Islam, the media & the conspiracy of silence
by Gavin Ashenden:
One of the Sunday school teachers in the Church in Sri Lanka has written about what they were doing on Easter day.
“Today at Zion Church we asked the children, ‘how many of you would be willing to die for Christ?’ Everyone raised their hands. Minutes later we took them into the main service. The blast happened. Half of them died on the spot.”
In one of the two other Catholic Churches that were blown up, the bomber waited until the children had come back into the main liturgy before he detonated. Killing the children appeared to have been a priority to him.
Some people may have been surprised by the UK Government’s initiative that lay behind Jeremy Hunt writing forty letters to a variety of Christians and agencies offering support for Christians in their persecution. Not many people are aware that Christians are the most persecuted religion in the world today.
Last year, over 300 Christians were assassinated each month. 245 million Christians were persecuted by either their neighbours of the state they lived in.
At first sight, it seems odd that the world’s largest religion should be the target of so much hatred and violence. But at the risk of drawing lines in history that are too sharp, it seems that there are three figures who stand as major figures of history and their teaching and influence drive the values of their followers.
They are Jesus, Mohammed and Karl Marx. Their followers are Christians, Muslims and Communists. In terms of violence, Christians are the odd ones out.
Jesus taught his followers never to use violence, but only humility and compassion.There is no sanctioned violence in the New Testament.
But there is in the Koran.
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