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

MUSLIMS: Iraqi Muslims step up Christian pogroms!

Iraqi Archbishop: Christians Face 'Liquidation' | Christian Post

A systematic effort to rid Iraq of its Christian citizens has been going on since 2003 ...

The most senior Catholic cleric in Iraq warned that Christians in his country face “liquidation” if the Iraqi government and the U.S. military do not step-up protection for religious minorities in Iraq.

“We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence,” said Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako, reported Agence France-Presse on Friday. “The objective is political.”

Sako’s comment comes after police reported earlier this week that seven Christians have been killed in separate attacks this month. Police found bullet-riddled bodies of seven Christians in October, with the latest body of a Christian day laborer found on Wednesday.

Since the U.S.-led Iraq war in 2003, more than 200 Christians have been killed, dozens of churches bombed, and more than half the Iraqi Christian population have left the country, according to the archbishop.

Iraq is a perfect example of the Butterfly Effect (the law of unintended consequences). Some of the people we had intended to aid through our overthrow of Saddam Hussein are the very people we have most disturbed,

“We believe it is the responsibility of Americans who occupy our country to protect Iraqis,” Sako said.

One can not dogmatically insist cristophobia is at work here, but the Muslims certainly do fear and hate Christians, and teach others to fear them and hate them as well.

Catholic, Chaldean, Christianity,
Cristophobia, Iraq, Muslims, Religion

EGALITARIANISM: More to lose rights in the interest of gaining rights for some!

‘Equality police’ to target faith groups | 2008 News | Christian Institute
HT - 'Equality police' to target faith groups | BLACK KETTLE

For the authentic Christian there can be no "'homophobia' in religion" as implied in the following ...

The Government’s equality enforcement agency will tackle ‘homophobia’ in religion, one of its senior figures has said.

Bradley Brady is Director of Stakeholder Relations at the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

His comments are likely to fuel fears that the rights of religious people come bottom of the pile at the Commission.

Mr Brady was speaking at a fringe meeting of the TUC conference on the subject of “Religion and Homophobia: No Compromise on LGBT Equality!”

According to the TUC website, The meeting was “organised by the TUC LGBT Committee to discuss recent events where individuals have claimed religious exemption from providing equal treatment for LGBT people, and how to promote a campaign for genuine equality.”

I think we've heard something of this TUC group before, haven't we?

[The Christian Institute] also asked whether the Commission would strive to protect the rights of people of faith to express their religious beliefs on sexual ethics.

The Commission said, “If in the expression of those beliefs the legal rights of another group are violated, the Commission would not support that.”

Simon Calvert of The Christian Institute said, “The Commission is saying it will tackle homophobia in religion. But many activists regard biblical teaching on sexual ethics as inherently ‘homophobic’.

“Furthermore, can you seriously imagine a senior figure from the Commission saying it will tackle homosexual groups that interfere with religious liberty? No, nor can I.”

Christianity, Cristophobia,
Egalitarianism, Human rights, Religion

HYPOCRISY: Incubation of fascism and its irrational worldview!

TUC calls for Christian to be sacked from Equality and Human Right Commission | Cranmer

Cristophobia hides in the recesses and dark corners of bureaucratic offices and agencies of every country in the world; it is most often disguised as well-intentioned public service but is actually a pariah bent on milching the public coffers and fulfilling a hidden agenda.

Self-righteous British Human Rights commissioner wants to violate Christian member's rights in order to gain special rights for her pet group.

According to the Trades Union Congress, no Christian (apart from he nominal variety) could possibly defend the rights of the oppressed, and they have therefore called for Joel Edwards, director of the Evangelical Alliance, to be removed as an Equality and Human Rights Commissioner.

The motion was moved by one Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah, who was ‘appalled’ by his appointment, and even moreso that he retains the support of the EHRC chairman, Trevor Phillips. She said: ‘Joel Edwards has clearly stated that same sex relationships are morally wrong and sinful. How on earth is he going to look at gay and lesbian issues when he has made a career out of opposing equality for LGBT people?’

What we have here is another example of a leftist who cannot see the forest for her trees! Today's rights activists are tomorrow's totalitarianists.

There appears to be an insistence by the TUC that all Equality Commissioners must share the same outlook and the same beliefs. This Marxist strategy is designed eradicate the expression of a range of views and opinions, and to silence debate, especially that which may relate to an expression of Christian orthodoxy.

Amazing; obviously this bigoted woman doesn't grasp the meaning nor application of impartiality, a virtue adamantly taught by God from before his selection of David over his brothers, while His Son demonstrated it by dying on the cross once, for all.

Christianity, Cristophobia, Hypocrisy,
Religion, Religious intolerance

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

ASSOCIATION: You're guilty because you have a life!

MSNBC's Maddow Implies Palin Is Anti-Semitic | News Busters

One method of attacking Christians which has gained favor among the MSM (Main-Stream-Media) is guilt by association. Stereotyping is the evil twin for this form of Cristophobia.

The media in America is as adept at this as any in the world ... especially when they feel threatened by something they do not understand. And they don't understand Christians, Christianity, or Christ! So believers like Sarah Palin have to endure their accusations.

MSNBC talking heads Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow gathered to discuss the VP candidate's remarks. Among the topics covered was Palin's religious background.

The following is from the transcripts of that discussion ...

MATTHEWS: Is it true that she believes that God supports the war in Iraq? How does she know?

MADDOW: Was she sitting in the pew in her church in Wasilla two weeks ago when a speaker said that the Israelis deserve terrorist attacks, because Jews are unbelievers in Christ?

MADDOW: That was in the Politico today. Jews for Jesus founder speaking at her church while she was there two weeks ago making incredibly, incredibly out of line comments about Israel and Jewish people. These are tough questions she'll have to answer.

Many Americans are now asking themselves, "Who died and elected the media the sole arbiter of what is right and wrong?"

MADDOW: Saying that's why Israel was subject to terrorist attacks. It was God's judgment for not believing in Christ.

MATTHEWS: What's the source?

MADDOW: Politico.com

What Maddow fails to inform Matthews or her listeners is the rest of the story ...

Republican Jewish Coalition e-mailed its members evidence of her support for Israel: a video in which a small Israeli flag can be seen poking out from behind a drape.

"I think it speaks volumes that she keeps an Israeli flag on the wall of her office," the group's executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico in an e-mail. "It clearly shows what's in her heart."

Kerry Picket of News Busters goes on to comment ...

Regardless of Palin's views on Israel, her Christian beliefs will count as a strike against her among media pundits.

Sad but true!

Antisemitism, Christianity,
Cristophobia, Israel, Jews,
Palin, Politics, 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’.

More ...

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

IGNORANCE: There's no view like a bad view spoken!

Joy Behar: Speaking on Faith is 'Impinging on the Constitution' | NewsBusters.org

To disparage another, it's often better to use the oblique approach - Joy Behar threw a lie so obliquely it almost was believed!

A presidential candidate who shares his or her religious beliefs is "impinging on the Constitution" according to "View" co-host Joy Behar. On the show’s season premiere September 2 the panel caught up on the many hot button political stories from Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter to sharing religion in a public forum.

When Barbara Walters brought up the discussion of Senators Obama and McCain attending a forum with Reverend Rick Warren, Behar declared "both of them needed to say that Jesus Christ was their savior. That is very much impinging on the Constitution in my opinion. Why do we need to know who’s their savior?" Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd disagreed wondering what is wrong with them making such a statement.

Conveniently forgotten in the recesses of Joy's mind are two small, yet relevant, components of our "Constitution" - the freedoms of religion and speech. Geesh, how do you suppose she forgot those?

And go figure, candidates talking about faith in Christ ... in a church no less! What next????

Constitution, Christianity, Cristophobia,
Election 2008, Freedom, Religion