Christians protest forced conversions to Islam

Dozens of Gaza Christians staged a rare public protest Monday, claiming two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and were being held against their will.

The small but noisy demonstration showed the increasingly desperate situation facing the tiny minority.

Protesters banged on a church bell and chanted, "With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus."

Gaza police say the two are staying with a Muslim religious official at their request, because they fear retribution from their families converting to Islam. Two mediators said the two — a 25-year-old man and a woman with three children — appeared to have embraced Islam of their free will. Forced conversions have been unheard of in Gaza before.

Since the Islamic militant Hamas seized power five years ago, Christians have felt increasingly embattled, but have mostly kept silent.

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Chris

Funny then how you get annoyed when atheists resist saying "under god" or have to stand for a silly invocation.

Such hypocrisy. You just don't get it.
- Robert De Leon
  
  Chris:
  Another absurd comment of yours. Keep playing to be a fool..
  Robert.
  - Devasahayam
    
    The only fool is you bobby!
- keyboardshark
  
  @Chris
  
  Christian don't go around killing atheists for not converting to Christianity. Your apples-to-oranges comparison does not show any hypocrisy. Besides, it would not annoy me in the least if an atheist chose to not say "under God" or refused to stand for an invocation as a private decision based on their convictions.
- joeee
  
  That silly invocation gave you the right to stand for nothing. And maybe next time you visit a nice clean park with your kids you can thank Christians for keeping it that way. In atheist world cleanliness is next to godliness doesn't exist.
SicOfObama

Coming to a neighborhood near you…. real soon. Keeping our borders open and letting them come here is extremely dangerous. Even the athiests will not escape, because they are infidels, too. obama embraces islam, he thinks its a beautiful religion, when its a idiology and just an okay for mass murder of anyone they don't like. Since he took office, it's all you hear about. He is our first gay muslim gay president and he shames our White House. He has no dignity and no ethics with fraud, cheating, crimes, destroying our Constitution to gain power and control over the citizens, and he's giving away our national sovereignty to the UN with the UN Arms Treaty and the Sea Treaty. He's a destroyer. Isn't that what the devil is called?
- kate
  
  Good news we stopped The Sea Treaty because people called and emailed their Senators And it was stopped .Thanks to the alot of prayers and the people who called and emailed their the Senators .
- Evermyrtle
  
  Sic….Very well put, Thanks for a sensible truth comment.
- msjallen
  
  And along this same line, Dinesh D’Souza has a movie – Obama 2016 which is about what America will look like if Obama is re-elected.
  This video is worth watching and if the movie is in your area to see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6QOscKvUjU
daves

Well I would pretty much resist being forced to do anything. Unless of course the alternative was prison or death. Then it would have to be something I really didn't want to do, like convert to Islam.
- Me_in_Canada_Eh
  
  The koran tells muslims to convert infidels or kill them.
guest

We…supposedly….are Free people. Those in other countries are not. It is why so many want to move here. For the Freedom. On the other hand MANY want to move here to change US to be like them. NOT free.
- Evermyrtle
  
  Those who are moving into the country, do not realize that we are swiftly losing our freedom, unless it is ones who is partly responsible for us losing our freedom.
Buck

This should tell every intelligent person the true nature of ISLAM . It is evil incarnate !!!