Among many in the West there is a massive, and sometimes willful, ignorance of the realities confronting Christians around the world who are paying a high cost because of their faith.
Let's face it. The plight of the Christians in the Middle East has not gotten the attention it deserves from political elites in Europe and North America. For example, more than 1 million Iraqi Christians (or Assyrians), whose families have been living in Iraq for centuries, have been forced to flee from their homeland in the face of a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Islamists who have blown up churches, kidnapped and murdered clergy, fathers mothers and children (report).
This violence has not gone unnoticed, but for the most part, the people who wield political power in the West aren't talking about how to stop the violence against the Assyrian people or find a save haven for them.
You would think political leaders --- especially those in the U.S. --- would at least try to address the problem. The attacks against the Assyrian people have taken place under the noses of thousands of American troops who liberated Iraq from the grips of a cruel dictator and where U.S. influence should, at least in theory, be the strongest. A similar situation has played itself out in Egypt, a country that has received billions of dollars from American taxpayers since the late 1970s. At least 100,000 Copts have fled their homeland since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak and the violence against this community has only escalated with the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
It's not as if we in the West do not know about Islamist violence against Christians in Muslim-majority (and even in some Muslim-minority) countries throughout the world. Islamist attacks on Christians in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Kenya and Pakistan have all made the headlines. The images of the violence have shown up in our Twitter feeds and in our newsfeeds on Facebook.
People lament, a bit inaccurately, that it's not getting any coverage --- it has. The problem is not that the violence is not being documented, but that it's not being portrayed as what Lebanese Christian Lee Habeeb accurately recently called an Islamist war on Christians. Habeeb nails it when he writes that media elites "refuse to frame the mass murder and mass persecution as what they are: a war."As a result of this failure by journalistic elites, there is little policy-level discussion about what can actually be done to protect Christians and other minorities in Iraq, Syria and Egypt. Nor is anyone asking what can be done to protect Christians in Nigeria, Uganda and Pakistan from violence perpetrated by against them by Islamists in their countries.
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Look at how quick the atheists are to come to the defense of muslims. Look how quick they are to justify and excuse muslim behavior. Look how quick they are to say that Christians shouldn't go where theyre not wanted. Yet they would be upset if gays were being killed and driven out. Why? Because atheists LOVE to see Christians being murdered and driven out. They think of it as revenge for the Crusades or witch trials or whatever. They really are filthy vile disgusting people on the whole.
You mean Christians occasionally get treated the way they treated everyone else for centuries? How horrible! Don't they know that Christians are the only ones allowed to execute people for having the wrong beliefs?
Face it, through history Christians handed out far, far more persecution than they ever suffered.
It's not just a war on Christians it's all religions it's also war on society and government people have taken leave of their senses by corruption greed murder rape pedophiles pornography atheism religious fanatics etc etc etc. The world is in total chaos and it stems from over population you think it's bad now just wait a while it's going to get a lot worse down the road.
Yes, we all agree. But after having admitted to this sad fact. What is next to be done. The Christians in the early church, were also persecuted. The Bible says to live is Christ and to die is gain. So Jesus said in Luke 14:26:" If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." This is called the Cost of discipleship. We know to live is Christ and to die is gain. Jesus said the Christian life is full of persecution and all who intend to live godly lives, will suffer persecution 2timothy 3:12. But as Christians we know who we serve, we know that it cost Jesus his life, and the servant is not greater than the master. Jesus is the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Satan has been defeated. So whether we live we live for Christ, and if we die we die for Christ and in Christ. We hold our heads up high and know that Jesus promised never to leave us nor forsake us, he said Lo I am with you even till the end of the age. All Christians all around the world are called to pray for their Christian brothers and sisters all over the world, especially those that suffer in the Communist and Dictatorships of this World. Peace and God be with all our brothers and sister in Christ.He is always with us.
In those places you mentioned, the following people are being killed as well:
Sikhs
Hindus
Kurds
tourists
Jews
and plenty more.
It's rather telling that out of all the people being killed, you only seem to care about the Christians.
Including others counts as a war in your world.
Thats the most asinine thing I've heard today. And Fireball was around earlier.
And more then 100 million Muslims were killed, maimed, or relocated by Christians during the Iraq War. What's your point?
I'm saying the Iraq War was started by Bush and Blair, both pretty loud and outspoken Christians
Stupid christians who go where they are clearly not wanted really should get themselves a protector god...or stay home.
Simple as that. And those who do go where they are clearly not welcomed are obviously those christians so delusional they actually DO think their book god is going to murder muslims to save the christian deserves what they get...just means less book god freaks in this world and that is a GOOD THING...your all violent anyway.
OMG.
For centuries, not all but nevertheless a large surge of "Christian" followers, would try to conquest and dominate cultures, societies, and even countries. Now we see others practicing from this example . . . OH, GOD FORBID.
1. if you're christian don't live in an islamist run country
2. that's all, you're safe everywhere else
Probably because there's no 'war on christians'.
It's all self serving whiny emo bullsh*t. What religion is the nation whose drones are killing hundreds and thousands of Muslims ?