May 10, 2015
Persecution of Christians in America: It's Not Just 'Over There'
By now, the whole world is familiar with the snuff films documenting the forced marches and beheadings of orange-jumpsuited Christians by such groups as ISIS. Churches are blown up or converted into mosques, monuments and tombstones are pulverized or desecrated, and Christian schools are shut down while refugees from the horror of ISIS and other Islamist groups literally flee to the mountains.
But as it did at the turn of the 20th century, when the harassed and tormented Armenians were exterminated by the hundreds of thousands, the world turns a nearly blind eye to the distress of Christians and groups like the Yazidis, 600 of whom were slaughtered only a heartbeat in time ago. By and large, the extermination of Christians and Christian culture from the Middle East and Northern Africa is greeted by the West with a sigh or ignored altogether.
That is because for most Americans, persecution of Christians is perceived as happening only somewhere over there...(Read Full Article)