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A conservative media watchdog organization says the mainstream media has once again demonstrated its hypocrisy with the manner it has treated Tea Party participants in comparison to illegal alien protestors in Arizona.

The Media Research Center (MRC) finds a dramatic difference between how Tea Party protestors have been portrayed by the media compared to those protesting Arizona's new tough anti-illegal immigration law. The watchdog organization believes ABC derided March's Tea Party rallies as "ugly," despite the fact that there were no arrests. Meanwhile, the same network downplayed the actual violence of protestors in Arizona as "mostly peaceful."

 

 

Anti-Christian Group Just a Paper Tiger

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has been in the news several times of late in its war with Christianity, filing lawsuits and sending out threatening letters to government bodies when a hint of Christianity is mentioned. So the founder of an opposing organization has given the group a deeper look.

Mat Staver, president and founder of Liberty Counsel, reports that the FFRF is headed by Dan Barker, a former pastor of 17 years who is now an avowed atheist. Staver believes the entire focus of the organization is to defeat Christianity.

Matt Staver"It's not an organization that just wants to talk about free thought or freedom of religion or the idea of church and state," he laments. "It literally wants to make an enemy of Christians and make them an enemy of the state."

The Liberty Counsel founder says the group believes Christians are dangerous. He adds that the foundation is really a small organization that does not even have full-time attorneys to deal with its lawsuits, but that it is represented by a few volunteer lawyers. "The problem is that some of these government officials, when they get a letter from this paper tiger, they ultimately cave in and...give in to their demands," Staver notes.

 

Why Are Members of the Secular Media Soft on Muslims but Merciless on Christians?

The answer is much simpler than you think. It is cowardice.

Fear of Islamic swift retribution and retaliation has kept the secular media in the West hiding in their proverbial foxholes. Ever since the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard ignited a worldwide firestorm with his depiction of the Islamic prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, members of the western media have been falling over themselves to praise Islamic ideologies.

Fear is a powerful fact of life. Whether it is the fear of acts of terrorism or fear of incurring the wrath of Islamic investors, both can be easily exercised with impunity.

Attacking Christians as a matter of course for causing every ill in society -- from the economic crash to every form of bigotry -- has become not only fashionable but desirable. You need only to read the BBC's website on any given day and you will find countless examples of condemnation of Christians around the globe. For instance, take the case of a government registrar who refused to deny her Christian conviction by performing a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple. In contrast, you will find only praise for the courage of Muslims who fulfilled their religious duty by going to the Hajj while braving the threat of Swine Flu.

It is safer to pick on Christians. After all, the essence of their faith is love, forgiveness, and peacemaking. They would never respond in similar fashion to their Muslim counterparts.

Back in 1981 when I met someone conveniently labeled (in the West) as a "militant Muslim," his complaint to me was that "Christians are cowards." When I inquired as to his reasons he simply said, "the name of Jesus is used as a swear word in the movies and on TV." When I asked for his advice for Christians, he replied: "They should kill every actor and producer who would blaspheme their Jesus."

 

 

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These stories won't be found in the mainstream media, and people who rely solely on MSM or liberal web sites as a source of information and news miss much of what is really happening in the world and in the United States.

 

Remember, just because you haven't heard it on ABC, CBS, MSNBC or CNN doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

 

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