A friend joked with me earlier when I showed him this, “I never saw that coming, maybe the BBC are bragging about it now that genocide is assured”. Does this make the BBC “Islamophobic” now? no, they managed to publish this without mentioning the cause, “honest Guv, they just vanished”. Of course I joke though with discomfort and horror, full of anger. I’m more used to writing fairly highly technical “knowledge base” articles, so forgive me.
The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
The review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution.
Christians were the most persecuted religious group, it found.
Mr Hunt said he felt that “political correctness” had played a part in the issue not being confronted.
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- Religious persecution ‘a threat to everyone’
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The interim report said the main impact of “genocidal acts against Christians is exodus” and that Christianity faced being “wiped out” from parts of the Middle East.
It warned the religion “is at risk of disappearing” in some parts of the world, pointing to figures which claimed Christians in Palestine represent less than 1.5% of the population, while in Iraq they had fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.
1.5 million down to 120,000 in 15 years, still isn’t enough to count as genocide for the BBC.
The obsenity of this being allowed to happen is as vile as any other genocide, there were just as many warnings for those who made the effort to look, just as there were coming from Germany in the 1930s. I will not single out any specific political player, there were many involved to varying degrees. Most of the churches in the west have been more bothered with the welfare of other minorities and faiths.
This review they use as a source has been a long time coming, was only commissioned less than 18 months ago will end up being a “what happened” rather than a “what can we do”, far too little and far to late.
“Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity,” the Bishop wrote.
“In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN.”
The foreign secretary commissioned the review on Boxing Day 2018 amid an outcry over the treatment of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who faced death threats after being acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan.
Its findings come after 359 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in attacks at hotels and churches in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.
Mr Hunt, who is on a week-long tour of Africa, said he thought governments had been “asleep” over the persecution of Christians but that this report and the attacks in Sri Lanka had “woken everyone up with an enormous shock”.
We had a muslim commentator on the site yesterday bringing out the old lie of palestinian genocide, of course, the opposite is the case, palestinian numbers have grown exponentially, the truth is, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, from the birthplace of Jesus has all but disappeared. The fake victim carrying out the same crime they accuse others of.
He added: “I think there is a misplaced worry that it is somehow colonialist to talk about a religion that was associated with colonial powers rather than the countries that we marched into as colonisers.
‘Atmosphere of political correctness’
“That has perhaps created an awkwardness in talking about this issue – the role of missionaries was always a controversial one and that has, I think, also led some people to shy away from this topic.
Missionaries? the Iraqi and Syrian Christians were there for 2000 years. Did the BBC just dump in talk of colonists and missionaries to deflect?
“What we have forgotten in that atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are some of the poorest people on the planet.”
In response to the report, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl, said Jews had often been the targets of persecution and felt for Christians who were discriminated against on the basis of their faith.
“Whether it is in authoritarian regimes, or bigotry masked in the mistaken guise of religion, reports like the one launched today remind us that there are many places in which Christians face appalling levels of violence, abuse and harassment,” she said.
Well, for the history books, BBC’s “Warning” can be found here, and I’ll save an archive incase they change it here.

CRUSADER says
St George! please intercede and show us how to slay the dragon!
elee says
+1
christianblood says
The satanic, degenerate, pro-Islamist, anti-Christ West is working hand-in-hand with Islamists not only to wipe out Christianity as a religion but is conniving and colluding with Islamic jihadists to genocide and mass-murder Christians world over! The cultural marxist liberal globalists that run the West are openly working with Islamists to exterminate Christians! May God take His revenge against the bloody, murderous, pro-jihadist and satanic West now! Recently both Obama and Clinton revered the Christians mass-murdered in Sri-Lanka as “Easter Worshipers” avoiding even the word “Christians”. Please watch as Iben Thranholm explains as to why this is happening:
christianblood says
Western globalist secularists and their islamist allies are working hand-in-hand to exterminate Christianity world over!
gravenimage says
This video does not, of course, say any such thing. Is christianblood now hoping we won’t watch the videos he links to?
The thing is that this video actually makes a lot of good points–Western civilization *is* in peril.
But christianblood himself *hates* Western civilization–he has said many times that he wants Muslims to invade, conquer, and destroy the West.
Ole Pederson says
I could not agree more! This follows a pattern.
OTOH I do not agree with your opinion, the goal is wiping out Christianity. We know whose intent it is to do that.
christianblood says
Ole Pederson
Thank you!
150 Christian churches and monasteries destroyed and desecrated in Kosovo alone by the US and Nato-backed KLA jihadists!
gravenimage says
Ah…right. Reporting that Christian persecution is at near genocide levels–somehow–means they are cheering these horrors.
But then, christianblood has also claimed that the US defeating the “Caliphate” means that they “hate Christ”–despite this freeing so many Christians from sex slavery.
christianblood says
gravenimage
Trotskyite-led US attacked Iraq on 2003 on WMD lies
and that led to the extinction of Christians in that country who numbered around 1.7 million before the war now almost exterminated! US planed the same thing on Syria but thanks to Russia and Iran they did not succeed! Of course in Libya also US NATO backed jihadists who replaced Qaddafi and then started beheading Christians in Libyan cities and establishing open slave markets in Tripoli! In the Balkans, US and Nato bombed Christians Serbs and established two islamic states (Kosovo & Bosnia) in Eastern Europe! I could give you more similar examples but I won’t waste my time because you are completely blinded to the truth of the matter that is very obvious to the whole world.
We just commemorated the 20 years anniversary of Nato’s bombing of Serbia in support of Kosovar jihadists!
christianblood says
gravenimage
Why did Obama and Clinton referred to the Christians mass-murdered in Sri-Lanka as “Easter Worshipers” instead of calling them “Christians”???
gravenimage says
It is Muslims who are slaughtering Christians in the Middle East, and have been for centuries–not the ‘filthy Infidels’ as christianblood constantly pretends.
And I have never been a fan of Hillary Clinton, let alone the appalling Barack Obama. Why is christianblood pretending that I am?
KWJ says
If Christianblood has said that he wants Muslims to invade the West, that’s abhorrent, but he still continues to be correct that we enable the conditions that result in this cleansing of Christians and jihadism. It’s not that each politician personally likes it; Hillary did say “We know [that Christians are being cleansed in Iraq]” and she’s even quoted the Bible in some of her speeches. But the politicians are puppets of fascist organizations such as the Council in Foreign Relations, the small but very powerful Bilderberg group people who have tremendous global reach and influence. They don’t give one whit for inhumanitatian collateral damage of peoples; it’s economics and strategy, and of course power…they are amoral.
It’s ugly truths and has gone on for decades. Serbia is an example: Serbia wasn’t going along with what those powers and corporations wanted, do despite that Serbians were sick of the Muslims destroying their churches and causing problems, Bill Clinton, et al. sided with Muslims; in Kosovo, a jihadi hotbed, they have a street named after Clinton. (By the way, Bosnian which even has alcohol bars and stores is being pressured by Saudis who have set up an exclusive community and suddenly some of those stores have been closed.)
He’s right about the other things too. Bill Clinton later said that he regretted us not helping with the Rwandan Genocide but talk is cheap-there was no advantage to helping them and the New York Times had only one little blurb about it on back pages lest Americans care that eventually over 500,000 Tutsis were murdered in 100 days.
So, Christians are collateral damage to wider economic strategies. Not talking about this wipeout of Christians in the Middle East is as much as condoning it. They do not get on the case of the Saudis’ discrimination which is effectively dhimmitude. Our politicians do not band together and stand up against the CFR whether they’re afraid of being dead or their own interests and power or cultish fascism. These aren’t idle conspiracy theories, it is real and proven.
That this article even brings up colonialism is repugnant. Colonialism has nothing to do with the persecution of Christians in Islamic lands since the Christians were there long before Islam was established, of course.
Nigeria is another case of media false narrative of the Muslim north vs Christian south they attribute to farming land disputes when the murderous Muslims also want to establish a sharia state.
Paul Watson’s video on the decline of Western civilization has been a running theme since the 7th century such as blaming immorality but it’s worse now. Pew research found the decline of declared Christians was the same amount of uptick of those who believe in some kind of higher power or some kind of God and no god, not a church.
There are a lot of factors in culture, demoralization in education being one and new research is showing young people are more depressed because of online activity which is more because they spend so much time on social media rather than reading long articles, excellent websites and gaining knowledge. (I mean sites about history, art, the New York Public Library put so much online for the public good.) People have lost faith in government and feel powerless and there’s all this pinball divineness like making white people feel guilty for improving standards of living and conquering like so many other imperialist countries. No matter if young people mimic that attitude, it’s got to feel cruddy and demoralizing, a communistic tactic. So many phony people, cognitive dissonance and selling out one’s soul.
Why are there people like you who are well-rounded and knowledgeable and others not? I guess we should be looking at whys. My parents were a big influence as well as some teachers, but I am older and didn’t have the education that’s happening today; school was about learning and not all this social engineering and now all this emphasis on activism even in elementary school.
Rant.
christianblood says
KWJ posted
(… But the politicians are puppets of fascist organizations such as the Council in Foreign Relations, the small but very powerful Bilderberg group people who have tremendous global reach and influence. They don’t give one whit for humanitarian collateral damage of peoples; it’s economics and strategy, and of course power…they are amoral…)
Exactly right! They are amoral, greedy, avaricious and evil evil traitors!
Your comment is multi-faceted and factual! I wish ‘gravenimage’ and others like her learn from it! Thank you!
gravenimage says
I have said many times that the West has been dangerously clueless when dealing with the scourge of Jihad–including on this very thread.
But christianblood constantly pretending that Islam is not a problem and the real threat is the West is just sickeningly false.
He constantly links to sites advocating Russians ally with Muslims in order to crush the West.
When I called him out on one of the many occasions he beseeched God to allow Muslims to destroy the West, he then demanded that God “start from gravenimage”. When I pointed out that this would likely mean my being gang raped and beheaded by Muslims, he said that if I resisted this that I was resisting the Truth of Jesus. This is *very* ugly stuff, and has nothing to do with opposing Jihad.
mortimer says
‘CRUSADER’ here is your answer which as already well known:
Revelation 12:11 : “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.”
You are commanded to fight evil by PRAYER and IDEOLOGY … with words.
Turn from wicked genocidal ideology and abandon your evil rage. Fill your heart with compassion for Muslims. They are humans who have wrong information.
And your dumb nickname … you must think you’re smart and slick, don’t you? Well the Libtards think you’re a genocidist and racist and Muslims think you in the party of satan.
You can’t put yourself in someone else’s place, can you? That’s why you don’t know how to defeat Islam.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, you claim that defending against Jihad is “genocidal” and that one has to turn from the Infidel victims of Islam and instead care about Muslims because they have the wrong information is very questionable.
I don’t believe that Christianity is a suicide pact, and that Christians are not allowed to defend themselves.
Just recently, the Christian-majority United States defeated ISIS territorially–do you think that freeing slaves from the “Caliphate” was anti-Christian? The West has also largely defeated the Somali pirates–do you consider this an evil?
And your insistence that CRUSADER give up his username because it offends Muslims is disturbing. You *do* realize that Muslims are also offended by Jihad Watch and anyone else who opposes the horrors of Jihad?
You yourself are very knowledgeable about the texts of Islam, and use that knowledge to warn Infidels about the threat of Islam–Muslims would find that offensive as well.
And I assume your reference to knowing how to defeat Islam is about your claim that Muslims can be “deprogrammed”. Yet despite my having asked scores of times now, you have been unable to provide even a single testimonial from any Muslim you yourself have deprogrammed. If this is so effective, you should not have any problem providing such evidence.
CRUSADER says
http://www.OPENDOORSusa.org
https://www.persecution.com/about/
http://christianrightsandfreedom.org/about-us/
https://www.compassion.com/about/about-us.htm
CRUSADER says
http://www.OPENDOORSusa.org
https://www.persecution.com/about/
CRUSADER says
http://christianrightsandfreedom.org/about-us/
https://www.compassion.com/about/about-us.htm
gravenimage says
Thanks for all the links, CRUSADER–I would also add this one:
Hope and Aid for the Persecuted Church | Barnabas Fund
https://barnabasfund.org/us
Dawne says
Jeremy Hunt ordered the report – any views as to whether this is genuine concern on his part or political posturing for the Conservative leadership? I see from the article that it is he who talks about “missionaries” so I’d say political posturing. I’m going to tweet him and point this out (for the little it’s worth).
“Most of the churches in the west have been more bothered with the welfare of other minorities and faiths.” – yes and the Catholic church and the Church of England is still engaged in this.
And the situation in China? They seem to be persecuting all religions equally but all one hears about in the MSM is the Uighur Muslims…… Same old same old.
Comment on these articles; tweet politicians, bishops and archbishops, pass on to friends and family. What else can we do to try to stem the tide of misinformation?
Walter Sieruk says
It must be heinously awful to the extreme for the BBC to come right out and admit that the , Muslim, persecution of Christians is “at near genocide levels.” Therefore , in should be remembered that those violent and vicious jihad –minded Muslims in their murderous persecution of Christians aren’t really going to get away with their destruction of Christians. As the apostle Paul had written each individual Christian is actually, in the View of God, a temple of God. For to Christians, it is written in the Bible “Don’t you know that that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.” First Corinthians 3:16,17. [N.I.V.] As in “A man reaps what he sows.” Galatians 6:7.
CRUSADER says
And “the Truth shall set you free….”
+ + +
Ragdoll says
I originally read the article with pleasant surprise that the BBC would actually mention anti-Christian persecution *at all*, however yes it would be much better and more honest if they had spared any effort to say which groups the persecution is coming from!
Probably afraid of riots and bloodshed in the streets if they dare point the finger at the Religion of Peace….
elee says
Will it be another millennium till Christians defend themselves again?
FYI says
A shame pope francis doesn’t notice and chooses to remain silent in the face of such evil:francis,the “pope of the Ear”,the “Listening pope of the listening church” who doesn’t listen.
Nice,smiley,francis who sends a $500,000 check to assist ILLEGAL immigrants.
How come all that money is not sent to aid persecuted Christians instead?
francis the marxist jesuit, who is in favor of MORE mass islamic immigration sponsored by the globalists while
he lives behind HIGH WALLS of the Vatican with his own private army to protect him.
{It would be great to have an authentic pope for the sake of Catholics and Christianity….}
francis is too busy on his knees,slobbering,{sniffing?}the feet of political leaders.
Interesting thing about francis..
1.There is now ANOTHER complaint by faithful catholics that has been sent to francis regarding his continued heresies{SEVEN where revealed in 2017 Filial Correction..SEVEN HERESIES!..that is unprecedented.Along with Dubbia 2016, francis the far left judas pope, has ignored ALL complaints}
2.It is said by papal apologists that the reason francis STANDS during the Mass {whilst others kneel} is because he has problems with his legs:yet we see francis has no problem getting down on his knees{which would place a greater strain on one’s legs,right?}
If you had problems with your legs which is more likely to be a problem:Standing or kneeling?
Kneeling of course.
It’s all about the man’s INCREDIBLE HUMILITY……well-photographed too…
Rufolino says
“Nice, smiley Francis” ??
Can’t help notice that when he isn’t grinning and his face is in repose, Francis appears coarse, ugly, not noticeably intelligent, and his countenance does not radiate goodwill.
This is probably too judgemental. Looks can be deceiving. But people do say in old age you get the face you deserve.
Muslim2019 says
All propaganda, there is absolutely no Christian genocide anywhere in the world. Christians in Muslim lands are doing very well with their Muslim neighbors. In fact the Christians should be invited to Islam so that they give up falsehood and embrace Islam which is the only truth.
gravenimage says
“Muslim2019”–who used to post as “Muslim2018”, and “Muslim2017” before that, as though Islam ever changes–wrote:
All propaganda, there is absolutely no Christian genocide anywhere in the world. Christians in Muslim lands are doing very well with their Muslim neighbors.
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It seems that “Muslim2019” thinks that *this* is Christians “doing very well” in Muslim lands:
“Egypt: Church Closed after Muslim mob beats up priest, scares 200 Sunday school children onlookers”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/egypt-church-closed-after-muslim-mob-beats-up-priest-scares-200-sunday-school-children-onlookers
“Nigeria: Muslims massacre 17 Christians after baby dedication, including the child’s mother”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/nigeria-muslims-massacre-17-christians-after-baby-dedication-including-the-childs-mother
“Pakistan: Christian girl abducted, forced into Islamic marriage, beaten, tortured and raped”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/christian-girl-abducted
There are, of course, thousand more such horrifying stories.
More:
In fact the Christians should be invited to Islam so that they give up falsehood and embrace Islam which is the only truth.
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What happens after Christians are “invited to Islam”? Why, then they are fair game for the sort of horrors I cited above if they do not immediately submit. *Ugh*.
Muslim2019 says
When the Christian gives up polytheism then embrace Islam then Allah forgives his sins of polytheism and he is embraced by the Islamic brotherhood.
You cited some “killings of Christians” above. How many killings do you have in America and the uk alone? So yes everywhere has issues but in Islamic societies Islamic thrived for over 1000 years. If Muslims wanted to wipe out Christianity it could have been done but Allah taught us differently.
FYI says
@muslim 2019 B.C
Al iLah= Arabic for “the god iLah”
Al ilah is The “BEST of deceivers” k3:54:and you can’t figure it out??
You are on the WRONG PATH muslim:you are the baal worshipper!
Al Ilah evolved from Hu baal:the PAGAN Arab god of the kaaba
Al Ilah=hu bAAL
God help you muslims:your false pagan Arab iLah won’t!!
{iLah does not even permit final penitence k4:18..}
“If the Lord is God
follow Him
But if baal be your god
follow him”
I Kings 18:21
You have chosen allah {hu bAAL}…
BTW Christians are Monotheists, not polytheists:it is your false pagan Arab god Al Ilah that makes that mistake in k4:171 as he completely misunderstood the Theology of the Trinity even telling muslims NOT to believe in God’s Wisdom{the Holy Spirit..one of the “3”..}a LUDICROUS mistake to make.
And if your murderous pagan Arab god of hate iLah the great deceiver was the same as the God of Israel he would not have COMPLETELY MISSED THE 2 CHIEF COMMANDMENTS..
gravenimage says
The vile “Muslim2019” wrote:
When the Christian gives up polytheism then embrace Islam then Allah forgives his sins of polytheism and he is embraced by the Islamic brotherhood.
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Note that the appalling “Muslim2019” does not consider kidnapping, rape, forced marriage, assault, and mass murder to be sins–but he does consider it a sin to believe in the Holy Trinity.
I am not even going to address the fact that Christians are *not* polytheists–certainly, many people are ignorant about the faiths of others, but it is only Muslims who murder out of this ignorance.
Moreover, Jews and Christians are not slaughtering polytheists–but no doubt “Muslim2019” does not consider this civilized, but just weak. Muslims always believe they have the right to murder others for holding peaceful beliefs. *Ugh*.
More:
You cited some “killings of Christians” above. How many killings do you have in America and the uk alone?
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Who here is lauding murders in the US or Britain? No one. Moreover, killing, unless in self-defense, is *illegal* in the UK and America–whereas “Muslim2019” clearly believes that Muslims have the right to mass-murder non-violent Christians merely because they hold peaceful beliefs.
More:
So yes everywhere has issues but in Islamic societies Islamic thrived for over 1000 years. If Muslims wanted to wipe out Christianity it could have been done but Allah taught us differently.
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If by “thrived” “Muslim2019” means invading and destroying civilized societies, this is grimly true.
And there have been times when Muslims were more intent on milking Christians and other Infidels for Jizya–at times even barring the oppressed dhimmis from converting to Islam.
But certainly the norm has been oppressing, driving out, forcibly converting, and slaughtering Infidels.
Very few Jews survive in Muslim countries today, and even fewer where they are anything but a tiny handful surviving.
The situation with Christians is almost as dire–Christians have been almost wiped out in most of North Africa, in most of the Levant (save Israel), and in most of the Middle East. Just a remnant of Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs survive in Pakistan, and Christians are being mass-murdered by Muslims in the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa.
And now that Muslims have started to infiltrate the West, the same pattern of mass rapes and murder by Muslims is happening here. “Muslim2019” must be so proud…
gravenimage says
I had intended to add that Turkey wiped out most of its surviving Christians a hundred years ago in the Armenian Genocide, which also targeted Greek, Assyrian, and Levantine Christians–between 1.5 and 2 million people.
Westman says
Muslim2019,
Embracing a carnal Jannah doesn’t require a religion. Many create it right here on earth.
The loveless Allah has all the attributes of a body-less programmed central control machine that has no human feelings; whose creators and programmers have all perished. It says, “I am God and I will punish those who do not worship me with continual torture.” This is the edict of a tyrant or the emotionless output of a machine. Neither deserves worship.
The idea that forcing everyone to be a Muslim, dhimmi, or to perish, will bring peace to the world is a communist fantasy that has already demonstrated its failure and rotten core. The competing factions of Islam, like the competing factions of communism, demonstrate, conclusively, that these ideologies cannot engender the harmony they claim they will force on humanity, if they are but given the power needed.
Islam has nothing to offer and will eventually go the way of the Soviet Empire. It is hopelessly out of date and place in a world that it cannot explain nor can it make itself into the central provider of privilege and wealth. It once worked as a solution for a simple culture that was so poor babies were buried in the sand to limit the mouths to feed; like the past similar drowning of babies in Hawaii. And like worship of the volcano god, the worship of Allah will fade as its irrelevance to geophysical reality is recognized.
The migrants streaming to the West are ample evidence that Islam is failing its adherents.
marc says
@Muslim2019 says “there is absolutely no Christian genocide anywhere in the world”
Please provide one example where a Christian population is growing in a Muslim majority country?
You may not like it that Muslims are committing genocide as a people, but you are, stop being so disingenuous, or i will assume you support this.
gravenimage says
BBC admits, Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’
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Horrifying–but good to finally hear this from the BBC.
Ordinary Joe says
Leftists and Liberals are facilitating the rise of the beast.
TheCrusader says
A south African Christian living in Israel for the better part of his life with a nice blog asked God if it is Islam which will be the mayor endgame player. God told him: No, there will be a mixture of two satanic ideologies and it will be so evil you cannot comprehend.
I guess we all know which two ideologies are meant, but they have not been named.
So prepare and put ALL your faith in Jesus Christ, there is no other saviour!
Charleslavin says
The persecution of anybody who does not follow the teachings of the rabid Mohammad , is well documented …
The treatment of women , similarly to second class animals, is well documented , as is the rape of child bribes by delinquent immoral old farts …
The use of catamites , and beastiality , is permitted , an abhoration in the eyes of our maker …
There are undoubtedly many good people , who are of the islamatic faith , and there deeds are well documented ( gift of the givers , being one) , but NOT A SINGLE ONE HAS HAD THE COURAGE TO CONDEMN THE ACTS OF TERROR perpetrated in the pseudo name of their so called allah , thus being , they TACITLY APPROVE , of these various and multitudinous acts of outrage , barbarism, beastiality ,terrorism , and genocide against all , even if their “own” are used (killed , as in Christchurch massacres… CHRISTCHURCH……) ….
In the mists of time , perhaps this now faith of hate , was a faith of peace and goodwill , but that all changed with the murderous and traitorous Mohammad , the microphone of his master ….
Chaz
Stan Armes says
Stanley Armes Such acts, while becoming more blatant, must not surprise us. Jesus assured us that as the prophets and Jesus himself were persecuted so shall his followers. Generally speaking we in America know nothing of persecutions as other nations have experienced. There beats in every human heart the rebellion against any authority especially God. Then we have the arrogance to set ourselves up as the ultimate authority. One false statement is that “Religion is in danger of disappearing.” If that were true, then Christianity would have disappeared long ago. Absolutes are not liked these days but I will make an absolute statement, Christianity will never disappear. Jesus said I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not overcome it. Either we believe this or not. For 30 years China thought it had wiped out the church….It only went underground and CONTINUED TO GROW!! the Chinese government has not yet learned this vital truth thus the persecutions have resumed. ANY OTHER religion that takes upon its self the task of wiping out Christianity will not succeed.
marc says
“Christianity will never disappear” that’s not the problem here, these distinct peoples are, they have been there for 2000 years, do have no feelings for them, is Christianity surviving to the last Christian all that matters to you?
This is not like China where you can just go underground, start waving a red flag, and the authorities ignore you.
This is leave, submit or die stuff.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Marc.
Stan Armes says
You miss the point. If it comes to death, the Chinese are willing to die for their faith. Secondly, Jesus makes it clear that Christians will suffer greatly for their faith. It will never go away until he comes back again.
gravenimage says
We should never condone this vicious persecution.
enter says
The BBC is despised by many British and foreign nationals. It is not part of the solution and is complicit in the persecution and destruction of, western interests and secular rule. Put any BBC service on and start counting (especially its news).. see how long it takes before their nefarious agenda starts seeping out, like some puss-ridden wart about to go pop. This corporation is brimming at the scenes with its absolute hatred of all things free. And it is not alone; much of the mainstream media in the west (including METRO) has gone the same way. Freedom of speech is the new terrorism, the media and tech firms the new coalition fighting it. The more they lose their grip the more desperate and arrogant they become. Concentrate not on what they do, but on where to move forward once they destroy themselves. The BBC is to freedom what cancer is to a healthy cell.