Yet the West prefers the former while despising the latter. The evidence of the anti-Christian agenda is readily available. A new article by Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison discussing the January 16 Religious Freedom Day in America offers some details on this.

They write, "Today, we find religious freedom in grave jeopardy. Obviously, the HHS Mandate that forces Christians to subsidize abortion-producing drugs is the clearest example. There is an avalanche of others. Last August, our organization, Family Research Council, partnered with the Liberty Institute to release a report on the growing threat of religious hostility from government action.

"We are seeing another high profile example of religious hostility. Pastor Lou Giglio has been banned from offering a prayer at next week's Inauguration of President Obama because the pastor had fifteen years ago preached in defense of true marriage. The militant forces of political correctness got the pastor banned."

The Giglio affair I have already discussed in detail elsewhere: www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/01/11/big-brother-in-action/

They continue: "MSNBC's Larry O'Donnell thinks that's not enough. President Obama is slated to take the Oath of Office with his hand on the Bible - 'a stack of Bibles,' actually. CNN reports the First Lady will hold up her Robinson family Bible, President Lincoln's Bible, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Bible.

"'Still, the president, following one of our most absurdist traditions in the government that invented the separation of church and state, will put his hand on this book [the Bible] filled with things he does not believe... and with his hand on this book he will recite the oath of office...' O'Donnell's attitude is just the latest in the media scorn for religion. CNN's respected political analyst Bill Schneider famously said the media 'doesn't get religion.'

"We certainly saw this in the famous case of NBC's august anchor man, John Chancellor. He reported that Ronald Reagan would take the oath 'with his hand on the Bible. It is opened to a favorite passage: Eleven Chronicles 7:14.' No one in the control room told Mr. Chancellor there are only two (II) books of Chronicles in the Bible. Maybe no one knew.

"The famed Rothman-Lichter Survey of prestige journalists at that time showed that 91 percent of these opinion shapers never attend a worship service of any kind. That's not only a pity in their personal lives, it is a hazard in the nation. That is because our leading opinion makers do not understand what motivates tens of millions of their countrymen - and billions worldwide."

So while the war against Christianity abounds, we are also reaping the whirlwind of mass Muslim immigration without making the slightest demands that they embrace the values and traditions of the host culture: things like pluralism, separation of church and state, religious freedom, and freedom of conscience.

Far too many Muslims in the West have refused to embrace these democratic values, and have instead insisted on following the bloody example of the Prophet. They think they can continue the intolerant and violent ways of their own faith. Mark Steyn offers us just a snippet of what this entails:

"In the summer of 2010, mourners lined the streets of Wales's capital city to pay tribute to a seven-year-old boy killed in a house fire. In fact, Yaseen Ali Ege was brutally beaten to death, and then set alight with barbecue fuel. By his mother. For failing to learn the Koran. Over the preceding months, Mom had used a stick, a rolling pin, and a hammer on her son, but, despite these incentives, he had memorized only a couple of pages. And so she killed him, and subsequently declared she felt '100 percent better'."

He continues, "Of course not all Muslims brutalize their families - although the ten-year-old daughter of Asia Parveen of Stoke Newington was treated for 56 injuries after being beaten for not reading enough verses of the Koran, and Hesha Yones of west London had her throat cut by her father for being too 'Westernized,' and a five-month-old baby in Halmstad, Sweden, was beaten to death with a Koran, and this very month a campaign against Muslim domestic violence is being launched in Scotland, and a BBC poll last year revealed that two-thirds of young British Muslims favor violence against those who 'dishonor' their families, and in the Netherlands Muslims make up 60 percent of the population of battered-women's shelters . . . And of course not all Muslims are self-segregating, although 57 percent of Pakistani Britons are married to first cousins, and in Bradford, Yorkshire, it's 75 percent . . .

Nevertheless, many Muslims share the broader cultural preferences of Yaseen's mother....

"Who knows? In Wales as in much of the Western world, we are in the midst of an unprecedented sociocultural experiment. Its precise end point cannot be known, but on the Continent its contours are beginning to emerge: In Amsterdam, formerly 'the most tolerant city in Europe,' gay-bashing is now routine; 'youths' busted into a fashion show, pulled a gay model from the catwalk, and beat him to a pulp. Claire Berlinski reported for National Review two years ago that in the French suburb of La Courneuve 77 percent of veiled women say they cover themselves to 'avoid the wrath of Islamic morality patrols.' In Potsdam, the Abraham Geiger Theological College advises its rabbis not to venture on the streets wearing identifying marks of their faith. In synagogues from Copenhagen to Berlin to Rome, Jews are warned to hide their yarmulkes under hats or baseball caps at the end of the service. In Paris, a man wearing no identifiably religious clothing was beaten unconscious on the Métro for being caught reading a book by France's chief rabbi. The message is consistent, from Jews to gays to women: In the new Europe, you don't want to be seen as the other. Keep your head down, or covered.

"For a decade, I've been told by those who think I'm 'alarmist' that there's nothing to see here. The seven-year-old whose non-appearance at the teddy bears' picnic goes unremarked . . . the beleaguered National Health Service reeling under the costs of genetic disorders from cousin marriage but now providing free and discreet 'hymen reconstruction' for Muslim daughters who got a little over-Westernized one night . . . the infidel women going veiled to avoid trouble in les banlieues . . . the rabbis wearing baseball caps on the streets of Berlin and Brussels . . . One reason that there's 'nothing to see' is the ever greater lengths we go to cover it, and ourselves, up. The veil descends, on all of us."

Quite so. So the West has chosen to reject the most civilising and most benevolent religion on the planet for one that is the complete opposite. No wonder the West is heading down the tubes so fast. And I too have been called "alarmist" and worse for pointing out these inconvenient truths.

But I, like Steyn, will keep presenting these warnings until we are officially bound and gagged by the authorities and the forces of political correctness. But at least the both of us can rightly say, "We told you so."

www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/endangered_religious_freedom_day.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

www.steynonline.com/5387/the-veil-descends