Posted on 08/06/2014 11:48:58 AM PDT by DanMiller
Why have Christians and Jews become insignificant and why have Islamists become a protected species?
Genocide of Jews and Christians? I don't see any.
Islam and Genocide
As observed in an article titled World Ignores Christian Exodus from Islamic World published by The Gatestone Institute on August 6th,
There have been house-to-house searches in Mali for Christians who might be in hiding, and people tortured into revealing Christian relatives. At least one pastor was beheaded.It is to the media’s shame that those who slaughter, behead, crucify and displace people for no other reason than that they are Christian rarely get media coverage, while Israel, which kills only in the context of trying to defend itself from rocket attacks and terrorism, and not out of religious bigotry, is constantly demonized. [Emphasis added.]
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Most Christians have since fled. A one-minute video in Arabic of their exodus appears here—women and children weeping as they flee their homes—a video that will not be shown by any Western mainstream media outlet, busy as they are depicting instead nonstop images of Palestinian women and children.
The Syrian Orthodox bishop of Mosul said that what is happening to the Christians of Mosul is nothing less than “genocide… not to mention the slaughters and rapes not being reported… Forcing more than a thousand Christian families out of Mosul, and turning Christian churches into Muslim mosques, is equivalent to genocide.” Of course, the word genocide means to kill or make extinct a people. [Emphasis added.]
Others were not as lucky to flee. According to Iraqi human rights activist Hena Edward, a great many older and disabled Iraqis, unable to pay the jizya or join the exodus, have opted to convert to Islam.
How often has the United States been terrorized in the name of Christianity or Judaism? How often in the name of Islam? How often, in recent centuries, have Europe or the rest of the world been terrorized in the name of Christianity or Judaism? How often in the name of Islam? Has Islamic terrorism become so common that it fits the dog bites man - don't publish standard? Have deaths -- wrongly attributed to Israel as she tries to defend herself against those who have sworn to destroy her rather than to the use of human shields by Hamas, et al, -- been so uncommon that they fit the man bites dog, put it on the front page standard? Or might it be something else?
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Mr. Media
Are the media blind, indifferent to regional reality or do they have a "progressive" Islamist agenda?
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The "legitimate media" either don't understand or prefer to ignore distort regional reality, "progressively." As noted in an article at Front Page Magazine by Robert Spencer titled The Media’s Silence to Hamas’ Genocidal Venom,
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported in July that “in light of the recent round of fighting in Gaza, the Hamas interior ministry has issued guidelines to Gaza Strip social media users for reporting events and discussing them with outsiders.” These guidelines included this unabashedly Orwellian instruction: “Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or ‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.” [Emphasis added.]But the international media has been almost unanimously indifferent to how it is being played. Nor does it show much interest in the numerous reports of Hamas launching attacks against Israel from civilian areas, so as to provoke retaliatory strikes that can be used for propaganda purposes.
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In the midst of all this genocidal bloodlust, CNN hosted a debate on the Israel-Hamas conflict featuring not a supporter of Israel and a supporter of Hamas, but two venomous foes of Israel, Reza Aslan and Peter Beinart. With the slender space between the positions of Aslan and Beinart being the only spectrum of opinion allowed a mainstream hearing, it is a wonder that Israel enjoys the support that it does. Yet support for Israel among Americans remains high: like blades of grass poking through the concrete, some truths withstand even the most virulent propaganda barrage. [Emphasis added.]
Hamas' tunnels for peace and prosperity
Israel has been destroying Hamas' "tunnels for peace and prosperity," built to help Hamas terrorize and destroy her. In the name of a lasting and progressive peace as envisioned by the "religion of peace death," Hamas, et al, demand that negotiations in Cairo focus on many things, including the reconstruction of Gaza for which unfettered access to construction materials and whatever else they may want will be needed.
Here is one of the many crude Hamas tunnels now under Israeli control. If Israel vacates Gaza, will it and others first be destroyed, or left for Hamas' future "humanitarian" use?
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Why have the actions of Israel and Hamas, et al, been so progressively distorted?
The political winds have not shifted "in an ugly direction" against Islam and the "religion of peace death continues to be favored by most who have long favored it. Yet the "legitimate media" continue to support progressive Islamist notions of "peace," and to recoil in horror when Israel does even less than she rightfully could -- and should -- do to continue to exist. The Obama administration has followed suit. At times it has led, at least from behind, and the media have followed, perhaps to curry favor, to avoid characterization as "racist" or both.
cause we elected a mooselimb P.O.S. as president.
And he ain’t got the guts or is too ashamed to admit it.
Worthless poser that he is.
Crazy world.
There is no Islamic genocide. However I would add a corollary to that due to the fact that there a lot of muslims dying these days, but they are being killed by other muslims. In fact there’s no one better at killing muslims than other muslims.
CC
Look at middle east ownership of the media.
Don’t blame Obama — he is just one person.
Blame the congress critters who vetted him and those who, even to this day, protect him.
It’s a mystery to me as a non-Christian that there isn’t worldwide outrage among Christians over this. Why? I know the media won’t generally give it much coverage, but what about the Churches? Why don’t they care what is happening to their “brothers in Christ”?
“In fact there’s no one better at killing muslims than other muslims’’<<And I’m happy as hell when they do.
Apparently, so are they. So you and muslims have something in common after all.
CC
“after all’’? I’m just happy they love to kill each other. They excel at it.
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