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Chris Bowen, Australia's federal Assistant Treasurer and the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, here details how life has grown so much worse in recent years for non-Muslims in Iraq. He never explains, however, that this is because of the resurgence of groups dedicated to establishing Islamic law in Iraq, and the fact that that law institutionalizes discrimination against non-Muslims.
"Iraqi minorities' long wait for freedom," by Chris Bowen for the Sydney Morning Herald, July 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):
[...] Mandaeans, followers of John the Baptist, have non-violence as one of the tenets of their religion. Any form of violence, even in self-defence, is forbidden. They have thus been particularly vulnerable to attack. The much more numerous Assyrians and Chaldeans have also suffered significantly.This group are descendants of the ancient Assyrian empire, but no longer have a nation state to call their own. They predominantly live in Iraq's north and are Christians.
It is hard to pinpoint the numbers of these minorities in Iraq. However, credible estimates put Assyrians and Chaldeans as 4 per cent of the population of Iraq, while they have constituted 40 per cent of the refugees leaving Iraq.
Jordan and Syria have 2 million Iraqi refugees living within their borders, and they are not allowed to work. They live, by and large, in squalor, and they often rely on their children to bring in a little income. Thousands of children are being turned to crime to support their family.
It is estimated that there were 1.5 million Assyrians and Chaldeans in Iraq before the war; 600,000 are left, at most.
Two thousand Assyrians and Chaldeans are still leaving Iraq every day. Churches have been bombed, priests and bishops kidnapped and murdered.
As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has said, "The situation of members of non-Muslim religious communities has been noticeably aggravated since the invasion of coalition forces".
Hundreds of thousands of Assyrian and Chaldean refugees live in desperate circumstances in Syria and Jordan. It is simply too dangerous for them to return....
Posted by Robert at July 17, 2008 6:13 AM
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Oh well: another email to send, another letter to write...another ad for Bat Yeor's and Mr Spencer's books, another attempt to hammer some home truths about what Islam is like, into the heads of our politicians, another plea to my government to take pity on Iraqi Christians, and other non-Muslim minority remnants such as the Mandaeans, and BUMP THEM RIGHT TO THE FRONT of our immigration/ refugee/ asylum seeker intake queue.
I wish I could just pick up these poor, poor people, and stuff them into a fleet of jumbo jets, and fly them home here to Australia. (Oh, and any Muslims who tried to sneak in amongst them, would get booted out, pronto, the moment the imposture was exposed).
I hope to God my government hasn't been stupid enough to put Muslims in charge of any part of the immigration/refugee application process, either at our consulates or embassies abroad, or in the relevant departments, at home. Because I am terribly afraid that if so, such Muslims at the choke points would take the greatest of sadistic pleasure in slamming and bolting Australia's doors against all those desperate dhimmi Christians.
If no Western majority-Christian country is capable of mustering up the will and the guts to open its doors to these people, we will be guilty of turning a blind eye to a Muslim jihad genocide...as we have already been doing, as regards the genocide in the Sudan, and as our ancestors did, when the Turkish and Kurdish Muslims were butchering Christian Armenians wholesale, and Greeks, too, in Turkey in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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at July 17, 2008 7:08 AM
No welcome mat for these people in the West, and yet it can't open the doors wide enough and fast enough to admit ever more Koranists in our midst. Doubly shameful.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at July 17, 2008 10:32 AM
"The situation of members of non-Muslim religious communities has been noticeably aggravated since the invasion of coalition forces".
This quote makes it sound as though it's the West that's responsible for the persecution rather than Muslims. That being said, we should do what we can give Iraqi Christians a homeland on the plain of Nineveh.
Posted by: JeffS at July 17, 2008 12:04 PM
I'll be writing to Chris Bowen and enlightening him as to the reasons why these persecutions happen and continue to happen wherever Islam has the majority rule. I order RS/s books more than any other from Amazon and spread them around. It's my own personal counter-jihad.
Posted by: jewcat at July 17, 2008 7:16 PM
I have emailed Minister Bowen and will be posting him a snail-mail expanded version of the same letter, within the next three or four days.
I suggest that all my fellow Australian counter-jihadists here present, do likewise.
I have urged the Minister to read "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance" in order to discover that what is happening to the Mandaeans and Christians of Iraq is not an aberration, nor primarily due to the 'invasion' or the 'occupation', but conforms precisely to the attitudes and practices mandated in what Hugh has called "the immutable texts of Islam".
I am informing him of the mass murders of Assyrian Christians which took place *after* the last 'foreign occupation' ENDED - i.e., *after* British forces left Iraq in 1932.
In the letter, as opposed to the email, I will be extending my point by pointing out the multiple similarities between the sufferings of Iraqi Christians, and the sufferings of Christians and Hindus in Pakistan (exemplified by that dreadful case of the two kidnapped little girls), of the Copts in Egypt, of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh; and of Sudanese Christians, animists and insufficiently Islamic/ 'non-Arab' black Muslims.
Since Pakistan, Egypt, Bangladesh and Sudan have not been 'invaded' or 'occupied' by any western country, the perfect congruity between what Muslims are doing to non-Muslims in those countries, and what Muslims are doing to non-Muslims in Iraq, ought to suggest that it's really just about Islam, Islam, Islam.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at July 17, 2008 11:41 PM
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