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Dhimmitude in Iraq. From AINA, with thanks to Dr JDJ:
Despite the emergence of a fledgling democratic government and a minority president, Assyrian Christians in Iraq have expressed concern over the persecution and disenfranchisement of minority groups during the past two months since the Jan. 30 elections.Assyrian Christians make up about three percent, or 800 thousand, of Iraq's 26 million people. The majority of Iraqi Christians belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Iraqi branch of Roman Catholicism. Their patriarch is known as the "Assyrian," according to the Middle East Media Research Institute.
There are other smaller Churches in Iraq, including the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Baptist, Nestorian and Armenian.
For Assyrian Christians, the path to democracy and representation in the new government has been filled with pitfalls.
The head of the Save the Assyrians campaign, Andy Darmoo, spoke at a news conference at the United Nations on Feb. 18 raising a call attention to the plight of Iraqi Christians.
Darmoo, an Assyrian who left Iraq in 1965, urged the United Nations and European union to increase international pressure on Baghdad to give Assyrians more humanitarian aid and a voice in the new Iraqi government, according to Reuters.
"Iraq was liberated to have freedom for everybody, not just Shi'ites, Kurds and Sunnis," said Darmoo.
He said that Assyrian Christians were the targets of a "quiet campaign of ethnic cleansing," according to Reuters.
The Assyrian International News Agency reported that pleas for help regarding vote fraud, threats, and killings targeting Assyrian Christians had been whitewashed by the Iraqi Independent Electoral High Commission's report on voting irregularities and lockouts in North Iraq.
In addition, another report said that the Al-Rafidayn Democratic Coalition, the main party representing ChaldoAssyrians blasted a February report by the IEHC. They said the report failed to explain a decision by the Niniveh governorate to open only 93 of 330 voting centers on Election day, according to AINA....
At the Feb. 18 U.N. news conference, Darmoo said that Talabani had assured minority groups such as the Assyrian Christians that they would have a role in drafting the constitution.
Posted by Robert at April 13, 2005 7:27 AM
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Assyrian Christians targeted by Iraqi Muslims.
But,but, but. Bush is so proud of bringing Democracy to Iraq.
And so proud of his neo con approved. . Iraqi Interim Constitution
[(A) Islam is the official religion of the State and is to be considered a source of legislation. No law that contradicts the universally agreed tenets of Islam, the principles of democracy, or the rights cited in Chapter Two of this Law may be enacted during the transitional period. This Law respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the Iraqi people and guarantees the full religious rights of all individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice.(B) Iraq is a country of many nationalities, and the Arab people in Iraq are an inseparable part of the Arab nation.
Article A makes clear that Shari'a is the law of the land
Article B makes clear that Iraqi Arabs are part of the pan Arab or Arab Nationalist movement (Nasser or the Ba'aths)
And the winner of the election, the new Prime Minister Ja'afari already stated that Iraq will be an Islamic nation with Shari'a as constitution.
And didn't Wolfowitz himself eulogize Ayatollah al Hakim as an Abraham Lincoln.
And where is George W. Bush in the midst of all of this.. Why strangely (or not so strangely) silent.
And what say you Gary, CGW, Charles Martel, Waterdragon et al.
No outrage against the abandonment and betrayal of Christians by your president?
Of course not, you have your Jihad against "liberals" and "leftists".
Democracy of course means majority rule, and where that majority is Muslim then it is a muslim country and Shari'a rules, where Christian a Christian country and the Mosaic laws rule.
I notice that this item is not carried in newspapers, nor even mentioned by Bill O'Reilly.Because it takes the steam out of the Bush engine. Exposes his claim that he brought democracy to Iraq as a fraud.
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at April 13, 2005 6:37 PM
For Giaour:
One of the profound emphases of the New Testament, especially the epistles of Paul, is that Christians are no longer under the rule of the Mosaic law. This truth is stated in no uncertain terms and in various ways (see Rom. 6:14; 7:1-14; Gal. 3:10-13, 24-25; 4:21; 5:1, 13; 2 Cor. 3:7-18), but in spite of this, there have always been those who insist that the Mosaic Law, at least the Ten Commandments, are still in force for the Christian.
Grace becomes an absolutely inseparable part of the believer’s life in Christ. In the coming of Christ and His death on the cross, the Mosaic Law as a rule of life was terminated. The believer is now to live in the liberty and power of God’s grace by the Spirit, not the rule of law.
The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that the believer in Christ is not any longer under the Mosaic law in its entirety… Indeed after having been delivered from the law, to deliberately place ourselves once again under its [control] is said to be “falling from grace.”
Your attempts to equate Christianity with Islam in terms of violence, bellicosity, totalitarianism, etc. are asinine. Your intense hatred of God, spirituality, religion, or the belief in a higher power has impaired your ability to discern reality.
Posted by: Susanp at April 13, 2005 11:41 PM
Susanp:
Giaour is probably what Allan Dershowitz would describe as a secular fanatic, although of a [self-described] conservative bent as opposed to Noam Chomsky's "left" bent.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 14, 2005 8:41 PM
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