There is a holocaust going on. Right now. This minute.
As you read these words, Christians in Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, and other countries are being persecuted, driven out of their villages, sold as slaves, tortured, and murdered.
In many areas the Christian men are systematically slaughtered, the women and girls enslaved, their towns, farms, and villages burned to the ground. Churches are set on fire, at times with men, women, and children packed tightly inside. In Iran, hangings occur on a regular basis. Throughout the Middle East, ISIS and similar groups have perfected the art of gruesome torture. Iran, exporter of world terror and mass executioner of Christians, is on the road to becoming a nuclear power.
Yet the mainstream media hardly bother to mention what is going on. Yes, occasionally – very occasionally – a news outlet will report the “breaking news” that Christians in Nigeria or in Syria have been killed or driven out. And here and there a newspaper headline will acknowledge that a number of Christians have been executed in Iraq or Sudan.
Perhaps a harsh statement condemning the atrocities will come out of some elegant office in Brussels, Paris, or Washington. You might, albeit rarely, even hear something from the UN.
But in general the ongoing extermination and displacement of millions of Christians in the Middle East (in Iraq, two-thirds of the Christian population has been displaced) goes on under the media radar.
There is, however, one country in the Middle East that is very much on the radar as far as the media and world leaders are concerned. And so we see a slew of UN resolutions and EU statements condemning Israel for the audacity of not committing suicide while not a peep is heard against Palestinian leaders for inciting hate and encouraging the stabbing rampages of the past several months.
It may seem outrageous to fair-minded people that mental midgets like Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström express outrage when Arab stabbers are eliminated by Israeli security forces. It may boggle the mind of a rational individual to hear empty-suit UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon express understanding for what drives Arabs to stab to death Jewish mothers and children. But those sentiments really shouldn’t surprise anyone. Israel for a long time now has been the bone in the world’s throat.
Yet while the genocide against Christians rages on, the only country in the Middle East where Christians are treated as they should be is Israel.
Where is the pope, who repeatedly declares his deep concern for the “poor” Palestinians? Why is he practically mum about the horrible plight of his own flock? Here and there he’ll mention the fact that Christians are being persecuted and he’ll express his sympathy for those who are being enslaved or worse. But his words have been remarkably spare and restrained when measured against the all-out horror that has engulfed Middle East Christians.
Where is President Obama? Where is the U.S. ambassador to the UN? Why hasn’t the administration called for an emergency convening of the UN Security Council to discuss the plight of the Christian masses? Why is the bombing of ISIS done in a water-drip manner rather than as an unrelenting blitzkrieg-type assault to eliminate the jihadists and save the Christians, among many others?
Why hasn’t the international community, including the so-called moderate Muslim countries, sent in troops to rescue the Christians? The world that was largely silent while the Nazis systematically killed six million Jews is silent once more.
Of course, the world has its priorities. After all, how can one compare Israel’s outrageous decision to build apartments for Jews to the enslavement of thousands of Yazidi women and girls? Don’t Israelis understand that the establishment of a Palestinian state will immediately cure all that is ill in the world? Egypt will no longer persecute its Coptic minority, Iraq will bring back all those Christian refugees, Somalia will no longer employ indiscriminate torture, Boko Haram will rebuild the villages it destroyed, ISIS will immediately free the hostages it holds while paying reparations to the families of its victims, and the Ayatollah Khamenei will announce the dawn of peace.
Meanwhile, there is no letup to the mass uprooting, enslavement, and murder of Christians in the Middle East. But like an officious cop at a crime scene, world leaders and their media enablers keep telling us to move along, there’s nothing to see here.
