Boko Haram Celebrates the Start of Ramadan

Hat tip Gateway Pundit


In case you didn't know it, the Islamic Month of Ramadan began last night. This is a 30-day period in which Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, sex, and other earthly pleasures during daylight hours as they engage in contemplation on how to be better Muslims. Across the world President Obama and his diplomatic missions are all wishing the Islamic world all the best during the Ramadan season.

Apparently, refraining from killing Christians is not considered among earthly pleasures as Boko Haram has not paused in their savagery in Nigeria. Just today, five churches were attacked by Boko Haram and approximately 100 Christians.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/boko-haram-slaughters-100-christians-at-five-nigerian-churches-during-sunday-service/

And what is to be our response? Are we to remain silent at the killing of our co-religionists and just wish Muslims a happy Ramadan and happy Eid when it ends next month? Are we supposed to simply mouth platitudes about Ramadan that it is all about peace and compassion as the killing continues unabated? Nobody needs to tell me that millions of Muslims are observing Ramadan in positive ways. I know that. But what about Boko Haram? What about Al Qaeda and ISIS? What about Hamas and Hezbollah? I am sure they are fasting as well. But what does it mean if they walk out of their mosques after Friday prayers and follow the exhortations of the imams to go out and kill people or burn churches as oft happens in Egypt and other places?

Does it make us haters of Muslims when we say these things or write them? To say so given what is happening around the world is simply not fair. I am a Protestant married to a Catholic. I stopped having anything to do with the Catholic church when all the pedophilia scandals came out involving priests and I saw how the church was covering it up. One glaring case of that was the LA archdiocese near where I live and its ex-archbishop Roger Mahony, a man who in my opinion, should be in prison for his long-term multiple cover ups of pedophile priests. When I write this, does that make me a person who hates Catholics? Hardly. I am also harshly critical of the Presbyterian Church USA for their campaign against Israel. It doesn't make me a Presbyteriophobe, if I may coin a phrase.

If Christians were persecuting Muslims in Christian-majority countries like ours, burning their mosques, forcing them to convert to Christianity, or killing them for their faith, would I speak out and march? You bet I would. One reason I stand with Israel is that I refuse to buy into the Palestinian narrative of "genocide" suffering and oppression that is spread around the world by the pro-Palestinian activists. I have spent my whole adult life watching news reports of Palestinian sky-jackings, terrorist attacks, kidnappings and murders of innocent Israelis (and Americans). "Apartheid Wall"? That was built to protect Israelis from Palestinian suicide bombers and keep them out of Israel. It has done a very good job. Check points? Sure. If you had a population dedicated to killing you, you would have check points as well.

To wrap up this little diatribe on my part, it is not about hate. No rational person would blame all Muslims for the insanity we see around the world. I just wish that they would address it honestly and fight against it. Too few are. In the meantime, you can't call people racists or Islamophobes when they speak out against the horrors being committed-in many cases against our co-religionists in the Islamic world who are virtually all living in fear and the threat of death. Last November, the director of CAIR for Southern California, Hussam Ayloush, a self-described human rights activist, while speaking in Riverside, California called me a bigot for bringing it up. You can't say you are for human rights if you don't cry out against this. Any so-called "human rights" activist who calls me a bigot for pointing this out is a total hypocrite.