Strong and True?

Rather a good Newsnight, not only for the Assange interview, but also for what came after it. How did everyone else not laugh out loud at how many times Joan Smith of the National Secular Society felt moved to declare herself "indifferent to religion"? How informative to learn that, since the Muzzein's Call to Prayer has always been illegal in Switzerland, mosques there have no possible use of minarets. Except, of course, as the triumphalistic statements that they have always been.

And would that Copt-oppressing Egypt be the same Egypt that is our dear friend and Israel's, like the rest of those who demand the nuking of Iran, with her reserved parliamentary representation for Armenians and Assyrians? Like the rest of those who cheered on the "liberation" of Iraq, with all that that has entailed for her Christians. Like the rest of those who feed and fuel our animosity towards Syria, with her Christian-majority provinces and with her Christian festivals as public holidays.

Like the rest of those who bankroll the Israeli-favoured other side in Lebanon against the Melkites of the Skaff Bloc, against the Armenians of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, against the broad Christian base of the Solidarity Party, against the Maronites of El Marada and of General Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, and against their Hezbollah allies for whom prayers are offered in Catholic and Orthodox churches. And like the rest of those who do absolutely nothing, or worse, for the Palestinians; the Palestinians who have twice as many Christians in Parliament as in the general population on the East Bank of the Jordan, and who have parties founded or led by Christians on the West Bank.