Iraqi Christians Cancel Christmas Celebrations
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Sunday Paper - December 26th, 2010
In Baghdad, the dwindling remnant of Christians will observe the Feast of the Nativity this year in the knowledge that for many of them it may be their last such observance in their native land.
The plight of the Church has been largely ignored by the Western nations which spearheaded the invasion of Iraq in 2003; many American Christians may be unaware that their Iraqi brethren are facing a wave of persecution which threatens to drive out the Church through a campaign of terror.
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The persecution of Iraqi Christians reached a new level with the October 31 massacre at a church in Baghdad. The siege at the Church of our Lady of Salvation left 58 dead and 78 wounded, the most brutal incident of anti-Christian violence since the 2003 invasion. As the Associated Press reported on November 1:
Pope Benedict XVI denounced the militants’ assault as “ferocious,” the White House condemned it as “senseless” and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said it harkened back to the days of sectarian warfare between Muslim sects.
Christians who cowered for hours inside the stone building that used to be their peaceful sanctuary wondered why they were yet again the target of violence.
“They are criminals and more than criminals. What type of man kills people at prayer? What have we done to receive this?” said Aida Jameel, a 65-year-old Christian woman who was shot in her leg.
The campaign underway in the Obama administration to present a sanitized version of Islam is laid bare as a fiction which becomes less plausible every day. A President who can praise Indonesian “toleration” even though 700 churches have been attacked in Indonesia since 1998 is sufficient evidence that his administration is manifestly incapable of confronting the bloody reality of Islamic jihad…
by James Heiser
Read more at The New American - December 24th, 2010
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