The Garissa University attack – which happened just over one week ago – was the latest in a series of escalating threats against Christians by jihadists who feel emboldened by western inaction to similar attacks on Christians in countries like Iraq.
In the last few weeks, two churches were bombed in Pakistan, Egyptian Coptic Christians in the villages of al-Our and el-Galaa were attacked by jihadist mobs, and ISIS commemorated Easter by bombing yet another Syrian church.
The tragedy is that rather than becoming increasingly outraged by these terrorist atrocities, we seem to be becoming desensitized to them.
Take, for instance, the fact that only a few days before the Garissa attack in Kenya the Nigerian terrorist organization Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 500 women and children from a city in northeastern Nigeria. What’s most striking about this most recent attack is that nearly no one in the world knows it happened as opposed to a similar incident one year ago that sparked global outrage and a social media campaign where millions tweeted: #BringBackOurGirls.
This time you could hear a cricket chirp.
There are no trending hash tags and hardly any news; just a haunting silence, and the silence is most poignant in the halls of power in the United States and Europe.
The world is far more silent than it could be, and its silence is allowing more men, women and children to be threatened, kidnapped, trafficked, and massacred every week.
We must speak till we’re heard and put unrelenting pressure on global leaders till we cannot be ignored. These vulnerable communities need protection now because #ChristianLivesMatter.
Excerpts from: Christian Lives Matter – Fox News
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