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In this mailing:
- Raymond Ibrahim: "Rarely
Reported by the Media Anymore": Persecution of
Christians, March 2019
- Peter Baum: President Trump's
Visit to Britain and Ireland
- Amir Taheri: What Is Bernie
Sanders Worried About?
by Raymond Ibrahim • June 2, 2019
at 5:00 am
- In 2018 alone, 1,063
attacks on Christian churches or symbols (crucifixes, icons,
statues) were registered in France.
- "I went to the
police with eight pages full of threats.... The police advised
me to delete my picture from my website.... It's strange isn't
it: I'm not doing anything wrong, why would I need to hide? I
live in a free country." — cruxnow.com. March 14, 2019; The
Netherlands.
- An Iranian female
asylum seeker was sarcastically informed in her rejection
letter that "You affirmed in your...[Interview Record]
that Jesus is your saviour, but then claimed that He would not
be able to save you from the Iranian regime. It is therefore
considered that you have no conviction in your faith and your
belief in Jesus is half-hearted." — Daily Mail, March
24, 2019; United Kingdom.
On Sunday,
March 17, arsonists torched the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris soon
after midday mass. Such incidences have become prevalent in France,
where on average two churches are desecrated every day. Pictured:
The Church of St. Sulpice. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty
Images)
by Peter Baum • June 2, 2019 at
4:30 am
- All people who are
working to ensure that the free world remains free will
welcome President Donald Trump's visit, which is presumably
intended to cement even further the exceptional connection
between the United Kingdom and the United States.
- Given that hundreds
of thousands of American troops lost their lives freeing
Europe from Nazism, how is it that Ireland finds the audacity
to be so contemptuous of the leader of the country of those
who paid the ultimate price so that the Irish population could
be free to enjoy liberal democracy?
- Ireland was one of
the first countries to accept the Nazi annexation of Austria
during Ireland's sorry history before, during and after the
war.
All people
who are working to ensure that the free world remains free will
welcome President Donald Trump's visit, which is presumably
intended to cement even further the exceptional connection between
the United Kingdom and the United States. Pictured: U.S. President
Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May at a press
conference on July 13, 2018 in Aylesbury, England. (Photo by Stefan
Rousseau-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
This week, U.S. President Donald J. Trump will visit
the United Kingdom for a state visit and be welcomed by the Queen
ahead of the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day
landings. Many commentators and politicians are not only
apoplectic, they are organising various forms of protests. The
mainstream media, notably the BBC, are giving continuous coverage
to those elements wishing to facilitate, contribute to and
participate in the anti-Trump frenzy.
The repeated howls of exasperation from these
protagonists all center around their perception of Trump's values,
which they describe as "racist."
Irrespective of his record -- in which Trump has
reached out to China and North Korea, and initiated economic
policies that resulted in record-low minority unemployment -- many,
predominately on the political "left," remain critical.
by Amir Taheri • June 2, 2019 at
4:00 am
- The important point
is what war one talks about, when, where and against which
adversaries. The bland assertion "I oppose war against X
or Y" is a sign of intellectual laziness if not of moral
bankruptcy.
- Senator Bernie
Sanders never tells us which side he would have supported:
Saddam Hussein or a majority of the Iraqi people? One may
justly infer that he is opposed to wars only where the US is
fighting real or imagined enemies.
- Sanders is wrong in
pretending that Iraq was a "disaster". Since 2003,
Iraq has gone through many ordeals, paying a heavy price. And
yet, today no one could deny that most Iraqis enjoy freedoms they
never thought possible under the dictatorship.
Senator
Bernie Sanders may have hoped to portray President Donald Trump as
another "warmonger" in preparation for the presidential
campaign. But Trump seems determined to cast himself as a president
of peace, even if that risks sending wrong signals to adversaries.
Even Mohammad Javad Zarif, the man who plays the role of Iran's
Foreign Minister, has praised Trump as a man of peace. (Photo by
Koji Sasahara - Pool/Getty Images)
"No war with Iran!" The shop-worn slogan,
in circulation for four decades, is back in vogue as self-styled
peaceniks in the West seek a fig-leaf to hide their shameless support
for a regime rejected by its people. In Britain, the neo-Marxists
who control the Labour Party bandy the slogan around on airwaves
and meetings of militants. In France, the pro-Putin "France
Unbowed" outfit led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon makes similar noises.
And in the US, we have Senator Bernie Sanders, currently the
front-runner to become the Democrat Party's nominee in the next
presidential election, donning the mantle of supreme peacemaker, in
effect offering himself as a human shield for the Islamic Republic.
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