Gene Edward Veith writes on the horrific murders of Kenyan university students here. What impresses me most about the story, and the larger story of Christian persecution in the Islamic world, is how, despite all the coverage, nobody seems to have any plans to do anything about it. Expressions of outrage seem to be the limit.
I think I see a reason for this. Nobody really cares, because these Christians occupy no conceptual place in the mind of the world. Or at least in the mind of the world’s opinion makers.
In contemporary thought, there are two religious alternatives for third world people. They can belong to indigenous religions, such as animism, or they can be Muslims.
In the eyes of the world, Christianity is a religion for white westerners only. Anyone not white or western, in this view, should not be a Christian. If they are Christian, they are somehow “inauthentic.” Uncle Toms. Race traitors. In a sense they deserve anything that is done to them.
They are non-persons in the eyes of the world.
But “precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of His saints” (Psalm 116:15).
I have a hunch that from a western perspective it is being ignored more because it is 3rd world people killing 3rd world people, not because is sectarian. When I lived overseas I noticed that the people there were much more attuned to international events. Americans tend to be pretty inwardly focused. If it doesn’t happen here it’s not important. Even if it does happen here, it has to happen in one of the media centers on coasts to make the news. The events in fly-over-land are pretty much ignored too.
Because every time these terrorists attack the western world, or we hear about it, the very first thing the progressives do is try to find a way to blame white Christian men for the attacks in some way.
See: 9/11 and the New Atheists coming out of the woodwork to attack Christianity, the Boston Bombing and the liberals praying the perpetrator would be a Tea Party Christian then literally ignoring the story when it turned out to be an Islamist terrorist, and the ISIS problem of “Well, you had the Crusades so these people get a pass!” moral equivalence idiocy.
At some point these people have to wake up.