As a Christian who lost a family member in the September 11th attacks I am again offended by the antics of Anglican vicar Stephen Sizer.
Repeated visits to Iran to denounce Israel while Iran, not Israel, is engaged in the most gross persecution of Christians and violations of human rights and women’s rights is
to say the least hypocritical. Being invited to Iran by the government sponsored institute for Holocaust Denial may explain why he remains deaf to the cries of the persecuted church in that country while blasting Israel who protects its Christian population and their religious freedom.
Stephen Sizer has appeared on platforms with everyone from holocaust deniers to apologists for IRA and radical Islamic terror. While 22% of Israel’s university students are Arab, Christian and ethnic Chinese students are forced to leave Malaysia under the apartheid policies of that Islamic country which also arrests and imprisons people for becoming Christians. Yet Rev. Sizer likewise went to Malaysia to falsely denounce Israel as apartheid but again characteristically remained silent concerning the actual apartheid policies of Malaysia. He appeared with a supporter of Hamas, listed by the EU and USA as a terrorist organisation.
On another occasion he attributed the genocidal atrocities of Mohamar Qadaffi in Libya to some rumor of Jewish ancestry.
For your Diocese and The C of E to go on pretending we are not dealing with antisemitism is frankly ridiculous. His hypocrisy in aligning himself with regimes that persecute Christians as his
bosom colleagues because they share his opposition to the Jewish state is beyond defensible. Does the persecuted church in the countries whose patronage he seeks mean nothing to the C of E ?
Yes, by God’s grace I am a Christian. But frankly It is the chronic spinelessness your diocese exhibits in the case of Stephen Sizer that is emblematic of why I could never be an Anglican.
His apologies mean nothing. We have heard them before but he only goes from bad to worse and does so with the de facto benedictions of the diocese that refuses to remove him.
Sincerely, JJ Prasch
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