by Clifford F. Thies

The systematic attack on Christians around the world is mostly under the mainstream media's radar screen. The mainstream media goes crazy over church burnings when they perceive it's white on black violence, and this is a good thing. Hate, in all of its expressions, is to be surpressed through the legitimate use of force by the state.

But, what about Muslim on Christian violence, Muslim on women violence, and Muslim on gay violence?

Reports on the increasing violence in Nigeria are just starting to come in. From The Christian Post, Feb. 27:

The Redeemed Christian Church of God building in Tudun Wada was partly burnt on Jan. 25, and Christian Faith Bible church and the Living Faith Foundation Chapel, both in Gusau, were partly burnt in attacks on Jan. 20 and 24 respectively. Zamfara state, one of the predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria, was the first in the country to implement Islamic law (sharia).

The association alleged that those who attacked the Zamfara churches were emboldened because officials made no serious move to arrest those who carried out the Jos attacks. Two pastors and 46 other Christians were killed in the outbreak of violence in Jos on Jan. 17, triggered when Muslim youths attacked a Catholic church; 10 church buildings were burned, and police estimated more than 300 lives were lost in the clash.

Concerning these things, are we supposed to be in denial?

Here's what is going on: The radicals within the Muslim community are not being policed by their co-religionists. The "silent majority" within the Muslim community is still ambivalent about ratting out their fellow Muslims to non-Muslims. The critical uncertainty is if and when the current "silent majority" within the Muslim community will actually do something about the radicals, more than merely blather how Islam is a peaceful religion, as though Christianity being a peaceful religion means we didn't have to actually do something about the KKK. If they do, then this is not "a conflict of civilizations," but merely another police matter, albeit on a global level, as we will always have to deal with violent elements within our midst. If they do not, they we will have to see how many of them we can convert.

We cannot have a billion people within an open, global society, who condone and harbor, if not out-rightly support violence against peaceful, law-abiding persons. There are indications that increasing numbers of Muslims are getting with the program, that all peaceful and law-abiding people must stand together against all who are violent. Mainly, this is because of Arab-Persian animosity that predates Islam, scaring the bejesus out of the Arabs.

We are working in both overt and covert operations with Saudi, Iraqi, Jordanian and Gulf State Arabs to counter the growing threat posed by Iran which has joined with Al Qaida and spontaneously-arising radical Islam. The radical Muslims in Northern, Western and Eastern Africa, most notably in Nigeria and Darfur, are something of a side-show to what is going on in western and central Asia. I suspect that, at some point, when we are no longer concerned about their Arab and Chinese protectors, we will just crush the radical Muslims in Africa like so many cockroaches.

Photos of church burning in Kenya, 2008, by Muslim extremists connected with current Prime Minister Raila Odinga, and a church burning by Muslim radicals in Pakistan.