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Feel the love. From Catholic World News (thanks to all who sent this in):
Baghdad, Jan. 7, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Catholic churches and institutions in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq were hit by a series of bombing attacks on Sunday, January 6, the AsiaNews service reports.Remarkably, no one was killed by the explosions, Church officials said. But several church buildings sustained major damage.
The attacks "represent a clear message," Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk told AsiaNews, noting that they seemed clearly to indicate "a coordinated plan." Catholics in Iraq have been shaken by several bombing campaigns, evidently designed to intimidate the Christian minority and encourage further emigration from Iraq.
Car bombs exploded at the Church of St. George in Baghdad, where Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly had recently finished celebrating the Divine Liturgy. There were also explosions at a Chaldean convent and a Melkite church near Baghdad, another Chaldean church and an orphanage in Mosul, and a Dominican convent in Mosul.
Posted by Robert at January 7, 2008 2:39 PM
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Damn Buddhists!
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at January 7, 2008 3:04 PM
Barbaians
Posted by: sadatoni at January 7, 2008 3:17 PM
Epiphany celebrates the visit of the "three wise men". If the wise men were really from Persia (Iran), those mock Nativity scenes with a wall between the wise men and the manger almost make sense.
Of course, the visit of the Magi occurred 700 years before the Prophet Mo.
at January 7, 2008 3:52 PM
Is there a better way to spread the peace than to bomb an orphanage?
Posted by: rougman at January 7, 2008 4:22 PM
I'm waiting for the outrage in the press.
I'm also waiting for the Islamic street protesters, waving banners, saying, these bombers are misunderstanding Islam, it's a religion of peace.
I'm waiting for the hordes of muslims to surround the churches and stand shoulder to shoulder with their Christian brothers.
I'm waiting for Jack Straw to stand up and condemn these barbarians.
I'm waiting for the pope to make a fiery speech, and not retract it.
I'm waiting for lots of things.
at January 7, 2008 4:38 PM
"The attacks "represent a clear message,"
...sure does..."Islam is a truly intolerant religion".....
at January 7, 2008 4:57 PM
Obviously, this was done due to the Israeli occupation of "Palestine".
Posted by: Crusader at January 7, 2008 4:58 PM
It is amazing to me that presidential candidates (Democratic Division) have not made much of the attacks on the Christians, and the seeming indifference of the Administration to those attacks. For not a word has been uttered about it. Or is the Adminstration afraid to utter a word, not because it is unaware of these attacks, but because it has no idea how to rescue the remaining Christians in Iraq, and has no idea in the first place because it does not understand that the removal of Saddam Hussein, whatever else it did, removed the most ferocious enemy of those Muslims who were most likely to attack the Christians. That is not because Saddam Hussein was kind, or well-disposed toward Christians. It was because he used a "secular" ideology, open to all (Sunnis, Shi'a, Christians, Arabs and Kurds), to disguise the fact of a Sunni Arab dictatorship, and to weaken his most worrisome enemy, the Shi'a.
The Administration never gave the Christians of Iraq a thought. Yet it was the Christians who became the cooks, drivers, and other household staff of the American bigshots in the Green Zone -- occupied with the same duties they had under Saddam Hussein, who trusted them for such duties as he could not have trusted any Muslims (the same situation can be seen in Damascus, where the Assad family must rely on local Christians, including Armenians, whose loyalty they can count on, because the fate of the Christians is tied to the fate of the Alawites).
No, the Administration hasn't thought through anything. It just hasn't had the time. It's too busy with the task at hand -- bringing "freedom" to "ordinary moms and dads" in the Middle East. Bringing -- I-think-I-can-I-think-I-can -- toys and good things to eat to boys and girls on the other side of the mountain.
There is no end to this.
Posted by: Hugh at January 7, 2008 5:51 PM
You'll be waiting awhile Ian. Suggest not holding your breath.;)
Posted by: Kevin at January 7, 2008 6:10 PM
I wonder how long it will be before the Jihad raiders start openly blowing up, burning down or even walking into, and suicide bombing or machine-gunning, a church, synagogue or congregation in France, Britain, Australia or the USA? I wonder when the first priest, pastor, monk or rabbi will be kidnapped right here in the West, held to ransom, tortured and murdered?
If we don't do something soon, it will happen, just as it has been happening to the Christians in Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, Mesopotamia; as it has been happening to the 'Palestinian' Christians (notably, Rami Ayyad), and to Buddhists in Thailand and Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The 'no-go' areas that Bp Nazir-Ali identified as having been created - and which are already violently 'policed' and expanded - by Muslims in Britain are just miniature versions of what is currently being attempted in Iraq. Just as 'allah' can endure no partners, so Islam over the long term cannot endure anything Other than itself (which is also why Muslim women are erased from the public space, and why wives, daughters, sisters are so often and so cruelly killed).
They will never stop pushing. Time to push back - in the name of humanity, in the name of diversity and creativity and human life and growth, which are threatened, attacked and ruthlessly crushed by Islam every day.
Every time, in a Muslim-dominated land, that a church - or any other non-Muslim place of gathering or worship - is bombed: bulldoze three mosques in the West, seize all assets, and deport the Imam back to dar al Islam.
Every time a Christian - or *any* other non-Muslim - is killed or even injured by Muslims in dar al-Islam, strip away the citizenship (= franchise) of ten Muslim 'citizens' of this or that non-Muslim land, and demote them to mere temporary residency status or lower. (If they've got criminal convictions, deport them).
If the OIC howls about human rights violations, remind them of the human rights of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, African animists, Buddhists, et cetera, and let them know that the moment they stop destroying churches, temples, etc etc, the stuff they're yelling about will stop, too. We *have* to take the initiative.
This sickening state of affairs, where Muslims can do, and do, and do, and never be done to, and never be called to account - when they get away with murder and ethno-religio-political cleansing on a daily basis -has *got* to stop before they destroy the planet.
No more visas for Muslims into any non-Muslim land - period.
Fill the freed-up spaces with non-Muslim refugees from Muslim-dominated lands. I'm sure thousands of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists would be only too happy to escape from the cruel oppression they are suffering inside the Ummah.
Down with the Evil Empire! Down with Arabian Imperialism!
at January 7, 2008 8:40 PM
Dumbledoresarmy...may I add to your comments?
All no-go zones in East London need to be immediately burned to the ground or safely demolished, after all tenants are forcibly evicted, then same-day deported. All assets should be immediately auctioned off and referred to as "reverse jizya"!
Posted by: AmericanTiger at January 7, 2008 11:00 PM
Fortunately 90 percent or so of the Christians
have vacated Iraq, unfortunately most of them are still stuck in the Middle East.
at January 8, 2008 12:11 AM
Why are Western countries not welcoming these Catholics? They are the Iraq immigrants we should accept.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at January 8, 2008 8:39 AM
It is sad that the secular press in America has not reported these attacks on Catholic churches in Iraq. In "politically correct" America it is ok to discriminate and even physically attack Christianity and especially Catholicism, as long as we don't do anything to upset Muslims. We surely will not hear any outrage from any of our Democratic Party candidates. How can they express what they do not feel?
Posted by: dennis602 at January 8, 2008 8:47 AM
Bush and his admin turn a blind eye to the Christian suffering and persecution everywhere. Thrown the christians in lebanon, iraq and the gaza to the wolves, looking the other way pretending what's happening is not happening, and telling himself it's for the greater good.
It only gets worse for the next little while.....08 should be an interesting year.
Posted by: Sneakyzionistcrusader at January 8, 2008 9:20 AM
"Iraqi Catholics hit by Epiphany bombing campaign"
...aka Islamic peace negotiations...
at January 8, 2008 1:02 PM
"Iraqi Catholics hit by Epiphany bombing campaign"
...aka Islamic peace negotiations...
at January 8, 2008 1:02 PM
"Iraqi Catholics hit by Epiphany bombing campaign"
...aka Islamic peace negotiations...
at January 8, 2008 1:02 PM
ImNoDhimmi:
There are many thousands of Iraqi Catholics in the U.S. (Chaldeans), particularly in the Detroit area, for the past several decades.
Posted by: JohnAdams at January 10, 2008 2:40 PM
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