Soccer Dad

Firestorm indeed

From FOX news

In the West Bank town of Tulkarem, a stone church built 170 years ago was torched before dawn and its entire inside was destroyed, local Christian officials said. In the village of Tubas, a small church was attacked with firebombs and partially burned, Christians said. Neither church is Catholic, the officials said.

On Saturday, Muslims hurled firebombs and opened fire at five churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to protest the pope's comments, sparking concerns of a rift between Palestinian Muslims and Christians.

The story goes on to report the cause of all this

The pope last week, in a talk rejecting any religious motivation for violence, cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith."

Or spread by the Molotov cocktail.

The problem with the new report is that it has this paragraph

Christians are believed to number about 50,000 people in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, about 2 percent of the total Palestinian population. Relations are generally good and the Palestinian Authority has made considerable efforts to ensure their political representation, though tensions periodically flare up.

Generally good?

Like threatening the owner of a Christian TV station? And attacking his home with fire bombs?

Oh that must be one of the "flare ups".

Firestorm? Flare ups? I think I see a pattern here.

(And what's the cause of these "flare ups?" Anything the Christians do? I mean the Pope didn't say anything controversial before the owner of the TV station wa attacked. Can you say intolerance?)

And those efforts to "ensure their political representation?"

There are limits to that tolerance. It may be soon that the only Christians who'll be tolerated are the ones who pay a tax in gratitude to their beneficient Muslim betters.

Makes that State Department report on Israel's failings in the area of religious freedom seem even more surreal. Doesn't it?

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