In the Middle East, only in Israel Christians today feel safer to pray and proclaim gospel. Where else in the Middle east are non-muslims equal to Muslims under Muslims' authority? Spare me a break, don't practice taqqiya and kitman on me bro!
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Attack on Christian church shows pattern of religious abuse in Israel Posted in Press Releases FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPrice-tag attackers call Jesus a monkey( The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a national grassroots organization dedicated to educating the public about Palestine, condemns the desecration of a Christian monastery, the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Sept-Douleurs, near Jerusalem. On Tuesday morning monks found the front door in flames and anti-Christian graffiti spray painted on the walls. The vandalism was a so-called price-tag attack by militant Jewish settlers, who say there is a price for the state-mandated dismantling of settler outposts, built illegally on stolen Palestinian land. The graffiti mentioned the words, Migron, the name of an outpost evacuated last weekend, and Jesus is a monkey. While this unfortunate attack against the monastery is completely hateful, it serves to illustrate that the situation in the Middle East is not a Muslim vs. Jewish problem, said AMP Chairman, Dr. Hatem Bazian. This attack shows how the Israeli occupation policies and the resultant illegal settler movement target all Palestinians regardless of religion in an effort to ethnically cleanse the indigenous population from Palestine.Though this was the first such attack at the monastery, there have been several incidents against Christians and churches over the past several months. Vandalism almost always involves anti-Christian graffiti, such as Death to Christians, and Jesus drop dead, according to media reports. Churches have been burned and car tires slashed, as well.Among the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Christian clergy report being spit upon by yeshiva students, who also yell slurs at them.Religious bias, whether in the form of price-tag attacks, state policy or rabbinical decree, is not new in Israel. In fact, the state does not recognize several Protestant denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Baptists, though theyve been in Palestine for generations, according to the U.S. State Departments International Religious Freedom 2011 report. Anti-Christian violence in Israel. Catholic leaders: Forces of hateThe main door of the Trappist monastery of Latrun burned. Graffiti offensive of the Christian faith. Perhaps revenge for the evacuation of an illegal Israeli settlement. Catholic patriarchs and bishops denounce: Christians used as scapegoats. Israeli society marked by teaching "of contempt." Netanyahu promises justice.Jerusalem (AsiaNews) - "Christians are still being targeted. Why?" This is the question of all the Catholic patriarchs and authorities in the Holy Land, along with the Nuncio to Jordan, Giorgio Lingua, after yet another attack of vandalism on a place of Christian worship and writings offensive to their faith. Yesterday, the Trappist monastery of Latrun was attacked, the main gate was burned and the façade covered in orange graffiti. One reads in Hebrew: "Jesus is a monkey," while others refer to "Ramat Migron" and "Maoz Esther," two illegal Jewish settlements. Last week, the Israeli police evacuated outposts of Migron because it was built on private Palestinian land. Police have opened an investigation but so far there are leads. The hypothesis points to Israeli extremist settlers venting their anger against the monastery, which is located near the border of the occupied territories, 15 km west of Jerusalem. A statement of the settlers of Migron denies any responsibility in the act of vandalism. In the late afternoon yesterday the Catholic leaders of the Holy Land published a message denouncing "their horror" at the presence of "forces of hatred in Israeli society." The message highlights the great work of dialogue with the Jewish world brought forward by the monks of Latrun and the fact that the monastery is visited by hundreds of Israeli Jews every week, who are all welcomed "with love and warmth by the monks." The leaders do note, however, that "what happened in Latrun is just the latest episode in a long series of attacks against Christians and their places of worship."