When Christians soon become extinct in the supposed-birthplace of Christ the media will of course rejoice. Academics will pen updated theories about Muslim dialectical power, resplendent in conquering faith. Schools will teach impressionable minds that Bethlehem was always Muslim and that the Jew Christ was anyways an interloper and early exponent of Judeo-Christian imperialism. Arabs will view the take-over as further support to the claims of the Koran and Mohammed that Islam will dominate all the capitals of the infidels.

It is momentous what is happening in Israel. Christians are literally being effaced from places where they have dwelt for 2.000 years. Christ was of course born in Nazareth in Galilee, today a town of 40.000 with about 7% of the population being Christian. [Even the Romans called Christ the preacher from Galilee]. Bethlehem is the home of King David – he the unifier and expander of the first real Israelite empire. Jewish lore has it that the second Messiah would come from Bethlehem and the house of David. Hence the conflation in Jewish-Christian mythology of Christ's birth in the town of David. He was born 50 miles north, but messianic claims need to be changed to fit the prophecies, no matter how apocryphal.

In any event what we are witnessing today is the usual process of Arab expansion and Muslim intolerance. 50 years ago Bethlehem was 80% Christian. Today that number is less than 20%. In Christendom's second holiest city in Israel, the Christian presence will soon be eclipsed and replaced by that of the Arab and Muslim. Soon to follow – as it always does – will be the desecration and then the destruction of Christian artefacts including churches and sites dedicated to the life of Christ:

“Always a minority religion among the predominantly Muslim Palestinians, Christians are, Mr. Qumsieh says, "melting away," even in Bethlehem. While they represented about 80% of the city's population 60 years ago, their numbers are now down to about 20%, a result not just of Muslims' higher birth rates but also widespread Christian emigration. "Our future as a Christian community here is gloomy," Mr. Qumsieh says.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574610022765965390.html

Muslim suicide bombers have been active in Bethlehem. Muslims routinely clash with Christian worshippers. Muslims are using intimidation and force to expel Christians from the city. It is the age-old story of brutal bullying and dogmatic hate. Muslims are interested only in domination and control. Multi-cult pieties about inter-faith love and understanding mean nothing to them.

But the Western media and the educational systems ignore such realities. The situation would be far worse if the Israelis had not set up a security barrier. The barrier is the only sure protection that the Christians have from Muslim predations. For instance the sacred Church of the Nativity, which Palestinian gunmen stormed and defaced in 2002 apparently 'escaping' from Israeli defense forces, is now once again welcoming tourists – all thanks to the security barrier.

It is the irony of this disaster which is perplexing. Here we have Christians expelled from the incorrectly attributed birth-place of their most important leader, by the intolerant pagan Fascism of the Arab-Muslim moon cult. Yet no one discusses it. It would be as is Jews and Christians had forced Muslims to evacuate all of East Jerusalem through suicide bombers, terror, violence and open force. The world would hardly be quiet about such an event. Yet the silence around the destruction of Christians and their culture in Bethlehem is deafening.

Appeasement, politically correct Fascism, ignoring the obvious, embracing the absurd, tolerating the violent – none of these denote maturity, intelligence or nuanced perspective. They are the actions of the cowardly, the ignorant, the denuded and the dumb. So it goes yet again with yet another example of Muslim intolerance – and not a whisper anywhere about it.