Posted on 08/10/2014 3:24:27 PM PDT by ReformationFan
San Diego is home to the second largest Iraqi Christian community in America. Late last July over 1,000 people from this community gathered near the El Cajon Civic Center to express their alarm regarding the recent persecution of Iraqi Christians in Iraq.
In portion of Iraq that has historically had a comparatively large Christian presence, the ISIS invasion of Iraq has radically changed these demographics. ISIS is an Islamic, jihadist terrorist group. Their ultimate goal is to establish a caliphate (Islamic state) in the Middle East. They follow a hard line extremist philosophy that is totally intolerant of any western philosophy or religion. Mark Arabo, the American spokesman for the Christian community in Iraq (www.minorityhf.org) reports that these overseas family members from his community are now faced by a great evil. "Iraq is a living nightmare ... where currently believers in that country are now experiencing a Christian holocaust." Arabo hears regularly from people from his community who have relatives in Iraq and who have been affected adversely by these persecutions. He tells us that Christians face imminent death in Iraq. In a recent television interview, Arabo told CNN that there is a park in Mosul where beheadings are taking place. Christian children, women and men are being beheaded by ISIS forces if they don't convert to Islam. If they hesitate or resist in a forced conversion to Islam, Iraqi Christians are raped, tortured, face forced marriages or are murdered on the spot.
Arabo is also working on alerting the Christian population in the United States of this genocide by asking them to contact their Congressional members, Senators and our President requesting that we assist this Christian minority in their present quest to leave Iraq. He is asking Christians all over the country to support a mass exodus of Christians from this region to resettle in safer locations.
The gathering in El Cajon attests to the number of concerned relatives who still have loved ones in Iraq. All of these people are anxious about their family members. Arabo is hopeful that believers in the United States will take heed. He will be appearing on Sean Hannity's show this Monday as well as a half hour radio interview on Monday's Today's Issues program on the American Family Radio network at 11amCT (www.afr.net ).
James Lambert is the author of the newly released book- 16 Amazing Stories of Divine Intervention (www.16AmazingStories.com). He can be contacted at 800-656-8603.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Iraqi Christians in San Diego? Isn’t that where the USS Ronald Reagan is docked?
I know one has nothing to do with the other, but it’s just interesting. Hope they can muster some political power.
In El Cajon to be exact. My old home town. No longer recognizable. One thinks he/she is driving down a street in Baghdad by the looks of the store fronts alone.
Carve out an area and call it Kurdistan.Let all the Christians move there. To think that isis has Iran worried.
El Cajon is only a temporary sanctuary judging by Obama’s recent omission of Iraqi Christians as minorities to be concerned about. IS may be welcomed by the Won.
It would be like Israel 2.0, that would really PO the Muslim world. I love it.
In the years when the relatively sectarian Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq, the Christian minority was not singled out in any particular way. The Kurds suffered much more heavily at the hands of the Ba’athists, as they took political action against the ruthless tyrant in Baghdad, and were in every way a much more troublesome demographic for despotism from outside their own ethnicity. Only when Saddam was invaded, were any retaliations taken against the Chaldean Christians, but once Saddam was deposed entirely, the neighbors of the Christian community began their own “ethnic cleansing”. The elevation of Shi’ite leadership and some “guidance” from across the border in Iran led to far greater numbers of persecutions, with as many as two-thirds of the Chaldean Christians fleeing Iraq altogether.
The cathedral in Mosul was far older than most European churches, and Mass had been celebrated there CONTINUOUSLY, for some 1,600 years. All that ended a few weeks ago, as the last Christian took flight, with many of them ending up as some kind of bloody example of how “tolerant” the Islamic Caliphate could be.
It is interesting that the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut was totally unmoved by the plight of the Chaldean Christians, just as he was unaffected by the persecutions against the Copts of Egypt under the short reign of Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Kurds, and more especially the Yazidi, did manage to stir him to some activity, admittedly very minimal, but with a renewed sense of anxiety.
That is true; but is not an extremist philosophy, it is the basic teachings of Islam as writen in the Koran (the word of Allah) and in the Hadiths, (the example set by Muhammed), on how to practice the religion.
Isis practices fundamental Islam, nothing extreme or radical about what they are doing from a Islamic perspective.
Infidels have trouble understanding that, and make excuses for the adherants of fundamental Islam as being terrorists, radicals extremists,hi-jackers of the religion etc.
The problem is the religion itself. -Tom
A beautiful song to the Persecuted Church in Iraq.
http://youtu.be/v3m6TgDBoiw
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