Posted on 03/29/2005 12:13:30 PM PST by JZelle
There is another war going on today in Iraq about which little is heard. It is a war against Christianity. Christians in Iraq are a comparatively small, windling minority: fewer than 800,000, merely 3 percent out of a population of 26 million. Though Iraqi Christians are a minuscule minority, they suffering unrelenting Muslim persecution. The Iraqi Christian population, once was more than 15 percent, decreases daily due to emigration to safety in Western countries. Muslim persecution in Iraq of Christians was highlighted in January when Archbishop Basil Georges Casmoussa in Mosul was kidnapped. Cooler Muslim heads must have prevailed because he was released the next day.
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I can understand how the US government doesn't want to show itself favoring ethnic/religious groups openly. But it could do something for the Christians of Iraq under the guise of looking out for minority groups. That would include the Turkmens (well, Turkey is looking out for them)the Yezidi (don't think anyone is concerned about them). The Assyrian Christians do have a well informed well educated diaspora that spreads current news over the net, but politically I really think not much is being done to save their continued existence in a post Saddam Iraq.
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