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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13It is hardly surprising that the symbol of the Crusaders and of George Bushs modern day Crusaders is despised by the Iraqi people. What does the cross mean to them except the deification and thus abomination of one of their prophets Isa (Jesus in Greek) and the mass murder of their people at the hands of self proclaimed Christian "Crusaders" (George Bushs' own words).
Under Saddam Hussein Cristians lived freely. His top minister Tariq Aziz was a Christian indeed. The present situation is directly attributable to the US/UK invasion. Shia are being bombed in their marketplaces and mosques: they say, by American and Israeli agents. Sunnis are being bombed and murdered after torture and kidnap by (US) Government backed militias. Is it surprising Christains are also in fear of attack?
I sense the writer of this piece somehow sees the "Cross" itself as something to be protected. It just seems a bit redicuous amid the wanton mass murder, suffering and destruction in Iraq to pick out the removal of the Christian symbol as a terrible thing. What is a Cross anyway but a symbol of death or perhaps the symbol of paedophiles?
Your comments are obscene. You are justifying attacks on Christian places of worship. If the attacks took place on mosques I am sure you would condemn them. Why would anyone want to deny Christians the right to worship? In Iran, despite some repression, Christians are allowed to worship. If these sort of attacks took place then the police would deal severely with the guilty fanatics.
I thought you had an agenda! I wasn't defending any of the attacks I mentioned. Of course with you zealous drive to 'protect the cross' you seem to have read my reply in that way. Read it again, and put your bible down first. I was simply listing part of the catalogue of mayem that has ensued since George Bushs' "Christian Crusaders" went on the rampage in Iraq. You obviously have a very slanted viewpoint when you can overlook the destruction and death suffered by the Iraqi people to worry about a piece of steel resting on top of a church.
"Shia are being bombed in their marketplaces and mosques: they say, by American and Israeli agents. Sunnis are being bombed and murdered after torture and kidnap by (US) Government backed militias"
Only an innocent or a charlatan would claim that the mass sectarian murder is being carried out by US or Israeli forces. A religious/ethnic war is being fought. The US/UK/Israelis are responsible for bringing it about but you only make yourself look stupid by claiming that its all the work of counter-gangs.
By spreading this sort of nonsense you undermine the anti war movement. By calling for support for an undifferentiated "Resistance", you end up supporting the mass murder of civilians. It makes it easier for the Pro War elements to paint us all as supporters of Islamist terror.
Unconditionally call for the withdrawal of all Imperialist troops but give no support to sectarian mass murderers.
I am sorrowed by all deaths in Iraq. I pray for all of those who have died. I pray for peace. I pray for the British and American. I hope they will get sense and leave. I pray for you.
Ascent, you ignorant, ignorant fool. It is Muslims who blaspheme by demoting Jesus to a lowly prophet.
The car bombers, suicide bombers, mosque bombers etc, these are all Muslims, carried out by Muslims, and claimed by Muslims. Why do you say it's agents of the US? So very stupid.
And the Cross is a symbol of death and paedophilia? How can you say this when Jesus commanded that no one kill? When the mass murder of civilians in Iraq is carried out by Muslims? When the founder of Islam married a seven year old, and had sex with her when she was nine? He would have been jailed for life for countless crimes if he was alive today.
Bishop of Kurdistan: “the Church in Iraq is in great danger”
The latest attacks in the North, until now the safest area in the country, sound the alarm. Msgr Rabban Al Qas "begs" the Vatican: “Intervene, Christians are now in ranger everywhere”. The death toll from a suicide bombing of Tell-el-skop: 10 dead, among the 140 wounded two Dominican nuns. In Baghdad the ongoing” massacre” of Christians and Shiites in the Dora quarter.
There are numerous children and Dominican nuns among the wounded from yesterday’s suicide bombing of the Christian village of Tell-el-skop, north east of Mosul. Suicide attacks targeting the North of the country have sounded the alarm for religious leaders, who now ask the Holy See for help. “Find a way, a means to save us, the Church in all of Iraq is in great danger, we beg the Vatican to help us bring our voice to the world”.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9082&size=A
What is needed is tolerance (as per Koran) and respect for different faiths. To say some1 is Christian or Muslim is practically meaningless anyway - any person of any faith, or none, can be a 'paedophile' or a 'good Samaritan'.
If yer in a hospital, it doesn't matter what faith the doctors & nurses are, it matters whether they're good people & conscientious at their jobs.
Yesterday, Dinkha IV, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, reiterated the words spoken by Emmanuel III Delly on 6 May in Erbil, reinforcing them with more appeals to Iraqi political and religious leaders. A “strong” reminder of the need to preserve the “social and religious mosaic” of Iraq also came from the Syrian-Orthodox Bishop of Aleppo. In his address, Mgr Gregotios Yohanna Ibrahim concentrated above all on the damage caused by the war in Iraq.
Dinkha IV, first drew attention to the tragedy facing the Christian community especially in “Mosul and Baghdad, where terrorists at work in Dora district are asking Christian families to convert to Islam or to pay a protection tax or to leave their homes and all their belongings.”
Dinkha IV described as “inhuman” such acts perpetrated against Christians, “who have always respected the authorities”. For this reason, he continued, “we call on the government to extinguish the flames in which all Iraqis, without distinction, are burning.” And turning to the Iraqi premier, the Shiite Nouri Al Maliki: “Muslim parties and groups that are perpetrating violent acts against Christians are far from Islam; so we ask the prime minister and MPs to take the necessary steps to stop the violence that is affecting all the sons of Iraq.”
Sadly things continue to deteriorate. The supposed liberators of Iraq just stand by and let the Islamists terrorise Christians ans secular Iraqis.
Yet another Chaldean priest was kidnapped this morning in Baghdad. He is Fr. Nawzat P. Hanna, parish priest of Mar Pithion, from the Baladiyat quarter. Confirmation of the abduction reached AsiaNews, via Msgr. Shlemon Warduni, Chaldean auxiliary bishop in the capital, who has invited Catholics to “pray for Fr. Nawzat’s immediate release”. The abductors have already made contact with the Chaldean Patriarchate, but as of yet there is no further news.
Those groups who subscribe to the “Islamic state in Iraq” are putting up posters which demand women wear the veil and distributing pamphlets imposing protection taxes on Christians. “They use the same technique on each and every quarter – locals tell – soon they will begin to call house to house to sequester all our possessions”. “The coalition and Iraqi forces are present on the round in these neighbourhoods – they lament – they can see what’s going on, but they refuse to get involved”. Thus many make the decision to leave their homes, packing their most precious belongings in cases and seeking refuge in those few Churches which are still open. But most are already full to capacity, forcing many families to live and sleep on the streets.
A Chaldean Catholic priest who was kidnapped in Baghdad on Saturday was released on May 21, but showed signs of having been beaten, the AsiaNews service reports.
Father Nawzat Hanna was released into the custody of Bishop Shlemon Warduni, an auxiliary of the Chaldean patriarchate of Baghdad, on Monday evening. Earlier in the day the bishop had revealed that kidnappers were asking a "very very high" ransom for the priest
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=51288
Terrorists, believed to be Shiites, yesterday occupied the Convent belonging to the Chaldean Sisters of the Scared Heart in Baghdad. Sources in the capital in contact with the nuns denounced the event to AsiaNews. The Angel Raphael convent lies in the Mikanik area of the oppressed Dora quarter where for months now a ferocious anti Christian campaign of persecution has been unfolding. The only two sisters who still lived in there tell that a group of terrorists broke into the building during their absence; on their return they found the convent had been sacked of all its goods and turned into a base for military operations.
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9427&size=A
Ragheed, a “costly sacrifice” so that Iraq may see the dawn of reconciliation, says Pope
“Deeply saddened” by yesterday’s “senseless killing of Father Ragheed Aziz Ganni and the subdeacons” in Mosul, the Pope expressed “his heartfelt condolences” in a telegram to the city’s bishop, Mgr Rahho, and the families of the deceased. In the message that was released today, Benedict XVI “joins the Christian community in Mosul in commending their souls to the infinite mercy of God our loving Father and in giving thanks for their selfless witness to the Gospel.” The Pontiff said he would pray for the “costly sacrifice [which] will inspire in the hearts of all men and women of good will a renewed resolve to reject the ways of hatred and violence [. . .] and to cooperate in hastening the dawn of reconciliation, justice and peace in Iraq.”
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=9452&size=A
The persecution continues. The Occupation has turned Iraq into a bandit State where "Islamic" Militias which are little more than bandits impose their version of the Sharia.
Another Chaldean priest was abducted in Baghdad today (6 June). Fr Hani Abdel Ahad, in his early 30s, was taken in a north-eastern section of the capital called Suleikh along with four boys who were going with him to visit the city’s minor seminar.
The incident has plunged the Christian community in a state of gloom. Some faithful have reacted to terrible news saying that they have “the impression that they are all alone, like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, when he felt abandoned by the Father.”