I received a message on my BlackBerry Messenger through the following link : (@YNaija: Christianity ‘close to extinction’ in Middle East (http://t.co/C9zhMZH7 ) and want to respond accordingly. It is true that the size of Christian faithful is declining in the Middle East.
In my opinion two factors are responsible for that. Firstly the number of converts from mostly Christian faith to Islam is on the rise. Secondly the rate of birth within Muslim couples who mostly marry at their prime youthful age is another possible reason. A "report" was mentioned without a source. Typical of arm chair journalism bent on presenting fictions as cardinal truth. The "report" alleged persecution of Christians by militant Islamist (whatever that means). Yet it is a well known facts that such militants are the handiwork and creation of West and US government in particular. (Please check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw - a video clip where Hillary Clinton confessed to that effect).
Additionally Muslims are the largest victims of these US sponsored terrorist act worldwide. What is currently happening in Syrian is the most recent and live instance in which EU nations, US and Israel are supporting the armed insurgents with deadly weapons and at the same time frustrating all efforts at bringing about a peaceful resolution of the crisis. On both sides of the divide Muslims constitute 99.99% of the casualties. Add this to the US criminal activities of assassination drones that kill Muslims on daily basis in Yamen, Pakistan and Afghanistan, to name but a few.
Whoever commits any act of aggression against fellow human being stands condemned no matter who the victims may be. Take the recent senseless killings that happened and is still happening in US, neither the “gunman” ( remember non of the Western media called him a terrorist) nor the victims were Muslims. Yet Muslims all over the world express their grief and sympathy even though at that same very moment US drones were and are still killing women and children in Pakistan, Yamen and Afghanistan. Also the victims of Israeli recent atrocities in Gaza are still leaking their wounds.
We acknowledge the fact that only people shot of ideas and logic will have violence as the only means of sorting out differences. As such a religion that cherish and promote knowledge like Islam shall never be associated with terrorism. With this assertion a question arise: why is Alqaeda and its affiliates whom claim to be Muslims are synonymous with bloodshed. Well anybody that claim to be a Muslim shall never be "deMuslimised". But accusing Islam for their crimes is the highest form of unfairness and bigotry.
Those responsible for the first and second world war were never Muslims. And we all know the religion they professed. Yet we do not see such a religion as the brain behind their heinous crime. US government was and remain responsible for the genocide using atomic weapon in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In fact US remain the only nation that ever used nuclear weapons on any living thing-human or otherwise. We know the religion the then US president belongs to but have never and will never attribute such a crime to his religion. As apologetically Muslims and uncompromising Islamic we demand just that and nothing more.
Merry Christmas to all Christian faithful.
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