Last month, the deaths of 49 Muslims in New Zealand at the hands of a couple crazed anarchists, dominated the news cycle for more that a week. Yesterday – Easter Sunday – in Sri Lanka, nearly 300 (mostly Christian) people were murdered by radical Muslim suicide bombers. Today the media has pretty much moved on.
A radical Muslim terror group called National Thowheed Jamath was blamed Monday for the devastating suicide bombings that killed at least 290 and injured 500 in Sri Lanka.
Cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said that seven suicide bombers from the domestic group were behind the coordinated attacks — but insisted overseas terrorists likely helped […]
The attacks on three churches and three hotels were carried out by individual bombers, with two striking the Shangri-La Hotel in the capital Colombo.
The bombings killed at least 290 people with more than 500 wounded, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said Monday.Source: NYPost
In the wake of the New Zealand shootings, Westerners practically prostrated themselves to apologize for the Muslim deaths. The reaction to this slaughter in Sri Lanka is markedly different. Rather than respect the Christian faith and acknowledge the ongoing jihad against believers, many media sources replaced the word “Christians” with “Easter worshipers” in their reports.
So just who gets to decide which lives are worthy of our collective attention and mourning? Who is in charge of framing the narrative surrounding every new tragedy? Muslims? The mainstreams? Our elite ruling class?
Certainly not Christians.
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Praying for the survivors of yesterday’s horrific attacks. May the Lord comfort, heal, strengthen and sustain those who are injured and have lost loved ones. (Those who died in Christ truly know now that their Redeemer lives!) May He transform the hearts of those who continue to believe that violence like this justified, and lead them to His saving grace.
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“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet, because you
are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore
the world hates you.” ~ John 15:18-19 ~
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* “Some people did something,” was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) dismissive reference to 9-11 a couple weeks ago.
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Updated: 4-25-19
Added – Related:
Why Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Tweeted About ‘Easter Worshippers’ Dennis Prager reflects on the Sri Lanka massacre and leftist obfuscation ~
The reason neither of them mentioned Christians or churches is that the left has essentially forbidden mention of all the anti-Christian murders perpetrated by Muslims in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and of all the Muslim desecration of churches in Europe, Africa, and anywhere else […]
Essentially, the left’s rule is that nothing bad — no matter how true — may be said about Muslims or Islam and nothing good — no matter how true — may be said of Christians or Christianity.
