Mamamontezz's Mental Rumpus Room

Persecution by Sharia Law

The world cried out in pain when the Taliban destroyed the ancient Buddah statues carved into the face of a cliff in Afghanistan. That one religion would wantonly destroy the symbols of another was something so foul that it sparked outrage, even from those who embrace Islam.

That savage act, probably above even the acts that the Taliban was perpetrating against the people of Afghanistan, was the defining act with turned the Taliban from "strict adherants" to "radical extremists." Volumes of articles were written on this vandalism. Hours and hours of video decried the atrocity.

But today, the voices are silent. The victims are merely a handful of Christians who's churches are being destroyed as sharia law is being implimented and enforced in the Nigerian state of Zamphara.

Where's the outrage? Where are the journalists and photographers and camera crews to film this persecution? Is it because no one will miss a few little churches in the great scheme of Geopolitics?

Oh, I get it. It's only a bunch of African Christians, anyway, and everyone knows that Christianity was forced on them against their will by corrupt European missionaries. If they knew what was good for them, they'd all be Muslims. Islam is, after all, the religion of the more highly pigmented peoples of the world, isn't it?

Sickening, isn't it? But you know, deep down in their hearts an awful lot of people, media people in particular, feel exactly this way but would be loath to actually express it. The problem is, by their lack of coverage and of outrage, they express it much more eloquently than their words or pictures or videos ever could.

Posted by Mamamontezz at May 1, 2004 10:13 AM