The Stream On June 22, Muslims murdered 25 Christians — mostly women and children — and wounded nearly 100 more inside a church in Syria. Ac
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hence that most pressing of questions: If one non-Muslim attack, which claimed 51 Muslim lives, was enough for the UN to establish an “international day to combat Islamophobia,” why have countless Muslim attacks on churches not been enough for the UN to establish an “international day to combat Christianophobia”?
This question becomes more pressing when one realizes that, whereas the New Zealand mosque attack was, indeed, an aberration — evidenced by its singularity — Muslim attacks on churches are very common (including historically). As discussed here, seldom does a month pass in the Muslim world, and increasingly in the West, without several assaults or harassments taking place.
Moreover, it’s important to point out that those who terrorize churches often share little with each other. As seen, they come from widely different nations (Nigeria, Iraq, Philippines, etc.), are of different races, speak different languages, and live under different social, political, and economic conditions.
The only thing they do share is their religion, Islam (which, unsurprisingly, teaches hostility for churches and “infidels,” though we’re not supposed to acknowledge that).
In other words, Muslim attacks on churches are ideologically driven, have long been and continue to be systemic and systematic, and are therefore an actual, ongoing problem that the international community needs to highlight and ameliorate.
Yet the UN would have us ignore the ongoing massacres of countless Christians and worshippers as unfortunate byproducts of misplaced “Muslim grievances” — and instead fixate on one solitary incident: a Western man killing 51 Muslims.
This, for the UN, is what truly evinces a “pattern” and is in dire need of recognition and response. And that response is to shut up all those who dare connect the dots and expose Islam’s heavily documented pattern of violence against non-Muslims — which, make no mistake, is precisely what “combatting Islamophobia” is all about.
