Sad. Bethlehem Shops Ban the Cross Due to Growth of Islamic Radicalism
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 23, 2010, 4:38 PM
What sad news.
Bethlehem shops are selling T-shirts depicting the Church of the Nativity without the cross due to growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the area.
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (Farsinet)
Asia News reported, via Camera:
This Christmas in Bethlehem, the cross has been banned from souvenirs for tourists and pilgrims in the Holy Land. Some textile workshops in Jerusalem and Hebron have begun to print and sell T-shirts depicting the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem without the cross. Because of the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Palestinian territories, the cross was also removed from t-shirts of football teams. Interviewed by AsiaNews, Samir Qumsieh, journalist and director of the Catholic television station Al-Mahed Nativity TV in Bethlehem, said: “I want to launch a campaign to urge people not to buy these products – he says – because the removal of the cross is an intimidation against Christians, it is like saying that Jesus was never crucified. ”
Like every year, thousands including authorities, faithful and tourists from all over the world crowd, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for midnight mass on the night of 24 December. It will be celebrated by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and will be attended by the highest offices of the Palestinian Authority.
Qumsieh says that the population is living these days with joy, but the situation for Christians is still dramatic. According to the journalist, the dialogue of recent years between Muslims, Christians and Jews has not changed the situation.
“In the Holy Land – said Qumsieh – the emigration of Christians is growing, even if the authorities refuse to give precise numbers. Every day there are people who flee to other countries. As Christians, we live in a constant feeling of fear and uncertainty, and if you live in constant tension and pessimism you can not plan anything.
And to think… We have an administration that is afraid to mention the word “Islam” and “radicalism” in the same press conference.
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PaleRyder commented:
If they,and the democrats, are so happy to support the murdering actions of radical islam,then they should just all out. Why not sell t-shirts with the pictures of gays hanging from trees in honor of sharia,why not sell t-shirts with pictures of dead little girls from being stoned by a group of muslim men because she was RAPED by muslim men in honor of sharia,why not sell t-shirts of muslims cheering in the streets on 911 when 3000 Americans were murdered by democrat campaign donors and friends of bill and al, not to mention janet reno,in honor of sharia. They could probably make a fortune selling all those at the next dnc meeting,or better yet,they would sell out at the next congressional black caucus meeting,or the leadership meetings of cnn,nbc,msnbc,cbs,and abc.
MrGoodWench commented:
There is this collection of instructions and guidelines, which is pretty old, which tells its cultists what to do after moving into lands on which people of other religions have lived for ages. They have to eliminate those people either by killing them , or by driving them out with terror. All those who are left have to submit and convert. Now just because its actually an ETHNIC CLEANSING doesn’t mean its bad. Look at Kashmir region of India.
Guess the name of that book ?
donh commented:
Now we know what Van Jones was doing visiting the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
MrGoodWench commented:
Now this Church of Nativity , isn’t this the same Church which was desecrated by muslims after they seiged it to use as a toilet ?
bg commented:
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Peace, Tolerance, Sensitivity, Ground Zero Mosque, oh wait.. /s/
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bg commented:
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i want to know why OBAMA conspires with &
employs ISLAMISTS vs anti-Sharia Muslims??
i also want to know why Muslims tolerate ISLAMISTS??
this give us an inch & we’ll take a yard spreading of Islamism to the
4 corners of the world is working great.. just not for infidels, Muslim
& non-Muslim alike..
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bg commented:
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ps re: #6
most of all, i want to know why “we the American people” are not only
allowing our beloved country, but our very souls to be sold to a Golden
Calf for 30 pieces of Siilver??
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Redwine commented:
I remember when Bethlehem had a Christian mayor (Elias Freij) and Christians were the vast majority of the population, and there were reasonable relations with Israel. When the devastatingly destructive “Oslo Accords” were implemented, and the master terrorist, Arafat, was allowed to move from Tunis to take up the helm of the newly created “Palestinian” Authority, the Islamification of Bethlehem, and other predominantly Christian towns, started. This process of uprooting Christians from the region is also happening in Lebanon. Wherever Islam is allowed to reside, the wound of intolerance continues to grow and fester.
squeaky commented:
#4 December 23, 2010 at 5:01 pm
MrGoodWench commented:
“Now this Church of Nativity , isn’t this the same Church which was desecrated by muslims after they seiged” yup and they used pages from the bible for toilet paper. they wouldn’t have had to if the christian hostages didn’t use up ripped out pages from qurans. pesky christians.
Zilla of the Resistance commented:
Very sad indeed. Just today I wrote at my own blog about the plight of Christians around the world and how many either cannot celebrate Christmas at all or must do it in secret for fear of violence, imprisonment and/or death. This latest bit of bleak news makes a very sad cherry for the top of a terrible persecution sundae.
You can read my post here, if you’re interested:
http://zillablog.marezilla.com/2010/12/christmas-and-christians-who-need-our.html
bg commented:
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ISLAMISTS practicing ISLAMISM
IslaMarxism aka: Utopianism by any other name..
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bg commented:
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re: bg #11 December 23, 2010 at 5:34 pm
hope my post goes through, contains nothing that i haven’t posted
several times previously, and i counted the links, altogether 6..
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Cargosquid commented:
Didn’t the West do something about this…about 900 years ago? Starts with a “C”…….
Kurt commented:
And then there’s this story…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101222/wl_mideast_afp/israelreligionchristmasfeud
Qiberon commented:
Well, here’s the problem: it is against Islam to say that Jesus WAS crucified. They believe that God did a switcheroo at the last minute and that Judas Iscariot was crucified in Christ’s place. They believe that Jesus will come back and, seeing as they say He was a Muslim prophet, they say he will “break all the crosses.” So, every cross is offensive to a real Muslim.
Don’t believe me? Look it up. Learn what really is happening.
bg commented:
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Cargosquid #13
actually, centuries of Islamic Crusades went on before Christian Crusaders
fought back.. here is a charted time-line, as well as documented history..
Imperial History Of The Middle East
Enter Crusades-Encyclopedia
Table of Contents
couple of links may be blocked, here’s one..
Crusade Myths
well known myths i might t add..
[Myth 1: The Crusades were wars of unprovoked
aggression against a peaceful Muslim world.
This is as wrong as wrong can be. From the time of Mohammed, Muslims had sought to conquer the Christian world. They did a pretty good job of it, too. After a few centuries of steady conquests, Muslim armies had taken all of North Africa, the Middle East, Asia Minor, and most of Spain. In other words, by the end of the eleventh century the forces of Islam had captured two-thirds of the Christian world. Palestine, the home of Jesus Christ; Egypt, the birthplace of Christian monasticism; Asia Minor, where St. Paul planted the seeds of the first Christian communities: These were not the periphery of Christianity but its very core. And the Muslim empires were not finished yet. They continued to press westward toward Constantinople, ultimately passing it and entering Europe itself. As far as unprovoked aggression goes, it was all on the Muslim side. At some point what was left of the Christian world would have to defend itself or simply succumb to Islamic conquest. The First Crusade was called by Pope Urban II in 1095 in response to an urgent plea for help from the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. Urban called the knights of Christendom to come to the aid of their eastern brethren. It was to be an errand of mercy, liberating the Christians of the East from their Muslim conquerors. In other words, the Crusades were from the beginning a defensive war. The entire history of the eastern Crusades is one of response to Muslim aggression.]
and just for the heck of it..
History Of Religion
you can check it out elsewhere, you could also start by Googling Islamic
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Crusades & see if anything pops up (might not these days of man-made
net cleansing.
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Zilla of the Resistance commented:
@#16 Excellent post, bg, thanks for the info!
ff11 commented:
MrGoodWench, good call on pointing out the genocide and ethnic cleansing explicitly commanded by God in the Bible (Deuteronomy). Most Christians don’t actually know what’s in the “Good book”.
Rhymes With Right commented:
Repeat after me — “Islam is a peaceful, tolerant religion that condones neither coercion in religious matters nor violence against non-believers.”
bg commented:
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ff11 #18
of course you thoroughly understand it relative to time & context, correct??
oh btw, i’m from the show me genre, ergo, where are Christians beheading
infidels, burning mosques, kidnapping for ransom, and/or committing honor
killing, etc, etc. etc??
thanks in advance..
oh, and most Christians don’t know because Christianity was reformed many
moons ago, and the Bible is a guide, not a law, well, except for fanatics like
the Westboro Baptists anyways..
radical Christian mob strikes again, they’re
wild in the streets threatening the public!!
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bg commented:
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re: #20
gah, my apologies to the despicable Westboro Baptists, even what they do
doesn’t come close to what the IKWAN , SALAFI, WAHABBI et al have done
& are still doing, namely, slaughtering innocents for a poligius cause.. *sigh*
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ff11 commented:
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it.”
And no, Islam is no better.
Chisum commented:
ff11
2010/12/23 at 7:43 pm
MrGoodWench, good call on pointing out the genocide and ethnic cleansing explicitly commanded by God in the Bible (Deuteronomy). Most Christians don’t actually know what’s in the “Good book”.
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Yes, good call.
http://www.relevantbibleteaching.com/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=140025932&sec_id=140001239
rbosque commented:
They’re offended by the cross? I’m offended by their genocidal fatwas.
bg commented:
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i know Jesus was no a pacifist.. but then again.. pacifism has nothing to
do with peace, truly it doesn’t.. i mean, come on now, other than Islamists,
who are the ones rioting, burning & looting (hint, look for those making the
v sign)??
however, i see neither Christian nor Jew committing genocide, never
mind strictly adhering to the “good book/s”.. unlike Islamists have
for centuries right on up until this very day..
oh btw, i heard the Earth used to be flat..
and there’s just no excuse for this, absolutely none..
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Jared commented:
Whoa, whoa, whoa! I thought the Palestinians and the Muslims love peace and their fellow man. There isn’t actually a concern out there that some may be intolerant, right?
Jared commented:
Chisum ~ yeah, look at all the Christians blowing themselves up, launching rockets into Israel, killing tourists in Israel, destroying ancient Buddhist statues, and the like… oh wait, it’s the Muslims doing that. Christians have had their problems in the past, but they have evolved and continue to do so. 100 years ago a female minister was unhead of, but now look at how Christianity has evolved. Has Islam evolved?
Chisum commented:
Jared,
These radical Muslims aren’t evolving, they are devolving.
chutzpah commented:
As neither a Christian or a Muslim, I am appalled that the world allows such intimidation on Christmas in Bethlehem. But, as our President (who claims to be a Christian) lolls around in sunny Hawaii, do you think he could possibly be thinking of the “monsters” he is helping to create with his pacifist ideology? After all, says he, they are “reasonable” people and we should negotiate with them. Yea right!!!