[A. Pole]

Christians make up disproportionate number of refugee population The Barnabas Fund report stated that the latest figures from the UN estimate that around 3.7 million Iraqis - 1 in 8 - have been forced out of their homes by the violence since 2003. Christians, who made up only 3-4% of the population of Iraq, account for nearly a quarter of the refugee population. The number of Christians left in Iraq has fallen from 1.4 million in the 1980s to less than 500,000 now.

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[elcid1970]

Iraqi Christians are just that - Christians. They've been Christian at least six centuries longer than Muslims have been Islamic.

What if the U.S. offered to resettle Iraqi Christians here? They'd be far more assimilable than mooselimbs, we'd have an Arabic-speaking contigent to help us with understanding the Arab world.

Just a thought. By the way, there are already Iraqi Christian communities in the U.S. How are they working out, assimilation-wise?

Better than them scattering to other Islamic Arab hellholes.

[BlackElk]

Time for the less than 500,000 Iraqi Christians still in Iraq and anyone else there who genuinely loves freedom to get out (and don't look back) so that we can do what needs doing. Think: Lot leaving a place that had ceased to have an excuse to exist. Iranian and Syrian Christians might prudently decide to follow their lead.