Nicholas Kristof wrote last month in The New York Times:
“Whenever there is a terrorist attack by Muslim extremists, we look to our enemies like the Islamic State or Al Qaeda. But perhaps we should also look to our ‘friends,’ like Saudi Arabia.
“For decades, Saudi Arabia has recklessly financed and promoted a harsh and intolerant Wahhabi version of Islam around the world in a way that is, quite predictably, producing terrorists.”
Christians of the Middle East have tried to live and act as peacemakers, tolerant, hard workers and promoters of civilized reforms. However, this seems to be meaningless to powerful nations whose politicians betray their own principles and abandon Christians and other minorities of the Middle East. Western countries are complicit in this violence because they tolerate the mingling of religion and state as practiced in so many Arab countries. It is time to tell the truth in charity.
Genuine faith, however, goes with the person and needs no geographical or historic location.