Dancing With Denial
By Joseph D'Hippolito
FrontPageMagazine.com
December 21, 2005

As Christians worldwide prepare to celebrate the birth of the man they regard as humanity’s savior, those in Muslim nations must wonder whether the West’s Christian leaders have abandoned them.

Throughout the autumn, Christians in Asia and the Middle East became targets of arson, extortion, mob violence and even murder in Allah’s name. Instead of addressing those problems, however, Western Christian leaders indulged in sanctimonious pedantry, fashionable naiveté and outright appeasement in the name of dialogue and peace.

The Church of England commemorated the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by endorsing an official apology to Muslim leaders for the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. The rest