Hundreds of thousands of Christians in the Middle East and Africa have fled not only the violence of war and civil war, but also the particular violence of Islamic terrorism specifically directed against them because they are Christian. Last week, they may have learned from Obama, during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, that they should get down off their high horse and remember that during the Crusades, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. Really?
Obama’s rather glib and brief history of the Crusades hardly told the whole complicated story of events of 800 years distant, but his moral relativism is rather glaring. As Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, remarked, “It was nice of the president to give us a history lesson at the prayer breakfast. Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”
On Feb. 9, Obama stated that Americans could be concerned when “... a bunch of violent, vicious zealots randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.” The deli in Paris was a Kosher deli, and the “folks” murdered were all Jews. There was nothing random about it.
Radical Islamic groups, from the Taliban to al-Qaeda to Boko Haram to ISIS and countless others, seek to inflict their medieval world view on the helpless. If the leader of the free world displays nothing but hideous denial and outrageous moral relativism, we may all be doomed. One wonders what would be his response if an American city becomes victim to another mass terror attack. Perhaps he would tell us that we deserved it.
Michael Lubin
Durango
