Prominent indicators confirm that the U.S. is the chief facilitator of the persecution of Christians today. Barack Hussein Obama does nothing to protect Christians and other minorities in the Muslim world. In fact, he supports and facilitates the rise of radical Islamists to lead once secular Muslim countries.
National Review By Raymond Ibrahim According to the recently released 2014 World Watch List, which ranks the 50 nations where Christians are most persecuted, Syria is the third worst nation in the world in which to be Christian, Iraq is fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four countries receive the strongest designation, “extreme persecution” (other designations are “severe,” “moderate,” and “sparse” persecution).
Aside from being so closely and harshly ranked, these four nations have something else in common: heavy U.S. involvement. Three — Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya — were “liberated” thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring “freedom fighters” against the regime, many of whom would be better labeled “terrorists.”
The Syrian situation alone indicts U.S. foreign policy. According to Reuters:
Open Doors, a non-denominational group supporting persecuted Christians worldwide, said on Wednesday it had documented 2,123 “martyr” killings, compared with 1,201 in 2012. There were 1,213 such deaths in Syria alone last year, it said. “This is a very minimal count based on what has been reported in the media and we can confirm,” said Frans Veerman, head of research for Open Doors. Estimates by other Christian groups put the annual figure as high as 8,000.
While most Americans are shielded from the true nature of the war by the U.S. media’s reluctance to report on it, Arabic media, websites, and activists daily report and document atrocity after atrocity — beheadings and bombed churches, abducted nuns, Christians slaughtered for refusing to convert to Islam, and countless abducted for ransom or rape — at the hands of those whom the U.S. supports.
It’s enough to point out that “the largest massacre of Christians in Syria,” to quote a top religious leader, was left wholly unreported by any major U.S. news network.
At any rate, the statistics speak for themselves: Syria, which used to be religiously tolerant, is now, in the context of the United States’ trying to bring “democracy” to it, the third worst country in the world in terms of “extreme persecution” of Christians.
The Blaze reports that Dr. David Curry, president of Open Doors,
charged that the Obama administration has essentially declined to make the protection of religious minorities a priority . . . “There are many instances where the vacuum of leadership and spokesmanship has created a real problem,” said the human rights leader. “I would say that every significant data point on this year’s ‘2014 Watch List’ is worse — and I think a factor in it is a lack of leadership from Western governments including . . . the U.S. in terms of religious freedom.”
But it’s worse than that. Far from taking any action or providing leadership — or simply ceasing to support the terrorists responsible — the Obama administration recently tried to go to war with Syria on behalf of the “freedom fighters” — amazingly, in the name of “human rights.” (Apparently the unsubstantiated rumor that Assad massacred people is enough for the U.S. to go to war, but the ongoing and well-documented massacres of Christians and other civilians at the hands of the opposition is not enough for the U.S. to stop supporting them.)
What’s worse, even the most uninformed mainstream-media-watching American today knows that the so-called “Arab Spring,” which was hailed to justify U.S. support for “rebels” of all stripes — in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood (which months ago destroyed some 80 churches); in Libya, al-Qaeda, which has turned Benghazi into a terror zone; and now the “freedom fighters” in Syria — is not what it was touted to be.
In other words, at this point, whenever the U.S. intervenes in an Islamic nation, Islamists come to power. This is well demonstrated by the other three nations to which the U.S. brought “democracy” and where Christian minorities suffer “extreme persecution.”
Afghanistan: The supposedly “moderate” Karzai government installed by the U.S. upholds many of the draconian laws enforced by the Taliban — including the apostasy law, fiercely persecuting those who seek to convert to Christianity — and, in 2011, under U.S. auspices, it destroyed Afghanistan’s last Christian church.
Iraq: After the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein, Christian minorities were savagely attacked and slaughtered, and dozens of their churches were bombed (see here for graphic images). Christians have been terrorized into near-extinction, with well over half of them fleeing Iraq.
Libya: Ever since U.S.-backed, al-Qaeda-linked terrorists overthrew Qaddafi, Christians — including Americans — have indeed suffered extreme persecution. Churches have been bombed; Christians have been tortured and killed (including for refusing to convert); and nuns have been threatened.
Surely a common theme emerges here: Where the U.S. works to oust secular autocrats, the quality of life for Christians and other minorities takes a major nosedive. Under Saddam, Qaddafi, and Assad, Christians and their churches were largely protected.
Moreover, while George W. Bush was responsible for Afghanistan and Iraq, the argument can be made that, back then (2001 and 2003), this pattern of Islamic radicalization that erupts once autocrats are gone was less well known than it is today. There weren’t many precedents.
Conversely, the Obama administration has had both Afghanistan and Iraq to learn from — and yet still it supports Islamists and jihadis. But by now, what happens once they assume power —religious persecution, terror, oppression — is no longer a secret.
Incidentally, those who care little for the fate of Christians or other minorities in the Islamic world would do well to remember a simple truism: Wherever anti-Christian elements come to power, anti-American forces come to power. The two are synonymous.
Put differently, Muslim persecution of Christians is the litmus test of how radical an Islamic society has become. In all those Muslim nations that the U.S. has interfered in — Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt (till the Egyptians revolted, to the chastisement of the U.S.), and now Syria — the increase of religious intolerance is a reflection of the empowerment of forces hostile to Western civilization.
I am often asked, “How can we help persecuted Christians?” At this point, one must respond: “How about starting with getting the U.S. government to stop being the chief facilitator of Christian persecution?” Altruism aside, it would be in the interests of all freedom-loving people — and especially their descendants.
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— Raymond Ibrahim is the author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians. He is a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a 2013 media fellow at the Hoover Institution.
This has nothing to do with Obama, this persecutions existed even before Obama came to power, its just the evil of man.
Reading all this, I am surprised that nobody has stood up and challenged Obama’s presidency, or that nobody has gotten rid of him yet. Somebody wrote something in another forum/blog that when WW3 starts – and it will pretty soon – then Obama will declare Martial Law before the next election and thereby removing any change of voting him out of power. Absurd as this may seem, it all seems to add up to what his real intentions are. If USA goes down the drain, then the rest of the world will go down as well. Mission accomplished, and God save us all from these blood-thirsty barbarians !!
How dim the light that America once was has become. The light is almost gone now.
The Obama regime God-haters would wipe every Christian off the face of this earth if they could. The day may come when persecuted Christians will flee America.
Obama and his radical, far left government have placed Muslim Brotherhood operatives into positions of enormous power in the U.S. government…..the Muslim Brotherhood help to make both domestic and American foreign policy.
AN ACT OF TREASON! Despicable Republicans are complicit. They offer no protest against treason! SILENCE IS CONSENT!
The stated goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is the DESTRUCTION of civilization and global Islamic conquest. The Obama regime work with the excessively cruel Muslim Brotherhood to make this evil goal a reality in America and the entire world.
From the document of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” and all the word means. The Ikhwan [Arabic for brothers] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad to eliminate and destroy the Western civilization from within, and sabotage its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers, so that it is eliminated, and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
It is a Muslim’s destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny…”
U.S. agencies have acquired MASSIVE amounts of war supplies – bullets and tanks, etc. for domestic use against peaceful, law-abiding Americans! What other conclusion can be made except that a war is planned against INNOCENT, patriotic Americans!
The US helped Turkey take over Cyprus. They helped Indonesia take over West Papua and East Timor. They helped Egypt survive in 1973. They helped Albanians take over Kosovo. They helped Bosnian muslims throw out Christian Serbs from Bosnia. They help Pakistan vs India. They helped the Muj in Afghanistan. Now for some insane reason they want to help al Qaeda in Syria. Cameron and Hague wanted to help Al Qaeda but that was in 19th century tradition of helping ottoman turkey. We need to remove the ruling elites.
You left out some very important little facts. The US practically stole the Panama , but that’s OK, it’s theirs for all eternity. The British government BOUGHT the shares for Suez from the King of Egypt, clear proof that they had no right to it so it is only proper that the US should stand with Nasser. Ditto for the people of Biafra, who had the oil and the land but as everybody knows, oil should always belong to a muslim, the US simply had to support the muslims in Nigeria because the Egyptian air force did such a lousy job in bombing the villages of biafra.
The socialist/communist infiltrators that have infested the US govt for over a hundred years are the instigators and perpetrators of all this horror(and all previous horrors) in their quest for a totalitarian one world govt/NWO.
The US Constitution, if actually adhered to, would prevent all this meddling that leads to world suffering. The banksters that instigate wars for their own profit must be stopped. End the Fed, restore sound money, follow the Constitution, return our nation to national sovereignty, and arrest the perps–no matter how high on the food chain, end the socialist indoctrination in schools, and get the hell out of the UN.
http://youtu.be/BmB2QshDKyQ.
These souls have gone on to a better world. Obama and his ilk will face a different consequence.
The U.S. media are complicit through silence. Their silence means approval of jihad and murder.
The facts are in: Islam is by far the most violent religion and mandates war against disbelievers BECAUSE they have the ‘wrong’ religion.
I cannot imagine the horrors these poor people endure before merciful death takes them. The muslim savages are going to spend eternity in the hottest flames of hell…NO VIRGINS YOU STUPID BARBARIANS.
The fact that my country could in any way contribute to the death of even on Christian shames me like nothing else could.
I will never forgive this administration for their muslim leanings.
Karma is going to be a bitch for these shit kickers
that poor little baby
what a fucking prick
this administration needs to be sent to the muslim countries they love so much
I know this may be weird but, could you please put a show image collapsable thing on the ones who are too gruesome…
I can take stuff like that but sometimes it’s too much.
No, I can’t. If you can’t look at these images, you don’t belong here.
i can look at them.
just sometimes it gets a bit overbearing.
just saying, maybe more people would watch the site if it had that, but of course it is your decision.
BC, My visitor count is nearing 50 million. I don’t think that’s a problem.
wow that’s a lot of viewers congrats, anyway i was just making a friendly suggestion, still happy that many people are learning the truth.
i noticed on some articles you posted a warning about gruesome images or something like that, i was just thinking that removing that warning and just putting a colapsable show image with a +18 would work better.
again, this is just a suggestion…
Are you finished?
we dont need images to startle us in our faces when we are just trying to read the article. i dont need to have those images in my face to make me passionate about hating myslims. i alread do. All those images do is startle me. Its not necessary. If im reading the article It should be my decision whethe or not to look at those images.
Old adage; a picture worth a 1000 words. We need to see the graphic bloodletting to know the enemy;
ISLAM
Please do not criticize BNI’s style and methods. Her total abandonment of political correctness and application of shock value is what makes BNI the unique site that it is. It is her nature to deliver the goods in order to live up to the name of the site.
The other day I saw that lone survivor Navy Seals video. I have heard that Hollywood and other liberals were not pleased with the film.
I was also disappointed that BNI was apparently not part of the production team. The no/low information American public needs intense shock value. If the movie had GRAPHICALLY shown the beheading and torture and yes, one of those Taliban members raping a goat it would have been much more effective. Also, more portrayal of media incompetence and complicity would have been a plus.
BNI is the only counter jihad site that really thrills me. Bad ass Bonni is my heroine!
Uncle, **HUGS**
AMEN!!! We don’t need to hide things for any reason, regardless of ANY “political correctness”. Those like “susan” or “BreakingChains” need to remember that real life does NOT spare the brutal reality!!!!!
this country needs to keep it’s collective nose ou of world affairs PERIOD
If Christianity is your thing your best bet is Russia
‘bama needs to do nothing more than unleashing the dogs of war. If he would only stand aside & keep his yap shut the muslim problem would solve itself. In America we need to do nothing more than dig trenches & then start back filling them.
The foreign policy direction he’s pointed America in will lead to WW3 , the more he enables islam the closer he draws us to the brink. At this point war may be inevitable, somewhere out there is our Lexington/Concord moment headed in our direction.