Posted on 09/18/2009 10:42:21 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
But in small Christian villages “optimism is almost nowhere to be found.”
“The residents seem tired; looking into their empty, often unhealthy faces, you wonder whether the massive exodus of Christians from Iraq … has left only the weakest and least capable behind to look after their homeland,” Robertson pondered.
Ongoing persecution of Christians in Iraq has forced hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians to flee the country. The U.N. High Commission for Refugees estimates that since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, some 250,000 to 500,000 Christians have left the country. That translates to about half the Christian population leaving within the short time span of six years.
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I believe special status should be given to Iraqi Christians who want to emmigrate to the US or Australia instead of being “fair” and “evenhanded” by having Moslems fill the quota—Moslems are not persecuted in Iraq.
I met one of them a couple of weeks ago. A Christian, from Mosul. He seemed a fine fellow, to me. Very polite, grateful for his being here, and appreciative too of my own interest in the plight of Iraqi's (the old-line Chaldeans there, particularly).
There was a big incentive for Christians to be “fine fellows” to survive so long in that country.
“The residents seem tired; looking into their empty, often unhealthy faces, you wonder whether the massive exodus of Christians...”
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Reads like a description of Europe in the year 2030 or America in the year 2050. The result of years of oil-driven Muslim expansion.
We bought their oil while we had oil in our backyard. We paid for it in dollars, but that was not enough. We had to invite them to come live with us. Right there, we signed our death warrant.
You can bet that each and every Iraqi Christian thinks back of the time that Saddam Hussein was in charge who allowed them to openly practice their religion.
Point taken about Aziz. He was scumbag. While he made not have been a Christian in his heart and behavior, however, it was his “official” status.
If God disowns all professed Christians who refuse to accpet the state of Israel, burning in hell is the likely fate of all professed Christians who support continued U.S. taxpayer aid to the Shi’ites in Iraq who have deciminated that country’s population since they took power, right?
that’s “deciminated that country’s Christian population.”
You were pretty self-confident and preachy awhile ago. Now....you don’t particularly seem to care about God has to say about believers who fail to protect their Christian brothers and sisters.
I note that you keep evading the point about whether God will equally condemn (of worse!) those who have supported a government that has persecuted them.
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