Study Finds Christians Are the Most Persecuted Religious Group in the World
When you think of the most persecuted religious group in the world, you might think of Muslims or Jews. And you’d be wrong: It’s Christians.
The media may not be willing to talk about it, but that can’t erase a British report that found persecution of Christians is “at near genocide levels.”
“The review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution,” according to the BBC.
“Christians were the most persecuted religious group,” the report found.
“[Foreign Secretary Jeremy] Hunt said he felt that ‘political correctness’ had played a part in the issue not being confronted.”
The idea that Christians are being persecuted is indeed a difficult one for the media to comprehend. The party line is that Christians are the dominant group in Western society and that there’s no way they could possibly be oppressed.
And yet, they are — particularly outside of Western culture, in places like the Middle East.
“The interim report said the main impact of ‘genocidal acts against Christians is exodus’ and that Christianity faced being ‘wiped out’ from parts of the Middle East,” Mounstephen said.”
According to the BBC, Christianity “‘is at risk of disappearing’ in some parts of the world,” with the report “pointing to figures which claimed Christians in Palestine represent less than 1.5 percent of the population, while in Iraq they had fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.”
“Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity.”
Now, does this minimize the persecution felt by members of other religions? Of course not. However, the BBC’s study makes it clear that the leftist narrative that Christians aren’t persecuted is absolutely rubbish.
In fact, according to the U.K. Guardian, “The level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the U.N.”
And you know what’s really responsible for all of this borderline genocide, according to the the Guardian? The current world order and/or other Christians.
Commentator Andrew Brown notes that the conservative government in the United Kingdom “has done almost nothing to support Christians abroad. It did not offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani woman convicted under that country’s monstrous blasphemy law. It has sucked up to Saudi Arabia, a country where public Christianity is illegal, Christian migrant workers are treated abominably and where the corpses of executed criminals are still crucified.”
And then Brown strays into profoundly controversial criticism, connecting the faith of British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt with what the author feels are the worst excesses of modern Christianity: “In England today, Christianity is associated with extremes of both nationalism and with internationalism: bishops and archbishops preach and pray about foreign aid and the persecuted church, but self-identified Anglicans have much more rightwing views.”
Well, thanks for that rant, but that literally has nothing to do with the persecution of Christians abroad; apparently he feels better about himself and he doesn’t have to look at the persecution of Christians abroad in such an awful light given the fact that “Christianity is associated with extremes of both nationalism and with internationalism.”
In other words, even as a report found that persecution of Christians was at an alarming level, it still found a way to blame Christians. Again, what a shocker.
If you don’t think that Christian persecution is real, this report should be an eye-opener.
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