Syriac Christians face persecutio in Turkey - but the patter is repeated to one degree or another in all Muslim countries

LONDON – The Bishop of Chichester, the Rt. Rev. John Hind, says Christians in the Middle East are facing “extreme deprivation”.

He continued, “In Iraq, Christians have suffered extreme deprivation, sometimes due to sheer religious hatred, sometimes just caught in the cross-fire, sometimes because, amazingly and quite wrongly, they are regarded as representatives of a western faith.

“So we cannot disown our own particular responsibility and the pressure on Christians in some parts of the world.”

The bishop noted that not all forms of persecution were violent or even illegal.

“Just across the border from Iraq, in south-east Turkey, a part of the world that I know particularly well, court cases are alleging the theft of land from local villages by monasteries in Tur Abdin which have stood there since the late fourth century,” he said.

“There is a certain degree of ridiculousness about some of this, but that does actually affect the sufferings of those Syriac villagers and others who are suffering so greatly.”

Hind also commented on what some have dubbed “persecution” within the United Kingdom. He said he welcomed the reinstatement of Caroline Petrie, the Christian nurse who was suspended after offering to pray for a patient.

According to the bishop, a spokesman for a Muslim forum in his diocese described the decision to suspend her as “crazy.”

The bishop described it as “a welcome sign of how faith communities can hold together in the face of a growing hostility to faith.”

As the world leads a hypocritical chorus of opprobium toward Israel for its supposed mistreatment of the Palestinians, it has long ignored the appalling oppression, discrimination and violence suffered in Majority Muslim countries by the Christians of the Middle East.

From Turkey (yes, the country that is currently attempting to position itself as a Middle East leading champion of human rights), to Syria, Lebanon, ‘Palestine’ and just about any other Islamic country, minority Christians are regarded as fair game for robbery, random violence, sexual violence vandalism, police harassment, government discrimination and oppression.

And the world says nothing. Yet mention the Middle East situation as it pertains to Israel and the disputed territories and it would appear that every man and his dog has an opinion – which usually consists of venomous remarks about Israel and her so-called ‘mistreatment’ of people who, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year – are engaged in an effort to delegitimise, discredit and ultimately destroy her.

You can hardly blame most of them, however. They get their information from the mainstream media and the Western political classes, who ensure that this ‘other’ side of the Middle East coin is rarely or never presented; as they fight tooth and nail to prevent the truth about Islam from surfacing.

The Bishop should be congratulated for speaking out and highlighting the perverse ‘secondary’ discrimination taking place in developed countries due to the intolerant ideology of multiculturalism.

[Source: The Christian Post]

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