{"id":53,"date":"2015-10-21T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T18:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-10-21T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T18:04:36","slug":"7-the-most-persecuted-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/7-the-most-persecuted-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"#7:  The Most Persecuted Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <i>mark Joseph &#8220;young&#8221;<\/i> blog entry #7, on the subject of <i>The Most Persecuted Minority<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Around the world, many groups of people are being deprived of basic human rights&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Turkish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Turkish-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"img0007Turkish\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Turkish-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Turkish.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Persecuted, driven from safe homes, their lives counted as worth less than animals, less than livestock.<\/p>\n<p>One group in particular faces death,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Iraqi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Iraqi-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"img0007Iraqi\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Iraqi-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Iraqi.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>daily, at the hands of those who ought to be there to defend and help them.<\/p>\n<p>Our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Yet these helpless, homeless, defenseless people are deprived of rights,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007hunger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007hunger-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"img0007hunger\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007hunger-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007hunger.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>put to death without a trial.<\/p>\n<p>Routinely.&nbsp; Uncaringly.<\/p>\n<p><i>Even in America.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As if they were not human at all.&nbsp; As if they were livestock, or pests, or parasites.<\/p>\n<p>They are the unborn.&nbsp; They are being exterminated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Ultrasound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Ultrasound-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"img0007Ultrasound\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Ultrasound-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Ultrasound-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/img0007Ultrasound.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defend the rights of the most helpless minority.&nbsp; You were once one of them.<\/p>\n<p><i>This article is perhaps a response to my own article, <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/law\/dilemma.html\">The Republican Dilemma<\/a><i>, in which I suggest that Republicans need to create ads which explain and defend Republican\/conservative positions that will make sense to people not already holding those views.&nbsp; This is a suggested model for one such ad, a sixty-second television spot.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Earlier M. J. Young Net articles addressing abortion include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/law\/jb.htm\">Was John Brown a Hero or a Villain?<\/a><i> and <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/law\/lipkin.htm\">Professor Robert Lipkin, the Concert Violinist, and Abortion<\/a><i>.&nbsp; Also see <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/law\/marrmisc.html#births\">Miscellaneous Marriage Law Issues:&nbsp; Births<\/a><i> and <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/law\/marrmisc.html#growth\">Miscellaneous Marriage Law Issues:&nbsp; On Negative Population Growth<\/a><i>, incidentally related topics.<\/i><\/p>\n<p> [contact-form subject='[mark Joseph %26quot;young%26quot;&#8217;][contact-field label=&#8217;Name&#8217; type=&#8217;name&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Email&#8217; type=&#8217;email&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Website&#8217; type=&#8217;url&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Comment: Note that this form will contact the author by e-mail; to post comments to the article, see below.&#8217; type=&#8217;textarea&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][\/contact-form] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is mark Joseph &#8220;young&#8221; blog entry #7, on the subject of The Most Persecuted Minority. 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