Zsolt Semjén, chairman of the Christian Democratic People's Party, former Slovak interior minister "The lions are coming - Why are Europe and America headed for a new tyranny?" his speech at the presentation of the Hungarian edition of his book .
People reading the news have been scratching their heads for at least a decade. What kind of world have we entered? Just a few specifics: from 2006, thousands of Christians were killed and hundreds of thousands had to flee. In the East, the million-strong Christian community has shrunk to a third. In October 2010, Muslim terrorists staged a bloodbath in a Christian church in Baghdad: 58 dead, including two priests. On Christmas 2010, Christians were killed by the dozen in Nigeria. In 2011, on New Year's Eve, a bomb attack in Alexandria, Egypt, killed 23 Coptic Christians and injured a hundred others during a Mass. And I could mention the story of Asia Bibi.
From Vladimír Palko's upcoming book The Lions Are Coming Catherine Ashton, the quasi-foreign minister of the EU, was entrusted with its presentation. The word Christian was not included in the submitted text. According to Catherine Ashton, "it would not have been fair". Although 15 member states wanted it, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg were against it. The ministers dispersed without accepting any declaration... It seems that the word Christian is not appropriate to use in the EU these days, and it is completely unacceptable to associate it with persecution. Why?
If the problem was only the overcomplicated decision-making system of the European Union, we could say its impotence, it would be even better. But the goal of "progress" is supposed to be the elimination of all oppression. This sounds good, until we are faced with the fact that Christianity itself is an oppression that needs to be abolished. "Progressives" cannot accept that Christians are not oppressors, but oppressed. Some face martyrdom, others only lose their jobs if they exercise freedom of conscience. The Lions Are Coming describes many specific cases, some who managed to defend themselves, some who didn't.
Recently, the absurdities of the LGBTQ movement best demonstrate that if someone disagrees with them, they immediately call for a dictatorship. But where is the dictatorship today? Shirley Chaplin, a nurse in Exeter, Devon, wore a small cross around her neck for thirty years when her workplace asked her to choose between the cross and her job. It was suggested as a compromise, you can carry the small cross in your wallet. It seemed obvious that this was unauthorized arbitrariness on the part of the employer, which the court would of course correct. Chaplin went to court, but lost the case! What is this if not a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This is how the subtitle of Vladimír Palko's book becomes understandable: Why are Europe and America headed for a new tyranny? As a member of a Christian Democratic government that is accused daily - and not only during the campaign - of building a dictatorship, I read these parts with particular attention. This book can now also be read in Hungarian, it is an eye-opening work that can help many Hungarians to come to their senses in this world where common sense has been forgotten. When the author confronted me with the fact that under the company of liberalism there is a threat of a terror of opinion that does not tolerate contradiction, where with the slogan of political correctness they even dictate what I can say and what I cannot say, then it is obvious that this anthropological, sexual, cultural "revolution" can only be an answer can be given: the counter-revolution. The counter-revolution of sanity against the revolution of madness!
