Posted on 01/17/2005 10:33:57 AM PST by Pyro7480
During the bottom-of-the-hour news break, it was announced that a Catholic bishop was kidnapped in Mosul.
I did not say he was agood solution - just a statement of fact in regards to Christians under his dictatorship.
I agree that all Christians were concerned about the Muslim against Christian crimes increasing...but Saddam was so brutal to so many people, it cannot be one tradeoff for the other.
I pray their constitution when written will have some freedoms written into it..One being freedom to worship for all as they choose.
To those who would stretch a little knowledge thin...your cornflakes would glow in the dark had Saddam attempted to conquer SA...or without Gulf I...
What I _don't_ want to hear is incantations of turn the other cheek coming from the Vatican. Catholicism is in enough trouble in the U.S. with the priest abuse cases. We can't afford to condemn all violence when cases like these come up.
We don't need an image of a faith that refuses to protect itself. If there was ever just war, the battle against devil-worshipping Islamofascist thugs was it.
While I'm with you on the idea that the country refuses to face the enemy, you can rest easy about TWA 800. The detonation was caused by a design flaw in that model of plane. The gas tank would become unstable under a confluence of factors, like temp/humidity, plane angle, weight, how much gas was in the tank, etc.
It all happened to come together that day.
I konw it seems too simple what with the plane having come from Athens and Navy missiles in the area and all, but Murphy and Occam say the most likely answer is the most likely.
Released..Just heard it on Fox!..Thank you,God.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Iraqi Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped at gunpoint Monday has been freed, the Misna Italian missionary agency reported on Tuesday.
Misna said it had been told of the liberation of Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa by Monsignor Petros Mouch, the vicar-general of the archdiocese of Mosul. He told the agency that no ransom had been paid.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322994/posts
"the diocese is trying to collect the money necessary and could give it from here the end of the day to the kidnappers. We all wish the return of the archbishop among us ", added Mgr Rahho. According to the religious person in charge, this attack did not aim the Christians particularly." Hmmm
Get all the Christians in the ME to come here, diminish the dhimmitude already happening here in the states. Hell I think they'd be all welcome in Bowling Green, KY.. Diminish the culture of the Bosnians....
Thirty years ago today 9 innocent Jews were publicly hanged in Baghdad's so-called 'Liberation Square,' falsely accused of spying for Israel. This atrocity shocked the civilised world and focused world attention on the cause of Jews of Arab Lands with all that implies especially in terms of human rights.
At the time, Hassan al-Bakr was President of Iraq and Saddam Hussein was his right-hand man, whose Ba'ath Party had seized power in a military coup six months before.
Ummm ... as I understand it there are at least 1/2 million Catholics (mostly Assyrian Catholics), and another 1/2 million in the Assyrian Church of the East. Its very difficult to get numbers right when the Church is not allowed to operate freely.
Don't get ahead of yourself, I am a loyal Catholic. How many archbishops go to jail standing up against abortion? Dr. King went to jail a time or two for his convictions. Cdl McCarrick thinks it's a hardship if the salmon at Teddy Kennedy's prayer breakfast is too salty.
that was a quick release. the Pope called it a terrorist act... that is the rallying cry for Catholics around the world. The Pope's word is sacred. I guess these terrorists bit off a bit more than they could chew
I don't think the West can get more aggressive without a new religious conversion. The West believes in secularism, which essentially elevates surrender-in-the-face-of-impasse to a virtue.
That's true. If the Catholic Church (and the Orthodox Church and the orthodox Protestant churches) bucked up and stopped making nice with society and went back to preaching, I bet there'd be a whole different scenario here.
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