Posted on 08/04/2025 3:09:10 PM PDT by Milagros
A
Arab Christians, for centuries, were heavily influenced by the surrounding [dominant] Islamic culture. By 1937, Arab-Christians joined the Arab-Muslims in celebrating Muhammad's birthday by displaying pictures of Hitler & Mussolini.[1]
B
Such was the case with Nazism admirer Michel Aflaq (1910-1989) [ميشيل عفلق arabic] one of the founders of the Ba'ath who stated: 'We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading its books and the source of its thought...'[2]. Aflaq was influenced by Islamic thought and sought to reconcile it with their nationalist and socialist ideals. He considered Islam to be a manifestation of "Arab genius" and deemed the ancient pre-Islamic civilisations of the Fertile Crescent to be Arab too.[3]
This is how Qatar's pro terrorism, Jihad promoting al-Jazeera [2.12.08] described him: 'Aflaq called for a struggle against foreign influences, and stressed that the Baath message was the eternal message of the Arab nation, no different in its values and divine inspiration than that of Islam. He did not seek to take Islam out of Arabism; he sought to make Arabism the central tenet of Islam, praising the revolutionary aspect of Islam.' Later on, "the Baath Party Influences the Islamic State."[4]
C
'Falastin' [فلسطين] newspaper: Though the principle two cousins founders were Arab Christians: Eissa alEissa [داود العيسى, يوسف العيسى arabic], already 1913,[5] it published a hate poem by Sheikh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi [سليمان التاجي arabic] (1882 - 1958) that combined antisemitic canard with Quranic theme - causing the Ottoman authorities to ban ut for inciting "racial hatred."[6] 'Falastin' disseminated an Islamist propaganda such as about the Temple Mount / Western Wall and beyond.
In addition, the masses the 'Falastin' catered to were more of the Islamic faith, being Palestine's overall most prominent newspaper, moreso in the 1920s. 'Falastin' followed the line by Islamic figure the Mufti al-Husseini and propagated for him. In 1928, despite Zionists conciliatory tone, the Arab press, such as the "Falastin, an extremist pro-Mufti newspaper,"[7] went as far as deny Jews' right to Jerusalem's holy place.
For some years it directly propagated for the Mufti.[8] The newspaper already in May 1933, glorified Hitler as "noble" and justified his persecution of the Jews, dragging the infamous 'Protocols' forgery.[9]
D
Issa Basil Bandak [Eissa el Bendak] (1891-1984) [عيسى باسل البندك], in 1931, "The delegation came to the United States last Spring on behalf of the Grand Mufti’s party to raise funds and propagandize the Arab cause."[10] In Sep 1933, "Eissa Bendak, editor of the radical bi-weekly ‘Sawt Al Shaab’ published in Bethlehem, has left for Paris where he will receive instructions from a group of Germans and Arabs on ‘conducting Nazi propaganda’ in Palestine. Bendak was instrumental in organizing the Arab Fascist Party at Bethlehem."[11] As representative of the Bethlehem District for the Muslim-Christian Association, he prioritized Muslims. Bandak defended anti-Christian Muslim 'YMMA' with propaganda and had promoted Muslims' rights even when on the expense of Christians.'[12]
E
Issa Nakhleh (1915-2003) [عيسى نخلة] , who, as 'Falastin' correspondent in London, in 1939 had justified Arab propaganda office in Nazi Germany,[13] had glorified Nazi regime in his 'America y Oriente' in the 1950s in Argentina[14], then, in 1961 had worked for the Mufti in his P.A.D. in NYC, claiming he was a "refugee,"[15] there he justified Nazi enmity of Jews and began pushing the debunked 'Khazar',[16] he was the main torch carrier of his "legacy" Arab-Nazi alliance post WW2, had worked, for decades, with neo nazis, supremacists,[17] denied the Holocaust publicity,[18] served as Judicial Adviser to the World Muslim Congress.[19] He authored a book glorifying the Quran in 2002.[20]
F
Emil Ghuri [Ghory / Ghouri] (1907-1984) [إميل غوري - arabic] , on July 7, 1934, in his short-lived publication, 'Arab Federation': "Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much."[21]
A report of the British General Service of Intelligence, on December 1, 1941, listed Emil Ghouri as one of a group "who are responsible for propaganda, intrigue, and subversive activities in side and outside Iraq."[22]
A "terrorist and conspirator in the Iraq Revolt,"[23] in the 1941 Arab-Nazi coup. He was the organizer and political leader of the underground Arab army, and is alleged to be one of those responsible for internal terror against Arab opponents of the Mufti and Arabs who sell land to the Jews. He advocated that all Jews who came to Palestine since 1918 be regarded as for eigners and be deprived of rights in an independent Arab Palestine.[22] Ghuri headed the creation of the "Youth Groups", the party's youth movement, and was a member of a special committee that ran the organization.[24] The youth movement resembled the "Hitler Youth" in Nazi Germany, and the committee even officially called the groups "Nazi Scouts" for a short period of time, but after a certain period the name was changed to the Islamic nickname "Al-Futuwwa".[25] In May 1945 as the Mufti al-Husseini was held under house arrest near Paris by the French government. Emil Ghouri (as the secretary of the Arab Higher Committee and general secretary of the Palestine Arab Party), 'had emphasized the continuing “influence and esteem” that Husseini retained in Palestine, and he, too, wanted to be able to reassure Husseini's supporters who were viewing his condition “with anxiety.”'[26]
In May 1947, Ghuri attacked the Jews rejecting the Mufti for his Nazi work had compared Hitler's Mufti to George Washington and to "the founder of Christianity."[27]
In a Feb 1948 report: "The leading members of the Higher Committee in Palestine are Dr. Hussein Khalidi and W. Emil Ghoury who have both made public their approval of Arab violence and their intention to intensify it in the future." [28] As still the Secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Command, in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper 'The Beirut Telegraph' on September 6, 1948 he said: "The fact that there are these refugees is a direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of this problem."[29]
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NOTES
[1]
All Arabs Celebrate pro-phet's Birthday. The New York Times, May 23, 1937. Palestine Arabs outdid themselves today in celebrating Mouled el Nebi, the birthday of the .. Mohammed. Never before have there been such elaborate festivities, decorations and processions as throughout the country today… Several days prior to the festival all buildings in Arab quarters were elaborately decorated, and pictures of Hitler, Mussolini and Fawzi el Kaoukgi, an Iraqian who came to Palestine during the disturbances last Summer to organize an “Arab revolt” were displayed. The government immediately ordered the removal of Fawzi el Kaoukgi’s picture.
https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/23/archives/all-arabs-celebrate-prophets-birthday-christians-join-moslems-in.html
[2]
'"The Secular" Offshoots: The Baath Party and the PLO (Chapter 7). Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012. David Patterson. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/genealogy-of-evil/secular-offshoots-the-baath-party-and-the-plo/29B9ED0CA2F6669CD80A396514933ECF
Adel Soheil (2018). "The Iraqi Ba'th Regime's Atrocities Against the Faylee Kurds Nation-State Formation Distorted." p. 55.
https://books.google.com/books?id=_6tyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55
[3] Why Baathism was doomed - UnHerd. R. Yassin-Kassab. Feb 27, 2025
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-baathism-was-doomed/
[4]
'How the Baath Party Influences the Islamic State.' Stratfor, 13 Aug 2015.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-baath-party-influences-islamic-state
[5]
Wistrich, Robert S.. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group, 2010. Chapter 21: 'The "Liberation" of Palestine.'
https://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&pg=PT879
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. United Kingdom: Knopf, 1999. p.65.
https://books.google.com/books?id=t-SMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA65
[6]
Janrense Boonstra, "Antisemitism, a History Portrayed", SDU, Anne Frank Foundation,' 1989, p. 101.
link
Elie Kedourie, Sylvia G. Haim: 'Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel' (RLE Israel and Palestine), Taylor & Francis, 2015. p. 8.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj6sCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8
[7]
Eliash, Shulamit. “THE TEMPLE MOUNT AS PART OF THE ARAB—JEWISH CONFLICT 1922—1933.” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, vol. 26, no. 1, 1991, pp. 22–38. JSTOR, link.
An excerpt from Falastin, an extremist pro-Mufti newspaper, in English translation, 13.11.1928, S25/2977, CZA.
[8]
The Palestine Bulletin, 16 February 1931. "Falastin and the Mufti."
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/plb/1931/02/16/01/article/10/
The Palestine Post, 21 April 1935.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/04/21/01/article/7/
The Palestine Post, 11 June 1939. "'Falastin' - the Mufti's Organ.."
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1939/06/11/01/article/10/
[9]
"Noble[sic] Hitler" — Says "Falastin " — The Palestine Post, 22 May 1933.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1933/05/22/01/article/42
[10]
'Arab Delegation to U.S. Made Financial Failure, Bendak Says.' JTA, Sep 28, 1930.
https://www.jta.org/archive/arab-delegation-to-u-s-made-financial-failure-bendak-says
[11]
'From Bethlehem to Paris Arab-christian Editor Goes to Get Nazi Instructions.' JTA, October 8, 1933.
https://www.jta.org/archive/from-bethlehem-to-paris-arab-christian-editor-goes-to-get-nazi-instructions
[12]
Haiduc-Dale, N. (2013). Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
p.81:
...the Islamic reform movement founded by figures such as Jamal al-Din al- Afghani, Rashid Rida and Muhammad 'Abduh. The most famous and long- lasting organisation to emerge during that time period was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928. The Brotherhood itself became directly involved in Palestine in the 1930s.The YMMA was ostensibly a social organisation and its branches were, according to Lesch, 'relatively independent' of the SMC and other Islamic institutions... while formally a nonpolitical organisation, many members of the YMMA took an active role in politics. In 1932, the government shut down the organisation's Acre branch 'owing to the Association's complete departure from its avowed social, non-political objects'. And despite officially standing outside the nationalist rift, Lesch asserts that 'their pan-Islamic anti-Christian tendencies were supported by such conservative (and anti- SMC) leaders as Sulaiman al- Taji al-Faruqi, former head of the National Party and editor of the newspaper al-Jami'a al-islamiyya'...
p.82:
Bandak took a different approach. Despite differences between the YMMA and the SMC, Bandak used similar arguments in defence of both Islamic institutions. As explained above, in his support of the SMC, Bandak accepted Islamic nationalism as a driving ideology for Palestinian Arabs of all religions. Bandak condemned what he called Filastin's 'disgusting attacks against the most important Islamic personalities in the country', and he supported YMMA communal organisation, arguing that the group was defending Islam rather than attacking Christianity. He argued, in effect, that the SMC should participate in leading the nationalist movement because of its religious standing...
p.87:
... in an article in Sawt al-Shaʿb mirrored those found in Muslimowned papers. Bandak argued that 'Arab Christians should be the first to recognise the rights of their Moslem Brethren over public positions and support them with the Government [even] though some Christian officials might suffer from the grant[ing] of Moslem demands ...
'Issa Basil Bandak: Pro Islamists over Christians, Nazi fan and "student" of its propaganda in 1933, Mufti's ally in 1948'.
At Pipes, Jan 3, 2023.
https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/290534
[13]
'Settlement' in Palestine A Triumph For The 'Axis''.
The Palestine Post, 13 July 1939, p. 6.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1939/07/13/01/article/84
[14]
Anti-Jewish Activities of the Arabs in Argentine - DAIA, 1958. pp.18-9.
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There he publishes 'America y Oriente' from November 20, 1952, "known for its systematical anti-Jewish campaign and its glorification of the totalitarian regimes, particularly of the nazi Germany.
[15]
'Israel At the United Nations.' By Saul Carson
The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, Aug 4, 1961, p. 5.
https://books.google.com/books?id=magcAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
[16] 'Nasser's Anti-Jewish Propaganda.' Publication Date:July 8, 1965. CIA
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp67b00446r000400170011-8
[17]
Nadeau, J. (2011). The Canadian Fuhrer: The Life of Adrien Arcand.Canada: James Lorimer Limited, Publishers, p. 351.
https://books.google.com/books?id=D630umvXNKoC&pg=PA351
'Extremism on the Right: A Handbook,' Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1983, p. 49.
link
(1979) National front reverse, Patterns of Prejudice, 13:2,26-27, DOI:10.1080/0031322X.1979.9969498.
link
"Swedish authorities’ action."
The American Spectator. (1986). United States: American Spectator, p. 20.
link
The Nizkor Project.
http://www.nizkor.com/ftp.cgi?orgs/american/ihr//nakhleh
The Australian Jewish Times, 7 April 1983. "Whitewashing Hitler" "Neo-Nazi Attempts to Rewrite History" The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne), 7 January 1983.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/ajnm/1983/01/07/01/article/73
Seidel, G.(1986).The Holocaust denial : antisemitism, racism & the new right. United Kingdom: Beyond the Pale Collective, p. 28
link
[18]
National Lampoon. (1973). United States:(n.p.), p. 18.
link
Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, vol. 21, William Samuel & Company Limited, 1972, p. 7.
link
'Behind The Scenes'.
B'nai B'rith Messenger, 17 November 1972, p. 34.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1972/11/17/01/article/204
Dalin, D. (2017). Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. p. 120
https://books.google.com/books?id=dUz4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false
[19]
Manor, Y. (1984). Anti-Zionism. Israel: Department of Information, World Zionist Organization, p. 20.
link
[20]
'Issa Nakhleh (1915-2003): A supposed "Christian" - After a long bloody Neo-Nazi career, he published a glorification of Islam, Muhammad.'
Oct 30, 2022 at Pipes.
https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/288065
[21]
Palestine Post, July 16, 1934.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1934/07/16/01/article/35/
'TROUBLES IN GERMANY.
The following paragraph is taken from the Arab Federation, a Jerusalem weekly in English, dated July 7. The people of Palestine have been watching the recent troubles in Germany with great interest and keen.
They were astonished by the courageous quick actions of Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much.'
[22]
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates... Volume 93, Part 11, United States Congress, 1947, pp.2819-2821.
https://books.google.com/books?id=U3G7YfwJ0zcC&pg=SL1-PA2819
[23]
'Hashimites and Husseinis.' By J. M. Japolsky (London). L l The Sydney Jewish News, 4 March 1949.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/sydneyjn/1949/03/04/01/article/61
[24]
Porath, Y. (2023). The Palestinian Arab National Movement, 1929-1939: From Riots to Rebellion. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p.76
link
[25]
Morris, B. (2011). Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, p.124.
https://books.google.com/books?id=xC_uIe9G2FYC&pg=PA124
[26]
Herf, J. (2022). Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p. 108.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8YlZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108
[27]
'UNITED NATIONS: Overstatement.' TIME, May 26, 1947.
https://time.com/archive/6784616/united-nations-overstatement/
Karsh, E. (2010). 'Palestine Betrayed'. United States: Yale University Press. Ch.4 'The Road to Partition.'
https://books.google.com/books?id=2oVyDp_OAx4C&pg=PP119
Der Tog - , 21 May 1947
link
Congress Weekly. (1951). United States: American Jewish Congress, p. 10. "Ghoury defended the ex-Mufti, declaring he was a patriot and not really an enemy of Great Britain. He had the effrontery to compare the ex-Mufti with George Washington and added maliciously..."
link
[28]
UN Palestine Commission – Policy of the Mandatory Power in Palestine – Communication from the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Feb 20, 1948.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-211889/
[28]
'Nakba: A self inflicted catastrophe.' Barry Shaw, The Jerusalem Post, May 20, 2011.
https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-view-from-israel/nakba-a-self-inflicted-catastrophe-367255
Arab Christians do not seem to be motivated to murder me.
So they can do whatever else they may want, as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve spent 7 weeks inside the IDF as a volunteer and met about 100 soldiers and civilian contractors.
The single most motivated guy I met was Najib, and Arab Christian. He was working long before we arrived, and long after we left. He was on fire. A total dynamo. He was responsible for a midsized facility within a base that was saving the IDF about $250,00 a week.
I asked him point blank in public:
“Why are you so motivated?”
“There is no better place in the world for an Arab Christian like me to raise my family than Israel.”
Real typical Christian Arabs are great.
Yes
Great true post. Kudos
You are noth right. And classic hero is Yoseph Haddad https://x.com/yosephhaddad?lang=en
some for sure (a hamndful of antisemitic ‘priests’ come to mind immediately) but certainly not all! There are many good Christians ... many, many, many.
Thank you
I think the O.P. emphasizes that most are great.
I support a wonderful Arab Christian ministry in Israel. I have met the founders, a married couple, when they came to the US a number of years back and spoke at our church. He is an Arab Christian. She was an American.
This is exactly why the Spanish Inquisition happened. Christians had been influenced by Muslims who had occupied them for 500+ years.
“I support a wonderful Arab Christian ministry in Israel “
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Me too.
Right
It’s important to remember that Christians, living under Islamic rule, have to deal with taqueria, meaning that if they speak up, they will pay a price, possibly a big price.
Valid point.
An Update on the “Islamo-Christian”
Why he continues to exist despite Islam’s continued slaugher of Christians.
February 2, 2016 by Hugh Fitzgerald.
The phenomenon of the Islamo-Christian” deserves wider attention, and the word wider use. An “Islamo-Christian” is, in its strictest sense, a Christian Arab who identifies with and works to advance the Islamic agenda, out of fear or out of a belief that his “Arabness” requires loyalty to Islam. Islamization by the Arab Muslim conquerors of Mesopotamia, Syria, and North Africa was a vehicle for Arab imperialism. This imperialism, the most successful in human history, convinced those who accepted Islam to also forget their own pre-Islamic or non-Islamic pasts. It caused them, in many cases, to forget their own languages and to adopt Arabic — and in using Arabic, and in adopting Arabic names, within a few generations they had convinced themselves that they were Arabs.
Some held out. The Copts in Egypt today are simply the remnants of a population that was entirely Coptic, and that has suffered steady and slow asphyxiation. How many of Egypt’s Arabs are in fact Copts who fail to realize this, much less have any sympathy or interest in how their Coptic ancestors, out of intolerable pressure, assumed the identity of Arabs?
In Lebanon, the mountains provided a refuge for the Maronites, by far the most successful group to withstand the Muslims. And most Maronites are quick to make the important distinction that, while they are “users of Arabic,” that does not make them “Arabs.” When they claim that they predate the Arab invasion (which of course they do) and are the descendants of the previous inhabitants of Lebanon, the Phoenicians, they are greeted with ridicule. But why? Where did the Phoenicians go? Did they just disappear? It is far more plausible to believe that the Maronites and the others in Lebanon are, most of them (for how many real “Arabs” actually came from the Arabian peninsula to conquer far more numerous populations of non-Arabs?) the descendants of those Phoenicians. The Maronites recognize this; the Muslims do not, because for them the superior people, the people to whom the Qur’an was “given” and “in their language,” are the Arabs. The sense of Arab supremacy comes not only from the fact that the Qur’an was written in Arabic (with bits of Aramaic still floating in it), but because the Sunna, the other great guide for Muslims, consists of, and is derived from, the hadith and the sira, and reflects the life of people in 7th century Arabia.
Thus one sees the forcibly-converted descendants of Hindus, the Muslims of India and Pakistan, full of supposed “descendants of the Prophet” who are identified by the name “Sayeed.” It is as if, in the middle of a former British colony, say Uganda, black Africans gave themselves such names as Anthony Chenevix-ffrench or Charles Hardcastle, and dressed like remote Englishmen at Agincourt, or Ascot, and insisted, to one and all, that they were indeed lineal descendants of Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, or Hereward the Wake, or Ethelred the Unready.
Yet when those whose ancestors were forcibly converted to Islam (and force can be not military force, but the incessant and relentless pressure of dhimmitude, which will over time cause many to give up and embrace the belief-system of the oppressor) and adopted the names, and mimicked the dress and the manners and customs of Muslims — which are essentially those of a distant time and place (Arabia, more than a thousand years ago) — we do not smile or think it absurd. A few Muslim “intellectuals” in East Asia occasionally suggest that local customs and ways, even local expressions of music and art, ought not to be sacrificed to the Sunna of Islam, but to no avail.
And so strong is the power of Islam among the Arabs, so ingrained is their desire to ward off Muslim displeasure, that unless they do not feel themselves to be Arabs but a self-contained community (Copts, Maronites) that has managed to survive, they are very likely to reflect the Muslim views and promote the Muslim agenda.
Nowhere can this be seen better than among the “Palestinian” Arabs. Michel Sabbagh is only one example. The Sabbagh who gave $6.5 million to support John Esposito’s pro-Muslim empire at Georgetown was a “Christian.” (Note to James V. Schall: can you convince Georgetown’s administration to sever its now-embarrassing tie to Esposito? At some point he, and Georgetown, have to part ways, for the sake of Georgetown’s reputation and continued support from alumni.) The gun-running icon-stealing Archbishop Hilarion Cappucci was, in name, a Melkite Greek Catholic; he was, in his essence, a PLO supporter.
“Islamo-Christian” promoters of the Jihad — beginning with the Jihad against Israel — include a few “Palestinian” Presybterians who have carefully burrowed within, and risen within, the bureaucracy of the Presbyterian Church in America (no names here, but you can easily find them out), and Naim Ateek, who comes to delude audiences of Christians about the “Palestinian struggle” even as the Christian population of the “Palestinian” territories has plummeted, since Israel relinquished control, from 20% to 2% — out of fear of Muslim “Palestinians.”
Nor, of course, do Michel Sabbagh and his ilk pay much attention to the situation of Christians in the Sudan, or Indonesia, or Pakistan. Why would they? It would get in the way of their promotion of the Islamic attempt not only to reduce Israel to the dimensions that will allow them to go in for the final kill, but to seize control of the Holy Land. What, after all, do you think would happen to that Holy Land if Israel were to disappear? Do you think the Christian sites would be as scrupulously preserved? As available to pilgrims? Would Christians walk around Jerusalem if it were under the rule of Muslims with quite the same feelings of security that they do now?
*
The above is, in full, an article I wrote and published .. in 2005. Since I wrote it, the Christian communities of Iraq (Chaldeans, Assyrians) and Syria (Melkites, Orthodox, Roman Catholics) have been decimated; the Coptic community in Egypt been under continuous assault, and not only during the hyper-Islamic regime of Morsi; and Christians and churches have been attacked in Pakistan, the Philippines, and Indonesia by Muslims. And Muslim terrorists attack Infidel Christians in Dar al-Harb itself, in Paris and London and Amsterdam and Madrid and Moscow, as they have in New York, Washington, Boston, Fort Hood, and San Bernardino.
Given the past decade of Christian victims of Muslim despoliation and delirium — and with the list above I was just getting started — one might have assumed that the “Islamo-Christian” was no longer to be found. But just the other day, Gregory III Laham, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem and All the East, surfaced to solemnly declare: “_We, the Arab Christians, always defend Islam and our Muslim brothers – no one defends Islam like the Arab Christians do._” Robert Spencer took the good Gregory to task, pointing out that this classic encapsulation of the dhimmi phenomenon had never won the Melkites any special favors, and that they had suffered just as much from Muslim aggression when they parroted this kind of nonsense as they would have had the good Gregory tried verbally to smite the Muslims hip and thigh. Perhaps, Spencer suggested, the time for dhimmitude had long passed, it never having panned out, and it was time for assorted patriarchs of the East to try a different and truer tack — what, after all, did the Melkites at this point have to lose? How much worse could their situation be under the Muslim thumb than it already is? Perhaps, if he could break with the past, and come to his senses, the Melkite bishop might recognize his first duty: to warn his own flock, and to warn other Christians too, about Islam.
A second Christian who has had nothing but good things to say about Islam is one Craig Considine. He’s a mere lean lecturer in sociology, not so grand as Gregory, but even more obtuse. Not being an ethnic Arab, he doesn’t fit the strictest definition of the “Islamo-Christian,” but as a declared Christian (Roman Catholic) working full-time to defend and promote Islam — and to accuse Israel, unsurprisingly, of every possible crime — he deserves a place in the pantheon here. Craig Considine’s studies — he’s been burning the midnight oil for years — have revealed to him that “Christians and Muslims share a similar ‘jihad.’ This ‘jihad’ is one of non-violence, the love of humanity, the perfection of the soul, and the search for knowledge.”
This will come as a surprise to any Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus who, at many different times and in many different places, have been on the receiving end of that Muslim “non-violence, love of humanity, perfection of the soul, and search for knowledge.” It came as a surprise to me. It no doubt comes as a surprise to you. And as I can add nothing to Robert Spencer’s dismemberment of Considine, readers are directed to this death on the installment plan here and here and here and here.
The ability of people to deny an unpleasant reality can be impressive. Look at Patriarch Gregory. Look at Craig Considine. Be suitably impressed.
Noted IslamoChristians:
Edward Said.
Hannan Ashrawi.
Munther Isaac.
James Zogby.
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