Israel Matzav

Iran finds time to persecute Christians

You thought that Iran was so busy developing nuclear weapons that it didn't have time to do anything else. You were wrong. Benny Weinthal reports that Iran has found plenty of time to persecute Christians.

According to a new report from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Intelligence Organization has recently and abruptly taken over the oversight of Christian churches in Iran, which were previously overseen by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.”

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ latest crackdown marks a new phase in the regime’s goal of clamping down Christian beliefs.

In late May, Iranian authorities closed the Assembly of God church, which had provided “two services per week for 80 to 100 attendees, as well as prayer sessions and bible studies” to the struggling Christian community in Tehran.

According to the humanitarian group, Iranian officials told leaders of the church that they must close its doors—and that if they didn’t comply, the regime would seize the building altogether.

As my colleague Cliff May has noted, the “persecution of Christians in numerous Muslim-majority countries is the most important international story not being told by the mainstream media.”

That's because admitting that Christians are being persecuted in Muslim countries doesn't fit in with the mainstream media's agenda of blaming the Jews for all of the world's problems. Admitting that Muslim countries persecute their Christian minorities would mean contrasting that treatment with the way in which Israel treats its Christian minority, and that's just not going to be on the MSM's agenda.

As to why we don't hear reports regarding Iran's persecution of its Jewish community, I suspect that they have toned it down in pursuit of the greater goal of destroying the State of Israel.

Labels: Christians in Muslim countries, Iran

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:16 AM