The Impact on Christians in Iraq

KenH · Jun 23, 2007

Before Bush's Folly in Iraq started there were 1.5 million Christians in Iraq. Now there are only 500,000. The Christians in Iraq have certainly not benefitted from neo-"conservative" foreign policy.

www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan61.html

poncho · Jun 23, 2007

KenH said:

Before Bush's Folly in Iraq started there were 1.5 million Christians in Iraq. Now there are only 500,000. The Christians in Iraq have certainly not benefitted from neo-"conservative" foreign policy.

www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan61.html
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So what Ken? Iraq has been balkanized and privatized, that spells victory for the few who benefit from all the destruction and chaos. Big deal, a few million have to suffer and go without so a few hundred can increase their fortunes. Whatsa matter, don't you like victory?

LadyEagle · Jun 23, 2007

And to think our troops have died and are dying for this Islamic State that Pres. Bush, Paul Bremmer, et al, helped to create - IT's JUST SO WRONG!!!!

Report Outlines Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against Iraq's Assyrians
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Posted GMT 6-12-2007 15:2:47

(AINA) -- The Assyrian International News Agency has produced a deeply troubling Genocide report regarding the Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of Iraq. The information compiled in Incipient Genocide: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Assyrians of Iraq (report, executive summary) portrays a systematic campaign of massacre and destruction of this indigenous population of Iraq. Through intimidation, forced conversions, murder, kidnapping, beheading of Church leaders, rape, and daily threats against their security and lives, the Assyrian Christian population in Baghdad and other major cities has dwindled from a once-thriving community to almost nothing. Those who have fled to Jordan and Syria face governments unwilling to recognize their refugee status (Jordan) and are living in dire poverty. Those who manage to flee to North Iraq face political and ethnic persecution at the hands of Kurdish authorities.

While all Iraqi civilians are victims of violence in Iraq, there is an organized agenda being carried out by Islamists and Kurdish authorities to either rid the country of their indigenous inhabitants, or to reduce them to nothing more than a religious minority with no grounds for asserting their ethnic identity. The Assyrian Christians are the only indigenous population of Iraq and comprise 95% the Christian population, and have lived in their lands for almost 7,000 years...
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http://www.aina.org/news/20070612100247.htm

More: http://www.aina.org/releases/2007053195824.htm

The assault on Assyrian Christians
By Paul Isaac Published: May 8, 2007
WASHINGTON:
A militant Islamic group in Iraq recently issued a fatwa, or religious edict, to the Assyrian Christian residents of the Baghdad suburb of Dora: Convert to Islam within 24 hours, or face death. At the same time, Muslim neighbors were instructed, over the loudspeakers of local mosques, to confiscate the property of Christians and enforce the edict.

The response was as swift: The majority of Assyrians remaining in Dora immediately gathered whatever they could carry and fled the city.
Iraq's Assyrian Christians know quite well that these latest threats are not empty promises. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, over 25 churches across Iraq have been bombed, in highly symbolic and coordinated manners. The Islamic group claiming responsibility for the bombing of four churches in August 2004 issued a warning. "To the people of the crosses: Return to your senses and be aware that God's soldiers are ready for you. You wanted a crusade and these are its results."

Several priests have been abducted and beheaded...
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/08/opinion/edisaac.php

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