"We are facing an unprecedented age of terror"

We are facing an unprecedented age of terror - Telegraph

Christians are being persecuted in some 50 countries, among them North Korea, Syria, Somalia and Sudan. In 2003 there were 1.5 million Christians in Iraq; today a few thousand. In Mosul, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, Christians were forced to flee by Islamic State (Isil) in the summer of 2014. In Afghanistan the last church was burned to the ground in 2010. In Gaza in 2007, after the rise of Hamas, the last Christian bookshop was destroyed and its owner murdered. In Yemen, on Good Friday, Father Tom Uzhunnallil, an Indian Catholic priest, was crucified by Isil. The ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East is one of the crimes against humanity of our time, and I am appalled that there has been little serious international protest.

But the real target is not Christianity but freedom. 

But if freedom is the true target, what has killing Christianity to do with that? It is because Jesus Christ invented personal liberty. To be a first-century Jew or Gentile was to live wholly subsumed into a wide social context that determined what your occupation would be, when you could work and when you could not, whom you would marry, where you would live, what you may do and when, how to treat your parents and relatives, how to raise your children, what you must teach them, how you must worship and when and where, how you must dress, what you may eat and when you may eat it, and countless other things.

The very concept of individual liberty was non-existent. If you could go back in time and tell an ordinary Judean that the God-given rights of men and women were the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, no one would have understood you any more than if you had tried to explain how suborbital mechanics.

This was social system into which Jesus was born. And he set about it with a wrecking ball. Here is why I say that Jesus of Nazareth invented individual liberty:

1. Jesus denounced the social system of honor and shame that dominated how people lived and related with each other. 

2. Jesus directly refuted the idea that blood relationships could determine how an individual lived his life. 

3. Jesus insisted that the heart of true religion was not obligations imposed upon a person externally, but was an ethic of love from within.

All of these things are repugnant, actually hostile to ISIS and its allies, but also to the Totalist Left of the West.

More: "Christians are being eradicated from the Middle East"

Also, "An Up-close Look at the Liberal-Muslim Alliance" and its reasons, one of which is obvious but needs to be stated plainly: The left instinctively denies the worth of America.