Posted on 03/13/2008 5:56:58 AM PDT by NYer
A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq has been found dead, the information service of the Italian Catholic Church said Thursday.
The body of Paulos Faraj Rahho, the archbishop of Mosul, was found near the northern city, the Church said, quoting the auxiliary archbishop of Baghdad, Shlemon Warduni.
"We recovered his body near Mosul," Warduni said, according to the Church's news agency SIR. "The kidnappers had buried him."
Rahho was kidnapped on February 29 in Mosul after a deadly shootout in which three of his companions were killed.
Iraqi forces in Mosul had fanned out to search for Rahho, whose abduction was branded as "atrocious" by Pope Benedict XVI.
Rahho was the latest in a long line of Chaldean clerics to be abducted in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003. Two priests were kidnapped in the city in October, and last June a priest and three deacons were attacked in front of their church.
Iraq's Christians, with the Chaldean sect by far the largest community, were said to number as many as 800,000 before the 2003 invasion.
Associated with the "Crusader" invaders and regarded as well-off, they are now victims of sectarian cleansing, killings and kidnappings at the hands of both Sunni and Shiite Islamists, as well as criminal gangs.
MSM here ignored it.
There is no other 'doctrine". Islam is Islam. There is only one Koran and one Mohammad. Except for some minor differences between the sects, some different haddith and suras (and they kill each other over them) Islams main message is exactly the same to all Muslims when it comes to Jews, Christians and other "infidels".
Agreed, but with respect I think your point would be clearer if you eschewed the strange phrase “Mohammedan crusades”.
They’re not sewing crosses onto their tunics after all. We should just call their actions “Jihad”, which is what they call them.
There is no other 'doctrine". Islam is Islam. There is only one Koran and one Mohammad. Except for some minor differences between the sects, some different haddith and suras (and they kill each other over them) Islams main message is exactly the same to all Muslims when it comes to Jews, Christians and other "infidels".
So sad to hear this. May his soul and the souls of the three others murdered rest in peace.
MSM here ignored it.
But I really don't know as much as y'all do...I don't watch the news very much.
Yep.
How big a deal was this in the Iraqi press?
I asked one of our interpreters that just now. He said they've been following the story all along and they have reported his death.
We also get translated news from various Iraqi print media so that we can follow what they're saying and they've given this pretty objective coverage.
My his soul and the souls of the faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace.
Hah. Probably not. I'd like "moderate" Muslims worldwide to grow a collective pair and present a united front in condemning this atrocity. That's probably too much to expect from a group that thinks of their big guns as replacement penises.
I think farmer18th identified one of the problems, which is that the current Iraqi constitution - approved by us - enshrines Islam (and sharia). This means that while the great majority of Iraqis probably do not want an Islamic state ala Iran, the nutbags who do want such a state feel that their hopes are alive because the current Iraqi constitution does not discourage it. This, I think, is one of the reasons the two Islamic factions are still slugging it out, and one of the reasons Christians are being aggressively targeted by both of these groups.
We would have been much better off (and so would the Iraqis) if we had insisted on a secular, religiously neutral constitution. There’s a toleration clause in the Iraqi constitution, but since the document starts off by declaring the primacy of Islam, that’s pretty meaningless.
The Crusades, of which there were many, but only three which were petitioned by the pope, were defensive in nature, a response to the Mohammadan crusades, or "jihad' if you like. They were sent to retake the holy lands. The third crusade never even materialized.
I really wish people would learn to separate international diplomacy from actual belief. It gets so tiresome.
It's already begun. Against us.
Many Christians have been brutally singled out for killing...more than we are told, and more than we will ever know.
This horror is not a recent development. It has been going on for 1300+years ever since the islamic cultists went on the rampage.
It is only our officials - and we - who are clueless...or willfully and willingly going along with the butchery. It us the latter of course.
We know and we do nothing about it.
Nor study it appears.
It also reads as though the author is blaming coalition forces for Muslims torturing and murdering harmless priests.
I am very much saddened by the news.
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