"No they are not treated better Samer"

Submitted by Lactantius Jr. (United Kingdom), May 17, 2008 at 07:25

To Samer,

You may be right in saying that ‘Christians' are "treated better than the Muslims, they are richer, they have better work, jobs and they are respected," if you believe that all ‘Westerners' are ‘Christians.' Most Westerners however, are not followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, with even "the Ayatollah of atheism," Richard Dawkins describing himself as a "cultural Christian who likes singing Christmas carols!!!"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7136682.stm You are wrong in saying that "Christians in Muslim countries are treated better than the Muslims themselves," if you are referring to disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I most emphatically deny that His followers are treated better than Muslims in Muslim countries. There is abundant evidence they are not, and I quote verbatim from an article titled "Islam's global war against Christianity," published by "American Thinker" on July 5th.2007 http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/islams_global_war_against_chri.html which says, "From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust.

This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren't wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs. Some of the oldest Christian communities in the world are subject to relentless attack and teeter on the brink of extinction at the hands of the "Religion of Peace": Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the West Bank; Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in Iraq; Coptic Christians in Egypt; Evangelical and Orthodox Christians in Eastern Ethiopia and Eritrea; Armenian Orthodox Christians in Turkey; and Maronite Christians in Lebanon. Several of these communities date back to the beginning decades of Christianity and all have weathered wave after wave of Islamic persecution for centuries and more, but in the very near future some will simply cease to exist. In our lifetime, the only trace of their past existence will be in footnotes in history books (and probably only Western history books at that)." ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The "Barnabas Fund" http://www.barnabasfund.org/ was founded in 1993, and exists to support and encourage followers of the Lord Jesus Christ suffering discrimination, oppression and persecution as a consequence of their faith, particularly in the Muslim world. "Christians" treated better than Muslims in Muslim countries- Samer, you must think my head buttons up the back!!!

With kind regards and best wishes Lactantius Jr.

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