No.
Don't you watch the news broadcasts?
They were Palestinian "militants" seeking refuge
from Israeli forced who wanted to assasinate them.
The UN and the EU have so declared.
They must be right, don't you think?
I wonder if the editor who penned this title even knows who it was that counseled this course of action?
The Church of the Nativity was desecrated. The Christian response was a disgrace.And when the Hagia Sophia was desecrated?
Can you imagine the outcry if anyone occupied the dome of the rock or the mosque at mecca?
Second, I hold the PLO in such low esteem that my opinion of them COULDN'T be worse. They are animals with no respect for anything. Even their supposed association with a false religion is a lie. They care no more about Islam than what sympathy and money they can get from other Islam countries.
First of all, it's a building. Historical maybe but it should be treated with reverence and respect but Our Lord may have been born there, but he isn't there anymore and we are told when he returns he will make all things new. It broke my heart to see what they did. Not so much what was done but their under disregard for the place.
Christians can pray any place. They don't need to go to a shrine to pray. Thhe Muslims hate Christians as much as they hate the jews so this was no surprise to me when it was left like a pig pen. They didn't desacrate the place. They desacrated themselves by their hate that their relgion teaches and stresses. They will answer for it one day and I believe that day is coming soon.
Where is the outrage!
The 18 month reign of terror was brought by the PLO under the pretext of Sharon visiting the Temple Mount. He did not set foot in the Al Asqa Mosque!
He had prior permission from Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security services. He authorized in advance the Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount.
Rajoub even stated there would be no reaction.
Sharon did not seize the Al Asqa Mosque.
He did not bring machine guns into the Al Asqa Mosque.
He did not plant bombs in the Al Asqa Mosque.
He did not urinate on the floor of the the Al Asqa Mosque.
Will Israel now be in her first month of an 18 month reign of nonstop terror? Major point:
One of the paramount issues in considering a future nation which the Arabs will call Palestine is the guarantee of Holy sites in the areas they would control. Given that we just witnessed the "Al Asqa Seize & Pee Brigade” desecrate one of the most Holy Christian sites, we can never allow a Palestinian state to have any control over Jerusalem or any of the Holy Sites which are not Muslim. PERIOD.
Maybe not, after this piece. He just offended peace-loving Muslims.
First of all, offering the other cheek is all well and good when it pertains to ourselves, as individuals. I would argue, however, that there is a problem when we as Christians turn the other cheek when it is other people who are being harmed or when it is the sacred things of God that are under attack. The occupation of the Church of the Nativity was clearly a case of the latter. Particular places and churches are not holy in themselves, but I would argue that God does sanctify such places by His grace and that we should treat them as belonging to God.
I have my own little theory as to why there is not more outrage. It goes back to the liberalism that has invaded the Catholic Church. Liberalism has very effectively changed the de facto practices of Church life. Art is different, music is different, architecture is different... even the liturgy is different from the way it has been for many years now. It has all been secularized in a sense.
The outward expressions of faith play a very strong role on the way the faith captures our hearts. When we find ourselves expressing our faith in the forms in which we worship, that faith becomes real. It is practical. It captures our hearts to a great degree.
But, when worship and religious practice is secularized, what do we do then? What do we do when it does not reflect our faith? In such a case, we become disconnected from what we believe. I believe this is the case in the modern Catholic Church.
Do not misunderstand me- I am not advocating for Catholics to become Traditionalist schismatics. However, I do think that we must have a movement towards orthodox expression to compliment and to teach our orthodox faith, lest our hearts move even further from our souls.
(Note: I am not saying that this problem applies to all Christians. As a Catholic, I simply speak from the condition I know within my own Church.)
Just because the Turks used the Parthenon for a gunpowder storehouse and it blew up and devastated that marvelous antiquity doesn't mean that Islam has no respect for other religions.
Its not like they go around doing that...oops except maybe the Buddahs in Afghanistan.
Surely there is some evidence of their respect for other belief systems. How about India? Oh well, wrong again.
Yes it was an outrage for these terrorist to over run and invade the Church of the Nativity and use it for a urinal. But here in the last days, dark is called light, good is called evil, and it would have been Israel that would take the heat from evil in high places for a situation they did not create if Christians had thrown the kind of fit that Muslims would have had it been a Mosque that was invaded.
We love God's people more than the Church of the Nativity, even though it is well loved also, it is repairable.
OUR faith can not be destroyed by the filth these people spread, OUR church can not be desecrated by these pathetic creatures. They are to be pitied for they will face God with unclean hearts.