Chancellor Angela “Mama Syria” Merkel said back in 2010 that multiculturalism was dead in Europe – in 2015 she imported millions of illiterates from monoculture Arab-islamic countries, per orient-express — so that they could be used to destroy multiculturalism — a biological weapon. That makes sense, doesn’t it?
The following story is another prove why they imported millions of Arab Muslims: to persecute the very few Jews, Christians & Africans who still live there. The most ironic part of the story is these Arab Muslims are assisted by „Jewish“ and „Christian“ organizations. I know many Eritrean Christians who are unable to find a tiny apartment, and are still living in refugee camps for three or more years, whereas, the Syrian Sharia-loving man is given a 5-bedroom house – and is allowed to import his second wife.
Indeed, we are in the Last Days
A documentary about a Syrian family on Germany’s Spiegel TV has caused controversy in the country.
The 32-year-old Ahmad A. lives with his two wives and six children in the district of Pinneberg. His second wife was only thirteen years old when Ahmad married her in Syria.
While polygamy is banned in Germany, Ahmad was allowed to bring his second wife to Germany. The decision was based on the fact that she is the mother of four of his children.
Ahmad doesn’t understand the controversy, because he is a devout Muslim and follows the Sharia, which allows polygamy.
The family fled Syria’s capital Aleppo in 2015 via Greece, France and Denmark and is now completely living on benefits.
Ahmad says he always wanted to go to Germany and tells Spiegel Tv: “There’s support here. They give us social benefits, they give us this house.”
Ahmad is happy to be in Germany: “I thank you very, very, very much, Mama Merkel. She is the only person who has felt the suffering of the Syrians. I also thank the Germans, even if there are racists among them. But the Germans have experienced war and show great compassion for the Syrians.”
The case of Ahmad and his family isn’t the only one where polygamy is involved. It was reported that 34 refugees imported 130 family members and second wives to Germany. There’s even a case known of one refugee who has 23 children and 4 wives.
For example, in 2014, the continent of Africa earned2.8 billion US dollars from exporting coffee, mainly raw, unprocessed beans which carry the lowest tariffs. By contrast, Germany alone – where coffee doesn’t grow – earned 3.8 billion US dollars from exporting processed coffee products.
It is estimated that of all the food items imported by African countries, nearly 83 per cent comes from outside the continent. The rest comes from other African countries.
African leaders are seeking ways to feed their peoples and become players in the global economy.
In the second edition of The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, I argue that Africa can feed itself in a generation. However, efforts to achieve such an ambitious goal continue to be frustrated by policies adopted by Africa’s historical trading partners, especially the European Union.
There are at least three ways in which EU policies affect Africa’s ability to address its agricultural and food challenges: tariff escalation; technological innovation and food export preferences.
African leaders would like to escape the colonial trap of being viewed simply as raw material exporters. But their efforts to add value to the materials continue to be frustrated by existing EU policies.
Take the example of coffee. In 2014 Africa —the home of coffee— earned nearly $2.4 billion from the crop. Germany, a leading processor, earned about $3.8 billion from coffee re-exports.
The concern is not that Germany benefits from processing coffee. It is that Africa is punished by EU tariff barriers for doing so. Non-decaffeinated green coffee is exempt from the charges. However, a 7.5 per cent charge is imposed on roasted coffee. As a result, the bulk of Africa’s export to the EU is unroasted green coffee.
The charge on cocoa is even more debilitating. It is reported that the “EU charges (a tariff) of 30 per cent for processed cocoa products like chocolate bars or cocoa powder, and 60 per cent for some other refined products containing cocoa.
The impact of such charges goes well beyond lost export opportunities. They suppress technological innovation and industrial development among African countries. The practice denies the continent the ability to acquire, adopt and diffuse technologies used in food processing. It explains to some extent the low level of investment in Africa’s food processing enterprises.
Usually, the know-how accumulated from processing exports such as coffee could be adopted for use on other crops and in other sectors. This in turn would help to stimulate industrial development and generate employment. Being defined as raw material exporters undermines technological innovation in the wider economy, not just in agriculture.
The second example where EU policy undermines African agricultural innovation is in the field of genetically modified (GM) crops. The EU exercises its right not to cultivate transgenic crops but only to import them as animal feed. However, its export of restrictive policies on GM crops has negatively affected Africa.
The adoption of restrictive policies across Africa has been pursued under the pretext of protecting the environment and human health. So far there has been little evidence to support draconian biosafety rules. It is important that the risks of new products be assessed. But the restrictions should proportionate and consistent with needs of different countries.
Africa’s needs are different from those of the EU. There are certain uniquely African problems where GM should be considered as an option. Let us look at the examples of Uganda and Nigeria.
The Xanthomonas banana wilt bacterial disease causes early ripening and discoloration of bananas, a staple crop for Uganda. This costs the Great Lakes region nearly US $500m annually in losses. There is no treatment for the disease, which continues to undermine food security.
Ugandan scientists at Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute have developed a GM approach but their efforts to further their research in the technology are hampered by opposition to it. Those opposed to the technology advocate the adoption of an EU biosafety approach that would effectively stall the adoption of the technology. In fact, some of opponents using scare tactics against the technology are EU-based non-governmental organizations.
The moth Maruca vitrata destroys about US $300 million worth of blackeyed peas in Nigeria. The country is forced to import pesticides worth US $500m annually to control the pest. Scientists at the Institute for Agricultural Research at Nigeria’s Ahmadu Bello University have developed a Maruca-resistant, GM blackeyed pea variety. Nigerian policy makers are hesitant to pursue a technology that they fear might put them on a collision course with the EU.
Pursuing EU-inspired biosafety policies denies Africa the capacity to leverage biotechnology and use it to meet its own local needs. GM technology has wider application in fields such as medicine and can be used in the development of diagnostics.
Zmapp is an example of an experimental drug for use against the Ebola virus that was developed using GM technology. In this case, EU policies on food safety may have unintended consequences of suppressing innovation in Africa not only in agriculture, but also in healthcare.
There are areas of EU-Africa agricultural trade that on the surface appear to offer hopeful signs. One of them is trade in organic produce. In fact, part of the opposition to GM technology is linked to the perception that it might compromise Africa’s export of organic produce to the EU.
The surge in demand in organic produce around the world does offer parts of Africa the opportunity to increase their food exports. Over the last two decades, Africa’s share of world food exports has dropped from 11 per cent to less than 3 per cent. Thailand exports nearly as much food as all of sub-Saharan Africa.
But boosting food exports is not going to be satisfied by dependence on niche organic markets provided by the EU. Africa needs robust efforts to upgrade its agriculture through technology adoption and not simply reliance on the exploitation of Africa’s “cheap ecology”.
One of the impacts of the policies has been to nudge Africa towards new partnerships with countries such China and Brazil that have pioneered the adoption of new agricultural technologies. This, in turn, has the long-term potential of eroding trade relations between the UK and Africa. The time has come for the EU to rethink the impact of its policies on African agriculture in general and technological transformation in particular.
My Note: The whole financial system is monitored and safeguarded by the IMF, the Bank of International Settlement, the World Bank, the FBI, the CIA, the M16, the French Intelligence, US Army, and the Roman Catholic Churches and Mosques.
It is a global system of international enslavement which bounds every nation of today.
Africa is especially hated and feared so no one ever allocates any international capital for development to Africa.
That is why the cost of capital the final magic to economic activity is prohibitive and almost impossible in Africa. That is why Africa is still poor and under-managed!
In the rest of the world, capital is relatively cheap….
Hate crime figures leaked by police in Germany have caused alarm, as they revealed murder, assault, and arson numbering among almost 100 attacks which targeted Christians in 2017.
Published by the Funke media group several months before annual crime statistics are due to be officially released, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) data showed attacks on churches and Christian symbols accounted for a quarter of the 97 cases.
At least 14 of the cases in the report involved asylum seekers and refugees, including the murder of an Afghan Christian convert by a fellow Afghan in May last year which prompted politicians to urge the BKA to record “anti-Christian crimes” separately for the first time.
Ansgar Heveling, interior policy spokesman for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, called the figures “alarming” and argued that the state “has a responsibility to punish these attacks severely and consistently… [as] anti-Semitic attacks are rightly being tackled”.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, of the right-wing Christian Social Union (CSU), told Funke group newspapers: “Integration in Germany has to require tolerating its Christian, Western values and culture without any ifs or buts.”
Berthold Löffler, a political science professor at the University of Ravensburg-Weingarten, said the minister’s use of the word “tolerance” shows how little is actually being asked of the newcomers living at German taxpayers’ expense.
“Requiring immigrants take on our values is too much to ask, but they really ought to tolerate us locals, even if they feel our values are a bit suspect,” he characterised the message of Hermann’s statement in a piece published at Tichy’s Insight, where he noted the CSU minister’s “demand” was mild and discussed the country’s “naive welcome culture”.
Stating the BKA figures are likely “only the tip of the iceberg” with regards to the number of anti-Christian attacks taking place in Germany, Löffler writes: “One can confidently assume that the mainstream media would much rather report on Islamophobic incidents and xenophobic crimes committed by ethnic Germans.”
Breitbart London reported last year how anti-Christian attacks had risen 245 per cent in France since 2008, while the number of anti-Muslim attacks saw a huge fall in the same period.
Data released by the French interior ministry showed anti-Christian acts accounting for 90 per cent of attacks on religious buildings and institutions — a figure which includes arson, violence, degradation, threats, and ‘insulting’ vandalism and graffiti.
Last week, it was alleged that French intelligence agencies had prior knowledge of one of the Islamic extremists involved in the beheading of Father Jacques Hamel in a Normandy church in 2016, but failed to act.
As long as they continue to let Muslims into the country,…..these attacks will only increase !
Why not? The left is anti-Christian anyway. They’re happy to let someone do their dirty work. Similar to the comment that a radical Muslim will kill you, and a moderate Muslim will let a radical kill you.
There is a direct correlation of the attacks on Christians and the number of muslims in any given country… predominately muslim countries have most of it’s Christians martyred in graves
Import people who vow to kill Christians and more violence against Christians breaks out. Who could of seen that one coming?
The invaders getting asked to tolerate Germans in Germany. I’m speechless
Globalist German politicians knew this would happen and are NOT alarmed. They want Christians out and Islam/Sharia in.
Muslims hate all non – muslims. There are 50 muslim countries in the world where they could / shoud go, but no, they come to the west to islamize!
The muslim concept of crime is different from ours, mere mortals.
Killing non -muslims is not a crime for muslims, this is their koranic duty like deceit of non muslims and evening prayer, stealing from non muslims not a crime for muslims, raping non muslim women – not a crime for muslims. Muslim men see raping non muslims as their birthright
Europe is finding this out one victim one woman at a time !
Muslim must not be allowed into the western countries !! It is like opening the prison gates and letting murderers and rapists out.
The Christian world was pretty much united against islam until a German by the name of Martin Luther kicked off the protestant reformation, and the subsequent wars and disunity in Europe which pitted Christian against Christian and sapped Europe of its strength with which it might have eventually pushed islam back once and for all. A few centuries later, a German named Adolf Hitler allied with muslims to wage war on his Christian neighbors, and according to his closest associates planned to eliminate Christianity entirely in Europe and replace it with islam as the new German religion. Less than a century later, yet another German named Angela Merkel invited millions of muslim invaders to flood into Europe, rape women and children, murder priests, and destroy all of Christendom.
So my question is, what is it about Germans that makes them so susceptible to the machinations of the devil against Christianity?
That will be a mystery for me for my entire life….
I think first, the German people were shamed and embarrassed after the War for allowing Hitler to do what he did to Jews, Germany, and Europe…..so they bent over backwards…..way too far.
Because of how they did the Jews and other non-whites – failing to rise up and stop Hitler -they feel they have to accept the murderous Muslims to “prove” they are not the Germans of the Hitler times….they are more afraid of the word “racist” than even we are here in America…..
And Collectivism has been bred deep into successive generations…..They haven’t learned yet that there is a big difference in being acceptive of people who are different but peaceful…..and accepting invaders into your home and allowing them to wreck it and kill you because you are different.
What an oxymoron.
Importing Muslim refugees who were revolting against being ruled by Alawite infidels (i.e. Assad and his sect), and expecting these people to be tolerant of Christian infidels in Germany is nothing short of insane.
„Un’Christian’ Europe indeed preferes light-skinned Muslims to dark-skinned Christians!
Smugglers Blamed After Five Migrants Shot In Calais
Four migrants were fighting for their lives on Friday after being shot during a giant brawl in Calais, in what the French government called an “intolerable” escalation of violence in a port that serves as a gateway to Britain.
Twenty-two people were hospitalised with injuries after three fights across the city on Thursday that drew in hundreds of the migrants camped out in the hope of stowing away on trucks bound for England, according to officials.
Four Eritreans between 16 and 20 years old were shot in the neck, chest, abdomen and spine at a food distribution point, and remained in critical condition Friday evening. A fifth who was also shot was not facing life-threatening injuries.
Police were searching for a 37-year-old Afghan, a suspected migrant smuggler, over the attack.
The prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais had said earlier that two confrontations between Afghan and Eritrean migrants culminated in the gunfire. It is unusual for migrants to carry firearms.
The shootings are the most serious clash in recent times between migrants around Calais. French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb headed to the city for late-night meetings with officials.
Tensions have been high in Calais, where hundreds of migrants hoping to sneak across the English Channel huddle against the cold and police have orders to try to keep them from setting up camp. However, some officers have been criticized for overzealous policing.
The Pas-de-Calais prefecture said security forces were trying to protect Afghan migrants during a melee with Eritreans when the injuries happened.
The prefecture said the gunfire was the culmination of a showdown between Afghan and Eritrean migrants, fighting each other with sticks and stones, after a meal distribution near the Calais hospital, outside the town center.
In a second confrontation, up to 200 Eritrean migrants cornered 30 Afghans near the former site of a makeshift migrant camp that housed thousands of people before it was evacuated and destroyed in October 2016.
After police moved in “to protect the Afghan migrants,” the four were shot, the prefecture said.
There were no signs of tension at the site of the attack on Friday, but, according to an official source, raids by states services “intensified”, with several buses taking mainly Afghan migrants to other centres in the region.
In northern Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein, a Syrian who arrived in 2015 with four children and his wife is now allowed to catch up with his second wife.
Later he was allowed to bring more children he has with his second wife in Syria to Germany. Then her mother was allowed to follow. The problem: Polygamy are allowed in Syria, but prohibited in Germany.
According to the report, the district administration in Elmshorn confirmed the process. Oliver Carstens, district spokesman, said there was another similar case. In addition, he assumes “a similar number of unknown cases”. The authorization in the specific case is not a blanket rule. The succession of a second wife must be carefully examined in each individual case. A request from WELT remained unanswered so far.
Carstens rejects the accusation that Bigamic marriages are being promoted in the Pinneberg district. An appropriate question had been raised at an internal meeting of the district administration with the heads of the municipal social welfare offices of the district council member Burghard Schalhorn of the Kreiswählergemeinschaft, it is said. Carstens argues that the legality of a marriage is governed solely by the law of the country in which it was concluded. And in Syria, men can have up to four women.
The destruction of the St. Lambertus Church is still explosive all over Facebook. This elegant part of Western European heritage took the labour of many skilled men. Now it needs to make way for Green Germany to dig for coal. This fact again shatters the internet myth that Germany gets 80%+ of its energy needs from renewable Green magic.
This sad toppling of a stone pillar of European civilization is not unique. All over France any church is under threat because “ there are laws protecting old trees from indiscriminate cutting. But the state is free to flatten old Christian churches“. This mass destruction mirrors the early Soviet Period from 1917 till Stalin’s Purges of 1937. Obviously not all of them were destroyed. During WWII Stalin’s official “change of heart” lead to the restoration of the Patriarchy. Very quickly after the Revolution it became evident that cutting your entire society from its own past did not built a new Marxist Superman but instead lead to cultural rot. The Soviet Union would remain more or less pro-culture till the end.
Now, at great expense the same buildings that are being destroyed by a culturally masochistic Europe are being restored and rebuilt in Russia.
New cathedrals are also exploding over all corners of the country. This is not to say that Russia is “better” or “pious”. This piece is to say that other people have been down this road and they have turned back. Believing in Christianity is a culture’s choice. But wiping it out of your history when it is so deeply ingrained in it just rots the soul of the population cut off from their past.
Let the Churches stand even if they stand empty. You may not be able to see it but when your culture’s past is gone you will feel that it is missing.
“Beware rockfall!” Warns a sign on the forecourt of the Cologne Cathedral. Because parts of the facade could be loosened, the dome plate was partially closed off.
God’s Anger Is In The Wind
The last couple of days we heard thunder in winter, we saw hailstone pelting down in savage storm.
[Isaiah 29:6]
From the LORD of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.
[Ezekiel 13:13]
Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, “I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.
Racism is on the rise all of the world. Europe is going to be dangerous for dark-skinned people, as Europeans have decided to embrace again enthnonationalism.
I wrote about this back in 2015, at the pick of the so-called „migrant crisis“. My concerns are confirmed after we read this sort of story every other day. I said then that European are importing Arab Muslims into Europe to drive out of Europe Jews, Christians and Black Africans, and it’s happening gradually.
The truth is it’s Europeans who are interefering in the affairs of Africans, even waging their evil depopluation agenda in Africa by patent biological weapons, polluting the air, the water and food, testing earthquake-making machines, weather modification devices, funding local guerillas, instigating conflicts and wars, murdering African leaders etc. Do you know that there are more people of European origin in Africa than Africans in Europe?
The “migrant crisis” was being directly facilitated by major NGOs, companies, and organizations funded by money from the European and American governments. The list of organizations is formidable. These are not just obscure entities, but major organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and Save The Children. A cadre of nations are involved including not just European nations such as Germany, Italy, and Holland, but also nations such as Belize, the Marshall Islands, and Panama.
The so-called “refugee crisis” taking place in Europe is not actually a crisis at all, but it is part of a manufactured plan on behalf of western governments, and specifically Germany, to destabilize their own nations with groups of people who cannot be assimilated in order to justify a return of ethnonationalism and racism which then can be parlayed into the institutionalized support of eugenics as part of destroying Christianity and Christian morality to usher in the advent of a new pagan order not unlike those of the world of antiquity.
Isn’t this mindboggling; Arab Muslims terrorize them, rape their women and children, they frequently murder them – yet, they make others culpable for the crimes Arabs have committed, hence react aggressively against Jews, Christians and Blacks who do nothing to them. Can you see the picture? Because Europeans have become so coward that they themselves can’t deal with the group of people they dearly hate, that’s Jews, Blacks and Christians — so they import a particular group of people (Arab Muslims) who even hate Jews, Blacks and Christians more than they do. Woow!
The most astonishing thing is these very same Arab Muslim migrants are promoted and assisted by local Christian churches and Jewish organizations. UNBELIEVABLE, ehh!?
Watch the following shocking Video of a 60-year-old man spewing Antisemitic Rant Outside Israeli Restaurant In Berlin Goes Viral:
The six-minute video of the man haranguing restaurateur Yorai Feinberg on Tuesday has been viewed more than 600,000 times on the internet since it was posted the same day. The man was released and the case is under investigation for inciting hate and resisting arrest.
Feinberg, whose restaurant bears his name, told the German news media that he often had to deal with anti-Semitism on the street, and he receives about two pieces of hate mail per month. This time, a friend of Feinberg was on hand to record the exchange.
“This guy saw my menorah in the window and suddenly started shouting,” Feinberg told the Spiegel online.
Dressed in a winter parka, the man at first tries to wave the camera away. But then he tells Feinberg that Jews belong neither in Israel nor in Germany, and says “nobody wants you people.”
“Everything’s about money with you,” he says at one point. “You will have to pay up in five or 10 years. And your whole family, your whole clan here,” he says, waving toward the camera. “What did you all want here after 1945? After 6 million of you were killed. What do you still want here?
Feinberg, who had been trying calmly to shake off the man, then sees a police car passing by. He runs and waves down the officers.
At which point the man says, “No one will protect you … you can all go to the gas chamber. Either go back [where you came from] or off to the bloody gas chamber. No one wants you.”
The police insisted that the filming stop. According to reports, the man resisted arrest and also tried to prevent taking a blood test that could provide evidence in any court proceeding. It was not evident from the video whether the man was under the influence of alcohol or any other substance.
Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff, stopped by Feinberg’s on Thursday and commented to the German media that it was important to “deal right away with such cases, with zero tolerance.”
“The right reaction to any kind of antisemitism is an immediate reaction,” he said.
The head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, told the Juedische Allgemeine newspaper on Thursday that this “disgusting attack brings home the point that antisemitism has reached the mainstream of society, where it is expressed openly and bluntly.” Many Jews worry about whether it is safe for them to live in Germany, he added.
Meanwhile, Facebook officials apologized for having temporarily removed the video from its platform and shutting down the profile of a friend of Feinberg who had posted it. Both have since been restored.
Can you see into their primitive tactic? They don’t even try to hide their racism anymore. Today the racists outnumber the old racists of the past, and they are bold and crass – they’re everywhere.
The marketing agenda of the Swedish fashion retailer H&M to bring out ‘Coolest Monkey in the Jungle’ shirt should be seen in this context.
The mother took to Facebook to brand the backlash to the image ‘unnecessary’ and urged critics, including global superstars, to ‘stop crying wolf’ and ‘get over it’.”
This is a typical reaction of many brainwashed diaspora Kenyans, and Ghanaians.
Big Karma:
Now Ms Mango has revealed the comments sparked a wave of online abuse, including from some of those who spoke out in support of her son. She revealed she had even been called a ‘monkey’ – the same racist slur that sparked the outrage.
The full story:
Mother of H&M child model reveals she’s had racist abuse from the SAME people who defended her son after advising them to ‘get over’ the controversial ad – and says she’s even been called a ‘monkey’
Child model Liam Mungo, five, is at the centre of the H&M jumper race row
Global superstars blasted the retailer and customers called for a boycott
His mother Terry spoke out to dismiss the widespread backlash as ‘unnecessary’
Now she says she’s been trolled by the same people who defended her son
The mother of the child model at the centre of the H&M race row has revealed how she has been targeted by racist trolls after speaking out over the controversy.
Terry Mango, of Stockholm, Sweden, broke her silence yesterday after the retailer faced accusations of racism over an image featuring her son Liam, five, wearing a jumper emblazoned with ‘coolest monkey in the jungle’.
The mother took to Facebook to brand the backlash to the image ‘unnecessary’ and urged critics, including global superstars, to ‘stop crying wolf’ and ‘get over it’.
Now Ms Mango has revealed the comments sparked a wave of online abuse, including from some of those who spoke out in support of her son. She revealed she had even been called a ‘monkey’ – the same racist slur that sparked the outrage.
Not only are European governments aware of the “systematic abuse” and “appalling conditions” that migrants are exposed to by Libyan authorities, they are also involved in these crimes, Amnesty International has claimed in a recent report.
In an attempt to contain the influx of sea-borne migrants and refugees, the EU member states “actively” contribute to “a sophisticated system of abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants by the Libyan Coast Guard, detention authorities and smugglers”, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Tortured. Raped. Sold.
Rescued? No.
“Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants trapped in Libya are at the mercy of Libyan authorities, militias, armed groups and smugglers, often working seamlessly together for financial gain,” said Amnesty’s Europe Director, John Dalhuisen. An estimated 20,000 people are currently kept in “these overcrowded, unsanitary detention centers,” where “torture is rife,” the group reports.
Held in detention for three months, a man from Gambia told Amnesty about the suffering he endured: “In the center they don’t give food. They beat me with a rubber hose, because they want money to release me. They call the family while beating [you] so the family send money”.
Another man, from Nigeria, named “Victor”, described the fear he felt before setting off from Libya. “I had heard stories of Libyans arresting people at sea and taking them to prison, and from there asking them to call their families to make them send money; and stories of people who had died in the sea. But I feared Libya more; in Libya they treat anyone with a dark skin as an animal…”.
People are tortured.
People are raped.
People are sold.
The EU is “complicit in these abuses”, Amnesty claims, singling out Italy. The EU governments provide support to Libya, train and equip the country’s coastguard with boats and other assistance, and clamp down on rescue efforts by the NGOs, Amnesty reports, in ‘Libya’s Dark Web of Collusion’.
“By supporting Libyan authorities in trapping people in Libya, without requiring the Libyan authorities to tackle the endemic abuse of refugees and migrants or to even recognize that refugees exist, European governments have shown where their true priorities lie: namely, the closure of the central Mediterranean route, with scant regard to the suffering caused”, Dalhuisen charged.
The European policies have proved efficient, resulting in a significant drop of sea crossings compared to last year’s figures and even to the first six months of 2017, Amnesty reports. While nearly 84,000 migrants arrived in Italy by sea in the first half of the year, some 33,288 disembarked there between July and November.
Meanwhile, 3,091 didn’t make it to the shore, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) statistics estimate.
Amnesty has urged the EU to “realize the horrific consequences of their policies of containment, recognize their unlawful nature, and reset their co-operation with Libya”, as well as to “enable people to get to Europe through legal pathways”.
The North African nation, ravaged by civil war, has turned into a launch pad for those fleeing persecution, war and poverty and making a perilous journey to Europe. The IOM identified more than 400,000 refugees in Libya, Amnesty says.
Kicked ‘like a football’ were the words used by a Pakistani Christian to describe a brutal assault that left him unconscious outside a restaurant in Derby last month. The victim, Tajamal Amar, claims Muslim men singled him out for offence he’d caused by displaying a cross and two large red poppies on his car, and for being a Kaffir – a derogatory term for non-Muslims. As it happens, the attack occurred towards the end of National Hate Crime Awareness Week, and has been recorded as a hate crime. The British Pakistani Christian Association, a group who’ve been supporting Amar, inform me his wife and daughter have been moved to a new location; he remains in hospital. But is his case symptomatic of a broader anti-Christian sentiment brewing in Britain?
Persecution of Christians in Pakistan (from where Amar was forced to flee), the Middle East, China, Nigeria and Modi’s India is well documented. Isis has committed genocide in Iraq and Syria, edging Christianity towards extinction. The bloodletting of Egypt’s Copts continues. In Pakistan, blasphemy laws are enforced, as in the cause célèbre of Asia Bibi, who remains languishing on death row. But when the BBC asks whether it’s ‘inadvisable’ to display poppies or hang a crucifix from your rear view mirror – here in Britain – it makes it harder to ignore the echoes of intolerance reverberating in our midst. While liberals and interfaith interlocutors struggle to have honest conversations about doctrinally motived hate, the truth is people like Amar aren’t alone.
Last November, Nissar Hussain a Christian convert (from Islam) was forced to leave his Bradford home under armed police escort following years of persecution. His terrible ordeal culminated in 2015, with a sickening assault outside his family home (captured on CCTV) by two hooded thugs, one brandishing a pickaxe handle. Hussain suffered a shattered kneecap and broken hand. A softly spoken and intelligent man – Hussain tells me he suffers from chronic post-traumatic stress disorder and feels betrayed by both politicians and Anglican leaders. Apostates like Hussain are of course particularly vulnerable, because Islamists believe it’s their God given duty to kill them. But contempt for Christianity comes from many quarters, not just Islamists.
In fact, the government’s hate crime action plan from last year, Action Against Hate, points to the chilling case of a Christian teenager who faced physical abuse and a mock crucifixion by his coworkers. When Belfast bakers Ashers refused to make a cake with the slogan ‘support gay marriage’, they were subjected to arson and death threats by gay rights extremists. Is this not Christianophobia?
Following the jihadist murder of Father Jacques Hamal in France last year, the Home Office released a £2.4 million fund to enhance security for places of worship. Of the applicants there were 225 churches, 36 mosques, 11 gudwaras and three other places of worship (funding for synagogues is separate). Remarkably, many churches that bid successfully used funds to protect themselves from Satanists and witches. A middle-aged vicar I spoke with from South West England told me how a witch had cursed him in the expectation he’d ‘drop dead’. The drawing of pentagrams on the church’s walls was a regular occurrence. If he’d chosen to tell the police, I suppose a curse could be classified as hate crime.
But how big is the problem? I’ve had access to a fascinating response to freedom of information requests to 25 UK police forces (from 2014) by think tank Parliament Street. This unearthed 165 or so incidents affecting Britain’s clergy between 2008-13. Incidents range from robbery, assaults like grievous bodily harm (GBH), actual bodily harm (ABH), through to obsessive stalkers, and bites from dogs, and even humans. A record relating to an incident in Hertfordshire shockingly reads: ‘Offender approached the Injured Party and bit fingers.’ Serving the Son of God has its risks. However, complaints of Christianophobia are thin on the ground, despite media and politicians showing an indifference to Christian suffering.
Home Office statistics from last year on religious hate crimes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland indicate there were 316 incidents (out of a total of 4213) affecting Christians between March 2015 and March 2016. Organisations like National Churchwatch who describe themselves as a ‘leading organisation for security and advice in the Christian sector’, believe anti-Christian hate crime is significantly under-reported. Director Nick Tolson previously sat on a Home Office panel awarding security grants to places of worship. He said that, unlike anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, anti-Christian hate is predominantly a phenomenon seen in rural Britain, rather than in urban areas. Tolson, a former police officer told me, ‘National Churchwatch is working with True Vision to run four seminars around the country to tackle anti-Christian hate crime. The seminars will involve talking with clergy about how to keep safe and how to deal with crime should it occur.’
His organisation is collaborating with academics from Royal Holloway, University of London in developing a survey aimed at clergy from the Church of England, Church of Wales and the Roman Catholic Church. A snapshot into the sorts of crimes clergy experience, and if the context is anti-Christian, will no doubt help inform policy makers moving forwards.
Meanwhile, the investigation into Amar’s case continues and two men have been interviewed in connection with the assault on suspicion of causing GBH. It’s sobering to think that someone who fled religious persecution overseas now feels unsafe in Britain.
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