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Tucker Carlson criticizes the United States foreign policy and the persecution of Christians in the world.
The Guardian 2019: Persecution of Christians ‘coming close to genocide’ in Middle East – report
Patrick Wintour in Addis Ababa
Thu 2 May 2019 17.00 EDT
Pervasive persecution of Christians, sometimes amounting to genocide, is ongoing in parts of the Middle East, and has prompted an exodus in the past two decades, according to a report commissioned by the British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
Millions of Christians in the region have been uprooted from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned and discriminated against, the report finds. It also highlights discrimination across south-east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and in east Asia – often driven by state authoritarianism.
“The inconvenient truth,” the report finds, is “that the overwhelming majority (80%) of persecuted religious believers are Christians”.
Some of the report’s findings will make difficult reading for leaders across the Middle East who are accused of either tolerating or instigating persecution. The Justice and Development (AK) party of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, for instance, is highlighted for denigrating Christians. — Source
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TUCKER CARLSON: A consistent but almost never noted theme of American foreign policy is that it is always the Christians who suffer. When there’s a war abroad that the United States is funding, it is Christians who tend to die disproportionately. And this goes back a long way, 60 years, really, to Vietnam, where Catholics in that country were massacred. But it’s accelerated. So, for example, during the more than a decade the US government spent occupying Iraq, the ancient Christian community of Iraq was completely devastated. Nine out of ten of them are no longer there. They’re gone. That was an effect of our foreign policy, but it was almost never noted in the United States and almost never, ever even mentioned by Christian clergy in this country, many of whom supported that war in that occupation. Why is that? Virtually no one in any American church said anything when Christians were killed in Syria, very often by Islamic extremists paid for by the United States. But nobody said anything, and anyone who did was denounced as a kook or a bigot. Somehow standing up for Christians was not allowed in the U.S. media. We saw that firsthand. And so, once again, it continued in Ukraine, where the U.S. government has sent far more than $100 billion to the Ukrainian government. And what happened where that government do well, it banded entire Christian denomination. The Zelensky government is busy throwing Orthodox priests and nuns in jail and have the army raid churches. But again, not a word.
—> 2019. The Guardian: Persecution of Christians ‘coming close to genocide’ in Middle East – report
But what about Gaza? What about the entire region in the Middle East where, of course, there’s very intense fighting going on. Many Christian churches, the United States, particularly evangelical churches, support that. But there is virtually never a word about the Christians who live there. The ancient Christian community in Gaza, the West Bank in Israel proper. So because no one has said a word, there has been great suffering among the Christian population in that region in October. A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip was hit by an airstrike. We’re showing the video now. The church is in ruins. At least 17 people were killed that day. Yeah, that was hardly the first time that fighting in that region killed Christians. You remember the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem almost 20 years ago, where a clergyman was killed in the church with American weapons. And Christian clergy in our country said nothing. And you may be asking yourself, well, wait a second.
If Christian leaders won’t stand up for the lives of Christians, why have them in the first place? And that’s probably a good question. So you would think that in Congress there were there are many self-professed Christians. Somebody might be piping up on behalf of their brethren in the Holy Land. But no, just the opposite. In fact. For example, at a town hall event last month, Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg, a former evangelical pastor, said he would like to see the region treated like Hiroshima was treated.”
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