Christians excluded from socialist 'Wars of National Liberation'
More than 360 million Christians “suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith,” according to Open Doors, an organization supporting persecuted Christians. Of them, 5,621 were murdered in 2022 for being Christian.
Socialist parties and activists, and their allies in academia and media, flood the public with calls for independence for non-Christian minorities throughout the globe, even escalating strife, and fomenting it where none exists, to justify so called "Wars of National Liberation".
These same groups, though, fail to demand freedom and security for persecuted Christians, let alone statehood.
Persecution not isolated
Open Doors annually ranks the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution. Their results are displayed graphically in an interactive map, as part of their World Watch List, which shows the wide geographical extent of the extreme and very high levels of persecution to which Christians are subjected.
In analyzing attacks on Christians, a report several years ago noted that the worst perpetrators of this religious discrimination were Communist and Muslim nations:
Though North Korea was listed as No. 1 on the World Watch List, making it the greatest persecutor of Christians in the world for the 14th consecutive year, the other countries in the top 20 are mostly Muslim. Iraq is #2, followed by Eritrea, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Iran, Libya and Yemen. In Nigeria (#12), the Boko Haram terrorist group murdered more Christians in 2015 than any other terrorist group. The "Palestinian Territories" are listed at #24 – persecuting Christians at a higher rate than countries such as Tunisia, China, Algeria, Kuwait, and Colombia.
Socialists and Christianity
The Communist persecution of Christians, and the failure of socialists from universities to mainstream news to defend them is not a shock to those familiar with the movement's philosophy. Karl Marx, raised in a largely non-religious Lutheran home by a father who abandoned Judaism before undergoing a symbolic baptism as an adult, openly called for an end to religion. In A Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, he likens all religions to a drug addiction from which one must be rescued.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
Socialists and Islam
The socialist alliance with Islam is less obvious, particularly as Muslims today “tend to be more committed to their faith than other believers.” The spread of Islam would thus appear as even more of an obstacle to socialist dreams of a global atheist state than Christianity.
Strategic analyst and scientist Bryan Ellison, however, explains that the alliance is not with everyday religious Muslims. Rather, the alliance is with revolutionary activists whose own resumes are more similar to that of PLO founder and accused pedophile Yasser Arafat, who, at age 61, also openly violated Islamic law by selecting a Christian woman for his first and only marital partner.
Ellison explains that “Islamic Fundamentalism” was originally called “Islamic Marxism”. The name was changed to reduce resistance from traditional Muslims who would take issue with an alliance with atheist Marxists.
In recent years the PLO and its Communist bosses have created yet another international revolutionary movement: the network of terrorists known as “Islamic fundamentalists.” Like their Liberation Theology counterparts in Christian churches, the muslim fundamentalist leaders are actually atheists and Marxist-Leninists disguised as religious fanatics. Indeed, they are opposed by the traditional muslim leaders for violating the precepts of Islam.
This radical movement, also known as “Islamic Marxism,” originated in the Russian Bolshevik Party in the 1910s. Since the 1970s, the Communist Parties of Afghanistan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia have officially promoted this new ideology. To hide their Communist backing, however, pan-Islamic revolutionaries frequently pretend to be anti-Communist. [Emphases added].
Ellison says that it is specifically those Muslim nations in which kings were replaced with Marxist leaders that took on a radical anti-West foreign policy.
The Communists have already seized control of several nations of the Middle East since the 1950s, including Algeria, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, North and South Yemen, and Iraq, often referred to as the “radical Arab states.”
Each of these countries was conquered through some combination of military coup d’etat, revolution, and invasion. Although some of these governments do not call themselves “Communist,” their leaders are all Marxist socialists whose militaries and secret police have been built, and [were] directly supervised, by the Soviet Union, and whose governments often include overt Communists at the highest levels. [Emphasis added].
A far more pro-West outlook is shared by countries like Morocco, Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia that are still governed by Muslim monarchies. Unlike “Islamic Fundamentalist” leaders, those kings do not invite North Korean Communists to train their citizens in murder.
Several terrorist groups have been founded on variations of “Islamic Marxism.” In Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini revived Hezballah (the Party of G-d), which soon collaborated with Iranian Communists, Syria, Libya, and the PLO in extending terrorism beyond the borders of Iran. When Hezballah established training camps, the instructors came from such Communist nations as North Korea and Syria, or were Iranians trained by the PLO or the Communist government of Iraq. [Emphasis added].
See our previous article on the socialist Wars of National Liberation and check back to learn the seven steps common to each of those wars.
