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(ZENIT News – Contando Estrelas / Vigo, August 29, 2025).- In the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a transgender man opened fire on the Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children. The shooter also injured 18 people, 15 children and three adults. After carrying out this bloody attack, the shooter, Robert Westman, 23, who called himself Robin Westman, committed suicide.
The anti-Christian motive for this attack is more than evident. In addition to being evident from the target chosen by the killer, Westman posted anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israeli messages on social media. Curiously, unlike other hate crimes, the vast majority of media outlets have omitted any reference to Christianophobia, which in March 2023 was the motive for another shooting perpetrated by a trans woman at a Presbyterian Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, an attack that left three children and three adults dead. Far from condemning this abominable crime, transgender groups blamed and slandered the school, in a display of hatred and bigotry that sparked a strong controversy.
When it comes to discussing hate speech, Christianophobia has become a taboo, especially imposed by the political, media, and academic left. If a terrorist attacks a mosque, the media immediately refers to it as «Islamophobia.» If a criminal murders a homosexual, the word «homophobia» quickly appears in a multitude of headlines. But when two transsexuals murder children in attacks on Christian schools, Christianophobia is omitted in most of the media as if it were a forbidden word.
In the end, the message seems clear: hate speech fuelled by the left is receiving blatant political, academic, and media whitewashing. As we’ve seen, it’s not only violence against Christians, but also against our «elder brothers,» as Pope John Paul II called the Jews. In the Minneapolis case, as in many far-left speeches, Christianophobia and antisemitism go hand in hand and end up creating monsters. But unlike what happens when we talk about homophobia or Islamophobia, you won’t see many media outlets trying to make us aware of the alarming increase in hate speech against Christians and Jews: they simply don’t care, because the left is behind much of those messages.
