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Out of the frying pan and into the fire?
From AFP:
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Front Page Mag: Iraq’s Christians Near Extinction Posted by Raymond Ibrahim A recent Fox News report tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country’s...
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CNN: All Christians 'targets,' Iraqi militant group says Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- All Christians in the Middle East are now "legitimate targets," al Qaeda in Iraq announced Wednesday, as the group's deadline for Egypt's Coptic church to...
- Iraq: 10 Catholics Killed, 30 Wounded After Security Forces Stormed Baghdad Church
Iraqi Policeman inside Our Lady of Salvation Chaldean Catholic church, after security forces have stormed the buildingThis is an update on this story:At least 10 Christian worshippers were killed and about thirty wounded tonight, when Iraqi security...
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Islamists Warn Iraqi Christians: “Leave Immediately or our Swords Shall be Placed Upon Your Necks”From Weasel Zippers: If only there was a huge number of mainly Christian troops in Iraq to protect these people… Iraq (MNN) ― Muslim extremists...
- Prime Minister Nouri Al-maliki Is A Shia Muslim Who Lived In Iran
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Haunted by violence, Iraqi Christians flee to Turkey
Out of the frying pan and into the fire?
From AFP:
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Terrorised by mounting extremist attacks, more and more Iraqi Christians are fleeing in panic to neighbouring Muslim-majority Turkey, among them lone minors sent away by desperate parents.Turkey is, also, less than two percent Christian. Out of the frying pan and into the fire? Yes, it would seem so.
In Istanbul, a tiny Chaldean Catholic community has embraced the refugees, serving as their first point of shelter before the United Nations or local civic groups extend a helping hand.
The number of arrivals, available statistics show, has sharply increased since October 31 when gunmen stormed a Baghdad church, killing 44 worshippers, two priests and seven security guards, in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda's local affiliate.
"We saw many newcomers after the attack. We saw they had made no preparation and had no savings," said Gizem Demirci, an activist at the Association for Solidarity with Asylum-Seekers and Migrants.
"Moreover, we began to receive minors... whose families are still in Iraq but had just enough money to send away a son or a daughter," she added without offering any specific figures.
The violence prompted an emergency summit by Iraq's top Muslim clergy in Copenhagen this week that issued a fatwa Friday that "condemns all atrocities against the Christians," said Andrew White, a participant and British vicar at St. George's Church in Baghdad.
The Shiite and Sunni religious leaders, who gathered at Denmark's initiative, urged Baghdad to criminalise inciting religious hatred and to "put the issue on the agenda of the next Arab Summit" to be held in the Iraqi capital in March, White told AFP in Copenhagen.
In Istanbul, among the newest refugees is 21-year-old Sandra, whose family fled Baghdad in mid-November, alarmed by the church carnage and ensuing threats by Islamist extremists. Christians represent less than two percent of the population in Muslim-majority Iraq.
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Front Page Mag: Iraq’s Christians Near Extinction Posted by Raymond Ibrahim A recent Fox News report tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country’s...
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CNN: All Christians 'targets,' Iraqi militant group says Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- All Christians in the Middle East are now "legitimate targets," al Qaeda in Iraq announced Wednesday, as the group's deadline for Egypt's Coptic church to...
- Iraq: 10 Catholics Killed, 30 Wounded After Security Forces Stormed Baghdad Church
Iraqi Policeman inside Our Lady of Salvation Chaldean Catholic church, after security forces have stormed the buildingThis is an update on this story:At least 10 Christian worshippers were killed and about thirty wounded tonight, when Iraqi security...
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Islamists Warn Iraqi Christians: “Leave Immediately or our Swords Shall be Placed Upon Your Necks”From Weasel Zippers: If only there was a huge number of mainly Christian troops in Iraq to protect these people… Iraq (MNN) ― Muslim extremists...
- Prime Minister Nouri Al-maliki Is A Shia Muslim Who Lived In Iran
;( When the shit hits the fan--who do you think he will side with..the kaffir? ).... Rome, 25 July (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday condemned ongoing violence in Iraq and its impact on Christian communities when he met Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri...