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Ethnic cleansing: Iran-backed militia seize Christian neighborhoods in Baghdad
The Foreign Desk ^ | 02/08/2016 | Lisa Daftari

Posted on 02/08/2016 2:43:05 PM PST by Fali_G

Iran-backed militias have seized homes, businesses and cultural sites, including churches belonging to Baghdad’s Christian communities, forcing individuals to resettle and forfeit all their belongings, according to members of the Christian members of the Iraqi Parliament.

The militias have targeted properties belonging to Christians, forcing individuals to leave the area, according to Christian community leaders, including representatives from the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac minorities, as well as the Chaldean Patriarch of Iraq who have condemned the attacks, calling them a form of ethnic cleansing aimed to rid Baghdad of its Christians.

“Their claim is that the property of a non-Christian is halal, meaning it can be seized,” Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sacco said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat.

(Excerpt) Read more at foreigndesknews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: baghdad; christians; faith; iraq; isis

1 posted on 02/08/2016 2:43:05 PM PST by Fali_G
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Islam is a war plan.


2 posted on 02/08/2016 2:45:51 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

our president is a real piece of @#$@$.

and so is each and every person that voted for him twice.


3 posted on 02/08/2016 2:46:51 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Fali_G

hussein smiles.


4 posted on 02/08/2016 2:51:20 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: All

The Kurds have been accused of this ethnic cleansing as well;

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/195894

A lot of people over there actually have.


5 posted on 02/08/2016 2:55:37 PM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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To: Fali_G

Kerry and the White Mosque gave Iran money
for this (and other) genocide(s).

The GOP is complicit.


6 posted on 02/08/2016 3:06:00 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Gene Eric

>>Islam is a war plan.

A very prophitable one.

Which side is Comrade Chairman FlexObumble funding/arming/instigating this week again?


7 posted on 02/08/2016 3:09:02 PM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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"Death to America!"


8 posted on 02/08/2016 3:12:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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9 posted on 02/08/2016 3:15:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: BeadCounter

The Kurds committed genocide against the Assyrians a Century ago, which has been forgotten. Which is why the idea that the Kurds are their benevolent protectors is both wrong and uncomfortable.

I’m sure the refugees in Kurdistan remember well and are probably a bit nervous of an ulterior motive.


10 posted on 02/08/2016 3:37:06 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Fali_G

Iranians. Obola’s new friends.


11 posted on 02/08/2016 3:40:01 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Fali_G

Such is the 1400 year struggle of the dhimmis under Islam. Oh the joy and peace of life as a dhimmis.


12 posted on 02/08/2016 3:41:55 PM PST by Lent
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To: dp0622

I have severed all personal ties to anyone who voted for that POS. I have to deal with a lot of them at work, but I will have absolutely nothing to do with them outside of work.


13 posted on 02/08/2016 3:42:13 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

Obama’s media friends are still promoting him after all.
This Democrat controlled talking point media has wrecked their own party and has wrecked the country for years to come. What has been gained for wrecking this country so many people died for? Most of the Media would never serve the country. They have no idea about sacrifice.


14 posted on 02/08/2016 3:48:44 PM PST by FreedBird (y)
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To: Lent

But think of all the benefits of paying jiziya? You get to be tolerated some of the time!


15 posted on 02/08/2016 3:59:33 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Fali_G

God has a place for him, oh he dont believe in God? he will


16 posted on 02/08/2016 4:02:22 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: BeadCounter; All

Ethnic cleansing has been popular in that entire region for centuries. At lease 7 different national/ethnic groups have been guilty and/or victims.


17 posted on 02/08/2016 4:09:45 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Fali_G
I am sure our mosque visiting Muslim will express outrage any minute now.


18 posted on 02/08/2016 5:09:39 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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