Tuesday, May 19, 2015

  • Tuesday, May 19, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
Israel-haters are wasting no time in politicizing the two new "Palestinian" saints. From Ma'an:
Rifaat Kassis, a prominent political community activist and coordinator of Kairos, a local Christian group, says the canonization is significant on many levels, notwithstanding the recognition that Palestinians under Ottoman rule were part of a diverse, productive society, contrary to the mainstream sidelining of Palestinians from the region's history.

"This puts Palestine on the map, among not only the catholic world, but the whole world, and I think this will also help people to understand Palestine and the occupation," he told Ma'an.
Were these poor Catholic women under brutal Israeli occupation? Did anyone call them "Palestinian" before 1970?

But there is one fact in the life of one of the new saints, Sister Mariam Baouardy, that could be understood in a completely different context.
Betrothed in an arranged marriage at age 13, she refused to go along with it, insisting on a religious life. As punishment for her disobedience, her uncle hired her out as a domestic servant, making sure she had the lowest and most menial of jobs. A Muslim servant with whom she worked began to act as her friend with an eye to converting her from Christianity. On 8 September 1858, Mary convinced him she would never abandon her faith; in response he cut her throat and dumped her in an alley. Mary lived, an apparition of the Virgin Mary treated her wound, and she left her uncle’s house forever.
So this Catholic saint had her throat slashed by a Muslim because she didn't want to convert to Islam.

Perhaps Sister Mariam's canonization indicate that the Catholic Church considers Islam to be a violent, intolerant religion!

But no one will be quoted with that theory.

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