Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been driven from their homes in Iraq and Syria. Many have been massacred. Many Christian women have been forced into sex slavery. Christians face an ongoing level of harassment and menace from Muslims in Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia and elsewhere. And Matthew Dowd thinks “persecution of Muslims in America ” is a bigger problem? “A recent study found that 90,000 Christians died for their faith in 2016.” How many Muslims were killed for their faith in the U.S. in 2017? None, of course.
Getting yelled at by a yahoo in a supermarket is a “bigger problem” than getting massacred wholesale and whole communities wiped out?
“Despite Evidence, ABC News Analyst Claims Muslim Persecution ‘Bigger Problem’ Than Christian Persecution,” by Peter Hasson, Daily Caller, May 12, 2017:
Despite the fact that Christians are the most persecuted religion in the world, ABC News’ chief political analyst Matthew Dowd wants the media to focus instead on the “bigger problem” of Muslim persecution.
“Maybe you can talk about the bigger problem which is persecution of Muslims in America and around the globe. Bigger issue,” Dowd tweeted at Fox News’ Shannon Bream in response to a segment on growing persecution of Christians around the world.
Dowd defended his claim by saying that “Muslims are threatened every day in America, by right wing Christian extremists.”
A recent study found that 90,000 Christians died for their faith in 2016, making them the most persecuted religion in the world. Almost a third of those Christian martyrs were killed by Islamic extremists….
mortimer says
Out of ten countries that persecute Christians, NINE are Islamic. The biggest persecutor is North Korea.
Nigeria and Pakistan are the deadliest Islamic countries if you are Christian. What’s being done to stop them?
Halal Bacon says
Betcha there is a Soros and or Saudi check involved there somewhere
Donald R Laster Jr says
Remember, “Progressives” don’t like Christians because Christianity teaches a morality that “Progressives” don’t like. They would rather have the morality of Islam since it agrees with much of the beliefs – murders, lying, and so on.
gravenimage says
Dowd–somewhat implausibly–claims to be Christian.
wool says
Shut your trup,you idiot moron.where do you know about christian morality,you european believe in material,freedom and colour.you prompt same sex marriage,homosexuality,bestiality,pornography and etc.do not use Jesus to protect you from your vile personality.you lie too much.i realized in swiden and other countries,yoyr women show sign of winks,show their naked bidies to immigrants then when they rape them and satisfy them, they complain about rape.Aha white women are modest,8 out of 9 white girls above 12 years old are prostitute.they do sex with many men with anal,oral and vaginal.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Not sure what you are trying to say “wool”. Real Christians do not promote sodomy or other deviants behaviors. Many people who claim to be Christians, or to be following Christian teachings, do promote and make excused for deviant behaviors, especially in churches that have abandoned Christianity. But it sounds like you are a classic ideologue.
Richard says
“ABC News analyst claims Muslim persecution “bigger problem” than Christian persecution”
Of course. Just a few days ago 47 Christians were blown to smithereens in Egypt with dozens more seriously injured, following massacres earlier in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Europe.
But that pales in comparison with a guy who put a piece of bacon on a mosque door in London. They were only Christians after all and this was Islamophobia committed on Muslims.
No naturally they jailed the Islamophobe and killed him in prison. How very just.
Terry says
Richard, THINK BACK A FEW YEARS, WHEN MICHAEL BLOOMBERG WAS MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.
In Staten island (one of the five boroughs of New York City, and, as per its name-is an island) has a football field, and was to be sued for some kind of MUSLIM ACTIVITY.
before the Muslims could gather there, some (one or more) went ahead, and THEY FOUND–HORROR OF HORRORS. BACON WRAPPERS. NO BACON, JUST WRAPPERS.
THEY COULD NTO SUE THE FIELD.
The city commandeered A DIFFERENT HIGH SCHOOL FIELD, AS THE MUSLIMS, POOR BABIES, COULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO SUE A FIELD SO DEFILED.
the police went on overtime; taken form serious matters, to investigate. ( Found nothing. The brand was sold in many stores; no way to trace it.
A few weeks later, a freebie advertising newspaper (IE like “THE SHOPPER “- in some areas, there is a freebie by that name, with ads for everything, both by stores and individuals., a reporter got a call on her answering device.
A man, who did not give his name said that he was responsible. His story– he went shopping at a supermarket, bought ; lots of groceries; and did not ahve enough room in his car for everything, so he put (not sure if 1 or 20 bags in his trunk. Got to his home, unloaded his car; something happened, forgot about the trunk.
Some time later ( I forgot the time frame, a week or two i think) he had to go out of town, and opening his trunk, he saw the package(s). there was the bacon, spoiled. He went to the field, as it was near the water and he threw the bacon onto the field, for the seagulls and other scavenger birds; and the wrappers in a trash container. (In FL., some of them are somewhat open-not sure about NYC)
The birds ate the bacon, and either the weather, or birds- got the wrappers out.
But, can one imagine ( especially now, DeBlasio as mayor) if vandalism against a church or synagogue?
Would probably ignore.
Donald R Laster Jr says
And the story the man reported is probably true. And the “Progressives” would make every excuse possible if a non-Black church was attacked. They would blame the “KKK” if it was a Black church. Of course recent history has shown how many false-flag events, especially by Islamics, are being done.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Calling people who challenge, or call out bad behavior, “x-phobic” is standard practice for people who refuse to look at reality. It does not just happen when people point out the truth and facts related to Islam and its depraved behavior.
Stan Lee says
When a Leftist idiot such as Mathew Dowd writes on religious persecution in the various parts of the world, as if comparing apples to oranges, and various amounts thereof, it’s a signal that whatever morality that once existed, added Islam and then went completely to hell to accommodate the addition of Islam which distorted the entire issue. Any way the numbers are tossed about, hate, persecution, and deaths of innocents became a very frequent happening with adding Islam’s multiplicity of reasons to deal out terrorism, based upon its dogma like no other organized religion.
It is in a class by itself as far as Muslims think of it and it is in that class by itself because it can’t exist without it, whereas most other organized religions do not thrive by punishing believers in faiths other their own. Islam either must conquer other religions, or kill those other religions off completely. After all of the killing, the search by Islam goes on hunting whatever survivors have escaped the initial bloodbath. What Mohammed did to a Jewish city at his very first bid for conquest must be duplicated for “the survival” of Islam. And, that mission has been continued in the approximate fourteen centuries of Islam’s existence until the present. What took place at its start must be repeated as if Islam would be a predatory shark that must keep eating its victims, in order to never stop its swimming, hunting, and killing for fear of suffocating itself and drowning. Therefore, what it does to its chosen victims seems to have been developed as instinctive by now.
Wherever people of any other faith abut those of Islam, those people are destined to blood-letting as Islam exercises its reason to exist, Wiping out any other civilizations is necessary as the vital part of Islam’s continued existence.
If the above is not true, I would hope to see any other civilization, abutting Islam, that has not been chosen to be erased by that same Islam. Writer Dowd misses the reality in order to romanticize Islam as
a political-religious all-encompassing belief which could be the peace-loving, beneficent organized religion that merely has been misunderstood by all others. In that case, the photo accompanying this article of orange-clad jumpsuit victims, on their knees on a beach, having lived their brief existences, are about to stop living at the order of Islam. Dowd’s version doesn’t take that death-dealing practice into consideration, even though it is a regularity where any other religious belief abuts Islam at their perpetual, own, risk.
If Islam decided to change its conquest practices and to be a peaceful, live and let live religion, I, amongst a world of millions of others would congratulate and welcome it.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Of course Islamics won’t change that since the are willing participants in the depravities Mohammad promoted and told his followers to do. Japan understands and has taken steps to protect itself.
Brian Hoff says
Japon have not outlaw Islam as than religion tbere are some 10000 native japonese muslim and 90000 foreign muslim who work in japon for foreign own companies. Japon have almost no touble with muslin.. They have touble with thab Buddhist Death Cult who carry out two nerve gas attack on the subway in Tokyo plus they where into make biowarfare agents and nuclear weappn the Japonrse total destory this cult. It happen in 1994 or 1995.
gravenimage says
Of course, Japan has almost no trouble with Muslims because they have damn few of them.
It doesn’t take many, as “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–knows all too well.
I’m sure he can’t wait until his coreligionists start waging violent Jihad there.
Terry says
I believe that ABC ( ALL BULL CRAP) IS OWNED BY DISNEY.
IF THAT IS CORRECT, THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS.
MATTHEW DOWD LIVES IN A DIFFERENT PART OF DISNEY–FANTASY LAND.
Richard says
Terry:
You don’t like All Bull Crap (ABC)? Turn on CBS and See B.S. Almost all the “news” networks are the same. We are living in the world of Pontuis Pilate: “What is truth?” Thank God for this web page!!
Terry says
Richard- CBS is COMPLETE BULL SHIT
NBC IS NOTHING BUT CRAP
I agree.
CNN is the CREATIVE NEWS NETWORK-IF NOT IN THE NEWS, THEY MAKE IT-MAKE IT HAPPEN -EVEN IF IT -THE SITUATION-NEVER DID OCCUR.
somehistory says
The wild beast from satan the devil, original serpent, dragon of Revelation, and its image, must be protected. It doesn’t deserve protection, doesn’t need protection, and so the only way to protect this evil monster from satan is to lie, lie and lie some more.
There is power in truth. There is power in God’s Holy Spirit.
If the truth is told, satan loses, so he has his children lie and lie and lie some more so that he and his evil wild beast of islam are not exposed. He and they must protect the image of islam so as to retain its power over the people until all people are enslaved to satan.
Santa Voorhees says
“Muslims are threatened every day in America, by right wing Christian extremists.”
Right. Go to Saudi Arabia and scream “I am !!” See how long you survive you fuc**ng prick! Whatever you are smoking (because YOU ARE definitely smoking something) please quit it immediately. It is for your own good.
Seriously, I am tired to hear the “right wing Christian extremists” non-existent crap.
Santa Voorhees says
Sorry, I meant, Go to Saudi Arabia and scream: I am christian (or anything other than a muslim).
Donald R Laster Jr says
Remember, any person who promotes real morals and natural morality is a “right-wing Christian” to the “Progressives”.
mach37 says
Muslims in America may feel threatened, but they are NOT being killed by Christians. The threats I have seen, as was shown on the TNT cable channel Thursday night, featuring Charles Barkley, consisted of unkind words. There were no actual threats of physical harm. Any Muslim who feels threatened in any way by pork is just grand-standing – but that seems to work for the liberal crowd.
Barry says
…..isn’t someone gunna help get oxygen to that man at ABC? His head is so far up his ass, he’s gunna suffocate….
Jaladhi says
Believe it or not our MSM is full of insane people who cannot see Muslim terrorism on Christians and non-Muslims. They won’t be satisfied until they see us cave in to Islam! The usual liberal suspects never miss an opportunity to lick Muslim boots!
Jeanette says
Oh, they CAN see it, but it doesn’t further their anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-western civilization agenda.
They aren’t blind; they are evil.
Terry Gain says
The idiot Dowd was a strategist for George “Religion of Peace” Bush.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Dowd
TL says
Morons and liars trust morons and liars.
gravenimage says
Yes–but now he is proud to have abandoned his party.
Kiki says
I disagree with this ABC reporter. It isn’t Muslims who are being hunted, shot, burned alive, thrown in mass graves, sold as sex slaves, and thrown off roofs….it’s Christians, Yazidis, gays, moderate Muslims, and any other group ISIS doesn’t agree with.
Does that mean Muslims aren’t facing discrimination? No. Some are.
But the genocide going on in Syria and Iraq–and in all ISIS inspired attacks worldwide–are far more numerous and have a much higher death toll.
That’s what we need to focus on stopping.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Discriminating against someone due to their behavior or the group they associate with is very reasonable.
TL says
Agreed, but the host of this blog insists otherwise.
mach37 says
I can see how ISIS is killing more Muslims than those of other religions in the Middle East – Muslims in all those countries far outnumber the Christians and Jews. But that just goes to show that ISIS is inanely strict on who it considers infidels, whether it is Christians, or the more numerous Islamic apostates.
Troybeam says
its also the views of the Koran that is getting Muslims killed by ISIS, Muslims have been killing each other forever.
Donald R Laster Jr says
Remember, Mohammad killed even those who had converted to his theocracy if he decided they were not quite all the way aboard. And then when the rulers/imams who took over him disagreed the started killing each other. This is called politics. They only agree on the killing “kafurs” or the non-Islamics and that Islam is to be imposed on everything by any means possible.
And yes “Christians” have done some of that as well. But the difference is those “Christians” were not following Christianity or its teachings. And some will bring up when the Jews took their homeland back after leaving Egypt. They were instructed to kill those in the area due to the deviant and abnormal behaviors they were practicing. It is important to keep things in context.
Terry says
Donald,
When the Jews left Egypt, and killed those in Canaan and other areas, who were sexual deviants, etc– THAT WAS OVER THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
not two days ago.
Dowd, and a few others seem to (in my view) think what difference does it make if 3,000 years ago or two days ago?
They are sick bastards.MY non pc non being a psychiatrist view of these people
Donald R Laster Jr says
And it is was not because they worshiped other gods but because of their deviant and depraved behavior they were engaging in. Remember, people try to make false comparisons to Christianity, Judaism, and other religions in defense of the depravities Islamics engage in that they are are taught as normal and acceptable. I was just pointing out a very important distinction. Islamics can kill you simply for not being Islamic or Islamic enough. That is the only religion/theocracy I know of that teaches this.
gravenimage says
Yes–if other Muslims are deemed “apostates” or “heretics” or just “insufficiently Islamic” they can be murdered.
Islam even has a tenet that sacralizes this–Takfir.
martin says
This is the terrorist supporter
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://liverampup.com/uploads/images/Matthew-Dowd.jpg&imgrefurl=http://liverampup.com/entertainment/2-divorces-and-5-children-tragic-story-of-matthew-dowd-married-life-wife-plus-his-affair-with-maria-shriver.html&h=499&w=499&tbnid=71K68lOBWSVeBM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=186&usg=__BvulCTTa2SexJN7qYUvP-m4CRqE=&vet=1&docid=I_8SFuZo6_I9cM&itg=1&client=firefox-b&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAv8O8-ezTAhXGI8AKHTiOCAAQ_B0IjQEwEQ
Manny says
I couldn’t say exactly what I want to say about this moron. It would have to get censored. I wonder if there is an email address to ABC where I can lodge a complaint. This jackass needs to be fired.
Tony says
The Moslem religion is not a religion but a cult and it follows a false prophet. So persecution of a cult cannot be a crime right and following a false prophet cannot be a crime since a false prophet is not a prophet. Dowd, you should be concerned with the killing of Christians and the killing or the persecution of Moslems should not be your concern, leave that to the Saudis. Since 1948 more Moslems have been killed by Moslems – shall we say Moslem-on-Moslem crime sort of like BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME (about 10 million Moslem have died) than Jews have been killed during WW2.
Terry says
Tony, PRE WW2– THERE WERE- GIVE OR TAKE A FEW-ONLY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MILLION JEWS IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
THERE WERE JUST AFTER THE WAR ( 1947-48) OVER 100 MILLION MUSLIMS JUST IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND FRENCH NORTH AFRICA.
When Israel became a nation, the population was around 600,000– and the Muslims attacked with armies of a few million–and lost.
I THINK–MORE MUSLIMS HAVE BENE KILLED IN SYRIA AND IRAQ IN THE LAST 8 OR SO YEARS-BY OTHER MUSLIMS- THEN BY ISRAELIS IN ALL OF THEIR WARS-COMBINED.
Just, my view, not enough Muslim deaths.
Walter Sieruk says
In Islamic countries, as Pakistan, the Muslim clerics encourage the people in the mosques to go out burn the Bible’s that belong to Christians .Furthermore, in Sunni Islamic nation of Saudi Arabia Bibles are even forbidden to be taken in the country. We all may be sure the Saudi imams have a hand in this policy Likewise, in the Shi’ite nation of Iran, Bibles are even forbidden to be taken into that country. We may all be sure that the Iranian mullahs have a hand in this policy. The reason why the Muslim clerics are so much against the people having Bibles to read is because there is so much in the Bible that is so very damaging to Islamic doctrine that the Muslim clerics sand strongly against the people obtaining Bible’s. For example, Islamic [Koranic] doctrine denies the Jesus is God. In other words Islam denies the Deity of Christ. Nevertheless, the Bible teaches “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Colossians 2:9. [N.I.V.] Moreover, the Jesus is God may further be seen in the Bible. As in, for example, John 1:1-3. Colossians 1:15-17. Romans 9:5. Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First John 5:20. \
In addition, for a person to further find out that Jesus is God all a she or he has to do in to compare the Old Testament with New Testament to see that Jesus is God. As by comparing Isaiah 45:22, 23 with Philippians 2:5-11. Likewise by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. Will also confirm that Jesus is God. Also by comparing Psalm 62. 5-7.with First Corinthians 10:4. Just by comparing the New Testament books together will like show that Jesus is God .For example, comparing John 5:22. with Romans 14:12 shows the Deity of Christ. The list can go on but this should be enough for anyone who is willing to see, and not as those who Bible calls those who are willingly ignorant, II Peter 3:5., that Jesus is God.
The imams and mullahs as well as the other apologists for Islam will try to “explain “ all this away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupted by Christians, through time, and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. This claim they make very much underestimate the Power of God to preserve His Word and keep it safe and intact and away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, The Muslim clerics strongly dislike the Bile because the Bible greatly exposes the terrible doctrinal errors that Islam with the Koran as Islam’s foundation have concerning the nature of Jesus. Likewise the Bible exposes Islam as a false religion, Isaiah 8:20. Proverbs 14:12. All dear Muslims then are invited to turn away for the false religion of Islam and come to and receive the real Jesus of the Bible. Who is the True Light to the world, John 8:12. and the only way to God the Father , John 14:6.
Ric says
This inanity and insanity come as no surprise. We are awash in dullard Liberal, Islam apologists. The anti-Christian, anti-Semitic sentiments of this Liberal contagion continue to become clear, Islam, the religion of peace, is not a bloodletting cult in the perverse view of this plague on humanity.
Muhammad's Ghost says
What a muppet.
This Matthew Dowd is a complete muppet living in a fantasy world with his muppet friends.
Lydia says
The Orwellian game of ‘Opposite Day’ strikes at ever increasing rates!
Of course it is the other way around, and getting worse.
duh swami says
Do not forgive them Father, for they know perfectly well what they are doing…
gravenimage says
ABC News analyst claims Muslim persecution “bigger problem” than Christian persecution
………………………….
Unless Matthew Dowd actually means “persecution *by* Muslims”, then he is an utter tool. (And no, I know he did not mean this).
His claim that Muslims are threatened by “right wing Christian extremists” is just utter bullsh*t.
Kudos to Shannon Bream at Fox News, whose Tweet:
✔ @ShannonBream
9am @Franklin_Graham join us to talk about the growing persecution of Christians around the globe @FoxNews @AmericaNewsroom
the moronic Dowd was replying to.
Here’s the Twitter feed:
https://www.conservativereview.com/articles/matthew-dowds-tweets-on-christian-persecution-are-turning-heads
The only good thing is that Dowd is getting a *lot* of pushback.
He also said, “Muslims aren’t better than Christians, and Christians aren’t better than Muslims”
https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd?lang=en
So apparently committing genocide against unbelievers doesn’t make you morally any worse than anyone else in the world. *How grotesque*.
By the Way, Dowd is a former adviser to President Bush who has now abandoned his party.
Nighttimer says
For a moment there, I thought that he was going to talk only about Muslim persecution vs. Christian persecution in the US – but he actually did specify the whole world.
What’s next? Will he claim that today’s Caliphate is “persecuting Muslims”? Sure, IS does target other sects of Islam – Shi’a, Ahmadis and sufis of any stripe are fair game to them. But the IS territories were overwhelmingly Sunni from the outset, and saying that regular Sunnis are persecuted by IS for their faith is like saying that the Soviet Union was persecuting Russians for being Russian.
Hell, with that kind of intellectual dishonesty, you can even count the all-Muslim Arab-on-black violence in Darfur as ‘Muslim persecution’.
DDMisra says
Admit more Muslim refugees to Christian countries!