this <\/a>is not the first time stories of persecution, violence, and attacks against Christians have surfaced.\u00a0 <\/p>\nTo their credit, the authorities are trying to stop these attacks, or at least go after the perpetrators.\u00a0 But note our willingness to shrug it off and say it doesn\u2019t mean anything about the nation as a whole.\u00a0 Especially when set in juxtaposition to the global condemnation of America as a hotbed of Islamaphobic bigotry awash in hatred and zealotry.\u00a0 Anyone remember the last bomb attack against a Mosque in the US?\u00a0\u00a0Anyone remember the last mass killing of Muslims in the US? \u00a0Anyone?\u00a0 My how merciless we are about judging America.\u00a0 If only we gave ourselves a portion of the leeway we give everyone else in the world, our national pride would be off the scale.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s been said the worst thing Hitler did was raise the bar on evil.\u00a0 If you aren\u2019t building death camps and exterminating people by the millions, you\u2019re not really evil.\u00a0 Likewise, it appears that 9\/11 had the same effect on our perceptions of Islam.\u00a0 If\u00a0Muslims aren\u2019t hijacking jets and flying them into skyscrapers filled with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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