[karnage]

The Assyrians and Chaldeans have survived quite a lot in the 2,000 years of their amazing Christian history. They will survive the current crisis. The above piece makes valuable points, but its doom-laden, handwringing tone is overwrought.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

The above piece makes valuable points, but its doom-laden, handwringing tone is overwrought.

Respectfully, "karnage", it's pretty easy for us -- as rich, well-fed American Christians sitting in our comfy recliners -- to accuse the persecuted Christians of Iraq "hand-wringing" when we still possess, you know, both hands.

"They send us their fingers or toes, pictures of them beaten and bruised, and tell us we bring this on our head because we are Christians and collaborate with the Christian Americans."

This is real. This is not just some black and white HTML cut-and-paste on an American Internet Bulletin Board, this is actually happening. Right now.

The Christians of Iraq are not engaging in "handwringing" -- they are being Raped and Murdered. By the Hundreds of Thousands.

This is really happening. NOW.

War is Evil.
God hates War.

[Old_Mil]

The Assyrians and Chaldeans have survived quite a lot in the 2,000 years of their amazing Christian history. They will survive the current crisis. The above piece makes valuable points, but its doom-laden, handwringing tone is overwrought.

And yet the fact remains that the Assyrian Christians went from living in a secular dictatorship where they faired no worse than any other group to being the most highly persecuted religious group in Iraq under what will undoubted be another "Muslim Democracy" like the new Afghani regeime that wanted to behead a man for converting to Christianity.