KIRSTEN POWERS BLASTS OBAMA'S INDIFFERENCE TO THE PERSECUTION & MURDER OF CHRISTIANS

'Left to drown': Kirsten Powers unloads on President Obama over persecution of Christians around the world

Former Clinton-Gore advisor @KirstenPowers has a wakeup call for USA - hello? Anybody paying attention? http://t.co/3nRvA8wjQy
— Austin Hill (@AskAustin) April 21, 2015

An excerpt:

Religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide, 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. Pope Francis has repeatedly decried the persecution and begged the world 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 at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades while Middle Eastern Christians were at that moment being harassed, driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.

And Powers concludes with this truth-bomb:

Indeed, let's talk more about the Crusades.

Exactly - that's all we seem to get from the president.

Obviously Kristen Powers, a pro-life Christian, is not your typical liberal. So what does a typical progressive response look like? Here's one:

@KirstenPowers @usatoday @usatopinion how did a malignant rwnj cunt get on my tl?
— Kevin (@KevinWalsh222) April 21, 2015

It is absolutely critical that the world be forced to acknowledge and confront the evil that is spreading throughout the Islamic world. Kirsten mentioned Egypt's Copts in the video. Here's a sampling of the persecution that they are forced to endure on a daily basis:

One week after the Copts of al-Our village in southern Egypt were attacked by an angry mob seeking to stop a church from being built, Copts in el-Galaa village endured the same treatment. El-Galaa is home to 1,400 Copts who had been served for 38 years by the small 60-square-meter Virgin Mary Church. With their numbers in el-Galaa and surrounding villages growing, and their old church building decaying, the local Copts submitted a request in the early 2000s for building a new church and received a permit in 2004.

Religious fanatics in the village prevented its construction by building a mosque next to the new church's designated location: Egyptian law prohibits houses of worship from being built next to each other. Building a mosque next to the location of a proposed church has been a common method used to prevent churches from being built.

Seeking to avoid a confrontation, Copts bought two houses next to the old church and in January 2015 received from the local governor the necessary permit to demolish the preexisting church and build a new one. Still, Copts have been prevented from building the church by a mob and security forces.

In early March the mob physically attacked. In what has become a common practice, it also issued a number of demands: The church was to have no outer symbol of Christianity - no dome, no cross, no tower, no bell - and its entrance was to be on a side street.

Instead of confronting the mob and upholding the laws, the security forces attempted to negotiate with it but failed to convince them to desist from their effort to prevent the church's construction. Then the security forces forced Copts into a reconciliation session and forced them to accept the mob's demands.

Encouraged by the conduct of the police, the mob added a new demand this week: The Copts must publish an apology in newspapers to the local Muslims. Their apparent crime was that they complained to the media and thereby tarnished the village's image.

As no punishment was meted out to the mob for its conduct, it is no surprise that attacks were repeated over the weekend. They began when some local Muslims threw rocks at a bus carrying Christian girls. The violence quickly spread.

Rocks were thrown at Christian homes, and some shops owned by Christians were looted. Seven Copts were wounded in the attack. In typical fashion, the security forces have arrested 28 men from the village, including twelve Copts. It is common for Egyptian police to arrest both the attackers and the victims in order to force a new reconciliation session.

This is what it means to be a Christian in a Muslim country. This is persecution. And the sad reality is that Barack Hussein Obama couldn't care less about it. Sad...but typical.

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Muslim Persecution of Christians

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