Ethan Bronner pens an exceptional, direct article on the front page about the decline of the Christian population in the Middle East, namely Iraq, Lebanon, and Bethlehem.
"[The] dwindling and threatened Christian population [has been] driven to emigration by political violence, lack of economic opportunity and the rise of radical Islam," he writes.
The willingness to name names - radical Islam - is unusual and welcome.
Two other sections are worthy of reprint:
“And since Islamic culture, especially in its more fundamental stripes, often defines itself in contrast to the West, Christianity has in some places been relegated to an enemy — or least foreign — culture.”
“And in Egypt, where 10 percent of the country is Coptic Christian, the prevalent religious discourse has drifted from what was considered to be a moderate Egyptian Islam toward a far less tolerant Saudi-branded Islam.”
Ethan Bronner's article - for once - speaks for itself and should be read in full.
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