Muslim apartheid practices pushing Christians out of Middle East

Houston Chronicle:

This Christian village near the Israeli border looks tranquil, but the undulating hills and silver-tinted olive groves mask a beehive of Hezbollah military activity that brought the town under Israeli attack this past summer.
Brahim Barakat, a gas station owner, said the 34-day conflict convinced him and the town's other Christians that they have no future in Lebanon, where policy is increasingly set by the militant Islamic group Hezbollah, which is trying to destabilize the elected national government. They are ready to abandon their fig trees and move out.

"Our church is older than Hezbollah," said Barakat, sounding beaten down at 56. "Our history is here. Jesus Christ walked here. But we are caught between Hezbollah and Israel. We are lost here. If 80 percent of the Christians in Lebanon are trying to leave, here the figure is 100 percent because of the war."

The vicious battle between Hezbollah and Israel this summer has joined the long list of religion-based conflicts and feuds ripping the peoples of the Middle East apart. Most of the Christians who lived in Ain Ebel already have gone, scattered like seeds tossed by a tempest.

Some have resettled in other parts of Lebanon, trying to eke out a living, but many have abandoned their country altogether, adding to the huge number of Lebanese Christians who have gone to the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries for a fresh start.

The flight of Lebanese Christians is one symptom of a larger malady: the wholesale departure of Christians from the Middle East.

This silent exodus is reshaping the region's cultural mosaic, eating away at its diversity by slowly removing Christians from the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Their voice is being muted as Islam becomes more strident.

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First the apartheid Muslims chased the Jews from their land and into the state of Israel, now they are coming for the Christians. The fact is the Muslim religious bigots want to dominate and destroy all non Muslims. That is why their movement must be destroyed.

There is also this story from the Sunday Telegraph:

'Leave, crusaders, or have your heads cut off'

The snow has already settled on the mountains further north, but the Christians of the Iraqi city of Mosul are scared to put festive decorations outside their homes this year. Their ancestors settled here in the 1st century AD, yet as teacher Jamal Fadi has discovered, some of their Muslim neighbours want this Christmas to be their last.

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There is more. The Muslim apartheid culture raises its ugly head all over the Middle East. The Christians in Iraq have never been a threat to these people. This is just pure religious bigotry on display. This posts points to a similar problem in Pakistan.