Somehow, that seems like a good title for this:<\/p>\n
As Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to speak in the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, a major international evangelical Christian group based in Jerusalem plans to send a petition to the U.N. Secretary-General calling for the arrest and indictment of Iran\u2019s president on charges of incitement to genocide against Israel. The petition from the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem (I.C.E.J.) has gathered signatures from tens of thousands of Christians around the world, as the group joins the chorus of prominent voices from many countries demanding that Iran\u2019s president be brought to justice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel a profound and telling moral duty to speak out against the growing Iranian nuclear threat to Israel,\u201d said David Parsons, media director for the I.C.E.J.<\/p>\n
“The silence of most Christian clergy in the face of Germany’s horrific bid to annihilate European Jewry left a deep stain on the churches,\u201d said the I.C.E.J.\u2019s executive director, Rev. Malcom Hedding. \u201cYet from it has arisen a sense among multitudes of Christians today that we have an inescapable moral duty to earnestly speak out whenever another genocidal campaign threatens the Jewish people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Have you signed the petition? I haven’t.<\/p>\n
To my credit, though, I say (as a Mennonite), “Leave me out of it!” to this next piece as well:<\/p>\n
The I.C.E.J.\u2019s Hedding also slammed the leaders of certain Christian groups, among them the Mennonites and the Quakers, who plan to further honor Ahmadinejad by hosting him at a special reception during his visit to the U.S., in which the Christian leaders hope to engage in a \u201cdialogue\u201d with the threatening leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To read the entire article: Christian Group: Indict Ahmadinejad for Threatening a Holocaust<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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