Religion and Politics

The Real War on Christianity

At Foreign Policy, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian and Yochi Dreazen report the U.S. has offered only lackluster support to Middle Eastern Christians threatened and persecuted by the Islamic State. “Every holiday season, politicians in America take to the airwaves to rail against a so-called ‘war on Christmas’ or ‘war on Easter,’ pointing to things like major retailers wishing shoppers generic ‘happy holidays,’” the authors write. “But on the subject of the Middle East, where an actual war on Christians is in full swing, those same voices are silent.”

Read at Foreign Policy

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