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WASHINGTON: CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST WARNS OF IMMINENT GENOCIDE OF CHRISTIANS IN US
US Official News
April 8, 2015 Wednesday
Washington
People For the American Way has issued the following news release:
John Zmirak, a conservative columnist and senior editor of James
Robison's "The Stream" website, warned in a radio interview this week
(as he did in a recent column) that Christians in America are on the
verge of being violently persecuted like Armenians during the Armenian
Genocide, Jews in Nazi Germany, or Tutsis in Rwanda.
Citing the case of an Indiana pizzeria that shut down after facing
backlash after its owners said they wouldn't cater gay people's
weddings (and which has since received more than $800,000 in
donations), Zmirak told Alaska's Joe Miller that "I think this
vilification of faithful Christians could lead to violence in America."
"It's happened so many times before, and all the signs are there
that the enemies of Christianity are seeing 'how much can we get away
with?" he said.
He warned that within five years, "we're going to see ourselves
reduced to the status of second-class citizens the way Christians
are in countries like Egypt and Syria."
When a dominant group wants to persecute a minority, the first thing
they do is vilify them. You had the dominant secularists in France
before the French Revolution spend about 20 years vilifying the
Christian clergy; the moment they took power in the French Revolution,
they started killing the Christian clergy. When the Turks decided
that the Armenians were a dangerous minority almost 100 years ago to
the day, they started out with a propaganda campaign saying that the
Armenians were all traitors working for the Russian czar; within a
few years, they were butchering in the streets and driving them into
the desert to die of thirst. Same thing happened in, of course, Nazi
Germany, they vilified the Jews, preparing people for the Holocaust.
You saw it happen again in Rwanda, where the once-powerful Tutsi
minority, they were declared on government radio stations for weeks
and weeks, they were called cockroaches, 'we must exterminate the
cockroaches.' It was repeated over and over and over again and it was
followed, of course, by a genocide that in the course of a month or
two, killed more than a million people.
I think this vilification of faithful Christians could lead to
violence in America. I think the churches have been persecuted before,
Christians are being persecuted all around the world by Islamists --
and the U.S. government is doing nothing, of course -- I could imagine
Americans standing by while churches are padlocked and pastors are
arrested for being hatemongers, while children are being taken away
from their parents because they don't want them to be taught they're
extremist views.
It's happened so many times before, and all the signs are there that
the enemies of Christianity are seeing 'how much can we get away with?
Can we close down a pizza parlor for even theoretically being willing
to discriminate? Can we get teachers from religious schools fired?
They're going to keep pushing until they hit pushback. And unless
there's powerful pushback from Christians now -- not five years from
now, when it will be too late, but now -- we're going to see ourselves
reduced to the status of second-class citizens the way Christians
are in countries like Egypt and Syria.
US Official News
April 8, 2015 Wednesday
Washington
People For the American Way has issued the following news release:
John Zmirak, a conservative columnist and senior editor of James
Robison's "The Stream" website, warned in a radio interview this week
(as he did in a recent column) that Christians in America are on the
verge of being violently persecuted like Armenians during the Armenian
Genocide, Jews in Nazi Germany, or Tutsis in Rwanda.
Citing the case of an Indiana pizzeria that shut down after facing
backlash after its owners said they wouldn't cater gay people's
weddings (and which has since received more than $800,000 in
donations), Zmirak told Alaska's Joe Miller that "I think this
vilification of faithful Christians could lead to violence in America."
"It's happened so many times before, and all the signs are there
that the enemies of Christianity are seeing 'how much can we get away
with?" he said.
He warned that within five years, "we're going to see ourselves
reduced to the status of second-class citizens the way Christians
are in countries like Egypt and Syria."
When a dominant group wants to persecute a minority, the first thing
they do is vilify them. You had the dominant secularists in France
before the French Revolution spend about 20 years vilifying the
Christian clergy; the moment they took power in the French Revolution,
they started killing the Christian clergy. When the Turks decided
that the Armenians were a dangerous minority almost 100 years ago to
the day, they started out with a propaganda campaign saying that the
Armenians were all traitors working for the Russian czar; within a
few years, they were butchering in the streets and driving them into
the desert to die of thirst. Same thing happened in, of course, Nazi
Germany, they vilified the Jews, preparing people for the Holocaust.
You saw it happen again in Rwanda, where the once-powerful Tutsi
minority, they were declared on government radio stations for weeks
and weeks, they were called cockroaches, 'we must exterminate the
cockroaches.' It was repeated over and over and over again and it was
followed, of course, by a genocide that in the course of a month or
two, killed more than a million people.
I think this vilification of faithful Christians could lead to
violence in America. I think the churches have been persecuted before,
Christians are being persecuted all around the world by Islamists --
and the U.S. government is doing nothing, of course -- I could imagine
Americans standing by while churches are padlocked and pastors are
arrested for being hatemongers, while children are being taken away
from their parents because they don't want them to be taught they're
extremist views.
It's happened so many times before, and all the signs are there that
the enemies of Christianity are seeing 'how much can we get away with?
Can we close down a pizza parlor for even theoretically being willing
to discriminate? Can we get teachers from religious schools fired?
They're going to keep pushing until they hit pushback. And unless
there's powerful pushback from Christians now -- not five years from
now, when it will be too late, but now -- we're going to see ourselves
reduced to the status of second-class citizens the way Christians
are in countries like Egypt and Syria.