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العربية

The Christians of the East: Hostages or Owners?

Medhat Kelada

Opinion

00:03

Wednesday ,03 March 2010

The Christians of the East: Hostages or Owners?
Christian minorities in the Middle East have roots deep in the region; their works bear witness to the ancient civilization. Suffered from the tidal wave of persecution and torture, the holding firm of the time endured much injustice, who now lives in an area where minorities in the modern changes in the behavior of partners in the country and humanity .The ancient religions before the advent of man lived in harmony and social morality, and with the development of materials and hatred., The media in the region have helped the physical world has become the term "money before morality" prevalent in the world. No loss of morality newly vast to be replaced by the code of the ideology of hatred that swept the region, especially after the unexpected rise in the price of oil as extremism and backwardness which appeared and turned love to hate, a smile and a tear laughter and tears and lamentations, the persecution of Christian minorities in the region is at a rapid pace, black is the color according to the dominant thinking of those who allow the persecution of Christians in the East.
Slavery is in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Algeria and in the peninsula not only the persecution of Christian minorities in the Middle East but also in the Far East, Eritrea and Somalia have been suffering persecuted Christian minorities organized by the Governments and individuals, and persecution in the Far East such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan has been liquidated.
The decrease in the number of Christians in the East: The number of Christians in Nazareth and Bethlehem in 1922 was more than the number of Muslims, but today it is less than 2%.The number of Christians in Lebanon is over 55% of the total population in 1932 now stands at number 29 per cent over the fact that Lebanon has become a subject of dispute for control of Sunni or Shiite, and make these countries to spread their ideology. In Syria, the number of Christians was equal to 33% of the population in the eighteenth century and today the ratio of 9% after the ongoing activity of groups of political Islam in Syria, taking into account the surface the Syrian regime's tolerance for Christian minorities. Christians in Iraq had a population of millions and a quarter of a million people arrived and now numbering tens of thousands after the kidnappings and killings.
The Copts in Egypt "the largest religious minority in the Middle East" suffer systematic persecution since the coup in July 1952 especially after the late President Anwar El-Sadat has given life to political Islam to strike the Communists, and has held numerous conferences to condemn people and clarification. The European Union, and after the series left wing repeated attacks on the Copts in Egypt has become the issue of persecution of Copts in the desorption phenomenon in the United States rights and a large number of Newspapers around the world, who elaborated on the persecution.
The reasons for the persecution of Christians in the midst of several factors, including: 
1 - The Islamic Culture and the perception of the inferiority of the other and that Islam is the best of all religions. 
2 - The oil states have sought to dominate the region by deploying extremist religious ideologies.
3 - The attention of Muslim preachers in the quality and not quantity and to encourage a high birth rate among Muslims, the power of being human.
4 – The air pollution, satellite channel and increased the dose of extremist religious countries in the region, especially the channel of hatred and hatred of others. 
5 - The transition to formality worship practice while leaving the essence of religion.
6 - The sweeping madness of the religious majority of the peoples of the region has transformed the perception of Christians in the East of the owners of the country hostage to the west.
7 - Severe restrictions on thought and creativity and the intervention of religion in large and small matters of everyday life. 
8 - The solidarity of the Islamic countries to the United Nations based on the principle of Support your brother just or unjust. 
9 - To corrupt the International Council for Human Rights United Nations to convene agreements between Islamic countries in order to cover the persecution of Christian minorities in the Arab or Islamic.
The initial problem exists in the minds of extremists who have changed owners in the Western hostages:Series of filters on Christians in Iraq after the liberation to embrace the same religion in the West, the Christians of Egypt as belonging to the West, it is not surprising that known in Upper Egypt Coptic Khawaja as "a stranger in this Western, and the plight of Christians in Gaza, churches are signs of strain on the grounds of Christian hostages in the Middle East and the owners are not the same, they tried to liquidate such as Malaysia, Indonesia and North Korea.
In this sense, Mahdi Akef, said he preferred Turk or a Malaysian to govern Egypt is better than the Coptic, and Sheikh Salah Abu Ismail, "a Muslim Indian is close to an Egyptian Muslim that a Coptic "while adding that the distinction by security forces between Muslim and Christian to the degree of participation in that persecution.
Following the refusal of permission to build minarets have been known voice of reciprocity, while forgetting that Muslims in Europe are regarded as immigrants but Eastern Christians are the original people and are part of the initial patriotic fabric. It is the irrigated soils of the Holy Land with their blood and the blood of their ancestors.
"A good king is better than just laws," Danish proverb. A bitter experience has taught me that all the temples of God are not good. There are inhabited by demons, religious circles have no value unless supervised by a man of the goodness of God, words of Gandhi.