Posted on 10/17/2022 7:17:44 AM PDT by SJackson
The same Germany that took in over a million Muslim migrants in 2015, and ten thousand non-vetted Afghans in 2021—all people who, by definition, could not be experiencing religious persecution back home as they themselves were Muslim—has refused asylum to a Muslim convert to Christianity, even though one of his relatives was tortured and murdered for the same “crime” of apostasy in his native Iran.
Going under the pseudonym of “Hassan” to protect his identity, the 44-year-old applied for asylum in Germany in 2018. The authorities rejected his testimony on their belief that no one would convert to Christianity after seeing and experiencing what happens to converts in Iran. In this, they were referring to Hassan’s brother-in-law, whom Hassan said introduced him to Christianity, and was later arrested and killed in prison for participating in a house church. German authorities concluded that it was “not particularly likely” that Hassan would become—certainly not remain—a Christian after such an event, as the murder would have a “deterrent effect” on any other would-be converts, namely Hassan.
After Germany closed its doors to him, Hassan took his case to the European Court of Human Rights; it, too, recently denied his appeal. The apostate from Islam is now set to be deported back to the Islamic Republic of Iran, an act that seems the equivalent of sentencing him to death, or at the very least, abandoning him to persecution and imprisonment.
Before German authorities rejected his request for asylum, Hassan had offered the following testimonial to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees:
My wife’s brother had become a different person by becoming a Christian. We wanted to see if we would get this feeling when we became Christians…. I had had many problems in Iran…I had many [religious] questions, but I was not allowed to ask them. When I asked questions, I was beaten at school. This led me to want to know which God I was facing. One day my brother-in-law said to me and my wife that he had good news. There is a treasure, there is a living God, Jesus Christ, we are His children and not His slaves…He said there is a free salvation available.
As mentioned, his brother-in-law would go on to be imprisoned for his house church activities, and finally murdered for his faith in jail.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, it’s worth noting, is one of the worst nations to persecute Christians—especially Muslim converts. As one human rights group explained back in 2017:
A great many Iranians have been coming to Christ and it’s something which the authorities are clearly very unhappy about. So there are periodic arrests, detentions, [and] imprisonments. There have been a lot of charges lately which are suggesting an even greater clampdown—sentences of 10-15 years in some cases for Christians. And usually, the authorities will suggest that this [is] the result of undermining the state or seeking to collaborate against the state and will use more political charges than say apostasy or blasphemy laws.
Despite this oppressive climate, and rather than be “dissuaded” by the murder of his brother-in-law, Hassan, his wife and children all went on to embrace Christ. Before long, suspicious Iranian security forces stormed and plundered their home of their books, computer, passports, and Bible. Hassan and his family responded by fleeing Iran, eventually reaching Germany.
“In Germany I share the gospel, I organize prayer circles here in the accommodation,” he said. “I want to be a good example, to win the others to faith in Jesus Christ. My greatest goal would be for my children to be able to find Christ in freedom, and to do good.”
Here we come to a critically important though overlooked question: why did the German authorities find Hassan’s testimony—that he became Christian despite knowing the dire consequences—unintelligible in the first place? The simple answer is that, as atheists/materialists, German authorities simply could not believe that anyone would risk their lives just to be Christian.
As Lidia Rieder of ADF, which is assisting Hassan, observes,
There are national and international guidelines for asylum applications based on religious grounds…. Unfortunately, this guidance is being used very selectively by the German decision-makers. They do not understand that maintaining a religious belief when persecuted can be appealing to others and not just a deterrent as seen from the history of Christianity.
There could, however, be another reason that “this guidance is being used very selectively by the German decision-makers”: these decision-makers could themselves be Muslims who are avenging themselves and Islam on these Christ-loving apostates.
For starters, we already know that this exact scenario has played out before. Back in December 2019, CBN News reported:
Christian Syrian refugees … have been blocked from getting help from the United Nations Refugee Agency, the UNHCR, by Muslim UN officials in Jordan. One of the refugees, Hasan, a Syrian convert to Christianity, told us in a phone call that Muslim UN camp officials “knew that we were Muslims and became Christians and they dealt with us with persecution and mockery. They didn’t let us into the office. They ignored our request.” Hasan and his family are now in hiding, afraid that they will be arrested by Jordanian police, or even killed. Converting to Christianity is a serious crime in Jordan.
Similarly, according to Timothy, another Muslim convert to Christianity, “All of the United Nations officials [apparently in Jordan], most of them, 99 percent, they are Muslims, and they were treating us as enemies.”
Addressing this issue, Paul Diamond, a British human rights lawyer, once said:
You have this absurd situation where the scheme is set up to help Syrian refugees and the people most in need, Christians who have been “genocided,” they can’t even get into the U.N. camps to get the food. If you enter and say I am a Christian or convert, the Muslim U.N. guards will block you [from] getting in and laugh at you and mock you and even threaten you…. [saying] “You shouldn’t have converted. You’re an idiot for converting. You get what you get,” words to that effect.
Notable here is that those (Muslim) authorities who deny refuge to Christians habitually mock them and engage in sarcasm—which may well be what the German authorities who denied Hassan were doing when they denied him asylum by essentially saying that no sane person would ever become Christian in light of the consequences.
There are, in fact, many other examples of “Western decision makers” employing sarcasm and mockery in their decisions to deny asylum to persecuted converts. Consider just the United Kingdom’s Home Office, which runs its immigration program. It ridiculed an Iranian female asylum seeker in her rejection letter by writing, “You affirmed in your AIR [Asylum Interview Record] that Jesus is your saviour, but then claimed that he would not be able to save you from the Iranian regime. It is therefore considered that you have no conviction in your faith and your belief in Jesus is half-hearted.”
Discussing her experiences, the rejected woman first explained her plight: “In my country if someone converts to Christianity their punishment is death or execution.” Concerning the asylum process, she said that whenever she responded to her Home Office interviewer, “he was either chuckling or maybe just kind of mocking when he was talking to me…. [H]e asked me why Jesus didn’t help you from the Iranian regime or Iranian authorities.”
Similarly, in his rejection letter from the UK’s Home Office, one Iranian man was told that several biblical passages were “inconsistent” with his claim to have converted to Christianity after discovering it was a “peaceful” faith. The letter went so far as to cite biblical passages—from Exodus, Leviticus, Matthew, and Revelation—to argue that the Bible is violent, before concluding: “These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful’ religion, as opposed to Islam which contains violence, rage and revenge.”
In short, it seems that some Muslims in the West have gained the power and authority to do what they do in the Muslim world—discriminate against if not send Christians and apostates off to their deaths.
Interesting interview.
Gosh. Who didn’t see this coming?
I have always said that Europe will see ethnic cleansing.
If it happens soon, a lot of Muslims will die.
If it happens a little later, a lot of non-Muslims will die.
I think it will happen “a little later” but that this time is not far off.
The pure satanism of the globalist cabal and US deep state.
First, weaken Europe and western civilization through non-stop post-modern demoralization. Replace its people with unassimilable 3rd world hordes. Limit its energy with asinine green destruction.
Then push it into a war with another European power, to make the self-destruction and suicide complete.
ping
Dr Jeremiah sermon yesterday talked about the growing hatred towards Christians I. The last days, and it’s gonna get bad, real bad- we aren’t there yet here in the US, and other nations, but it is growing. Even our own liberal party says “screw your prayers and thoughts”, and they denounce God at their meetings apparently, and they attzck christian businesses while ignoring the same actions of other businesses that atent christian owned. they deny christian businesses the right to object due to religious beleifs, but allow other businesses that right.
It’s a fact, things are going to get very dicey for Christians in the near future as the man of lawlessness is loosed and his army of antichrists persecute gods people
Muslims must be forcibly removed from Europe. Damn these traitors like Merkel who have committed treason and allowed the enemy into the gates unobstructed.
Poland will welcome them.
“… no one would convert to Christianity after seeing and experiencing what happens to converts in Iran.”
Like the old Soviet joke.
Reporter: Why do you put political dissidents in mental hospitals?
Soviet official: Because you’d have to be mentally ill to be a political dissident in the Soviet Union.
And yet if a gay man said he would be killed in Iran they would probably fall all over themselves to let him in... even tho all he has to do is abstain from sexual relations with men.
I remember about 15 years ago discussing this with someone from Europe. At that time, I said that just by the higher birth rates among Mosley her nation would be taken over, which she denied. I wonder if she ever thinks about that conversation... I still do.
The leaders of The Crusades had the right idea.
Germany and Europe are in a post Christian era and couldn’t care less about the welfare of Christians. Their bigotry is on display for all to see.
I would appeal to Hungary if I were him. I doubt Victor Orban would refuse him. Lord have mercy on him.
This is horrible. I remember the Obama regime turned away Christian asylum seekers, saying they weren’t a persecuted group. Yet these Western nations claim the higher moral gtound.
World conquest and domination are to common goals of oligarchy, socialism, communism and islam. All of them are quit willing to use the others until no longer needed.
Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:
‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and,
‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”
Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”
(Matthew 4:5-7)
The Rapture happens before the AntiChrist is revealed. Pre-Trib Rapure.
Its back to the catacombs.
Because it is barbarism in religious drag, islam doesn’t rate 1st Amendment protections.
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