LOOK ALIVE TO STAY ALIVE, CHRISTIANS TOLD
ICC Note:
Christians in Iraq, Syria, and throughout the Middle East have been the killed, kidnapped, and driven from their homeland “by the forces of intolerant Muslim supremacism that were unleashed as a result of the so-called Arab Spring,” John Eibner, the President of Christian Solidarity International, told World Net Daily. “The biggest complication today arising from the threat of the eradication of Middle Eastern Christian communities is related to America’s alliance with Sunni Islamist states, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey.”
By MICHAEL CARL
10/29/2012 Middle East (WND)- For too long, Christians have lived in a bubble, according to Christian Solidarity International-USA President John Eibner.
That’s why Eibner says he started a seminar series in locations around the country on the issue of Christians being involved in intelligence analysis and terrorism threat assessments.
“The series of public events was initiated in response to the need for CSI to issue a genocide warning regarding the Christians of the Islamic Middle East,” Eibner said.
“We did so because we could clearly see that the conditions for eradication of Christian communities in the region existed, and that the likelihood of genocide was heightened by the forces of intolerant Muslim supremacism that were unleashed as a result of the so-called Arab Spring,” Eibner said.
Eibner says the likelihood of violence against Christians in the region has increased since the U. S. initiated its operation in Iraq.
“Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, roughly half of Iraq’s one million Christians were forced to flee the country, while many – perhaps a majority – of the remnant in Iraq are internally displaced,” Eibner said.
He says there is a similar situation in Syria.
“Today, Syria’s Christian community is in the process of destruction. Not only is it subject to the general ravages of war that affect all Syrians, it is targeted by the Islamist-dominated opposition (who are supported politically and materially by Washington via Sunni allies – Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey),” Eibner said.
Eibner also points to the situation in Egypt.
“Pogroms and other acts of violence against Christians have become daily occurrences in Egypt. We have a report showing the criteria we used as the basis for the genocide alert,” Eibner said.
“As the region spins out of control, the prospects for restraining anti-Christian genocidal forces worsen,” Eibner said.
Eibner says he sees similarities between the Christians’ situation in the Middle East and Europe’s Jews before World War Two.
“There are many parallels between the plight of Christians today in the Islamic Middle East and that of Jews in Central Europe in the 1920s and 30s, and in both cases the U.S. government and mainstream media, with few exceptions, tended to play down the threat of genocide, which complicated other American interests,” Eibner said.
“The biggest complication today arising from the threat of the eradication of Middle Eastern Christian communities is related to America’s alliance with Sunni Islamist states, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey,” Eibner said.
Eibner says that his organization doesn’t want to accept the government’s “official story.”
“CSI is not prepared to go with the flow of establishment spin on the realities facing the Christians and other religious minorities of the region,” Eibner said.
“The condition for genocide exists and we are prepared to say so. Once, not so very long ago, there were large and thriving Jewish communities in the Arab Middle East. Today, they are no more,” Eibner said.
“Unless the current trajectory in the region changes, the ancient Christian communities of the region will look very much like their Jewish counterparts. Sunday is following Saturday,” Eibner said.
Christian emergency response and awareness ministry Christian Emergency Network President Mary Marr says the recent Benghazi attack is an example of the real threat to the West and Christians from Middle Eastern terror groups.
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