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September 23, 2005
Dhimmi Watch's Fitzgerald: The plight of Iraqi Christians
Topics: IraqIn continuation of a story we covered previously, Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald examines the difficult situation of Iraqi Christians under the new Iraqi Constitution, and the difficult position of Middle Eastern Christians in general:
No law that contradicts Islam can be allowed. And Islam insists, Islam is based upon, treating Believers and Infidels (i.e., all non-Muslims) quite differently. Many of the Middle East's Christians have long tried to do everything they can, including parroting and even internalizing anti-Israel sentiments -- as the "Palestinian" Christians emptying out of Bethlehem and other PA-controlled areas are coming to realize, it won't save them. Others generally promote an Islamic agenda.
The sense of "Uruba" or "Arabness" that sometimes accompanies the use of the Arabic language, and that has helped persuade a great many non-Arabs that they are "Arabs," and must, as Arabs, take pride in what all Muslim Arabs perceive as the greatest contribution to the world of the Arabs, which is to say Islam, and with it something called "Islamic civilization" (though High Islamic Civilization is very largely a product of Jewish and Christian translators, and of Persians), has no doubt affected some --but by no means all -- in the various churches still extant in Iraq.Continue reading...Tens of thousands of Christians have left. They have been terrified into leaving. In Basra Christian sellers of alcohol have been summarily executed. Christian girls have been seized, raped, never seen again. In Ramadi, the last remaining Christian families -- eight of them -- were early on "invited" to accept Islam, the men killed, the women seized for Muslim delectation. There are no Christians to be found in Ramadi right now. They've "disappeared."
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The Christians of Iraq
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Posted by Richard at September 23, 2005 11:01 PM
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