It is a serious issue – and not given nearly as much attention as it requires:
An Egyptian priest has explained that radical Muslims are trying to rid the Middle East entirely of Christians, who once comprised the largest religious group in the region.
“This is what the Muslim fundamentalists want,” the Egyptian Catholic spokesman Fr. Rafic Greische told Vatican Radio.
“They want the Christians to evacuate from the Middle East and leave. And this is what is happening every day…”
…Egyptian Christians face significant public and private discrimination, including policies that make it nearly impossible for them to build churches. In November, a crowd demonstrating for their right to build a church in Giza clashed with police, who fired on unarmed protesters…
Christians are routinely denied basic rights – and at any moment a Moslem can denounce a Christian to an Islamist court and the Christian really has no chance of defending him or herself from the accusation. Christians are robbed, raped, beaten and murdered. Christian churches and holy sites are desecrated. And no Christian really dare defend himself against a Moslem outrage because that might set off what amounts to a pogrom.
My view is that we should seek separation – set up what amounts to at least autonomous areas where Christians can live under their own laws, and be defended by Christians under arms. This is, I think, the only way to teach the Moslems to respect the rights of Christians…and from respect we can eventually move to cooperation and friendship. But as long as Christians are a despised and powerless minority in the middle east, the Moslem leaders will continue to stir up hatred for their own ends.
UPDATE: The threat sharia poses to our society, internally. Every time an Islamist group gets us to accommodate even the mildest aspect of sharia in our law and customs, it is an erosion of our constitutional republic. This is not like tolerating the peculiarities of Hinduism or what have you – Sharia is a complete world view and even Islamists who are not in any way, shape or form terrorists are determined to impose it everywhere.
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