Islamic Tolerance Alert, and more on this story. "Islamic fundamentalists: "expel Christians from Mosul," from AsiaNews, October 9:
Mosul (AsiaNews) - Jalal Moussa, 38, is the latest victim in the campaign of hatred launched by Islamic fundamentalists against Christians in Mosul, the theater of an "endless martyrdom," to the silence of the media and the international community. Jalal, a Christian of the Chaldean rite, was shot to death in front of his home in the neighborhood of Noor, the same neighborhood where Fr. Ragheed Gani and three deacons were killed in 2007, and where Archbishop Paulo Farj Rahho was kidnapped. The kidnapping of the archbishop of Mosul at the end of February ended tragically two weeks later, when the archbishop's body was found in an abandoned lot outside of the city.
AsiaNews sources reveal that "there could be two more victims," but at the moment there are no further details on their identity or the manner in which they were ambushed.
There is no end to the bloodshed in Mosul: in less than a week, nine people have died because they were Christians. From the town in the province of Nineveh come dramatic appeals, pleading "that silence not fall" over the continuing slaughter. "A campaign is underway to drive the Christians out of the area," a source reveals to AsiaNews, "and yesterday, a car with a loudspeaker went around the streets in the neighborhood of Sukkar, ordering the Christians to leave." "Christians out of the city," the people on board were shouting, "otherwise you will be victims of more attacks."
The persecution against the Christians could conceal political and economic motives, woven together with the confessional element at the basis of the violence committed on the part of the fundamentalist and jihadist Islamic world. Some of the victims in recent days were owners of stores and commercial activities in Mosul, a clear signal that the terrorists intend to wipe out the economic activity of Christians, forcing the population to leave. According to some witnesses, before shooting the terrorists accused the Christians of "wanting to create an enclave in Nineveh," and then proceeded with the execution in cold blood. Confirmation of how dangerous the city is, where gangs of terrorists connected to al Qaeda operate, also comes from the American military command: "Al Qaeda is trying to get a foothold in Iraq," reveals General Mark Hertling, commander of US troops in northern Iraq, "and Mosul is the base of operations that they have chosen for launching their attacks," with the infiltration of foreign militants from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, and Pakistan, through the Syrian border.
[Mosul] is also the place excluded from elections scheduled for January, and will hold a separate referendum that should determine destiny of the entire region, at the center of a struggle between the Kurdish and Arab communities. This is not an insignificant factor, if one considers the huge quantities of oil waiting to be tapped; the vote of the Christians could be decisive in tipping the balance to one side or the other.
The project inherent to the "plain of Nineveh" - where the intention is allegedly to create an enclave in which the Christians of Iraq could find refuge - has been at the center of exploitation and polemics, and is opposed by the majority of the Iraqi Church; the enclave, in fact, could be transformed into a sort of ghetto for shutting up refugees fleeing from Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, and Basra. The danger is that this could become "a ghetto for Christians," as Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk, described the project in 2007, "and a breeding ground for revolts, clashes, and social tensions, as is taking place today in Palestine." For this reason, the Church has always promoted "coexistence under the banner of peace and mutual respect," among populations that are "rooted by history and tradition in the Iraqi homeland."
The violence in Mosul in recent weeks has driven an increasing number of people to leave the city. According to estimates by local Christians, "every week more than 20 families decide to flee." This exodus has "emptied entire neighborhoods" of Christians, "to the indifference of the media and of Western governments."
It is tragic that the US military, I believe in an attempt to show that they aren't a "Crusader" army, has chosen to let the Christian population in iraq become targets by the moslems.
Note this paragraph, the words of a dhimmi christian:
'The danger is that this could become "a ghetto for Christians," as Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk, described the project in 2007, "and a breeding ground for revolts, clashes, and social tensions, as is taking place today in Palestine."'
Translation - it's all the kafirs' fault.
All the 'tensions' in 'Palestine' are, this man is implying, *caused* by the Israelis' incomprehensible insistence on a measure of self-determination, human dignity, and the right to self-defence (on their own traditional, ancestral land, even). He has internalised the mind of the abusee vis a vis the abuser: "we non-Muslims *deserve* to be punished; it's all our fault; it is *our* actions that are 'provoking' the Muslims".
He seems to be implying that if the Jews of Israel just surrendered, dismantled their state, destroyed their weapons, accepted the status of dhimmi chew-toy/ punching-bag/ milch cow/ despised subhuman dog-pig-ape scapegoat, paid mountains of jizya to lazy mooching sneering Arab supremacist Muslims, and allowed Muslims to spit on them, throw stones at them, kick them around, rob, rape and slit throats of selected random victims, all without the tiniest squeak of protest, without resistance, well, then the Muslims would be happy and nice and would stop the jihad? Poor Muslims, it's sooo provoking for them when non-Muslim humans refuse to hand over the goods!
And so: if the Assyrian Christians - who have preserved the indigenous pre-Islamic culture and languag of Mesopotamia/ Assyria - try to defend themselves (shock! horrors!) against Muslim persecution and violence, if they try to emulate the Israelis and claim a degree of self-determination and a measure of human dignity and human rights (on what is, for the history-minded, their own ancestral land!), then...it will be ALL THEIR OWN FAULT if the Muslims attack them and kill them all?
How wicked, not to want to be trampled on by Muslim petty despots!
It's always the kafirs' fault when the Muslims spit on them, curse them, rob them, rape them, burn down their churches or synagogues...and, in the end, kill them and wipe them out altogether.
Louis Sako has forgotten the pogrom of the 1930s. He seems to think that his people should not 'provoke' the Muslims by attempting to defend themselves and their families, homes, businesses, churches and neighbourhood. But if his people do *not* defend themselves, if they submit to all the vicious oppression of the Rules for Dhimmis, I do not think it will really make any difference.
No matter how submissive the dhimmis are, no matter how much jizya they pay, no matter if they lie down without a squeak so the muslims can stamp on their faces and treat them like sh!t; if this or that group of Muslims get the urge to indulge in an orgy of sanctified mass murder, gang rape, church burning and daylight robbery, an excuse will always be found, a 'breach of the dhimma' will be trumped up, and - 'kill! kill! kill! allahu akhbar!' - the jihad will be unloosed upon this or that group of helpless, bewildered dhimmis who half the time don't even know what they've 'done wrong'.
That is what I have learned from reading the historical accounts recorded and analysed by, among others, K S Lal, Bat Yeor, Andrew Bostom and James Parkes.