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Clinton and Obama Refuse To Call Sri Lanka Bombing Victims 'Christians'

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As of Monday morning, the death toll in the Sri Lankan terror attacks had hit 290, with 500 injured.

According to Reuters, suspicion in the Easter Sunday attack has fallen on a little-known domestic radical Islamist organization, though a government spokesman has indicated they believe an international terrorist network is also involved.

Obviously, an attack that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent people in three churches and four hotels on the holiest day of the Christian calendar is a major event that would trigger condolences from famous individuals of every stripe — politicians especially.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were two of the political figures who mourned the tragic loss of life in Sri Lanka. However, many Twitter users noticed a bit of a problematic response to the tragedy:

Did you notice the nettlesome phrase here? Bekah Baker, the deputy editor here at The Western Journal, did:

She wasn’t the only one:

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It’s not just that they decided to go with “Easter worshippers” as opposed to “Christians,” it’s the fact that they identified the dead, in one reading of the phrase, as worshippers of Easter. That’s a rather, um, curious way of describing what Christians do.

By the way, at least two of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates also declined to use the word Christian in their tweeted condolences:

At least Elizabeth Warren knew enough to realize these weren’t individuals worshipping a holiday as if it were some sort of pagan God, but apparently the C-word is kind of like Voldemort’s name at Hogwarts.

Do you think that what Obama and Clinton tweeted was inappropriate?

I’ll note two things here. First, we can probably guess that these individuals weren’t targeted because they went into a church on Easter. They were targeted because they were Christians. That makes naming the religion somewhat important here — if just to make plain the impetus behind the inhumanity in this inhuman act.

Second, this is the kind of embarrassment that the left shows when it’s dangerously uneducated on issues of the Christian faith. In one newspaper — The New York Times — over the over the past week, we’ve seen Easter described as “the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus” and the Eucharist a priest saved from the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris identified as a statue because the reporter didn’t know what “the body of Christ” refers to in Roman Catholicism.

And that’s a whole left-leaning newspaper, not just one individual. Even the individuals I mentioned, however, would know better than to identify Jews as “Yom Kippur worshippers” or Muslims merely as “mosque-goers.”

Why is it, therefore, they refuse to even speak the name of our nation’s largest religion?

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
Birthplace
Morristown, New Jersey
Education
Catholic University of America
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Topics of Expertise
American Politics, World Politics, Culture




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