Posted on 01/10/2014 4:37:37 PM PST by Enza Ferreri
On Christmas Day I watched the Queen's 2013 Christmas message on the BBC.
It would have been nice, if she hadn't told two lies, one by action and one by omission.
The former was: "For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people."
It's quite obvious that not in all faiths believers strive to become better people, unless we consider as self-improvement perfectioning suicide-bombing and beheading skills in order to impose one's faith - to be specific, Islam - to the whole infidel world with whatever available means.
And this takes us directly to the lie by omission. Her traditional Christmas message could have been a good opportunity for the Queen to remind her subjects not just in Britain but also in the rest of the Commonwealth that not all Christians are free to celebrate Christmas.
For years now, Christmas has been a time when Christians in many parts of the world - thanks to some faithful of the "religion" mentioned above, in their striving for self-amelioration - are routinely massacred and have to fear for their lives more than ever.
At least 38 Christians have just been killed and 70 wounded in Baghdad by two car bombs, one on Wednesday targeting a Christian market and the other on Christmas Day outside a church, targeting the faithful after a service.
On December 21 in Syria, some of those heroic freedom fighters that Obama and Cameron are so eager to help, anti-Assad "rebels" - otherwise known as bloody, murderous, kill-the-infidels-wherever-you-find-them jihadists - fired multiple mortar shells on a church, killing 12 Christians and injuring many others.
The Christians, clearly having a different concept from Muslims of what self-betterment is, were distributing charity help to the local population.
And, to get closer to the Queen's own home turf, the Commonwealth includes superb examples of countries whose Muslim majority takes a special pride in becoming better and better people at discriminating against and ferociously persecuting the Christian minority.
One of them is Nigeria, which has been rightfully called the most deadly country to be a Christian. Another is Pakistan where, after many years of continuous attacks on the Christian community, 2013 has been one of the worst of them. In September, 96 people were killed and 130 wounded in twin suicide attacks on a church in Peshawar, the most deadly attacks of this kind since independence.
Why hasn't the Queen, who always talks about the Commonwealth in her Christmas messages and this year expanded on the Commonwealth Games, found in herself the courage to speak up for the millions of her fellow Christians who are subjected to psychological and physical torture just for their belief in the same Jesus Christ whose birth we are today celebrating (in case someone, among the trees, cards, shopping and central London's "winter" lights, had forgotten)?
The reason she didn’t was because the monarch is prohibited from involving themselves in foreign or domestic policy. Likely her entire speech was drafted by Commons.
The best example of how nit-picking this can be was when Charles, who is a big fan of architecture, stepped out of his limousine, looked at the skyline of London, then shook his head sadly before getting back in the car. Labour, in charge of the government at the time, was enraged and cursed him roundly for speaking out of turn, even though he hadn’t said anything.
I’ll bet she didn’t mention the plight of the Angolan pygmies either. Oh, the horror of what she didn’t mention.
Obama never mentions it either, so what makes the Queen bad again?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Whew, something came over me! LOL
LOL!
Labour was correct. Charles DID "say" something and he knew it but could NOT help himself.
Giving someone the "finger" is merely a gesture but OH does it "speak" volumes. :o) Gestures, hand, head, finger, booty, sticking out a tongue, shake a fist, make a "moue," cross the eyes, hands on hips, heavy sigh, roll the eyes, all those Italian hand gestures, whatever-gestures have ALWAYS been VERY powerful. They "speak" volumes.
She’s afraid of the muzzies like everybody else.
It is not true that the monarch cannot say or add to her speech something that she considers important.
The comparison with Charles does not have any bearing on this, because he was just talking about his taste in architecture, whereas - although I can understand if neither of you, and many other people, don’t know any of this, given the Western media and leaders silence - Christians are by far the most persecuted group in the world (slighly more than Angolan pygmies, I should think).
It’s been estimated that every 5 minutes a Christian is killed for his faith and nothing else:
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/sociologist-every-5-minutes-a-christian-is-martyred
http://www.enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/first-they-came-for-christians-and-i.html
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