Muslim Palestinians Desecrate Christian Graves - UN Silent

JERUSALEM, Israel - The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, dug up Christian graves in the Gaza Strip because they said the Christian bodies defiled the land, a human rights group said.

"The Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas [are] facing persecutions. Their homes, their churches they get attacked almost every day," said Majed El Shafie, founder and president of One Free World International, a Canadian-based human rights group.

Shortly after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in a violent coup in June 2007, El Shafie said his group received reports of two kinds of violations.

"The first one that Hamas was torturing the members of Fatah in Gaza," El Shafie told CBN News.

"The second one [was] that Hamas was going to the graveyards of the Christians, digging up the dead body of the Christians, throwing them and burning them and saying 'you cannot bury your dead bodies here because its our land, it's a holy land.

By burying your Christian families here you are desecrating the land.' And we received this [information] about five graves in Gaza," El Shafie said.

El Shafie said his group had also received reports about Christian families "being forced to cooperate with Hamas or their children or their wives will get raped or will get persecuted." So they were forced to cooperate with Hamas to protect their families, he said.

An estimated 3,500 Christians live amidst some 1.4 million Muslims in the Gaza Strip. The tiny Christian community had hoped for some protection from Hamas when it came to power.

But Christian and Western targets have come under repeated attacks in the last few years allegedly from Islamic fundamentalist groups. Two years ago a Palestinian Christian, who worked for the Bible Society, was kidnapped and murdered, reportedly for refusing to convert to Islam.

According to El Shafie, the situation of Christians in the West Bank where the Palestinian Authority is in control is better. The PA wants support from the West so the leaders try to portray themselves as a "democratic country," he said.

But El Shafie pointed to Bethlehem, the city of Jesus birth, where there has been a steady exodus of the Christian community for decades.

Bethlehem has become a "tourist zone" for the PA, he said. "Basically they don't want the Christians there but they want the Christian tourists to come and to take their money."

El Shafie is well acquainted with persecution. Raised in a prominent Egyptian Muslim family, El Shafie became a Christian at 18 years old. He was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death for his faith. He escaped and fled to Israel where he was helped by international organizations to immigrate to Canada.

He says the future of Christians in the Muslim world is up to the Christians in the West.

"From the beginning of the Holocaust until all the way to Darfur all of this did not happen just because the people are doing evil. It's because the people who sit around did not do something to stop it," said El Shafie.

He said Christians should pray every day for the persecuted church as well as take action by going to their congressmen or parliamentarians to raise the issue. In many cases Western countries are giving aid to countries that persecute Christian minorities. Westerners should demand that their governments connect international aid to improving human rights, he said.

Despite the persecution, El Shafie said that Christians are still victorious.

"The persecuted Christians [are] dying but they [are] still smiling. They are in a very deep dark night but they still have the candle of the Lord the candle of hope. Our enemy have very strong weapon. Our enemy has [a] very strong army but we have the Lord Almighty.

"Count on it. Count on it. We will fight unto the end in Jesus name and always remember, they can always kill the dreamer but no one can kill the dream," he said.

CBN News Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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[raymolly1980]

This is the wicked evil face of the cult islam !!!!!!!!!!

islam should be banned from all western and civilized countries .........................

[NorwegianKafir]

OK, no tension at all? Christians support HAMAS?

Very well, send HAMAS an email with your picture then, holding a Bible saying that Only the Bible is the Word of God and Jesus is God and not a prophet. If you are a Christian and there is absolutely no tension between HAMAS and Christians, and they LOL support Christians (are you sure you are not working for some comedy show?) they will have NO PROBLEM with that whatsoever. So, what are you waiting for? Don't forget to mention in the email..

[Gwynsek]

@PFLPGermany By the way,saying Hamas is made by Israel is so eschizophrenic that it makes me laugh,a country making a group to kill its own people and not letting them sleep with rockets and suicide-bombers,burning peoplealive in their explosions,you are RIDICULOUS !!

[Gwynsek]

@PFLPGermany You are not a true christian then,but a fake one,cause no true Christian would want to split from Israel,the true culture which gave birth to the vegetarian Jewish sect of Yeshua ben Yosef and his brother James,which the Graeco-Roman church persecuted till smashing it around 400 CE.I can´t understand true christians wanting to belong to something which has nothing to do with the Hebrew roots of Yeshuah.

[Gwynsek]

Thanks for denouncing this !!

[kocktoe]

@PFLPGermany Do you think Hezbollah was made by Israel too.

[PFLPGermany]

a.

[PFLPGermany]

I'm christian Palestinian and thats zionist propaganda the Hamas was made by ISRAEL to defeat Arafat the Hamas is Israel,and Israel is hamas.

FUCK ISRAEL

FUCK HAMAS

[freeman8128]

Muslims are VERY sick people

[MegaRosX]

@raymolly1980 Almost in every arab country except for Saudi Arabia, a small group of christians ALWAYS try to control the governement, Sudan, Nigeria, Lebanon, you name it.

Face reality. immature and invalid arguments will get you nowhere.

[MrDiem2]

@raymolly1980 So all western countries are civilized? You ever ever turned the TV on and looked at all the crap that is going on in the west just as well as in Islamic countries?

[sysmoute]

Muslims are barbarians,people who dissagree are either stupid or in denial.