Dear Friends:
I am a Catholic Priest in San Francisco.
I was one of the first people to write and publish (in 1997) on the
Internet and on newsletters "Please help to stop the Cold War against Islam":
http://www.al-bushra.org/latpatra/islam.htm
And of course to deplore it http://www.al-bushra.org/latpatra/provocation.htm
I was the first Arab-American Christian in the world to create a website
that speaks about Harmony between Christians and Muslims:
http://www.al-bushra.org/mos-chr/0mos-chr.htm
And speak about the Arab-Christian contribution to Islam:
Please scroll down: http://www.al-bushra.org/hedchrch/christianshl.htm
Today more than ever our Brothers and Sisters the Muslims are facing,
it seems, a strategic and studied labeling, misinformation and attacks
from here and there, all over.
As a Catholic priest I cannot, in conscience, be silent.
These Christian Evangelicals or Fundamentalists or Zionists do not
represent us Arab-Christians.
They do not represent the over one billion Christian Catholics in the
World.
They do not represent the Christian Orthodox or many Protestant churches
even in the USA
http://www.al-bushra.org/ecu-inter/letter.html
Please read more at:
http://www.al-bushra.org/ecu-inter/zionist.htm
And http://www.al-bushra.org/Religious/Oreligious.html
It is important that somebody gives us, as Arab-Christians, the opportunity
to speak out and defend our brothers and sisters the Muslims with whom
we have lived and our people are living with in our home countries.
Today more than any day, Arab-Muslims and Arab-Christians should stand
together and send a message of good harmony, love, cooperation and sharing
from our home countries, the Arab countries (and in the world specially
in the USA) to the whole world who wants to label our Muslim brothers and
sisters terrorists. And build hatred against them. We Arab-Christians we
cannot accept, in conscience this. The world have been unfair.
Enough is enough.
Perhaps an opportunity will be given to me as a Catholic Priest to
speak about that world wide:
http://www.al-bushra.org/latpatra/invest.htm
Fr. Labib Kobti
San Francisco
www.Al-Bushra.org