Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Left's delusion over Islam is baffling to Middle Eastern Christians

By Ed West 
November 17th, 2010

Two more Christians murdered in Iraq on Monday night and another three yesterday, as the community is driven to extinction.

And on the Today programme earlier this week there was yet another segment about this persecuted minority, perhaps suggesting that the media are waking up to what many Iraqis themselves call “genocide” (the word, incidentally, was coined in 1936 after a previous massacre of Iraqi Christians).

However the Left largely remains in denial about the situation faced by Middle Eastern Christians, despite widespread evidence by various human rights organisation.  the rest

What frustrates so many Iraqi Christians is that they look to the European Left, defender of minorities and of liberal democrats, to protect them, and are met with a wall of apathy. Why do people care about Palestinians and not us, someone asked me at the demonstration last week. Because it doesn’t fit into some convenient narrative?

1 Comments:

At 10:32 AM, Anonymous JC Fremont said...

The Left, whether in Europe or the U.S., doesn't care about Christians wherever they live. And, it is my impression that in the U.S. they champion Islam because they persist in the Enlightenment delusion that Islam is only a religion, and so may be controlled the way other religions are and have been controlled by the secular culture.

 

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