Bishop Schneider: Mass Muslim Immigration Is 'Orchestrated' Plot to Destroy Christian Europe

Schneider calls for a movement to save Europe before its Christian heritage is lost

Marxism and “orchestrated” Muslim immigration are being used to destroy Christian culture in Europe, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has warned.

“Anyone who takes a critical look at society today recognizes the effort to deny and suppress the influence of Christianity so that other influences can be spread.” Such was the stark warning of Bishop Schneider, the German auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan, during a recent interview with German outlet Junge Freiheit.

“All European values ultimately derive from Christianity, even those we consider secular today,” he noted, highlighting the centrality of Christianity to what is known and loved by many as European culture and heritage.

Expanding on what such values practically resemble, Schneider opined that they “are those that respect true human freedom, reason, humanity, family, natural law, and so on.”

“In other words,” he added, Europe’s Christian heritage and “European values” include “everything that today’s woke ideology attacks and seeks to undermine in order to leave people adrift and disoriented – and it declares anyone who contradicts it to be an enemy who must be eradicated.”

For Schneider, one key element behind what he views as a direct attack on Christianity in Europe is that encompassed in “left-wing ideology” – something he said “ultimately stems from Marxism.” This ideology has found such ready soil and has spread so rapidly across the continent because, he states, it employs “the trick of claiming that what is left is inherently good and what is right is inherently bad.”

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Transgender ideology is certainly one example in recent years in which biological reality appears to be rejected in favor of perceived personal preference, corroborating Schneider’s assessment that left-wing ideology is rewriting the rules of morality. Such a move to divide society into left and right as good and bad is, the bishop commented, “a completely arbitrary classification that does not stand up to criticism.”

But he widened his scope of criticism by noting that assaults on Christian Europe do not come solely from the “left,” saying that “we must not exclude the right, whose ideas have also sometimes led to injustice.” Rather, for Schneider, the defense of Christianity should not be primarily against a “left” or “right,” but come in the form of strengthening the “values of our European culture against all those who seek to supplant them, no matter which direction they come from.”

The bishop is well known for his forthright cultural and ecclesial commentary, and in an age where Europe’s cultural decline is well visible in many countries his voice is one of surprisingly few who are willing to voice concern. Part of this is due to the spread of Islam in once Catholic Europe, especially via large scale immigration, and on this point Schneider has not been silent.

Interviewed on the question last year, he attested that the current issue of immigration is being manipulated to foster the spread of Islam.

“This is confirmed by concrete political facts,” he said. “Under the guise of integration, Islamic religious practices are being introduced into schools and public life, such as halal food, public dinners to break the fast during the month of Ramadan, and advertising and festive Ramadan lights in Christian-majority cities.”

Speaking to Junge Freiheit this week, Schneider expanded on his past statements, describing mass immigration as “obviously an orchestrated political campaign.”

He warned that it would be a “mistake” to operate under the belief that migration “simply happens on its own, as if it were merely a natural reaction to wars or poverty. It is also an instrument for infiltrating Europe and marginalizing Christianity here.”

As for why such immigration might be so weaponized, Schneider argued it was part of “a political campaign aimed at supplanting Western identity—and in particular Europe’s Christian identity—primarily through Muslim immigrants.”

Such a “strategy,” he added, forms part of a wider “plan to dissolve European identity in order to create a new ‘woke’ culture and a predominantly Asian-Muslim mixed population.”

In light of this changing face of Europe, the auxiliary bishop urged that cultural heritage be actively preserved. “This makes it all the more important that a movement, as I have called for, be launched to save Europe.”

On this front, many have critiqued the silence of Church officials in the face of increasing Islamic threats. Schneider too has lamented this, opining last year that he believed it was due to “political correctness” on the part of many in the hierarchy.

This is especially prevalent in Germany, he attested to Junge Freiheit. “The Church in Germany in particular has already been completely brought into line with the zeitgeist, the mainstream, and the ideology of the ruling parties — in the process betraying what is truly Christian and Catholic,” he said.

The Church in Germany, added Schneider, “has become a cowardly — I emphasize: a cowardly — collaborator with leftist ideology.”

Much is made currently of efforts at interreligious dialogue, and the Vatican is a key operator in this field. But Schneider has previously warned of the dangers of such activity with Islam as being “an ambiguous procedure.”

“It calls,” he said, “for a harmony linking religions that does not exist in their doctrines and morality, and frequently not even in their practice…This type of dialogue lacks sincerity: the problem of politicized Islam and the growing persecution of Christians, especially in Islamic countries or by Islamist extremist groups, is usually not challenged.”