The evildoers marked yesterday’s holiday by tossing a grenade into a church in Pakistan, killing at least three, and by bombing a church in India, wounding six. It’s not yet clear exactly who perpetrated the attacks — Muslim fundamentalists are the likely suspects in Pakistan, while Hindus may have been behind the attack in India. One wonders if the same outrage that attended the burning of black churches in the American South a few years back will be heard in the wake of these attacks. Unfortunately, we doubt it. The general secretary of the New York-based National Council of Churches, Bob Edgar, is scheduled to leave tomorrow for Iraq. He’s spent the past month putting out statements questioning the American “rush” to what he calls “unprovoked war” with Iraq. The World Council of Churches is urging the international community to “resist pressures to join in preemptive military strikes against a sovereign state under the pretext of the ‘war on terrorism.'” Saddam Hussein is trying to bring the Christians into an alliance against the Jews, delivering a Christmas message referring to “the principles and teachings stressed in our Holy faith in Islam and called for by Jesus Christ, Peace be upon Him.” The Christmas attacks on the churches should make it clear that the terrorists consider Christians, like Jews, to be infidels who must be converted or killed. Until the war against Muslim terrorists and their backers is fought and won decisively, Christmas worshipers will be just as vulnerable to attack as Jerusalem café-goers and New York office workers.