Sunspots? Newsweek notices Muslim persecution of Christians

The last two paragraphs shall keep me going for a while.

"The media's reticence on the subject no doubt has several sources...."

it seems the media considers that the death of a Christian isn't equal to the death of a Muslim. (at present rate, not even thousands equal the death of one SHARIAPHITE)

it seems the media has retired it's synapses and intentionaly fails to think, compute, connect dots

it seems the editorial staffs aren't worth neither their diplomas nor experience, like they'be been castrated or emasculated, rendered blind and dumb

it seems the media share complicity

It's not just Christians, there's also a much less publicized war on Buddhists, which the left can't explain away as a justified reaction of the poor downtrodden Muslims to the Crusades, colonialism, Zionism, cartoons, capitalism, Islamophobia, racism etc, etc.

For years, Muslims and Christians in Nigeria have lived on the edge of civil war. Islamist radicals provoke much if not most of the tension.

Add to that Lebanon, Chechnya, Indonesia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Iraq and Egypt, even 'moderate' Turkey, and you have 'normal' Muslim behaviorism towards Christians. The sad fact is Muslims have always killed Christians. Why the sudden wakeup at Newsweek? Maybe New York Times should write an anti-Christian violence rebuttal?

Robert - congratulations, looks like you have not been howling in the wilderness afterall, and liberal public opinion is starting to shift or at least show some cracks in their understanding of Islam.

After reading the violent comments directed against Eric Bell for his act of liberal "Apostasy", I hope Newsweeks readers can rise to the challenge of incorporating these "inconvenient truths" about Islam into their worldviews in a better fashion.

At some point ever the most liberal turned against Nazism, one can only hope we are seeing the start of a similar shift and some real reform of Islam can be addressed.

It's worth taking a look at the comments on Ali's article.

Leftists denying it's happening because the evidence is only "anecdotal" and from "Christian sources."

musloids attacking Ali's character, honesty and "bias."

musloids blaming it all on the "crusaders" attacking Iraq and Afghanistan, colonialism, capitalism and Christian proselytizing (that one claimed they wouldn't be killed if they stopped breaking the law by proselytizing)!

Leftists patting musloids on the back for bringing up "facts" about Ali, AmeriKKKa's hand in creating the violence and for declaring musloids victims because they "can't freely practice their religion in the West."

It is a smorgasboard of the evil, lying, hypocritical, blaming the victims, denying the facts excuses musloids and leftists sling at every opportunity.

And yet they blame "islamophobia" and "racism" for the well deserved disgust leveled at them.

I'm still shaking my head and apt to vomit when I remember the leftard telling me last year that bagheads being asked to remove their slave rags for identification was a far worse human rights violation than Asia Bibi's being incarcerated without trial for "blasphemy."

What is this psychology that causes people to be so morally skewed? Are they psychos? Brainwashing victims? Would these same people let a child drown in favour of preventing a child molester from having his "human rights" denied in prison?

This is madness.

This is my plan: I am going to buy as many Newsweek I can find and will leave copies in public places: bus, shopping mall, woork place, so people can find them and read and become aware of the persecution Christians endure.

I encourage all Juhad Watch readers to do the same!

From "the glass is half empty" perspective:

Newsweek is desperate for readers. They're using Hirsi Ali to that end. They haven't changed their stance. They still don't believe in freedom of speech for anyone who is not far-left.
If you can point to such an article by the likes of Eleanor Clift, THAT would be newsworthy.

This Newsweek issue serves as one piece of evidence that even the Left will eventually have to acknowledge that Islam is full of pathologies, that it is one of the most intolerant and hateful ideologies ever devised by man, such deceptions as the People of the Book baloney notwithstanding. Expect continued denial for some time by many Leftists, with the Hard Left remaining invincibly ignorant forever, and, of course, whining aplenty by Muslims whenever the truth about Muslim bad behavior is revealed (which is pretty much everyday), but the pattern by which more and more, including modern liberals, in the West become sickened by man's worst religion of all time will not change, will not abate, because facts, as John Adams noted, are very stubborn things.

At first glance,the Left's love affair with Islam seems inexplicable. In any other context, the Left is strongly supportive of both GLBT rights and women's rights, so you would think that they would be among the most vocal opponents of a violent, oppressive, theocratic system like Islam. Remember, these are the people that called the Boy Scouts of America "Nazis" for refusing to allow openly gay scout masters. And yet it seems that, in the minds of most liberals, the very fact that one is a Muslim trumps any negative quality he may have.

In reality, however, it's not that hard to explain. The explanation is two-fold.

The first answer is simple inertia. Leftists do not oppose Islam, therefore only right-wingers do. Since leftists oppose right-wingers, and right-wingers oppose Islam, leftists must therefore, support Islam.

But the deeper explanation is it's all about rebellion. One thing that all liberals have in common is that they never got over their adolescent angst; that is, rebellion simply for the sake of rebellion makes you cool. Justifiably or not, to the liberal mind, Christianity and Judaism are associated with "The Establishment". So, support for other religions (in this case, Islam) = "sticking it to The Man" = I am cool.

There is another article by Hirsi Ali on the website regarding FGM which also makes for interesting reading.

I'm amazed to see her article about the persecution of Christians in Newsweek. I thought the MSM was totally blind to the plight of Christians in islamic countries.

To shortfattexan: You have very succinctly put the lefts mindset together. I was looking for an answer and there you have done it. Rebel without a cause.
Also I am reading a book about Bengladesh called 'Shame' The protaganist was a lefty Hindu and his family helped form Bengadesh but guess what? The Hindu's became a parah in Bengladesh and the story about how the majority muslims turned on them is quite fascinating. The author a muslim woman is now in hiding.

Thank you, Robert, for staying strong and tracking this phenomenon over the years here on Jihad Watch--while the rest of the world looks the other way. And kudos to Newsweek for FINALLY covering the rampant persecution of Christians worldwide; and I hope that they can stay the course and not buckle under the pressure and backlash they'll undoubtedly receive from muslims and muslim apologists for covering this story.

Stay strong, Newsweek ...

By cracky!

I think we're beginning to have some effect!

I will buy the magazine tomorrow, Newsweek. Thank you.

It's a corker of an article. She really does tell it like it is. And it is all the more powerful because she is, herself, not a professing Christian - no one can say she has a personal axe to grind. What she does have is her own first-hand experience of what Muslims are taught to think about all non-Muslims, whether Jews, Christians, or anybody else (she did, after all, as a teenager in Kenya, come under the instruction - indeed, the full-on brainwashing programme - of the Muslim Brotherhood, she knows what they teach 'behind closed doors', none better, and she went to primary school in Saudi Arabia and got the 100 % proof Islamic curriculum, Joo-hatred and all). And her personal experience of what it is like to live in societies and families saturated with Islam - Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and the Muslim enclaves in the West - as opposed to what it is like to live in societies and families influenced by Christianity - Ethiopia, Kenya, and the West. Her contact with sincerely practising Christians seems to have been quite positive, whether in Africa or in the West; they were generally kinder, nicer people to be around, than the Muslims were...

And well done to Newsweek for publishing her article - and making it the cover article, no less.

I encourage everyone to write to Newsweek and commend them for so doing.

Tell them how much you enjoy Ms Ali's well-written truth-telling. Tell them you bought the magazine just for that, and that you would certainly buy any future issues that contain articles by Ms Ali - or, for that matter, by her husband, Niall Ferguson.

They will need to get lots of 'love mail' in connection with this article, because they will surely cop plenty of flak. The trick is to make sure that the 'love mail' simply swamps and drowns out the 'hate mail'.

Post scriptum: I strongly suspect that, from time to time, Ms Hirsi Ali may 'lurk' at this website, and that her husband Mr Niall Ferguson may look over her shoulder and read with her.

Just in case that formidable pair may happen to look in here, and may chance to read this comment of mine: heartiest congratulations, dear lady and gentleman, you are indeed fighters for freedom, Truth, Reason and Justice, and defenders of Civilisation against the Nothing that is Sharia despotism. Congratulations upon the safe arrival of your baby boy, and most hearty congratulations for your latest articles, both of which - Ayaan's on Muslim persecution of Christians, and Niall's on why all the 'reasons' (that is, excuses) for NOT bombing Iran's nuke project are bad - are truly excellent.

When RS points it out, he is an anti-Muslim hate-monger/bigot who gets listed by the Holy SPLC as a promulgator of a hate group. What will they say now that Newsweek has joined in?

At last! A silver lining in the gloomy cloud that storms its way into my inbox every day in the form of the daily Jihad Watch update.

That's half of why I don't comment most of the time. What is there to say most of the time except, "that sucks."

This doesn't suck. By golly, I'm breaking out my rainy day fund. Copies of Newsweek for everyone!