Tom Gross, the former Sunday Telegraph Jerusalem correspondent whose work appears regularly here, has launched his
Web site today. His highly-regarded dispatch to journalists is now available to all.
Here's a story he broke today:
This week, two churches have been burned down in Pakistan, along with a school, a student hostel and the home of a priest. An angry mob of 1,500 Muslims set them ablaze near the town of Sangla Hill, about 80 miles northeast of Lahore. Local Muslim leaders used mosque public-address systems to urge Muslims to attack the churches. (No one was injured in the blazes.)
Yet even though large Western media organizations such as the BBC have extra reporters in Pakistan at present because of the need to cover the aftermath of the earthquake, they have all but ignored what amounts to a near pogrom against Christian sites there.
One of the few mainstream newspapers to report on the attacks was the Times of London. Yet the paper did so only on the sports pages ? since the England cricket team is currently on a tour of Pakistan and are due to play one of their matches in Lahore and they were worried the violence might affect them. It is difficult to imagine similar attacks by Christians against Muslims being either ignored by the western media or placed on the sports pages.
