By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

On December 25 and its eve, Christians in the West and those in Africa and Asia whose forefathers were Christianized by European missionaries during the colonial era, celebrated Christmas and listened to the midnight masses broadcast from either the seat of the Catholic sect in Vatican or that of the Anglican sect in London.
We Muslims wish them peace and happiness since we regard Jesus as one of the five greatest Prophets of Islam who strove against injustice, infidelity, aggression, usurpation, oppression, exploitation, and all other evils in society in order to guide to the path of God all those who came into contact with him, especially the lost sheep of Israel, which, however, remains lost forever as is evident by the continued crimes against humanity of the Zionists, including their unabated slandering of the Virgin-born Messiah and his blessed mother, Saint Mary (peace upon them).
The leaders of churches of the various sects of Christianity in the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, and Bayt al-Moqaddas (Jerusalem), where Jesus grew up and preached his message of monotheism, in their speeches on the occasion of Christmas, deplored the continued persecution of the followers of the Messiah by what they called “racist Israelis”.
Their sermons stated that the Tel Aviv regime exhibits bias against Christians and apathy about attacks on Christian holy places and clergy, and they denounced extremist (Zionist) groups that seize property in the Christian Quarter of al-Qods “with the aim of curbing the Christian presence in the Holy Land.”
The church leaders highlighted that for long, especially since 2012, there have been “countless incidents of physical and verbal assaults against priests and other clergy, attacks on Christian churches, with holy sites regularly vandalized and desecrated, and ongoing intimidation of local Christians who simply seek to worship freely and go about their daily lives.”
They pointed out that Jewish radicals often attack and spit at Christian clergy in the Christian Quarter of al-Qods, and “these tactics are being used by such radical groups in a systematic attempt to drive the Christian community out of al-Qods and other parts of the Holy Land.”
The plight of the persecuted Christians of Palestine drew sympathies from their Muslim compatriots who are treated in a similar, if not worst manner, by the racist and terrorist Zionist regime, but it is a matter of regret that the poles in Europe of the two main Christian sects, as usual ignored the terrorizing of their flocks by the sworn enemies of the Messiah in the land of his birth as well as the Zionist control of Christian countries and their crimes against humanity throughout the world.
Neither Pope Francis in his midnight mass from the Vatican nor the ‘Most Reverend and Right Honorable’ Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury in his own midnight mass from London said anything about the sufferings of the Christians in Palestine.
If the Anglican Leader avoided any mention of the ills plaguing the world, the Leader of the Catholic sect was as vague as possible in his brief reference to the crises all around, including in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, without identifying and condemning the culprits – whether groups or regimes – and without offering any solutions to the plight of victims.
Moreover, both of them totally neglected the Coronavirus pandemic and its variants that emerge every now and then from different parts of the world, as well as the devilish elements who for the past two years have genetically engineered Covid-19 and spread it in various forms to the detriment of all humanity.
The sad truth is that the satanic Zionists know when and where to spread and test these lab made variants of coronaviruses on the humans as the world has become a living lab for the biomedical companies, who in turn are safeguarding the assets of so-called concerned nations, organizations or individuals.
Yet, any mention of these and other horrific crimes against mankind by those that had tormented Jesus in his days was absent in the annual midnight messages of the poles of the Christian world on Christmas Eve.
It is indeed unfortunate that the message of peace and virtue of the Virgin-born Messiah has no longer any meaning for the church fathers who seem to have submissively bowed their heads to his Israelite betrayer Judas Iscariot, as is evident by the crimes which the pro-Israeli leaders of Europe and the Americas commit against humanity and the abominable sins in which western societies are immersed to the horror of Jesus.