Posted on 12/11/2001 1:28:15 AM PST by lavaroise
December 6, 2001 File: 186
WHY IS THE CHRISTIAN WORLD SILENT ?
Why is the Christian world silent in the face of anti-Christian terror ? Alarm bells of Moslem anti-Christian conduct have been evident for years.
Many Muslim-ruled countries have dismal records when it comes to religious freedom and tolerance. Christians are particularly discriminated against. Why is the free world's reaction too often muffled ? Why are Christians silent ? Is it because we are afraid to step on the sensitive toes of "Big Oil" a.k.a "Arab Oil" ? Jews, once a majority in Medina, have long disappeared from Saudi Arabia as well as from most Arab countries. By Islamic laws . Jews were always second class citizens. After Five Arab nations attacked the newly established State of Israel, 800,000 Jews fled from their ancestral homes in 22 Arab lands abandoning everything they owned. Christians throughout the Moslem world are facing the same pressure: coercion, intimidation , constraints and extortion. By contrast, roughly 1.8 million to 2 million Muslims in the U.S. are free to construct mosques, set up their own nonprofit groups, evangelize for their own religion and raise funds here -- protected by the First mendment.
Here are some facts:
1. Christianity is banned in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Kuwait. Saudi Arabia has refused a U.S. appeal to release more than a dozen Christians accused of practicing their faith .
2. The U.S. State Department rates Afghanistan among the worst religious freedom violator -- along with Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, where leaving Islam for another religion is a capital offense.
3. "First the Saturday people [Jews], then the Sunday people [ Christians]." This Moslem strategy seeks to impose Islam not only on Jews [ Saturday people] but also on Christians. Moslem anti-Christian hatred has also come to the fore in Israel; The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee heard expert testimony that "vandalism of Christian graves" in the PA-controlled areas has been on the rise of late. From one town of Beit Sahour (Bethlehem-area) fifty Christian families tried to emigrate in just one month. Christians have fled from Bethlehem, Nazareth and other cities out of fear, coercion and duress.
4. Turkmenistan -- Four Baptists were tortured for having religious literature in their car.
5. . Former U.S. Senator Connie Mack, upon returning from Israel, told the Senate, " I met one evening, privately - secretly - with Arabs who were being persecuted for the Christian faith... One man [who was arrested by the Palestinian Authority police] was beaten and hung from the ceiling by his hands for many hours on charges of selling land to Jews, [but] he was poor and had no land. [His son said he was] held hostage to prevent him from talking with people about his faith... It caused me to ask, 'How can the people of Israel find peace when the Palestinian Authority engages in coercion and torture based only upon religious beliefs?'"
6. Nigeria, Indonesia and Sudan lead the world in actual death tolls of Christians, according to the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House -- and the number of Christians and animists who have perished in Sudan is estimated at 2 million.
7. In January 2000, the Palestinian Authority forcefully took over the Russian Orthodox church in Jericho. In July 1997, PA para-military police burst into a monastery in Hebron, beat and dragged out the monks and nuns, injuring five monks and three nuns.
8. A Christian member of Congress Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana), testified that the desecration of Jewish history on the Temple Mount is "an outrageous example of an attempt by the Palestinian Authority to show no regard to the important claim that both Jewish and Christian history have on that site." "Millions of believing Christians and Jews across America cherish that site.... $125 million is being used (by the P.A.) to excavate the site without any regard to its unique history and without any regard to standard archaeological protocol"
9.. Maronite Catholic Church has accused Syria undermining Lebanon's existence. In a statement the Council of Maronite Bishops said Lebanon was fast losing its identity because of Syrian "tutelage." Fear and intimidation are but two of many reasons why Christians have fled from Lebanon, especially since Syria "annexed" Lebanon.
10. Moslem gunmen attacked a Christian Church in Southern Pakistan killing 15 Christians in a Pakistani church. Christians feared they could become targets if unrest broke out in Muslim Pakistan over opposition to the U.S. attacks on neighboring Afghanistan's ruling Muslim Taliban militia.
11. American courts recently granted asylum to Palestinian Christian Arabs, on the grounds that they would be persecuted for their religious beliefs if they return to PA-controlled territory.
Sources: Julia Duin, "Christians Face Dismal Plight in Islamic Realms," Washington Times, November 6, 2001; various Jerusalem Post and New York Times articles.
Sincerely, Ben Eliahou Manalapan, NJ 07726
Do you really believe that the secular world should be forced to repent?
Why must we give our enemies this kind of ammunition to shoot us down with?
Muslim extremists threaten slaughter of Christians in Indonesian villages
Source: www.baptiststandard.com; Published: 12/10/2001
Author: Mark KellyF. Graham: My View of Islam-Christian countries respect freedom of worship. Most Muslim ones don't
Source: Wall Street Journal; Published: December 9, 2001
Author: FRANKLIN GRAHAM
In every thread concerning religion - pro or con - someone comes along and props up that old, tattered strawman 'theocracy in America'. Please, spare us the religious bogeyman.
The only 'threat' of a theocracy in America exists in the minds of atheists and anti-christian fundraisers. This country couldn't be any more secular and I don't see any sudden drift toward a religion-based government. Public acknowledgement of God by the President or other officials or some public prayers after September 11th are a long, long way from a theocracy.
By force?
And you wonder why I call you guys the Talibornagain?
Phillipians 2:11 "and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of G-d the Father".
Isaiah 45: 22-23 "Turn to me and be saved all the ends of the earth!
For I am G-d and there is no other. By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word which shall not return: 'To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear'."
If it was me personally that wanted to force you, than yes, you would have every right to consider me a brother to the Talis and the Nazis. All I hope to do is feed you the bread of life, the living word of G-d and pray that you choose to confess Christ as Lord.
The day that G-d forces you and every other soul in creation to bow their knee to Him should be day of gladness for all. For many it will be a day of sorrow. Don't read into my love for you in hoping that you are spared G-d's judgement for the hateful, murderous thugs (Talis and Nazis) that only wanted to kill and enslave.
Not really, you use that term because you are an anti-Christian bigot. It's really pretty obvious.
Because you think you are being clever? (P.S. - you're not, in the least)
Because the world (by that I mean governments) is anti-christ at their root.
I'll go with you on that--That's the spirit!
Yeah, that's right. I'll go with you on that.
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