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The story<\/a> originally said 20 churches burned. Then, it was updated to 45 churches burned.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an old story. Out of date. After all, it happened a year ago.<\/p>\n

Which means, I suppose, that we should dust our hands of it and forget.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s more than a year-old story. It\u2019s part of an on-going, continuous pattern of blood violence that rises to a genocidal scale directed at Christians by various Muslim groups throughout a whole region of the world.<\/p>\n

The question arises and keeps arising: Who is funding this? <\/a>The Islamic Brotherhood, who participated in church burnings, kidnappings, forced conversions and murder of Christians in Egypt, is, so far as the people they murder, kidnap, rape, force from the homes, sell into slavery are concerned, the same as ISIS, is the same as Al Qaeda, is the same as Boko Haram, is the same as Hamas.<\/p>\n

They may have all sorts of carefully defined definitions and distinctions among themselves, but they are all the same in their results. They slaughter innocents, and they destroy the societies in which they live.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake about it: People who do this kind of thing enjoy doing it. If they kill all the Christians in that part of that world \u2014 and they very well might \u2014 then, they will kill someone else. In fact, they already kill other Muslims who do not fall within their narrow definitions of who has a right to life.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back for a moment to the question I keep asking: Where are they getting their money? Armies run on money. Terrorism runs on money. They are probably making money from the spoils of war, including the buying and selling of abducted women and girls in the slave\/human trafficking market. But someone is still supplying a lot of doh-re-me to be used to slaughter men, women and children and bring whole nations to the brink of a dark age. Who?<\/p>\n

For now, I\u2019m going to leave you with a few photos from that long time ago outrage of last year. Because these people deserve better from us than to be swept under the rug of political correctness and forgotten as if they had never lived.<\/p>\n

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