Sunday, December 24, 2006
Our own culture won't stand up for itself, while "we're" still in control of it: Stewardess 'banned from taking bible on plane'
The stewardess has been told by BMI that it is against the law of the insular Middle Eastern country to bring in religious books other than the Koran.
The woman, who is understood to be a committed Christian, takes her bible everywhere she goes and is now set to take the airline to an industrial tribunal claiming discrimination on religious grounds.
BMI, formerly British Midland Airways, said today it was merely following the Foreign Office advice that no non-Islamic materials or artefacts are allowed into the country...
Eventually, the day may come when we could start seeing maps like this in Europe (and beyond?):
'All my staff at the church have been killed - they disappeared'
Egyptian Copts, Iraqi Chaldeans and the Palestinian Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant communities have faced violence and even death at the hands of their Muslim neighbours.
Canon Andrew White, president of the Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East, told The Times that the Iraq war had had a dire effect on the lives of Christians in the region, particularly in Iraq, where he is the vicar of St George’s Church in Baghdad.
“All my staff at the church have been killed,†he said. “They disappeared about a year ago and we never saw them again. Of the rest of my congregation, most say they have been targeted in some way or have had letters delivered with bullets in them. People forget, or the Islamic groups don’t realise, that Christianity was in the Middle East before them and therefore they see Christians as being part of the Western coalition military presence. Things have got considerably worse since the Iraq war.â€...
The frame of the article is absurd. Things may have gotten worse in Iraq of late, but that's because of the collapse of civil society, not the war per se, nor cartoons, nor innocuous Popish mumblings -- the fact is it's simply a continuation of a decades-long pattern concerning Middle Eastern minorities. We can't, or won't, protect them, or even speak out in their defense. And as the first story shows, we won't demand respect even while we're in a position to do so.
Obviously the author of the article actually is blaming Bush by refering to the Iraq War as the reason for the plight of Christians in the middle east. I am so tired of the blame Bush crowd I intend to vomit on the next person I meet who blames Bush for something.
Dishonest. How typical.
Stoking the fires of eligious sectarianism, while simulaneously feigning shock at just that.
Outrage over the declining percentage of Christians in Bethlehem is crude propaganda (at best), hence the dicusion always focuses on the "perectage". The percentage of Christians declined considerably in 1948. Anyone know why?
It's been reducing through higher birthrate among Muslim Palestinians, and also post-'67 as wealthier Christian Palestinians decided to emigrate rather than live under occupation.
Muslims are at war with Christians as well as Jews, Hindus, Buddhists.
The Church of the Nativity was hijacked by 200 gun toting "Palestinians" in 2002, who also desecrated the Church.
Muslims want their holy sites respected yet they show no respect for NON-Muslim holy sites.
If non-Muslims entered a Mosque with guns, would Muslims be outraged? I believe so. Yet, when it comes to non-Muslim holy sites, anything goes.
Christians are besieged by Muslims in Bethlehem. Muslims are building a mosque that will tower over the Church of the Nativity.
The largest mosque in Europe is in Rome, the Popes diocese.
Q. How many people attended Midnight Mass at the largest church in Saudi Arabia?
A. It's a trick question. There are NO CHURCHES in the land of Mecca and Medina.
Here's a link to an excellent article by Joseph Farah regarding the "Exodus from Bethlehem".
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53464
"Just ask yourself a question: Why would the security fence disproportionately affect Christians? If the security fence were contributing to the exodus, it should be causing an exodus of Muslims as well, right?"
""All this talk about Israel driving Christians out and causing pain is nonsense," a Bethlehem Christian community leader told WND. "You want to know what is at play here, just come throughout the year and see the intimidation from the Muslims. They have burned down our stores, built mosques in front of our churches, stole our real estate and took away our rights. Women have been raped and abducted. So don't tell me about Israel. It's the Muslims." "
Christians are besieged by Muslims in "Palestine". Coptic Christians in Egypt are also besieged by their Muslim majority, yet Jimmy Carter can't take his eyes off the prize of defaming Israel and Jews.
Any time I read about President Carter, I get very irritated. Then again, let's keep in mind that this is the same man who when told that both U.S. Middle East Envoy Dennis Ross and President Clinton disagreed with his (Carter's) version of what happened during the 2000 and 2002 "peace" negotiations between Israel and Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, smugly remarked that both of them were wrong (despite the fact that they were there and he was not).