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Bethlehem's Walled Nativity from Islam Online


1 posted on 12/14/2007 7:26:01 AM PST by Between the Lines
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Palestinian Christians think Israel is more of an enemy than Islam?


2 posted on 12/14/2007 7:30:25 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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That's disgusting.

Christian Arabs from Israel sell their olivewood Christmas decorations at my parish every year around this time.

I'll keep an eye out for this one.

3 posted on 12/14/2007 7:32:54 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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Can I go to Islam online and buy a desecrated model of the Church of the Nativity, complete with Arab terrorists?

No, I didn't think so.

5 posted on 12/14/2007 7:34:43 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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I would never have thought that a Nativity scene protesting the Bethlehem security wall would indict the Palestinians, Christians, Christmas, and the British in general as “anti-Semitic”. Because it isn’t.


6 posted on 12/14/2007 7:42:45 AM PST by Deathmonger
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Obviously no ‘BARF ALERT’ warning is required on this one.


7 posted on 12/14/2007 7:45:33 AM PST by JOAT
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If they were traveling through the West Bank today the mussies would kill them. End of story!


8 posted on 12/14/2007 7:46:42 AM PST by Camel Joe (liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
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I’m Christian and I find this walled nativity highly offensive.

But it’s also curious and nearly amusing that Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, talks about Mary and Joseph as being Jews, but omits Jesus’s Jewish identity.


9 posted on 12/14/2007 7:46:59 AM PST by Deut28 (Cursed be he who perverts the justice)
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Directly from their website (http://www.amostrust.org/resources/index.php?pageNo=596&parent=88 so there is no misquoting:

Walled Nativity
A nativity set with a difference - this year the wise men won't get to the stable.

Well that would just be accurate because the wise men didn't go to the stable in the first place:

7Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him."

9After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.
Matthew 2:7-11


11 posted on 12/14/2007 7:56:41 AM PST by Dahoser (-)
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Antisemitic Nativity scene sells like hotcakes in UK
14 posted on 12/14/2007 8:06:39 AM PST by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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It's not often that Mortin Klein and I agree with an ADL spokesman about anything, so this is a red-letter day.

Shouldn't the ADL be concentrating on protecting the "rights" of homosexuals in Texas or something?

Arieh O'Sullivan???

18 posted on 12/14/2007 8:15:31 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ( . . . Vayo'mer "'Ani Yosef 'achiykhem 'asher-mekhartem 'oti Mitzraymah.")
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O'Sullivan said the sets "come close to resurrecting the old anti-Semitic canard that says Jews killed Christ."

One it's not anti-semitic. It makes a political point, and I think an even deeper religious one about Christ. Two, what does this guy care about a nativity scene? His faith doesn't believe in Christ so why should he care what's in it or not? Are we now to take the depiction of any wall as anti-semitic?

19 posted on 12/14/2007 8:20:58 AM PST by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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First things first. My sin and yours put Jesus on the cross. He was the sacrificial Lamb of God (Isaiah 53) who takes away our sin if we receive Him (John 3). (Technically, the Roman soldiers did our dirty work if you want to get petty.)
Ya’shua came for the Jews first (book of Matthew). Enough with the “Jews killed Jesus” already, it doesn’t let anyone off the hook! We all placed the nails in His hands and feet. The Nativity is open to everyone if they choose and their are no “walls” except someone’s own free will.
The Lord of the New Testament is the same as the Lord of the Old Testament. He is never changing.

Maybe the folks who came up with this outta read the book of Nehemiah.

P.S. If they don’t have a love for the Jews and the Jewish nation, then they aren’t “Christians” (Matthew 25:31-46, Matt. 13:24-30).


21 posted on 12/14/2007 8:24:34 AM PST by 444Flyer (NEVER take a "mark" to "buy or sell"!Eph 5:11-14John 3:1-36, Eph 6, Rev 12:11, Jer 29:13-14)
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“The irony is that Mary and Joseph would have been a Jewish couple, and if they were travelling through the West Bank today, [their lives would have been at risk] from the same terrorists that have targeted so many Israelis,” Benjamin told Cybercast News Service. “

If it was known what would result from their trip, they would have been targeted for Assasination.


38 posted on 12/14/2007 10:36:49 AM PST by Badeye (No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
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If they were really Wise Men, they wouldn’t be coming through Muslim territory.


46 posted on 12/14/2007 1:33:55 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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Almost as many Palestinian Christians as Muslims are in favor of destroying Israel, not to mention the majority who simply refuse to recognize Israel's existence.

Palestinian poll reveals marked support of Hizbullah
48 posted on 12/14/2007 2:29:45 PM PST by familyop
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Christians are being killed off, forcibly converted and driven out of Islamist areas of the Middle East, yet Christians in foreign nations (those in Britain being only one group example of many) complain against Israel's existence by opposing the security barrier built to stop terrorist attacks against Jewish children. I know that most Christians in our USA do not agree with the Islamo-fascist enemy and are in favor of Israel as a Nation to the extent of disagreeing with our Government's current policy (policy carried out by both political parties).

Most Americans Support Right of Jews to Live and Build in Judea-Samaria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927783/posts
June 10, 2003
"By a margin of nearly five to one, Americans oppose the Bush administration's demand to halt all further Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza . . . The poll, carried out by John McLaughlin & Associates, surveyed a scientific sample of 1,000 American adults on May 21, 2003.

Honest, intelligent people know what's going on. Sympathizers with Islamo-fascism are apparently recruiting those who are not so honest or intelligent.


49 posted on 12/14/2007 2:50:40 PM PST by familyop (Gentile who stands by our betrayed ally.)
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Ping.


54 posted on 12/14/2007 9:12:39 PM PST by 2ThumbsUp
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Not sure if the title is an intentional pun or understatement for emphasis....


81 posted on 12/16/2007 10:34:18 AM PST by Uriah_lost ("I don't apologize for the United States of America," -Fred D Thompson)
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Anti-Semitism lives on, in Old Europe.


89 posted on 12/16/2007 2:09:36 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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It’s rather obnoxious.


93 posted on 12/17/2007 5:23:33 AM PST by Tribune7 (Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
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