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Last month, Communist China launched its largest ever crackdown on Christians. The raids across Beijing, Shanghai and eight other cities mark the beginning of an escalation as the paranoid Xi regime sets out to suppress the growing number of Chinese Christians.
While the Communist regime claims that the official number of Christians in China is under 50 million people, the actual estimated number of Christians now tops 100 million. Most Chinese Christians are staying away from the official government churches and going underground.
The raids and the arrests of pastors and worshipers at ‘underground churches’ that are not officially registered with and do not submit to the regime’s Communist churches is the latest move by the Chinese Communist dictatorship to slow down and control the runaway growth in Christianity which has shot up from 1 million to over 100 million since the Cold War.
If this rate of growth continues, Chinese Christians could number 300 million by 2050.
The internet, no matter how censored by the ‘Great Firewall’, has only accelerated the rise of Christianity as a population robbed of meaning and purpose, all too aware of the corruption of their leaders and the hollowness of a Communist ideology that even Communists no longer believe in, are turning to faith. And the Communist regime is doing what it does best.
China’s Communist regime has raided ‘underground churches’ and tried to stem the growth of religion online by warning that even online sermons may only be delivered by its officially licensed clergy. But the accelerated growth of Christianity after the end of the Cultural Revolution suggests that Communist repression will not stop China’s Christians.
Even while the Communist regime was cracking down on Christians in China, Muslims were continuing the massacre of Christians in Nigeria that has reached genocidal proportions.
This summer, after Front Page Magazine’s reporting, Charlie Kirk tweeted out our message, “Did you know 125,000 Christians have been murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed by Muslims in Nigeria in the last 15 years? Weird how that never gets any attention. Wonder why.”
President Trump has announced that he’s taking action against the Nigerian regime unless the massacres of Christians end. It’s a welcome change from the Obama administration which had initially enabled the genocide by replacing an elected Christian president with a Muslim dictator.
But after Trump’s warning, China and Nigeria united in support of Christian genocide.
China’s foreign ministry issued a statement warning that “as Nigeria’s comprehensive strategic partner, China firmly opposes any country using religion and human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, and threatening other countries with sanctions and force.”
Foreign policy experts and the media deliberately failed to connect the dots between two countries where Christians are threatened standing together against American efforts to protect Christians, but that ‘red-green alliance’ is swiftly becoming a defining global paradigm.
It’s the world war of our age.
The Marxist-Muslim alliance is a national and a global threat to the Christian world. Muslim and Marxist states and movements are doing everything possible to roll back the growth of Christianity, to persecute Christians under their rule, and to invade and colonize Christian countries. This vast global civilizational campaign is happening both next door in our nations and communities, but it’s also a worldwide phenomenon that is taking place everywhere.
Even as debates continue about what an ‘America First’ foreign policy looks like continue, it’s important that we understand the red-green alliance between Marxism and Islam is coming for America not just because we’re large and wealthy, but because they want to destroy us at a basic ideological level no matter what foreign policy we adopt and how we appease them.
Standing up for Christians persecuted by Communism and Islam is not only the best of what we are, but is a matter of self-defense. After the fall of the USSR, many foreign policy experts argued that the world was no longer defined by a few power blocs, but by vast competing and overlapping national interests that could be unified and harmonized through multilateral globalist institutions. Some who opposed that argued for a complete American withdrawal from the world.
After 9/11 and the radical leftist protests that followed, globalists and isolationists both failed to realize that what happened was not just a Muslim terrorist attack and had nothing to do with our foreign policy, but was the crowning blow of a Marxist-Islamic alliance as leftists rallied for Muslim terrorists, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza or anywhere else, and against us.
The Marxist-Muslim alliance, whether it’s manifested in street riots or in BRICS, is defining a new world order aimed at the dismantling of Western civilization. And it sees Christianity as the vanguard and stabilizing force of that hated civilization. That’s why the war on Christians in Africa or China, in Europe or the Middle East, is ultimately a war against all of us.
That war is not defined by abstractions like ‘no enemies to the right’. In a world where Tucker Carlson invites on a Marxist representative for a Nigerian Islamist who killed Christians to deny Christian genocide in Nigeria, or invites on Jeffrey Sachs, a UN official who praised Communist China and was funded by George Soros, to denounce America, it’s all too clear that not everyone on the right is willing to stand up to China and the Muslim murder of Christians.
Some who claim to be on the ‘right’ will even be all too willing to do their bidding.
In the war between Marxism, Islam and Christian civilization, anyone who is not willing to stand up to the persecutors and killers of Christians is a traitor to not just this country, but to this civilization.
The war against the ‘red-green alliance’ of Marxism and Islam is the defining conflict of our age. It is the struggle that will determine whether there will even be a Western civilization.
