Posted on 05/03/2019 5:54:37 PM PDT by robowombat
BBC admits, Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’ MAY 3, 2019 1:32 PM
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.
Alarm over China’s Church crackdown Religious persecution ‘a threat to everyone’ Pope decries killing of Christians 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.
To date I have seen no extended coverage on the mass murder by muzzards of Christians in Iraq and elsewhere nor any PBS documentaries.
I remember back in 1980n how angry some people, including my wife, became, over my 'good riddance, to bad it wasn't 40' attitude towards the deaths of these communist auxiliaries. Funny, not much outrage from the good thinkers on a real case of genocide.
They hate Christians, so maah, don’t matter.
Wait until nations are ruled by Godless savages.
“Come back, all is forgiven”... will be the cry, but it will be too late then.
If the Stalinists don’t get them, the beheaders will.
I think it is already past the “near genocide levels” of persecution. If you think it’s bad now, and it is, wait till the great tribulation period. We ain’t seen nothin yet.
AKA the spirit of antichrist. It fits and is increasing in these end times.
‘Atmosphere of political correctness’
Again, an atmosphere of the spirit of antichrist - the spirit of Islam, Allah, and the Left.
But what ALSO doesn't get covered is the amazing worldwide move of God sweeping up millions of souls to Christ. This silent but powerful move of God is the end-time restoration of the Gospel of the Grace of Christ as prophesied by Christ himself in Luke 14:23. This persecution is Satan's reaction to God's unstoppable move.
In a few decades Luke 14:23 will be fulfilled, Jesus will come to catch the saints up into heaven, and the spirit of antichtrst will drive those who rejected Christ into seven years of horror upon those on earth that will be truly unimaginable - no movie has captured it.
So long as Christians do not retaliate with force, the genocide will go on.
Governments and media silent; but don’t you ever say anything about muzzie violence - you’ll be accused of hate speech.
I agree, but it will be here too then.
We certainly see the ground-work for that building right now.
It’s an incredible thing to watch.
I suspect many people who are on the earth at that time, will realize that the world is about to end, hence men’s hearts failing them for fear.
Yup. Demons and death and even no death when men wish they would die.
But seven years of God's wrath upon the earth will be followed by 1000 years of the reign of the Prince of Peace - a millennium more peaceful and prosperous than any the earth has ever seen. God's love and mercy is always greater than his wrath and judgment (James 2:13).
Liberals rightfully hate the KKK but love Islam. As for me I’m not sure what the difference is.
The Left ARE the KKK AND Islam.
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