Posted on 10/02/2006 1:25:47 AM PDT by kronos77
Arab Christian communities identify with Arab nationalism — indeed, Christian Arabs were the founding fathers of this movement. They share with their Muslim brethren a common language, ethnic origin, and a total rejection of Israel. But the new mood of politicized Islam has made life harder for the members of these ancient communities. The result has been a massive emigration of Christians from the Middle East to the West and a dwindling of their numbers in the region.
Ivan Rioufol, in a column in the French daily Le Figaro of May 26, 2006, breaks with the traditional French approach of blaming every ill on the Israeli-Arab conflict, highlighting the plight of Christian communities in the Muslim world. Mr. Rioufol estimates that the Christian population of Iran has been decimated and that similar "cleansing" has been "observed in Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Egypt."He notes other instances of anti-Christian persecution: 156 churches and convents destroyed in Bosnia and Kosovo since 1999, 16 dead in anti-Christian riots in the Muslim part of Nigeria, and anti-conversion laws — used as an anti-Christian tool — enacted in March 2006 in Algeria. Worse still, in his view, is the indifference shown by the international community and by organized Christianity toward the suffering of these minority communities. He also remarks on the total absence of reciprocity between Islam and the West: "Saudi Arabia, which finances the construction of mosques throughout the world, does not permit the construction of a chapel."
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To cast one's lot with Israel-hating Muslims doesn't say much for the Biblical education of these particular Christians.
Good point. Just look at same situation in balkans, there are 85% af Albanians muslims and 15 percent that are Christians solidarise with them in anti/Christian pogrom over Serb Ortodox Christians. I guess that where in minoritz, Christians solidarise with Islam... explaines France, Belgium, Italy... hell All of Europe!
Then they are in direct conflict with the Christian God.
I guess they are "McChristians."
Strange. Iraq and Syria are the main places in Middle East beside Lebanon where Christians can openly worship. In Iraq at least until US intervention. Christian churches are open in Iran as well. Maybe Mr. Rioufol confused the "decimation" of "Christian population of" TURKEY?
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