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Why Won't the Media Say "Christophobia?" - CD Mediaby Court AndersonIt is a commonplace to brand acts of hatred visited on Jews as anti-Semitic, and more recently, those on Muslims as Islamophobic. Indeed, it is considered callous by some, even ignorant, not to employ the appropriate term, quickly and loudly, if a hateful act is perpetrated on one of the respective groups.The first known usage of “anti-Semite†dates back to 1879, and “Islamophobe†to 1976, according to the the Oxford English Dictionary, whereas “Christophobe†is entirely absent. The word (and all derivations) simply doesn’t exist outside of a few blogs and crowd-sourced “slang dictionaries.†Even as I type, spell-check rejects it with a red underline.And yet what it describes is all too real. Persecution of Christians is not only common and vicious, it is on the rise globally. One has to search for headlines on the topic–rare as unicorns in mass media–but they are there, from the expected sources such as ecclesiastical organizations and conservative media, but also, more recently, from sources such as PEW, Newsweek, and The Guardian. The difference? In the latter grouping, the stories appear, and are quickly swept under the digital rug, a new-age sleight of hand: “We totally covered that beheading! See, here it is in our archives!†Read more at: https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2019/05/03/why-wont-the-media-say-christophobia/
