The ostrich and the Eastern Christians. By Antoni Puigverd
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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Christian minorities in Arab countries are disappearing without us being aware by
A couple of years ago, in a major English newspaper, published a long article on the danger of actual religion 1 . While acknowledging that the brotherhood between classes and nations born of Christian universalism, the author, Ulrich Beck, he also pointed out that hatred is born. The only criticism of the article were references to Benedict, who appeared as a promoter of the current human division simply defend Christianity as truth, and not as one more of the contemporary supermarket offers ideas relative. No criticism of the Islamic faith, despite its name, is daily practice in many around the world all kinds of attacks and killings of dissidents were harassed and ruthlessly pursued that do not comply with the precepts of the Koran.
One could not read that article by Beck debatable, but it was inevitable, leafing through the newspaper, hit the picture: a colorful image in large summarizing it all prejudices the English anti-clerical ideology. The drawing consisted of a pump as before, as a black ball with fuse, like a halo crowning a medieval Pantocrator 2 . The message Multicolor homepage that best-selling newspaper in Spain was this: in today's world, violence is Christian.
can not be denied that such violence exists, unfortunately, in our days. is very probable, without going any further, that the author's attack against Congresswoman Giffords Tucson 3 is intoxicated by a mixture ideological explosive in which the racial anger and confused with ideological conservatism appeals to the Christian identity of the founding fathers of America. It is, however, very intellectually dishonest to put the progress of violent Islamism in the Arab Crescent in the same plane as the ideological excesses of some American neo-conservative minority. The current neocon Christian cause, yes, occasionally, unjustifiable political violence (not more, attention than the current sign leftist extremists in Europe.) And flag agitation North American rhetoric that promotes political and racial division, not harmony. At times the most serious global power that has fallen into hyperbole unforgivable (Bush and his rhetoric of good against evil Saddam). But inside the American polis, such ideas are discussed, contrast and fight freely.
In North America (and in those European countries where the trend spreads neocon), the State is not subject to religion. On the contrary: religion is subject to the laws. Is unique, therefore, the rise of some belligerent the Christian progress disturbing violent Islamism, whose aggressiveness and destructiveness seems unstoppable at this point. yesterday in this newspaper, the great Battle Xavier explained the root causes: poverty and backwardness, lack of prospects for the huge youth populations, the failure of secular Arab and corruption. Since there are no signs on the horizon of a possible solution to such problems is inevitable conclusion that Islam will grow more and more violent. To make matters worse, the Arab-Israeli conflict appears as an ideal pretext of Islamist rhetoric.
No answer to this vital question. It is a difficult question we prefer not to raise it. We like the ostrich. The saddest result of the inability to ask this question is that Christian minorities in Arab countries are disappearing without us in the know. The slaughter against the Copts in Egypt last Christmas seemed to awaken a slight attention. Only it seemed. Copts are still a significant minority (10%) and Christians in Lebanon (40-50%). But in many other Eastern countries, Iraq, Syria and Palestine, many Christian communities are disappearing. Communities are often very old, before the expansion of Islam.
are being subjected to something very much like ethnic cleansing and we do not give a blind eye. defend the nest further complicate East. While Alejandro Amenabar spent the largest budget for a film never got our dollars to a peplum pamphlet in which Christians in the historic Alexandria appeared befuddled as murderers, the Christians of Alexandria of today risk their lives when they go to church. His brothers from other Arab countries to just disappear without anyone shed a tear for them.
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Author: Puigverd Antoni (Antoni Puig i Romaguera / Spain, 1954 -). English poet and writer in Catalan. You may also be considered an opinion journalist, for collaborating regularly in the press (El Punt), Diario de Barcelona, \u200b\u200bRevista de Girona, El Pais, Janus, The 9, Avui, El Periòdic d'Andorra, Serra d'Or) , radio (COM Catalunya Radio and Radio) and television (BTV, TV3). Degree in English philology, has also served as professor of literature.
References: 1. View "God is dangerous. For Ulrich Beck" / OjoAdventista.com 2. has been impossible to achieve this figure and qyue has been moved or deleted from the archives of ElPais.com 3. View "Attack on U.S. Tucson augurs more violent? By Frank Bajak" / OjoAdventista.com
Source: www.ojoadventista.com
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