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Raymond Ibrahim<\/a> – December 10, 2021<\/p>\n Hate crimes against Christianity and its followers in Europe \u2014 formerly and for centuries the guardian and disseminator of Christ\u2019s teachings \u2014 are at an all-time high.\u00a0\u00a0According to a recent report, at least a quarter of all hate crimes registered in Europe in 2020 were anti-Christian in nature \u2014 representing a 70-percent increase in comparison to 2019.\u00a0\u00a0Christianity is, furthermore, the religion most targeted in hate crimes, with Judaism at a close second.<\/p>\n Worse, the true number of hate crimes against Christians is likely even higher.\u00a0\u00a0As the Nov. 16, 2021\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) explains (boldface in original):<\/p>\n 24 states report data on hate crimes committed due to racism or xenophobia<\/strong>, 20 on LGBT groups, 16 states on anti-Semitism, and 14 on incidents against Muslims, but\u00a0only 11 countries report data on hate crimes against Christian<\/strong>s, and this obviously distorts the statistics significantly. Furthermore,\u00a0of the 136 civil society organisations that provided descriptive data, only 8 organisations (!) consistently reported incidents against Christians.<\/strong>\u00a0Both of these findings put the reality of the situation into a different perspective, which\u00a0indicates that the actual number of hate crimes against Christians is\u00a0probably way higher.\u00a0\u00a0When comparing the\u00a0numbers of incidents from last year to the number of this year, we can see an\u00a0increase of\u00a0almost 70%<\/strong>.\u00a0What is also striking, is the fact\u00a0that of the\u00a04,008 descriptive cases [of 2020], 980 are hate crimes against Christians, almost 25%, more than against any other religious\u00a0group.<\/strong><\/p>\n Indeed, whereas 980 hate crimes were anti-Christian in nature, 850 were anti-Semitic and only 254 anti-Islamic.\u00a0\u00a0But as the report explained, the true numbers are probably significantly higher \u2014 for whereas the majority of racial, anti-Islamic, or anti-homosexual attacks are reported as such, a great number of anti-Christian attacks are not.\u00a0\u00a0Even so and despite this discrepancy, attacks on Christians are still greater than against any other religious group.<\/p>\n Discussing these findings, Madeleine Enzlberger, head of Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe,\u00a0said<\/a>, \u201cThe media and politicians do not see the rise in hatred of Christians in Europe as a growing social problem.\u00a0\u00a0The OSCE report shows only part of this problem, yet it sends a very clear signal against indifference and the almost fashionable bashing of Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Raymond Ibrahim – December 10, 2021 Hate crimes against Christianity and its followers in Europe \u2014 formerly and for centuries the guardian and disseminator of Christ\u2019s teachings \u2014 are at an all-time high.\u00a0\u00a0According to a recent report, at least a quarter of all hate crimes registered in Europe in 2020 were anti-Christian in nature \u2014 … Continue reading Christianity: The #1 Target of Hate Crimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[906,175,177,7772,16323,16322,241,26,905],"class_list":["post-20458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-horse","tag-anti-semitism","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-hate-crimes","tag-madeleine-enzlberger","tag-osce","tag-persecution","tag-religion","tag-xenophobia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5jY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20460,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458\/revisions\/20460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}