A Sarnia resident questions local Christian leaders and politicians, including MP Marilyn Gladu, about their stance on the ongoing conflict in the place of Jesus Christ’s birth.
Once again, it is December, and our Sarnia Christian community is preparing for the celebration of Christmas. Houses will be decorated, gifts for family and friends will be purchased, and Christmas carols mentioning Jesus Christ (Prophet Jesus) will be sung in homes and on the streets, and masses will be attended in churches. But how come those church leaders as well as our Christian politicians, would fail to remember where Prophet Jesus (Jesus Christ) was actually born?
Do these priests still mention Prophet Jesus in their sermons? And do our Canadian politicians, such as Marilyn Gladu, our Prime Minister, and other politicians, still attend these sermons?
Our small city, Sarnia, has many churches from all denominations, but not one of them, as far as I know, has spoken against this century's greatest genocide, in fact, the Holocaust of this century. The holocaust that started in 2023 and is still ongoing in the place where Prophet Jesus was born. The common misconception is that Palestinians are all Muslims—Arabs—and therefore most people do not give it a second thought about what is happening in Palestine (Gaza, the Occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem).
But Palestine has Christians as well as Muslims, and the Christians are going through the same hell as the Muslims living there. Have these priests and our politicians even considered how those Christian Palestinians will be celebrating Christmas? Probably they no longer will, as Israel has been on a killing spree for the past two years, killing both Christians and Muslims, destroying both churches and mosques, and starving and burning both Christian children and Muslim children and their families.
When Marilyn Gladu attends her church this year, will someone, even the church priest or pastor, step forward and ask her why she is not on the side of Palestinian Christians, her brothers and sisters in faith? Why does she support Israel, the one butchering her Palestinian brothers and sisters in faith?
When Gladu proudly tells that she visited Israel and also says that she is scared of the Palestinian protesters, does she not know that the same people she is siding with are the ones murdering her Christian brothers and sisters, and the people she pretends to be scared of (pro-Palestinians) are the ones that are raising awareness of this butchering, this genocide, this holocaust?
My question for our Christian community is, would someone be willing to ask Gladu these honest questions? And would someone be willing to ask the same questions of the priests and pastors who preach Prophet Jesus's message in their churches, after they are done giving sermons from the Holy Bible?
Rabia Rizvi Sarnia
