The Church of the Suicidal Myopics.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/14/2009 12:38:38 PM PDT by americanophile
Jerusalem – Ma’an – Christians of several denominations gathered in Jerusalem Friday for a silent vigil in solidarity with besieged Islamic holy sites at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City.
“We are here to support Al-Aqsa and those who are confined inside it, we are here in support of Muslims whose dignity is humiliated and religious feelings are harmed by attacks on their holiest sites,” Archbishop Atallah Hana told those gathered.
This sit-in was a response to the call of Muslim scholars and clergymen to consider Friday a day of solidarity with Jerusalemites, and Muslim holy sites under attack by Israeli forces. By Friday night, Israeli troops in a standoff with more than 100 Palestinian worshippers who refused to leave the Al-Aqsa Mosque gradually left the area.
Palestinian Christians of every denomination were joined by pilgrims from around the world, sitting silently in the ancient building at the heart of the Old City. In his speech to the faithful, the Archbishop said, “being here in this holy site comes in solidarity with our brothers in humanity, in belonging to this holy land and because of our belonging to this blessed city.”
He said he considered “attacking Al-Aqsa an assault on our dignity and presence, identity, civilization and an assault the Christians as well as on the Muslims; we are one people with one cause.”
Turns my stomach personally.
OK who are these “several denominations”?!
Hey Palestinian Christians - How much time do you think this aligning yourself with those who want to kill you will bring you?
Damn good point
Tell that asshat arch bishop that those “holy sites” won’t be under attack as long as they don’t store weapons in them.
Nothing Christian about the Dhimmis
I’ll never understand why, but more often than not, they seem to ally with their muslim oppressors rather than the IDF. I guess it’s because they have to live with the Palestinian muslims every day, so they want to come across as their allies.
What an oxymoron -—the Christian Left. These are not Christian’s. Whatever else is true they are siding with Satan’s spawn
Is it persecution to stop Muslims from throwing rocks at Christians and Jews ?
Am I missing something here ?
The archbishop is from the Greek Orthodox religion. I Don’t know about the others.
“Holy sites” my a$$. Muslims have no claim whatsoever to Jerusalem.
Based on this report, the Moslems voluntarily refused to leave Al Aqsa. How were they being kept there by Israeli forces. More information is needed.
Do these fools not know about the Islamic doctrine of:
“FIRST THE SATURDAY PEOPLE... THEN THE SUNDAY PEOPLE”
The Archbishop is embracing his dhimmitude..
Fake Christians support terrorism??..
The Church of the Suicidal Myopics.
Sickening and cowardly!
Indeed, but make no mistake, there out there. The ‘Jesus was a hippie’ movement is growing here, and you only need to look to Europe to see where it leads.
Idiots can be found in all religions, apparently.
It’s a tribal thing.
Arab Christians have been alighned against the Israeli Jews probably more than the Arab Muslims since before the time of the British mandate.
Extremely hostile, replacement theologians.
“OK who are these “several denominations”?!”
Roman Catholic, various “orthodox” groups.
...a silent vigil in solidarity with besieged Islamic holy sites at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City. "We are here to support Al-Aqsa and those who are confined inside it, we are here in support of Muslims whose dignity is humiliated and religious feelings are harmed by attacks on their holiest sites," ...Archbishop Atallah Hana...
2 John: 9-11
By Khalil AlHajal - The Arab American News Friday, 07.04.2008, 09:35pm
An outspoken, high-ranking Orthodox Church figure from Jerusalem, known for speaking out in defense of Palestinians and for Christian-Muslim unity, visited Detroit area homes, religious institutions and Arab American organizations last week.
Archbishop Theodosios Atallah Hanna of the Jerusalem Patriarchate addressed crowds at St. Mary's Antiochian Orthodox Basilica in Livonia and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn on Wednesday, offering a nationalistic message of unity and human rights advocacy.
Not one to hold back, Hanna sharply criticized Israel and said that all Palestinians who have been displaced from their homes should have the right to return.
He reminded listeners that the Palestinian struggle is not only a Muslim struggle, lamented diminishing numbers of Christians in the Palestinian territories and implored Palestinian Americans to maintain contact with their homeland.
He said only around 50,000 Christians remain in the Occupied Territories, but that they stand by their Muslim countrymen in their fight for rights to land, travel and dignity.
He said the Christian church is tied to the Arab World through history and culture.
"Jesus was born in Palestine, not in Paris, not in Washington or anywhere else. Jesus was Palestinian," he said.
Hanna said to a crowd who squeezed into a Northville home on Tuesday to hear him speak that he felt uplifted when he went into St. Mary's Basilica and saw Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian and other Americans all worshipping together.
He said to another crowd at the Islamic Center of America on Wednesday that he wants people to stop describing the occupation of Palestine as a Muslim-Jewish conflict but an apartheid system which Christians are also suffering from and fighting against. He also insisted that there is no difference between Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and that both need to be protected...
Make that vegetarian Hippie.
So when will these fools gather in support of Christians killed in Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia [insert any muslim country here]...?
These people are truly scum. it takes a special kind of ‘Christian’ to support the muslims while ignoring the many churches destroyed all over the world, and Christians enslaved/raped/killed/tortured by the followers of Allah.
2 ) Orthodox Christian Palestinian / USA13/10/2009 13:53We Palestinian Christians can and should teach the christians of the world what the real christianity is all about. It is about human rights, respect for other peoples and other religions, and the condemnation of materialism and decadence.
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No one is beseiged in al Aska, though in Israel controlled to this day by Jordan. True, some of the "wrong" kind of Christians were stoned last week, but as infidels they should have known their place.
The good news, when the palestinians get a "state", these complaining Christians will have a fine place to live. Like Gaza
Rights to land (as long as it belongs to some Jew) travel (as long as an exploding vest is involved, or emigration to Europe or North America) and dignity (they have none, being baldfaced liars).
lamented diminishing numbers of Christians in the Palestinian territories...and in all countries (as well as fake, imaginary countries like "Sahara" and "Palestine") dominated by Islam or having a very significant Moslem minority?
Trapped in the mosque, really?
I daresay that Israel would rather see them leave the d@mn thing.
Jesus would not approve.
Of me or them? Of me it’s assured...of them I certainly hope not!
When will these people stand in “solidarity” with the
Jews when the muslims are chunking rocks at them from
above the wailing wall?
Spread the other cheeks, brethren.
They must have felt guilty for those cartoons and so they funded a Pallywood studio.
“Christians gather in support of Muslims trapped in Al-Aqsa”
Not a real shock to me.
I remember listening to conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt
having an interview with the guy who headed up a Baptist college/seminary
in (IIRC) Jerusalem or some other “Palestinian” enclave.
Even though he was obstensibly Christian...he sounded like a guy
that thought Arafat was a really great guy.
(well, in RELATIVE terms, Arafat & Co. might look better than Hama
and Hezbollah if all three of those groups invaded your neighborhood!!!)
Shocked me to hear this.
But I guess it confirmed some shrinks’ proposal of “The Stockholm
Syndrome” as this Christian (Baptist, IIRC) was in the tank for
a major Palestinian terrorist.
It was at least 10 years ago that I hear this interview on 870AM
KRLA (formerly KIEV, home of The Late, Great George Putnam).
no kidding
It’s an ethnic thing more than a religious one for these “Christians.” They’re Arabs, the Muslims are Arabs. They see themselves as Palestinians first, Christians second, and they share the same victim mindset and believe they’re being oppressed and their land occupied by invading Jews.
Some Arab (and non-Arab but Middle Eastern) “Christians” include George Habbash, head of the PFLP, Edward Sa’id, a PLO sympathizer, and Michel Aflaq, founder of Ba’thism.
Unfortunately many Middle Eastern Christians, Arab or not, have this same mindset. Many Lebanese Christians certainly do. Lebanon is 40% Christian yet 90% of Lebanese have a negative opinion of Israel. An example: perhaps the most famous Lebanese singer is a Maronite-turned-Greek Orthodox lady named Fairuz. She’s done a dozen or so songs about the plight of the Palestinians and their “right to return.” One of her most famous, Al-Quds al-Atiqa (Old Jerusalem), indirectly refers to the Israelis as “black hands.”
She has also sung about aspects of Islam such as Fatima (Muhammad’s only daughter to carry on his line) and Mecca. It’s rather dhimmi-ish if you ask me.
She was born to a Phoenician mother and Assyrian father. She is not an Arab nor a Muslim. Yet she is ignorant of her own heritage and feels compelled to sing sob stories on behalf of Muslim Arab Palestinians, the same people who overran and destroyed her own country, Lebanon. It’s totally illogical.
At some point you wonder if people are just totally ignorant both of their own history and the attempts of others to manipulate them, or if they’re suicidal; there are few other options.
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