A holly jihadi Christmas in Iraq
Amid relentless persecution by Islamic supremacists -- while the world looks the other way and whines about Swiss minarets and Geert Wilders. "Amid the carols and decorations, Iraq Christians fear extinction," from The Times, December 19 (thanks to Kris):
[...] Behind the tinsel and carols lies a fear that Christians in Iraq are a community under threat of extinction. Proportionally more Christians are leaving Iraq than any other group.Last week 100 Christian leaders and politicians of all religions held an emergency meeting just before fresh violence broke out in the northern city of Mosul, with attacks on churches and Christian schools. On Tuesday a baby was killed and 40 people, including schoolchildren, were injured in three simultaneous bombings. Two days ago a Christian man was shot dead as he travelled to work.
"It is terrible," said Fadi, 26, an electricity worker from Mosul who asked that his real name not be used. "Most of the Christians are staying at home, or when they go out they watch their backs." In late 2008, killings of Christians in Mosul by insurgent groups left 40 dead and 12,000 fleeing their homes. Fadi reeled off a string of recent, smaller-scale attacks against Christians, fearful that the same level of violence would return.
Christians in Kirkuk, also in the north, have been kidnapped in recent months and as tension increases before elections they fear the attacks will multiply.
Some blame the attacks on insurgents, including al-Qaeda, who are still active in Mosul, while others accuse Kurdish or Arab factions fighting over territory. Although they differ on who is responsible, almost everyone responds by fleeing. Gorgis Mettis, from the Yazidi ethnic minority, lives in Bartella, a Christian-dominated village near Mosul, and said that after a week of violence, many Christian families were seeking refuge in his town. "You cannot live in Mosul," he said. "Every day you find Christians being killed." He estimated that since 2003 three quarters of Christians had left Mosul, historically the centre of the ancient Chaldo-Assyrian Christianity practised in Iraq. "Very few are still going to church. The women have to wear hijabs. They send someone first in a car to check if there is someone outside the church," he said....
The women have to wear hijabs. In Cairo last June, Barack Obama vowed to defend the rights of women who wanted to wear hijab in the West. Will he speak up for the rights of women in the Islamic world who do not want to wear hijab?
I won't be holding my breath.
I have been visiting this site, among other sites, close to 4 months now and I wish I could say that I feel better every time I read the news. Quite on the contrary I feel more and more concerned and depressed whenever I hear that Muslims do this and Muslims do that. All I can imagine in my head are the banners held by Muslims throughout the world “Islam will dominate the world”. Of course I should be happy knowing that the level of awareness is on the rise because of your work, Robert, and the work of other anti-Jihadist such as Mr. Wilders, Father Zakaria Boutros, Wafa Sultan etc. but I don’t! The more I read the more I realise that we are way in over our heads with this.
I find myself in constant campaign against Islamization of the world by talking to family, friends and sometimes colleagues sending emails to especially female friends telling them about the sharia and how it almost gained status here in Canada and how they should be aware of it and ready to fight back when the Muslim community tries to re-introduce it again hoping to make small difference. However I sometimes ask myself whether this is indeed making a difference. All the news that I read regarding this subject is showing the contrary. So I thought about something that you can do Robert, since you have much more resources and access to more delicate information on organizational levels, and that is by having a small section, let’s call it “the good news” section, created on the site, that gives us, ok that gives me, some hope that things are indeed starting to move forward with making people aware of this problem.
For instance I see that the ban in Switzerland on minarets is somewhat a good news because it tells me that if Switzerland, one of the most peaceful countries in the world, is willing to admit that Islam is being used politically, that leaves more hope for other countries who’s stakes are much higher such as the U.S.A or Great Britain.
God bless all those who are working hard and thank you for opening my eyes especially you Robert.
Hi Omar,
The fact that this site exists at all is "good news" and your (and others)being able to post here or anywhere else with critique and opinion of islam and its policies and procedures is also "good news" on its own merit. You're accurate that "a small" section would be needed. It's already here. If it ain't broke,don't try to fix it.
Any "good news" would be no news,but unfortunately the bad news continues.I hope (and believe) I speak for Robert in this regard. If not I'm sure he'll let me know.
Now for my own..Switzerland banning minarets isn't "good news".It could be a guilt trip for accepting so much gold from dead Jews' teeth during WWII. The mosques still exist where the last words preached are to battle/kill Jews and infidels. It'll be "good news" when the day comes that this practise and the falsities of islam itself are realised and laid to rest to its self cognisant inevitable death. When that happens,Robert will need a mirror site or two to convey all that good news.
Merry Christmas Omar and all the best for ya in the New Year!
P.S. Just your acknowledgemet of this site and Robert's work says alot.You're not alone. You've made a difference.
If only the blind sheik could play the piano!He would make a
cool jazz cat.Instead he wasted his talent on jihad.
The Israelis had an 'Operation Magic Carpet' - and other things, by other names - to rescue dhimmi Jewish populations who were facing imminent total extermination by the surrounding Muslims.
Time for the majority-Christian nations to imitate the Israelis, and run our own 'Operation Magic Carpet' for the Christians of Mesopotamia.
Who will call for *our* 'Operation Magic Carpet'?
I am sure many Allied soldiers who have stumbled across horrible examples of Muslim abuse of the Christians in Iraq, would be delighted to guide and protect those desperate Christians as, hundreds by hundreds, thousands by thousands, permitted to take with them their icons and irreplaceable ancient manuscripts, they were packed onto the planes or the boats to waft them to safer haven. (I don't think they have either the numbers nor a clearly defensible geographic location that would permit them to remain in Iraq as a beleaguered city, even with support from other Infidels; unlike, say, Israel, which is not land-locked and which - if it keeps the Golan and the heights of Judea, the military high ground - *is* defensible, just).
We should have rescued, thus, the Armenians and Greeks and Assyrians in the early 20th century. We did not, to our everlasting shame.
We should have rescued, thus, the Assyrian Christians in the 1930s. We did not, to our everlasting shame.
Let's not condemn the Assyrian Christians, or, for that matter, the Copts, or the hopelessly-outnumbered non-Muslims of Pakistan and Bangladesh, to total annihilation by allahu-akbaring mobs.
Operation Magic Carpet.
We STOP taking in Mohammedans, from anywhere. We get ALL the Mohammedan 'gatekeepers' out of the choke points that control and filter entry to our countries; an Assyrian Christian or Coptic (or any other desperate non-Muslim) refugee, asylum seeker or immigrant seeking safety in the West should NOT have to deal with a hostile, arrogant, murderous and obstructionist Muslim 'gatekeeper' at any point in the asylum/ immigration application and reception process.
We prioritise non-Muslims from those Muslim lands where it is quite clear that the local Muslims are working up to the point where the mass-murder ritual sacrifices to allah (sacrifices intended to supply tickets to paradise for the participating Muslims) will take place not by ones and twos, or dozens and hundreds, but by the thousands, the tens and hundreds of thousands, the millions. (But if any Mohammedan tries to sneak in to our countries by pretending to be what he ain't, then in the instant of that imposture being detected, OUT HE SHOULD BE BOOTED).
And we back, to the absolute hilt, those currently nonMuslim-majority nations - E.G. Ethiopia, Kenya, Serbia, Israel, Armenia, Thailand, East Timor, the Philippines, India, to name just those among 'free world' countries who are most obviously endangered by jihad whether from within or without or both.
Massive action in support of the secession of certain key currently-nonMuslim-majority-regions imprisoned within the Ummah - e.g. West Papua, southern Sudan, southern Nigeria - would also be advisable. They inhabit geographically distinct defensible regions (whereas the Copts, for example, or the Assyrian Christians, do not, so that there, the non-Muslim world should 'cut its losses' and concentrate on getting them out alive - once in the free world, they cease to be hostages and become reinforcements. I observed recently, checking out the NSW list of parliamentarians, that besides an MP of Assyrian Christian extraction, there is another MP of Coptic Christian extraction who has no less than *nine* children; one has to say that he and his wife have done their small part to increase the total of Australian Infidels).