Canada speaking up for persecuted Christians in Middle East

[Locutus]

Canada’s immigration minister, Jason Kenney, agrees that it is better to speak than remain silent. He is one of the few politicians with a voice on the world stage willing to address the matter of Christian persecution, despite the fact that saying it has become an almost defiant, politically incorrect act in itself.

In April 2012, he noted a disturbing global trend that blames the actions of Christians in the past for the present persecution.

“In our tolerant society, too many are saying that Christians are getting what’s coming to them,” Kenney said. “This is a new form of blood libel. It must be repudiated at every opportunity. There are more Christians persecuted around the world than any other group by orders of magnitude.”

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[petros]

In Syria Christians had safety under Assad. Now they are targets for supporting Assad by Western backed rebels.

Ya win some and you lose some but why wasn't this brought to light at the beginning of the conflict?

 

[damngrumpy]

The current leadership is engaging in window dressing, to be charitable, at best.
First of all Petros is right Christians had safety under the current Syrian Govt.
Now they are under attack by the people the west support who are also in
league with other groups including groups that would be labelled terror groups.
Once in power the will turn the government over to, wait, you guessed it the
Muslim Brotherhood. We in the west are becoming lap dogs of these people,
here Western Governments go fetch.
The real demonstration would be to stop this silly nonsense of building a new
pipeline to service Asia and build an east west pipeline to service Canada.
That way we would keep our money at home and stop financing the tyrants of
the Middle East not to mention the emerging Russian Dictatorship rebuilding
in that country.
W|e jump up and down and demand change then finance through our actions
the very governments we just criticized. It is called hypocrisy. If we are going
to demonstrate we are serious or better yet relevant we need to do that with
our pocketbooks. Cut off oil money and then all aid including humanitarian aid.
Yes humanitarian aid, these people would understand who is really buying their
breakfast, its the West.

 

[petros]

The real demonstration would be to stop this silly nonsense of building a new
pipeline to service Asia and build an east west pipeline to service Canada.

That is already in the works. It's in the article i posted about the $18-20 bilion lost because of landlocked resources.

By Asia do you mean China or all of Asia?

We are rapidly losing the US as our main customer. XL isn't going to be for supplying the US, it's to supply EU.

XL is only going through the US, not to the US and it's only the second line of many many more to come.

 

[earth_as_one]

I agree with Jason Kenny's words. When it comes to persecution in any form, it is better to speak than remain silent. But Jason Kenny isn't sincere or else he'd condemn both all persecution of Christians in the middle east, not just selectively condemning Muslim persecution of Christians. Since he's only pointing out Muslim persecution of Christians, its a safe bet his comments are more about demonizing Muslims than any real concern for Middle East Christians.

If you disagree with me, please feel free to find a single statement by any Harper Government representative critical of the way Israel has treated Christian Palestinians. Here are some recent examples which Kenny could have condemned:
Israel's new Herods Persecuting and Terrorizing Palestinian Christians By Jamal Kanj