Well, if we needed ANY more proof of the BBC nailing their colours to the mast over which religion they prefer, we've bloody got it now.
Evaluating the numbers of people killed in mass hate crimes is a justifiably sensitive issue. So much so that there are jurisdictions when propagating a lower figure can end up in a jail sentence. The BBC, as a neutral public broadcaster is getting into hot water here. This is the kind of article that made Nick Griffin or David Irving famous. It has the potential to cause anguish to people - although those people are going to be Christian and (in this country, at least) mostly white. So it's fair do's.
This article turns into a massive coat rack that takes the original point and converts it into analysis of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which counts for 80% of Christian martyrs due to old census data showing that 20% of that country is Christian. This mistake is then used to denounce the idea that Muslims are murdering Christians for their faith.
Near the beginning of the article, two recent incidents are mentioned - a massacre at a Coptic wedding in Cairo, and a church bombing in Pakistan. The religion of the perpetrators is...absent.
As the Congo war is dubbed by the article as "Christians killing Christians", who actually is the religion killing the most Christians? I think, from the fact that the BBC won't give us the answer, it might be...
But it's all swings and roundabouts. We have genocide and massacres in our own country, as we well know!
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