There are very few Christians left in the middle east. They have been removed – either fled for
their safety or just killed by the intolerance of those who now control the lands
and the politics and the military of this mixture of religion and culture and terror
and waste. The Christians have no
homeland – no place of safety – no protectorate – no military standing with
them – in front of them – to guarantee their safety and their homeland rights.
Here are “facts” that we took from an article in The
Jerusalem Post:
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Despite Muslim domination of the region, Christians
comprised an estimated 20 percent of the Middle East population until the early
20th century.
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Today, however, Christians make up a mere 2% to 5% of the
Middle East and their numbers are fast dwindling.
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Home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the
world, Egypt also has the largest Christian population in the Middle East,
totaling 8-12 million people. But because Christian Copts make up only about
10% to 15% of Egypt’s estimated 80 million people, they have for decades lived
in fear as second-class citizens, subjected to attacks on churches, villages,
homes and shops, mob killings and the abduction and forced Islamic conversion
of Christian women compelled to marry Muslim men.
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The Christian population (in Lebanon) is estimated to have dropped from over 50%
(according to a 1932 census) to about 40%. Over the past few years, the de facto
governing power in Lebanon has become Hezbollah, the radical and heavily-armed
Shi’ite movement sponsored by Iran.
·
In Syria, 2.5 million Christians comprised about 10% of
the population and enjoyed some protection under the secular and often brutal
regimes of the Assad dynasty. But as jihadi groups fighting Assad extend their
territorial control, the past protection of Christians is often the cause of
their current persecution by resentful Sunnis who revile the Assad regime and
seek to impose Sharia law wherever they can.
·
In Iraq, the bloody aftermath of the 2003 invasion
demonstrated how dangerous life can become for a Christian minority when a
multicultural society in the Middle East explodes into sectarian violence. By
2008, half of the 800,000 Iraqi Christians were estimated to have left,
rendering those remaining even more insecure. In 2010, Salafist extremists
attacked a Baghdad church during Sunday Mass, killing or wounding nearly the
whole congregation.
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Because Israel is the only non- Muslim state in all of
the Middle East and North Africa, it represents a small victory for religious
minorities in the region, and serves as the last protector of freedom and
security for Jews, Christians, Bahai, Druse and others.
Notwithstanding the accuracy of the last observation point
above, TheFundamentals can find no evidence to indicate that persecuted Christians
are flocking or are encouraged to seek refuge in Israel.
Please read these recent articles –
The Richmond Times-Dispatch – http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/columnists-blogs/robin-beres/christians-are-under-fire-in-the-middle-east/article_244a8985-66ee-5bb1-a1e5-edda3e3ea950.html
Christian Today – http://www.christiantoday.com/article/how.many.christians.are.in.the.middle.east.reliable.numbers.are.elusive/33519.htm
Please watch this video from PBS News Hour, presented one
year ago –
During Mr. Bush's Iraq adventure, many Christians, who had been protected under Saddam, fled to Syria where they received protection under Assad. Today we seek to demonize and destroy Assad just as we previously demonized Saddam. We do not hear much from Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama about this situation - the new fellow, Kerry, is equally silent as is his good buddy, Joe Biden, and others.
Do any of these "leaders" have a clue about what they are doing? Are they using US taxpayer money, much of it from Christian US taxpayers, to terrorize Christians in the middle east? Is it not time for America to come to the aid of Christians in the middle east? To save Christian lives?
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To paraphrase a question asked in the 1950's by the House on Unamerican Activities : Are you now, or have you ever been ....a Christian?"
The point is that Christianity is under as much attack, albeit without the violence(yet) in the U. S as the Middle East. Homosexuals, militant feminists, Muslims, liberal media( when was the last time you saw a tv series when there was a Christian protagonist?) and others mock and ridicule traditional Christian values incessantly. Pope John II warned us that a secular humanist society would destroy Western culture, i.e. the Christian world, and it is so obvious to anybody paying attention that it is coming to pass.
Part of the blame, of course, is due to the fact that organized religion has compromised it's principles in order to maintain it's relevancy. Abortion, divorce,homosexuality, etc. all once abhorred by Christian sects worldwide are now routinely accepted by dying sects of Christianity in an effort to to keep membership thriving. How many supposedly Christian churches have devolved into a "CHURCH OF WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW" theology so that somebody, anybody, will pay attention?
Add to that the scandals of recent times, particularly in the Catholic Church that have disgusted and ultimately driven away the once faithful.
Furthermore, as government expands and captures more of it's citizenry under the spell of caretaker, more and more unenlightened are substituting God for government.
Is Christianity in danger in the Middle East? You bet it is. But you don't have to go that far to smell the rot. Just open your window.
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