Hear The Evil; See The Evil; Feel No Evil - Where's the Outrage Over Deadly Church Bombings?

Stunned survivors of terrorist bombings often speak of an initial eerie silence -- followed by the inevitable wailing and moaning of innocent people whose lives are forever shattered for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last weekend's deadly serial bombings of Christian Houses of Worship in Iraq -- Six Churches -- with four killed and 21 injured in one of the last bombings alone, is proof that when it comes to the media, governments and NGOs, the reverse is generally the case.

We can expect a loud CNN bulletin, a dramatic FACEBOOK, YouTube or Twitter message capturing the moment; sometimes even followed by official statements of concern or condolences. And then... Silence

This is bad news for Iraq's historic Christian communities -- including Catholics, Assyrians, and others -- who have been under siege by Islamic extremists for years. Neither President George W. Bush's 'gift' of democracy or President Obama's overture to Muslims in Cairo have brought any relief or hope of change for faithful Churchgoers who once numbered a million-strong. Most have fled or are looking to get out.

And it is the collective silence and failure to act on the part of governments, Interfaith leaders and NGOs that have been taken as a green light by extremists to eradicate religious minorities in Iraq. That goal -- if achieved -- will make a mockery of the vision of a future, viable, democratic Iraq.

But before anyone in Iraq rejoices at the brutal cleansing of Christendom from their midst, a cautionary note: such effective tactics can and will come back to bite you.

Evidence the history of Suicide Bombing. Between 1981 and June 2008, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point reports, there were 1,994 suicide attacks worldwide. Before Israel constructed its security fence, it suffered -- to the glee of many of its Arab and Muslim enemies -- 162 such attacks.

It was that attitude that doomed The Simon Wiesenthal Center's initiative to have the International community declare all suicide bombings, crimes against humanity (despite endorsements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, the late Pope John Paul II and even the Foreign Minister of Turkey).

But current statistics are staggering. In the year ending June 2008, 58.2% of suicide attacks took place in Iraq and 36.6% in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By the beginning of 2009, 12,000 Iraqis have been killed by 1,100 terrorists who blew themselves up...

The Internet guarantees we will all hear the Evil, see the Evil, but it cannot make us care about Evil. And as recent events in Iran proved -- Technology cannot defeat Evil -- only people can.

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Comments

[oxi]

What about the Christian church's destroyed in Kosovo, over 150 of them by Albanian KLA terrorists?

Where was the outrage about that?

[SFA]

(I am happy he is gone) but Saddam was pretty secular ,if u know any thing about Bathist Party.
His top most general was a chritsian , Tariq some thing.

U messed up Gulf War One & now Gulf War Two.
Used Saddam to attack Iran, kept silent when he Gassed the Kurds, most probably u provided him with the technology.

Violence of any type is wrong and against innocent whether christian or muslim.

But condemnation will be proportional to the crime.

One Church :- how many mosque ,how many Muslims,illegal war,no WMD, No war crime tribunal for George Bush or Cheney, hand of Israeli or Jewish organization(This is how they call themselves)
leading to the build up of Iraq war.

[Nommo]

There was zero outrage in the wake of church bombing right here in the States as well. And this is from the fifties on to the present. In other words, there is decades of practice at work here.

[MemoryAlpha]

Query:
Are you recommending that Iraq builds an apartheid wall too?

[GreatNews27]

The outrage is in the same place as the outrage over the mass murders of Palistinian women and children on orders from rabbi's in Israel. It's stuffed in a cigar box on the porch of Funk and Wagnels summer cottage.