An American citizen, Pastor Andrew Brunson, is facing up to 35 years in a Turkish prison on fake “terrorism and espionage related charges.” Brunson’s witnesses were not even listened to, amid “wild conspiracies, tortured logic, and secret witnesses, but no real evidence to speak of.” Most recently, Mehmet Erdoğan, a deputy for the Turkish ruling party, accused Brunson of being “a former U.S. marine in charge of looting Iraqi gold during the 2003 U.S. invasion.”
The truth, long suspected, has now emerged. The real “crime” of Brunson was “Christianization”:
The pastor’s daughter Jacqueline Furnari declared….Turkey finally charged him when they handed down an indictment….In this indictment, my father’s crime is named as ‘Christianization,’ essentially equating it to terrorism and espionage and it is, for the most part, based on secret witnesses’ testimony.”
Religious freedom does not exist in Turkey, or in any other majority-Muslim country, for that matter. In addition, Turkey has no place in NATO, as it is an oppressive regime. Its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has dreams of a revived Ottoman Empire. Earlier in the year, Erdogan declared bloody jihad on the Kurds, and dispatched thousands of Turkish soldiers with tanks and artillery to “decimate” them. Right before this, 90,000 mosques prayed Qur’anic conquest prayers, calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers” and for victory against the Kurds. Still, Erdogan insists that it is “Islamophobic” to equate Islam with violence.
Note that astute Westerners oppose “Islamization” because of the human rights abuses committed in the name of Islam. Now compare and contrast this with Turkey’s use of the word “Christianization” as an indictment against Brunson. Brunson’s daughter responds to the charges in this way: “I’ve really come to realize that God is in complete control and he has a plan and this is all for his word. He is worth everything that my family has gone through.”
Two months ago, President Trump threatened to impose “large sanctions” against Turkey in response to Pastor Brunson’s imprisonment. The Trump administration continues to push for Brunson’s release.
“Daughter: U.S. Pastor Imprisoned in Turkey for Terrorism by ‘Christianization’”, by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, September 21, 2018:
U.S. NATO ally Turkey’s indictment against American pastor Andrew Brunson deems “Christianization” as his terrorism-related crime, the preacher’s daughter declared during a religious liberty panel discussion at the 2018 Values Voter Summit on Friday.
The pastor’s daughter Jacqueline Furnari declared, “A year and a half after his initial detention [in October 2016], Turkey finally charged him when they handed down an indictment — 62 pages. In this indictment, my father’s crime is named as ‘Christianization,’ essentially equating it to terrorism and espionage and it is, for the most part, based on secret witnesses’ testimony.”
Brunson, charged with terrorism and espionage in connection to the failed coup attempt in July 2016, is facing 35 years in Turkish custody.
In July of this year, Turkish authorities released him from jail and placed him on house arrest after he served two years behind bars.
Turkey detained Brunson in October 2016 in the wake of the failed attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime. Ankara accused the pastor of helping individuals who allegedly participated in the insurrection.
At the time of his arrest, North Carolina-native Brunson was running the Resurrection Church in the Turkish city of Izmir.
Furnari noted that there is no physical evidence against her father. She stressed that her family’s faith in God remains strong despite her father’s ordeal in Turkey.
“I’ve really come to realize that God is in complete control and he has a plan and this is all for his word. He is worth everything that my family has gone through,” she said, adding, “The entire last two years has really shown that these are just baseless charges. It’s a sham trial, and my dad is being used as a bargaining chip and suffering for Jesus Christ.”…..
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
“No stronger retrograde force exits in the world.” Winston Churchill commenting on Islam.
Elisha says
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. – Romans 8:28
RichardL says
Duh: an islamic despot is sticking to shariah.
They will not release him because in the coming breakdown of the Turkish economy, Erdogan needs more than his lapdog Merkill has.
Walter Sieruk says
The all those Muslim clerics ,as the imams and mullahs , who much now have much power in Turkey, also want to maintain their Islamic power of mind control hold on the Turkish people are terribly afraid that the Muslims who are the citizens of Turkey might start to compare and contrast the Bible with the
Qur ‘an and then the might discover that the Bible is actually the superior of those two books.
Since the Qur’an is the very foundation of Islam and thus the Islamic mind control hold of the Islamic clerics on the people . Christians such as this pastor is a person who is now suffering strong and awful persecution.
James Lincoln says
Walter,
You are correct. Christianity is a clear and present danger to Islam.
Thus the persecution of Christians.
R Russell says
May Almighty YHWH God send dreams and visions to the Turkish people so they can find the forgiveness and peace only Jesus can give.
Father forgive them, they know not what they do.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
christine williams, which document now in possession of the daughter of the American spy Bruston showing that charge against him was for “christianisation? “.Remember, the trial was conducted in an open court and non of the count charges contained anything closer to “christianisation ” .You mean what the daughter speculated to be the motive behind the charges against her father constitutes a document?
The Istanbulian says
Ibo, sen kimsim? Sen yalanci.
Secret witnesses are sooooo open.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
The Istanbulian, who are these secret witnesses? Did you attend the proceedings from trial court to appellate since you seem to suggest that you are from Istanbul? A fool!!
Joe Felon says
It takes plenty of nerve for someone such as yourself, a brainwashed adherent of a barbaric death cult which permits rape, slavery, pedophilia and child marriage to label anyone from the west a fool. The only reason that man was arrested was because of intolerance of anything non-islamic and a dictators need for a hostage to extort funds from the US. Take a long, hard look at your disgusting culture before calling anyone a fool.
gravenimage says
True, Joe.
James Lincoln says
I can’t believe it, your post did not include the word “evil”.
Congratulations!
FYI says
Or “mithraist” Bible,since it was revealed that allah claims to have written that….. “mithraist” Bible..
“WE bestowed on him{Jesus} the Gospel wherein are guidance and a light confirming that which was revealed before it in the Torah”
koran 5 v 46
So allah does not dispute the Gospel and even confirms that it is in accordance with the Torah.After all ,he claims he wrote the Bible.
If only the muslim trolls had actually read their own koran they would have known that!
Yet,in koran 3:3,allah claims the koran..confirms the Bible;No,it doesn’t!
The koran contradicts both the Torah AND the Gospel.
yet,allah does not deny the Torah and Gospel are trustworthy!!
And in the Gospel(which allah claims he wrote)are certain concepts revealed by Jesus Christ{like God’s Spirit of Wisdom} which are DENIED by the koran.k4:171.
Ludicrous!
Lydia Church says
He is the pagan ‘mithraist,’ since muslims worship the moon god. Their whole religion revolves around the moon from its symbol onward. And THAT explains all the LUNACY in islam!!!
(Lunacy, lunatic, lunar…. moon.)
Allat says
The daughter says “it is worh it , what me and my family have gone through”.
Yeah, but is it worth it what the converts will go through? Have both sides given it a thought?
Because the Converts will be killed! That’s a given.
Turks have ALWAYS done this. And the islamics have NOT changed even in the 21st c.
Lydia Church says
Jesus is always worth it.
Our life.
Everything.
Anyone who does not know this really doesn’t know Jesus yet either.
And this detail is no surprise, this is always the real reason Christians are in prison in the Middle East.
John Reynolds says
If Israel killed one Palestinian per day, for the next 5,424 years, the total count of dead by the year 7442 A.D. would be equal to the 2,000,000 Armenian and Greek Christians slaughter by Turkey between 1915 and 1923. That’s only a century ago and it is hardly ancient history. Muslims need to stop playing ‘victim’, we’re getting really, tired of it.
2,000,000 / 365.25 = 5475
2018 – 1967 = 51
5475 – 51 = 5424
2018 + 5424 = 7442
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Lydia mithraist church, it means you don’t know that the entity you call Holy Spirit representing the breath or wisdom of God is exactly the satan the cursed one? The stupid theory of ‘moon-god ‘by mithraist christian evangelist liars has fallen like a cardhouse for long, you are not aware. A fool!!
gravenimage says
ibrahim itace muhammed has said before that opposing horrors such as child “marriage”, rape, enslavement, and mass slaughter are “the satan”.
More proof that Islam is not just immoral, but the very inversion of morality.
introvert says
Islam is certainly on the raise, but its fall will be hard. Used by the
globalists to conquer/fight western civilian societies . They are only useful
to a certain degree. When civil wars takes over, their time is finished as Muhammed´s
warriors. Islam´s followers are only tools in the hands of the globalists as long as they want.
The lefties are in reality useful idiots, for a more grand global drama. The new world order has been
in action long enough.
What happens in Turkey is just a part of a political agenda. Christians have always been the target
in Turkey. The criminal state remains.
Laura says
“I’ve really come to realize that God is in complete control and he has a plan and this is all for his word. He is worth everything that my family has gone through,”
Oh yeah, I wonder what the ‘plan’ could be that condemns an innocent man to 35 years in an Islamic prison?
God has nothing to do with this, it’s the terrorists and lunatics who are in control, and there is diddly squat that a non-existing god can do about it.
Carolyne says
Laura, you are right. Further, what kind of a God who is in “Complete control” of this would allow such death and suffering? There is no God. Such stupidity is amazing.
gravenimage says
Laura, his daughter is *not* lauding the injustice done her father by evil people.
IanB says
Look in a mirror to see a fool Ibrahim.
gravenimage says
Turkey: document reveals Pastor Brunson’s real “crime” is “Christianization”
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Hideous–but who can be surprised by this?