Chris Malott has a thought-provoking post on Christians being persecuted in India. The mainstream media is conspicuosly silent on the subject.
The story he highlights centers on the arrest of a Christian man from the US, Dr. Samuel Thomas, who run Hopegivers International, a children's charity. Hopegivers runs orphanages and schools in India and Africa that minister to 20,000 children. In Kota, Rajasthan, India, officials have been taking illegal actions against Hopegivers' Emmanuel Hope Home there for the past month , jeopardizing the 2,500 orphans and abandoned children. The officials arrested Dr. Thomas on March 16. The people going after Hopegivers are Hindu militants, not Muslims.
Chris says:
While President Bush promotes new ties and a closer relationship to India, maybe he should encourage the government to stand up to the religious radicals and protect the lives of American missionaries. And if the mainstream media weren't so preoccupied counting the American dead in Iraq, maybe they could cover this story.
At the same time, in Afghanistan, a Christian is on trial for his life because he converted from Islam to Christianity and won't renounce his adopted religion. Michelle Malkin's latest commentary addresses Abdul Rahman's story. She is equally critical of those who are ignoring this issue.
If we sit on the sidelines and watch this man "cut into little pieces" for his love of Christ, we do not deserve the legacy of liberty our Founding Fathers left us. How about offering Rahman asylum in the United States? Perhaps Yale University, proud sponsor of former Taliban official Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, can offer Rahman a scholarship. Where's the Catholic Church, so quick to offer sanctuary to every last illegal alien streaming across the borders? And how about Hollywood, so quick to take up the cause of every last Death Row inmate?
Hello, anyone, hello?
It raises the question: What are we fighting for, when our new and existing allies still believe in persecuting and even executing Christians?
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