The persecution of Christians is "approaching" genocidal levels in the Middle East, North Africa and the Philippines, according to a 2019 report commissioned by the UK government.
But in the UK, the first British politician to suggest the Government should grant automatic asylum to Syrian Christians fleeing religious persecution, was former UKIP leader Nigel Farage - in January 2014.
He stated that: "Christians are being increasingly persecuted across the Middle East and Syria as extreme Islamist elements seek to purge the region of Christianity".
And as Canadian journalist Geoffrey P Johnston stated: "In 2016, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry declared, that ISIS had committed genocide against Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims" in Iraq.
Equally in 2016, MP's in the British House of Commons voted 278-0 in favour - of declaring the genocidal acts of ISIS in Iraq - as being a genocide.
RESPONSES TO THE 21st CENTURY "FINAL SOLUTION"
Back in 2008, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union were the first European political party in a Government, to allow Iraqi Christians to seek asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.
The former Soviet republic of Georgia, has also become a popular destination for Egyptian Christians fleeing religious violence because of the relative ease in obtaining residency.
Throughout the Arab Spring, the Netherlands made it easier for Middle Eastern Christians to claim asylum. because of Anti-Christian persecution, just as Swedish authorities in 2013 granted Syrian asylum seekers - irrespective of religion - permanent residency in light of the worsening conflict.
In October 2013, Russia's President Putin received a letter signed by 50.000 Syrian Christians - who were asking for asylum - as they felt Russia was the only world power who guaranteed “peace and stability”.
Less than two months before the ISIS invasion of Mosul in 2014, Lord Alton of Liverpool stated to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need:
"We in the West, need to ask ourselves some tough questions about the disproportionate nature of the causes - which we so readily embrace - whilst ignoring the systematic violent ideology of a “Final Solution” being directed at the Christian minorities" in Iraq and Syria.
by Hussein Al-alak
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