Christians near Bethlehem

[aris2chat]

This is how muslims embrace christians in the WB

Christians stabbed, stoned by Muslims near Bethlehem
wnd.com/2014/05/christians-stabbed-stoned-by-muslims-near-bethlehem/

By Israel Today

The Feast of Saint George, a pretty important holiday for Palestinian Christians, recently ended, but it didn’t end well for those celebrating at the festival’s focal point, the Monastery of Saint George near Bethlehem.

Saint George’s Monastery is located in the village of al-Khadar, which is the name used for Saint George in Arab culture. Every year, Palestinian Christians, and even some Muslims, gather at the monastery, as well as at other locations throughout the region, to commemorate George’s martyrdom and dedication to his faith.

During this year’s festival, which occurred on May 6, the Christians gathered at Saint George’s were beset by Muslim provocateurs and assailants.

Lela Gilbert, author of Saturday People, Sunday People, Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner, provided an initial report to CAMERA.

“Some local Muslims either tried to park a car too close the church and/or tried to enter the church during a service honoring St. George – the initial instigation isn’t clear. But when the intruders were asked to leave, one of them stabbed a Christian man who was outside the church serving as a guard. He was hospitalized. Several then started throwing stones at the church. 7 or 8 Christians were injured and some physical damage was done – broken windows etc. The police didn’t show up for an hour.”

One of the victims managed to record a portion of the attack on his cellphone and uploaded the footage to YouTube, where it has since been seen by over 20,000 people. And still, media coverage of the attack has been sorely lacking. Perhaps everyone is too busy furiously criticizing Israel over a few youth scrawling graffiti.

The Christians in the video, including crying children, can be seen cowering in fear as they are besieged by Muslim hooligans whom the authorities did very little, if anything, to stop.

This is from the same Bethlehem where Christ at the Checkpoint organizers say Christians and Muslims live in harmony; this is from the same “Palestine” the international community labels as “moderate” in its justification for establishing yet another Arab state; and this is happening, right next door, as everyone ignores realities and accuses Israel of abusing minorities, of being an “apartheid state.”

 

[Roudy]

This is how muslims embrace christians in the WB

Christians stabbed, stoned by Muslims near Bethlehem
wnd.com/2014/05/christians-stabbed-stoned-by-muslims-near-bethlehem/

By Israel Today

The Feast of Saint George, a pretty important holiday for Palestinian Christians, recently ended, but it didn’t end well for those celebrating at the festival’s focal point, the Monastery of Saint George near Bethlehem.

Saint George’s Monastery is located in the village of al-Khadar, which is the name used for Saint George in Arab culture. Every year, Palestinian Christians, and even some Muslims, gather at the monastery, as well as at other locations throughout the region, to commemorate George’s martyrdom and dedication to his faith.

During this year’s festival, which occurred on May 6, the Christians gathered at Saint George’s were beset by Muslim provocateurs and assailants.

Lela Gilbert, author of Saturday People, Sunday People, Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner, provided an initial report to CAMERA.

“Some local Muslims either tried to park a car too close the church and/or tried to enter the church during a service honoring St. George – the initial instigation isn’t clear. But when the intruders were asked to leave, one of them stabbed a Christian man who was outside the church serving as a guard. He was hospitalized. Several then started throwing stones at the church. 7 or 8 Christians were injured and some physical damage was done – broken windows etc. The police didn’t show up for an hour.”

One of the victims managed to record a portion of the attack on his cellphone and uploaded the footage to YouTube, where it has since been seen by over 20,000 people. And still, media coverage of the attack has been sorely lacking. Perhaps everyone is too busy furiously criticizing Israel over a few youth scrawling graffiti.

The Christians in the video, including crying children, can be seen cowering in fear as they are besieged by Muslim hooligans whom the authorities did very little, if anything, to stop.

This is from the same Bethlehem where Christ at the Checkpoint organizers say Christians and Muslims live in harmony; this is from the same “Palestine” the international community labels as “moderate” in its justification for establishing yet another Arab state; and this is happening, right next door, as everyone ignores realities and accuses Israel of abusing minorities, of being an “apartheid state.”

But but but I thought it was the Jooooos that were killing the Christians? Does not compute, does not compute!

 

[Auldhippy]

Regretable criminality (if true, not been reported widely) but not indicative:

The United States State Department's 2006 report on religious freedom criticized both Israel for its restrictions on travel to Christian holy sites and the Palestinian Authority for its failure to stamp out anti-Christian crime. It also reported that the former gives preferential treatment in basic civic services to Jews and the latter does so to Muslims. The report stated that, generally, ordinary Muslim and Christian citizens enjoy good relations in contrast to the "strained" Jewish and non-Jewish relations.[11] A 2005 BBC report also described Muslim and Christian relations as "peaceful".[48]



Palestinian Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Auldhippy]

Regretable criminality (if true, not been reported widely) but not indicative:

The United States State Department's 2006 report on religious freedom criticized both Israel for its restrictions on travel to Christian holy sites and the Palestinian Authority for its failure to stamp out anti-Christian crime. It also reported that the former gives preferential treatment in basic civic services to Jews and the latter does so to Muslims. The report stated that, generally, ordinary Muslim and Christian citizens enjoy good relations in contrast to the "strained" Jewish and non-Jewish relations.[11] A 2005 BBC report also described Muslim and Christian relations as "peaceful".[48]



Palestinian Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Roudy]

No not indicative at all. If Israel wasn't in charge of those areas, Muslims would have torched every single church and ancient relic in the name of Allah. That's why majority of Christians in the world want those lands to remain in Jewish hands. They've seen Muslim "tolerance" in action.

 

[montelatici]

"Jewish Hate Groups Carry Out ‘Price Tag’ Attacks on Christians in Israel"

"...the US State Department have even issuing travel warnings now regarding extremist ‘Jewish hate groups’ in Israel...."

"For the first time, the State Department’s 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism, published Wednesday, included a reference to a growing wave of racist anti-Palestinian vandalism, euphemistically known as “price tag” attacks.'

Jewish Hate Groups Carry Out ?Price Tag? Attacks on Christians in Israel

 

[Roudy]

Wow, graffiti attacks are the same as Muslims bombing churches and massacring Christians.

 

[Hossfly]

Wow, graffiti attacks are the same as Muslims bombing churches and massacring Christians.

There's a new sherrif in town. Maybe she could be posted near the Bethlehem churches.


Yasmin Chayach (pictured) has become the first female Arabic-speaking Christian to complete the Israeli army’s officers course

Chayach was following family tradition by volunteering for service in the IDF, as her brother before her was also a proud Israeli soldier.

The Chayach siblings are part of a growing movement of young Arabic-speaking Israeli Christians who are choosing to do national service.

Meet the IDF's First Female Christian Officer - Israel Today | Israel News

 

[Auldhippy]

No not indicative at all. If Israel wasn't in charge of those areas, Muslims would have torched every single church and ancient relic in the name of Allah. That's why majority of Christians in the world want those lands to remain in Jewish hands. They've seen Muslim "tolerance" in action.

You are just making crap up, for the best part of a millenium & until the arrival of the Zionists, Jews, Christians and muslims lived mostly harmoniously throughout the middle east. Most of the oldest churches in the world still survive as though simply to prove you an idiot.

 

[Roudy]

No not indicative at all. If Israel wasn't in charge of those areas, Muslims would have torched every single church and ancient relic in the name of Allah. That's why majority of Christians in the world want those lands to remain in Jewish hands. They've seen Muslim "tolerance" in action.

You are just making crap up, for the best part of a millenium & until the arrival of the Zionists, Jews, Christians and muslims lived mostly harmoniously throughout the middle east. Most of the oldest churches in the world still survive as though simply to prove you an idiot.

Really? Is that before or after Palestinian terrorists barged into a church in Bethlehem and wiped their asses with ancient Bibles when they ran out of toilet paper?

As far as Muslim treatment of Christians and Jews, HARMONIOUSLY MY ASS!

Islamization of East Jerusalem under Jordanian occupation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Islamization of East Jerusalem under Jordanian occupation is the allegation that during the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank between 1948-1967, Jordan sought to alter the demographics and landscape of the city to enhance its Muslim character. At this time, all Jewish residents were expelled and restrictions were imposed on the Christian population that led many to leave the city. Ghada Hashem Talhami states that during its nineteen years of rule, the government of Jordan took actions to accentuate the spiritual Islamic status of Jerusalem. These measures were described as "Arabization."

58 synagogues were desecrated or demolished in the Old City, resulting in the de-Judaization of Jerusalem. The Western Wall was transformed into an exclusively Muslim holy site associated with al-Buraq. 38,000 Jewish graves in the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives were systematically destroyed, and Jews were not allowed to be buried there. Following the Arab Legions expulsion of the Jewish residents of the Old City in the 1948 War, Jordan allowed Arab-Muslim refugees to settle in the vacated Jewish Quarter.[9] Later, after some of these were moved to Shuafat, migrants from Hebron took their place.[10] During the 1960s, as the quarter continued to fall into decay, Jordan planned to turn the quarter into a public park.

Treatment of Christians and Christian holy sites

In 1952, Jordan proclaimed that Islam was to be the official religion.

In 1953, Jordan restricted Christian communities from owning or purchasing land near holy sites, and in 1964, further prohibited churches from buying land in Jerusalem. These were cited, along with new laws impacting Christian educational institutions, by both British political commentator Bat Ye'or and the mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek as evidence that Jordan sought to "Islamize" the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

In order to counter the influence of foreign powers, who had run the Christian schools in Jerusalem autonomously since Ottoman times, the Jordanian government legislated in 1955 to bring all schools under government supervision. They were allowed to use only approved textbooks and teach in Arabic. Schools were required to close on Arab national holidays and Fridays instead of Sundays. Christian holidays were no longer not recognised officially, and observation of Sunday as the Christian Sabbath was restricted to Christian civil servants. Christian students could study their own religion, but lessons in Koran were declared mandatory.

The Jordanian government did not allow Christian institutions to expand, and banned them from purchasing land. Christian churches were prevented from funding hospitals and other social services in Jerusalem.

In the wake of these restrictions, many Christians left East Jerusalem.

 

[montelatici]

What does Jordan have to do with anything today?

And you are full of crap:


"....we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples."

"http://www.kairospalestine.ps/

 

[Auldhippy]

No not indicative at all. If Israel wasn't in charge of those areas, Muslims would have torched every single church and ancient relic in the name of Allah. That's why majority of Christians in the world want those lands to remain in Jewish hands. They've seen Muslim "tolerance" in action.

You are just making crap up, for the best part of a millenium & until the arrival of the Zionists, Jews, Christians and muslims lived mostly harmoniously throughout the middle east. Most of the oldest churches in the world still survive as though simply to prove you an idiot.

Really? Is that before or after Palestinian terrorists barged into a church in Bethlehem and wiped their asses with ancient Bibles when they ran out of toilet paper?

As far as Muslim treatment of Christians and Jews, HARMONIOUSLY MY ASS!

Islamization of East Jerusalem under Jordanian occupation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Islamization of East Jerusalem under Jordanian occupation is the allegation that during the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank between 1948-1967, Jordan sought to alter the demographics and landscape of the city to enhance its Muslim character. At this time, all Jewish residents were expelled and restrictions were imposed on the Christian population that led many to leave the city. Ghada Hashem Talhami states that during its nineteen years of rule, the government of Jordan took actions to accentuate the spiritual Islamic status of Jerusalem. These measures were described as "Arabization."

58 synagogues were desecrated or demolished in the Old City, resulting in the de-Judaization of Jerusalem. The Western Wall was transformed into an exclusively Muslim holy site associated with al-Buraq. 38,000 Jewish graves in the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives were systematically destroyed, and Jews were not allowed to be buried there. Following the Arab Legions expulsion of the Jewish residents of the Old City in the 1948 War, Jordan allowed Arab-Muslim refugees to settle in the vacated Jewish Quarter.[9] Later, after some of these were moved to Shuafat, migrants from Hebron took their place.[10] During the 1960s, as the quarter continued to fall into decay, Jordan planned to turn the quarter into a public park.

Treatment of Christians and Christian holy sites

In 1952, Jordan proclaimed that Islam was to be the official religion.

In 1953, Jordan restricted Christian communities from owning or purchasing land near holy sites, and in 1964, further prohibited churches from buying land in Jerusalem. These were cited, along with new laws impacting Christian educational institutions, by both British political commentator Bat Ye'or and the mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek as evidence that Jordan sought to "Islamize" the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

In order to counter the influence of foreign powers, who had run the Christian schools in Jerusalem autonomously since Ottoman times, the Jordanian government legislated in 1955 to bring all schools under government supervision. They were allowed to use only approved textbooks and teach in Arabic. Schools were required to close on Arab national holidays and Fridays instead of Sundays. Christian holidays were no longer not recognised officially, and observation of Sunday as the Christian Sabbath was restricted to Christian civil servants. Christian students could study their own religion, but lessons in Koran were declared mandatory.

The Jordanian government did not allow Christian institutions to expand, and banned them from purchasing land. Christian churches were prevented from funding hospitals and other social services in Jerusalem.

In the wake of these restrictions, many Christians left East Jerusalem.

The United States State Department's 2006 report on religious freedom criticized both Israel for its restrictions on travel to Christian holy sites and the Palestinian Authority for its failure to stamp out anti-Christian crime. It also reported that the former gives preferential treatment in basic civic services to Jews and the latter does so to Muslims. The report stated that, generally, ordinary Muslim and Christian citizens enjoy good relations in contrast to the "strained" Jewish and non-Jewish relations.[11] A 2005 BBC report also described Muslim and Christian relations as "peaceful".[48]



Palestinian Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[Phoenall]

"Jewish Hate Groups Carry Out ‘Price Tag’ Attacks on Christians in Israel"

"...the US State Department have even issuing travel warnings now regarding extremist ‘Jewish hate groups’ in Israel...."

"For the first time, the State Department’s 2013 Country Reports on Terrorism, published Wednesday, included a reference to a growing wave of racist anti-Palestinian vandalism, euphemistically known as “price tag” attacks.'

Jewish Hate Groups Carry Out ?Price Tag? Attacks on Christians in Israel

While it is moderate muslims that are ethnically cleansing all the Christians from Palestine. Which is worse having a mosque defaced by graffiti or having your daughter raped and sold into slavery by muslims.

 

[Phoenall]

No not indicative at all. If Israel wasn't in charge of those areas, Muslims would have torched every single church and ancient relic in the name of Allah. That's why majority of Christians in the world want those lands to remain in Jewish hands. They've seen Muslim "tolerance" in action.

You are just making crap up, for the best part of a millenium & until the arrival of the Zionists, Jews, Christians and muslims lived mostly harmoniously throughout the middle east. Most of the oldest churches in the world still survive as though simply to prove you an idiot.

NO THEY DID NOT they lived under the yoke of tyranny and faced beatings or death for the least little thing. There are reports of muslims beating a Christian to death for allowing his shadow to touch a mosque. Read the pact of Omar and the Dhimmi laws to see just how "harmonious" life was under muslim rule

 

[Phoenall]

What does Jordan have to do with anything today?

And you are full of crap:


"....we Palestinian Christians declare that the military occupation of our land is a sin against God and humanity, and that any theology that legitimizes the occupation is far from Christian teachings because true Christian theology is a theology of love and solidarity with the oppressed, a call to justice and equality among peoples."

"http://www.kairospalestine.ps/

More that South Africa ever will, or Ireland for that matter. But you forget that it was Jordan that evicted the Jews and Christians from Jerusalem in 1949, putting many to death in the process.

 

[Phoenall]

You are just making crap up, for the best part of a millenium & until the arrival of the Zionists, Jews, Christians and muslims lived mostly harmoniously throughout the middle east. Most of the oldest churches in the world still survive as though simply to prove you an idiot.

Really? Is that before or after Palestinian terrorists barged into a church in Bethlehem and wiped their asses with ancient Bibles when they ran out of toilet paper?

As far as Muslim treatment of Christians and Jews, HARMONIOUSLY MY ASS!

Islamization of East Jerusalem under Jordanian occupation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Islamization of East Jerusalem under Jordanian occupation is the allegation that during the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank between 1948-1967, Jordan sought to alter the demographics and landscape of the city to enhance its Muslim character. At this time, all Jewish residents were expelled and restrictions were imposed on the Christian population that led many to leave the city. Ghada Hashem Talhami states that during its nineteen years of rule, the government of Jordan took actions to accentuate the spiritual Islamic status of Jerusalem. These measures were described as "Arabization."

58 synagogues were desecrated or demolished in the Old City, resulting in the de-Judaization of Jerusalem. The Western Wall was transformed into an exclusively Muslim holy site associated with al-Buraq. 38,000 Jewish graves in the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives were systematically destroyed, and Jews were not allowed to be buried there. Following the Arab Legions expulsion of the Jewish residents of the Old City in the 1948 War, Jordan allowed Arab-Muslim refugees to settle in the vacated Jewish Quarter.[9] Later, after some of these were moved to Shuafat, migrants from Hebron took their place.[10] During the 1960s, as the quarter continued to fall into decay, Jordan planned to turn the quarter into a public park.

Treatment of Christians and Christian holy sites

In 1952, Jordan proclaimed that Islam was to be the official religion.

In 1953, Jordan restricted Christian communities from owning or purchasing land near holy sites, and in 1964, further prohibited churches from buying land in Jerusalem. These were cited, along with new laws impacting Christian educational institutions, by both British political commentator Bat Ye'or and the mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek as evidence that Jordan sought to "Islamize" the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

In order to counter the influence of foreign powers, who had run the Christian schools in Jerusalem autonomously since Ottoman times, the Jordanian government legislated in 1955 to bring all schools under government supervision. They were allowed to use only approved textbooks and teach in Arabic. Schools were required to close on Arab national holidays and Fridays instead of Sundays. Christian holidays were no longer not recognised officially, and observation of Sunday as the Christian Sabbath was restricted to Christian civil servants. Christian students could study their own religion, but lessons in Koran were declared mandatory.

The Jordanian government did not allow Christian institutions to expand, and banned them from purchasing land. Christian churches were prevented from funding hospitals and other social services in Jerusalem.

In the wake of these restrictions, many Christians left East Jerusalem.

The United States State Department's 2006 report on religious freedom criticized both Israel for its restrictions on travel to Christian holy sites and the Palestinian Authority for its failure to stamp out anti-Christian crime. It also reported that the former gives preferential treatment in basic civic services to Jews and the latter does so to Muslims. The report stated that, generally, ordinary Muslim and Christian citizens enjoy good relations in contrast to the "strained" Jewish and non-Jewish relations.[11] A 2005 BBC report also described Muslim and Christian relations as "peaceful".[48]



Palestinian Christians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Would that be to deter terrorism because so many ISLAMONAZI's are known to fly false flags........... Kithman and Taqiya are practised daily by muslims.

 

[Roudy]

Yup, those Moooooslems really love Christians. They're just misunderstood "people".

Muslims Attack Gaza Church: “The Days of You O Worshipers of the Cross”
February 27, 2014

Palestinian Muslim control over territory has always led to the flight of Christians. Ramallah was founded by Christians fleeing Muslim persecution. Like so many other Christian strongholds, it became Muslim. Bethlehem is majority Muslim and its Christians report incidents of persecution and intimidation.

There is a reason that Christians are vanishing in the Muslim world. And the issue is Muslim intolerance.

Palestine Press Agency reports that two nights ago people attacked a Latin church in Gaza City, and they spray painted slogans against attacks on Muslims in the Central African Republic.

The attackers tried to blow up a car belonging to the pastor, Father Jorge Hernández, but their Molotov cocktail failed to ignite.

Before they left the scene the attackers wrote that they vowed revenge for the Muslims in the Central African Republic, writing “The days of you O worshipers of the cross, in revenge for the Muslims in Central Africa.”

Gaza has about a thousand Christians remaining after a series of attacks in the early days of Hamas rule.

 

[Roudy]

Heck, the animals are already treating Christians worse than their Arab Muslim brethren do.

Persecution of Christians in Palestinian Authority

Yusuf Khoury is a Christian who had to flee from religious persecution in Gaza. Hamas men tried to capture him twice. His sister is under pressure to wear a head scarf. As Muslim religiosity intensifies in Gaza, Christians feel more under siege.

Within a year of Gaza’s take-over by Hamas, the owner of Gaza’s only Christian bookstore was abducted and murdered. Christian stores and schools were firebombed.

Like most of his friends, Mr. Khoury had enough. He went to the Judea-Samaria part of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.). He studies theology in the Bethlehem Bible college.

The Western media usually ignore the plight of Christians in the P.A.. They just denounce Israel’s security barrier. However, until Arab terrorists “turned Bethlehem into a safe haven for suicide bombers, Bethlehemites were free to enter Israel, just as many Israelis routinely visited Bethlehem” [as I once did].

Israel’s security barrier helped restore security in Israel and in the P.A.. Pilgrims and tourists have returned to Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, that P.A. terrorists had defiled in 2002. [How did the barrier foster security in the P.A.?]

In Bethlehem, too, life is difficult for Christians. Khoury says that Muslims stand in front of his college to intimidate the students by the way they read the Quran. Other Muslims place their prayer rugs in Manger Square. The college dean would not explain why. He said that Muslims and Christians live in “relative harmony,” but admitted that Christians “feel the pressure of Islam…”

The head of a Christian TV station denied any “Christian suffering,” but then described land theft, beating, and intimidation by Muslims, and his own house’s firebombing. Muslim gangs seize Christian-owned land, as P.A. security forces stand by.

“always a minority religion upon the predominantly Muslim Palestinians, Christians are…fleeing (Daniel Schwammenthal, Wall St. J., Opinion, 12/24).

When Muslim armies conquered the region, Christians were the majority.

 

[Auldhippy]

Well if you invent "reports" of course there will be reports.

 

[Roudy]

Yeah, they're just fake reports. Muslims have the utmost respect for Christians. It's the Joooos that are the problem. All those Christians Muslims have killed and persecuted around the world, it's the Jooooos. Take a hike, clown.