What about all the Christians being slaughtered in Pakistan?
David Warren writes,
The victims are of little interest to Western media, or to Western diplomats endlessly courting Pakistan as a regional ally. Those who have courageously sought to protect them within Pakistan’s courts & cabinets have inevitably been assassinated. The Vatican, & various Christian field missions have worked valiantly to spread the news, but the attitude even of sympathetic Western media is unalterable. They think the constant slaughter of religious minorities in Muslim countries is something to be taken as a matter of course, equivalent to a law of nature. They seldom cover the slaughter of non-Christian minorities, either. Their indifference to hard news lifts only in such cases as the Islamist attack on the Nairobi mall, where some white people were among those killed.
How about Islamist attacks on Christians and other minorities in other Islamic countries?
Iraq is no longer of interest now that the Americans are out; Afghanistan will likewise soon disappear. The news from Egypt & Syria is comprehensively misreported, with frequent Islamist attacks on Christians in both countries ignored. I first viscerally noticed this phenomenon after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, along with the Cambodian & Laotian dominoes. Hundreds of thousands drowned at sea, trying to escape the Communist devils; thousands burst across the Thai frontier giving accounts of massacres our media dismissed as wild exaggerations. In fact, millions were butchered. But quite apart from the absence of newsworthy white victims, the liberal press did not wish to be reminded that their own expectations had proved entirely wrong, or that the warnings of their most impassioned “rightwing” critics had proved entirely right. The late socialist, Mark Gayn, was to my memory the only fleeing journalist who had the honesty to confide, in light of what was happening, that he must have been misrepresenting the reality for years. The rest simply changed the subject.
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