Saturday, January 8, 2011

"No doubt acts of intolerance against Muslims can be found, and they should be condemned. But Muslims aren't fleeing America in fear of their lives

Thanks to Robert over at JIHADWATCH for this


Common sense against the "Islamophobia" propaganda. "Anti-Christian crimes downplayed," by Steve Huntley in the Chicago Sun-Times, January 6:

We've heard outlandish allegations of Islamophobia sweeping America. Not getting nearly as much attention is the bloody persecution of Christians in parts of the Muslim world.

Every report of an Islamist terrorist plot is accompanied by a chorus of warnings against Americans hating or attacking Muslim Americans. Yet, that much-ballyhooed bigotry almost never seems to arise. The latest FBI hate crime statistics, for 2009, found that 8.4 percent of the 1,575 victims of anti-religious crimes were attacked because of anti-Islamic bias. In contrast, 71.9 percent of the victims were Jews.

No doubt acts of intolerance against Muslims can be found, and they should be condemned. But Muslims aren't fleeing America in fear of their lives like Christians are leaving some Islamic nations.

Open Doors, an organization supporting persecuted Christian churches, asserts 100 million Christians worldwide are targeted for their faith. It found that eight of the top 10 countries that are the most dangerous for Christians to practice their religion are nations with Islamic majorities, including Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. Topping the list was communist North Korea.

New on this year's Open Doors list is Iraq, to the shame of that nation's new leadership and of its biggest backer, the United States. More than half of Iraq's Christian population, numbering 800,000 to 1.4 million before the 2003 U.S. invasion, have fled the country, according to the New York Times....

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