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Consoling the Cartoon Mob

As angry Muslim rioters sent Christians to a martyr's death during last month's riots over cartoons depicting Muhammad, leftist-led Christian groups in the West chose to console the murderers.

[...]many left-leaning church groups such as the National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches responded with indignation about the Danish newspaper's publication of the cartoons -- with nary a word about their persecuted co-religionists.

The National Council of Churches (NCC) of the U.S.A. reacted by standing in "solidarity" with U.S. Islamic groups, who "exercised disciplined restraint," i.e., by not rioting or killing Americans over the cartoons.

"In the context of a widespread and growing Islamophobia in both Europe and the United States, the offense is not only an affront to deeply held religious convictions, but an irresponsible case of cultural stereotyping," Premawardhana solemnly intoned. "We applaud the Norwegian press for its courage to offer an apology to the world-wide Muslim community and lift up their example for others to follow."

With similar equanimity, a statement from the Swiss-based World Council of Churches' assembly in Brazil last month shared the pain of Muslims distressed over the cartoons, but did not mention the Christians assaulted in the Muslim riots.

"As people of faith we understand the pain caused by the disregard of something considered precious to faith," the WCC declared. "We deplore the publications of the cartoons. We also join with the voices of many Muslim leaders in deploring the violent reactions to the publications."

The WCC grabbed the opportunity to wax philosophic over the cartoon issue. "The real tension in our world is not between religions and beliefs but between aggressive, intolerant and manipulative secular and religious ideologies," the church council lamented. "Such ideologies are used to legitimize the use of violence, the exclusion of minorities and political domination." We can be fairly sure that the "ideologies" most distressing to the WCC are not extreme Islam but conservative Christianity, Zionism, and U.S. foreign policy.

They are killing Christians, what is wrong with these people? On the same vein;

The Anti-Semitism of the Presbyterian Church, USA

With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA scheduled to convene in June for the first time since the 2004 GA passed a notorious anti-Israel divestment resolution, supporters and detractors of  divestment are discussing whether the Church’s decision was anti-Semitic, or – somehow -  anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic. [Strawman, anti Israel is antiJ ew- Atlas] Curiously, despite the storm caused by the divestment vote, most Presbyterians remain unaware of the extent to which the PCUSA leadership has involved itself in old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism.

The anti-Semitic alliances undertaken by the national church are particularly surprising  in light of the well-known open-minded and unbiased attitudes of the overwhelming majority of Presbyterians.

One of the resolutions passed at the 2004 General Assembly included a list of recommended theological “resources.” The most troubling “resource” on the list is the Sabeel Center for Liberation Theology. Presbyterians are familiar with liberation theology, an approach that emerged after the Second Vatican Council, focusing on Jesus as liberator of the poor and oppressed. Read it all here hat tip Larry

And lastly Christian Attitudes reports here on;

Fact-finding or fiction-finding pilgrimages?

Beware any Christian pilgrimage which includes a ‘fact-finding mission’! ‘Fact-finding missions’ and propaganda campaigns feature in no Christian pilgrimages anywhere except the Holy Land. Lourdes, Guadalupe, Santiago de Compostela, Fatima, Walsingham – no politicized ‘fact-finding’ or exposure to ‘indigenous’ Christians there. When I visited Walsingham, many of my fellow pilgrims were of African origin, and an offer of a chance to meet ‘indigenous’ (presumably white English) Christians in the area would have looked like racism.

Here is the latest  exercise in propaganda disguised as pilgrimage.

The Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) invites you to travel with members of Market Square Presbyterian Church this summer on a Christian pilgrimage and fact-finding mission to see the holy sites in Jordan, Palestine, and Israel and to meet with Christian communities in the Holy Land

Propaganda and racism combined in one sentence here: Notice that no opportunity is offered to observe the impact of terrorism on Israelis, only their efforts to defend themselves from it.

There will be many opportunities to observe firsthand the full impact of the occupation on the indigenous Christians living in Palestine.

‘Indigenous’ Christians – this is a racist term, which implies that the Christians have been there from the time of Adam and Eve, while the Jews are foreigners.

Arafat liked to pretend that Jesus was the first Palestinian, not a Jew. Both Arafat and Hanan Ashrawi have used this lie as a way of pretending that the Arabs have prior claim to the land.

Comments

[isirota1965]

One word for you: Dhimmitude. Organizations like the CAIR must laugh themselves sick when they read stories like this.

[nevets]

I wont hold my breath, but I can hope...

Maybe this will open peoples eyes to the situation in Israel and explain why no (or pratically no) Christians complain about Islamism from the cute little innocent Jordiptions.

Well, it was a nice thought.

[MarcH]

Pamela,

Your use of the word "burn" in connection with liberal/appeasing churches reminds me of the following account of a conversation in England in 1938 following Kristallnacht.

A member of the Rothschild family was speaking with an influential Christian MP. The MP indicated that while the situation in Germany for the Jews was sad it was not England's affair. Rothschild replied with something like, "the fires of the synagogues of Berlin may well spread to Westminster."

I may be off with some of the facts or dialogue, but I think the above is a fairly accurate account.