OPPRESSION: Fear merchants Shanghai their losses!

Europe, the Missionaries’ Battle Ground | Brussels Journal

The plight of converts to Christianity in Muslim countries is well known. What is less known is the plight of Muslim converts to Christianity in Western Europe. Last week Dutch television broadcast a documentary which shows how former Muslims in the Netherlands are frequent victims of intimidation and violence.

Organized or unprovoked violence against one group by another group (or on behalf of another group) is rooted deeply in fear, intended to intimidate a group's and its member's views ... to coerce actions and conform attitudes consistent with those of the attackers.

An ancillary objective is to intimidate those who might find comfort in the actions and attitudes of the victims before the attack.

The attacks in the BJ article are clearly Cristophobic with the intent of spreading fear of becoming a Christian and fear of Christianity itself.

Christianity, Christophobia, Cristophobia,
Europe, Fear, Islam, Muslim, Religion

GLOBALISM: UN once again reveals its cristophobic pro-Muslim bias!

Freedom Experts Criticize U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution| Christian Post

This blogger is no friend of the United Nincompoops ...

Religious freedom experts criticized this week a United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution for most likely hindering Christian evangelism and spreading Sharia law.

“This anti-blasphemy resolution is mostly seen to be putting a ‘chilling effect’ on Christian work and outreach around the world, and that is a very troubling development for us,” said Carol Moeller, president/CEO of Open Doors, according to Mission Network News.

The non-binding U.N. resolution was first introduced by Pakistan and the Organization of the Islamic Conference at the U.N. Human Rights Council in 1999. It was amended to include religions other than Islam, and has since passed every year.

In 2005, Yemen proposed a similar resolution before the General Assembly and now the 192-nation Assembly is set to vote on it again.

Here we have a patently pro-Muslim effort to silence all non-Muslim religions. Imagine this resolution being used against a Muslim cleric who calls for the Pope's assassination or against a Muslim cartoonist whose favorite theme is Jewish blood.

All that's needed is one complaint to bring down the wrath of the NGOs; radical Islam's threats and intimidations are taken seriously enough to allow for this kind of preferential treatment.

Globalism is the name, one-world religion is the game. The prince of the power of the air is still active in this age.

Christianity, Cristophobia, Evangelism,
Globalism,
Islam, Missions, Muslims,
Religion, United Nations

PERSECUTION: Ancient orthodox body under serious persecution!

Orthodox Christianity under threat | International Herald Tribune
HT - Orthodox Christianity under threat | EuropeNews

When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and his Islamic-rooted party came under fierce fire this summer from secularists, who came close to persuading the country's supreme court to bar both from politics, he called the campaign an attack against religious freedom and a threat to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.

Yet in nearly six years in power, Erdogan has shown no inclination to extend even a modicum of religious freedom to the most revered Christian institution in Turkey - the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the spiritual center of 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world. As a result, Turkey's persecution of the Patriarchate looms as a major obstacle to its European aspirations, and rightly so.

Turkey is a secular state with a majority Muslim population; you fools who think there's no threat from this "peaceful" religion are setting up your grandkids and their children for serious heartache and suffering.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate, which was established in the fourth century and once possessed holdings as vast as those of the Vatican, has been reduced to a small, besieged enclave in a decaying corner of Istanbul called the Phanar, or Lighthouse.

Almost all of its property has been seized by successive Turkish governments, its schools have been closed and its prelates are taunted by extremists who demonstrate almost daily outside the Patriarchate, calling for its ouster from Turkey.

Christianity, Cristophobia,
Persecution, Politics, Religion

PERSECUTION: Muslims continue taking what is not theirs!

Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem | Arutz Sheva
HT: Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem | Iconoclast/NER

You think they won't be in your grandchild's backyard some day ... perhaps sooner? Fool! Their asymmetrical form of warfare doesn't need tanks or aircraft!

Just as they've done to Israel for centuries, they've done and will continue to do to Christians today and tomorrow!

The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a "sharp demographic shift" in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city's total population today.

It is estimated that, for the past seven years, more than one thousand Christians have been emigrating from the Bethlehem area annually and that only 10,000 to 13,000 Christians remain in the city. International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims.

The report goes on ...

"There are many examples of intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion," he said. PA officials are directly responsible for many of the attacks, and some Muslims who have converted to Christianity have been murdered.

As people with "dhimmi" status, Christians living in Palestinian-controlled territories are not treated as the equals of Muslims. He says: "They are subjected to debilitating legal, political, cultural, and religious restrictions. This has become a critical problem for the Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Of course nothing is done! The world is preoccupied with the mythical mistreatment of Muslims.

Christians have pondered for centuries who (demographically) will overrun Israel and commit the abomination of desolation, flipping the switch which brings about the prophetic fulfillment of the Lord's vengeful return (also)!

I am now convinced we needn't look to Rome or to some ten nation European confederacy to find those responsible! Fortunately, they lose ... badly! Maranatha!

Christianity, Cristophobia, Israel,
Oppression, Persecution, Religion

ANTI-FREE SPEECH: Prayer now "grossly insulting & inflammatory"!

Oxford’s Christians apologise to Muslims for daring to pray during Ramadan | Cranmer
HT - British Muslims Offended by Christians Praying during Ramadan | Brussels Journal

Amazing and frustrating are the words that come to my mind; amazing that the Western World can't see what is going on, and frustrating that only a few do [WARNING - Pat Condell can be profane]!

Cranmer is most disturbed, if not a little irritated, to read that a Christian group in Oxford has apologised to the city’s Muslims for having the audacity to organise a day of prayer during Ramadan. Oxfords Muslims found it ‘ill-conceived and insensitive’, not to mention ‘grossly insulting and inflammatory’.

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Christianity, Cristophobia, Free speech,
Muslims, Prayer, Ramadan, Religion

HARASSMENT: Cristophobes harass nation's General Petraeus during wartime!

Petraeus Endorsement of Faith-Based Military Book Draws Fire | Christianpost.com

Some Christian antagonists are more a wearying nuisance than a real threat, but when they're a well-funded, special interest group, they can be a real pain and a financial drain.

"General [David] Petraeus has, by his own hand, become a quintessential poster child of this fundamentalist Christian religious predation, via his unadulterated and shocking public endorsement of a book touting both Christian supremacy and exceptionalism," MRFF [Military Religious Freedom Foundation] founder Michael Weinstein expressed in a statement to Military.com.

What might prompt this rather extreme and virulent castigation of an acknowledged American military hero; a man said to be the source of "the surge" strategy in Iraq, a strategy which has apparently defeated the insurgency?

A faith-based book for military personnel has given opponents of Gen. David Petraeus more fuel for protests though the author claims to have been the one who made the mistake.

[The author was referring to his attempts at securing] "… comments for recommending [his] book."

"I believe there was a basic misunderstanding on my part that the comments were publishable," Army Chaplain (Lt. Col.) William McCoy wrote in an Aug. 19 email to Military.com, the nation’s largest military and veteran membership organization.

The author was referring to endorsements for his book, Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel, by Petraeus and Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, who said the book “should be in every rucksack for those times when soldiers need spiritual energy" and called it “inspirational,” respectively.

The endorsements, McCoy explained, “were intended for me personally rather than for the general public."

Despite the author's claims, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group, is calling for an investigation.

[...]

"MRFF is now officially putting both Army chaplain Lt. Col. Bill McCoy and General Petraeus on notice not to destroy any of the written or electronic records of their communications about this [issue]," added the former Air Force judge advocate general and White House counsel during the Reagan administration.

According to the MRFF, Petraeus’s endorsement of the book was brought to its attention when Weinstein noticed a half-page ad for the 2008 edition of the 3-year-old book in the Air Force Times. Though Weinstein was initially reading the Aug. 11 issue of the publication to probe an interview with Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Cecil Richardson, the title of McCoy’s book caught his eye and prompted him to find out what the book was about.

“[A]nd this is what we found – a pro-Christian, anti-atheist book heartily endorsed by none other than Gen. David Petraeus, a slap in the face from the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to the 21 percent of the men and women fighting there who define themselves as atheists or having no religious preference,” wrote Chris Rodda, a freelance writer and researcher for the MRFF, in a recent article.

This post is not about MRFF's right to exist, they do! This post is about an irrational effort to harass an active military leader during wartime for no other reason than that he is a Christian and it fits the MRFF's agenda ... which is apparently the promotion of atheism.

Regardless of what MRFF proclaims, bottom-line it's Petraeus' faith which prompts their attack; it's his willingness to publicly acknowledge his personal relationship with Christ that results in this harassment.

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Christianity, Cristophobia,
Harassment, Military, Petraeus, Religion