The Past Revisited: The Unfinished War
against the Christians
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WASHINGTON, DC – During a rousing talk at the DuPont Circle Hotel, sponsored by the Woman’s National Democratic Club (WNDC), Joe David, author of The Infidels, took a sell-out crowd of WNDC members and their guests on a journey to the beginning of Christianity over two thousand years ago.
“With little more than a Bible, a cross and some bread,” David said, “the early Assyrian Christian missionaries followed the trade route (known then as the Silk Route) to China and spread the gospel, according to Jesus to world. By the 12tth Century, The Assyrian Church of the East became the largest church in the world with over 80 million followers, larger than the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches combined.”
Unfortunately, these peaceful and cultured Assyrians who build the first Christian nation on the ruins of the ancient Assyrian empire faced a major threat in 630 AD, which reached a crisis in the 15th Century. “With the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453, Christianity in the Middle East was boldly reduced to ashes, leaving behind only a few sparks of life here and there. The cause: the rise of radical Islam which immediately left its imprint on the area by brutally slaughtering millions of Christians.”
By revisiting the past, David identified an uninterrupted pattern of genocide, perpetrated by radical Muslims against Christians, that began in the 7th Century. “I worry,” he said, “that if we don’t acknowledge the lessons taught to us by history and end today’s terrorism, we may soon see a holocaust like none before it.” David's recent book, The Infidels, takes the reader on a chilling journey into the recent past when the Muslim Turks in 1915 went on a killing spree in which millions of Christians were slaughtered, because of their faith. "Given the current wars in the Middle East today, " David said, "the hate crimes against Christianity continues, and it will continue until nations unite against such violence."
“With little more than a Bible, a cross and some bread,” David said, “the early Assyrian Christian missionaries followed the trade route (known then as the Silk Route) to China and spread the gospel, according to Jesus to world. By the 12tth Century, The Assyrian Church of the East became the largest church in the world with over 80 million followers, larger than the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches combined.”
Unfortunately, these peaceful and cultured Assyrians who build the first Christian nation on the ruins of the ancient Assyrian empire faced a major threat in 630 AD, which reached a crisis in the 15th Century. “With the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453, Christianity in the Middle East was boldly reduced to ashes, leaving behind only a few sparks of life here and there. The cause: the rise of radical Islam which immediately left its imprint on the area by brutally slaughtering millions of Christians.”
By revisiting the past, David identified an uninterrupted pattern of genocide, perpetrated by radical Muslims against Christians, that began in the 7th Century. “I worry,” he said, “that if we don’t acknowledge the lessons taught to us by history and end today’s terrorism, we may soon see a holocaust like none before it.” David's recent book, The Infidels, takes the reader on a chilling journey into the recent past when the Muslim Turks in 1915 went on a killing spree in which millions of Christians were slaughtered, because of their faith. "Given the current wars in the Middle East today, " David said, "the hate crimes against Christianity continues, and it will continue until nations unite against such violence."