By Eddie Howell
The barbaric Islamic terror group ISIS
on Sunday beheaded twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya,
releasing a video of the murders as well as a statement of their
further intentions. This is said to be their worst mass execution
outside of Syria and Iraq. And yet it has raised hardly a ripple
among MSM outlets or even the White House.
This is in line with President Obama's
usual way of doing things, i.e., he sees little need to respond to
Islamic persecution of Christians in numerous countries around the
world, or, for that matter, the worsening anti-Semitism going on in
Europe and elsewhere. But don't let anyone complain too much about
about the Muslims. That could get his dander up.
In response to the murder of
the twenty-one Christians, the White House released a statement that failed to acknowledge that the victims of this foul deed were
Christians. Maybe the administration thought that if that were
mentioned, someone might notice the elephant in the room, that is,
that the executioners were Islamic jihadists. The statement:
The United States condemns the despicable and cowardly murder of twenty-one Egyptian citizens in Libya by ISIL-affiliated terrorists. We offer our condolences to the families of the victims and our support to the Egyptian government and people as they grieve for their fellow citizens.
ISIL’s barbarity knows no bounds. It is unconstrained by faith, sect, or ethnicity. This wanton killing of innocents is just the most recent of the many vicious acts perpetrated by ISIL-affiliated terrorists against the people of the region, including the murders of dozens of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai, which only further galvanizes the international community to unite against ISIL.
Some
people, including this writer, find it offensive that the White House didn't mention that those
who died were Christians.
Even
the official media of Egypt
acknowledged that they were Christians and citizens of Egypt.
...President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned that his country would respond to the deaths as it saw fit. Speaking on national television hours after the release of the video, Sisi said Cairo would choose the "necessary means and timing to avenge the criminal killings." Egypt's state news agency MENA quoted the spokesman for the Coptic Church as confirming that 21 Egyptian Christians believed to be held by Islamic State were dead...
Sisi
has spoken out before about the evil of Islamist terrorism and
therefore has been condemned by ISIS.
President
Obama was so moved and shaken by the news that he had to play golf
Sunday with the billionaire founder of Oracle. He did not find
the murders sufficiently important to warrant a statement from
himself personally, but left that matter to the press secretary.
These
events and responses seem to follow now-well-established patterns.
The president and his administration will have little to say about,
let alone try to do anything about, the persecution of Christians or
Jews, and there can be no connection acknowledged between Islam and
terrorism. As mentioned in a previous post, the required words have
been, in effect, removed from the Newspeak Dictionary, so such
thoughts are no longer possible. Like it or not, believe it or not,
that is the thinking, or lack thereof, at the White House.
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