Most of our attention when it comes to Christian persecution has been on Egypt. (When I say "our", I refer to bloggers like myself because the mainstream media prefers to ignore it-to say nothing about our own government and the UN.) Christians are also being persecuted by Muslim majorities in Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Iraq and numerous other places. Currently, Libya's 100,000 Christians are also facing peril. PJ Media has a report.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/libyas-christians/
Hey! Does anybody detect a pattern here?
I sure do.
As my regular readers know, I go to a lot of these Islamic and inter-faith events where I listen to Muslim leaders like Muzammil Siddiqi complain about "Islamophobia" and insist that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance that has "co-existed peacefully for centuries with other faiths". These people have nothing to say about the persecution that goes on in Muslim countries against religious minorities.
So I asked them.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/04/shariah-workshop-at-loyola-marymount.html
"We have heard a lot of talk today about hate and intolerance, but there is an 800 pound gorilla in the back of the room, and its name is hate and intolerance. It is not the hate and intolerance that may or not be directed to you, but the hate and intolerance that is being carried out by Muslims against religious minorities in Muslim countries-people being killed and their places of worship destroyed-from the Coptic Christians in Egypt, to the Christians in Pakistan, the Jews in Yemen, the Baha'i in Iran, the Christians in Iraq and the Christians and animists in Sudan. In addition, Jews in Europe are now experiencing the worst anti-Semitism since the 1930s. It has gotten to the point where they cannot walk the streets wearing Jewish garb lest they be insulted, spat upon or assaulted. Yes, some of the perpetrators are neo-Nazis and skinheads, but the primary perpetrators are young, male Muslim immigrants. 'I am not attributing that to Muslims in America', I said. 'I don't hate Muslims and I don't know anyone in this room who does, but why do you never speak out against that hate and intolerance?"
Qazwini was the first to respond. He said there were two problems. First of all, most of these countries are not free countries, and for the past 8 decades, the Western superpowers, including the US, have supported these regimes. "Don't blame Islam", he said. "Don't blame it on Muslims."
Qazwini also said that he has been active on the UC Irvine campus for 17 years and every Friday, he speaks out against this intolerance.
Jackson stated that it was a "false criteria". He also said, "Just because a problem persists, doesn't mean that Muslims are not speaking out. "Nobody is more concerned or affected by extremist interpretations than Muslims".
Hathout stated that he had just been involved in a Muslim conference on religious minorities (in Muslim countries). He also stated that "oppression of the majority will lead to oppression of the minority."
Sorry I asked.
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