The tragedy is that it has taken the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and to begin to wake people up.

Wait, whut?

ISIS has supposedly slaughtered “hundred of thousands of Muslims and Christians” in the ME? He must be thinking of the Iraq invasion and its aftermath.

And

the ongoing extermination of the Catholic presence in Iraq

Not sure of the facts here, and I doubt he is either, but are Christians and Catholic Christians in particular just now being oppressed in Iraq? You mean they weren’t before, like when the “brutal dictator Saddam Hussein” ruled Iraq?