Published in FrontPageMagazine.com Not only does last week's jihadist rampage against Ethiopia's indigenous Christians highlight the travails Christians encounter wherever Islam has a sizable population, but it offers several insights, including some which should concern faraway, secular nations with Muslim minorities. According to Fox News: Thousands of Christians have been … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
The Secularist Delusion
by Bruce Thornton Hoover Institution: Advancing A Free Society The dubious received wisdom rationalizing our current intervention in Libya was crystallized in Senator John Kerry's recent essay for The Wall Street Journal. For Kerry, the rebels in Libya are the same as those in Egypt, "peacefully demanding freedom and dignity." Long oppressed by tyrants and dictators, young … [Read more...]
No ‘Revolution’ for Egypt’s Christians
Published in FrontPageMagazine.com Translations of this item: Norwegian On March 5, Muslims attacked, plundered, and set ablaze an ancient Coptic church in Sool, a village near Cairo, Egypt. Afterwards, throngs of Muslims gathered around the scorched building and pounded its walls down with sledge hammers—to cries of "Allahu Akbar!" Adding insult to injury, the … [Read more...]
Mubarak Still in Charge?
Published in National Review Online: The Corner While the media has eagerly accepted the "happy ending" that Egypt's Hosni Mubarak abdicated—after all, the uprisings were dragging on and it needed a quick denouement to the drama so it could return to Lady Gaga—an increasing number of Egyptians are convinced that he never abdicated, and is still in charge of the military he … [Read more...]
Where next for Arab uprisings?
RT: Cross Talk … [Read more...]