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Article: Religious persecution: the protestors.(proposed bill Freedom From Religious Persecution Act)(Column)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 10, 1997
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As the government hovers over the proposed legislation on religious persecution, the perspective heightens on an ambient anomaly. One human-rights organization estimates that there are two hundred million Christians being persecuted. The most conspicuous American figures who are calling this proto-genocidal phenomenon to public attention are Michael Horowitz, A. M. Rosenthal, Arlen Specter, and Joseph Lieberman.
Mr. Horowitz is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served before that as a budget official in the Reagan Administration, notwithstanding that his political convictions are liberal. Horowitz is a give-no-quarter polemicist whose rhetoric is in the ...