This Christmas, Baby Jesus Becomes Tool of Islamist Propaganda

By: Luke Moon – The Christian Post; christianpost.com

In any normal year Bethlehem would be filled with tourists celebrating the birth of Jesus. But for the second year in a row, the Christian leaders of Gaza decided to cancel Christmas, claiming allyship with the Palestinians in Gaza. If that wasn’t enough, some of the Christian leaders chose to reenact the story very differently.

In the new version, baby Jesus is no longer Jewish, but Palestinian. He was no longer laying in a manger, but in the rubble of a building in Gaza, wrapped in a keffiyeh. If that wasn’t enough, Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene in the Vatican that showed Jesus laying on a keffiyeh. The scene was eventually removed after tremendous backlash.

Appropriating the story of Jesus’ birth to fit modern social issues is a fairly common practice. But appropriating the story of Jesus to serve the interests of Islamists bent on driving out both Jews and Christians from the Land of Israel is both short-sighted and sacrilegious.

There is a saying among Islamists: “First the Saturday people, and then the Sunday people.” Islamic terrorists do not hide their intentions: first, they will drive out the Jews and then they will drive out the Christians. This is a threat that we should all take very seriously. One of the most egregious examples of the Islamist’s success took place in Iraq. In 1948, there were 156,000 Jews and 5 million Christians. Seventy-five years later there are estimated to be 3-4 Jews and no more than 150,000 Christians.

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