Killing Christians

Posted on October 12, 2008
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Al Arabiya.tv reports:

Violence causes families to flee

Iraq pours in police to protect Christians

BAGHDAD, Mosul, Arbil (Agencies, AlArabiya.net) Iraq deployed around 1,000 police in Christian areas of Mosul and set up checkpoints at churches on Sunday, an official said, as thousands of members of the minority group fled the worst violence against them in five years.

“Two (national police) brigades were sent to Christian areas in Mosul and churches were surrounded and put under tight security,” interior ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf told AFP.

He said the reinforcements had been deployed from midnight in the restive northern city, considered by U.S. and Iraqi commanders as the last urban stronghold of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Khalaf added that two investigation teams, one security and the other criminal, had also been deployed to probe a spate of attacks on Christians in Mosul since September 28, in which at least 11 people have been killed.

Nearly 1,000 Christian families have fled their homes in the city since Friday following the worst violence against Christians in five years, according to provincial governor Duraid Kashmula.

Mosul military command spokesman Khalid Abdul-Satar said he did not know who was behind the violence but pledged to protect the Christian community.

“We told the Christians through their churches and priests that we are ready to provide security to any house or individual that needs our protection. We have enough forces to do that,” Satar said.

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Worst violence in five years

” We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence. The objective is political “

Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako

At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday condemned the violence against Christians in both Iraq and India.

“I invite you to pray for peace and reconciliation as situations cause concern and great suffering…. I think of violence against Christians in Iraq and India,” he said.

Yunadem Kanna, one of only two Christians in the national parliament, said he had held urgent talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on the violence.

“I just met with Maliki and he promised to deliver,” he said, adding that the army and not just police had to move into the area in force if the law was to be upheld.

The flight of Christians from Mosul came as Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako last week called on the U.S. military as well as Prime Minister Maliki’s government to protect Christians and other minorities in the face of a rash of deadly attacks.

In an interview with AFP, Sako called on U.S. forces to do more to protect Christians and other minorities.

“We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence. The objective is political,” Sako said, noting that more than 200 Christians had been killed and a string of churches attacked since 2003.

There were around 800,000 Christians in Iraq at the time of the U.S.-led invasion, a number that has since shrunk by around a third as the faithful have fled the country, the archbishop said.

The Religion of Peace, the religion that refers to Jews and Christians as People of the Book, the religion that claims to respect its older siblings, is at it again! In a systematic ethnic religious cleansing, it plans to either liquidate the Christians or, at least, run them out of the areas they lived in for thousands of years, centuries before the advent of Islam. The fashionable anti-Westerners of the west who are so ready to fling accusations of violations of human rights at the Great Satan, the US, are absolutely silent when Islamists persecute Christians and other minorities (as you can see here, here, here, or here, just to give you a few examples).

This blatant hypocrisy shows that these anti-Westerners hate the West not out of principles based on injustice, but out of sheer unfounded hatred. They hate the west because, currently, to hate the West is fashionable. Fashion was never something to be tempered by sense, let’s face it.

When the pseudo intellectuals leading the sheeple start exhibiting some intellectual integrity, when they start using truth and honesty to counter all and any injustice, all and any unfair persecution, when human rights are truly foremost in the minds of their leaders, then the mindless anti-Western sheep will perhaps gain some moral legitimacy. Until such happens the unthinking, zombie like, political fashionistas are behaving with worse hatred than anything the West, as a whole, is accused of by these same willfully blind fools. Pity!