Topic: Decline of the West
News from the Ummah:
Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides)—The local Catholic Church calls her "a martyr of the faith": Mariah Manisha was a Catholic girl from Faisalabd who was killed a week ago by a Muslim man who had kidnapped her and intended to marry her. Fr. Zafal Iqbal, a Catholic priest from Khushpur, where the 18-year-old Mariah’s family live, reports to Fides that "the girl resisted, she did not want to convert to Islam and she did not marry the man, who killed her for this. She is a martyr".
Nothing new here. Persecution and mistreatment of Christians—up to and including rape and murder—is a daily occurrence in the Muslim world. Nor is there anything particularly new in the cowardly reluctance of Western liberal elites to take notice of Islam’s penchant for religious persecution. A Coptic Christian church burned down in Egypt? A nun raped in Nigeria? A young Catholic girl murdered in Pakistan? Simply to mention such crimes is to risk the charge of Islamophobia.
Well, I don’t mind saying that I’m a bit phobic about a religion that’s so broadly tolerant of bigotry, hatred and violence. As for the claim that most Muslims are decent, peaceful people who oppose such extremism, I ask you: Where’s the outrage?
