UK Report: Persecution of Christians 'coming close to genocide' in Middle East

[EmperorScorpious]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/persecution-driving-christians-out-of-middle-east-report

“The inconvenient truth,” the report finds, is “that the overwhelming majority (80%) of persecuted religious believers are Christians”.

Hunt, an Anglican, has made the issue of Christian persecution one of the major themes of his foreign secretaryship. “I think we have shied away from talking about Christian persecution because we are a Christian country and we have a colonial past, so sometimes there’s a nervousness there,” he said. “But we have to recognise – and that’s what the bishop’s report points out very starkly – that Christians are the most persecuted religious group.”

He added: “What we have forgotten in this atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are some of the poorest people on the planet. In the Middle East the population of Christians used to be about 20%; now it’s 5%.”

The report identifies three drivers of persecution: political failure creating a fertile ground for religious extremism; a turn to religious conservatism in countries such as Algeria and Turkey; and institutional weaknesses around justice, the rule of law and policing, leaving the system open to exploitation by extremists.

[Drewsko]

This is important stuff to be concerned about, BUT it has to do with religious extremists remaining in power in these nations and opposing other beliefs as a whole.

Anyone who connects this to “war on Christmas”, abortion as 100% morally wrong, or that the God’s Not Dead movies reflecting reality is an idiot projecting first-world Christianity problems onto the religion as a whole.

[XLVII]

Maybe we shouldn't be allies with Saudi Arabia and other rich Arab countries that regularly promote and fund terror groups that do this sort of thing.

Instead of bombing the fuck out of some smaller countries and not repair the infrastructure afterwards. The usually doesnt work out well IIRC.

[Archangel125]

Saudi Arabia merely funding this sort of thing? Hah, they perpetrate it themselves. Look up apostasy laws in SA if you want an idea of how Christians are treated there. Back when I lived there in the nineties, the punishments that awaited practising priests included flaying and public beheading. When my family, who is Catholic, celebrated Christmas or Easter, we had to post lookouts to warn us of raids by religious police, the mutaween.

[Joey Skylynx]

Considering how ISIS was treating the Syrian denominations, this does not come as a shock too me. It will probably not change either unless we literally remove Saudi Arabia from the picture.