""If you do not think the persecution of minorities, by death, imprisonment, rape and seizure or destruction of property, worth discussing, no-one is forcing you.""

You really are one of a kind, and in other circumstances you would amuse me.

Accuse the other party of doing what in fact you are doing yourself, but it doesn't work.

You carefully ignored the persecution of Hazara and of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban, and the persecution of Shia Muslims in Iraq.

In fact you stated (11th Dec 04.51) that the persecution in Iraq was against Christians, and ignored the inter Muslim aspect.

You are attempting to make your case by ignoring all facts that militate against you, but a few minutes of research show that many other religious, political, and gender specific groups are persecuted just as much, and in some cases more.

Your myth is BUSTED!! Christians are being persecuted, as are many others, but you refuse to notice the others because you don't regard their lives as significant.

What other reason can there be for adhering to the lie that political conflict is NOT persecution, when the Chi-Coms pour resources into a third world country to convert it to Communism?

Don T.