Posted on 04/27/2015 5:05:29 AM PDT by Gamecock
What do you call it when 12 men are drowned at sea for praying to Jesus?
Answer: Religious persecution.
Yet, when a throng of Muslims threw a dozen Christians overboard a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi missed the opportunity to label it as such. Standing next to President Obama at their joint news conference Friday (April 17), Renzi dismissed it as a one-off event and said, “The problem is not a problem of (a) clash of religions.”
While the prime minister plunged his head into the sand, Italian authorities arrested and charged the Muslim migrants with “multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate,” according to the BBC.
As Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama was mute on the killings. He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by a virulent atheist, Obama rightly spoke out against the horrifying killings. But he just can’t seem to find any passion for the mass persecution of Middle Eastern Christians or the eradication of Christianity from its birthplace.
Religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide, as the Pew Research Center has noted, but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the Middle East and Northern Africa, where followers of Jesus are the targets of religious cleansing. Pope Francis has repeatedly decried the persecution and begged the world for help, but it has had little impact. Western leaders — including Obama — will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded. The president’s mumblings about the atrocities visited upon Christians (usually extracted after public outcry over his silence) are few and far between. And it will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades while Middle Eastern Christians were at that moment being harassed, driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.
A week and a half after Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded for being “people of the cross.” Seven of the victims were former students of my friend and hero “Mama” Maggie Gobran, known as the “Mother Theresa of Cairo” for her work with the poorest of the poor. She told me these dear men grew up in rural Upper Egypt and had gone to Libya seeking work to support their families. They died with dignity as they called out to their God, while the cowardly murderers masked their faces.
Rather than hectoring Christians about their ancestors’ misdeeds, Obama should honor these men and the countless Middle Eastern Christians persecuted before them.
Monday (April 20), there was more horrifying news: Islamic State terrorists released a video purporting to show more religiously motivated killing. According to CNN, before beheading and shooting two groups of Christians in Libya, a speaker said, “The Islamic State has offered the Christian community (the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay a tax for being Christian) many times and set a deadline for this, but the Christians never cooperated.”
So they kill them.
Indeed, let’s talk more about the Crusades.
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“Obama was mute on the killings.”
I’m surprised. NOT.
This Obama thing is a demonic unclean spirit and its doing whatever it likes to America.
“This Obama thing is a demonic unclean spirit and its doing whatever it likes to America.”...........
Time to turn the tables 180 degrees and return the efforts.
The religious persecution is no different than the tribal troubles in Rwanda, or the Khmer Rouge killing a million people in the 80’s.
It is horrible and an against natural law.
But what would you have us do? Make a speech? Pass a law in the UN?
Or are you suggesting that we send troops? Did we send troops to Northern Ireland when the Christians were going after each other like Shiite and Sunni?
What, exactly, should we do?
I don’t hear anything from Republicans much about Christians either.
Ya know, except that we should accept sodomy, support whatever military ventures our leaders take us on, keep paying taxes, allowing in more immigrants, etc.
They all (Repubs and Dems alike) tend to like Christian votes but want us to toe the line of the globalist agendas.
Christians were never in zer0’s boat
If Christians had done it to towelheads, the world leaders would be bowing down, begging forgiveness, vowing to catch those who are responsible, and other hypocritical statements.
That is a very good question.
Obama’s actions are a window on the agenda that the left tries to keep hidden while it stealthily implements it.
>>What, exactly, should we do?
Excellent point. Obama is a curse on the affluent and disinterested “Christians” of the west. He and ISIS and the Progs are giving us a preview of the future and we still put tee times ahead of worship and worry more about the music than our own prayer life.
Things must get worse before they will begin to get better.
What do you call it when Christian bakers are fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding? Religious persecution. Cruel and unusual punishment. Fascism. Sadism.
I think the window to ever turn America around is closing for ever, I’m not sure there is a way back now,
This is a war that has to be acknowledged and fought in the spirit realm,
Increasing persecution is coming here,
He started out that way, now its as if every day he/Valarie becomes more and more brazen, and they know there is no actual opposition to their lawlessness.
The American people are asleep, one day they might even wake up to find their bank accounts empty and chains around their ankles,
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