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The violence which Christians in Iraq have long feared seems finally to have arrived with the brutal murder of two Chaldean Catholic men the Barnabas Fund, reported on Friday. Sabah Gazala and Abdul Ahed who were shot and killed by two Islamic gunmen within ten minutes in separate incidents in Basra. Like a number of Christians in the city and in other parts of Iraq they were involved in the sale of alcohol, jobs forbidden to Muslims but permitted to Christians under Saddam Hussein's rule. In recent weeks such vendors have faced severe threats from Shia Muslim conservatives seeking to...

Two Christians Murdered: Long Feared Anti-Christian Violence Begins in Iraq? As Shia Muslims become more aggressive and vocal in their demands for an Islamic State based on Shari'ah the anti-Christian violence which Christians in Iraq have long feared seems finally to have arrived with the brutal murder of two Christian men. Britain's Daily Telegraph reports the deaths of Sabah Gazala and Abdul Ahed who were shot and killed by two Islamic gunmen within ten minutes in separate incidents in Basra on 8 May. Like a number of Christians in the city and in other parts of Iraq they were involved...