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JUNE 20, 2011 – As Christian flotilla do-gooders set sail for their beloved so-called besieged Gaza, let us take a few minutes to reflect- since they do not care a hoot – to what is happening to their Christian brothers and sisters living in the region.
Here’s what Khaled Abu Toameh wrote a few months ago in Hudson New York.
Muslim Genocide of Christians throughout Middle East
It is obvious by now that the Christians in the Middle East are an “endangered species.” Christians in Arab countries are no longer being persecuted; they are now being slaughtered and driven out of their homes and lands. Those who for many years turned a blind eye to complaints about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East now owe the victims an apology. Now it is clear to all that these complaints were not “Jewish propaganda.” The war of genocide against Christians in the Middle East can no longer be treated as an “internal affair” of Iraq or Egypt or the Palestinians. What the West needs to understand is that radical Islam has declared jihad not only against Jews, but also against Christians.
And more recently, by Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News’ Correspondent
Christian Persecution in the Middle East
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, warned that the vacuum left by failed autocratic regimes was being filled by extremists who have turned the Arab Spring into a “very anxious time” for Christians. Williams said there had been more killings of Christians and burnings of churches in Egypt than most were aware of, that life was becoming impossible for Christians in northern Iraq and that tensions were severly strained between Christians and Muslims in Syria. “It is a fairly consistent pattern over a number of months,” he said. “Although at leadership level in the Muslim community in Egypt there is clear condemnation of this, it’s evident that there are other forces at work which of course may not be native Egyptian.” Williams suggested that these foreign forces entered Egypt from Saudi Arabia and northern Sudan. Williams compared the violence against Christians in northern Iraq to ethnic cleansing. In Iraq, Egypt and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being targeted almost on a daily basis by Muslim fundamentalists and secular dictators.
Finally, from beforeitsnews
The forgotten Palestinian refugees even in Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians are suffering under Muslim intolerance.
Bethlehem: Meet Yussuf Khoury, a 23-year old Palestinian refugee living in the West Bank. Unlike those descendents of refugees born in United Nations camps, Mr. Khoury fled his birthplace just two years ago. And he wasn’t running away from Israelis, but from his Palestinian brethren in Gaza. Mr. Khoury’s crime in that Hamas-ruled territory was to be a Christian, a transgression he compounded in the Islamists’ eyes by writing love poems. “Muslims tied to Hamas tried to take me twice,” says Mr. Khoury, and he didn’t want to find out what they’d do to him if they ever kidnapped him. He hasn’t seen his family since Christmas 2007 and is afraid even to talk to them on the phone…, Mr. Khoury describes a life of fear in Gaza. “My sister is under a lot of pressure to wear a headscarf. People are turning more and more to Islamic fundamentalism and the situation for Christians is very difficult,” he says… On the rare occasion that Western media cover the plight of Christians in the Palestinian territories, it is often to denounce Israel and its security barrier. Yet until Palestinian terrorist groups turned Bethlehem into a safe haven for suicide bombers, Bethlehemites were free to enter Israel, just as many Israelis routinely visited Bethlehem. But even here in Jesus’ birthplace, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Christians live on a knife’s edge. Mr. Khoury tells me that Muslims often stand in front of the gate of the Bible College and read from the Quran to intimidate Christian students. Other Muslims like to roll out their prayer rugs right in Manger Square.
One can only wonder if Gaza’s Christian community will be allowed to reach out to tell their stories of religious persecution to those aboard the flotillas.
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