Christianophobia and "Islamophobia"

Via BNP and Me, I find the horrific story of a Christian boy who was crucified in Iraq by Muslims, who were apparently unaware that "Islam is a Religion of Peace". A quick google search reveals that this took place last October, in Basra. The search also indicates that only two MSM sources have reported this atrocity. The thisislondon.co.uk website (the online version of the Evening Standard), mentioned it back in November, alongside the news of the torture and murder of a priest, Father Paul Alexander, in an apparent "Pope Rage" incident. And then last month Damian Thompson, writing in the Telegraph's "Holy Smoke" blog, also mentioned it. Other than that, I can only find deafening silence from the MSM.

I also discover that crucifixion has more than once been meted out by Muslims to Christians. In 2004 in the Sudan a Christian slave boy (yes, they still have slavery there - but you don't hear Rowan Williams complaining about that) was crucified by his owner for sneaking into a church service. Astonishingly, he survived, albeit that he is permanently scarred. And at the height of Pope Rage a Muslim cleric in Pakistan called for the Pope to be crucified, as a punishment for insulting Islam.

Why has the crucifixion in Basra received so little MSM attention? Well, presumably they don't consider the story sufficiently important to waste their time reporting. After all, it's not like someone smeared bacon over a Koran, is it? Or, horror of horrors, kicked a Koran. Or put a Koran in a toilet. Now those are all real atrocities, ones the MSM can really get their teeth into. And do, at great length. Because of course, those all feature the designated worldwide victim group being upset by something. By contrast Christians are a designated oppressor group. So mildly mistreating a book sparks cries of "Islamophobia", but no one pays any attention to real Christianophobia, even when that Christianophobia leads to torture and murder.

Postscript: There exists, somewhere in one of the darker recesses of the blogosphere, a nasty little site named "Islamophobia Watch", dedicated to ensuring that incidences of people criticising Islam, or harming books, are brought to public attention. Yet there exists no comparable "Christianophobia Watch" blog. I wonder if I should start one, to try and bring incidences of murder, torture, and institutionalised discrimination against Christians (real persecution, in other words, not just what paranoid Muslims think of as persecution) to public attention?

More on the Mandaeans

It seems to be a bit of a day for following up previous stories, so, via Dhimmi Watch, here is a follow up to the story I posted at the beginning of March, about the Islamic extermination of Iraq's tiny Mandaean minority. It seems that increasing numbers of them are finding their way to Sweden:

There could now be 5,000 Mandaeans living in Sweden, about as many as in Iraq, according to Mandaean-Sabian Association of Sweden. Most, like Amin Farhan, are unreservedly happy to have made it here; it is a place, he said, where "human life has a value."

Indeed. Unfortunately for them, and for every other infidel in Sweden, it doesn't look like Sweden's going to stay that way much longer. According to Fjordman, it is "the most pathetic dhimmi nation in the Western world", rapidly giving into the Muslims on anything and everything. A few years and the Mandaeans will be moving on again, and again, until there's nowhere left to run.