This week being 16th Anniversary of Iraqi Freedom war , the $50B taxpayers funded candle of freedom that was lit in Iraq was intended to encourage freedoms of religions for all people in mideast and beyond but exeact opposite seems to have happened. Today Christians are under attack in Islamic/Jewish/Hindu/Communist dominated countries ( Christian extinction almost in Iraq, Israel territories and other parts of mideast) to Europe to Africa to Israel to India to China. Turn the other cheeck does not mean it can be allowed for them to become punching bags for extremists everywhere.
Anyone has a good solution in mind to ensure safe religious freedom for all people learning from past blunders?
From other thread:
Islamic Supremacists slaughter Christians
Groups like ISIS in mideast and ISIS in Africa aka Boko Haram are close to defeat since boosting of US troops to those regions but more work remains to be done to protect persecuted Christian minorities. In some parts of Africa and Mid East, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Iran, Syria etc, Christian persecution is leading to their extinction despite our efforts on both military interventions and foreign aid fronts. US and Europe and to some extent Israel have absorbed millions of refugess in past decade but more are still looking for refuge such a bad is situtation still in many parts of the world where battles against various ISIS/ISIS offshoots type groups are still ongoing.
Some encouraging news lately from US front with reversal in policy accepting refugees from !@#$hole countries::
Trump Administration backs down, allows Iranian Christian refugees to settle in USA
28 February 2019
Almost a dozen persecuted Iranians who were stranded in Austria for two and a half years were
finally allowed to travel to the United States in mid-February after being granted asylum earlier this year.
They were part of a group of 87 Christian and other religious minority refugees who were denied asylum in the United States under the
Lautenberg humanitarian programme for religious minorities. The programme had previously operated with an almost 100% success rate for 30 years.
The 87 refugees applied for asylum in February 2018 but were rejected during a clampdown on refugees by President Trump’s Administration.
72 captive Nigerian Christians saved from Boko Haram firing squad
These schoolchildren are from families who were forced to flee their homes because of Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen attacks
Jewish donations save persecuted Christians in Mideast
12,000 Christians who fled from Iraq to Jordan because of ISIS were saved from death, but were left destitute. Help came from Israel, through The Fellowship. Rabbi Eckstein, president of The Fellowship, was asked to hide his kippah and remove the word 'Jews' from the sign at the medical clinic, but he is certain this is the bridge to peace: 'In the end, everyone will know that the aid comes from Israel.'
08.18.18
Israeli Court Acquits Jewish Suspects in Jerusalem Church Arson Case
Resident of West Bank outpost, previously convicted of a church arson, and an unnamed accomplice were suspected of attacking Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey
Mar 11, 2019
Yinon Reuveni at his conviction for the arson of the Church of the Multiplication, Nazareth, July 3, 2017.
One of the suspects, Yinon Reuveni, a 23-year-old resident of the West Bank outpost of Baladim,
was convicted of the
June 2015 arson of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Taghba, on the Sea of Galilee.
>> Read more: Israeli 'Jewish terror' incidents targeting Palestinians tripled in 2018
■ The false innocence of Jewish terrorism
Reuveni's suspected accomplice was a minor when the arson was committed. He was arrested, but not indicted, as part of the investigation of the 2015 arson that wounded three members of the
Dawabshe family and killed their one-and-a-half-year-old infant in the West Bank village of Duma, near Nablus.
In the Dormition Abbey case, the suspect was tried as a minor and admitted to involvement in terrorism and hate crimes, including arson and vandalism, as part of a plea bargain. The court had to
throw out the confession, however, due to the Shin Bet security service's handling of his interrogation. The Shin Bet did not allow the suspect to see a lawyer, and the
interrogation was conducted under heavy psychological, and possibly physical, pressure.
One of the abbey buildings, which was used as a religious seminary, was set ablaze and hate graffiti was discovered on one wall proclaiming "Death to Arabs", as well as anti-Christian graffitti about Jesus and Mary. The name of the illegal outpost Geulat Zion, which was evacuated a week before, was also written on the wall.
03/21/2019
Hindu radicals attack Christians in West Bengal
The “members of others religions have no restrictions on meeting,” says prominent Christian, whilst “Christians instead are not allowed to worship Our Lord.”
Christian beheaded in India's Odisha state
