This just in from one of many wonderful informants. in the UK (Simon McIlwaine of the Anglican Friends of Israel) and it reprints a piece by the British journalist Melanie Phillips about the persecution of Christians under Hamas and the failure of the British mainstream press to note it.
October 8, 2007
Sightless in Gaza
Meanwhile, the Islamist religious terror being perpetrated in Gaza is also going virtually unremarked by the British media. I don’t recall reading this in the mainstream press:
A Palestinian Christian activist was killed this weekend in Gaza. Rami Khader Ayyad, head of the Protestant Holy Bible Society in Gaza City, had been threatened by militants who wanted him to stop selling Christian religious materials. Earlier this year, someone blew up the Society’s shop in Gaza City. The 32-year-old was abducted Saturday night, and found dead yesterday with gunshot and stab wounds, the Associated Press reports. AFP says his body, which showed signs of torture, was found by Hamas-affiliated police. ‘We will pursue anyone who is found to be involved in this case,’ the regime said in a statement. ‘We will not be merciful with those who abuse the security and stability of our people.’ Ayyad’s wife is pregnant with their third child.
As I wrote here some months ago, a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Hamas against Palestinian Christians appears to be under way in Gaza and the West Bank. So might we expect a protest from the Archbishop of Canterbury? If we turn to his website, we do indeed find him speaking out robustly about the plight of Christians* in Iraq. And guess who the culprits are? Yup, you got it in one:
Questioner: Britain and America invaded Iraq and therefore these Iraqi Christians are suffering. Is that a link that you would make?
Archbishop: I’m afraid it’s a very clear link. This is the link that’s made locally and whether justly or not, that is how it’s seen.
Not one mention of the plight of Palestinian Christians persecuted by Hamas.
And as for the talk about possible American action against Iran and Syria:
I can only say that I regard that as criminal, ignorant and potentially murderous folly.
So heartening to find the Church of England once again displaying its moral backbone.
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Ethan:“So heartening to find the Church of England once again displaying its moral backbone.”
You expected anything different? The Anglican church abdicated any semblance of moral backbone a long time ago, deciding to follow the winds of popularity than the via media.
Oct 9, 2007 - 7:16 pm Randall:I believe you have completely missed the point.
The murder of the Christian(s) by Palestinians only proves how terribly the Palestinians have suffered and to what depths they have been pushed by Israeli/American colonialism/Imperialism/Capitalism/Racism/Paternalism…am I missing any “ism’s?”
The more depraved and counterproductive Palestinian behavior becomes the more proof we have of just how much they have been brutalized by their oppressors.
Aren’t you paying attention? Geez Laweez.
Oct 9, 2007 - 10:44 pm David Thomson:“The murder of the Christian(s) by Palestinians only proves how terribly the Palestinians have suffered and to what depths they have been pushed by Israeli/American colonialism/Imperialism/Capitalism/Racism/Paternalism…”
Such despicable behavior by the Palestinian extremists indeed does nothing to change the minds of the politically correct leftists. They are existentially incapable of dealing with the evil committed by darker skinned things. The latter are inherently victims of our alleged racist imperialism. We are always the guilty ones.
Oct 10, 2007 - 8:26 am Alan Kellogg:Let’s see…
Our progressives say non-whites are too primitive to be expected to behave in a civilized fashion, whereas our reactionaries say non-whites are fully capable of, and should be expected to, behave in a civilized fashion. When was the universe turned over to Josef Goebbels?
Oct 12, 2007 - 3:16 am BobFromBrockley:Good to discover Anglican Friends of Israel - thanks!
Not one word either, by the way, from our odious Archbishop of the suffering of Christians or other religious groups in Iraq (e.g. the Yazedis) at the hands of the clerical-fascist insurgents.
Oct 12, 2007 - 6:56 am