A victim is seen on a stretcher after a bomb went off at a Coptic church in Tanta, Egypt, April 9, 2017. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
A February Rasmussen report sheds light on just how divorced from reality millions of American liberal voters are. After pointing out that âDemocrats are more likely to think Muslims are mistreated in America than to think Christians are persecuted in the Islamic world,â the report elaborates:
Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats, however, believe most Muslims in [America] are mistreated, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
Fewer Democrats (47%) think most Christians are mistreated in the Islamic world, compared to 76% of GOP voters and 64% of unaffiliateds.
Women are more likely than men to think most American Muslims are mistreated here but less likely to believe Christians are mistreated in the Islamic world. Nearly as many voters under 40 think most Muslims are mistreated in America (51%) as think most Christians are mistreated in the Muslim world (57%).
To put these dismal statistics in perspective, consider some facts. Open Doors, an international human rights organization that publishes annual reports concerning the global persecution of Christians, noted in its most recent report: â215 million Christians experience high levels of persecution.â During 2017, a reported 3,066 Christians were killed, 1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped or sexually harassed on account of their faith. And 793 churches were attacked or destroyed.
The overwhelming majority of this slaughter and destruction occurred in 50 nations — 38 of which are Muslim-majority.
âIslamic oppressionâ is responsible for the âextreme persecutionâ of Christians — meaning the abuse, rape, imprisonment, or slaughter of Christians on sight — in eight of the worst ten nations. Â âEvery day,â the organization added, âsix women are raped, sexually harassed or are forced into marriage to a Muslim under threat of death due to their Christian faith.â
The above statistics are actually conservative. Based on the findings of the Italian-based Center for Studies on New Religions, â90,000 Christians died for their faith in 2016â alone, a great many under Islam.
Itâs worth noting that the overwhelming majority of Muslims persecuting Christians are not âterroristsâ (at least not formally), but rather come from all rungs of Muslim society.
Take Egypt, for example (the 17th worst nation where Christians experience âvery high persecutionâ). According to the report, along with âviolent religious groups,â two other segments of society are âVery Strong[ly]â responsible for the persecution: (1) âNon-Christian religious leadersâ — meaning Muslim clerics, sheikhs, imams, and the rest — âat any level from local to nationalâ; and (2) âNormal citizens (people from the general public), including mobs.â
Similarly, âofficials at any level from local to nationalâ are âstrongly responsibleâ for the âoppressionâ of Egyptâs Christians, particularly âthrough their failure to vindicate the rights of Christians and also through their discriminatory acts which violate the fundamental rights of Christians.â
That the same segments of Muslim society are involved in the same patterns of persecution of Christians throughout the Islamic world — despite the racial, linguistic, cultural, and economic-political differences of all these African, Asian, Arab, and Caucasian nations — further underscores the only commonality, or true source of the persecution: Islam.
Now, compare all this to the supposedly worse — in liberal minds — âmistreatmentâ Muslims suffer in America.
According to a November 2017 Pew report: âIn 2016, there were 127 reported [Muslim] victims of aggravated or simple assault.â In the preceding decades, assaults on Muslims averaged around 50 a year.
Even if this number were accurate, it pales in comparison to what millions — vs. 127 — of Christians are experiencing under Islam. But the fact is many of these anti-Muslim hate crimes are later found to have been fabricated or grossly exaggerated. Note, for instance, how the Pew report conflates âassaultsâ with âsimple assaultsâ — even though the latter âdoes not involve physical contact with the victim.â
Moreover, Muslims in America do not experience institutionalized persecution — that is, persecution at the hands of governments, authorities, and police — as Christians under Islam do.
And there is a final ironic difference: Muslim persecution of Christians is religiously motivated and built on Islamic doctrines that portray non-Muslims as subhuman chattel. And thatâs what the âassaultsâ and âsimple assaultsâ on Muslims are generally motivated by, or rather in response to: Americans knowing and disliking what Muslims are about. That such assaults are so exceptionally rare proves that Americans understand what makes such values incompatible with our laws.
Nonetheless, and as usual, all these actual facts have little to do with what a significantly large segment of the American voting population — mostly liberals/Democrats, a majority under 40 and female — believe.
Why they are so misinformed becomes apparent when one understands that liberal media is dedicated to maintaining liberal Narratives at all costs: in this case, that Christians are always the aggressors, Muslims always the misunderstood victims.
When journalist Shannon Bream recently announced a forthcoming segment on the growth of Christian persecution around the world, ABCâs Matthew Dowd actually tweeted:Â âMaybe you can talk about the bigger problem which is persecution of Muslims in America and around the globe. Bigger issue.â
The âbigger issueâ is that tens of millions of voting Americans are so deluded as to believe the inverse of reality.
Source: PJMedia