Wow this is probably courting a zot. :(
The professor still having her job maybe shows her second point. If a teacher denies the holocaust the teacher will get kicked out of teaching whatever grade they teach, yet here a university professor can deny the persecution of Christians.
The author seems, revisionist.
>>Consider the first few pages of Moss’s book, where she describes the murder of Mariam Fekry, a young Coptic Christian in Egypt who was among those killed when a bomb exploded in an Alexandrian church where she was attending midnight Mass on the last day of 2010. Moss believes that Mariam was not a martyr (as she was then hailed). She is right. There is a distinction to be made between martyrdom and persecution. A martyr is someone who, confronted with a choice between death and his faith, chooses to undergo death; a victim of persecution is someone who is killed or brutally abused because of his faith without being given a choice.
>>Mariam was not confronted with a choice between death and her faith. But, as Moss states, she was killed because she was a Christian; she is therefore a victim of persecution.
Being a Christian in a muslim country is the “decision” between faith and death. Getting blown up by some mohammedan animal with a bomb is just the death part. Furthermore, in an age of instant death by explosion or gunfire, people do not have time to “make a decision” so the author of the book can’t make the distinction based soley on the events of the moment of death.