Sunday, November 15, 2009
There's someone from the Presbyterian Church(USA) quoted in this piece, but somehow nothing seems to show itself in the PC(USA)'s output.
Christians Suffer Under the Palestinian Authority
The American government refuses to acknowledge the medieval abuses of Christians at the hands of the Palestinian Authority.
Rev. Bill Harter is a charismatic and well-respected Presbyterian Church (USA) pastor who has taken forty church missions to Israel and the Palestinian Authority territories. On various occasions at meetings with State Department officials, Rev. Harter revealed to them that Christian Palestinians say one thing in public and the opposite in private.
He requested that the State Department appoint a human rights officer and station him at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem in order to monitor, record, and redress the abuses that Christian Palestinians are undergoing at the hands of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas-sponsored gangs.
Rev. Harter was told in whispers, in the privacy of Christian Palestinian families' homes, about the fears they have of remaining in their towns and living there under the control of a Palestinian state. During his earlier trips, members of the Arab Christian community had expressed great fear for their safety as Israel withdrew from the Bethlehem area and handed it over to Arafat and the Palestinian Authority (PA). According to Harter, Christians under PA control are intimidated into speaking out against Israel and are abused if they seem to accuse the PA of any wrongdoing...
...Article 5 of the draft constitution of the Palestinian Authority unequivocally declares: "In the State of Palestine Islam will be the official religion. ... Sharia Islamic law will be the primary source of legislation." Although that same article also "guarantees that monotheistic religions (Christianity and Judaism) will be respected and that the state will provide for freedom of worship," the best that Christians (Jews do not live under PA control) can expect from the PA is dhimmitude -- the discriminatory social and legal status "provided" to the Peoples of the Book...
I recently developed a habit of visiting the English-written Arab blogosphere accessible on the internet. Thus I found this blogger, herself an Arab Christian, providing an apologist explanation (or whatever) to the plight of Christians in the Middle East. I found it an interesting manifestation of a sort of Stockholm syndrome:
http://www.simplylujayn.com/2009/05/christians-in-middle-east-decreasing.html
yes noga
azmi bishara is christian
the founders of bath party is christian
ameen rayhani is christian
edward sayed is christian
james zogby
so any arab christian that is ptriotic is considerd carrying stocklhome syndrome.
this is the age of dhimitude and stocklhome syndrome. slavery of terminologies.
by the way arab christians in many ways recognize they are part of the arab world and they should work on that basis. its more fruitfull to them.
arab christians see what obamba did to the dalia lama......beware!
by the way wasa sultan( the only arab miniority that is considerd without a stochlohome syndrome...according to noga) published a book that went unnoticed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciOGS6r97oE
its a clash betwen a culture that provides me with nail car shopes and a culture that doesnt!
"its more fruitfull to them."
Depends what you mean by "more fruitful". Is there a concealed threat in this advice? They had better toe the line, or else...?
Here is what one commenter said in one of Arab blogs:
"I pray for a huge war. Lots of bombs.
This is all Salah Eddin's fault btw. The 1st time Al Quds was taken, and he took it back, he was WAY too lenient.
What he should have done is SLAUGHTERED ALL non muslims so that they wouldnt exist in that region today.
No one can claim that land is their "birth right" if they dont exist. I hope that next time, the Muslims who do end up in that situation commit mass genocide to make sure it's the last time.
Muslim Arabs should also start killing off christian Arabs in places like Egypt and lebanon... Jordan...
It will show it's benefits in the future."
"http://bujassem.blogspot.com/2009/10/jeff-gates-will-israel-fall-in-five.html?showComment=1254555405225#c4001201476010914695