Posted on 04/24/2008 5:04:26 AM PDT by SJackson
Newsmax.com | The Kurdish regional government in Northern Iraq is providing a safe haven to several thousand Iraqi Christians who have fled persecution in other parts of the country, government officials and local pastors told Newsmax.
Unlike refugee camps set up for some 100,000 Shia Muslims fleeing attacks from Sunnis, which are closely monitored by Kurdish security forces, Christians have been encouraged to live anywhere.
“Christians in Iraq need special attention, because they’ve been suffering because they are Christians,” Deputy Prime Minister Omar Fattah told Newsmax in an exclusive interview in Erbil. “Maybe we give some instructions to others where they can go, but to Christians, never, because we are not afraid they will be terrorists.”
Some have been given government land and building materials to construct a house. Others have rented homes from friends, or are being put up in temporary shelters thanks to local churches and international donors.
“Those people are our citizens, and when they are coming to Kurdistan they are most welcome, and we will provide them with all possible assistance,” the Kurdish deputy premier said.
Since U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime in April 2003, around 2,000 Christian families have moved into Ainkawa, a historic Christian town on the outskirts of the Kurdish capital, Erbil.
“Most people came when the terrorists told them they must pay the jizya or they will be killed,” Ainkawa mayor, Fahmi Mehti Soltaqi, told Newsmax, referring to a "protection tax" levied on non-Muslims according to Shari'a law.
Anyone who supports the Jihadist state of Kosovo gives de facto support to the destruction of Christian Churches.
That's not a personal attack, it's just a fact, Jack!
That mean that the only one of us who supports islamic separatists and the creation of a new islamic state is YOU.
That statement stands in stark contrast to this post, other posts you made around the same time suggest otherwise.
At all times. I have never supported the Kosovar Albanians and I opposed our recognition of their independence.
I would advise posters not to hold their breath until any evidence of that can be shown on previous posts here on Free Republic.
Like Hillary Clinton and the videotape of her walking around the airport in Bosnia, the facts don't support you, joe.
Now try to watch your temper, we don't need more deleted posts in their thread.
The truth is, I don't care what historical claim Serbia has to Kosovo because I am not a Serb. It is up to Serbs to worry about such matters, not for Americans me who are loyal only to America.
When Clinton bombed Serbia, I was against it, but people like you make me ashamed that I ever had any sympathy for the Serbs.
And people like you remind me that I cannot trust all of my fellow Americans, even the ones who don't wear their warning signs on their sleeves, like Obama or Hillary, and that is the greater shame.
You can trust me to support the USA 100%, and I can trust you to support a foreign agenda from a foreign country.
That's the silliest, most unsupported thing you've ever said...and that's really saying something.
Opposing Jihad is NOT A FOREIGN AGENDA, unless your primary domestic agenda is Dhimmitude, of course.
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