[Impy]

This is nice. How many other Muslim countries would do this.

[ChiMark]

I thought we were so hated. God bless our troops.

This is a prayer answered. An official Christian holiday in
a Muslim country

[Allegra]

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.