Posted on 04/02/2007 1:03:08 PM PDT by Winged Hussar
Iraq’s Assyrian Christians face extinction four years after the toppling of Saddam, says Ed West
“When they cook a dish in the Middle East, it is traditional to put the meat on top of the rice when they serve it. They kidnapped a woman’s baby in Baghdad, a toddler, and because the mother was unable to pay the ransom, they returned her child – beheaded, roasted and served on a mound of rice.” The infant’s crime was to be an Assyrian, but this story, reported by the Barnabus Fund, went unnoticed in the West, like so many other horrific accounts of Christian persecution in Iraq. Since the invasion of Iraq, Muslim militants have bombed 28 churches and murdered hundreds of Christians. Last October, Islamists beheaded a priest in Mosul in revenge for the Pope’s remarks about Islam at Regensburg. But never let it be said that jihadis do not have a sense of ironic humour: that same month they crucified a 14-year-old Christian boy in Basra.
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How dare you say the muslims are violent! Why, if I was a muslim I would stone you until you proclaimed otherwise. sarcasm off now. no stone throwing here!
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The media will not cover it because a) they hate Christianity b) it would make Muslims look bad c) it might result in people supporting the war. SO instead it ends up in the memory hole.
A lot of Assyrians have escaped from Iran to the US, why not some more from Iraq?
Someone get this to Rosie.
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