Christians are under attack:

Connect these dots:

In Nigeria this week, Muslim youths set fire to a church, killing more than two dozen Christian worshippers.

In Egypt, Coptic Christians have been suffering increased persecution including, this month, a drive-by shooting outside a church in which seven people were murdered.

In Pakistan, Christian churches were bombed over Christmas.

In Turkey, authorities have been closing Christian churches, monasteries, and schools, and seizing Christian properties.

Recently, churches in Malaysia have been attacked, too, provoked by this grievance: Christians inside the churches were referring to God as “Allah.”

How dare infidels use the same name for the Almighty as do Muslims!

Where is the outrage? Where is the condemnation? Where is the media?

In response to all this, Western journalists, academics, diplomats, and politicians mainly avert their eyes and hold their tongues. They pretend there are no stories to be written, no social pathologies to be documented, no actions to be taken. They focus instead on Switzerland’s vote against minarets and anything Israel might be doing to prevent terrorists from claiming additional victims.

Many Muslims, no doubt, disapprove of the persecution of non-Muslims. But in most Muslim-majority countries, any Muslim openly opposing the Islamists and their projects risks being branded an apostate. And under the Islamist interpretation of Sharia, Islamic law, apostates deserve death. (h/t Infidels are Cool)

There is no question who is carrying out these attacks. It isn’t a militant Buddhist sect bent on creating a worldwide government forcing the Eightfold Path on the unenlightened.

But where we once fought a war against terror and could identify radical Islam as the chief enemy, now we can’t call it a war. And we can’t mention Islam, even when it is blindingly obvious that it’s the motivation:

The Pentagon report into the massacre at Fort Hood that left 13 dead is a joke. There is no mention of the suspect’s views of Islam. None.

In fact, the 86-page report doesn’t even once mention Major Nidal Hasan by name. It lumps in radical Islam with other fundamentalist religious beliefs… and instead focuses on things like military personnel policies and the emergency response to the Nov. shootings.

This despite the fact that Hasan made no secret of his radical Islamic faith. He allegedly proselytized to his fellow service members and spoke out against the wars the U.S. military is waging in Muslim counties.

John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission, tells Time magazine the Pentagon’s silence on Islamic extremism “shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become.”

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

If we cannot mention the atrocities carried out in the name of Islam, or even consider radical Islam as a motivating factor in terrorism, how can we fight? How can we protect ourselves?

This administration and the leftists in the media have no hesitation in labeling veterans returning from duty in Iraq as potential terrorists, but cannot find Major Hasan’s ties to radical Islam worth mentioning.

Is there any wonder the American people don’t trust Democrats when it comes to national defense?

The political left will fall over itself to label America as the problem while ignoring the actions of those who wish the country harm. They have done this for decades.

Ignoring the threat from radical Islam is no different than when the left ignored the threat of Communism or defended Castro. It’s no different than when they supported Hitler, up until he double crossed their favored son Stalin.

This type of political correctness will result in more Americans dying in the name of Allah, while the left wonders what we did to deserve it.

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