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In this mailing:
- Giulio Meotti: Europe: Destroyed by
the West's Indifference?
- Amir Taheri: The Usual Suspects
and a New Method
by
Giulio Meotti • November 19, 2017 at 5:00 am
- Our
media and intelligentsia are always on alert to defend everything
coming from Islam, from women's veils to the "right not be
offended" by cartoons. The same establishment, however, lies
in a coma when it comes to Christian symbols under attack.
- The
West today keeps on hiding its deepest secret: that there is an
Islamic war going on against our own Judeo-Christian civilization.
- "They
want Christianity eradicated, and they want to convert all Muslims
to their crusade... They want it to be a holy war. And they want
Christians gone. And I don't think that narrative is getting the
attention it should get..." — Piers Morgan, Daily Mail.
There are pictures one cannot forget -- for instance, of
Russian troops hoisting their flag over burning Berlin in 1945. It was
the end of Nazism but the rise of Communism. Another photo is of U.S.
Marines raising the American flag over the battle-scarred Japanese
island of Iwo Jima.
Today the West faces another totalitarianism: radical
Islam. One place that witnessed the new horror is Mount Sinjar in the
Nineveh province of Iraq, once a home to religious minorities,
especially Christians and Yazidis. Thousands of years of history
changed when the jihadists of ISIS invaded Sinjar in August of 2014.
They slaughtered men and enslaved girls and women. Christian churches
were razed to the ground, and houses of worship, looted.
by
Amir Taheri • November 19, 2017 at 4:00 am
Pictured: Portraits of Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah (left) and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei (right) in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006. (Photo by Marco Di
Lauro/Getty Images)
Last week, two events injected energy and excitement
into what was beginning to look like an anemic end of the year in the
Middle East as far as political developments are concerned.
The first event was the decision by the Saudi leadership
to create a new mechanism to deal with alleged cases of corruption,
embezzlement and influence-peddling.
The sheer number of cases referred to a special court on
those charges was enough to capture the headlines. The fact that the
208 people under investigation included princes, prominent bureaucrats,
and business tycoons intensified the event's headline-grabbing
potential.
But what really attracted world attention was the
unexpectedness of the Saudi move.
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