Christian Exodus from the Arab WOrld

[hoosiertoo]

from Spiegel Online

It seems that the ongoing debacle in the Middle East has consequences for our brothers in Christ as Christians are fleeing.

Violence, terrorism and the Islamists’ growing influence pose a threat to Christianity in the Middle East. In some countries, members of an unpopular Christian minority are already fighting for their survival – or fleeing for their lives.

Blame it American foreign policy - there is a case to be made - or the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, but Christians are being ethnically cleansed. (Ethnic cleansing does not equal genocide - so don’t go there.)

The last prominent Christians – Chaldean Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s foreign minister for many years, and Hanan Ashrawi, Arafat’s education minister – have vanished from the political stage in the Middle East. And since the election victories of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas in the Palestinian Authority, the rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon and the bloody power struggles between Sunni and Shiite militias in Iraq, the illusion that Christian politicians could still play an important role in the Arab world is gone once and for all.

How sad…

 

[manualman]

It’s been going on since about 1948.

Before it was fashionable to blame Bush, it was Israel.

IMO, it is all about the oil money.

1. Big oil money corupts mideast leaders.
2. Corrupt mideast leaders need scapegoats to prevent local peasants from realizing how badly said leaders are ripping them off.
3. Corrupt leaders fund militant Islamists who provide nice convenient villians for mob to rage against.
4. Funded militants oblige.