Today’s weak and pusillanimous Christian leaders of the West are far too concerned with pursuing a chimerical, deceptive and self-defeating “dialogue” with Muslim leaders to speak out about this persecution. In fact, entities such as the U.S. Catholic bishops have even moved actively to silence voices speaking honestly about why this persecution is happening. They’re afraid that honest discussion about it will harm the “dialogue” — a dialogue that hasn’t saved even on Christian’s life or kept even one church from being burned.
“Activists say hundreds of Syrian Christian families flee town as Islamic State fighters near,” Associated Press, August 8, 2015:
BEIRUT – Activists say hundreds of Christian families are fleeing a central Syrian town as Islamic State fighters advance toward it.
Osama Edward, the director of the Christian Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria, said “hundreds of families” have fled the Christian town of Sadad toward the government-held central city of Homs and the capital, Damascus.
Syria-based activist Bebars al-Talawy says intense clashes took place Saturday near the central town of Qaryatain, which the Islamic State group captured on Thursday. Qaryatain is about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of Sadad….