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November 16, 2007

Baghdad Muslims To Christian Friends And Neighbors Who Fled Baghdad: 'Come Home'

Topics: Iraq

Muslims in Baghdad are asking their Christian friends and neighbors to come home, and they're showing their faces on camera inside a Christian Church to help spread the word:

On November 15th Most Reverend Shlemon Warduni, Auxiliary Bishop of the St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Diocese for Chaldeans and Assyrians in Iraq officiated over the first mass said in St John's Church in Baghdad since the church was shuttered after the nearby St George's was destroyed and clergy in the north were kidnapped, tortured and executed.

And Michael Yon was in there taking pictures (hat tip - LGF)

... when al Qaeda came to Dora, they began harassing Christians first, charging them "rent." It was the local Muslims, according to LTC Michael, who first came to him for help to protect the Christians in his area. That's right. LTC Michael told me more than once that the Muslims reached out to him to protect the Christians from al Qaeda. Real Muslims here are quick to say that al Qaeda members are not true Muslims. From charging "rent," al Qaeda's harassment escalated to killing Christians, and also Muslims. Untold thousands of Christians and Muslims fled Baghdad in the wake of the darkness of civil war. Most of the Christians are gone now; having fled to Syria, Jordan or Northern Iraq.

Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St John's. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos likely will recognize their friends here. The Muslims in this neighborhood worry that other people will take the homes of their Christian neighbors, and that the Christians will never come back. And so they came to St John's today in force, and they showed their faces, and they said, "Come back to Iraq. Come home." They wanted the cameras to catch it. They wanted to spread the word: Come home. Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. "Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq."

Continue reading Michael Yon's "Come Home."

Posted by Richard at November 16, 2007 3:14 PM

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