The major news networks of ABC, CBS and NBC have remained silent on the Christian genocide perpetrated by ISIS, the Media Research Center (MRC) reports.

The number of Christians driven from their homes, raped, mutilated, crucified or otherwise executed by members of the Islamic State is “staggering,” writes Matt Philbin.

Christian holy sites are being destroyed for “cultural cleansing,” entire villages in Nigeria have been slaughtered, Christian students murdered in classrooms in Kenya, and churches bombed in Pakistan and Syria.

At least 1,131 Christians are known to have been murdered by the Islamic State for religiously motivated purposes, and that’s “just the tip of the iceberg”:

ISIS has publically beheaded or burned alive Christians for refusing to renounce their faith and convert. In Syria, the group crucified dozens. ISIS broke up Christian and Yazidi families and sold young girls into sex slavery. It destroyed Christian holy sites in an attempt to erase all pre-Islamic history, and announced it will continue to wage war against “the Jews, the Christians, the pagans, and the apostates.”

A March 18, 2016 article in the Christian Science Monitor cited the evangelical Christian group Open Doors, which found that more than 7,000 “Christians were killed because of their faith last year,” and that doesn’t necessarily include the numbers from Iraq, Syria, or even North Korea, where accurate data are difficult to obtain.”

Meanwhile, the mainstream American media has ignored these acts of genocide. In a study by MRC, the media watchdog found:

Between January 2014 and June 2016, the network evening news shows referred to persecution against Christians in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia just 60 times. Despite telling of murders, forced religious conversions and mass displacement, the networks refused to add up the thousands of atrocities to what they clearly amount to: genocide. Just six of the 60 reports used the word genocide. Put another way, over two years, they mentioned the Christian genocide on just four separate days. Even when Secretary of State John Kerry officially declared in March 2016 that ISIS was engaging in genocide, CBS didn’t report it.

Comparatively, the media referred to the “genocide” in Darfur even before the George W. Bush administration officially acknowledged the Sudanese horror as such. Subsequently, the mainstream networks referred to the Darfur “genocide” 38 times in a two-year period.

When the mainstream networks have referred to the slaughter of Christians by ISIS as “genocide,” they’ve done so in a manner minimizing the global tragedies:

The six instances where the networks have used “genocide” or equivalent terms, they’ve tended to lump Christians in with Yazidis and Shia Muslims as victims, echoing the Obama administration’s reluctance to focus on the anti-Christian violence. During the two years MRC Culture analyzed, one source has recorded 226 Muslim- on-Christian attacks. At least 125 churches have been attacked. According to one Christian group, 7,000 Christians worldwide were killed because of their faith in 2015 alone. Yet even when the Obama administration has (officially and unofficially) called the Christian persecution in Iraq and Syria genocide, the networks almost never used the word.

The journalists working for mainstream news can’t plead ignorance to the situation. As the MRC states, “By their own reporting, hundreds of thousands of Christians are ‘on the run’ from their homes, mass graves have been found, and Christians have been made to ‘convert or die.’”

Connecting said dots, it can lead to only one conclusion: genocide.

The silence is deafening. (For more from the author of “Why Is the Mainstream Media Completely Ignoring Christian Genocide by ISIS?” please click HERE)

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