PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that Christian minorities in the Middle East are victims of "religious cleansing," following deadly attacks on churches in the region. "We cannot accept and thereby facilitate what looks more and more like a particularly wicked programme of cleansing in the Middle East, religious cleansing," he said in an annual New Year's address to religious leaders.
An attack on a Coptic church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on January 1 killed 21 people. No one has yet claimed responsibility for that attack, which came after threats published online against Egypt's Copts from an Al-Qaeda-linked group in Iraq which had said it was behind a deadly assault on a church in Baghdad in October. (reported on the Middle East Online, 1/7/11)
Anyone who does not believe that Muslims are systematically driving Christians out of "their lands" should read The Body and the Blood by Boston Globe reporter Charles Sennott. Even NPR reported on this the other day. So much for religious tolerance and "Islam, the religion of peace."
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Islam is no more a religion of "peace" than the movement pushed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War was genuinely a "peace" movement. Islamic zealots murder Muslims, Jews and Christians, while less zealous Muslims stand by silently. "Peace" to people like this means pacification. It means, "Do what we want and believe what we want you to believe or we (or someone within our religion, with our tacit approval) will kill you." This is the opposite of, and inconsistent with, Christianity.
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