By Robin Phillips

Christian minorities are facing unprecedenChristians killed in Middle Eastted fear and exodus in the Middle East as they become casualties of the Arab Spring movement.

Throughout the Middle East, churches are being attacked. Christians are being killed, and the population of believers continues to diminish.

These concerns were raised by Joseph Wakim in his recent article, ‘Christian minorities a casualty of the Arab Spring.‘

Wakim writes:

Emerging democracies in the ‘Arab Spring’ may have claimed an innocent casualty: Christian minorities.

If the crudest consequence of elections is ‘majority rules’, then minorities need protection. Westerners who laud the ‘Arab Spring’ cannot have it both ways, waving the carrot of democracy with one hand while waving a big stick with the other hand if Islamic values prevail. While a constitution may enshrine safeguards, this depends on who constitutes the majority….

It is the height of arrogance to laud Arab societies for ‘importing’ western ideologies of democracy, when in fact the new generation of Arabs have their own aspirations and ideologies. Ironically, it is the importing of ideologies of theocracy from US-allied Gulf states that has hijacked the pro-democracy uprisings, but rarely registered on the Western radar. Indeed, it is these ideologies of sectarian supremacy, rather than Islam or Muslims per se, that pose the biggest threat of extinction to the indigenous Christians.

Elsewhere in the article he gives some sobering statistics about Christianity in the Middle East::

The statistics are staggering: A century ago, one in five Arabs were Christian, whereas now they number one in 20.

The sectarian war in Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion has halved the Christian population to less than 400,000.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Christian voice making an issue out of other Christians being dispatched to heaven. Is not that where they wanted to go in the first place?

    Bible Says ….For to me to live is Christ, to die is gain.

    EVERY CHRISTIAN WHO HAS BEEN PUT TO THE SWORD FOR HIS/HER BELIEFS HAS GAINED HEAVEN, AND YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT.

    If one is not prepared to die for Christ, they are poor followers of Christ, merely just fans

  2. I commented previously on this subject specifically in Relation to Syria.
    “They also have a Christian minority who are already experiencing persecution in the areas liberated by the FSA. A Muslim brotherhood state will be established in Syria and this is the trend in all Muslim countries ie a stricter interpretation of the Koran in order to receive Allah’s favour.”

    Nothing has changed and William Hague seems hell bent on getting the UK into a war with Syria again to promote the PC/human rights/democracy religion so beloved of the secular Western world today. This is why Morsi was deposed. He raced ahead trying to “Shariarise” Egypt and the majority by all accounts did not want this. But horror of horrors he was
    elected by the great alexia of all things good –democracy! Under his rule the Egyptian Christians have suffered greater verbal, physical abuse then previously bearing in mind the Koran orders and approves the destruction of all things Christian. Christian businesses and churches have been destroyed and Coptic clergy murdered. Morsi’ supporters are now blaming the Christians for his overthrow and it is open season on the Coptic community. Did or do the mainline western media ever report on this travesty of democracy? We are deafened by the silence.
    In the Middle East and Africa there has always been a culture of the “strong man” ruler some were better, others worse in terms of ruling their countries. To force / try to impose democracy will always lead to strife especially where a strong political religion like Islam is present. There used to be a saying ‘one man one vote once’ Hitler and Morsi both have this in common. Would the world have gone to war for Hitler if the German army had deposed him in 1933? With today’s mentality: YES. Is there real tolerant liberal democracy in either Iraq or Afghanistan to day? The facts certainly don’t line up with that. Watch the tragedy of Syria unfold and pray for the Christian community there who are in real and present danger.