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Baghdad celebrates first public Christmas
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| December 21, 2008
| Jill Dougherty
Posted on 12/21/2008 11:42:47 AM PST by ksm1
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To: ksm1
The Iraqis seem to be learning.
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:09:20 PM PST
by
Irish Rose
(Will work for chocolate.)
To: ksm1
There have been Christians in Iraq for almost 2,000 years, and in fact there was a story during the 1991 war that the oldest continuously used Christian church in the world is in Baghdad. It was only after 632 that the Christian nation of Mesopotamia was destroyed by the Islamic hordes. The 700,000+ Christians still there are descendants of the original inhabitants of that land.
To: nahanrac
Too bad you didn’t see this....D’oh!!!
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:33:47 PM PST
by
lilycicero
(Those crazy kids in Baghdad)
To: Allegra
I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous, and SAFE New Year.
L
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posted on
12/21/2008 6:52:07 PM PST
by
Lurker
("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
To: Lurker
I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous, and SAFE New Year. Thank you and I wish the same for you.
Christmas has indeed come to Baghdad and it is beautiful.
This place is getting more normal every day. :)
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posted on
12/21/2008 8:15:34 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: Right Wing Assault
Probably the only Christians left are our troops. Not at all. The Christian churches have begun opening around Baghdad over the past year and are being attended by Iraqi Christians regularly.
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posted on
12/21/2008 8:17:07 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: Allegra
This place is getting more normal every day. :) Talk about a Bizarro world...things here are getting weirder by the minute..
L
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posted on
12/21/2008 8:18:46 PM PST
by
Lurker
("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
To: Lurker
Talk about a Bizarro world...things here are getting weirder by the minute.. LOL - I was just home on leave and I concur. I arrived back here just a couple of days ago.
I keep saying things like "Now that I'm back home....I mean...ahh...back here..."
I'm sooooo confused. ;-)
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posted on
12/21/2008 8:24:42 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: ksm1
This kind of thing is banned in San Francisco. Those Iraquis would be arrested if they tried that over here.
To: NRA2BFree
Have the riots started yet? I can't believe the Imans are going to give Jesus a pass. I bet that sign's destroyed before Christmas! I bet it's not.
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posted on
12/21/2008 10:12:35 PM PST
by
Allegra
To: I can has Low Taxes?
... worth menetioning thugh that there was a pogrom (Farhud) on the Jews of Iraq in 1941 (7 years before re-establishment of Israel) - a massacre incited by the infamous Mufti of palestine.
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posted on
12/21/2008 10:57:43 PM PST
by
Righting
To: NRA2BFree
Well, Iraqis and most Arabs in general pride themselves on their hospitality, so I’m a bit more optimistic.
Can’t say the same about San Francisco liberals though when it comes to tolerance...
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posted on
12/22/2008 9:53:28 AM PST
by
ksm1
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