The Invisible Christians

Rod Dreher's blog, "The Crunchy Conservative" often has some good material. I liked his entry: "The Invisible Christians" posted Tuesday, November 28:

The Jewish historian Bat Ye'or has written about how invisible to the West are the persecuted Christians in the Islamic world. It has long been my view that American journalists are far more worried about offending Muslims than they are about standing up for human beings who are persecuted because they happen to be Christians. I believe that many US journalists hear "Christians" and think "Falwell" -- imposing their own American experiences and biases on Christian believers around the world. American journalists, in general, are far more worried that somebody in Peoria might look askance at a Muslim wearing a headscarf than they are concerned that Christians are being massacred by Muslims in Indonesia. Anyway, here's a real-life story I just heard from a friend of mine who's an immigration attorney here in Dallas. I publish his e-mail with his permission:

"I represented a Pakistani Christian for asylum successfully, beautiful man, very brave. He belonged to the Protestant church that was hand-grenaded in Islamabad. We were interviewed for a story for national TV for Thanksgiving. At the last minute they told us, our segment had been deleted out of concern by the network about ‘content.’ What content? The production co. said concern about Muslim sensibilities. My client spent hours in my office retelling the story only to be told after the fact (months later) that the network was concerned about sensibilities. Unbelievable.My anger eventually gave way to sadness that the plight of these brave people was not told. He’s even nervous here. Our contract stated his name could not be used and they would obscure his face. People should know these stories."

If it was for a Thanksgiving show, no doubt they were talking to this persecuted Christian about how grateful he is to live in a country where he has religious freedom, as opposed to Muslim Pakistan. But media elites cannot abide that. Too politically correct.