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Iraq Declares Christmas an Official Holiday for First Year
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| Dec 25,2008
Posted on 12/25/2008 10:57:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Iraq continues to move forward.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:01:10 AM PST
by
Allegra
To: Allegra
This is nice. How many other Muslim countries would do this.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:04:01 AM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:09:50 AM PST
by
Leifur
To: Allegra
**Iraq continues to move forward.**
Waiting for the FATWA on Stinky Imaneedastraitjacket be declared by the Taliban.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:10:24 AM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(Orwell's "1984" .. to Conservatives- a WARNING, to Liberals - a TEXTBOOK)
To: Impy
I thought we were so hated. God bless our troops.
This is a prayer answered. An official Christian holiday in
a Muslim country
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:10:27 AM PST
by
ChiMark
To: Impy
In Iraq, Muslims and Christians have lived alongside each other for centuries and they get along well. There are even some families with one Muslim parent and one Christian parent. One of the Iraqis I work with is a product of a union like this. I asked him if this has ever caused any tensions and he said no. His mother is the Christian and his father loves her and never asked her to convert. The children were raised Muslim, but as adults, two of them opted to become Christians.
The Christian churches around Baghdad began re-opening late last year when things started calming down and they are regularly attended now.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:17:15 AM PST
by
Allegra
To: SeekAndFind
Iraqi Christian children light candles at Saint Teriza church after Christmas Day mass in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2008. Christmas Day was this year for the first time declared an official holiday in Iraq.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)It's profound, really.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:33:37 AM PST
by
rvoitier
To: Allegra
“...two of them opted to become Christians”
That’s the key...freedom of conscience.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:35:56 AM PST
by
freedom4me
(No compromise w/ the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact w/ unrepentant wrong. --Churchill)
To: SeekAndFind
Iraq Declares Christmas an Official Holiday for First Year. While Iraq is declaring Christmas a holiday, liberals/socialists/atheists in this country are trying their hardest to declare it an abomination.
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:54:31 AM PST
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: SeekAndFind
Prayers for all Christians but especially those facing martyrdom for their faith.
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posted on
12/25/2008 12:16:50 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: SeekAndFind
The moslems have murdered thousands of Iraqi Christians and forced about half of them to leave the country. But now they declare Christmas a holday. Well, that makes up for it, sure.
To: Allegra
How many of these interfaith marriages involve a Christian husband and Muslim wife, so far as you’ve observed?
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posted on
12/25/2008 1:56:41 PM PST
by
Mogwai
(Palin/Santorum 2012!)
To: SeekAndFind
Nice try, but the “Christmas Holiday” in Muslim Iraq will have the shelf-life of a quart of milk once the bulk of American troops pull out.
To: Mogwai
How many of these interfaith marriages involve a Christian husband and Muslim wife, so far as youve observed? I know of a handful. A couple of them are American men I know who married Iraqi women.
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posted on
12/25/2008 9:07:59 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: Allegra
Iraq was primarily Christian (Assyrian/Chaldean Church of the East) and Zoroastrian until the advent of Islam.
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posted on
12/25/2008 9:59:11 PM PST
by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
To: Mogwai; Allegra
Next to none would be between Christian men and Muslim women.
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posted on
12/25/2008 9:59:58 PM PST
by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
To: Cronos
Iraq was primarily Christian (Assyrian/Chaldean Church of the East) and Zoroastrian until the advent of Islam. Yes, I know a little of the history about the place I have lived for the past five years. ;-)
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posted on
12/25/2008 10:02:39 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: Allegra
oops — how do you find it? have you visited teh ruins in Nineveh and Babylon, uruk and Ashur?
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posted on
12/26/2008 5:08:53 AM PST
by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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