FUTURE OF IRAQ
The history of Islamic conquest and domination in the Middle East and the relations between the dominant Muslims and the now minority Christians are defined by the Quran, as amplified in the Hadith, and codified in the Sharia (Muslim law code). Muslims believe that the Quran is the eternal, literal, unalterable and final word of their Allah. It defines Muslims in Surah III, 110 as "the best of nations". Surah VIII, 55 defines "kufr" (infidels including Christians) as "the vilest of animals". Even as "people of the Book" Christians were and are relegated to an inferior and humiliating status as a despised caste in Muslim societies, obligated to assent to the alleged superiority of Muslims, to acknowledge their own inferiority, and to pay the humiliation tax known as the "jisya". See Surah IX, 29 and the page, ISLAM - JIHAD elsewhere in this Web site.
Islam does not recognize human or civil rights, only religious rights as set forth in its foundation documents which place Muslims in a dominant position in society and all others below that. All others enjoy whatever may be accorded them by way of privilege and at the sufferance of the Muslims and their leaders. This arrangement is sanctioned by religion, law and custom. The Christian populations of the Middle East, once dominant, have either vanished altogether or have been reduced to small minorities by forced conversions, persecutions and emigration. In recent decades the Christian communities in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East have been eroding at an accelerating rate through emigration due to increased pressure from militant Islam. Europe, North America and Australia have all experienced increased immigration by Middle Eastern Christians seeking to escape discrimination and persecution at the hands of their Muslim neighbors. In the United States about 74% of the Arabs are Christians and the remainder Muslims. If current trends continue, the remnants of the ancient Christian Churches in Iraq and the Middle East will vanish. No longer will the chants of the ancient liturgies be heard. Then the wail of the muezzin will sound from the towers of the desecrated churches. Thus the final solution to the Christian presence in the Middle East will be achieved. (3) & (4) See CHRISTIAN FLIGHT FROM THE MIDDLE EAST at: http://www.byzantines.net/byzcathculture/christflight.html
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