“No state or leader had mentioned or condemned the horrific gesture
of the terror group for punishing a man for offering prayer.” Why are
Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim
persecution of Christians?
Jean-Clément Jeanbart, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Aleppo, gave a recent interview
with a French reporter, in which he was highly critical of the
mainstream media and even of his fellow bishops for ignoring the Muslim
persecution of Middle Eastern Christians. “The European media,” he
charged, “have not ceased to suppress the daily news of those who are
suffering in Syria and they have even justified what is happening in our
country by using information without taking the trouble to verify it.”
And as for his brother bishops in France, “the conference of French
bishops should have trusted us, it would have been better informed. Why
are your bishops silent on a threat that is yours today as well? Because
the bishops are like you, raised in political correctness. But Jesus
was never politically correct, he was politically just!”
Archbishop Jeanbart was not the first to say this. “Why, we ask the
western world, why not raise one’s voice over so much ferocity and
injustice?” askedCardinal
Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI).
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Younan appealed to the West “not to forget the Christians in the Middle East.” The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III has also said: “I do not understand why the world does not raise its voice against such acts of brutality.”
But the Patriarch should have understood, since he is a major part of the problem. After all, herecently said:
“No one defends Islam like Arab Christians.” It is to defend Islam that
Western clerics do not raise their voice against such acts of
brutality. It is to pursue a fruitless and chimerical “dialogue” that
bishops in the U.S. and Europe keep silent about Muslim persecution of
Christians…..
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