Christianophoba

“…Religious freedom is the canary in the mine for human rights generally.” Rupert Shortt

ACCORDING TO A NEW report by the think tank Civitas, Christianity is effectively being wiped out in the Middle East, and imperilled in Africa and Asia. The report identifies Islam as Christianity’ s main persecutor. A persecution that goes ignored by Western leaders for fear of being regarded as racists; but, more fearfully, of causing unrest among the 15 million Muslims that now reside in Europe.

            

            The report cautions that Christian converts are being murdered in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania  and Iran. In Egypt, Coptic Christians are being persecuted; and if the Muslim Brotherhood ascends to throne of Egypt. The Coptic’s can expect far worse.

            

            According to the Civitas report; “The ‘lion’s share’ of persecution faced by Christians arises in countries where Islam is the dominant faith, the report says, quoting estimates that between a half and two-thirds of Christians in the Middle East have left the region or been killed in the past century.

“There is now a serious risk that Christianity will disappear from its biblical heartlands,”

The report authored by Rupert Shortt has provided evidence of what we all suspected from pieces we had read about Christian persecution  in the press from all over the world on the internet, but could not, until Mr Shortt’s  research, gauge the depth of Christian persecution in the Muslim world. The report observes that; “200 million Christians, or 10 per cent of Christians worldwide, are socially disadvantaged, harassed or actively oppressed for their beliefs.”  As the report suggests the vast preponderance of such Christian persecution takes place in the Muslim world… duh!

            But our instinct and, yes, prejudice, requires the authority of this Civitas report to confirm both intuition and prejudice regarding the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world. In fact, because of political correctness in the West, the Muslim communities living among us remain unchallengeable; they use lawyer racism at every opportunity, while Christians in the Muslim world suffer the fate of  the heretic through the centuries.

            

            Wherever Islam is the dominant faith, all other faiths are barely tolerated, and in hundreds of cases effectively crushed. How long will it take for the West to rise from its stupor. Is it not sufficiently demonstrated that in multi-faith, but dominantly Islamic countries, that Islam and only Islam can flourish? In Saudi Arabia Christian churches have to be surrounded by brick walls so the symbols of Christianity are removed from view. Yet we allow in our secular society mosques to be planted when and wherever they are in demand and the indigenous people have to accept their minarets dominating local landscapes, while the state of our Christian churches, in our secular society, go ignored.

            

             200 million Christians, mainly in the Muslim world face social disadvantage or oppression. Our politicians, being the frightened creatures they are, fear upsetting the Muslim population in their own countries. In this country Christianity is the only religion that can be the butt of a comedian’s jokes. The Muslim religion is sacrosanct and untouchable by either humour or satire.

THE WEST HAS embraced multiculturalism, which of course means a multi-faith society; while in parts of the Islamic world Christianity is a heresy. It angers me to see the way our politicians have allowed Islam to flourish protected by the law and in opposition to the majority of this country’s indigenous population.

            

             The secularists in this country see little problem with Christianity’s disadvantage to  the Muslims and would not lift a hand to defend the former against the latter. Which is why, I truly believe that, the West is in terminal decline. The author of the Christianophoba report, Rupert Shortt hit the nail on the head when he said; “…Religious freedom is the canary in the mine for human rights generally.”  

            

             What Mr Shortt is saying, is that, if we, as seems likely, care so little for our home grown faith that we care little about the growth of a Muslim faith’s presence, treating them both as mere insignificant and worthless superstitious appendages to our culture; then we will be unpleasantly surprised. Such an arrogant dismissal by secularists, know little of the real power of religion.

            I am an atheist , but one who would prefer the nutritious benefits of the message of Christian love, to the hatred of the Koran and its demands upon the people that surpasses in its cruelty even that of the Old Testament. I deplore the Christian message of love and forgiveness  for it leaves only a displeased victim without any form of punishment for their tormentor. But even this evil is preferable to the demonology of the Koran.

ISLAM IS THE new fascism. The Arab Spring has deposed of one set of dictators in Egypt, Iraq and Libya, only to see them replaced by militant Islamists. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood have successfully been elected to power. They will continue to hold on to such power because of their rural strongholds throughout Egypt: while the cities like Cairo are in the hands of the middle classes.

            

          The march of Islam and the persecution of Christianity in the Middle East are part and parcel of the Arab Spring which the West… or the Western media, to be more precise, celebrated in their naivety, hoping for a modern Western liberal society to emerge from the convulsions.

            

          In the Muslim world Christianophoba is real; and if we in the West are not careful it will become real among the Islamic community within this country and Europe, once the demographics change and the 15 million European Muslims become 30 million.