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Arab Spring 1 Year Later: Outlook Gloomy for Suffering Christians
Christian News Wire ^ | Dec 13, 2011

Posted on 12/15/2011 7:07:07 AM PST by Milagros

Called the "Arab Spring," repressive governments crumpled like dominoes, changing the landscape of the Middle East and North Africa forever and sending shockwaves around the world.

Unfortunately for the already minority Christian population in Muslim-dominated countries like Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, the future is all but clear. Will 2012 bring more persecution and marginalization for Christians or greater liberty to worship...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabspring; christianpersecution; christians; christianwinter; sharia
Newt Gingrich Says Arab Spring is 'Anti-Christian', Christian News
1 Nov 2011 – Republican G.O.P. candidate Newt Gingrich has argued that Barack Obama's foreign policy has resulted in an anti-Christian sentiment in the Middle East.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/newt-gingrich-says-arab-spring-is-anti-christian-59935

Egypt's wary Christians
Los Angeles Times - Dec. 15, 2011
Coptic Christians participated in the 'Arab Spring' protests that brought down the government of Egypt, but the ascendance of Islamist parties and some ...
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-copts-20111215,0,503428.story?track=rss

Anti-Semitism re-emerges in the Arab Spring
By OR AVI-GUY 12/14/2011 22:55
Libyan Jew returned to Tripoli to assist in rebellion and restore synagogue only to find himself surrounded by hostile mob.
In Middle East politics, it is traditional to blame Israel, “the Zionists” and “the Jews” for all the problems afflicting the Muslim and Arab worlds.
“The Jews” have long been used by unfriendly regimes as a convenient distraction from their own peoples’ misery, and its causes. Many hoped that the Arab Spring indicated an end to this racist and counterproductive tradition, since initially, Israel was hardly mentioned as a cause of societal problems. For once, the finger of blame was rightly being pointed at their dictatorial regimes.
However, sadly, as American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg recently noted (Bloomberg News, November 28), it is now clear that across those countries liberated from Arab dictators, “the Jews” are once again the regional scapegoats.
In Libya, reports say deposed dictator Gaddafi is now widely claimed to have been of Jewish origin, with his regime accused of acting in support of Zionism. The fact that Gaddafi called for Israel’s destruction, passed laws discriminating against Libya’s expelled Jewish population and expressed anti-Semitic views has not diminished this rumor’s popularity.
After Gaddafi’s fall, David Gerbi, a Libyan Jew, returned to Tripoli hoping to assist the rebellion and restore the main synagogue. Soon he found himself surrounded by a hostile mob, holding signs reading “There is no place for Jews in Libya.” Hatred towards Jews is also prominent in the lyrics of popular rap songs, for example: “The anger won’t die, the one who will die is Gaddafi, his supporters and the Jews.”
In Syria the opposition is spreading a rumor that Assad, no friend of Israel and a supporter of terror groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, is a Jewish agent. Syrian writer Osama al-Malouhi wrote recently on an opposition website that Jews “want that sucker of Syrian blood to remain and continue to prey and suck blood... asking myself why Jewish support of Bashar increased after they saw rivers of Syrian blood this mass-murderer spilled in Syrian towns, an old image leapt to my mind, of Jews bleeding people and using their blood to prepare matzas.”
This trend did not skip Tunisia, where Rashid Ghannouchi, the leader of Islamist party Ennahdha (which won 41 percent of the votes in the October elections and is often described as “moderate”) recently stated that he brings “glad tidings that the Arab region will get rid of the germ of Israel.” The draft Tunisian constitution prohibits diplomatic relations with Israel, apparently even if peace is made with the Palestinians.
ARAB MEDIA remains filled with politicians and religious, academic and public figures expressing anti- Semitic views. For example, Tamer Mustafa, a “Zionism researcher,” in an October 12 interview with Lebanon’s Al Manar TV somewhat ironically argued that “racism is deeply rooted in the souls of the followers of the Jewish religion,” for which he blamed the Torah, saying it was infused with “the spirit of racism.”
And in a classic example of anti- Semitic double-think on the Holocaust, he insisted both that Zionists helped “the Nazis to kill groups of Jews so that the others would be forced to emigrate to Palestine” and that the Holocaust never occurred and was simply “lies.”
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=249505>

1 posted on 12/15/2011 7:07:16 AM PST by Milagros
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To: Milagros

I am heavily invested in Burkha manufacturers.

Could be a good hold position for at least a few years before I re aline my investment portfolio to the military industrial complex.....


2 posted on 12/15/2011 7:41:46 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

I challenge Ron Paul and Jimmy Carter to wear a Burka in any of the “religion of peace” lands, for a while... if Sharia-nation is so wonderful and “like us.”


3 posted on 12/15/2011 8:47:01 PM PST by Milagros (Y)
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