The
Washington Post, and several other mainstream media outlets, took advantage of the recent Sri Lankan
bombings, in which nearly 300 Christians were killed by radical Islamic
terrorists, to decry the supposed rise in “far-right” anger. The Post cited a
few hand-picked statements from Marine Le Pen, Germany’s AfD party, and a
couple of other sources, to claim the “far-right” was shamelessly using the
attacks in a bald-faced attempt to further its political agenda. (It must be
pointed out here that the mainstream media now thinks anyone to the right of
Mao Zedong or Karl Marx is a “far-right” extremist). An article in the Post
noted how some conservatives have brazenly mentioned the sharp rise in attacks
on French churches in recent years. Pointing out the truth is apparently now
not just bad form, but a mean-spirited attempt to slander others and further
one’s own “political agenda.” The post characterized most of the attacks as
minor acts of “vandalism,” yet the very article it linked to termed 100 of the
acts “violent.”
The
media has greatly downplayed attacks by Islamic militants against Christians
around the world, even though there were five major attacks on Christian houses
of worship during Holy Week this year alone. Bizarrely, the Fourth Estate is
much more interested and invested in fomenting fear of those who call out the
violence visited upon them. Check out this headline from The Washington Post: “Christianity Under Attack? Sri Lanka church
bombings stoke far-right anger in the West.” Who bombed the churches in Sri
Lanka, killing hundreds, that inexplicably caused the “far-right” folks in the
West to get upset? Islamic radicals? Far-left terrorists? They’ll never tell.
And
neither will Barack Hussein Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton judging by their
recent tweets. They steadfastly refuse to use the words “Islamic” or “Muslim”
in their description of Islamic or Muslim terrorists. And now they won’t
mention that it was “Christians” who were maimed or targeted in these attacks,
either. Why? Because it simply isn’t politically-correct to accurately
characterize either the perpetrators or the victims of the vast majority of
terrorist attacks around the world.
After
the New Zealand terror attacks in which an Australian citizen targeted two
mosques, killing 50 Muslims, Obama tweeted that he was grieving with “the Muslim
community” over the “horrible massacre in the Mosques.” Yet, after the Sri
Lankan attacks killed hundreds of Christians, Obama simply tweeted: “The
attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on
humanity.” Easter worshippers? He made no mention of the churches attacked. Maybe
the Easter worshippers were milling around aimlessly with the tourists when
they were struck dead.
Just
hours later Hillary Clinton tweeted: “On this holy weekend for many faiths, we
must stand united against hatred and violence. I’m praying for everyone
affected by today’s horrific attacks on Easter worshippers and travelers in Sri
Lanka.” Many faiths? “Easter
worshippers” again? No mention of the
three Christian churches assaulted,
again? Travelers, again? Did Hillary just plagiarize Obama’s tweet? By
contrast, in a tweet after the New Zealand killings, Hillary wrote of how her
heart broke for “the global Muslim community.” She also said, “We must continue
to fight the perpetuation and normalization of Islamophobia and racism in all
its forms. White supremacist terrorists must be condemned by leaders everywhere.
Their murderous hatred must be stopped.” She posted no such concerns about the
“global Christian community,” however, after the Sri Lankan slaughter. Nor was
she moved to speak out against the “murderous hatred” of those snuffing out
Christians around the world with routine impunity. (There were 132 jihadist
attacks in March, 2019 alone, killing 729 mostly Christian folks and injuring
776 more in 23 different countries around the planet).
Condemnation
of Islamophobia. Check. Condemnation of white supremacists. Check. Easy and
public virtue signaling. Check.
As
Dennis
Prager pointed out of these tweets, there was “not a word about the far
more destructive and widespread hatred of Christians in the Muslim world seen
in Muslims’ virtual elimination of the Christian communities in the Middle
East, the regular murder and kidnappings of Coptic Christians in Egypt and the
murder of Christians in Nigeria. She calls on ‘leaders everywhere’ to condemn
‘white supremacist terrorists,’ one of the smallest hate groups on Earth, but
never calls on leaders everywhere to condemn Islamist terrorists, the largest
hate group on Earth.”
Progressives
have been worried about a “far-right” backlash to Islamic terror for almost as
long as they have been warning of the planet’s imminent doom by global warming.
Truth be told, the
truth can no longer be told anymore.
There will be
consequences.
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