Thank God for a Level-Headed Liberal … Calling Out the Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Obama for Doing Nothing About Persecuted Christians

Kirsten Powers, a liberal leaning political analyst, publicly slammed President Obama last week for failing to protect Christians in the Middle East being persecuted by radical Muslims.  Her editorial, which was published in USA Today, focused on the incident in the Mediterranean Sea where Muslims threw a dozen Christians overboard from a migrant ship. While authorities have charged the Muslims with “multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate,” Powers contended that the incident was an example of “religious persecution.”  Powers wrote, “Obama was mute on the killings … He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith.  If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12-Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested?”

Powers then highlighted another incident where the president condemned similar actions.  “When 3-North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by a virulent atheist, Obama rightly spoke out against the horrifying killings,” Powers wrote.  “But he just can’t seem to find any passion for the mass persecution of Middle Eastern Christians or the eradication of Christianity from its birthplace.”

Powers argued that “religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide.”  She added that Christians were the targets of “religious cleansing” … especially those living in the Middle East and northern Africa.

“Pope Francis has repeatedly decried the persecution and begged the world for help, but it has had little impact,” Powers wrote.  “Western leaders—including Obama—will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded.”

The political analyst then turned to comments the president made during this year’s National Prayer Breakfast.  “It will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades while Middle Eastern Christians were at that moment being harassed, driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith,” Powers wrote.  “A week and a half after Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, 21-Coptic Christians were beheaded for being ‘people of the cross.’”

Powers is correct in her analyst.  But don’t forget, Barack Obama said on June 28, 2006, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation …”  Never mind the facts that this nation was established by Christians; her laws predicated on Judeo-Christian principles; and that the majority of citizens declare themselves to be Christian.  This Administration’s disregard for the rule of law and the harassment of Christians living in accordance with their convictions is a manifestation of Obama’s contempt for Christianity.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel