1. maj 2014
Den ansete journalist John L. Allen Jr. skrev i 2012 en artikel i National Catholic Reporter med titlen: "Five myths about anti-Christian persecution" - og den er ikke mindre aktuel efter DR2 Detektor's udsendelse idag: Men passer det virkelig? hvor de tjekker påstanden om at hele 80 procent af alle hadforbrydelser i Europa er rettet mod kristne.
John L. Allen Jr. gennemgår i sin artikel 5 myter, og kommer bl.a. ind på hvem der forfølger de kristne og skriver bl.a.:
Even, believe it or not, Christian radicalism
If that last entry seems counter-intuitive, consider what happened in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan, in the Mexican state of Puebla, this past September. Seventy local Protestants were forced to flee after a band of traditionalist Catholics issued a chilling ultimatum: Leave immediately or be "crucified or lynched."
The point is that extremism and intolerance of whatever stripe, not Islam, is the threat.
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Defending persecuted Christians, in other words, is hardly an effort that should concern the political and theological right alone. Styling anti-Christian persecution as a political football is not only an obscenity, but it's factually inaccurate.
Hele artiklen er <her>
eBog af John L. Allen Jr.: The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
Wikipedia: John Allen