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Christians Are Being Eradicated, and Obama Doesn’t Care

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Nina Shea, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and a Hudson Institute Fellow, told Breitbart’s “Uninvited” panel at CPAC on Saturday that “religious persecution is the gravest human rights crisis of our day.” She added that “Christians are as a group the most persecuted, out of sheer numbers, across the world. This means they are being killed, tortured, imprisoned and eradicated …sent into exile for their beliefs.”

“This is happening in three types of countries,” she said. “Those with a remnant Communist country, like North Korea and China, some nationalist countries like Burma and Eritrea, and then in the Muslim world …where Islamism is on the rise.” In those Muslim countries, she said, “persecution . . . is intensifying, and it is spreading.”

The crisis of global persecution of Christians has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. Ms. Shea told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that “sinceA.M. Rosenthal at the New York Times passed away [in 2006], this issue has not been covered at the level it deserves, so I was very happy that Breitbart gave me the opportunity on the panel to promote the issue of global persecution of Christians.” Rosenthal, the former executive editor and columnist at the Times from 1977 to 1999, wrote dozens of columns on the problem of global Christian persecution in the 1990s.

Ms. Shea pointed to several recent examples of violent persecution of Christians in the Muslim world. “Last week alone,” she said, “we saw in Libya a Coptic Christian from Egypt tortured to death. Fifty of his co-religionists were imprisoned and some are still there.”

Ms. Shea’s complete remarks to “The Uninvited” panel can be seen in this video clip:

http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=90085&sitesection=breitbart&VID=24617636

In Tuesday’s interview with Breitbart News, Ms. Shea singled out the Obama administration’s failure to defend Christians in Muslim countries. American policy, she said, should be to use its moral authority, and the power of its foreign aid purse to influence Muslim countries to stop persecuting Christians.

According to Ms. Shea, the Obama administration should be “using the bully pulpit, speaking out about this.” She added that “it’s important that the world know about this extreme intolerance. Some lives will be saved by this.” But, she noted, the Obama administration has been “silent” on the issue of global Christian persecution, and she had little hope of improvement. ”I have every expectation this problem will become worse between now and the end of the Obama administration.”

As an illustration of the Obama administration’s indifference to the global persecution of Christians, Ms. Shea pointed to Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom at the State Department, Suzanne Johnson Cook, who has statutory responsibility to speak out on religious freedom, but “never talks about this issue.”

The persecution of Christians is one of the consequences of the Arab Spring. “[The] Arab Spring has resulted in Islamist governments in Egypt and North Africa and possibly Syria,” she said. “I see the trend [of increased persecution of Christians] continuing to intensify and it’s evident in Egypt. After the adoption of an Islamic constitution we’re seeing stories of religious police imposing Islamic law.”

Shea singled out the United States’ relationship with Egypt, a country where Christians are being persecuted. “The United States has a lot of influence with foreign aid in Egypt.  We’re about to give them $10 billion in aid,  in direct military aid, and in approval for IMF loans . . . and we don’t draw a red line [with them] for the protection of Christians and Christian rights.”

There are trials going on now in Iran of Christians. In Iraq, seventy Christian churches have been blown up, and its Christian population has been all but driven out of the country. “Syria may be next,” Ms. Shea said, and “under the cover of chaos and war, Christians are being targeted.”

The persecution has spread to Africa, “Churches are attacked on a regular basis in Nigera now by Boko Haram, whose name means ‘Western education is a sin’. Their aim is to religiously cleanse northern Nigeria so it’s entirely Muslim. Northern Sudan right now is waging a crackdown against the remaining Christians there.”  Muslims are destroying “Christian churches that have been established for hundreds if not thousands of years.”

“The last Christian church in Afghanistan closed on our watch in 2010. They’ve now joined Saudi Arabia as only country with no Christian churches. That’s since 2010. Our diplomats and contractors must now worship in secret behind barricades. The Obama administration knew about it, reported in their annual report, but did nothing and said nothing about it at the time.”

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    • Pix

      ” She added that “Christians are as a group the most persecuted, out of sheer numbers, across the world.”

      Not more whining about how they can no longer indoctrinate other peoples children with their fairy stories in state schools.

      Christian do the most persecuting out of every group. Just think of all the generation after generation of Christian kids they inflict with their mental cruelty. Telling them they will burn in hell for all eternity if they don’t do exactly what a 3’000 year old Egyptian invented jealous giant invisible fairy story character dictates they do. Especially after telling them the story of how IT kills little kids by setting bears on them if they cheek their elders. 1’600 years worth of child abuse.

      • lvlichael

        Wow your parents did a number on you. So much hate in one person your lucky your head doesn’t explode.

        • Anonymous

          idot.. you so stupid to believe facts =hate?

          or you pretending? – which one?

        • lvlichael

          What I’m saying is that the hate that he is full of has not only turned him into one nasty excuse for a human but it also has crippled his perception of the facts, twisting history in order to fit his messed up agenda.

        • Anonymous

          youre saying you dont know what a fact is..

          here.. ill help..

          a fact is a small piece of skin in between the muck hole and the f*** hole.. if you slip… youre in the s*** , and thats a fact

        • Pix

          My parents showed me things and allowed me to make up my own mind. They didn’t demand I believe something totally unsubstantiated with menaces and threats of burning in hell for all eternity. Or tell me that if I cheek my elders a 3’000 year old Egyptian invented jealous giant invisible fairy story character is going to set bears on me to maul me to death, followed by being tortured in hell for all eternity.

          There isn’t a Christian kid who doesn’t get indoctrinated with how IT can’t forgive without someone being murdered on a torture device. Or to be more accurate, IT can’t forgive with out a melodramatic dying duck act. I mean come on, what was the point? To show how when manifested as a man, IT can die like a man? IT would have impressed more people if IT had farted fireballs out of it’s butt and blasted IT’s enemies into outer space.

          It’s child abuse and the only result is hatred for other people. I’m a secular humanist, I believe you should be able to believe what ever you like, provided it doesn’t involve teaching hatred by victimising other people, or evangelising. If people are interested they will come to you.

        • Pix

          lvlichael
          “What I’m saying is that the hate that he is full of has not only turned him into one nasty excuse for a human but it also has crippled his perception of the facts, twisting history in order to fit his messed up agenda”

          Really? Is that why I house and feed a disabled homeless person completely free of charge until they can stand on their own two feet? Because I’m a “nasty excuse for a human”? You know nothing about me what so ever.

          The fact remains there is NO EVIDENCE of monotheism until Amenhotep IV, c1’300 BCE. Israel was created by fleeing slaves and priests of Amenhotep, reaching Palestine c1’100 BCE. Those are facts. You guys are the ones twisting history with your accusations, threats, violence and mass murder over unsubstantiated draconian codswallop.

          You are a typical example of a religious person, unless I agree with your BS, I’m evil. Pathetic.

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        • D.U. Warner

          You chris-O-CREEPS, here in the u.s. of TERROR you have helped to ‘fashion’, DO NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD ‘Persecution”.
          WHEN YOU ARE FORCED TO ‘PAY YOUR TAXES’, THEN YOU WILL KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN ‘TARGETED’ BY YOUR GOVERNMENT :!: :!: :!:

          PAY YOUR TAXES YOU LEECHING THUGS!
          That is my message to the ameri-SCUMS who call themselves members of the ‘chris-SCUM-DUMB’ right.
          Because before one dollar of my SS income is touched, YOU LEECHIN’ HOARDERS AND YOUR ‘religious’ ORGANIZATIONS ARE GOING TO PAY TAXES LIKE ANY OTHER PROFIT-MAKING C-CORP. IN THE u.s. of TERROR THAT YOU LUNATICS HAVE FASHIONED!!!

          END ALL 501(3) c tax statue FOR ALL RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN THE u.s. of TERROR! (MADE THAT WAY BY THESE white-skinned male self proclaimed ‘judeo-chris-SCUM-DUMB HOARDER/KILLERS! WHO LIVE TO HOARD AND WILL KILL TO HOARD MORE)!

          You know when a person is mentally ill when they willingly hand over their children to WELL KNOWN world-wide criminal child sex rings (roman catholic church, angelician church) in exchange for some ‘vague’ promise of that person’s entrance into an exclusive white-skinned heaven run by a white-skinned male ‘god’!

          YOU ARE ‘FREE-KIN’ LUNATICS!
          It is about time you got ‘locked up’ for my protection, KILLER-CULT!

          Religious Tax Breaks Cost America 71 Billion a Year
          PAY YOUR OWN WAY!!!
          THE FREE RIDE IS OVER christian BULLIES!!!!!!!!
          PLEASE PREPARE YOUR “CHURCH” FOR THE INEVITABLE HERE IN THE u.s. of TERROR!!!!!!!
          Members of chris-SCUM-DUMB here have gotten a “FREE RIDE” DUE TO THE TAX LAWS.
          RETURN THESE MONIES TO THE TREASURY, YOU “LEECHING WHORES” FOR “god”!!!
          And, we will continue to let you have your silly, stupid ceremonies!!!!!!!!

          Religious Tax Breaks Cost America 71 Billion a Year

          University of Tampa professor Ryan T. Cragun, with a little help from his students, has attempted to calculate how much religious tax exemptions cost America each year, and the figure is a staggering $71 billion.
          The impetus behind calculating this figure came when professor Cragun was asked how much mansion-owning Reverend Randy White paid in taxes on his income. There was no readily available answer, and this got Cragun and his students thinking about what tax rules apply, the annual cost to America on those grounds and, as an adjunct, whether churches truly meet the criteria for such “charitable” tax donations.
          A breakdown of how the professor and his colleagues arrived at this total, including the assumptions they had to make, is published in the latest issue of Free Inquiry. However, here’s an overview of what comprises the $71 billion figure:
          • Federal income tax subsidy: $35.3 billion
          • State income tax subsidy: $6.1 billion
          • Property tax subsidy: $26.2 billion
          • Investment tax subsidy: $41 million
          • Parsonage subsidy: $1.2 billion
          • Faith-Based Initiatives subsidy: $2.2 billion
          This figure excludes a number of things, including volunteer labor subsidy, donor tax-exemption subsidies, and local income and property tax subsidies, among several others. This is because they are too difficult to calculate due to a number of variables. This means that the total figure is likely to be quite conservative.
          This is what the authors had to say about these figures:
          To put this into perspective, the combined total of government subsidies to agriculture in the United States in 2009 was estimated to be $180.8 billion. Religions receive at least 40 percent of the subsidy that agriculture does in the United States. Another way to illustrate the size of the subsidy may be to illustrate how much tax revenue would increase at the state level if religious institutions had to pay property taxes. In Florida, where the state government’s budget was $69.1 billion in 2011, the amount of tax revenue lost from subsidizing religious property was $2.2 billion or 3 percent of the state budget. The additional revenue would have mostly prevented the $1.1 billion cut to firefighter and police retirement plans and the $1.3 billion cut to public schools.
          Other highlights include that individual states are propping up religious institutions by not requiring them to pay property tax:
          States subsidize religions to the tune of about $26.2 billion per year by not requiring religious institutions to pay property taxes for property worth about $600 billion. 25 This subsidy is of particular interest because property taxes pay for services such as firefighting and police, which religious institutions use the same as corporations and private citizens.
          Also, that religious institutions, due to auditing restrictions, provide an ideal vehicle for money laundering:
          However, religions are highly unlikely to be audited because Congress has imposed special limitations on when churches can be audited.14
          What this means is that donations to religions are largely unregulated. In our discussions while investigating the subsidies to religion, we realized that religions would be the ideal way to launder money if you were engaged in an illegal enterprise. Hypothetically, the leader of a drug cartel could have one of his lieutenants start a church and file for tax-exempt status.15 Once granted, money from the sale of drugs could then be donated to the religion, which could use the funds to build extravagant buildings (including a “parsonage”), host extravagant “services” (a.k.a. parties) for members of the religion, and pay extravagant salaries to its ministers (including the leader of the cartel). Drug money could be laundered through the church’s bank accounts with little risk of being caught by authorities. If drug cartels and the Mafia aren’t already doing this, we’d be surprised.
          The study’s authors note it is unlikely that these tax exemptions will be repealed any time soon but, at the very least, the study points out the massive chunk of money that is being used to prop up religious institutions when those institutions have failed to demonstrate an equivalent level of actual charity work but continue to involve themselves in politics to a degree that should rule them out of tax exempt status.
          Read a full overview of the calculations here.

    • Anonymous

      The feral negro is not of our tribe, hence he does not care. He is Mooslim. That is why he is mocking Americans with fake czars, ignoring the Constitution, dearming Patriots, etc.

      He is laffing himself to bed everyday at how stupid Americans are. Really, we are gracious people and we will see who has the last laugh, the feral negro, or Americans.

      We, can if we be righteous towards God.

      • Pix

        “. Really, we are gracious people ”

        Give us an example of America being a “gracious people”.

        America spends more money and effort on warmongering and sh*t stirring up more conflicts, than all of the rest of the world put together. You are a racist hypocrite full of judgement. Which actually proves your disbelief, because if you really believed it, you would allow your deity to do the judging. What you are doing is role playing your deity, so YOU can do the judging instead.

        :lol:

    • TimOsman

      “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” -
      H. L. Mencken

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