The West's Real Bigotry: Rejecting Persecuted Christians

[Gatestone Institute] [Facebook] [Twitter] [RSS] [Donate] In this mailing: - Uzay Bulut: [The West's Real Bigotry: Rejecting Persecuted Christians] - Raymond Ibrahim: ["If You Love Jesus, Then Die Like Jesus!"] - Burak Bekdil: [What Turkish Islamists Understand about 'Education'] [The West's Real Bigotry: Rejecting Persecuted Christians] by Uzay Bulut • February 5, 2017 at 5:00 am - "Unfortunately, the West has rejected the idea of solidarity with the Christians of the Middle East, prioritizing diplomacy based on oil interests and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Thus, the United States, Britain, and France have largely ignored the persecutions of the Christians of Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and Sudan, while rushing to save the oil-rich Muslim states of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait..." — Hannibal Travis, Professor of Law, 2006. - Indigenous Christians in Iraq and Syria have not only been exposed to genocide at the hands of the Islamic State and other Islamist groups, but also their applications for immigration to Western countries have been put on the back-burner by, shamefully but not surprisingly, the UN. - When one brings up the issue of Western states taking in Muslim migrants from Syria and Iraq without vetting them for jihadist ties, while leaving behind the Christian and Yazidi victims of jihadists, one is accused of being "bigoted" or "racist". But the real bigotry is abandoning the persecuted and benign Middle Eastern Christians and Yazidis, the main victims of the ongoing genocides in Syria and Iraq. - The German government is also rejecting applications for asylum of Christian refugees and deporting them unfairly, according to a German pastor. - Nearly a third of the respondents said that most of the discrimination and violence came mostly from refugee camp guards of Muslim descent. - It is high time that not only the U.S. but all other Western governments finally saw that the Christians in the Middle East are them. Representatives of the NGO Open Doors, along with other NGOs, held a press conference in May 2016 to present an [earlier report]: "Religiously Motivated Attacks on Christian Refugees in Germany." Finally, after years of apathy and inaction, Washington is extending a much-needed helping hand to Middle Eastern Christians. U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced that persecuted Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States. Christians and Yazidis are being exposed to genocide at the hands of ISIS and other Islamist groups, who have engaged in a massive campaign to enslave the remnant non-Muslim minorities and to destroy their cultural heritage. The scholar Hannibal Travis wrote in 2006: [Continue Reading Article] ["If You Love Jesus, Then Die Like Jesus!"] Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2016 by Raymond Ibrahim • February 5, 2017 at 4:30 am - "They [ISIS] cut his stomach open and shot him before leaving him hanging, crucified." - ISIS planted explosive devices in teddy bears and toys that would be detonated when children picked them up; they killed families. - One Iraqi Christian man from Qaraqosh, who survived ISIS, said: "Obama has never helped the Christians. In fact, he despises them. In the last 26 months, he has shown he despises all of them. But we have hope in the new president, Trump." - "Here, where we have been accommodated presently, we are exposed to the same kinds of threats as before, this time at the hand of Afghan Muslims, and we fear for our lives... The Afghan refugees... call us Iranian Christians 'apostates' and 'infidels' because of our decision to leave Islam and consider the shedding of our blood as legitimate (or even necessary)." — Iranian refugee, Germany. - "I said... 'I'm in Europe, I'm free, I'm in a free country.' They said, 'No, you are not free, you are in the Jungle. The Jungle has Kurdish rule here – leave this camp.' The smugglers were from inside the camp, and were Kurdish. They said to me, 'We will tell the Algerians and Moroccans to kill you.'" — Kurdish church leader in a refugee center, France. Silmane Bouhafs, a Christian man currently carrying out a three-year prison sentence in Algeria for the alleged crime of "attacking Islam," regularly experiences persecution and physical attacks at the hands of the other inmates. (Image source: Berbère Télévision video screenshot) Reports of Christian life under the Islamic State (ISIS) continued throughout November. Many of these came from the ancient Christian towns surrounding Mosul, such as Batnaya and Qaraqosh, conquered by ISIS in August, 2014, and liberated in late October, 2016. One Christian man, Esam, from Qaraqosh, related what ISIS did after his sister's husband refused to convert to Islam: "He was crucified and tortured in front of his wife and children, who were forced to watch. They [ISIS] told him that if he loved Jesus that much, he would die like Jesus." The Islamic militants tortured his brother-in-law from 6 in the evening until 11: "[T]hey cut his stomach open and shot him before leaving him hanging, crucified." Two other members of Esam's family, a Christian couple, were abducted and separated by ISIS. To this day, the husband does not know where his wife is; he only knows that she was turned into a concubine, a sex-slave. [Continue Reading Article] [What Turkish Islamists Understand about 'Education'] by Burak Bekdil • February 5, 2017 at 4:00 am - According to the 2016 findings of the Programme for International Student Assessment, Turkey dropped from 44th spot to the 49th (out of 72 countries surveyed), compared to the last test in 2012. - The curriculum removes, for instance, all mention of world-renowned Turkish pianist Fazil Say from the 12th grade music class chapter on "Music Culture", which covers Turkey's Western music composers. Say has been a vocal critic of Erdogan's Islamist policies. - Some 31.2% of Turkish students below 15 years of age underperformed in mathematics, sciences and reading. - As long as Turkish youths are religiously devout, Erdogan thinks, scientific failure will not matter. Better to have a young student like the girl in the TV interview than a thousand bright Silicon Valley-class young innovators. A proud moment in President Erdogan's educational plans to "raise devout generations": A CNN-Turk interview with a young schoolgirl who announces, "I would reinstate the death penalty". (Image source: CCN-Turk video screenshot) It is customary for Turkish TV crews to interview young students at the start of their mid-term holidays, with the cliché closing question invariably being, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" This year's school holiday in January was no exception. One interview, however, produced a chilling portrait of a girl, aged just 7 or 8. "I have big goals," she answered the interviewer. "They will get bigger and bigger. Step by step," she said. The girl said she wanted to start by becoming a district or village head. Then a lawmaker, a minister, prime minister and finally the president of Turkey. Up to this point, TV viewers must have watched her with amusement. Then the reporter asked her: "What would you do if you became the president?" In a calculated, tranquil tone, the girl answered: "I would reinstate the death penalty". [Continue Reading Article] You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL}. To unsubscribe, go to [ To edit your subscription options, go to [ To subscribe to the this mailing list, go to [ [Gatestone Institute] 14 East 60 St., Suite 1001, New York, NY 10022