Copts Riot in Egypt After Church Destroyed. I have quoted Conrad Black before. His latest column is on persecution of Christians in the world:
It is not generally appreciated that over 100,000 Christians a year are murdered because of their faith. Because Christianity is, by a wide margin, the world’s largest religion, the leading religion in the traditionally most advanced areas of the world, and, despite its many fissures, the best organized, largely because of the relatively tight and authoritarian structure of the Roman Catholic Church, the West is not accustomed to thinking of Christians as a minority, much less a persecuted one.
All though out the Middle East, Christian are under extreme pressure. Communities that have lasted thousands of years are being destroyed. The secular governments, like Saddam Hussein, had protected them. The new governments of Islamic fundamentalists are trying to drive them out.
Conrad commented on the situation in the above photo.
The recent Muslim attacks on Egypt’s Christian Copts caused the military to intervene against the Christians, killing dozens of them, which action the military government then blamed on the “inexperience” of the soldiers involved. (Unlimited experience is not required to foretell the consequences of firing automatic weapons and rifles at unarmed demonstrators at point-blank range.)
The direct result of American foreign policy is the destruction of Christian communities that have lasted for centuries. This will continue.