No doubt the jihadists feel "exonerated." After all, they already commanded the Christian minority to depart Mosul -- or else "you will be victims of more attacks." Open season on Christians of Mosul continues unabated.
"Iraq: Two Christian women killed in Mosul Mosul," from AKI, November 12 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
Two Christian women were shot dead and one was injured in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday. Armed men shot and killed one Christian woman while she waited to catch the bus to got [get]to work in the neighbourhood of al-Qahira in northern Mosul.The attackers then stormed her house and opened fire on the family killing the other sister and injuring their mother, said an unnamed police source quoted by Iraqi news agency Voices of Iraq.
Both victims were public employees.
The shooting is the latest in a wave of attacks against the Christian community in Iraq that has caused hundreds of families to flee the city in recent weeks.
At least 14 Christians have been killed in Mosul since September.
Mosul is home to the second-largest community of Christians in Iraq after Baghdad. The city is the capital of the Nineveh Governorate, located some 405 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Abdullah should make sure to get this one on the inter-faith dialogue agenda of mutual religious tolerance.
Can we just swap Iraq our muslims for their Christians? 10 muslims for 1 Christian. And we'll pay the transportation.
We get Christians that will assimilate. Iraq gets rid of unwanted Christians. The muslims get to live under sharia law. Win, Win, Win.
It's nice to see that in the five years of war in Iraq that our Compassionate Conservative (Born Again) President really stood up for his fellow Christians in Iraq - yep, I recall that press conference denouncing violence against Christians and non-Muslims. cricket cricket
walterc
excellent idea - so long as we made it crystal clear that any Mohammedan subsequently found to have *pretended* to be a Christian, so as to get into the West, would be booted right back where he or she came from, the instant that their imposture was detected.
Remind me again of how well the surge is working.
A few people still seem to care about the plight of Iraqi Christians, though. See, e.g.:
http://markshea.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html#8198832085866221872 and links found there.