The West continues to privilege Islam despite its cries “Death
to the infidel,” its intention to subjugate the world, and its horrific crimes
and human rights abuses. Here is just one small and recent example:
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A man from Manchester in the United Kingdom has
been sentenced to 180 hours of unpaid work and a 12-month community order after
posting comments that were said to be "grossly offensive" towards
Muslims.
What did this man say that was so offensive?
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"Don't come over to this country and treat
it like your own. Britain first," according to the Manchester Evening News.
In contrast, the West treats its founding faith with utter
contempt, closing Christian businesses and intimidating Christians.
In view of this galloping insanity, we might do well to read
the words of the former atheist turned Christian, C.S. Lewis. He asks us to
imagine what a visitor, who knew nothing about Christianity, would think when
observing the Christian West for the first time:
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He would find that this same religion has always
been healing the sick and caring for the poor; that it has, more than any
other, blessed marriage; that the arts and philosophy tend to flourish in its
neighborhood. In a word, it is always either doing, or at least repenting with
shame for not having done, all the things which secular humanitarianism enjoins.
(God in the Dock, 147)
Why then the hatred towards such a religion? Why the attempts
to drive it into the back alleys of existence? Jesus explained the world’s
antipathy towards Him this way:
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“The world cannot hate you, but it hates me
because I testify about it that its works are evil.” (John 7:7)
And we are still doing the same thing. That is why the world
also hates us:
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“If the world hates you, know that it has hated
me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as
its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the
world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A
servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also
persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.” (John 15:18-20)
As such, this insane persecution confirms the truth of the
Gospel.
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