Ralph Peters has a column in today's New York Post in which he discusses the ongoing genocide in the Middle East and the silence of America and the rest of the West as it happens. This is not the usual "genocide in the Middle East" article. No, this time the charge is not the delusional one that falsely points the finger at Israel for supposed genocide against Palestinians. (For the record, the population of Palestinians on Israeli territory continues to grow vigorously, hardly the end result of genocide.) Peters is talking about the erradication of the Christian and Jewish communities in the Arab world. This ongoing push to expel Christians and Jews began many decades ago. Jews were the first to be ousted; there are hardly any left in Arab countries. Some, like Saudi Arabia, will not even allow Jews within their borders (it is part of the Islamic outreach, I guess.) It is the Christian communities, though, which are now under assault from the Islamic majorities.
Right now, there are very few large Christian communities in an area of the world that has had significant numbers of Christians for the last two thousand years. In Egypt, the regions biggest Christian community, the Copts, is under attack from a government led by the Moslem Brotherhood. Churches have been burned and individuals attacked. Lebanon has gone from a country with a Christian majority to one that is now a battleground between Sunni and Shia Moslems. In Iraq, the few remaining Christian churches have been relentlessly attacked and the governing Shia majority has taken no steps to stop the onslaught. There is no point to recounting each of the attacks; there is no way to deny them.
The important point now, however, is this: neither America nor the other Western countries have taken any steps to protect the Christians or even to protest their treatment. Do you recall president Obama even mentioning this issue? Of course not, he never has. It is not just that America has not stepped in to protect this persecuted minority; that would require yet another military action that most people do not want. The worst aspect of the American position is that it is comprised just of silence, SILENCE!!!! It would not take any troops or planes for Obama to make a speech about something other than himself and his political future for once; just imagine the president denouncing the targeting of Christians in the Middle East. And for those who say that such a statement would have no effect, the answer is that it would have a big effect: it would let the Christian communities in the Middle East know that they are not alone and abandoned.
Sadly, in today's America it is not surprising that our president remains silent while witnessing an anti-Christian genocide. After all, this is a president who considers most religious Christians to be his enemy. This is a government that attacks the Billy Graham ministries. This is a government that compels Catholic institutions to violate their beliefs by providing abortion pills. This is a president who makes fun of folks who "cling to their Bibles". Obama is the perfect representative of the American left.
Eighty years ago, the West stood by as Hitler attacked the Jews in Germany and Stalin attacked all religions in the Soviet Union. We all know now what that brought. Today, things are different. America is not just one world power among many. Those attacking in the Middle East are not powers at all unlike the Nazis and the Soviets all those years ago. But still we are silent today. We are silent because we cannot "offend" the Moslems in the Middle East (or here at home.) Do you understand the enormity of that statement? If America denounces the genocide of Christians in the Middle East, we might "offend" the Moslem communities. OFFEND!!! That view is derranged. No person, no matter what his religion, ought to be offended by a declaration against ongoing genocide. But the left, infected with the disease of political correctness, just cannot bring itself to recognize, let alone protest, what is happening.
We all need to wake up. This is not just something happening in Yemen or Syria. If we do not fight it, it will spread. There will be more British soldiers butchered in London. There will be more bombs at public events in the USA. We need to face reality.
Right now, there are very few large Christian communities in an area of the world that has had significant numbers of Christians for the last two thousand years. In Egypt, the regions biggest Christian community, the Copts, is under attack from a government led by the Moslem Brotherhood. Churches have been burned and individuals attacked. Lebanon has gone from a country with a Christian majority to one that is now a battleground between Sunni and Shia Moslems. In Iraq, the few remaining Christian churches have been relentlessly attacked and the governing Shia majority has taken no steps to stop the onslaught. There is no point to recounting each of the attacks; there is no way to deny them.
The important point now, however, is this: neither America nor the other Western countries have taken any steps to protect the Christians or even to protest their treatment. Do you recall president Obama even mentioning this issue? Of course not, he never has. It is not just that America has not stepped in to protect this persecuted minority; that would require yet another military action that most people do not want. The worst aspect of the American position is that it is comprised just of silence, SILENCE!!!! It would not take any troops or planes for Obama to make a speech about something other than himself and his political future for once; just imagine the president denouncing the targeting of Christians in the Middle East. And for those who say that such a statement would have no effect, the answer is that it would have a big effect: it would let the Christian communities in the Middle East know that they are not alone and abandoned.
Sadly, in today's America it is not surprising that our president remains silent while witnessing an anti-Christian genocide. After all, this is a president who considers most religious Christians to be his enemy. This is a government that attacks the Billy Graham ministries. This is a government that compels Catholic institutions to violate their beliefs by providing abortion pills. This is a president who makes fun of folks who "cling to their Bibles". Obama is the perfect representative of the American left.
Eighty years ago, the West stood by as Hitler attacked the Jews in Germany and Stalin attacked all religions in the Soviet Union. We all know now what that brought. Today, things are different. America is not just one world power among many. Those attacking in the Middle East are not powers at all unlike the Nazis and the Soviets all those years ago. But still we are silent today. We are silent because we cannot "offend" the Moslems in the Middle East (or here at home.) Do you understand the enormity of that statement? If America denounces the genocide of Christians in the Middle East, we might "offend" the Moslem communities. OFFEND!!! That view is derranged. No person, no matter what his religion, ought to be offended by a declaration against ongoing genocide. But the left, infected with the disease of political correctness, just cannot bring itself to recognize, let alone protest, what is happening.
We all need to wake up. This is not just something happening in Yemen or Syria. If we do not fight it, it will spread. There will be more British soldiers butchered in London. There will be more bombs at public events in the USA. We need to face reality.
No comments:
Post a Comment