Huff Post: by Ken Blackwell: Religious Freedom in Egypt? Ask the Sphinx-
If you follow the annual reports of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), you will read a sad catalog of persecution and discrimination against Christians, Jews and members of other religions around the world.
It goes almost without saying that persecution in nightmare places like North Korea is horrendous. Although the media too often treats North Korea like a clown show — especially when highlighting the visits of unthinking Americans like Dennis Rodman — the brutal realities are no joke. In North Korea, it is estimated, that between 100,000 and 200,000 Christians are imprisoned by a regime that still lauds the Communist mass-murderer Josef Stalin. In North Korea, you can be shot in the head for owning a Bible.
But North Korea is at least recognized as a rogue state, an enemy of human rights and a threat to world peace. The USCIRF report for 2012 has documented troubling developments in Egypt. There was much excitement in the Western media over the toppling first of the dictator in Tunisia, followed by the Feb. 2011 ouster of longtime Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak. Journalists hailed these events as a new “Arab Spring.”
Categories: Americas
“US Foreign Policy and Religious Freedom” ???
I recall in Geneva that it was the US Government that blocked a vote against Pakistan in the matter of declaring them ‘in breach of Human Rights’ relating to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Clauses in the Pakistani Constitution and Laws.
Clearly ‘Foreign Policy’ has always an advantage over ‘Religious Freedom’ …