Christians Under Attack

wakes up the neighborhood an hour before citizens normally get up to go to work. But judges decreed that since church bells are legal, the muezzins' wailing chants are too. 
 
Europe's churches have provided sanctuaries that welcome illegal Muslims from North and sub-Sahara Africa, as well as the Middle East, where they can stay while their community lawyers move their appeals through local courts. Brussels Journal Editor Paul Belien wrote, "While Western Europe is turning Muslim, its Christian churches are committing suicide." By way of comparison, Saudi Arabia, whose Wahhabi clergy has dispatched missionaries to Western countries, does not allow a single Christian church. 
 
The European Union's 27 member countries now house some 20 million Muslims, which is expected to double in less than 20 years. No one is more alarmed about current trends than Pope Benedict, who said recently, "Unfortunately, one must note that Europe seems to be traveling along a road that could lead to its disappearance from history."
 
In a remarkable piece of research and analysis, Russell Shorto, who covers religion for the New York Times Sunday magazine, wrote that the pope's speech last September "that caromed around the world and caused protests in the Middle East and attacks on Christian churches (there) for seeming to say that Islam is a religion of violence, marked a homecoming, albeit an incendiary one." The pontiff's main target is still the spiritual apathy of Europeans.
 
As Germany's Cardinal Ratzinger, he co-authored a book titled "Without Borders," which pilloried Europe's secular dogma that stripped Europe of its soul: "Not only are we no longer Christian; we're anti-Christian. So we don't know who we are."
 
Der Spiegel quotes Berlin attorney Seyran Ates: "We are at a crossroads, everywhere in Europe. Do we allow structures that lead straight into a parallel society, or do we demand assimilation into the democratic constitutional state?" The European Union switchboard in Brussels finally located someone who said no such question had been posed to the European Commission

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