Here is an issue and cause that you don’t hear the Progressive Movement give a grievance for. The number of Christians in the Middle East is declining. There are being forced out by Islamists and other factors. Nobody is discussing their rights. Instead all we hear is about how Muslims are oppressed and don’t have rights. Where are the calls to protect the Christians?
Mideast’s Christians Declining in Influence
JERUSALEM — Christians used to be a vital force in the Middle East. They dominated Lebanon and filled top jobs in the Palestinian movement. In Egypt, they were wealthy beyond their number. In Iraq, they packed the universities and professions. Across the region, their orientation was a vital link to the West, a counterpoint to prevailing trends.
But as Pope Benedict XVI wends his way across the Holy Land this week, he is addressing a dwindling and threatened Christian population driven to emigration by political violence, lack of economic opportunity and the rise of radical Islam. A region that a century ago was 20 percent Christian is about 5percent today and dropping.
Defending the rights of Christians isn’t considered cool by the Progressives and their Media allies. In fact I believe the elites in the West like this since it is what they want the future of America and Europe to be. They want the West to be Christian free.
