An al Qaeda attack that killed 52 hostages and police in a Catholic church in Baghdad was aimed at driving the embattled Christian minority out of the country, Iraq's human rights minister said on Monday.Why? This bit of Islamic interfaith understanding pretty much sums it up:
Al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq, claimed responsibility in a statement posted on Islamist websites for the attack on "the dirty den of idolatry."And where is the top-of-the-fold, big-letter coverage from the major media outlets? Where is the international outrage? Where are the demands for an end to 'Christophobia'? Nowhere.
Well, Rev. J. Edwin Bacon, rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, are you going to get equally worked up over the death of 52 of your fellow Christians as you did over some nutter in Florida threatening to torch Korans? Will All Saints hold a lecture to study things like this? And will you, Dr. Maher Hathout, explain how why all those billions of peace-loving Muslims you say are out there don't seem as upset about how Christians are treated in Muslim lands as they are about how Muslims are treated in Christian lands? What are we to believe is "the real Islam"? - the way Islam acts toward others, or your flowery words?
UPDATE: Well some of the US press is picking up the story: Fox News, Yahoo, and The Houston Chronicle so far. The Washington Post has a writeup, too, but they downplay the the origins and motivations of the perpetrators - you have to read down a bit to find out the "militants" were Islamic terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, and even further down to find out they are willing to "exterminate Iraqi Christians" if folks don't do what they want.
And The Episcopal Church (tm)? Will they release a statement? Since no Korans were harmed and no LGBT persons threatened, I highly doubt it.
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