An American citizen, Pastor Andrew Brunson, is facing up to 35 years in a Turkish prison on fake “terrorism and espionage related charges.” Brunson’s witnesses were not even listened to, amid “wild conspiracies, tortured logic, and secret witnesses, but no real evidence to speak of.” Most recently, Mehmet Erdoğan, a deputy for the Turkish ruling party, accused Brunson of being “a former U.S. marine in charge of looting Iraqi gold during the 2003 U.S. invasion.”

The truth, long suspected, has now emerged. The real “crime” of Brunson was “Christianization”:

The pastor’s daughter Jacqueline Furnari declared….Turkey finally charged him when they handed down an indictment….In this indictment, my father’s crime is named as ‘Christianization,’ essentially equating it to terrorism and espionage and it is, for the most part, based on secret witnesses’ testimony.”

Religious freedom does not exist in Turkey, or in any other majority-Muslim country, for that matter. In addition, Turkey has no place in NATO, as it is an oppressive regime. Its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has dreams of a revived Ottoman Empire. Earlier in the year, Erdogan declared bloody jihad on the Kurds, and dispatched thousands of Turkish soldiers with tanks and artillery to “decimate” them. Right before this, 90,000 mosques prayed Qur’anic conquest prayers, calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers” and for victory against the Kurds. Still, Erdogan insists that it is “Islamophobic” to equate Islam with violence.

Note that astute Westerners oppose “Islamization” because of the human rights abuses committed in the name of Islam. Now compare and contrast this with Turkey’s use of the word “Christianization” as an indictment against Brunson. Brunson’s daughter responds to the charges in this way: “I’ve really come to realize that God is in complete control and he has a plan and this is all for his word. He is worth everything that my family has gone through.”

Two months ago, President Trump threatened to impose “large sanctions” against Turkey in response to Pastor Brunson’s imprisonment. The Trump administration continues to push for Brunson’s release.

“Daughter: U.S. Pastor Imprisoned in Turkey for Terrorism by ‘Christianization’”, by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, September 21, 2018: