Erased: How the Middle East Was Expunged of Its Judeo-Christian Heritage

Raymond Ibrahim : Oct 11, 2019
PJ Media

"It's the same situation in Iraq. There's almost nothing about us [Christians] in our history books, and what there is, is totally wrong. There's nothing about us being here before Islam. The only Christians mentioned are from the West. Many Iraqis believe we moved here from the West. That we are guests in this country." -Sharara Yousif Zara, a politician involved in the Iraqi Ministry of Education

[PJMedia.com] The Muslim world is at war with history. It needs to be, if it hopes to change the narrative concerning how it came into being and, more importantly, how no one but Muslims has any right to any land claimed by Islam... (Image credit: Arild Vågen-Wikipedia /via PJ Media)

...While such revisionism is evident in the aforementioned PA quotes concerning Israel, it is especially ubiquitous in Islam's attempts to erase evidence of Christianity from the lands it conquered. This is unsurprising considering that the heart of the Muslim world—including all of North Africa (from Morocco to Egypt) and the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Turkey, etc.)—was Christian centuries before the scimitar of Islam came.

As Dr. Hena al-Kaldani once said during a conference in Amman, Jordan, hosted by the Jerusalem Center for Political Studies: "There is a complete cancelation of Arab Christian history in the pre-Islamic era," "many historical mistakes," and "unjustifiable historic leaps in our Jordanian curriculum." "Tenth grade textbooks omit any mention of any Christian or church history in the region." Wherever Christianity is mentioned, omissions and mischaracterizations proliferate, including the portrayal of Christianity as a Western (that is, "foreign") source of colonization, said al-Kaldani... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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