Thursday, August 11, 2005
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A Christian challenges Christian Aid over biased campaigning on Israel and Palestine, and speaks out against the demonization of Israel in the wider Church
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." (Ephesians 2:14)
Also featuring MR GRUMPY
"I can tolerate rot, but it must not be utter rot" (Bertie Wooster)
On Christian Aid
Critiques of Christian Aid News
Links
- Anglicans Friends of Israel
- Christian Aid
- Engage - academics against the academic boycott
- European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
- Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East
- Honestly Concerned (in German)
- International Council of Christians and Jews
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- Matthias Küntzel: writing on Antisemitism, Islamism and the Middle East conflict
- MidEast Web
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1 comment:
Hi there Cyrus!
Sorry to pick up something that was said on your earlier correspondence with Engage, but I just couldn't let it lie!
'The West' has produced Nazism, Fasicsm, colonialism, racism - etc.'
Um, I hope that whoever wrote this was not a history lecturer.
Colonialism was alive and well in the time of your great namesake Cyrus. And Islam was not slow to pick it up from the 6th century onwards as Arabs spread out in all directions subjugating mainly Christian lands in the name of Islam.
Likewise, racism was alive and well in Egypt as Hebrews were subject to genocide and boy babies were killed. Why would the Israelites have been pressed to treat "the alien in your midst as a native born" if racism had not been alive and kicking at the time?
The principles behind National Socialism were born, I believe, in Sparta, although the Nazis looked to Viking myths for their immediate examples. Etc Etc ...
Self hatred and self abnegation,as reflected in the quote above, are the marks of a dhimma society, a society of non-muslims graciously permitted to exist as a distinct entity by their (muslim) conquerors. The price for their permission to exist is second class citizenship, continual obsequiousness to their oppressors and the constant fear of attack without recourse if they dare to protest.
This is what Engage will not recognise.
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