Summary

“The worldwide attack on Christians’ by David Aikman is an article that explores the persecution of Christians globally to showcase the inaction in countering Christian persecution despite substantive evidence of its existence in the world. The article is a call to bring attention to the severity of Christian persecution and call for action from relevant authorities. The main idea brought out in the article is the lack of attention and action to curb the growing brutality and occurrence of attacks on Christianity in the world (Aickman, 2012, 37). The author supports his thesis by providing evidence based on a review of the literature to support his main ideas regarding christen persecution. The article is organized such that it explores the main idea by illustrating examining the existence of Christian persecution in different nations in the world each at a time including India, the West, Korea and Islamic states as a mention of a fraction of the many others where Christian persecution is dominant (Aikman, 2012, 38).

The author brings out several points in the article to support his main idea. Firstly, Aikman provides a record of statistics on attacks on Christians and provides that there is a lack of action from relevant bodies to eliminate Christian persecution in the world (Aikman, 2012, 37-38). Secondly, Aikman provides that Christian persecution is well known since there is enough evidence to show that brutality against Christians exists and is easily available as a basis for action to act and end the persecution (Aikman, 2012, 38). The author then proceeds to explore brutality and persecution against Christians in Islamic states such as Saudi Arabia and then proceeds to India and The west Particularly the United States (Aikman, 39-41). The author details the extent of suffering and brutality to Christians with case evidence and defines the limitations facing the idea of freedom of religion in states such as the United States. Aikman offers that the prevalence of Christian persecution is underlined by the assumption of Christianity as a dominant and robust religion (Aikman, 2012, 38). Aikman concludes by providing that even when countries provide and promote religious freedom by laws and in speech they fail to show the development of policies and action to support and ensure the freedom (Aikman, 2012, 41).

Aikman articulately communicates his thesis by substantially providing for the prevalence of persecution and brutality against Christians and the lack of action to curb the attacks. The evidence and statistics on the brutality and its extent against Christians in the world are clearly illustrated to substantiate the main idea that there is a significant attack on Christians and it is inadequately addressed. The author offers reasons why the attack towards Christianity and Christians is likely overlooked allowing it to increase and grow over time. The author also provides for any counter argument urging that many countries promote freedom of religion by law and leaders advocate for it. Aikman shows the lack of policies and action to actualize the statute and the speech surrounding freedom of religion by most leaders. The message of the author that Christian persecution is prevalent in the world and there is not much action in place from relevant persons and bodies to abolish Christian persecution in the world. The article is written simply but well explained to bring out the main idea and providing evidence to support the provisions and offering detailed explanations for the thesis.

References

Aikman, D (2012). The worldwide attack on Christmas.  Commentary Proquest central. Retrieved on 6 March 2019.

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