[Originally published by The Torch]
“To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to public disgrace”—Hebrews 6:6
The United Nations, Western governments, media, universities, and talking heads everywhere insist that Palestinians are suffering tremendous abuses from the state of Israel. Conversely, the greatest human rights tragedy of our time—radical Muslim persecution of Christians, including in Palestinian controlled areas—is devotedly ignored.
The facts speak for themselves. Reliable estimates indicate that anywhere from 100-200 million Christians are persecuted every year; one Christian is martyred every five minutes. Approximately 85% of this persecution occurs in Muslim majority nations. In 1900, 20% of the Middle East was Christian. Today, less than 2% is.
In one week in Egypt alone, where my Christian family emigrated, the Muslim Brotherhood launched akristallnacht—attacking, destroying, and/or torching some82 Christian churches (some of which were built in the 5th century, when Egypt was still a Christian-majority nation before the Islamic conquests). Al-Qaeda’s black flag has been raised atop churches. Christians—including priests, women and children—have been attacked, beheaded, and killed.
Nor is such persecution of Christians limited to Egypt. From Morocco in the west to Indonesia in the east and from Central Asia to the north to sub-Saharan Africa to the south; across thousands of miles of lands inhabited by peoples who do not share the same races, languages, cultures, and/or socio-economic conditions, millions of Christians are being persecuted and in the same exact patterns.
Muslim converts to Christianity and Christian evangelists are attacked, imprisoned, and sometimes beheaded; countless churches across the Islamic world are being banned or bombed; Christian women and children are being abducted, enslaved, raped, and/or forced to renounce their faith.
Far from helping these Christian victims, U.S. policies are actually exacerbating their sufferings. Whether in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, or Syria, and under the guise of the U.S.-supported “Arab Spring,” things have gotten dramatically worse for Christians. Indeed, during a recent U.S. congressional hearing, it was revealed that thousands of traumatized Syrian Christians—who, like Iraqi Christians before them are undergoing a mass exodus from their homeland—were asking “Why is America at war with us?”
The answer is that very few Americans have any clue concerning what is happening to their coreligionists.
Few mainstream media speak about the horrific persecution millions of people are experiencing simply because they wish to worship Christ in peace.
There, is of course, a very important reason why the mainstream media ignores radical Muslim persecution of Christians… Keep reading
boakai ngombu says
” … Few mainstream media speak about the horrific persecution millions of people are experiencing simply because they wish to worship Christ in peace….”
few in the press rooms give any credence to the writings of Moses. at one point “the angel of the LORD,” whom some consider to be pre-incarnate Christ, said to Hagar: (Gen. 16vv11-12, ESV)
“Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.
“He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
the family habit seems to be an inability to live in peace with any.
skeptical reporters can’t recognize this truth and have no moral strength to report: that in the confines of adherents to the wonderful SHARIA (a tool for enslavement of the many) there is no blessing of righteousness upon any. they accept pain as being normal; the more pain, the better off matters are. and pain and wrong is to be the normal for everyone. no pain no gain, so to speak.
skeptical reporters only worry about their byline and pay. they fail to inform properly because they can’t. but they do know what the editor wants … these are the accomplices of the persecutors.
the editors and news managers avoid the difficult over a whiskey and cigars. no innocent blood spilled matters … when besotted.
Kepha says
I think there are a number of factors into the MSM’s silence.
The first is that a lot of the MSM honestly thinks that if they honestly reported on Muslim persecution of Christians, American Evangelicals would run wild in the streets, forcing Imams to swallow bacon, raping Muslim women, pillaging shops, and burning mosques. Hence, the MSM thinks it is keeping things from getting inflamed over here. The Marxist and New Age morons of the MSM pretty much demand that any traditional religious community behave like the Roman Catholic Church at its most post-Napoleonic defensive, the Klan, or, well, let’s dare to whisper it **Muslims**.
Seriously, I was a seminarian when the Iranian blow-up happened, and people who should’ve known me an awful lot better approached me for “insight” into the mind of Khomeini. After all, I was also a “fundamentalist” (only this time, for a brief moment, they ommitted the **Ugh!** with which they usually prefaced the term).
The second is that there are probably a lot of people in the MSM who think that if they themselves and the politicians they love had any 外卵, they’d treat the Christians here the same way. I can’t help but notice that liberal judges, for instance, will demand that a Christian wedding photographer or caterer service a homosexual “wedding” and the MSM cheers the decision; but I’d bet the proverbial farm that if someone sued to have a halal caterer barbecue a whole hog for an event, the courts and the MSM would be full of righteous indignation about the Free Exercise Clause and “discrete and insular minorities” (after Church off the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah).
Third, Muslims are a Leftist client group at this point, and as such, they can do no wrong–even when they are openly and noisily doing all sorts of wrong.
Fourth, the MSM is the Obama administration’s cheering section. With their living ikon trying to make nice with the Ikhwan and other such people, the MSM feel they cannot afford to upset that apple cart.
In any case, Raymond and Robert, Uncle Kepha thanks you from the bottom of his heart (shows I lived in China too long) for getting the story out–you, Barnabas Fund, and others in the new media.
Salah says
A massive Media Strike.
That’s how you punish them, that’s how you bring them to their knees.
“If you do not now understand that the media is enemy number one of you, your family, this culture and of God; if you do not understand that the media is SATANIC, then you are either terminally stupid or you are hopelessly addicted to the satanic filth, agitporn and lies yourself. Pick up the phone, call the cable or satellite company and TURN THE SHIT OFF NOW.”
(Ann Barnhardt)
http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/you-ready-to-get-serious-now-you-ready-to-listen-ann-barnhardt/