Islamic Extremism and the Great Silence

Ever ask yourself why the United Nation’s, President Obama, Congress and the Church in general is silent on the purge by radical Muslims of anything Christian in the Middle East and North Africa? Christianity as we know it in the Middle East and North Africa is being wiped out. The fact is, Muslims members of  various terror groups/organizations have been sweeping across parts of the Middle East and North Africa, executing Christians and destroying Christian towns, churches and ancient Christian sites. The attacks are no more than genocide.

Those of us who think for themselves would label it as a crime against humanity. Where is the United Nation’s? Where is the Obama Administration? Where is the Congress? Is the silence not deafening? The West, particularly the church, needs to stand up to this tyranny. Let your voices be heard.

Imagine, if you will, that the roles were reversed. Instead of radical Islamist’s killing Christians and destroying Muslim towns and shrines, Christians of the fundamental persuasion began a systematic purge of Muslims. Their mosques were destroyed, their crescents defaced, the Quran burned and then all Muslims forced to flee or face execution. Such an event would be unthinkable today and if it did occur Christian leaders would denounce it and support efforts by governments to halt it.

Is not today’s religious extremism almost entirely Islamic? This does mean that all Muslims are extremists, but it does mean that all Muslims have an obligation to denounce and resist the extremists who murder or subjugate in the name of Allah. Too few Muslim leaders and clerics living in the tolerant West will speak up against it. As for the post-Christian West, most elites may now be nonbelievers. But a culture that fails to protect believers may eventually find that it lacks the self-belief to protect itself.