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pseudonyms | 19.12.2006 01:41 | Anti-racism | Oxford | World

It's the season of good will and to celebrate brotherly love and the like, the Daily Mail was been reporting from the holly land on what they describe as a "sense of a creeping Islamic fundamentalism is all around in Bethlehem".

The paper reports, "The town’s Christian population has dwindled from more than 85 per cent in 1948 to 12 per cent of its 60,000 inhabitants in 2006. There are reports of religious persecution, in the form of murders, beatings and land grabs."

Apparently the breakdown in security has been putting off the jet set tourists and leading to economic hardship for those ever down trodden Christians - who incidently manage to own most of the town’s hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops.

This god awful situation has become "so desperate" that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, are going over with a bunch of cristian protesters to express their solidarity with the "beleaguered Christian populace"

A according to the Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, Bethleham is being “steadily strangled”. A fucking terrorist hangout (read mosque if you are not a regular Daily Mail reader) occupies one half of Manger Square opposite the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. Outrageously the the evening the muezzin’s call to prayer competes with the peal of bells from the two houses of the true god.

The Mail is not ammused, "Shops selling Santa Claus outfits and mother-of-pearl statuettes of the Virgin Mary have their shutters painted a sun-bleached green, the colour of Islam.", the paper writes in horror.

And what do the locals think you might wonder? Pround christian George Rabie, a 22-year-old taxi driver from the Bethlehem, finds his religion puts him in daily danger. Two months ago, he was beaten up by a savage gang of palestinian Muslims who were visiting Bethlehem from nearby Hebron and who had spotted the crucifix hanging on his windscreen.

“Every day, I experience discrimination. It is a type of racism. We are a minority so we are an easier target. Many extremists from the villages are coming into Bethlehem.”, he complained.

Jeriez Moussa Amaro, a 27-year-old aluminium craftsman also has first-hand experience of the appalling violence that Christians face at the hands of their islamic neighbours. Five years ago, his two sisters were shot dead because they dressed like slappers and tempted Muslim men. The Daily Mail tries to twist the whole story to suggest they did something wrong and anti-christian however the Islamic freedom fighters, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, issued a statement explaing that the action was intended “to clean the Palestinian house of prostitutes.”

So, seasonal goodwill to all men etc etc... have a happy xmas.

pseudonyms

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