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Unprecedented:
Hungary Opens Office for Persecuted Christians
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Hungarian
Prime Minister Victor Orban says Europe should focus on helping
Christians before helping millions of Muslim trying to enter the
continent.
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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."
Most Muslim 'refugees' are fleeing
chaos created by the violent teachings of their own religion.
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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.
Hungarian
Minister for Human Resources Zoltan Balog: "Millions of Christian
lives are threatened by followers of radical religious
ideologies."
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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 in need of a sympathetic welcome by
the West?
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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?
... 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 bring
trustworthy language and cultural skills that are beneficial to the
West.
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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?
Raymond Ibrahim is a Judith
Friedman Rosen fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Shillman fellow at
the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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