GOODBYE, MOSUL!

Rorate-caeli ^ | August 5, 2014

[NYer]

1924: Chaldean priests and the orphans under their care in Mosul (Nineveh), Iraq

Majid Aziza

[Lebanese daily] An-Nahar

July 24, 2014

Expelled, we leave our city of Mosul, humiliated by the followers of the new Islam. We leave it for the first time in History. And, while leaving, we thank our neighbors, the neighbors whom we thought would protect us, as they used to do [in the past], [thinking] that they would rise up against the fury of these 21st-century criminals by telling them that we are the authentic children of this city, and that we are its founders.

We used to reassure ourselves by telling ourselves that we could count on them, brave brothers who would show of which kind of material they were made. But they abandoned us, letting us be taken outside the city, towards the unknown. They closed their eyes, while we left behind our history, the graves of our ancestors, our houses, our property, and all that was dear to our heart. They abandoned us, while we said farewell to our neighborhoods, to the Jonah Mosque. 

Goodbye as well to the archbishopric, to the Maskinta church, and that of Ain Kibrit... Goodbye to all of you! We will no longer be there for your feasts, and ceremonies, marriages and funerals.

Goodbye to our kin buried in Mosul. We leave you, chased from our city. May they forgive us if we can no longer come to their graves on holy days. Goodbye to the remains of my grandfather Elias, of my paternal uncle - Fr. Mikhail -, to my maternal uncles Ibrahim and Mikhail Haddad, from whom I got the passion for journalism, goodbye to my paternal uncle Estefan Aziza, the first martyr of the family, goodbye to the Convent of Saint George, goodbye to the city bridges, to its walls, to its playing fields, to its university, to its cultural center.

Forgive us, dear friends, brethren, noble children of our city. Forgive us for our negligence. If we must fail in our duties toward you, the fact remains that we lived there together for hundreds, rather, thousands of years, building up Mosul with the sweat of our brow.

And today, you view us from afar, while we are chased away, humiliated in the eyes of all. The furious murderers of the Daesh [ISIS] expelled us from our houses and from our city. Goodbye to you all! And thank you. We leave, compelled and under duress, a land that we had sustained with our own blood.

[Based on the French version, published on Aug. 1 - orig. post. time: 12:00 a.m. GMT]

[NYer]

Mosul, a breadbasket of christianity, ping! Good-bye!

[ForYourChildren]

Very sad...

[NYer]

And, yesterday, ISIS grabbed a city in northern Lebanon. Pray for the christians of the Middle East!

[Ingtar]

Followers of the New Islam? News flash: it is the same old Islam.

[morphing libertarian]

They will form a crescent from Beirut to Baghdad.

[sagar]

Islam is a beautiful, peaceful religion. No way the Muslims represent Islam. No way.

[skeeter]

Unfortunately for the remnants of 2000 years of Christianity in Mosul the state department is too busy worrying about the well being of the terrorists in Gaza to notice.

[Advil000]

Worse than that... worse by far.

[captmar-vell]

“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” Isaiah Chapter 27:13

Please pray that God will provide them a place to go,

[Capt. Tom]

Expelled, we leave our city of Mosul, humiliated by the followers of the new Islam.

The new Islam ?
It amazes me the dumb Infidels can live so close with the Muslims, and not bother to find out what Islam is all about.
The Christians are lucky to get out alive. -Tom

[sagar]

“Please pray that God will provide them a place to go”

Honest truth: most cunning non-Muslim Iraqis have already escaped to Christian-majority countries in the West. Those who stay behind are simply not the brightest. Only the Christians from Europe/West developed martial tradition. The Eastern Christians are pacifists.

Western Christians could kill non-Christians without worries... preserving and expanding Christendom. Eastern Christians have always been sitting ducks. Even modern Christians from Europe/West have become sitting ducks, sadly.

[ebb tide]

May St. John the Baptist protect Islam..

St. John Paul II

[rdcbn]

Don’t expect much out of Pope Francis

[livius]

Eastern Christians were hardly pacifists...it’s simply that they’ve always been smaller in numbers and because they have no connection to a central authority outside of their region, they don’t have anybody to call on for help.

The collapse of the Roman Empire was filled in by the unifying force of the Catholic Church in the West. But the East was riven by heresies (which eventually gave rise to Islam) and was not even united in its own churches, let alone united with a strong outside power, and the hatred of the East for the West (along with the internal divisions of Eastern Christianity) really prevented it from forming the alliances it needed.

I think this has changed now and the Eastern churches would automatically receive the support of the Western Church. But the problem is that the Church in Europe and the US is so seriously weakened and undermined and riddled with leftists that I doubt it can even help itself.

[Biggirl]

The “new Islam”, same as the “old Islam”.

[Biggirl]

You mean the devil’s religion that is Islam?

[sagar]

So, you are saying that Eastern Christians were not pacifists, but because of complete incompetence, they could not even function, hence gave way to Islam in the Middle East. Well, even more depressing.

[sagar]

“You mean the devil’s religion that is Islam?”

Devil or not, in the marketplace of religions, its salesmen are willing to kill you for it. Hard to turn it down with those pushy salesmen.

[Biggirl]

Yet in the marketplace of religions, it loses to the competition every time.