The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.
“The European Union and the Council of Europe have developed dedicated mechanisms to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred, while no equivalent framework exists to address anti-Christian hatred.
“While the rest of Europe was modernizing and spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, the Greeks stayed in the dark behind the borders of the Muslim Ottoman Empire for centuries.”
For many people, the only enemy is Christianity, and that is why they support everything that goes against it.
“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”
“If the European Union starts to consider democratically elected governments illegitimate simply because they do not share the dominant political line in Brussels, then the problem is no longer Viktor Orbán.”
“What bothers Brussels is not just that Hungary stands out, but that this alternative could become popular among a majority of Europeans over time.”
“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”
“Is it not possible that Europe, which once sent missionaries to the ends of the earth, may yet find itself re-Christianized by the very peoples it once sought to convert?”
The former adviser to the World Bank and the IDB believes the crisis will normalize within weeks, but will leave Europe weaker and more dependent.
According to Schneider, the twin threats to the West today are the green-red alliance, cloaked in the robe of tolerance, and Islam.
“Italians support this reform because the justice system isn’t working properly.”
