Middle Eastern Muslims are not stupid. They target the weakest infidels living amongst them. Since Israel for the time being is strong, that leaves the defenseless Christian presence in Muslim lands which must – and can – be eliminated first. This puts certain anti-Zionist Christian hierarchies in a bind. If they speak up too loudly to defend their own against the Muslim onslaught, the anti-Zionist narratives they peddle in the West will collapse as it dawns on the laity that the problem isn’t the Jewish state, the problem is the Muslim state of mind.
A few illustrative examples taken from recent news reports follow.
Experts say Christian communities in Middle East will ‘die out’ unless urgent action taken
By Caroline May – The Daily Caller, January 18, 2011
With attacks against Christians on the rise in majority-Muslim nations in the Middle East, experts say the future of Christianity in the region is gravely threatened.
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Christian ‘Genocide’ In The Mideast
By Greg Burke, Fox News, January 18, 2011
Christians have been getting pushed out of the Middle East for some time now, but the attacks on them have recently become particularly ferocious.
It’s enough to look at the bombing at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, on New Year’s Day that left 23 dead, or the brutal siege on St. George Chaldean Church, a Catholic church in Baghdad that killed more than 50.
“If you look at the technical definition of what genocide is, it is the attempt to annihilate a particular group because of their ethnicity or their religion,” says David Alton a Catholic member of Britain’s House of Lords. “And certainly that is what is happening to many of the ancient churches of the Middle East.”
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By Manfred Gerstenfeld, ynetnews.com, January 18, 2011
Several Western Protestant organizations have, over the past years, relentlessly criticized Israel’s attitude toward Palestinian Christians, while remaining silent about incomparably bigger problems caused them by Palestinian Muslims. The same bodies have also long ignored the harassment of Christians by Muslims in a large number of countries, including Egypt.
This motif of ignoring Muslim aggression and focusing on Jews is an ancient one. In 2005, historian Rivka Fishman published an article showing that from the Seventh Century, the Byzantines were threatened by Muslims. The Christian leaders, however, largely ignored this and instead focused their attention on hate mongering against the Jews.
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