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Posted on 05/13/2014 12:16:33 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
kumbaya syndrome strikes again.
Evil conservatives are immune to the dreaded disease.
CHRISTIAN TRAGEDY IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
DEFINING IDEAS ¬- HOOVER INSTITUTION JOURNAL July 25, 2013
by Bruce Thornton (Research Fellow and W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, 2009–10, 2010–11)
We are living through one of the largest persecutions of a religious group in history. Human Events Few people realize that we are today living through the largest persecution of Christians in history, worse even than the famous attacks under ancient Roman emperors like Diocletian and Nero. Estimates of the numbers of Christians under assault range from 100-200 million.
According to one estimate, a Christian is martyred every five minutes. And most of this persecution is taking place at the hands of Muslims. Of the top fifty countries persecuting Christians, forty-two have either a Muslim majority or have sizeable Muslim populations.
Human Events
The extent of this disaster, its origins, and the reasons why it has been met with a shrug by most of the Western media are the topics of Raymond Ibrahim’s Crucified Again.
Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an associate fellow of the Middle East Forum.
Fluent in Arabic, he has been tracking what he calls “one of the most dramatic stories” of our time in the reports and witnesses that appear in Arabic newspapers, news shows, and websites, but that rarely get translated into English or picked up by the Western press. What he documents in this meticulously researched and clearly argued book is a human rights disaster of monumental proportions.
In Crucified Again, Ibrahim performs two invaluable functions for educating people about the new “Great Persecution,” to use the label of the Roman war against Christians. First, he documents hundreds of specific examples from across the Muslim world. By doing so, he shows the extent of the persecution, and
Additionally, Ibrahim commemorates the forgotten victims, refusing to allow their suffering to be lost because of the indifference or inattention of the media and government officials.
Second, he provides a cogent explanation for why these attacks are concentrated in Muslim nations. In doing so, he corrects the delusional wishful thinking and apologetic spin that mars much of the current discussion of Islamic-inspired violence.
Ibrahim’s copious reports of violence against Christians range across the whole Muslim world, including countries such as Indonesia, which is frequently characterized as “moderate” and “tolerant.” Such attacks are so frequent because they result not just from the jihadists that some Westerners dismiss as “extremists,” but from mobs of ordinary people, and from government policy and laws that discriminate against Christians.
Rather than ad hoc reactions to local grievances, then, these attacks reveal a consistent ideology of hatred and contempt that transcends national, geographical, and ethnic differences.
In Afghanistan, for example, where American blood and treasure liberated Afghans from murderous fanatics, a court order in March 2010 led to the destruction of the last Christian church in that country. In Iraq, also free because of America’s sacrifice, half of the Christians have fled; in 2010, Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad was bombed during mass, with fifty-eight killed and hundreds wounded.
In Kuwait, likewise, the beneficiary of American power, the Kuwait City Municipal Council rejected a permit for building a Greek Catholic church. A few years later, a member of parliament said he would submit a law to prohibit all church construction. A delegation of Kuwaitis was then sent to Saudi Arabia––which legally prohibits any Christian worship–– to consult with the Grand Mufti, the highest authority on Islamic law in the birthplace of Islam, the Arabian Peninsula.
The Mufti announced that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region,” a statement ignored in the West until Ibrahim reported it. Imagine the media’s vehement outrage and condemnation if the Pope in Rome had called for the destruction of all the mosques in Italy. The absence of any Western condemnation or even reaction to the Mufti’s statement was stunning. Is there no limit to our tolerance of Islam?
Moreover, it is in Egypt––yet another beneficiary of American money and support–– that the harassment and murder of Christians are particularly intense. Partly this reflects the large number of Coptic Christians, the some sixteen million descendants of the Egyptian Christians who were conquered by Arab armies in 640 A.D.
Since the fall of Mubarak, numerous Coptic churches have been attacked by Muslim mobs. Most significant is the destruction of St. George’s church in Edfu in September 2011. Illustrating the continuity of mob violence with government policy, the chief of Edfu’s intelligence unit was observed directing the mob that destroyed the church.
The rest of the history
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/152651
Are there any pictures of Michelle pleading for the end of the slaughter of Christians by Muslims?
Somethings shouldn’t be a target for mocking and the kidnapping of 300 girls by Muslim animals is one of them.
Coulter is loving this...
Those are intellectually disarmed dwarfs.
I saw this youtube video of Anne being interviewed by that pompous, insufferable ass Paxman of BBC. She wiped the floor with him... it’s an oldie but a must see for some fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiHbUplz3k
She can handle it. Just gives her more ammo.
I went to the Kansas City Star to comment there but you have to be FaceBooger, so I passed it up.
GraceG, consistent with you picture of Hillary, check Wikipedia link and scroll down to TIMELINE OF INCIDENTS to see what the TERRORISM HILLARY, OBAMA (and his Holstein hipped cow of a wife) have been ignoring for at least THREE YEARS.
The “incidents” weren’t worth noting because so many of the targets were Christians, right Hillary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boko_Haram
Comments welcomed here....
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/13/5020589/ann-coulters-bringbackourgirls.html
Anyone remember th stupid KONY 2012 campaign?
I don’t see how Ann’s pic backfired....I think she was right on target. I am sure Ann is very pleased with it all. The left played right into her hands. They just are clueless.
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I could not care less who started it.
That’s not the point.
You miss mine.
You look silly supporting something that is completely ineffectual and was never intended as anything but a political statement to make the participants feel better.
This is just like the KONY 2012 campaign that said he should be captured because he was killing people when he was in Rwanda, when he hadn’t been there in years.
We all felt great saying we agreed bad is bad.
This campaign works against real solutions because it make everyone feel something is being done when it is not.
No girls have been released as a result of this hashtag crap. That is an undeniable fact.
The campaign is being ridiculed because: 1) it makes the U.S. look pathetically weak when we’re reduced to the wife of the most powerful office holder in the free world holding up a handwritten sign with a silly pooh-face thinking it’s somehow going to bring an evil terrorist network to its knees, and 2) it gives too many folks the wrong impression that simply re-tweeting a hashtag will solve anything. As usual with the idiotic leftists, it’s symbolism over substance (to paraphrase Rush Limbaugh’s popular quote).
“You look silly supporting something that is completely ineffectual and was never intended as anything but a political statement to make the participants feel better.”
Its intention was to bring awareness. There is awareness. With that is pressure. You can’t honestly say the pressure on these guys is equal to what it was. The Nigerian who started the # doesn’t have any special forces or political power to do anything.
Here’s his quote:
“I am happy that the world is aware of the situation and the atrocities being committed by Boko Harom,” said Mr. Abdullahi. “The involvement of the international community is also putting pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan to live up to his responsibilities.”
The # is responsible for that. The girls will be released and the guy who took them dead. Not because we complained on FR about Hilary’s refusal to list Boko Haram as a terrorist group. It will be because of this guy’s #.
good one!
I haven’t listened to Rush, but I’m guessing he’s on this because it fits his thesis that leftists are phony bologna, goodtimes, rock and roll, feel good, something or others. But that picture of Mooch and the # are two different things. The # is not about her, even though she wants it to be about her.
Social media is not a fad. It has changed the way information is shared. We dismiss it’s power to our own peril.
I’m sure I’m not the first one to use it.
It doesn’t occur to these morons that a campaign to actually HELP, to DO something, wouldn’t be mocked.
A campaign to hold up your post-it note with a carefully arranged solemn expression in order to feel good about yourself? Yeah....mock it.
I modified Michelle’s picture to read #Plzfeedmenow
I'm not exactly sure just how this Twitter hashtag thing works, but presumably if you're mounting a campaign like this you'd want to be able to say, "Look, 100,000 have tweeted this hashtag. The cause has momentum and can't be ignored."
If everybody tweets their own personal hashtag, or if people in different countries don't tweet the same hashtag, you probably won't be able to do that.
That’s a pretty good response. Perhaps there is a hash tag focus out there using this term. If so I can understand why Michelle would use that term, and I would support that. Focusing on the girls is good, if done right.
Education issue?
Please!!!!
LOL
Take care X.
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