The nation of Hungary recently did something that is as unprecedented as it is commonsensical and humanitarian: it “has become the first government to open an office specifically to address the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Europe.”
Zoltan Balog, Hungary’s Minister for Human Resources, explained:
Today, Christianity has become the most persecuted religion, where out of five people killed [for] religious reasons, four of them are Christians. In 81 countries around the world, Christians are persecuted, and 200 million Christians live in areas where they are discriminated against. Millions of Christian lives are threatened by followers of radical religious ideologies.
“Followers of radical religious ideologies” is of course code for Muslims—they who are responsible for the overwhelming majority of Christian persecution in the world.
This move comes “after Hungary’s right-wing prime minister, Victor Orban, drew criticism in the EU by saying Europe should focus on helping Christians before helping millions of Muslims coming into Europe.”
Orban explained: “If we really want to help, we should help where the real problem is.… We should first help the Christian people before Islamic people.”
But do Western governments “really want to help” those suffering true persecution? For if they did, not only would taking in “Christian people before Islamic people” be the most humane thing to do; it would also benefit Western nations as well.
Consider some facts:
Unlike Muslims, Christian minorities are being singled out and persecuted simply because of their despised religious identity. From a humanitarian point of view, then—and humanitarianism is the reason being cited for accepting millions of refugees—Christian refugees should receive greater priority over Muslim migrants. Even before the Islamic State was formed, Christians were and continue to be targeted by Muslims—Muslim individuals, Muslim mobs, Muslim regimes, and Muslim terrorists, from Muslim countries of all races (Arab, African, Asian)—and for the same reason: they are infidel number one. (See Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians for hundreds of anecdotes before the rise of ISIS as well as the Muslim doctrines that create such hate and contempt for Christians.)
Conversely, Muslim refugees—as opposed to the many ISIS and other jihadi sympathizers posing as “refugees”—are not fleeing religious persecution (most Muslim migrants are, like ISIS, Sunnis), but chaos created by the violent and supremacist teachings of their own religion. Hence why when large numbers of Muslims enter Western nations—in Germany, Sweden, France, the UK—tension, crimes, rapes, and terrorism soar.
And hence why Hungarian minister Balog also said: “Our interest not only lies in the Middle East but in forms of discrimination and persecution of Christians all over the world. It is therefore to be expected that we will keep a vigilant eye on the more subtle forms of persecutions within European borders.”
Indeed, what more is needed than the fact that so-called Muslim “refugees” are throwing Christians overboard during their boat voyages across the Mediterranean to Europe? Or that Muslim majority refugee centers in Europe are essentially microcosms of Muslim majority nations: there, Christian minorities continue to be persecuted.
Most recently a report found that 88% of the 231 Christian refugees interviewed in Germany have suffered religiously motivated persecution in the form of insults, death threats, and sexual assaults. Some were pressured to convert to Islam. “I really didn’t know that after coming to Germany I would be harassed because of my faith in the very same way as back in Iran,” one Christian refugee said. “These are not isolated cases. I don’t know of any refugee shelter from Garmisch to Hamburg where we have not found such cases,” said a German authority.
Is persecuting religious minorities the behavior of people who are in need of a sympathetic welcome by Europeans and Americans? Or is this behavior yet another reminder that it is non-Muslims from the Middle East who are truly in need of sanctuary?
Western nations should further accept Christian refugees because Western foreign policies are directly responsible for exacerbating their persecution. Christians did not flee from Bashar Assad’s Syria, or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or Muamar Gaddafi’s Libya. Their systematic persecution—to the point of genocide—began only after the U.S. and other European nations interfered in those nations under the pretext of “democracy.” All they did is unleash the jihadi forces that the dictators had long kept suppressed. Now the Islamic State is deeply embedded in all three nations, enslaving, raping, and slaughtering countless Christian “infidels” and other minorities.
Surely if the West is responsible for unleashing the full-blown jihad on Christians, the least it can do is put Christians on the top of its refugee list—that is, if it “really cares” about helping? In fact, it’s the opposite: report after report has shown that in Western nations persecuted Christians are “at the bottom of the heap” of refugees to be granted asylum. Despite the U.S. government’s acknowledgement that ISIS is committing genocide against Christians in Syria, the Obama administration has taken in 5,435 Muslims, but only 28 Christians—even though Christians are approximately 10 percent of Syria’s population; in other words, to be on the same ratio with Muslims, at least 500 Christians should’ve been granted asylum, not 28.
There are even some benefits in taking in Mideast Christians instead of Muslims. Christians are easily assimilated in Western countries, due to the shared Christian heritage. Muslims follow a completely different blueprint, Islamic law, or Sharia—which condemns and calls for constant war (jihad) against all non-Muslims, and advocates any number of distinctly anti-Western practices (female subjugation and sex slavery, death for blasphemers and apostates, etc.). Hence it’s no surprise that many Muslim asylum seekers are anti-Western at heart—or, as the German police union chief recently said, Muslim migrants “despise our country and laugh at our justice.”
Mideast Christians also bring trustworthy language and cultural skills that are beneficial to the West. They understand the Middle Eastern—including Islamic—mindset and can help the West understand it. Moreover, unlike Muslims, Christians have no “conflicting loyalty” issues: Islamic law forbids Muslims from befriending or aiding “infidels” against fellow Muslims (click here to see some of the treachery this leads to in the U.S. and here to see the treachery Christians have suffered from their longtime Muslim neighbors and “friends”). No such threat exists among Mideast Christians. They too render unto God what is God’s and unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
All the above reasons—from those that offer humanitarian relief to the true victims of persecution, to those that offer safety and even benefits to the West—are unassailable in their logic. Hungary seems to understand all this.
But can such common sense, reason, true altruism, and even self-interest ever prevail among the West’s ruling elite—that is, assuming their motives in accepting millions of Muslims are sincere to start with?
ursulamargrit says
The problem is, that we’re ruled by traitors, be it Merkel, Obama or Trudeau, they all appear to be wanting to willfully destroy their own countries.
Ricardo Hotatio says
Raymond, I came across a very disturbing article on CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/16/opinions/nothing-medieval-about-isis-perry/index.html
Which contains the following passage:
The idea that contemporary military and terrorist activities in the Middle East embody a new Crusade isn’t exactly new. What’s startling is that today both supporters of ISIS and radical Christian terrorists have adopted the same language. Both sides are using medieval history to justify their violent intentions.
This article needs a solid rebuttal, and I thought it wise to leave that up to you!
Chevalier says
Political correctness is now costing people’s lives…
ghamilton57 says
Bravo Hungary! As you say, Raymond,the logic is unassailable. Why oh why are so many western leaders so confused?
ghamilton57 says
A major factor in all this is that “discrimination” has become a dirty word. Many of us cannot now distinguish between good and fair discrimination and discrimination which is unfair. We should be discriminating in favour of the middle east Christians in order to be fair on all sides. Our leaders lack the wisdom and the courage to discriminate in this wholly justified manner because they are muddled and intimidated.
aebe says
Not the Presidunce , he is firmly on the side of Mo’Ham,mud .
Dogandcat says
In Canada Christian churches sponser Muslims and pay for their maintance/etc ……while getting goverment grants. So, Christian churches here prefer money to survival……..are they so foolish to think the Muslims they sponser are going to convert to Christianity? Can’t be that stupid…….
Edward Delahoussaye says
Christians should be the first people to get help,the Moslems should not be allowed into Europe,they are the ones killing the Christians just because they are Christians,let the rich Moslem countrys take care of the Moslem refugees,we don’t want them or need them in the west,God Bless all the Christians……
Elisheva says
Our Western Leaders are against Democracy and Freedom. The are out to destroy the West. The want to Jihadists to help with dismantling our civilization. They couldn’t be so blind to what is occurring. Those who vote for the Radical Left are like sheep being led to the slaughter.
steamboat says
Why are so many of us illogically attempting to use logic to work our way through the differences between Islam and Christianity? One is a cult the other a religion…any questions?
Tekyo Pantzov says
You neglect to examine the political background of the Hungarian government’s announcement. In principle it sounds very noble and straightforward. However it is merely intended to blunt criticism of the Orban government´s consistent policy of ethnic discrimination against Gypsies and Jews, which is embedded in a consistent Fascistoid trend that incoporates all the typical traits of European fascism in the 1930s. The minister who announced this policy is in charge of turning Hungary´s educatiotnal system into a hothouse for ultra-nationalist and totalitarian ideology.
As a matter of fact, Hungary has taken no steps to actually receive Christian refugees from the Middle East. It has just issued an announcement to that effect. If the Orban government discriminates against Hungarian Gypsies, who are fully acculturated Christians, it is very doubtful that it seriously proposes to let in comnpletely alien Nestorian and Assyrian Christians from the Middle East.
moho sapiens says
Why are you lying?Are you communist?
aebe says
Western Europeans have been persecuting Christians for years , while Christians , and Jews who support Israel are merely harassed in America . Mostly . Christians and Jews in countries hostile to them should get protection and aid in immigration to a country that should welcome them . Eastern Oregon surely would .
Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights…… Carry
chickie says
Perhaps they are muslims pretending to be Christians. Like Raymond said in his recent story. Beware!
I think they already killed all the Christians in the middle east. I don’t believe for one minute that they escaped or they were let out. Beware!