Moslems Against Christians

Arutz Sheva News Service Friday, Mar. 2, 2001  



"First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."  This is how some 

observers describe the strategy of the Moslems, who see as their 

this-worldly destiny the replacement not only of Judaism [the Saturday 

people] but also of Christianity.  Evidence of their anti-Christian and 

anti-U.S. policies were seen in terrorist attacks of recent years, 

including at the World Trade Center in New York and American embassies in 

Kenya and Tanzania; the failed plans to blow up tunnels in New York; and 

the burning not only of Israeli flags but also of American flags at many 

Arab demonstrations.



Moslem anti-Christian hatred has also come to the fore in Israel; Israeli 

Maj.-Gen. Yaakov (Mendy) Orr, IDF liaison for Judea and Samaria, told the 

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee this week that "vandalism of 

Christian graves" in the PA-controlled areas has been on the rise of 

late.  According to Orr, some fifty Christian families from the 

Bethlehem-area town of Beit Sahour alone tried to emigrate in the last 

month.



On March 3, 1999, then-U.S. Senator Connie Mack, who had just returned from 

a visit in Israel, told the Senate, "I had another profound meeting during 

the week. I met one evening, privately - secretly - with Arabs who were 

being persecuted for the Christian faith...  One man [who was arrested by 

the Palestinian Authority police] was beaten and hung from the ceiling by 

his hands for many hours on charges of selling land to Jews, [but] he was 

poor and had no land. [His son said he was] held hostage to prevent him 

from talking with people about his faith...  It caused me to ask, 'How can 

the people of Israel find peace when the Palestinian Authority engages in 

coercion and torture based only upon religious beliefs?'"



In January 2000, the Palestinian Authority forcefully took over the Russian 

Orthodox church in Jericho.  In July 1997, PA para-military police burst 

into a monastery in Hevron, beat and dragged out the monks and nuns, 

injuring five monks and three nuns.  The Zionist Organization of American 

(www.zoa.org) reports that two American courts recently granted asylum to 

Palestinian Christian Arabs, on the grounds that they would be persecuted 

for their religious beliefs if they return to PA-controlled territory.