It seems we have just discovered how to get the international news agencies like CNN to care about Christian persecution – report them as Muslim minorities!
CNN just made the forced immigration of a Muslim minority back to their homeland front page news, while ignoring Christians being beaten, raped, and killed.
Below is a screenshot of CNN.com on the 14th of September showing a graphic of a recreation of Muslims in life vests swimming towards the shore of their home nation of Myanmar.
Over the summer, 218 Christians, including women and children, were gruesomely slaughtered and more than 6,000 displaced in Nigeria by Muslims, and the tragedy can’t be found in any report by mainstream media. Every year, as many as 1,000 little girls are abducted by Muslims in Pakistan and forced to convert to Islam and mainstream media outlets are silent about it. A recent report shows that Christians are the number one hunted minority group in the world with a whopping 365 million Christians subjected to “high levels of persecution and discrimination” – not a not a peep from western media.
But a minority group of Muslims that no one has ever heard of in Burma are shipped back to their home country by India and it makes the front page of CNN news with one of the most emotionally charged reports they can possibly muster.
The Rohingya people are a Muslim minority separatist group living in the border region of Myanmar and Bangladesh and pushing for an independent Islamic state of their own. Myanmar, a Buddhist nation, has crushed their armed resistance, forcing many of them to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh – a Muslim nation – has few economic opportunities and many choose to flee to neighboring India.
India, a Hindu nation, also does not want to deal with radical Muslims, so what do they do? Do they kill them like the Christians have been in Nigeria or North Korea? Do they put them in prison for their faith as the Muslims have done in Iran? Do they make them slaves or abduct the little Rohingya girls and force them to convert to Hinduism as Muslims have done in Pakistan?
No, India has chosen to ship the Muslims back to their nation of Myanmar. Alive.
Although, it is agreed that the Rohingya minority group are not all militant separatist and they should, without a doubt, all be treated in a humanitarian way, with priority given to women and children, it is a clear double standard in the way these atrocities are covered by mainstream media.
For CNN and many other mainstream media outlets, Muslims being sent back to their home country makes front page news with maximum exposure, while actively ignoring thousands of Christians being persecuted, raped and slaughtered.
The stories that are highlighted by mainstream media and the ones that are actively ignored shows the lack of concern for Christians and is why BTJ writes about the situation on the ground for Christians in closed countries.
BTJ is one of the few mission organizations that gives daily reports from the front lines and one of the reasons why, is because Christians are not getting information about the situation for believers by their most traditional news sources.
