Posted on 01/02/2003 3:51:18 AM PST by Michael2001
(AgapePress) - While Southern Baptists mourn the loss of three of their missionaries in yesterday's terrorist attack in Yemen, a key player in the denomination is denouncing the way the national media covers these stories.
The three Southern Baptists who were gunned down by an Islamic terrorist on Monday are just the latest Christians to be targeted by those who hate Christianity and are out to destroy its testimony. In fact, one pro-family leader cites several recent examples of such attacks on Christians, asks why American leaders continue to describe Islam as a "religion of peace" -- then concludes it must be easier to be "politically correct" than it is to tell the truth. [See Commentary by Don Wildmon]
But pastor and well-known Baptist commentator Jerry Falwell is wondering why the national media are ignoring these Islamic attacks on Christians.
He tells Baptist Press that America in general, and Jews and Christians in particular, have more to fear from radical Islam than from Nazism or communism in the past. In just one example, Falwell says more than two million Christians in Sudan have been slaughtered by Islamic terrorist in recent years -- yet the media have not given the story the coverage it deserves.
Falwell says: "If a massacre were being conducted against people of color, God forbid, or groups like gays and lesbians, there would be an understandable outcry that would demand change."
"It is a tragedy," he says, "that Christian lives do not seem to have the same value to the national media."
Outreach Will Continue Meanwhile, a Southern Baptist official says the denomination will continue its work in Muslim nations despite yesterday's shootings of American missionaries at a Baptist hospital in Yemen. Jerry Rankin, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, says the gunman -- a Yemeni believed to be a Muslim extremist -- hid a rifle inside his coat, and cradled the weapon as if it were a baby.
Shot in the head and killed were 60-year-old William Koehn of Texas, 53-year-old Kathleen Gariety of Wisconsin, and 57-year-old Dr. Martha Myers of Alabama. They had served a combined 62 years in Yemen. A fourth missionary, 49-year-old Donald Caswell of Texas, suffered a severe stomach wound.
A Yemeni woman said the attack "contradicts Islam" and is "a crime unacceptable in any religion." And she said the slain missionaries "treated and saved" more children than she could count.
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These murders are among those that Pres. Bush can roundly condemn. If the Yemenis are speaking as above, then this is an opportunity to speak and have people hear that something is sick in islam, AND that killing those of other religions is WRONG whether MOHAMMED says so or not.
I would have him say something like this: "IF Mohammed said that these murders of doctors saving lives is OK, then Mohammed is WRONG. If radical islamics are lying about what Mohammed has said, then those people are deceivers and should be brought to justice."
it must be easier to be "politically correct" than it is to tell the truth.No question about it. For one thing, telling the truth requires thought and intellectual honesty. For another, truth is unfashionable among the PC crowd, and fashion, concensus, peer pressure, and appearances are the raisons d'etre of this wretched herd.
Christian lives do not seem to have the same value to the national media."They don't. "Liberals" hate Christianity as much as they hate America. To be pro-Muslim is fashionable. To be Christian or pro-American is unfashionable. And these wretched, trendy fools live for fashion, groupthink, and appearances.
America in general, and Jews and Christians in particular, have more to fear from radical Islam than from Nazism or communism in the past.No question about that either.
more than two million Christians in Sudan have been slaughtered by Islamic terrorist in recent yearsHow many were slaughtered in the Nazi holocaust?
Muslims are desperately in need of Christian missionaries.
A Yemeni woman said the attack "contradicts Islam" and is "a crime unacceptable in any religion." And she said the slain missionaries "treated and saved" more children than she could count.This woman's heart seems to be in the right place. She needs to convert to Christianity.
Not to mention courage.
But from the liberal media's point of view, these healers and lifesavers deserved every bullet they got because they were forcing the Christian religion on the Yemenis. How? Simply by being faithful Christians, e.g., healing hurts, binding wounds, saving lives and witnessing for Christ by their example (they certainly weren't preselytizing verbally; this is unlawful in Muslim countries).
Falwell says: "If a massacre were being conducted against people of color, God forbid, or groups like gays and lesbians, there would be an understandable outcry that would demand change."
The last time I checked, the black Sudanese WERE "people of color." I know what Falwell means (if they were massacred BECAUSE of their color and not for their infidel status) but he can be pretty dopey sometimes.
That's not a fallacy. Satan can take on any form but he can't change HIS TRUE FORM.
I'll second that, Tony.
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