who has written several books on Turkey’s Jews, says that Christians and Jews are being targeted.
Indeed, threats against Christians and churches on social media by Islamists in Turkey have intensified. “Some people have sent death threats to the mobile phones of 15 pastors,” says Umut Sahin, the secretary-general of the Union of Protestant Churches, an umbrella organization for Protestant denominations in Turkey.
Andrew Craig Brunson, pastor at a protestant church in Izmir, on Turkey’s Aegean coast, survived an armed attack on April 11, 2011. The attacker, Mehmet Ali Eren, shouted: “Traitors! We’ll bomb your church!” Eren had just been acquitted in a trial on charges of being a member of al-Qaeda.
Brunson and his wife, Norine Lyn, have been living in Turkey for 20 years. On October 7, the couple was summoned to a police station. The police told them that they would be deported from Turkey because they “posed a national security threat” to the country. A two-member terror organization? Bombings and killings? Not exactly that, the police explained. The pastor and his wife were being expelled on grounds of posing a security threat because they had carried out “missionary activity and received money from sources abroad.”
There must be merely a few thousand Protestants in Turkey, a country of nearly 80 million people, where politicians often boast that 99% of the population is Muslim. Why do nearly 80 million people view a few thousand people as threats to their national security just because the few thousand belong to a different faith? This question probably falls not into the scope of theological discipline, nor political science, but social psychiatry.
But there is a more serious aspect of this limitless Islamic hypocrisy. Erdogan should explain why he persistently demands more and more tolerance for Muslims living in non-Muslim lands, including the building of mosques in every capital, while his government can deport two Protestants on the spurious grounds that they pose a security threat to his country. The Islamophobia that Erdogan never ceases to claim exists in the Western world may or may not be a real social malady, but non-Muslimphobia in Turkey is increasingly a contagious malady. Erdogan’s determined denials do not make him right; instead he further proves his religious-ideological incompatibility with Western democracies.

Alexius Comnenus says
Until the Western Nations will not realize the islam insanity and its advance which is profess for many centuries, the world will not be safe.
They have to completely stop this idiotic policy of islamophobia, when we see the violent persecution of the Christians all over the muslim world.
When they will give back all the churches transformed into mosques and will open their borders to our missionaries then they can build mega mosques in the western hemispheres. Whet we eyewitness at the present time is universal suicidal of whatever is left of the Christian civilization in the world.
When we can build basilicas in Mecca, Medina, Ryhad and in their metropolis, then we can talk of a balance.
Damocles Junior says
Build basilicas in Medina? It won’t happen but lets look at a less grand ambition; A Muslim woman here in suburban Sydney would almost certainly be whipped or bashed if they attended a ladies’ morning tea and Bible Study at the local church.
It should also be noted that about 30 years ago most Muslim countries closed their doors completely to Christian missions, this included vital charity and health works such as mission run hospitals. At the same time most Muslim countries stated that they would be spreading Islam to non-Muslim countries as in, if they send missionaries to us we too will spread the word of Islam. (Lets face it, this is exactly what is happening)
In the meantime some liberal churches are still inviting Muslim clerics to speak from the pulpit to help Australians understand and not be frightened of Islam. Can any reader let me know if any Christian speaker has ever been allowed to preach at a Mosque?
Anne Smith says
If the deportation of these two innocent Christians make people reconsider going to Turkey for cheap sunshine holidays it will be a good thing. It is time Europeans stopped pouring tourism money into Turkey now that Erdogan is turning it into a hardline Islamist state.
Perhaps the Turkish tourist authority should cater for their Islamic friends instead. It won’t make them the profits they have been harvesting up to now but at least they wouldn’t have to worry about the deleterious effect of Christianity.
Bob says
There’s very little left of genuine Christianity in western Europe with ministers combining Christian and islamic prayers, presumably in the pious hope of better treatment when shari’a comes in!
Glen says
The integration issue is the key point. There isn’t any.
Ernie says
To name the biggest mosque of Amsterdam , the Netherlands : ” Hagia Sophia ” is a deliberate slap in the face of Christianity : what a HUMILIATION ! And what a villain he is ! And what a dhimmitude of our government . But that’s NO NEWS , we already knew . If only Geert Wilders were Prime Minister……I will always vote for this man . He is one of my HEROES .
Greyhound Fancier says
Not a humiliation to Christians, but a slap in the face. Do the Mohammedans murder their leaders during their meetings at the “Hagia Sophia”, like they murdered the Orthodox priests in Constantinople’s true Hagia Sophia in 1453?
Christianblood says
Just as they did in the WW1 when they massacred up to two million Christians in Turkey as America and the West watched, the Turks will do it again and massacre Christians treating them as a “national security threat” again, but this time, as a member of Nato, the Turks will definitely get the support of America, Nato and the EU dummies in this new genocide against Christians. America and the West are trying very hard to over the government of Assad, the protector of millions of Christians and other minorities there and are working very hard to replace him with genocidal barbaric jihadists. Shame on America! Shame on Western societies and their governments!
Ernie says
Dear Christianblood , we’ve met here before as you probably will remember and I hope you’re well and wish you well . Western corrupt and evil governments/ruling elites certainly should be ashamed for having created a situation such as you are describing . You are right . If you blame the willful ignorants who support these evil powers , you are right as well . But when you blame and shame America and Western society I don’t agree . Many of us in the West don’t support what our ruling elites do . These ruling elites are intentionally destroying Western society and its core-values ( such as democracy , freedom of concience , freedom of expression for the individual etc ) . These ruling elites work for the advancement of what they call : The New World Order. The New World Order is a totalitarian system ruled by One World Government , having One Economical System , One Currency , One World Religion etc. This system has NO DEMOCRATIC VALUES . It is pure evil , satanistic . To achieve this , the ruling elites are creating CHAOS in the world . So they start wars , topple governments , support terrorism , etc . They break nations . These wars have created refugees , and they import many of these refugees ( mostly muslims ) into the Western world . These anti democratic , theocratic muslims create many problems in our Western world and elswhere ( CHAOS ) . The ruling elites manipulate their populations in a position where the people will beg for order . ORDER OUT OF CHAOS . The elites in power will provide that order , THE NEW WORLD ORDER . It is planned and in steady progress as we all can see . The corrupt mass-media and corrupt religious leaders are in it as well ………( ooph …, I really have a bad headache , it’s the flue and I’m not in good shape this moment ) . So I’m stopping for now . My point is , my dear Christian blood : PLEASE , DON’T BLAME AND SHAME EVERYONE AND EACH OF US HERE IN THE WEST . May G-d bless you Christianblood . : Ernie
linnte says
Thanks Ernie, you said it correctly! and I hope you’re feeling better. Bless you!
Christianblood says
Ernie
Dear Ernie, yes, I do remember and I hope you all the best in your life brother! I totally agree with all your great and true points in your comment and I do exactly feel the same as you do. My words are only against the same people that you yourself mentioned in your comment Ernie, that is the modern day Western Establishment Elites and those who support them and elect them. It is frustrating that the overwhelming majority of the people in the Western world and indeed in the whole cannot see what you and I and few others can see and we are really living in dangerous times. Keep the faith Ernie! And may God protect you and keep you safe!
Anne Smith says
And never forget, the total idiot Prime Minister Cameron was moaning in 2010 about the EU not letting Turkey become a member. He said it made him really angry that Turkey was being kept out of the EU.
Just shows you the fool hasn’t got a brain in his head. Good thing we got rid of him.
Unfortunately he left the ghastly mess in Libya as his legacy.
What a complete prat the man is.
Christianblood says
Anne Smith
You are right Anne Smith, Paul Ryan is just as bad as as Cameron or worse. Please watch PM Cameron in the caption below:
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160507/1039242912/kerry-ultimatum-assad-syria.html#ixzz47zYKjH00
Christianblood says
Anne Smith
My apologies!!! This is Cameron picture I was trying to share with you above:
http://theduran.com/who-must-go-mr-cameron-asks-assad/!
Ernie says
Linnte and Christianblood , thank you very much for your wellwishes . May the Lord our G-d bless you !
Cretius says
Wrong on all counts.
A phobia is an abnormal or morbid fear or aversion. There is nothing abnormal about recognising Islam and all the barbarism it brings. Therefore, there is no such thing as Islamophobia.
Secondly, being against a system like Islam is not racism. Racism is the belief that one race is inherently better than another simply on the theory that human abilities etc. are determined by race. By definition, Islam is not a race.
Lastly, Islam is a fascist totalitarian political system that includes a religion of jihad, bigotry, intolerance, sexism and barbaric cultural practises. Muslims are their own worst enemies. They even kill each other! No one has to lie about Islam. Simply bear witness to the intolerance, bigotry and hatred spread by imams online. Muslims demand respect and rights that they deny to everyone else. This makes them unfit immigrants/refugees to modern western democracies.
Allowing such a poisonous political system/religion in is tantamount to committing national suicide.
Jim says
This is just the beginning. When will we come together and start to fight for our freedoms? All the Christian faiths need to work together to counteract the growing influence of Islam’s threat to the world. Keep in mind that the number of Christians killed by mostly Muslims has grown by nearly 2-1/2 times, from 3,000 in 2014 to 7,100 in 2015. See: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/17/world/christian-persecution-2015/
Angemon says
This is a sound policy that I urge al Western nations to adopt. How many mosques in Western nations would be left open if that were to happen?
Bob says
AMEN, shouted very loudly!!
linnte says
Gatestone says how could 80 million people view a few thousand as a threat to National Security. I have to agree, because it’s exactly what is happening here in the USA with the migrant influx from Muslim countries. A few thousand Islamic State Jihadis could destroy America in a heartbeat with a coordinated nuclear effort.
Of course the absurdity of Christians having the same mindset as Islamic ideology is lost on a Muslim leader. He is seeing the world from his own Islamic perspective, proving once again, how dangerous Islam is.
Anke L. says
Angemnon…….great comment!!
abad says
Erdogan of course means Terrorist-Training Centers(TM pending).
And the western world does NOT need any more Terrorist-Training Centers(TM pending).
We need to start shutting them down, razing them and installing parking lots in their place.
underbed cat says
That would make sense….I think it could start with a freeze on building…..immigration and sharia law.
Ali Bey says
Anti-Christian and slogan-antivegan Erdogan be beheaded with yatagan and carried with a wanigan to be buried in a kurgan.
Ali Bey says
Let Erdogan build a mosque in Athens if he restores totally the orthodox Christian cult in Hagia-Sophia in Istanbul and ends pressing and persecuting non-Muslims in Turkey.
Lioness says
The more Christians suffer in the Islamic world, the more cries of Islamophobia are proclaimed in the West. The world is upside down right now.
David says
Perhaps they should consider themselves lucky that it is only deportation as opposed to any alternatives that we have seen for these many years.
Crusades Were Right! says
The genocide of Christians in Asia Minor and neighbouring regions that began in the 11th century when the Mohammedan Turks invaded Byzantium and which reached its zenith during and shortly after World War One is now entering its final stage – getting rid of the few remaining Christians.
No-one, especially not Westerners/Christians, should have anything to do with Turkey – no business dealings, no tourism, no Turkish immigrants in our countries – until Turkey makes it clear that its persecution of Christians (and others) is over, and full restitution is made.