Raymond Ibrahim is right. The world's media is very, very silent on this issue, but are so busy (as he rightly says) dmonizing Israel. How many articles have we even seen in our own newspapers about this?
World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World
by Raymond Ibrahim
August 6, 2014 at 5:00 am
"They were trying to kill us... because we were Christians." Teenage girl from Homs, Syria.
There have been house-to-house searches in Mali for Christians who might be in hiding, and people tortured into revealing Christian relatives. At least one pastor was beheaded.
It is to the media's shame that those who slaughter, behead, crucify and displace people for no other reason than that they are Christian rarely get media coverage, while Israel, which kills only in the context of trying to defend itself from rocket attacks and terrorism, and not out of religious bigotry, is constantly demonized.
Paying jizya [special poll tax for non-Muslims] is not only about money. It is about subjugation.
While the world fixates on the conflict between Israel and Hamasand while most mainstream media demonize Israel for trying to survive amid a sea of Arab-Islamic hostilitysimilar or worse tragedies continue to go virtually ignored.
One of the most ancient Christian communities in the world, that of Iraqwhich already had been decimated over the last decade, by Islamic forces unleashed after the ousting of Saddam Husseinhas now been wiped out entirely by the new "caliphate," the so-called Islamic State, formerly known by the acronym "ISIS
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World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World
World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World
by Raymond Ibrahim
August 6, 2014 at 5:00 am
"They were trying to kill us... because we were Christians." Teenage girl from Homs, Syria.
There have been house-to-house searches in Mali for Christians who might be in hiding, and people tortured into revealing Christian relatives. At least one pastor was beheaded.
It is to the media's shame that those who slaughter, behead, crucify and displace people for no other reason than that they are Christian rarely get media coverage, while Israel, which kills only in the context of trying to defend itself from rocket attacks and terrorism, and not out of religious bigotry, is constantly demonized.
Paying jizya [special poll tax for non-Muslims] is not only about money. It is about subjugation.
While the world fixates on the conflict between Israel and Hamasand while most mainstream media demonize Israel for trying to survive amid a sea of Arab-Islamic hostilitysimilar or worse tragedies continue to go virtually ignored.
One of the most ancient Christian communities in the world, that of Iraqwhich already had been decimated over the last decade, by Islamic forces unleashed after the ousting of Saddam Husseinhas now been wiped out entirely by the new "caliphate," the so-called Islamic State, formerly known by the acronym "ISIS
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World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World
