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The Other Iraq War
The Washington Times ^ | March 29, 2005 | Arnold Beichman

Posted on 03/29/2005 4:09:04 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA

There is another war going on today in Iraq about which little is heard. It is a war against Christianity. Christians in Iraq are a comparatively small, windling minority: fewer than 800,000, merely 3 percent out of a population of 26 million. Though Iraqi Christians are a minuscule minority, they suffering unrelenting Muslim persecution. The Iraqi Christian population, once was more than 15 percent, decreases daily due to emigration to safety in Western countries. Muslim persecution in Iraq of Christians was highlighted in January when Archbishop Basil Georges Casmoussa in Mosul was kidnapped. Cooler Muslim heads must have prevailed because he was released the next day.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues; Orthodox Christian; Other Christian
KEYWORDS: catholic; christain; iraq; islam; orthodox; persecution; protestant

1 posted on 03/29/2005 4:09:05 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA
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"Religion of Peace" (yeah, right) allah fubar ping!


2 posted on 03/29/2005 4:11:33 AM PST by Convert from ECUSA (tired of all the shucking and jiving)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

"Though Iraqi Christians are a minuscule minority, they suffering unrelenting Muslim persecution."

It's almost as if Moslems persecute everyone, whether it be Christians, Jews, golfers, or other Moslems.


3 posted on 03/29/2005 10:18:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
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Really. I wonder if it is written in the koran that part of being a proper muslim is to persecute all non-muslims.


4 posted on 03/29/2005 12:27:45 PM PST by Convert from ECUSA (tired of all the shucking and jiving)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

Evidently it is. :'o


5 posted on 03/29/2005 12:37:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
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AMERICA AT WAR
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6 posted on 03/29/2005 9:40:34 PM PST by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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