Peter Szijjarto argues that an “extremist anti-Christian liberal mainstream” dominates Europe

European political life is dominated by “an extremist anti-Christian liberal mainstream”, said the head of Hungarian diplomacy, Peter Szijjarto, on Wednesday, on the occasion of an event in Budapest that marked “Red Wednesday”, the day of international solidarity with persecuted Christians, writes MTI.

In an “age of crises”, Europe is directly confronted with the dangers of wars, migration and terrorism, Szijjarto said, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry in Budapest

“Who would have thought that, in the first quarter of the 21st century, we would be at a point where a war has been raging in the heart of Europe for almost four years now?” Szijjarto asked.

“Who would have thought 10 years ago, in 2015, that ten years later we would still be living under dramatic migration pressure, and that only the remarkable efforts of Hungarian border guards and the protection provided by the border fence could prevent hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants from flooding into Hungary? Meanwhile, partly as a consequence of illegal migration, we face a terrorist threat in Europe that we could not have imagine in the past. All this is aggravated by the crisis of European democracy”, the Hungarian Foreign Minister also stated, according to Agerpres.

“Today, the European political scene – and with it everything else – is dominated by an extremist liberal mainstream,” he continued. “And this extremist liberal mainstream exercises a very aggressive terror of opinion in Europe. If someone does not promote 100% liberal mainstream propaganda, he is immediately stigmatized, excluded and ostracized,” claimed the head of Hungarian diplomacy.

“I assure you that the Hungarian patriotic government will stand firm”

Szijjarto also stated that the “terror of liberal opinion” is characterized by “forced and aggressive secularization, as well as anti-clericalism and anti-Christianity”.

At the same time, he noted, many Christian communities in the world are faced with physical persecution, “and these two phenomena aggravate each other”.

The Hungarian minister also said that while the leaders of Muslim countries speak openly against Islamophobia, “we never hear political representatives of supposedly Christian Europe defending persecuted Christians.”

This, he continued, increases Hungary's responsibility in protecting and helping persecuted Christians. “I assure you that the patriotic (Hungarian) government will stand firm in any situation where Christian communities ask for help and support,” he added, stating that the Hungarian government has provided aid to more than 2 million people from 64 countries through the “Hungary Helps” humanitarian program in recent years, through 45 projects totaling 46 billion forints (120 million euros).

Szijjarto also stated that, last year alone, around 380 million Christians in the world suffered persecution because of their faith. “It is a frightening statistic that almost 4,500 murders were documented last year as being committed against Christians for their faith,” he pointed out. “Also, almost 5,000 Christians in the world were imprisoned last year for the sole reason of being Christians,” the Hungarian minister added.