Kathianne
04-21-2015, 06:14 AM
Bottom line the politicians will eventually have the clash that could have been avoided.
<section id="module-position-ODfgguaVtJk" class="storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Kirsten Powers: Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama
</section><section id="module-position-ODfggudMkQc" class="storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Kirsten Powers6:05 a.m. EDT April 21, 2015
</section>Obama only mentions Christians to lecture them, rather than defend them from persecution.
What do you call it when 12 men are drowned at sea (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/17/refugees-drowned-for-being-christian.html) for praying to Jesus?
Answer: Religious persecution.
Yet, when a throng of Muslims threw a dozen Libyan Christians overboard a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy, Prime Minister <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Matteo Renzi" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important;">Matteo Renzi</culink> missed the opportunity to label it as such. Standing next to <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Barack Obama" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important;">President Obama</culink> at their joint news conference (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/17/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-renzi-italy-joint-press-confe)Friday, Renzi dismissed it as a one-off event and said (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/17/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-renzi-italy-joint-press-confe), "The problem is not a problem of (a) clash of religions."
While the prime minister plunged his head into the sand, Italian authorities arrestedand charged the Muslim migrants with "multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate," according to (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32337725) the BBC.
As Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama was mute (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/17/italy-downplays-obama-mum-drowned-christian-migran/) on the killings. He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by avirulent atheist (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/16/craig-hicks-indicted-over-north-carolina-shooting-of-three-muslim-students), Obama rightly spoke out (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31463458) against the horrifying killings. But he just can't seem to find any passion for the mass persecution (http://www.pewforum.org/2011/08/09/rising-restrictions-on-religion2/#harassment) of Middle Eastern Christians (http://www.france24.com/en/20110107-france-sarkozy-christian-religious-cleansing-middle-east-christians-coptic-bombing-egypt/)or the eradication (http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/05/07/report-faults-obama-administration-for-ignoring-persecution-of-christians/) of Christianity from its birthplace (http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-christian-purge-from-mosul-1405984542).
Religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide (http://www.pewforum.org/2014/01/14/religious-hostilities-reach-six-year-high/), as Pew has noted, but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the Middle East and Northern Africa, where followers of Jesus are the targets of religious cleansing (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380032/cleansing-iraqs-christians-entering-its-end-game-nina-shea). <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Pope Francis" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important;">Pope Francis</culink> hasrepeatedly decried (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/pope-presides-over-good-friday-procession-at-colosseum/2015/04/03/1cb0b9c8-da3b-11e4-bf0b-f648b95a6488_story.html) the persecution and begged the world (http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-do-not-be-silentabout-persecuted-chri) for help, but it has had little impact. Western leaders — including Obama — will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded. The president's mumblings about the atrocities visited upon Christians (usually extracted after public outcry over his silence) are few and far between. And it will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-speech-at-prayer-breakfast-called-offensive-to-christians/2015/02/05/6a15a240-ad50-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html) at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades whileMiddle Eastern Christians (http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/04/pope-francis-commemorates-christians-beheaded-and-crucified-for-their-faith/) were at that moment being harassed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/07/has-the-world-looked-the-other-way-while-christians-are-killed/), driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.
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<section id="module-position-ODfgguaVtJk" class="storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Kirsten Powers: Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama
</section><section id="module-position-ODfggudMkQc" class="storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.9200000762939px;">Kirsten Powers6:05 a.m. EDT April 21, 2015
</section>Obama only mentions Christians to lecture them, rather than defend them from persecution.
What do you call it when 12 men are drowned at sea (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/17/refugees-drowned-for-being-christian.html) for praying to Jesus?
Answer: Religious persecution.
Yet, when a throng of Muslims threw a dozen Libyan Christians overboard a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy, Prime Minister <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Matteo Renzi" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important;">Matteo Renzi</culink> missed the opportunity to label it as such. Standing next to <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Barack Obama" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important;">President Obama</culink> at their joint news conference (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/17/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-renzi-italy-joint-press-confe)Friday, Renzi dismissed it as a one-off event and said (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/17/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-renzi-italy-joint-press-confe), "The problem is not a problem of (a) clash of religions."
While the prime minister plunged his head into the sand, Italian authorities arrestedand charged the Muslim migrants with "multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate," according to (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32337725) the BBC.
As Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama was mute (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/17/italy-downplays-obama-mum-drowned-christian-migran/) on the killings. He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by avirulent atheist (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/16/craig-hicks-indicted-over-north-carolina-shooting-of-three-muslim-students), Obama rightly spoke out (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31463458) against the horrifying killings. But he just can't seem to find any passion for the mass persecution (http://www.pewforum.org/2011/08/09/rising-restrictions-on-religion2/#harassment) of Middle Eastern Christians (http://www.france24.com/en/20110107-france-sarkozy-christian-religious-cleansing-middle-east-christians-coptic-bombing-egypt/)or the eradication (http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/05/07/report-faults-obama-administration-for-ignoring-persecution-of-christians/) of Christianity from its birthplace (http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-christian-purge-from-mosul-1405984542).
Religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide (http://www.pewforum.org/2014/01/14/religious-hostilities-reach-six-year-high/), as Pew has noted, but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the Middle East and Northern Africa, where followers of Jesus are the targets of religious cleansing (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380032/cleansing-iraqs-christians-entering-its-end-game-nina-shea). <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Pope Francis" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 102, 102) !important;">Pope Francis</culink> hasrepeatedly decried (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/pope-presides-over-good-friday-procession-at-colosseum/2015/04/03/1cb0b9c8-da3b-11e4-bf0b-f648b95a6488_story.html) the persecution and begged the world (http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-do-not-be-silentabout-persecuted-chri) for help, but it has had little impact. Western leaders — including Obama — will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded. The president's mumblings about the atrocities visited upon Christians (usually extracted after public outcry over his silence) are few and far between. And it will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-speech-at-prayer-breakfast-called-offensive-to-christians/2015/02/05/6a15a240-ad50-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html) at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades whileMiddle Eastern Christians (http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/04/pope-francis-commemorates-christians-beheaded-and-crucified-for-their-faith/) were at that moment being harassed (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/07/has-the-world-looked-the-other-way-while-christians-are-killed/), driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.
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