Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Dexter Van Zile of the Judeo-Christian Alliance writes at the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, Dhimmi, Get Behind Me:
In an article posted at thelutheran.org on Feb. 9, 2006, Bishop Younan warned Westerners to tread lightly when responding to Muslim protesters who have burnt Danish flags or engaged in other violent acts to express their displeasure over the cartoons.
“Are we really losing our civility to such a degree that we are incapable of rational discourse and can only resort to violence and desecration of sacred symbols, prophets, writings and places?" he said, subsequently adding that it is time for Christians and Muslims to “create a code of ethics by which religions and nations should [handle] religious differences.”
Notwithstanding the Bishop's attempt to equate the burning of embassies with the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed in an offensive manner, Bishop Younan's statements would have more credibility if he had spoken publicly about the persistent demonization of Jews, Israel and the United States in papers throughout the Middle East, oftentimes through the desecration of Christian and Jewish imagery...
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Van Zile, not long ago, also wrote an excellent letter to the head of the United Church of Christ about the whole divestment/Wall issue and the wholesale unfairness toward Israel in the face of continuing Palestinian violence and rejectionism and did it in a scant two pages. If I had the URL I would gladly oblige.
http://www.judeo-christianalliance.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74
So what happened did you get any reply
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