Holy Land Christians Driven Out by RoP
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 8:47 am PDT • Views: 158
Amazingly, al-Reuters has a report on Christians being driven out of Palestinian areas by representatives of the Religion of Tolerance™: Holy Land’s Christians caught in midst of conflict.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - A 76-year-old Greek Orthodox monk is beaten up by villagers, his carefully tended olive trees are uprooted and his isolated West Bank monastery is defaced with graffiti depicting nuns being raped.
The land of Jesus’s birth is not always an easy place for Christians to live in 2006.
The population of Christians in the Holy Land, particularly in the Palestinian territories, is dwindling as more and more leave for a better life abroad, turning the community into a tiny minority squeezed between Muslims and Jews.
The traditional merchant class, heavily dependent on tourist money, has suffered a recession since a Palestinian uprising began in 2000 and Israel walled off Bethlehem with a barrier.
The article goes on to explain that they’re suffering equally from “Israeli security measures” and “Islamic extremists,” without any hint that one of these things is not like the other.
Frank says: