OBSCENITY IN PAKISTAN - AT 8:19 P.M. ET:  The New York Times, not always our favorite here, should be commended for running this story on anti-Christian persecution in Pakistan.  This kind of persecution goes on in many parts of the Muslim world, but goes largely ignored by our aloof-to-religion press:

GOJRA, Pakistan — The blistered black walls of the Hameed family’s bedroom tell of an unspeakable crime. Seven family members died here on Saturday, six of them burned to death by a mob that had broken into their house and shot the grandfather dead, just because they were Christian.

Attacks began in Gojra over a claim that a Koran had been defiled.
The family had huddled in the bedroom, talking in whispers with their backs pressed against the door, as the mob taunted them.

“They said, ‘If you come out, we’ll kill you,’ ” said Ikhlaq Hameed, 22, who escaped. Among the dead were two children, Musa, 6, and Umaya, 13.

The attack in this shabby town in central Pakistan — the culmination of several days of rioting over a claim that a Koran had been defiled — shows how precarious life is for the tiny Christian minority in Pakistan.

And...

“We were afraid because the clerics had been railing against us in the mosques,” said Riaz Masih, a Christian and retired math teacher whose house was gutted. “They said, ‘Let’s teach them a lesson.’ ”

COMMENT:  Questions:  Where is the U.S. Government, which is quick to condemn any slight against Muslims?  Where are the "human rights" groups?  Where is the U.N.?  And where, of course, are the "multiculturalists" in our colleges and universities, who would be at the barricades if one of the left's favorite groups was offended? 

I think we all know where.  Hear the silence.

August 3, 2009