[sevry]

designates Islam the "official religion of the state,"

I'm surprized to hear that. What's the URL for this?

And if the situation is such that Muslims are descending upon 'eastern rite' Catholics, essentially, and also schismatic eastern rites, then the interim government must pay more that lip service to cracking down on such attacks. They had said the right words. But they have to mean it.

This is the Buchanan complaint, basically. It was my fear before the 'shock n awe'. An Islamic theocracy WILL behave brutally toward non-Muslims. It's pretty much right in the Koran. They can't allow an Islamic theocracy to be established.

[Truth666]

June 6, 2004
http://www.christianpost.com/dbase.php?cat=missions&id=882

[Truth666]

and this, from the same link, is also telling of what times do we live in :
The Assyrian Church, known officially as the Assyrian Church of the East, is the oldest continually existing church in the world. Assyrians are the only people in the world who still speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ.
Just think about it :

only people who still speak Aramaic leaving their native homeland after 2000 years ...