Sunday, May 03, 2015

It depends on whose ox is being gored

Investors Business Daily editorializes,
The lives of the four Jews killed in a kosher market in Paris were dismissed by Obama as "a bunch of folks in a deli" shot "randomly" as they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Detect a pattern here?

The recent murderous attack on a free speech event in Copenhagen organized by an artist who had caricatured Muhammad wasn't just another random attack on people who happened to be in the wrong place.

Nor was the mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic State terrorists in Libya, a failed state brought about by administration bungling and failure to acknowledge who our enemies are and why they're trying to kill us.

If the president really believes Americans shouldn't be murdered for what they believe or who they are, why does he seemingly include only Muslim victims?

And isn't it true that the Islamic State is only the latest to target Christians because they are Christians? From the Christian-influenced Yazidis in Iraq to the Christian schoolgirls targeted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, Christians worldwide have had their churches bombed and burned and themselves murdered, all because of what they believe and who they are.
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