I think most of us posters and viewers realize by now how persecuted the Christians are throughout the Muslim world. It's a shame that we don't read about it in our regular media or see documentaries on T.V.
Must Middle Eastern Christians Keep Turning the Other Cheek?
By David Pryce-Jones
November 5, 2014 3:08 PM
Christianity is under attack throughout the Muslim world. Iraq and Egypt still have sizable Christian communities but hundreds of thousands of Christians from both countries have fled abroad. Since Lebanon came under the thumb of Hezbollah, the Shiite terrorists sponsored by Iran, the Christian community there has just about halved. Anecdotal evidence of persecution piles up. Christians old and young in Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, and West Africa are accused of disrespecting some aspect of Islam, and are lucky to escape with their lives. Two nuns have been seized in Syria and it is impossible to find out their fates. A bishop has been murdered in Turkey. Churches and sacred monuments of various Christian denominations in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan have been vandalized, sometimes burnt out. The one and only Middle East country where the Christian population has grown in numbers is Israel.
Nobody much seems to care. The accepted attitude is evidently that Christians must expect persecution and make what they can of it instead of defending themselves. The Christian injunction to turn the other cheek is really the antithesis of the moral guidelines in the Koran. Occasionally a pope or an archbishop in Europe remonstrates, only to be overwhelmed with such shrieks of “Islamophobia” that he retracts and apologizes. There is one exception. To judge by his knowledge and probably his name, Raymond Ibrahim is a Christian from the Middle East. Every month, he puts out a catalogue of the crimes Muslims have committed everywhere in the name of their faith against Christian persons and property. He pleads for jihad to be recognized for what it is, and for taking measures of defense.
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Must Middle Eastern Christians Keep Turning the Other Cheek National Review Online?
Must Middle Eastern Christians Keep Turning the Other Cheek?
By David Pryce-Jones
November 5, 2014 3:08 PM
Christianity is under attack throughout the Muslim world. Iraq and Egypt still have sizable Christian communities but hundreds of thousands of Christians from both countries have fled abroad. Since Lebanon came under the thumb of Hezbollah, the Shiite terrorists sponsored by Iran, the Christian community there has just about halved. Anecdotal evidence of persecution piles up. Christians old and young in Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Nigeria, and West Africa are accused of disrespecting some aspect of Islam, and are lucky to escape with their lives. Two nuns have been seized in Syria and it is impossible to find out their fates. A bishop has been murdered in Turkey. Churches and sacred monuments of various Christian denominations in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan have been vandalized, sometimes burnt out. The one and only Middle East country where the Christian population has grown in numbers is Israel.
Nobody much seems to care. The accepted attitude is evidently that Christians must expect persecution and make what they can of it instead of defending themselves. The Christian injunction to turn the other cheek is really the antithesis of the moral guidelines in the Koran. Occasionally a pope or an archbishop in Europe remonstrates, only to be overwhelmed with such shrieks of “Islamophobia” that he retracts and apologizes. There is one exception. To judge by his knowledge and probably his name, Raymond Ibrahim is a Christian from the Middle East. Every month, he puts out a catalogue of the crimes Muslims have committed everywhere in the name of their faith against Christian persons and property. He pleads for jihad to be recognized for what it is, and for taking measures of defense.
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Must Middle Eastern Christians Keep Turning the Other Cheek National Review Online?
