There is nowhere that christians are persecuted. Nowhere.

Or, is there an Islamist War on Christians?

 

Christians with tattoos above the neck must really be in for it.

 

Troll, troll, troll your boat ...

 

Especially if they're Vegan.

 

Christians in Lebanon should... I don't know... maybe should arm themselves and form a militia. I'm not that familiar with the country's history but I'm sure that hasn't been tried before.

 

For the most part, I wouldn't consider anything that happens in North America to be real persecution. Sorry, being told you can't wear a cross or a Jesus t-shirt at school isn't real persecution.

But in other parts of the world, people are tortured and killed for their faith every day. Those who deny this simply are overlooking facts.

 

This. A thousand times this.

 

Headline in Tuesday's New York Times: "Pakistan Christians Issue Call for Protection."

That said: Yes, that was an ignorant statement by the poster who wrote it.

 

Yes, but to be fair to the author, his complaint is that these attacks are treated as one-off events, unrelated to each other, or some broader goal. They are "episodic".

His assertion is, "It is not an accident, the persecution and mass murder of Christians by Muslims. It is not episodic. It is by design."

He specifically says, "The media haven’t ignored the stories of Muslim violence against Christians altogether, to be fair. But they do treat the incidents as tragic isolated events perpetrated by a few nuts. They refuse to frame the mass murder and mass persecution as what they are: a war."

And, he asks the question, "Do they not want to be at odds with the narrative coming from the current occupants of the White House, which downplays the atrocities being perpetrated by Muslims against Christians?"

When you look at the fawning, patronizing coverage the President of Iran has been receiving, you really have to wonder what is going on.

MSNBC was so excited about a possible "impromptu" hallway meeting between Rouhani and Obama, and whether or not they might shake hands. (The whole thing was hysterical, since they had been tipped off that it would happen, so they were "speculating" about something they knew was going to happen -- only it didn't, and they were so disappointing.)

But, clearly, the media has gotten out ahead of the story on this one.

The mediais celebrating Rouhani because he may have said the Holocaust. (Or, at least, might not have denied it, while stressing, he was no historian.) Or, maybe he didn't and CNN just got the translation wrong. Who knows? Either way, the media is excited.

 

RIGHT NOW, Somebody Is Getting Away With Something.

 

Don't forget the fact that no one will sign Tim Tebow as another example of persecuting Christians.

 

I withhold my excitement until there are concrete events and not contrived cable news
events like hand shake diplomacy.

Concrete events are like when Nixon went to China to meet Chairman Mao. That was a serious event with serious results. Another example was when Nixon went to the USSR.

Two meetings that changed the course of history. A hand shake in the hall just does not cut it as news to me.