Iraqi Christians expect to be targeted by a growing tide of Islamic militancy now being encouraged in the secularized Arab state, . . . Iraq's Christian community, one of the oldest in the world, has shrunk from 10 percent of the population 20 years ago to about 1.5 percent of the country's 24 million people.
Oh, yes, they've certainly avoided persecution up until this point!
3 posted on 03/21/2003 7:45:13 AM PST by AmishDude