There has been no huge backlash. Far from it. President Bush has lectured us repeatedly about the dangers of “profiling” Arabs. For every vow to track down Osama, he has urged all of us to be tolerant and respect the Muslims among us.

        If only Christians got a tiny fraction of that respect in Muslim countries.

        Here are a few tidbits you probably have not heard on the evening news:

Death to infidels

        The Muslim Laskar Jihad in Indonesia “has killed as many as 10,000 Indonesian Christians, forcibly converted thousands more and demolished hundreds of churches,” according to a recent article in National Review.

        The human rights organization Freedom House reports, “In Sudan's 17-year-old civil conflict, 2 million people — mostly African Christians and traditional believers from south and central Sudan — have already perished.”

        “The Sudanese government and its agents are bombing, burning and raiding southern villages, enslaving and raping thousands of women and children, kidnapping and forcibly converting Christian boys, annihilating entire villages or relocating them into concentration camps called "peace villages,' and preventing international food aid from reaching starving villages.”

        Again from National Review: “In Saudi Arabia, foreigners are deported for practicing Christianity, and Saudi Christians, if caught, are beheaded.”

Biased coverage

        A spokesman for Freedom House says the media are much more eager to report bogus “massacres” by the Israelis in their battle against Palestinian terrorists, than to report the documented, real genocide against Christians by Islamic regimes around the world.

        So you may not have heard that Islamic extremists are holding pro-Osama, anti-American demonstrations in Nigeria, where “as many as 6,000 Christians, Muslims, and others have already been killed, most hacked apart with knives and swords, and whole neighborhoods burned or leveled,” according to a report from the Center for Religious Freedom, “The Talibanization of Nigeria.”

        But you probably did hear about this: When Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, called Islam “a very evil and wicked religion” during an interview with NBC news, it was splashed all over the media.

        Then, on Sept. 12, he got in trouble with the press again, because he said in a radio interview: “The silence of the (Islamic) clerics around the world is frightening to me. How come they haven't ... apologized to the American people?”

        Who is more intolerant?

        A. Muslims who slaughter Christians?

        B. Or Franklin Graham, who calls attention to it?

        If you answered B, you may have a future in broadcasting.

        E-mail pbronson@enquirer.com or call 768-8301.

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