Thank God for blogs and websites that are really the only outlet for this type of information. As you know we cover this stuff every single day. It’s getting worse and worse, but US and international media don’t cover it that much because there’s really no story to tell when you might offend a large religion.
Clifford May at National Review writes: The War Against the Infidels - Terrorism is only one of the weapons.
[...] Connect these dots:
- In Nigeria this week, Muslim youths set fire to a church, killing more than two dozen Christian worshippers.
- In Egypt, Coptic Christians have been suffering increased persecution including, this month, a drive-by shooting outside a church in which seven people were murdered.
- In Pakistan, Christian churches were bombed over Christmas.
- In Turkey, authorities have been closing Christian churches, monasteries, and schools, and seizing Christian properties.
- Recently, churches in Malaysia have been attacked, too, provoked by this grievance: Christians inside the churches were referring to God as “Allah.” How dare infidels use the same name for the Almighty as do Muslims!
In response to all this, Western journalists, academics, diplomats, and politicians mainly avert their eyes and hold their tongues. They pretend there are no stories to be written, no social pathologies to be documented, no actions to be taken. They focus instead on Switzerland’s vote against minarets and anything Israel might be doing to prevent terrorists from claiming additional victims.
Many Muslims, no doubt, disapprove of the persecution of non-Muslims. But in most Muslim-majority countries, any Muslim openly opposing the Islamists and their projects risks being branded an apostate. And under the Islamist interpretation of Sharia, Islamic law, apostates deserve death.[...] When the dots are connected, the picture that emerges is not pretty: An “Islamic world” in which terrorists are regarded often with lenience, sometimes with respect, and occasionally with reverence, while minority groups face increasing intolerance, persecution, and “cleansing,” and where even their histories are erased. And we in the West are too polite, too “politically correct,” and perhaps too cowardly to say much about it.
Read the whole thing. Much more detail
