THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 22, January 23, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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HATING INFIDELS
By Alan Caruba
THE ISLAMIC HOLOCAUST AGAINST CHRISTIANS: A NEW HOLOCAUST ABROAD IN THE WORLD, DIRECTED AT
CHRISTIANS, PARTICULARLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THROUGHOUT AFRICA, WHEREVER ISLAM IS THE DOMINANT
RELIGION -- THE PERSECUTION THAT HAS SPREAD EVERYWHERE BEFORE & SINCE THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION,
SPARKED BY EVENTS IN IRAN IN 1979 -- THE PERSECUTION HISTORICALLY DIRECTED AGAINST JUDAISM NOW
COMMONPLACE IN ITS MORE LETHAL MANIFESTATIONS AGAINST CHRISTIANS -- AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, & CHRISTIANS
WORLDWIDE LOCKED IN A RELIGIOUS WAR WITH ISLAM -- A WAR AGAINST ISLAM BECAUSE ISLAM HAS BEEN AT WAR
WITH ALL OTHER FAITHS SINCE ITS INCEPTION -- A WAR THAT CHRISTIANITY MUST ENGAGE -- THE PACIFISM OR SILENCE
OF CHURCH LEADERS NO LONGER AN OPTION
FULL STORY:
The Holocaust of the last century is remembered for the mass murder of Europe’s Jewish population, an estimated six
million who perished. In total, an estimated eleven to seventeen million Europeans, Jews, and Christians died in the Nazi
concentration and death camps or were murdered outright in their homelands.
Records were lost or didn’t list religion, but the lesser known story of the Holocaust was the death of millions of
Christians, three million of whom were Poles, predominantly Catholics, killed by the Nazis for being Poles. They have a
special place in Jewish history because many Poles, risking immediate execution if caught, were among the “righteous
Gentiles” who were rescuers of Jews.
I cite this because there is a new Holocaust abroad in the world, and it is directed at Christians, particularly in the
Middle East and throughout Africa, wherever Islam is the dominant religion. Nor is this a new phenomenon;
Christians were widely persecuted under the Ottomans (Turks) when their empire encompassed much of the Middle
East.
The Islamic Holocaust against Christians is clearly manifesting itself again, and with far too little notice.
Let it be said, too, that Islam is an equal opportunity enemy of all other faiths, as was seen in the 2008 attack in Mumbai,
India, that included India’s tiny Bene Israel Jewish community. The conflict between Islam and India’s Hindus goes
back centuries and resulted in the creation of Pakistan as a separate Muslim state when India gained its independence.
Why has there been so little consistent coverage of the on-going attack on Christians? This is especially curious,
insofar as it is estimated that there are more than two billion Christians worldwide, about a third of the global population.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they are the victims, not the perpetrators of this horror.
Today, thousands of Iraqi Christians are fleeing to the comparative safety of the Kurdish area and other countries.
Indeed, many Americans are unaware that much of the U.S. Arab population is, in fact, Christian, not Muslim.
In mid-December, 2010, The Telegraph, a London daily, reported that “some 1,000 families, roughly 6,000 people,
have arrived in the northern Kurdish areas from Baghdad, Mosul and Nineveh,” according to the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees. “Several thousand have crossed into Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.”
Egypt is home to some twelve million Copts, otherwise known as the Coptic Orthodox Church. They have been in
Egypt since 54 A.D., when St. Mark, a North African Jew and one of seventy apostles of the early Christian Church,
brought Christianity to the ancient land of Egypt. The invasion of Muslims in 643 A.D. created the inevitable adversity.
On New Year’s Eve, there was a terrorist attack on the Coptic Church in Alexandria, Egypt, that killed 21 parishioners.
Copts have been routinely targeted for all manner of abuses and, unsurprisingly, Egypt is the epicenter for
anti-Semitism in the Middle East. Officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, it has been ruled by President Hosni
Mubarack since 1981. By contrast, the U.S.A. has had six presidents since then.
Boutros Boutros-Ghalli, a Copt and former Secretary-General of the U.N., is President of the National Council of
Human Rights in Cairo. In a January 21, 2011, article in the Wall Street Journal, he cited Egypt as “a model of
religious tolerance in the region” and noted that “thousands of Muslims gathered around churches across the
country (on January 6, the eve of the Coptic Christmas) to act as human shields, protecting their Christian neighbors
during their Mass.”
The exodus of Christians from the Middle East and incidents in African nations where an estimated 40% of the
population are Christians speaks to the persecution that has spread everywhere before and since the rise of the Islamic
Revolution, sparked by events in Iran in 1979. This has since led to the creation of Hezbollah and Hamas, two Iranian
proxies. Al-Qa'ida, created to expel the Russians from Afghanistan, has been the tip of the Islamist sword, perpetrating
9/11 and other attacks worldwide.
The persecution historically directed against Judaism is now commonplace in its more lethal manifestations against
Christians. Since the Old Testament is part of the Christian scriptures, an attack on Jews is an attack on
Christians and vice-versa.
The post-war rise of secularism in Europe, along with demographic shifts in which large numbers of Muslims have
taken up residence in European nation-states is having its affect on both Christian and Jewish communities there.
In America, the denigration of Christianity it is less visible and is not by definition persecution. A Christian-majority
nation, America has been experiencing a rise in efforts to diminish the acknowledgement of Christianity’s role in the
nation’s history and by efforts to limit Christian symbols, prayers, and even the celebration of Christmas in public
institutions and places.
Slowly, Americans, Europeans, and Christians worldwide are beginning to realize that they are locked in a religious
war. It is a war that Christianity must engage. The silence of Church leaders is no longer an option. It is a war
between the 7th century and the 21st century.
It is a misnomer to call it a “war on terror.” Terror is a tactic, but this is a war against Islam because Islam has been at
war with all other faiths since its inception.
In New York City, when Muslims seek to build a mosque within steps of Ground Zero, they are simply exalting the
atrocity of 9/11. It begs the question why its confessed perpetrator, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has not, ten years
later, been brought to trial.
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© Alan Caruba, 2011
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Egypt, Arabs, & the Middle East
Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
North Africa -- The Arab States of Islamic North Africa
Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and public policy.
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