Although the mainstream media rarely reports on Muslim attacks on Christians, it jumps at the chance to cover stories about attacks on Muslims. For example, when a deranged white supremacist killed 50 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15, 2019, the story was front page news for weeks and months afterward. In fact, anniversary specials about the event still appear on TV.
So intense was the focus on the New Zealand massacre, that several big stories about Muslim persecution of Christians got bumped out of the news.
About one month after the New Zealand shooting, nine Muslim suicide bombers attacked three Christian Churches and three luxury hotels in Columbo, Sri Lanka. Two hundred seventy were killed and more than 500 were injured. Yet, although the casualties were much higher than those in New Zealand, news coverage was minimal. If you live in the U.S., it’s quite likely that you’ve never heard about the Sri Lanka massacre. Most of the world media were still fixated on the mosque attack, and seemed to have little interest in attacks on Christians at worship.
Another story that, in normal times, would have received wide attention was all but blotted out by the New Zealand atrocity. Five days after that attack, a Muslim school bus driver in Milan, Italy kidnapped and tried to immolate the 50 middle-school students in the bus. The driver later told police he was retaliating against Italian immigration policy which he held responsible for the deaths of “thousands” drowned in the Mediterranean crossing.
Although the event was chock full of drama and human interest—frightened handcuffed children, a high-speed chase, anxious parents, a blazing bus, and a heroic police rescue—it received little media attention outside of Europe. Coverage of the near-massacre was almost non-existent in the U.S. On the day of the incident Fox news carried a brief account at 7:30 pm but most other news sites reported nothing about the story. Google News didn’t cover the near-tragedy, but carried half a dozen headline stories about the New Zealand shooting with links to dozen more stories. I checked Google News for the next five days and found many more stories about the New Zealand attack, but nothing about the 50 children trapped in a blazing bus near Milan.
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