“Forbes magazine has appealed for recognition of the phenomenon of Christian persecution around the globe as a crisis demanding focused attention.”
Although Forbes recognizes Christian persecution, it needs to recognize its root cause.
This appeal follows Hungary’s International Conference on Christian Persecution, which I attended as a guest of the Hungarian government.
Those who have followed Jihad Watch’s coverage of Hungary and of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban know that he has stood apart in the European Union as one who has rejected outright the EU’s suicidal immigration policies. Orban has not even attempted to disguise the reason why: he intends to responsibly protect the Christian heritage of his country against Islamization. He knows that in Christian, not Muslim, societies, religious rights and freedoms truly flourish.
Take for example, the top 15 countries listed by Open Doors USA as the worst persecutors of Christians. In 80% of those countries, the Christians are suffering under “Islamic oppression.”
Christians are facing genocide in many Muslim-dominated areas of the Middle East and Africa, yet they have been mostly forgotten in the West, including by churches. The source of this persecution — mainly “Islamic oppression” — should be studied by Western leaders in determining their immigration policies. At the root of the jihad against Christians globally (and also against minorities) is Islam’s supremacist doctrine. Not all Muslims choose to follow this doctrine, and many have also been victimized by it. But enough do follow it that Christians are facing genocide while jihad terror threatens the West. By now, reasonable individuals recognize this and expect their leaders to do so as well.
Orban has not been deterred by accusations of racism and “Islamophobia.” He has shut the doors to unvetted mass immigration. This does not make him a racist. It makes him a prudent leader, rarely found in today’s world of appeasers. Orban is one of the few leaders who does what they all should do: consider the fact that people do not suddenly abandon the Islamic supremacism into which they have been indoctrinated just because they enter a Western country. In fact, they see Western countries as territory to be conquered, and consider non-Muslims to be inferior.
Orban pours millions of dollars into the cause of protecting Christian from persecution through his country’s program called Hungary Helps, which is outlined in the article below. While he refuses to expose his citizens to jihad attacks, he has reached out to the most persecuted people in the world: the persecuted Church, in contrast to globalists who open the borders of their countries in the name of “humanitarianism.”
Orban was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Christian Persecution. His speech not only exemplified his concern for the persecuted Church, but also his awareness of Islamic doctrine and immigration. This is an excerpt of his speech, which I witnessed:
Distinguished Guests: Why are we talking about this here in Budapest, of all places? I have personal experience of the fact that there are many good, true Christian politicians working in Europe today; but in the current zeitgeist, its media landscape, and under the burden of ongoing coalition talks, they’re unable to speak out, don’t dare to and don’t want to. Here in Hungary the situation is different: there is a coalition-free government, political stability, a general atmosphere opposed to immigration; there is a majority demanding the defence of Christian culture, which states that instead of bringing problems here, we should take help to where the problems are. Hungary lies on the route of the Muslim immigration invasion; it must defend itself, and here in Hungary everyone knows that.
Once again, for those inclined to be duped by identity politics, not all Muslims ascribe to the normative Islamic doctrine of conquest, but acknowledging the worldwide problem with this doctrine is critical for the survival of free nations.
Western nati0ns are already beginning to submit to the strictures of Islamic supremacism, as promulgated primarily by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The OIC for years has attempted to force the West to accept what are essentially Sharia blasphemy laws. Any doctrine can be criticized in the West except Islam; its critics are deemed “Islamophobic” and must be punished in some fashion. Yet Christians are being wiped out in the Middle East and Africa as a result of Islamic supremacist doctrine; acknowledgement of that fact is crucial to stopping the advancing jihad.
In his talk, Orban gave a dire warning: that it would be a grave mistake to think that any country is immune from the persecution of Christians.
“Forbes Calls for Recognition of Christian Persecution as Global,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, December 2, 2019:
Forbes magazine has appealed for recognition of the phenomenon of Christian persecution around the globe as a crisis demanding focused attention.
Report after report “has been raising the issues that relate to the persecution of Christians globally,” notes Forbes contributor Ewelina U. Ochab, which includes “atrocities that amount to genocide and crimes against humanity.”
Faith-based persecution affects Christians more than any other religious group on the planet, Ms. Ochab observes, and therefore anti-Christian persecution deserves to be addressed as a critical issue in its own right.
Ochab cites a recent report by the Bishop of Truro for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which identified “a global phenomenon of discriminatory behavior and physical attacks, some sadly deadly, on Christian children, women and men, often from the world’s poorest communities.”
“Studies consistently show that Christians suffer significantly higher levels of persecution and intolerance,” she adds, and far from diminishing, the persecution of Christians has increased in 73 countries, according to Open Doors’ World Watch List 2019, and now affects 245 million Christians.
Despite the worrisome growth of the often violent persecution of Christians worldwide, “the extent of the crisis facing Christians persecuted for their faith remains little known and understood,” Ochab laments, citing a report titled “Persecuted and Forgotten,” produced by the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need.
The UK report stressed the need for a new approach to this global issue, “one that recognizes that the widespread issue of persecution of Christians is a phenomenon and not a series of single incidents of violent human rights abuses,” Ochab recounts.
In her article, Ochab also holds up the example of the Hungarian government, which has been a pioneer in tackling Christian persecution head-on by establishing a State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians, tasked with “providing direct support for persecuted Christian communities and raising domestic and international political and public awareness of the phenomenon and increasing scale of Christian persecution in the 21st century.”
As Breitbart News reported, last week Hungary hosted its second international conference on aid to persecuted Christians, emphasizing the need to help persecuted Christians where they are rather than encouraging them to abandon their homelands.
Addressing the conference, the head of the Secretariat, Tristan Azbei, declared that some 44 Christians would violently lose their lives during the course of the four-day meeting simply because of their faith in Jesus Christ.
“We have 245 million reasons to meet,” Mr. Azbei stated, “one for every Christian in the world who faces extreme persecution,” adding that “those are only the ones we know of.”
Azbei contrasted the unprecedented persecution facing Christians around the world in 2019 — the “greatest, best-kept secret” — with the “shameful silence of the West,” which turns a blind eye as if such persecution did not exist.
For his part, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs, noted that “Christianophobia is the last acceptable form of discrimination in the world.”
The Government of Hungary has also set up the Hungary Helps Program, Ochab observes, the “only state-run program of its kind”……