Richard Ghazal said the United States has largely failed to acknowledge “anti-Christian sentiment” that has “a direct causation with the decay in society that we witness.”
Invaded villages, believers thrown in prison, and kidnapped children. The White House is focused on Christian persecution across the globe. A leader of a group dedicated to freedom and peace joined Liz Collin on her podcast.
Richard Ghazal is the executive director of In Defense of Christians. He’s also a retired Air Force intelligence officer and former legal advisor to the secretary of the Air Force.
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Ghazal and Collin were both part of CPAC’s recent Christian Persecution Summit.
President Donald Trump has designated Nigeria a country of particular concern under the International Religious Freedom Act due to the mass slaughter of thousands of Christians by Islamic terrorists.
“It’s a very important issue and we’re glad to see it getting so much attention as of recently. For the last several years, Christians in Nigeria have been subjected to extreme and intensifying violence at the hands of Islamist terrorist organizations, chief among which are Boko Haram, ISIS in West Africa, and many others,” Ghazal explained.
“What makes it even worse is the fact that the Nigerian government has been indifferent, it seems, complacent in creating this culture of impunity that has allowed this to go on for so long. They’ve answered atrocity with more atrocity. Each time a terrorist attack occurs, they respond with brute force against not only the terrorists but against the cross-section of society, putting Christians at even greater risk,” he said.
Ghazal also pointed out that “One might even argue that President Trump is the first truly Black Lives Matter president, because the BLM movement could absolutely take a page out of his book on what it means to truly care for black lives.”
Ghazal also focused on what’s happening in Syria — one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
“Christians play an important role in Syria and have for 2,000 years of history. Christianity really began, of course, in Jerusalem and spread. But really one of the first places it spread outside of Jerusalem was Syria. Christian history is Syrian history and Syrian history, frankly, is Christian history as well. Today we see a very different story,” Ghazal commented.
“We see a one-time thriving community of about two million Christians back in 2011, just prior to the civil war, now it has been reduced down to less than 200,000. So that’s like 1% of the total Syrian population are Christian. Christians have been the leaders of academia, science, medicine, and the arts. It was Christian presence in Syria that allowed for a somewhat moderate Christian population.
“Now, if you take Christians out of Syria, you’re left with a homogenous population of Muslims, basically, mostly Sunni Muslims with other groups also as minorities. When you create that sort of vacuum of any other kind of pluralist fabric of society, you then create more opportunities for radicalism and you’re narrowing your beliefs, you’re narrowing the society’s ideas and identities. And it’s just a disastrous thing that we just see happening before our eyes,” Ghazal said.
While villages are not burning in America due to religious persecution, Ghazal says there are other parallels to be drawn regarding Christian persecution in the United States.
Under the Biden administration, pro-life peaceful protesters were imprisoned. Concerned parents were targeted by the FBI for speaking out at school board meetings. In states like Minnesota, there have been several anti-Christian laws and proposals under Gov. Tim Walz.
“As an American, someone who served in the United States military … I’ve seen firsthand in my own private capacity what’s been happening in the United States, a land founded on religious liberty. I’ve witnessed a decrease of the role of faith in society, which is directly a cause of cultural decay,” Ghazal said.
“We’re seeing school shootings … all sorts of mental illness. And I truly believe it’s bona fide mental illness, whether it’s certain segments of the LGBTQ movement to justification of bad behavior, and the acceptance of violence just because it’s a price of doing business in our culture. We see hostility to people of faith, social pressure, whether it’s coming from the government or just merely social pressure,” he continued.
“I look externally to the international community and Christian persecution there. We talk a lot in the United States about every kind of phobia and anti everything, anti fill in the blank. But one thing that we fail to observe and really acknowledge and address is this Christian, call it Christophobia, call it anti-Christian sentiment that we see really pervasive in the United States. I think it has a direct correlation, a direct causation with the decay in society that we witness,” Ghazal concluded.
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Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
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