Christians
are not persecuted in Palestine; do not buy lies!
By Fr. : Labib Kobti
Dear friends we want you to stand with the
Truth and take a position with us.
As Representative of the Latin Patriarchate
of Jerusalem. I have just finished to talk with Jerusalem asking them about
that report : "Today The Jerusalem Post published a government report
claiming that Palestinian Christians are being persecuted by the PA ."
This is absolutly untrue, they said, it a
big lie. The LATIN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM assured me that all is untrue
and all is lies.
On the Contrary the Head of Christian Churches,
they told me, and all Christians are well respected by the P.A and no such
things had happened from our Brothers and sisters the Arab Palestinian
Muslims against the Arab Christians in Palestine. We heard about it on
the Israeli news only, they told me, and we were very upset. On the contrary
harmony and love and respect are the right words to use to define the good
relations between Arab Muslims and Arab Chritians. Please stop all kind
of cold war against our Muslim Brothers and sisters.
I ask you to assure all your friends, the
Media and everybody that they should not buy lies. Recent history shows
also absolutely the contrary of the Jerusalem Post report:
(1) The Arab Muslims did not persecute the
Arab Christians, they do belong to same traditons and heritage, some Arab
Christian Families has the same family names of the Arab Muslims. Some
fanatics (created and financed from outside) had created some time, somewhere,
anywhere from Muslims side, ( also Christian or Jewish had thjeir fanatics)
some tension, but this had never been a policy or a stand of our Brothers
and sisters the Muslim Arabs against th Arab Christians. *NEVER*.
(2) Before 1920 the Arab Muslims and Arab
Christians were living on good terms with the Jews of Palestine. Jews were
welcomed in the Arab world, and some even moved into the higher economic
strata in these societies, at a time when they were being persecuted in
Europe. They were received by Egypt, Iraq, Marocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria,
Palestine and others.
(3) For the past millenium, Jews were never
persecuted by Arab Muslims (after the Zionist enterprise, Arab Muslims
as Arab Christians found that bthe Jewish as people are taking their country
they started to consider them as ennemies, and started to resisit and defend
their fundamental rights on their home Country Palestine). In contrast
to Europe, history proves that Jews were treated better in countries ruled
by Muslim rulers than in any other countries.
(4) Arab Christians who are a minority in
the Middle East and especially in Jerusalem and the Holy Land have never
persecuted Muslims or Jews. The Arab Christians of the Middle East and
the Holy Land have nothing to do with the stands taken by apocalyptic Christian
organizations in the west, such as The Christian Coalition of the Reverand
Pat Robertson, in the United States, or with their philosophies with regard
to the Middle East conflict or with the Christian Zionists and their International
embassy in Jerusalem.The Arab Christians of the Middle East, should not
be held accountable for past persecutions of Jews by European or American
Christian groups.
(5) We refuse as both Arab Chritians and Arab
Muslims the propaganda that wants to prove that there were any studied
or willed persecution form our Muslim brothers and Sisters against their
Brothers and Sisters the Christians.
We consider it as a mere propaganda against
Islam, a cold war against our Muslim Brother that bebefits only the Zionists
and Israel.
That progaganda should stop because it is
absolutely motivated. It could show also that those who are spreading the
word about a Muslim persectution against Christians are the people who
created that kinds of tensions, if any, between Arab Christians and Arab
Muslims in the past to benefit from it.
The Experience of Lebanon is a proof: When
Israel ivaded Lebanon on 1982, one of the Umbrellas was the propaganda
saying that Israel was going to defend the Christian Communties of Lebanon
against Islam. Nobody to day beleives that. But at that time the media
made a lot of innocent people all over the world beleive that Israel was
the Savior of Lebanon.
Please stop all kind of Progadanda against
our Muslim brothers and Sisters, stop the cold war against Islam, look
to the *MERE TRUTH* and stand with it by all good means.
Awlad
Albalad
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