One of the far right’s favorite personalities, Glenn Beck, recently had a discussion on his show about the future of Christian “persecution” in the United States. His guest for that segment, an evangelical leader named Samuel Rodriguez, said he thinks Christians will soon be sent off to jail just for practicing their faith.
“There’s a great probability that in our lifetime, that we may have to be imprisoned and suffer great persecution, prosecution, as a result of our commitment to biblical truth, to Jesus, to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” the Rev. Rodriguez told Beck. “We are there, my friend. That’s not hyperbole.”
While those comments are most certainly hyperbole for members of America’s overwhelming Christian majority, persecution is all too real for some Muslims living in the United States. In fact, the very day of that conversation a Muslim college student was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight simply because he had a phone conversation in Arabic....
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/no-fly-zone-muslim-kicked-off-flight-for-speaking-arabic-is-another-example
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