THE SILENT EXTERMINATION OF IRAQ'S "CHRISTIAN DOGS"

[John81]

The Berean Call

May 11, 2011




THE SILENT EXTERMINATION OF IRAQ'S "CHRISTIAN DOGS" [Excerpts]



Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that "it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians." Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant. While last October's Baghdad church attack which killed some sixty Christians is widely known-actually receiving some MSM [Mainstream Media] coverage-the fact is, Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003.



Among other atrocities, beheading and crucifying Christians are not irregular occurrences; messages saying "you Christian dogs, leave or die," are typical. Islamists see the church as an "obscene nest of pagans" and threaten to "exterminate Iraqi Christians."



The grand irony, of course, is that Christian persecution has increased exponentially under U.S. occupation. As one top Vatican official put it, Christians, "paradoxically, were more protected under the dictatorship" of Saddam Hussein.



What does one make of this-that under Saddam, who was notorious for human rights abuses, Christians were better off than they are under a democratic government sponsored by humanitarian, some would say "Christian," America?



Like a Baghdad caliph, Saddam appears to have made use of the better educated Christians, who posed no risk to his rule, such as his close confidant Tariq Aziz. Moreover, by keeping a tight lid on the Islamists of his nation-who hated him as a secular apostate no less than the Christians-the latter benefited indirectly.



Conversely, by empowering "the people," the U.S. has unwittingly undone Iraq's Christian minority. Naively projecting Western values on Muslims, U.S. leadership continues to think that "people-power" will naturally culminate into a liberal, egalitarian society-despite all the evidence otherwise. The fact is, in the Arab/Muslim world, "majority rule" traditionally means domination by the largest tribe or sect; increasingly, it means Islamist domination.



Either which way, the minorities-notably the indigenous Christians-are the first to suffer once the genie of "people-power" is uncorked. Indeed, evidence indicates that the U.S. backed "democratic" government of Iraq enables and incites the persecution of its Christians. (All of this raises the pivotal question: do heavy-handed tyrants-Saddam, Mubarak, Qaddafi, et al-create brutal societies, or do naturally brutal societies create the need for heavy-handed tyrants to keep order).



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[JerryNumbers]

Will the same thing come about in Egypt and Libya?

[John81]

Open persecution of Chrisitans is going on now in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood and others are pushing to make Egypt into an Islamic state governed by Sharia law.

Many of the rebels in Libya are members or affiliates of radical Islamic groups, including terrorist organizations.

[JerryNumbers]

I agree, and it will increase else where, especially since our latest move in Pakistan.

[John81]

There is growing pressure in Pakistan upon the leader to let the treaties with America expire in a couple years and to turn totally from America to China.

[JerryNumbers]

And this latest indecent where this United States ignored the laws of Pakistan will not help this matter the least bit. There was already enough hate for us as it was, without breaking their laws plus literal gunning down some men and a woman that were unarmed.

Yet it seems most Americans, even Christian American's approve of such violence and vengeance.

By the way if someone escaped from prison and murdered my daughter and grandson, and i knew exactly who it was, and I hunted them down gunning them down while they were unarmed not able to protect their self, I would probably receive a long prison sentence, if not the death penalty being told its not right for me to seek vengeance, even many Christians would say that towards me.