DAR AL HARB - THE WEST: WESTERN CHRISTIANS UNDER ATTACK BY AN ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY

Western Christians under threat from Islamic ideology, says charity

A charity that serves the suffering Church says it will continue to expose negative facts about Islam in order to prevent it from “reshaping the West in its own image”.

Barnabas Fund has reported that some Christians have told them that they should not concentrate on “trivial matters” but instead focus on the presenting Christ and loving all people.

“We have received some criticism of our recent communique on Faye Turney, the British servicewoman held captive in Iran and recently released with the other 14 captured servicemen,” the charity reports.

“We cannot understand why some western Christians questioned our highlighting this story or even defended what was done to her. Can they justify inhumanity and injustice to a vulnerable woman?”

Barnabas Fund says Christians in the West face two converging threats: one from an increasingly secularised society, intolerant of public Christian expressions of their biblical faith, and the other from an increasingly confident Islamic community.

“These two naturally hostile forces have found a common agenda in ensuring that Christianity is diminished in its influence on Western society,” it reports.

“In the name of multiculturalism, tolerance and political correctness, this coalition is intent on eroding freedoms and liberties accepted as basic in Western societies, especially freedom of speech. Islam, as a religion antithetical to Christianity, is culturally accepted, while Christianity, especially evangelical Christianity, is maligned."

“A variety of legislative and other measures, each apparently of small effect, are being introduced that have a progressive cumulative impact on long-cherished liberties and freedoms. This results in efforts to suppress any criticism of Islam, ignore unpleasant facts about it and institute what can only be called a censorship regime."

“Christians must wake up to the fact that there is no such thing as a trivial matter in this process.”

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