It's time for Christian and other religious leaders to speak out against terrorism. So says the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, calling on Pope John Paul II, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and other world religious leaders to "break their silence" and start condemning the non-stop Palestinian terrorism against Israel and Jews.
"Such a direct condemnation," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center - an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust - "would strip them of the legitimacy they covet and expose them for what they are: killers without a conscience who revere death rather than life and who abandon their families for a living hell in order to claim heaven for themselves.
"Such a direct condemnation," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center - an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust - "would strip them of the legitimacy they covet and expose them for what they are: killers without a conscience who revere death rather than life and who abandon their families for a living hell in order to claim heaven for themselves.