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Muslim threats and attacks force Christians out of East Jerusalem church

Sep 3, 2014 4:57 pm By Robert Spencer

churchvandalized2Remember: Christians in the West are not to speak of such things. To do so would harm the “dialogue”: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013.

“Palestinian Christians Report Suffering In Israel, Gaza,” BosNewsLife, August 31, 2014:

GAZA/JERUSALEM (BosNewsLife)– Palestinian Christians in Israel and across the border in Gaza were facing more difficulties Sunday, August 31, after being forced out of a church in Jerusalem, while in Gaza they were among those rebuilding their lives after weeks of death and destruction.

Pastor Steven Khoury said after seven years of threats and and attacks by hard-line Muslims he was forced out of his Palestinian Calvary Baptist Church in East Jerusalem.

The congregation, part of Holy Land Missions, moved out of their building in the Shofat area of Jerusalem in July after Islamists threatened their landlord, Christians said.

On Sunday, August 31, they were still for a safer and more permanent place to meet.

Pastor Steven Khoury linked the troubles to their decision to moved into the building in a predominantly Muslim area in 2007….

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  1. Rebecca says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    I shudder to think about what would happen if Hamas would succeed in it’s mission to destroy Israel.
    how would all of the christians in the world react to all of their holy sites, the basis and history of their religion, being destroyed?
    the U.S. would have to intervene and the region would explode (b/c then Hamas and fatah would fight each other, and the other countries against hamas- Egypt, Jordan, Saudi arabia, UAE would get involved…..)
    the U.S. should be thankful that Israel is protecting that area from total chaos for them. and losing their soldiers, instead of the american soldiers that would have to lose their lives to protect Jerusalem.
    unless the christian world is okay with it.

  2. dumbledoresarmy says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 6:19 pm

    How do you *know* that this graffiti was left by Jews? It could have been left by Muslims trying to set Christians against Jews and Jews against Christians.

    I don’t see Jews in Israel beheading Christians, or demanding “protection” money, or kidnapping Christian women and girls – including married women and underaged girls – and raping them and force-“converting” them and selling them as slaves in the open market, like Muslims are doing in Iraq and in Northern Nigeria. I don’t see Jews – qua Jews – preying wholesale upon non-Jewish girls and women inside Israel; whereas I see *Muslims* – qua Muslims, because Islam *teaches*, outright *encourages* contemptuous, predatory and destructive attitudes toward women and especially toward non-Muslim women – preying, on an industrial scale, upon non-Muslim girls and women in Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and…the Netherlands and the UK…and doubtless a whole lotta other places we don’t hear about so much. (Actually, Muslims engage in “marriage Jihad” / “sex jihad” even *within Israel*, deliberately targeting, deceiving, trapping and then savagely abusing naive Jewish girls; the reverse does *not* happen).

    I don’t see them throwing rocks and molotov cocktails…which is what the *Muslims* are doing to *Jews*, in Israel …even in Israel.

    Finally: calling a Jew a “settler” if that Jew is living within Jerusalem – *especially* if they are living within what used to be called the “Jewish Quarter” of the Old City – and also if they are resident within Hebron, or any other part of Judaea or Samaria – is simply ridiculous. It is as ridiculous as it would be to call a Tibetan a “settler” if they lived in Lhasa, or to call a Scotsman a “settler” in Glasgow or an Irishman a “settler” in Tara.

    • Uri says

      Sep 3, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Oh the settlers throw rocks and more. They terrorize and are even known to kill by burning someone alive. The Jewhadi settlers are no friend to the anti- Jihad movement. They’re counter-productive social deviants.

      • Western Canadian says

        Sep 3, 2014 at 11:05 pm

        Keep telling your jew-hating lies, it really impresses people. NOT.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 3, 2014 at 11:35 pm

        Uri has been throwing his feces around on Jihad Watch for the past couple of months.

        But now he fully reveals himself as an antisemite, a liar, and an apologist for evil. *Ugh*.

    • Semeru says

      Sep 4, 2014 at 7:58 am

      From DDA (DidgeriDoo Archives)
      I don’t see them (settlers) throwing rocks and molotov cocktails…which is what the *Muslims* are doing to *Jews*, in Israel …even in Israel.

      So DDA tucked away in her little shack some where in the ozzy outbacks has a better insight to the Jewish Settlers than Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin who said a Shin Bet investigation of the West Bank settler movement has “found a very high willingness among this public to use violence — not just stones, but live weapons — in order to prevent or halt a diplomatic process

      “They (the settlers) don’t think like us. Their thought is messianic, mystic, satanic and irrational.”
      Here

      From DDA (DidgeriDoo Archives)
      How do you *know* that this graffiti was left by Jews? It could have been left by Muslims trying to set Christians against Jews and Jews against Christians.

      Here is just an example that indicate it was Jews

      19 August 2013. The hallway of the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh, run by the nuns of the Sisters of Bethlehem, was firebombed and the slogans “price tag,” “death to the Gentiles,” and “revenge” were sprayed on its walls.

      22 September 2013. 8 cars of Palestinian residents in the Sheikh Jarrah sector of East Jerusalem were vandalized by tire-slashing and spray painting of price tag slogans.

      29 September 2013. Vandals damaged seven vehicles of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, near the Tomb of Simeon the Just scratching them with keys and a screwdriver, the second incident in a week suspected to be undertaken as revenge attacks on Palestinians for Israel’s policy on the West Bank.Two Jewish teenagers were subsequently arrested on suspicion of involvement.

      29 September 2013. Police arrested 4 Jewish youths, two identified as Hilltop Youth, in the act of smashing 15 gravestones in the Christian cemetery near King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem in order to prevent a fully-fledged ‘price tag’ attack from being carried out.

      3 April 2014. The slogan ‘ “Only goys [non-Jews] can be driven out of our land,”‘ was spray-painted on a wall and the tires of 40 cars were slashed in the predominantly Christian Israeli village of Jish in what Elias Elias, head of the Gush Halav Regional Counci, described as ‘price tag’ damage

      5 May 2014. A column outside the Office of the Assembly of Bishops at the Notre Dame Center in East Jerusalem was smeared with a graffito in Hebrew:”Death to Arabs and Christians and all those who hate Israel”

      9 May 2014. Graffiti reading ‘Price tag, King David is for the Jews, Jesus is garbage’ were sprayed on the walls of the St. George Romanian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_price_tag_attacks

    • Semeru says

      Sep 4, 2014 at 9:23 am

      craven said
      But now he fully reveals himself as an antisemite, a liar, and an apologist for evil. *Ugh*.

      So how come Uri is a liar, there is plenty of evidence to back his claim

      Oh the settlers throw rocks and more. They terrorize and are even known to kill by burning someone alive.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_price_tag_attacks

      craven has claimed in an earlier thread that she tries to keep a pretty close eye on events in this part of the world here

      If this is true it seems very unlikely she missed this

      Yosef Haim Ben-David,29, owner of an eyewear shop in Jerusalem, and resident of the settlement of Geva Binyamin, the original intention was to beat up an Arab or torch a shop. They switched into civilian clothes after removing their religious clothes, and almost cancelled the project when, on stopping to dine, the Arab proprietor reminded them as they left to pick up their change. On sighting Mohammed Abu Khdeir, they asked for directions to Tel Aviv, and he gave a rough indication, in poor Hebrew. As he began to dial his cellphone, perhaps suspicious, the minors clamped hands over his mouth and dragged him into the car where, after he yelled “Allahu Akhbar” he was choked, and the ringleader gave instructions he be finished off. On arriving at the forest, he was beaten repeatedly with a crowbar, each blow accompanied by a recital of Jewish victims of terrorism: “This is for the Fogel family, and this is for Shalhevet Pass”. They then poured gasoline over him, set him alight, got rid of the evidence, and then poured their hearts out to each other regretting as compassionate Jews the error they had committed. “We’re not like the sons of Ishmael [meaning Arabs]… We’re Jews. We have a heart.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_and_murder_of_Mohammed_Abu_Khdeir

      As can been seen the villain came from the Geva Binyamin settlement which is inside the West bank, thus Uri,s statement that settlers do kill by burning people alive

  3. Istanbul_Chick says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    ““Jesus is son of a whore,””

    That right there is pure, unadulterated, the-mask-has-slipped mohammadese.

    Jews, my eye. You don’t even get an “A” for effort with your pathetic and trite “let’s deflect blame away from those poor little mohammadens by projecting it onto others” attempt, “Christy.”

    It will be fun watching your mental contortions trying to project the mohammadan savagery that DDA pointed out to you.

    I sincerely hope you sprain your immoral brain attempting that.

    • Uri says

      Sep 3, 2014 at 7:06 pm

      Sorry chick, the perps are caught in the act and confess. They’re not ashamed. The Christophobic Jewish Taliban is not your ally or friend.

      • Western Canadian says

        Sep 3, 2014 at 11:07 pm

        According to you. REAALLL cred there abdul.

      • don vito says

        Sep 4, 2014 at 1:37 am

        Anne Aly, madam, surely your hate mail was/is worse than uree’s?!

  4. Brazooka says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    Israel should act now and expel Muslims from its territory, which should have been done in 1967. Muslims have no respect for anything other than force.

  5. Kepha says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 8:47 pm

    As a matter of fact, there is a Talmudic reference to Jesus as the bastard son of a Roman soldier named Panthera (a play on the Greek Parthenos, or virgin). I’ve run into people who derisively spoke of Jesus as “Yoshkele” (“little Joshua” in Yiddish). Sure, there are Christophobic Jews out there, just as there are Jew-baiting Christians. Yes, Uri has a point–even if I admit as well that on the whole, I have found Jews good neighbors (I am an East Coast American) and will never hide a number of connections I have with them.

    I will gladly identify myself as someone who wants the whole world converted to Christ. I will gladly identify myself as one who sees the focus of biblical prophecy not in a piece of Middle Eastern real estate but on the Messiah; and who sees the Chosen of God in those gathered about the Messiah.

    However, it isn’t Jews driving out Christians, and Israel is the only state in the Fertile Crescent region where the Christian population is clearly increasing; nor does Israel pursue policies to reduce or intimidate its Christian population.

    And I pray Bro. Khoury and his congregation lead many to apostasize from Islam.

  6. cliffface says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    Christy how about a follow up piece on how Hamas are the friends of the people of Gaza.

  7. gravenimage says

    Sep 3, 2014 at 11:39 pm

    Muslim threats and attacks force Christians out of East Jerusalem church
    ……………………

    And yet, Muslims constantly pretend that the reasons Christians are fleeing the “Palestinian territories” is because of the inconvenience of the security fence and check-points.

    And so many take this meretricious crap at face value…

  8. don vito says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 1:32 am

    Anne Aly, madam, surely your hate mail was/is worse than christy’s?!

  9. Elisheva14 says

    Sep 4, 2014 at 11:34 am

    In the end the will blame all the problems on the Israeli Occupation.

  10. dan says

    Sep 5, 2014 at 2:51 am

    settler punks? do you know them? have you met any?you are nothing but an antisemitic pathetic christian punk!

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