More like Presbyterian dhimmitude. More on the Presbyterian church's anti-Israel resolutions, from Richard Baehr in FrontPage. The Presbyterian church, like so many others, has no idea that Israel faces the same jihad that non-Muslims are facing in Indonesia, Philippines, Kashmir, Chechnya, Nigeria, etc. The alternative to Israel is a maximalist, totalitarian Sharia state that will be just as bad for Presbyterians in the area as it will be for Jews.
Jewish liberals received a shock last week. The liberal Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) declared war on Israel at is annual General Assembly meeting, approving a divestment campaign from Israel with 87 percent of the vote, casting the Holy Land as the new South Africa. The shock was doubly painful since liberal Jews believe that liberal churches are supposed to be their allies in all kinds of common fights....The leftist Presbyterians apparently thinks that now is the time to pile on Israel and force it to “behave better” with the Palestinians. The Church strangely did not pass any resolutions at their General Assembly this year about the slaughter of black Muslims in the Sudan by Arabs, and they never passed any resolutions in prior years, when the Sudanese Arabs chose to slaughter black Christians. They were silent when the Rwanda genocide occurred, as well. But hey, what're a few million black African lives when Muslim olive trees are being cut down near the “green line”?
Needless to say, the Presbyterians’ resolution against Israel is entirely silent on the subject of Palestinian terrorism or suicide bombing, or the incitement to martyrdom and Jew-killing in the Palestinian media, mosques, summer camps and official government statements.
Like other liberal Christian churches (the Lutherans, the Episcopalians, the Unitarians, the United Church of Christ, the Quakers) the hatred and condemnation of Israel has grown so strong that advocates for Israel are not permitted to make presentations to these congregations anymore. If Jews want to speak abut Israel, they have to be from the far-Left, and they must come to trash Israel (and help bury it). On the other hand, any representative of the International Solidarity Movement is sure to draw a full house and be warmly welcomed....
For years, the Israel-haters have tried to link Israel to South Africa, and even more outrageously, to the Nazis. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has now legitimized this slander. For this, they should be ashamed -- or simply shamed.
Presbyterian believers, in whose name these assorted high muckamucks presume to speak, should really ask themselves if the same
General Assembly has ever suggested that, because of Arab League support for one of its members, the Sudan, in its genocide that has now killed nearly 2 million blacks, there should be divestment of all stocks in the members of the Arab League.
Or, whether the massacres of 180,000 Kurds by Iraq, again with the evident support -- for there was never a syllable of protest -- from the other members of the Arab League -- also might have been addressed by the Presbyerian Assemby, which might have called for divestment of stocks in companies doing business with any member of the Arab League.
Or, perhaps the Presbyterian General Assembly would care to take note of the condition of the Copts in Egypt, subject, as they have been ever since the Arab invastion, to diabological persecution, including murders just this year?
Or perhaps the Presbyterian General Assembly would care to think about even hinting at the little problem of the massacre of Christians in the Moluccas, and Sulawesi, and elsewhere in Indonesia (not to mention the 200,000 Christian East Timorese murdered by their Muslim neighbors, with the collaboration of the Muslim soldiers and police?); they might even take note of the Barnabas Fund in England, which has released data about the thousands of churches destroyed, in 2003 alone, in Indonesia alone?
Or perhaps the Presbyterian General Assmembly would like its members to examine the whole problem of those Arab Christians who are in fact using their "Christianity" to slyly rise through the ranks of the official Christian church bodies, to find those who support them, those who are more exercised about Israel's attempts to survive, confronted by an enemy that posseesses a thousand times the territory, and a hundred times the population (if we include not only the members of the Arab League, but Iran and Pakistan as the most virulent anti-Isarel states).
The phenomenon of dhimmitude has been widely understood --except by those who suffer from it and "don't want to hear about it." It would be fascinating for the Presbyterian General Assembly to stage a debate. On one side, the side that has just had its assiduously promoted views accepted by both the innocent and the ignorant and the informed but malevolent among those who beling, the Presbyterian General Assembly, one would have the Arab-American promoter of the anti-Israel Jihad, the minister from Atlanta or his many colleagues, and on the other, a Christian from the Arab world, one who knows exactly what dhimmitude is, and what Islam means, and has meant, for the survival of Christianity and of Christians, everywhere that Islam has triumphed, such as Habib Malik (do google his brilliant articles).
No doubt among those who voted for this malign resolution there are always a few innocents. Some may really have allowed themselves to believe that this relentless Jihad against Israel (in which Christian "Palestinians," though leaving the territories controlled by the P.A. as fast as they can, have long internalized Muslim Arab views, as a way of surviving, both physically and intellectually, in a milieu where they are , unlike the Maronites, neither strong enough, nor self-assured enough, to withstand the mental requirements of dhimmitude (see www.dhimmitude.org). The Muslim opposition to Israel is total and uncompromising; it began long before there was a single Israeli in the West Bank or Gaza, long before the careful Arab redefinition of the Jihad as a conflict involving "two tiny peoples, each struggling for their homeland, blah blah blah" which is the studied version presented for obvious reasons to Western audiences.
That certain "Christian" Arabs are "Islamochristians," that is -- promoters of the Jihad against Israel rather than genuine Christians, whatever they call themselves or others call them -- can be seen from their behavior in situations having nothing to do with Israel. For why is it that these same people have not been vocal in their outrage over Arab Muslim atrocities in the Sudan, which have killed 2 million Christians and animists in the southern Sudan, and now "malawi" or "non-Arab" Muslims (who are, in Arab eyes, expendable and inferior,as "malawis" always have been -- see Anwar Sheikh or Ibn Warraq on Islam as "Arab imperialism"). Why have they not been forthright in protesting Muslim murders of Christians in Pakistan, or the imposition of sharia in Nigeria, or the destruction of more than 2,300 churches in Indonesia in 2003 alone (according to the English Barnabas Fund). Why have they never said a word about the murder of Christians in East Timor, or the Moluccas, or Sulawesi, or of Hindus and Christians in Bangladesh?
In other words, this is truly a diseased sympathy, a selective compassion, which is not sympathy nor compassion. It reflects the sinister machinations of Muslims or Arab Islamochristians who, along with leftists who find, as so many do, the protection and promotion of Islam a vehicle for their own hatred of the West -- indeed, their own hatred of Christianity if the truth be properly spoken, even if they acquire their cloak of legtitimacy, not to mention their power and salaries, from organized Christian church groups. No one is really watching them, and they are free to promote the Islamintern (a kind of Muslim Comintern) as they wish.
But surely there are many Presbyterians who, if they properly informed themselves about the tenets of Islam, about dhimitude, about the real nature of the conflict -- the Jihadis working against Israel who, far from being in the slightest mollified or assuaged by any further reduction in Israel's already tiny size, will certainly have their appetites whetted rather than sated by such a display, as they would take
It is indeed curious to see the Presbyterian General Assembly promote, with all sorts of holier-than-thou attitudinizing, what is essential a Muslim position. Israel is a small country, the only state belonging to the most persecuted tribe in human history. Much of that persecution has come from people who called themselves Christians. That history is not ancient history; the worst manifestations of the torture chambers and death camps that came out of centuries of antisemitism rooted, it was believed, if not always in Christian doctrine then in attitudes promoted by many people who called themselves Christians. That being the case, it behoves the Presbyterian General Assembly to be especially keen in detecting the workings of Islamochristians who, in promoting the Marcionite heresy, in attempting to substitute the "Palestinians" (an entirely post-1967 creation) for the "Jews" as a martyred people, are twisting and turning the truth. And the other thing they are doing is inveigling the Presbyterian General Assembly, and those millions of innocent Presbyterians in whose name that Assembly's delegats presume to speak, in letting down their guard about the real nature of the teachings of Islam, and what it means, not only for the beleaguered tiny state of Israel, but for Christians everywhere -- including, it might be added, Presbyterians.
Presbyterians aren't even real Christians. They certainly don't follow Christs teachings.Their church hy-archy is totally backward.
I met one once, and he was a total ass. This is probably why they only have a membership of 3 million.