End of Christianity in the Middle East?

http://www.loudobbs.com/b/End-of-Christianity-in-the-Middle-East/-609793709275665715.html;jsessionid=FAF03165FD0EF0B62C52F3D296021B86 ^ | Feb. 11, 2011 | Lou Dobbs

[T.L.Sink]

Even if the Muslim Brotherhood doesn't take over, there's every reason to believe that a democratically elected Egyptian government will become more Islamist and more hostile to the country's roughly 8 million Coptic Christians. As a horrifying premonition, the Copts need look no further than democratic Iraq, where the ethnic cleansing of Christians is still unspooling, slowly but inexorably. It's an irony almost too bitter to bear that George Bush, en evangelical Christian fired by a vision of freedom with religious overtones, waged a war of liberation in Iraq that led to the uprooting of the country's Christians. And did almost nothing to prevent it or even remark upon it. Before the invasion, 1.4 million Christians lived in Iraq. About half have fled with many more sure to follow. Sunni Muslims attack churches and assassinate Christians. In Egypt, when the Muslim Brotherhood takes a place at the table, it will certainly do all it can to encourage the government's Islamic enmity toward Christians.

[T.L.Sink]

All indigenous polls support Dobbs' contention. By the way, a prominent figure in the Obama administration recently said that he didn't think the Muslim Brotherhood was so bad either.

[napscoordinator]

I just wish that we would wait and see what happens before all this doom and gloom. It really doesn’t make sense worrying about something that might not even happen. The Egyptians are not going to allow a change in their living after seeing them fight for their democracy. I really don’t see it. Sometimes we see the “sky is falling” when it turns out not to be the case. Biggest example is 99 percent of the FREEPERS were saying that the Gulf Spill was going to destroy the United States. It not only did but it was not even close. It was a whimper on the big scheme of things.

[allmost]

An oppressed minority. Massacred for their beliefs. What’s Charlie Sheen saying in the last twelve seconds? Oh yeah. Get out. I care but we don’t. You have no backing. Leave.

[exnavy]

I doubt it, God chose Israel.

[Alberta's Child]

It's an irony almost too bitter to bear that George Bush, en evangelical Christian fired by a vision of freedom with religious overtones, waged a war of liberation in Iraq that led to the uprooting of the country's Christians. And did almost nothing to prevent it or even remark upon it.

Of course not. "Islam is a religion of peace," you know.

When they finally write accurate history books about this period, historians will note the remarkable similarities between George W. Bush and Lyndon Johnson -- two remarkably inept presidents from Texas.

[RoadTest]

“End of Christianity in the Middle East?”

Never has been fashionable. For a Christian - “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” (John 15:18)

[algernonpj]

I just wish that we would wait and see what happens before all this doom and gloom. It really doesn’t make sense worrying about something that might not even happen. The Egyptians are not going to allow a change in their living after seeing them fight for their democracy. I really don’t see it. ...

From the article: "We rightly believe that all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights. Many of the people upon whom we project this vision of universal freedom, though, believe justice prevails only if their faith and its believers rule. Unfortunately, they’re the ones who get to vote."

It is important to remember the Islamic world has no concept of freedom as we define it.

"In the Western world, we talk all the time about freedom. In the Islamic world, freedom is not a political term. It’s a legal term: Freedom as opposed to slavery. ". ... "In Muslim terms, the aim of good government is justice. The major contrast is not between freedom and tyranny, between freedom and servitude, but between justice and oppression"

In other words, in the Muslim world one could live under sharia and as long as one were not a slave one would be free. As long as the government was not corrupt or unjust, it would be a good government. In the Islamic world perescution of Christians would not be inconsistent with good government.

[T.L.Sink]

You also might add that in the First Gulf War the First Bush allowed the friendly Kurds to be senselessly butchered (with the passive consent of Colin Powell). By the way, countless Islamic scholars tried to tell the world that Islam does NOT mean “religion of peace,” but “submission.” However, to the PC and multicultural crowd “peace” resonates so much better! Yes, historians will have fun comparing and contrasting GWB and LBJ - but it will be difficult to determine if those future volumes will be on the shelves as fiction or not.

[happygrl]

One note of correction: these are not Lou Dobbs words, but are Rich Lowrey’s from his article at National Review.

Just giving credit where it is due.