Germany: Abbess grants monastery asylum to 30 Muslim migrants, but not to a single Christian
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
Yet it is the Christians in Iraq who are actually being victimized and are in need of asylum.
“Abbess gives monastery asylum to 30 migrants – not a single Christian,” translated from “Äbtissin gibt 30 Migranten Klosterasyl – einem Christen nicht,” by Albrecht Künstle, haOlam, March 6, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
“What you did to the least of my brethren, you did to me” is a Christian guiding principle according to Matthew chapter 25, verse 35. The commandment to love one’s neighbor was for the brothers in faith, not for all people of that time. Today this is usually carried over to all conceivable neighbors and secondary neighbors on other continents, not just to the people in the area.
Monastic charity for everyone? But not for certain Christians? I couldn’t believe my eyes when I had to read such sentences from a convent headmistress, which she gave to the Badische Zeitung in an interview. E.g. a Christian who was persecuted and came to Germany via France is not granted monastery asylum by the kind woman. She had him sent away at the risk of France not granting him asylum because he entered there via a safe third country.
But open arms for Muslims who entered via Hungary and did not apply for asylum there. Here, too, neither asylum nor any other residence status were granted and therefore they had to return: “In 2016, a young man from Iraq and a young German woman who was supporting the man stood in front of the monastery door. He was desperate because he was supposed to be deported to Hungary, where he had entered the EU for the first time…,” the abbess justified the opening of her monastery to save the man from being” deported “to Hungary. Which is not true. Nobody is deported from Germany, but returned more comfortably than the journey when he arrived. He felt badly treated in Hungary, but Austria lies between there and here. Presumably he wanted to come here because of his bride or for some other reason. However, immigration and asylum law is not yet a matter of wishful thinking.
The family of this migrant was surrounded by IS in Mosul, argues the Muslim man. His brother was killed there. Not a word was said about what became of the family in the interview. Mosul was indeed a contested city in 2015/16. The main targets of the “Islamic State,” however, were Christians rather than Muslims…
“Mosul looks back on a 1600-year-old Christian tradition. Until recently, the city was the seat of several archbishops of Eastern Churches of Syrian tradition…. The cathedral of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and at the same time the oldest church in the city is St. Thomas Cathedral from the year 640 … of the Syrian Catholic Church. The cathedral of the latter, however, served the Syrian Catholic al-Tahira Cathedral from the 17th century, which was almost completely destroyed in 2017, but is to be rebuilt. The Chaldean Catholic Church, on the other hand, had its bishopric in the medieval Mart Meskinta Church until it was moved to the 18th century Chaldean al-Tahira Cathedral in the 1980s …
After the conquest of Mosul by fighters from the ISIS group or the Islamic State, the Christian residents were given the choice of either leaving the city, converting to Islam or being executed. The vast majority of Christians then left Mosul at the end of July, so that the Christian tradition of the city had come to an end for the time being. According to Archbishop Louis Raphaël I. Sako, 25,000 Christians were still living in Mosul when the ISIS came to power, and according to the BBC, there were even 35,000…
On February 2, 2015, Islamic State terrorists blew up one of the largest and oldest Chaldean Catholic churches in Iraq, the Church of the Virgin Mary, in Mosul. In April 2016, the historic Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Hour from the 19th century was destroyed….
Open Doors 2017 presented a memorable story from Mosul with this report. A young man had joined IS. Christians were expelled or cruelly murdered. This also took part in their expulsion. A few days after the forced exodus of Christians, while walking through the city, he saw men his age hanging on four crosses, guarded by two IS fighters. Ten meters away from the crosses, he looked up at the bloody men and heard one of these men beg God to forgive the IS fighters. The others sang in a tired voice, “Zeedo el-Maseeh tasbeeh – Praise Jesus Christ more and more.”
Traumatized, he left IS and was able to flee. His way led to Istanbul, where he heard the song of the four crucified again from a group of people – and then joined the Christians. Converted, he returned to Mosul, like many others. Back to a former stronghold of Christianity. Because in Turkey, Christians are almost only to be found in the Istanbul area and behind monastery walls.
So it cannot be this man who knocked on the monastery door accompanied by his bride. Nor is it reported that this man converted to Christianity in the monastery that gives him so much charity. Is there any attempt at all in church or monastery asylums to convince Muslims that their faith is an aberration that is causing so much harm everywhere in Islamic states? I know of one organisation besides Open Doors that is successful in defusing human time bombs – the conversion of Muslims and even former Islamists.
But no, our churches and monasteries prefer to coddle Muslims and show fellow believers the door. Like this abbess, who is to stand trial this month. She has to answer for 30 counts of aiding and abetting illegal residence in Germany. She is doing this with other abbesses and nuns. Women simply have a bigger heart for migrants. Outside the convent walls, too, it is women, mostly single, who are the most active in the voluntary help circles and also tend to offer personal support to migrants. But they are not awarding her the Göttingen Peace Prize as the abbess had hoped for the weekend, but they have postponed it. Other volunteers have lost their lives for or in spite of their willingness to help, as happened in Freiburg.
Why do persecuted Christians hardly ever manage to flee to us? To some extent, word has got around among them that sharing accommodation with Muslims is extremely dangerous and conflict-laden. They also know that only a few Christians are willing to accept other Christians. Or they are among the migrants after all and, frightened, do not reveal their faith.
Thus, hardly any victims of war and terror are given any help in Germany, but migrants from the milieu of perpetrators are all the more likely to be helped. Just like the many criminals who have made their way to Germany in the wake of the wave of migration. Some of them are known by name, most of them not yet.