Nothing Christian is holy to Islam...Islam SPITS on the essence of Christianity by denying the Truth that Christ is the Savior and Son of God. They say he is merely a prophet yet have the GALL to claim OUR holy sites are holy to them? The utter nerve...
Please fellow freepers, pray for our brethren in the Holy land. My family has a close friend who is an arch preist in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia who was physically attacked recently by a gang of Palestinian Muslims...for NO reason other than that he is a Russian priest...he is OK but the situation there is NOT good...
Tomorow is Holy Thursday on the Julian calendar, which is the calendar of the Orthodox Church...it is the day when the Last Supper is remembered...Friday is Good Friday; the rememberence of the Crucifiction of Christ...and Sunday is the Feast of the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior - Pascha - Easter...How sad that the Paschal bells may be silenced by the evil fighting that is going on in this most sacred of lands...
Pray for peace...
Time and time again when muslims move into an area, especially Palestinians, you will find them either dismantling a church or building over one. In Isreal and the mideast, there are hundreds of archealogical sites that are off limits in muslim controlled because they are afraid that anything uncovered will contradict islamic doctrine or claims. The same cannot be said about Isreali controlled areas.