Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! I hate to be repetitive but there are times when hammering home an important story is just plain and simply necessary. This is one of those stories. My baffled meter levels are in the red zone and unless something happens again in the news on this topic I think this blog posting will temporarily satisfy my thirst and ameliorate the aching, annoying pit in the bottom of my stomach…. For a little while, anyway. In Toronto this past weekend, at Nathan Philips square, in front of City Hall, another rally took place to protest Islamophobia; it was called the “Fightback At Anti-Islamophobia Rally.” It didn’t last long, a small mixture of ethnicities attended and it folded up rather quickly and the city went on with the business of Saturday in the nation’s largest metropolis. There have been a few of these gatherings over the past year or so. The Syrian refugee crisis gained a lot of attention, thousands of Syrian immigrants were welcomed to Canada and still there are local charities and churches organizing financial aid events to help with the hard transition from Syrian refugee to Canadian citizen as well as sponsoring more refugees to call this country their home. How and where they will get jobs is another story. But, good on them. Canada, its open heartedness and its empathic citizenry have managed to save many lives. O’ Canada! KUMBAYA MUSLIMS FOR CHRIST In the past few weeks there have been multiple ISIS attacks on innocent civilians such as the Manchester bombings, the pedestrian killings on the bridge in London and the stabbings as well. The news media have covered the stories with the usual exhaustive analogies and journalistic investigations and there have been memorial services for the dead and a huge concert to help heal the city by Arianna Grande, the performer on the night of the concert venue bombing in Manchester. All across the world people are rising to speak out against these atrocities and they take to the streets, protest signs waving, chanting for peace – it is a wonderful thing. But, in the maze of all of this media exposure and protesting and chanting, two things are playing out behind the scenes that are becoming ignored; one, through silence, is turning into an unwilling and dangerous human, cultural, societal sacrifice. First, what we don’t see happening in the midst of this global rising of voices against international terrorism, Muslim violence in the middle-east and Islamophobia, is the unified and strident voice of the Muslim communities across the western world to stand with their western, mainly Christian brethren and denounce their Islamic compatriots who bring terror and mayhem to the world on behalf of their god, Allah. Cleaning their own back yard of this debris would go a long way to winning the hearts and minds of those on the spear’s tip of terrorism. By refusing to clean their own back yard garbage it begins to look as though they like, agree with, the mess. (Reverse this analogy and consider Christians terrorizing the Muslim world similarly and the entire planet would be unified and up in arms calling for Christians to eradicate the perpetrators from the ranks of their own faith….. Just sayin’.) Secondly, what we don’t see happening around the world is equal media and general population attention given to the persecution of Christians which is being referred to as a modern day, slow drip genocide (click this link for info: Christian Genocide). The term “slow drip” refers to the insidious, slow, under the radar annihilation of the faith and the faithful; a sort of genocide by attrition. The lack of adequate media coverage plays into the slow drip theory by allowing the process of persecution to hide. Christians are the most persecuted people on the face of the earth and have been for many years and each year the plight of Christianity exacerbates…. In quiet darkness. And yet there are no memorials for the 28 Christian souls, including children, shot dead on a bus just two days after the Manchester bombing by ISIS. There was some exposure on the evening news and online, but that story faded quickly as the Manchester story dominated the news cycle. There were no protest rallies, no concerts for the dead Christians, no TV news follow up stories on the victims and their families. Within a few days it was like it never happened and that is what happens every time a violent attack occurs against the Christian faith; the event is either underplayed or not played at all and we never hear about it but over 300 Christians each month are killed, plus over 700 acts of extreme violence on the faithful occur monthly by the hands of their persecutors. And where are the bake sales and the art exhibitions and church congregations and other fund raising agencies raising money to buy food, blankets, pay immigration costs for persecuted Christians around the world who would love to come to Canada and live in peace and safety? Where is the great Christian love for fellow Christians who desperately need our help? These are our own people and we are not willing to rise up and support them? Perhaps too much is expected of the Christian community to stand up for Christians when they have their hands full with Muslim refugee integration into our world. Maybe there just aren’t enough hours in the day to tackle both issues. So, since the Islamic communities in the western world don’t seem to be bogged down fighting the good fight against international terrorism, perhaps they should be recruited to do for persecuted Christians what Christians are doing for them: rising up to protest the genocide of Christians; raise money to buy food and shelter and invite Christians to immigrate to their homeland even if they are immigrants themselves; petitioning government to do something about the most persecuted sector of the population of the earth. That would be an excellent use of Muslim spare time and it would go a very long way to mend fences between our two faiths…. Do for us as we are doing for them…. Sort of like the: if I scratch your back, you scratch mine, deal. After all, well over half the nations on earth who are faithful to Islam are the leading persecutors of the Christian faith. This would be a chance to reverse that statistic. It is all good that our people are sympathetic to the plight of Syrian refugees and to the Muslim people who are beginning to be targeted for ethnic acts of intolerance in our culture. People should help people; no one should face such discrimination. Christians are commanded by Christ to help people – look around the world and see the amazing work of Christian humanitarian missions. Standing beside our Muslim citizens is a good thing and it should be continued because it is simply the right thing to do. But it would also be right for persecuted Christians to get a piece of that pie because they are suffering from murder, beatings, torture, isolation, rape, imprisonment, slavery, discrimination, stripped of possessions, stripped of human rights, homes burned, churches destroyed on a daily – hourly – basis and the Christian global community would benefit from a little fund raising, protest sign waving, shouting, politician petitioning, apple pie bake sales proceeds donations themselves. Muslims helping Christians just like Christians are helping Muslims? Now that would be a paradox blown wide open and a huge kumbaya moment…. A real game changer. Just an idea…. But don’t break out the guitar yet. _______________________________________ Here are the usual links to learn about Christian persecution, genocide, and to give money or get involved in the cause: https://www.opendoorsusa.org/ Reports of persecution; statistics; testimonials. Persecuted Christians World Watch List: Open Doors Organization for info on who is on the watch list and the ongoing atrocities being committed against Christians world wide. http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/10/piers-morgan-slams-media-coverage-egypt-isis-attack-christians-palm-sunday Piers Morgan, Fox News TV Interview on “Christians Under Attack around the world,” and the “Genocide being committed against Christianity.” http://www.persecution.com Reports on global daily persecution events; actions taken against persecution. http://dova-international-charities.org/ Dova International (devoted to exposing the global persecution of Christians) http://www.csw.org.uk/home.htm Christian Solidarity Worldwide (online petitions, memberships to get actively involved, email campaigns to political authorities) https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-watch-list/-watch-list/ 2017 World Watch List Statistics on deaths, abductions, beatings, killings, destroyed churches and properties. (Includes a global map showing most violent nations toward Christians.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6eKfPePtU World Watch List Press Conference Jan 2017 YouTube Video https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7046/christian-slaughter The Gatestone Institute: Christian Slaughter https://vomcanada.com/ The Voice Of The Martyrs, Canada Comments are closed.
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