When the persecuted become the persecutors our humanity is lost

Religion must be scandalising non-believers and believers alike, when they see the atrocities being committed by religious groups that claim the blessings of God.

Yet Christians, Muslims, and Jews share a common religious heritage with Abraham, as their father in faith, but this has been forgotten while their differences have been accentuated. No religion can claim immunity from violence and discrimination. Each was oppressed and then became the oppressor.

Since 70AD, when the Jews were forcibly evicted from Palestine, they have been discriminated against throughout the Christian ‘Holy Empire’, accused of deicide. They were almost annihilated in the Holocaust. Now, with the establishment of the Israeli state, the Jews have no compunction about using indiscriminate violence to suppress Muslims and Christians.