Posted on 09/12/2005 9:06:40 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
For years, media outlets have largely refused to report one of the most troubling aspects of the Mideast conflict ? Muslim intimidation and violence against Christians in Palestinian-controlled areas.
The latest shocking episode again made its way to very few news consumers: Late Saturday night (Sept. 3), hundreds of armed Palestinian Muslims crying 'Allahu Akbar' descended on the West Bank Christian city of Taibe. For the next few hours, the mob terrorized the community, setting sixteen homes and multiple businesses on fire, looting valuables from both, and destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Said one eyewitness: 'It was like a war, they arrived in groups, and many of them were holding clubs.'
The mob's 'provocation'? A Muslim woman from their neighboring village had had a relationship with a Christian man from Taibe. The woman was poisoned to death by her own family in an 'honor killing', and soon after, the pogrom against Taibe commenced.
Something tells us this incident would have made international headlines had Jews been responsible for this type of violence.
Incidents such as this, largely ignored by the western media, have been the leading cause of massive Christian flight from the Holy Land over the past few years.
The historical Christian towns of Bethlehem and Nazereth, once home to large Christian populations, have seen that population flee en masse due to Muslim intimidation and violence. As HonestReporting has documented:
- Over 100 Palestinian terrorists took over the Church of the Nativity in 2002, using it as a fortress from which to fire upon Israeli troops, while holding nuns, priests and monks hostage, and looting or destroying virtually everything of value inside the building.
- During 2000-2002, the PA's Tanzim militia chose the Christian town of Beit Jala as a base for unprovoked shooting at Jerusalem. The Tanzim were specifically positioned in or near Christian homes, hotels, churches, and the Greek Orthodox club, knowing fully well that these sites would be hard-hit by Israeli return fire.
- In 1995, Bethlehem was 62% Christian, but today is less than 20% Christian. Before 1995, Bethlehem had a majority-Christian municipal council, but when the Palestinian Authority took over the town, Yassir Arafat replaced the municipal council with a predominately Muslim council, and Christian Arabs fled Bethlehem in droves after a radical Islamic wave began inciting against them.
- On February 6, 2002, the Boston Globe reported "a rampage of Palestinian Muslims against Christian shops and churches in Ramallah... Police made no attempt to stop the mob, which besieged and damaged a widely respected youth center associated with the Boy Scouts of America after torching the Christian properties...'The truth is this is a problem between Christians and Muslims,' said one Christian businessman."
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I'm still horrified at the idea that the Palestinian Army is given guns, much less that the governance of the West Bank has been turned over to them.
Women's rights, religious freedom, free speech and the right to congregate are being trampled. Where is the outrage?
As well the US-backed tossing out of Israelies--even to disinterment of Jewish graves. Hurricane K. was right up our backsides immediately!
4CJ, the cowinkidinks between that storm and the booting God's chosen out are able to make anyone with an IQ above a blade of grass go, "Hmmm, sure likes someone is trying to tell us something!??"
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Oh yes! Let's side with the Palestinians, who have no legal right to the lands, and are anti-American, and vow to kill all Americans/Israelis. What a way to obtain peace in the Middle East. </sarcasm>
Folks, it ain't just the Jews that are the targets of these barbarians, Christians are just as much of a target. Remember the common saying found so often in the ME - "first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."
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To hell with that Palestinians and to hell with Izlam.
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