{"id":176664,"date":"2020-04-22T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/22\/genocide-is-the-goal-of-missionaries\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T00:11:00","slug":"genocide-is-the-goal-of-missionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/22\/genocide-is-the-goal-of-missionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide is the Goal of Missionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
Even if the inevitable plagues that evangelizing clerics bring to isolated indigenous tribes don’t wipe them out, it is the goal of missionaries to destroy the culture and way of life of these people.<\/div>\n

It has been the not particularly subtle policy Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to practice genocide against Brazilian first peoples, witness his appointment of a former missionary to head the country’s missionary protection agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, now a judge has ruled that the plague ridden missionaries have to stay out of indigenous reserves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good.<\/p>\n

A Brazilian judge has banned a group of Christian missionaries from entering a vast Amazon indigenous reserve<\/a> with the world\u2019s highest concentration of isolated tribes, citing risks from the coronavirus pandemic as one of his reasons.<\/p>\n

Indigenous leaders and activists hailed the decision as \u201chistoric\u201d and expressed hope that it could prevent a genocide<\/a> in the Javari valley, a remote reserve the size of Austria on Brazil\u2019s western borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacing with this new coronavirus pandemic we wanted to guarantee the rights of indigenous people to isolation,\u201d said Eliesio Marubo, an indigenous lawyer who sought the ruling on behalf of Javari\u2019s indigenous association Univaja.<\/p>\n

Federal judge Fabiano Verli banned three missionaries, Andrew Tonkin, Josiah McIntyre and Pastor Wilson de Benjamin, from the reserve, along with the controversial missionary group New Tribes Mission of Brazil which recently bought a helicopter<\/a> to convert isolated peoples in the region.<\/p>\n

The judge referred to recent<\/a> articles<\/a> about isolated groups\u2019 vulnerability to common diseases that decimated their populations in the past and authorised police and army to expel any of the missionaries found in the reserve. Brazil has so far seen three confirmed<\/a> Covid-19 deaths among its indigenous population.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These missionaries would rather see 90% of these people dead if the remainder were baptized, so keep them away forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even if the inevitable plagues that evangelizing clerics bring to isolated indigenous tribes don’t wipe them out, it is the goal of missionaries to destroy the culture and way of life of these people. It has been the not particularly subtle policy Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to practice genocide against Brazilian first peoples, witness his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,592,407,485,572,380],"class_list":["post-176664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-genocide","tag-justice","tag-latin-america","tag-pandemic","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}