Could Jesus Live Safely In Bethlehem Today?

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
December 24, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/676/could-jesus-live-safely-in-bethlehem-today

Excerpt:

It is Christmas 2009, and instead of peace on earth and good will towards all, Muslims are busily blowing up churches and Christians all over the Islamic world.

This is an awful reality but it is neither recent nor unexpected. Perhaps what is even more awful is the world's silence and seeming passivity. We in the West who believe in religious tolerance have not stopped the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries. In the name of political correctness, we have also "tolerated" the often aggressive demands for mosques, public prayer, minarets, and loudspeakers on our own soil even though there is absolutely no reciprocity towards Christianity (or any other non-Muslim religion) in most Arab and Muslim countries.

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