An Aug. 12 WorldNetDaily article by Michael Carl carries the headline “Jesus to America: ‘Why do you persecute me?'”
Yes, that’s in quotes. Yes, WND is claiming to directly quote Jesus talking about America — highly unlikely since Jesus died a couple thousand years ago, well before the establishment of America.
In the article itself –which does not quote Jesus — Carl essentially defends brutal dictatorships in Syria and Egypt because they supposedly did not persecute Christians. That’s a specious argument, which presumes that non-Christians are less than human and, thus, more expendable under dictatorships.
Carl is not the only WND writer with an affinity for brutal Middle East dictators; Aaron Klein has sided with both Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.