Possible Developments in the Effort to Halt Christian Persecution in the Middle East

11/2/2019

The following is an excerpt from a Hungary Today article. I don't know what to make of it as of yet, but it appears to be a positive development in an ongoing tragedy the West has utterly ignored. The meeting described below took place this past Wednesday:

The aiding of Middle Eastern Christian communities is set to be a key topic during Wednesday’s talks between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Péter Szijjártó said at the opening of a conference of Middle Eastern Christian church leaders organised ahead of the high-level Hungarian-Russian summit.

The church leaders will also be meeting with Orbán and Putin, he said, adding that their talks could open the door to new projects in the Middle East.

The minister said there was a “consensus” in international political discourse that “the persecution of Christians is the last acceptable form of discrimination”. Szijjártó slammed what he called the international community’s refusal to address the issue of Christian persecution as “extreme hypocrisy”. He said the international community had a duty to take action for the protection of Christian communities.

Funny how only "illiberal, anti-democratic, and authoritarian" leaders like Orbán and Putin express any interest in stopping Christian persecution. The rest of the article is available here for those interested.

6 Comments

bruce charlton

11/3/2019 08:45:24

My understanding is that the (almost complete - over the past couple of decades) ethnic cleansing/ extermination of several millions of Christians in the Middle East was deliberate and initiated by The West (US/ UK/ EU). Which is why it is suppressed and lied about. My proff is that it happened in one after another, and all, of the countries in which the West intervened militarily - starting with Iraq. This was also the view of the head of the Barnabas Christian charity which tried to help - he spoke at 'my' church, and had been all over the Middle East for many years, and struck me as an honest and good man - a reliable witness. If The West is now beginning to acknowledge 'the problem' it is only because the job has been almost finished, and perhaps only a few percent of the original population Christians remain (although no real data has been collected on this - no data, no problem: right?).

Francis Berger

11/3/2019 15:35:04

@ Bruce - Your understanding is correct. Christians have been virtually obliterated in the Middle East and North Africa. I don't want to go into geopolitical details here, but there definitely was/is an agenda, and that agenda has been, for all intents and purposes, fulfilled. It seems the agenda ran into a little trouble in Syria when Russia intervened a few years back. The coveted 'regime change' there has not occured, but the damage has been done. I taught a few Armenian students in the past whose families had to flee Aleppo because of violence/persecution. I will never forget some of things these students revealed to me.

I also attended a presentation given by a Catholic priest who has spent most of his life in Egypt, and his account mirrors the one you mention in your comment.

Against this backdrop, Russia's interest in saving what is left is likely a case of "too little, too late."

What the West has done in certain parts of the world in the past three decades has been completely demonically-driven. There is simply no other way to explain it.

11/4/2019 09:15:33

I believe that helping Christians is a significant factor in the Russian intervention in Syria, but probably Russian interests abroad are the major factor - Putin is usually quite explicit about these things. Because Russian policy is coherent and comprehensible, Putin can be clear and honest about what they are seeking to achieve.

The West's interventions, by contrast, are almost-wholly dishonest; because they will not admit what they are really trying to achieve - but pretend to be motivated 'humanitarian' concerns that are very obviously false, considering that the West repeatedly create massive and ongoing humanitarian misery and death. Also political chaos.

To what extent is Christian extermination a priority for the West? Or is it destabilisation and permanent chaos? Or is it something to do with installing and supporting radical Islamic regimes? Well, if results are anything to go by - Christian extermination has been the most consistently achieved outcome; so probably that was the priority.

Think of the endless 'war' in Afghanistan. Nobody I have met knows what the UK/ US are trying to achieve - and there has never been a coherent explanation - indeed the UK government doesn't even bother explaining nowadays.

My best guess is that Afghanistan is not a war but an occupation - an excuse for installing battle-ready troops and air force handily near to Russia; following the long term strategy (going back more than a century to before communism) to *encircle* Russia.

But if this is true, the Western Establishment will never acknowledge it, and will continue to lie.

11/4/2019 09:35:04

I agree with your overall assessment, Bruce - particularly concerning the West's dishonesty. The pretext for the invasion of Iraq, to say nothing of Libya and Syria, is an excellent example of how deep the dishonesty runs. Now the strategy involves importing the created chaos into the West via unscreened mass migration. The reason? Humanitarianism, of course.

William James Tychonievich link

11/9/2019 05:53:30

Frank, I didn't read the linked article, nor even your excerpt, due to my absolute distrust of all news media. (I know nothing about Hungary Today, but in the absence of specific knowledge, it's a good rule of thumb to assume that all snakes are poisonous.) However, I do appreciate the comments by you and Bruce in which you cite information from people on the ground whom you trust personally. That kind of thing is worth a million mass-media links.

11/9/2019 06:45:37

Thanks, Wm.

I share your distrust of news media. Over the past two years I have reduced my exposure to media by about 90 percent. These days I do little more than scan the headlines; I don't read too many articles because I am not at all interested in what the news media chooses to include in its content. Nevertheless, I am immensely interested in what the news media omits from in its content, particularly in the West. So when I see an article like this, I become curious.

Having said that, I understand this snake is just as poisonous as the other. Like you, I much prefer "hearing it from the horse's mouth" as it were.

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