An(other) brutal attack on Christians abroad

Dozens of people were killed in an attack on a Christian church in Peshawar, Pakistan.  This piece (by John O'Sullivan, the godfather of Candida Moss, the author of "The Myth of Christian Persecution") urges Western governments (and citizens in Western countries) to respond (as has, of course, our own Robby George).  O'Sullivan writes that "one of the main reasons for this spread of persecution is that Western governments have signaled by their inaction that they are not prepared to make a
fuss about it with governments in Arab and Muslim countries."

Sectarian blasphemy laws and violent attacks on Christians and members of other minority religions in Muslim countries continue unabated either because Muslim governments sympathize with them (arguably the Egyptian case) or because they are reluctant to spend political capital on fighting Islamist zealots and their parties (arguably the case of Pakistan).

Outside pressure seems an obvious solution. Yet Western governments resist
intervening in behalf of embattled Christians lest that mark them as sectarian
“Christian powers” or cast doubt on their status as purveyors of universal
values and human rights. There is no such reluctance on the other side. . . .

UPDATE:  A reader (burdened with what strikes me as a hair-trigger hermeneutic of suspicion) wrote to suggest that my mention of the O'Sullivan-Moss relationship might have been deviously intended to cast doubt on whether Prof. Moss would deplore such an attack.  The suggestion is ludicrous.  Of course she would (and has, as in this piece) deplore such violence.  Although I believe (based on reviews of the book and some of her popular writing) she is too quick to criticize some of the efforts of those who are defending religious liberty in our current context, my understanding (again, I have only read a part of her book) is that part of her argument is that what she regards as the misuse of the term "persecution" in the context of North American politics can have as one of its bad effects the distraction of attention from the very real suffering that many Christians are enduring abroad.  I mentioned the relationship because the piece to which I linked mentioned it, and I imagine that piece mentioned it because the piece itself talks about Prof. Moss's book, and about the interesting, and troubling, possibility that, in fact, more Christians are being killed for being Christian today that was the case during much of the Church's early history.