Selective Indignation in Response to Anti-Christian Acts
On February 12, the French Ministry of the Interior published what is considered to be an alarming list of racism and antisemitism in France for the year 2018. Few commentators have remarked that the anti-Christian acts are by far the most abundant.
The Central Territorial Intelligence Service (SCRT) recorded a 74% increase in antisemitism, with 541 acts compared to 311 the year before. As for racism and xenophobia, they decreased by 4.2%, with 496 acts in 2018 (518 in 2017). Anti-Muslim acts reached a record low since 2010, with about 100 acts.
Another official number given by the SCRT was practically ignored by most of the major media outlets: the number of anti-Christian acts increased from 1,038 in 2017 to 1,063.
And as far as these acts are concerned, 2019 has started off at full throttle; in the month of February alone, in Nîmes, Lavaur, Houilles and Dijon, several churches have already been degraded and profaned.
In Lavaur and Houilles, the offenders destroyed the furniture, but in Nîmes and Dijon, they opened the tabernacle, threw the hosts it contained on the ground, and even drew a cross on the wall with excrement.
While the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe did condemn these attacks against the Church on February 13, 2019, the high number of anti-Christian acts has not received much attention from the main media outlets: a case selective indignation when it comes to discrimination?
Sources: La Croix / FSSPX.News – 2/20/2019
