NOW THE SUNDAY PEOPLE. ISLAMIC EXTREMISM TARGETS CHRISTIANS.
Nine killed. Forty wounded. At a Christian funeral.
On October 23, gunmen opened fire on St. George’s Church in Hamoud, Jordan. People had gathered to bury someone they loved. Then the mourners themselves became the targets.
Just let that sink in. They were burying their dead.
According to Jordan’s security chief, the three arrested suspects followed an extremist Islamic ideology.
And this reaches far beyond Jordan.
There are jihadist movements within political Islam that openly call for killing Jews and violently target Christian communities. Hamas’s founding charter called for the killing of Jews. ISIS and its affiliates have turned the persecution of religious minorities into a campaign of terror.
Look at parts of Africa. Christians massacred. Worshippers attacked inside churches. Families abducted. Communities driven from their homes.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the ISIS-affiliated ADF has repeatedly attacked predominantly Christian communities. In July 2025, it attacked a Catholic night vigil in Komanda, killing dozens of men, women, and children gathered for prayer.
And I haven’t mentioned the churches deliberately set on fire here in the West. The motives vary. Each case needs to be investigated.
But when jihadist groups repeatedly target Christian communities, attack their churches, and murder people gathered for prayer, we need to recognize a pattern of religious persecution.
Honestly, how many more families have to bury someone before we take that seriously?
I’m tired of having to explain why this deserves our attention. And I’m tired of people immediately changing the subject whenever the ideology behind these attacks is mentioned.
Yes, these extremists kill Muslims too. That deserves condemnation as well. It does not erase the deliberate targeting of Christians.
As a Christian, I’m not going to shrug my shoulders while people are murdered practicing the faith I get to live openly every day.
Religious freedom means Christians and Jews get to live openly, safely, and without submitting to someone else’s political religious rule.
And defending that freedom requires the courage to name the people trying to destroy it.
So that’s exactly what I’m doing. Again and again and again.