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Good thing they're a democracy now, eh? From AP, with thanks to Twostellas:
AIN KAWA, Iraq - For the Toma brothers, life was getting more precarious by the day. One of them had survived two shootings. Their cousin had been murdered. A CD of beheadings named them as American agents. "Long Live Saddam Hussein" and "Allahu Akbar" had been painted on their church. It was clearly time to flee.Too late. As Hani and Khaled Toma backed out of the garage to make the two-hour drive from Mosul to the relative safety of Irbil on Sept. 2, a dozen gunmen riddled their red BMW with bullets, adding two more to the dozens of members of Iraq's tiny Christian community who have been murdered in Iraq's post-invasion blood bath.
Over the past year, about 100 families from Mosul have taken refuge in Ain Kawa, a small Christian suburb of the northern Kurdish city of Irbil. Hundreds more have fled to other Kurdish-protected villages and towns....
The Toma family lived in Al Sa'ah, long a predominantly Christian neighborhood of Mosul but in recent years home to increasing numbers of Muslims."There are a lot of Wahhabis there now, watching us," Raad Toma said, referring to adherents of the puritan form of Islam preached by Osama bin Laden. He said he had seen a wall poster in the neighborhood saying, "Killing of Christians and Jews is required as soon as possible."...
Even in cases where justice is done, the dangers persist. The man who knifed Sonya Nasri's husband to death and injured her 24-year-old son was caught, tried and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Muslim custom gives the victim's family a say in the sentencing, and the perpetrator's father demanded that Nasri agree to a shorter prison term. When she refused, he threatened in open court to kill her son Ghaydan in revenge....
The role of Iraqi Christians in the marketing of alcohol is one reason they have come under threat. Also, Christians are viewed as wealthy, making them more likely to be kidnapped for ransom.
More dangerous, perhaps, is the notion that they are friendly toward their American co-religionists and therefore are "Crusaders" bent on destroying Islam. "They see us as being hand-in-hand with the Americans," said Father Toma, who is not related to the Toma brothers. "It is a wrong label."
"Unfortunately, they've turned it into a war against the Crusaders and are taking it back to the Middle Ages," he said, adding that churches in Iraq haven't been attacked since the Mongols destroyed Baghdad in the 13th century.
Christians participated enthusiastically in Iraq's Jan. 30 election, and although mainstream Muslim leaders have denounced the attacks on them, Raad Toma expects the vote will result in "extremist Islamists" taking power. He says they have already infiltrated the Iraqi security forces.
He says he needs surgery for the gunshot wound that has left him with a limp, and wants to leave Iraq,
"Things are going to get much worse for Christians," he said.
Posted by Robert at February 7, 2005 8:29 AM
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Robert. Nice job on the Muslim stalker story published today on FPM. This is a great column for all in the sane community to read.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16879
Lock & load. Perhaps CAIR would like to explain how their "bridge building" with the American people could possibly result in Muslim thug punkass killers stalking non-Muslims in America.
Are we going to stand for being targets in our own neighborhoods? Muslim males= 17-40 years old. There's the necessary profile of our enemy. Again, lock and load, something has to be done.
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at February 7, 2005 8:49 AM
Unfortunately, they've turned it into a war
against the Crusaders and are taking it back to the Middle Ages
Sir Winston Churchill:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
at February 7, 2005 9:40 AM
Doug Saunders, writing in the Feb. 5 edition of the Toronto Globe & Mail, noted that the word "genocide", coined by a Polish Jewish lawyer named Lempkin, was inspired by the decimation of Iraq's Christian population in the 1920s following the "reformation" of the country after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. (Doubtless Lempkin, like most Ashkenazic Jews, knew little of the lives of his co-religionists living in Muslim countries, but they were feeling similar pressure and left in droves. Many, like the famous hair stylist Vidal Sasson's family, immigrated to England in those days prior to the establishment of Israel.)
Posted by: waterdragon52 at February 7, 2005 1:19 PM
Better than the bended knee kerry would be on by now, eh, kj?
Posted by: Gary at February 7, 2005 4:18 PM
Very sad news, now we have to listen like a spanish imam have said that a muslim apostate is like a tumor, and he or she has to be extirpated, but ISLAM IS PEACE FOR THEM.
Posted by: Franze at February 8, 2005 6:59 AM
Moonbat kj wishes facism won in WWII. Appeasement is the way forward, isnt that right kj?
Posted by: freestar at February 8, 2005 1:34 PM
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