Meet the new age of it, same as the old one, absent the lions:
It’s chilling to imagine worse treatment than what the average North Korean prisoner has reported, including a mother forced to drown her own baby in a bucket, and tales of subsisting on nothing more than rats and insects. According to first-hand accounts from former prisoners reported by Amnesty International, “every former inmate at one camp had witnessed a public execution, one child was held for eight months in a cube-like cell so small he couldn’t move his body and an estimated 40% of inmates die from malnutrition.”
Syria, ranked as the third-worst country by Open Doors, has devolved in the last year to a horror show for Christians. The Hudson Institute’s Nina Shea noted in December 2013 a message she received from a contact in Syria who reported, “Kidnapping, killings, ransom, rape . . . 2013 is a tragedy for Christians in Syria. All Syrians have endured great suffering and distress. The Christians, however, often had to pay with their lives for their faith. Our bishops and nuns have been kidnapped, our political leader killed by torture. After our Christian villages have been occupied, our churches have been destroyed and even mass graves were found in Saddad. [T]he Islamists have put [to] the Christians the alternative: Islam or death. Why [is] the West just watching?”
They came for the Christians, and I said nothing, because I was post-Christian.
Assad and Hussein were secular nationalists. They didn’t tolerate these salafist scum.
Now it’s no fun being a christian in Iraq or Syria.
Saddam and Assad were both hard core socialists. Syria is ruled by the Leninist Arab Ba’ath party, the Arab Socialist Union, and the Arab Progressive Front, whereas Saddam was a Stalinist. As is typical of progressives, they rely on intimidation, murder, the strict maintenance of a totalitarian police state, and occasionally use poison gas on civilians. As Arab Leninists and Stalinists, they didn’t care about religion unless they needed to use it to rally the people for a campaign of extermination. Both came from secular minorities and feared losing control to their countries’ dominant religious sects, Assad to the Sunnis, Saddam to the Shiites. So they formed alliances with everyone who wasn’t part of the dominant sects, playing groups against each other. Basically, they were pretty much like Obama, maintaining a massive surveillance state, handing out favors to political allies and using the organs of government to harass their opponents, forming a cult of personality and ruling by force of will instead of law.
Too few crusaders = too many martyrs. Well, at least we got gay marriage, euthanasia and internet porno in exchange.
Why people still make use of to read news papers when in this technological
globe everything is accessible on net?