John 16:2-3 “In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.”
Morning Star News) When Iran’s holocaust-denying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaims, “Israel must be wiped off the map,” the United States rightly takes the threat of genocide seriously. President Obama, like his predecessor, is committed to preventing the eradication of the people of Israel. Conservative U.S. Christian leadership, as reflected by Christians United for Israel, has strongly backed this commitment.
Our Lady of Salvation Church in Iraq, after Oct. 31, 2010 attack. (Ankawa.com)
There is, however, another threat of genocide in the Middle East. It is the religious cleansing of Christians and other religious minorities from the Sunni-dominated Middle East. This danger remains unacknowledged by President Obama and has received little attention, with few exceptions, from U.S. Christian leadership on both the right the left.
Not so abroad. Already, last year, former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy drew the attention of the international community respectively to acts of “genocide” and “a perverse program of religious cleansing” directed at the Middle East’s 10-12 million Christians. Pope Benedict XVI repeatedly appeals for prayer and action on behalf of the region’s endangered Christian communities.
Today, the crisis of religious cleansing is particularly acute in Syria. The general chaos and confusion of civil war harms all Syrians irrespective of religion. But members of religious minorities – roughly 25 percent of the population – are targeted for murder, abduction, displacement and humiliation with increasing frequency and ferocity. Religious cleansing proceeds under the publicly proclaimed slogan, “Alawites [a branch of Shia Islam] to the grave, and Christians to Beirut!” – a proclamation, like President Ahmadinejad’s, of genocidal intent.
Evidence of the ascendancy of Muslim supremacy and jihadist ideology within Syria’s armed opposition grows more visible. The Islamist-dominated militias, with the lethal support of the United States’ closest regional Sunni allies – in particular Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey – strive to overthrow the secular dictatorship of Bashar al Assad and replace it with a Sunni Islamic state to serve as a barrier to Shiite Iran.
It is a tragic irony that Syrian religious minorities feel compelled to cling to the brutal Assad dictatorship – not out of love for the regime, but for survival in the face of religious cleansing from the side of U.S.-supported Islamists. The failure of the Syrian opposition and its foreign patrons to gain the confidence of minorities has prolonged the life of the Assad regime and condemned all the Syrian people to still more death and destruction.
In November 2011, aid and advocacy group Christian Solidarity International issued a Genocide Alert for the Islamic Middle East. Since then others have sounded similar alarms. Speaking recently at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, former Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith – the bearer of impressive anti-genocide credentials – predicted: “The next genocide in the world will likely be against the Alawites in Syria.”
Simon Adams, Executive Director of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect, elaborated in a New York Times article entitled “The World’s Next Genocide”:
via Religious ‘Cleansing’ in the Middle East a Growing Threat.
Categories: attacks on Christianity, Prophecy
My apology for naming you as ‘Lea’. I never knew your real name. I prefer my full name. In the long run, the rogue regime knows all of our names and where we are. In November of 2009, I asked BHO to read the synopsis of the Manhattan Declaration and sign it as I did. The egregious one was silent. I’m sure the entity’s handlers read the memo and they placed my name on the red FEMA list.
It’s all about Rev 2:10 and Marana tha!
Albert, www
Lea is fine, no apology needed. I’m not surprised that obama wouldn’t sign. He runs from anything Christian! But the most beautiful sound he’s ever heard is the muslim call to prayer. I will try to remember you prefer your full name. And yes Revelation 13:10 say’s pretty much the same thing. Yes, Maranatha!
Lea:
May I remind you that BHO will exile 150,000 young male Palestinians from Gaza to America. Their primary skills are rocket grenades, bomb vests, IED’s, K-47’s, and long knives. At same time, the thug regime is about to confiscate the means of Americans’
defense.
AWL
Well were all probably on one list or another. And I suspect we will see a lot of chaos. There are predictions for either true terrorists attacks or false flags to cause martial law and other atrocities. History is repeating itself and most won’t see it. Come quickly Lord Jesus.
One Man Who Cares:
http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/time-is-running-out-us-congressman-asks-why-churches-in-the-west-are-silent-on-worldwide-christian-persecution/
11/04/2012
‘Time Is Running Out’: US Congressman Asks Why Churches In The West Are Silent On Worldwide Christian Persecution
By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Reporter – “Congressman Frank Wolf, who has been a champion of human rights, is hard pressed to understand why U.S. churches are silent when it comes to advocating for persecuted Christians.
The Republican Virginia rep. specifically called out big-name pastors such as Rick Warren and John Piper for their non-activity, especially at a time when Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Egypt are at greater risk for persecution.
‘The church in the West is relatively silent,’ Wolf said on ‘The Janet Mefferd Show’ this week. ‘Where are the (Dietrich) Bonhoeffers (20th century German Lutheran pastor who stood against Nazi dictatorship)? Where’s Rick Warren? Where’s John Piper? Where are the people? Why aren’t they speaking out on this?
‘I just have a hard time wondering why more in the West are not speaking out.’
Since last year, Wolf has been pushing for a special envoy at the State Department that would focus exclusively on the plight of religious minorities in South Central Asia and the Middle East. While his legislation (H.R. 440) passed in the House last year, it has been on hold in the Senate.
According to Wolf, the State Department urged Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) to oppose the Senate version of the bill until a hearing is held.
Wolf said he welcomes the hearing but Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has never held it.
‘I am concerned that time is running out – both in terms of the legislative calendar for this year and in terms of the plight of these communities,’ Wolf said in a statement last week.
Some 8 million Coptic Christians in Egypt are living in fear, he said, as the Muslim Brotherhood majority government drafts its new constitution, which is expected to have Islamic Sharia law as its foundation.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Syria where Sunni Muslim rebels are targeting Christians, forcing many to flee the region.
‘I’m not surprised that the Obama administration is opposed to this (legislation) but where’s the church in the West?’ Wolf lamented. ‘I would’ve thought the church would’ve just been up in arms.’
‘We have no one advocating for them (religious minorities),’ he added. ‘The Coptic Christian community can’t understand why the West doesn’t advocate.’” Source – Christian Post.”
Both the state department and the chameleon and thief remain insouciant, yet refugees and islamic victims are allowed to migrate to US with alacrity.
Albert, weary wary watchman
Thank you Albert. Alot of truth here. And I would like to know where all the Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s are myself. There are a few. But not nearly enough.
Dear Lea:
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The lucre keeps dripping under their alters. The exemption ain’t Jacob’s ladder
AWL, www
Forgive me for naming you ‘Lea’. I never knew your true name. I’m naked on the net and Obama knows me well. That is not a cordial relationship. I assume my name is on the red FEMA list.
AWL