Now why would “insurgents,” or “militants,” or even Iraqi “freedom fighters” or “nationalists,” want to target Iraqi Christians — as they are manifestly being targeted? Could it be that the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism have something to do with this? But of course, we are not allowed to ask questions like that — what are you, some kind of Islamophobe?
“Iraqi Christian official assassinated in Kirkuk (Extra),” from Middle East News, July 12 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):
Baghdad – Aziz Rozko Hanna, director of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk’s Department of Financial Control, was assassinated on Sunday, police said.
Hanna, a Christian, was driving with his daughter in Kirkuk when gunmen pulled him from the car and shot him dead, police there told the German Press Agency dpa.
His daughter witnessed her father’s murder, which took place in the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Dumiz, police added….