In 1976 a team of Iraqi archaeologists discovered
the fifth century a church near the Shiite holy city of Kerbala
. Built the first one hundred and twenty years
advent of Islam in Mesopotamia,
the church during the huge concentration camp in
surface with mass graves in the ground that it was the
regime of Saddam Hussein, was transformed into a polygon
shot. "At that time
a million people were deported,
mostly Kurds and Christians," said
deputy Barham Salih.
Saddam poses
the churches under the supervision of the Ministry of Islamic property,
known as "Awqaf", he bombarded
hundreds. The newborns were not
be called with the names and the Syriac Christians
was banned. In return the regime
assured a certain tranquility to the Chaldean community, to which he belonged
Foreign Minister of
Saddam, Tariq Aziz.
Iraqi Christians are now succumbing
face a threat more terrifying
dell'arabizzazione Saddam
that destroyed two hundred Christian villages between 1960 and 1988: the physical
mass extinction, the manhunt triggered
by al Qaida and the onset. "
We will do everything possible to save them," he said
Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. Agents
print as Fides and AsiaNews,
but especially the media
Assyrians and Chaldeans,
spread the news about the massacre of the heirs of the apostles
in the land of two rivers.
a massacre reminiscent of images of the four white fathers
killed in Algeria in 1992, the seven Trappist monks
slaughtered in 1996 and three missionaries riddled
in Yemen in 1998. Without previous massacre
. The end of the world. The destruction of
origins. "There is another
war in Iraq: the war against Christianity," says
Arnold Beichman of the Hoover Institution
. Nina Shea, who directs the
Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom
defines Christians "canaries in the mine
the Middle East."
It speaks of "ethnic cleansing".
Lawrence Kaplan of New Republic writes that "Sunnis and Shiites
agree on little except
on the persecution of Christians." Andy Darmoo, president of Save the
Assiryans,
spoke of the "end of Christianity in Iraq." More than half of the Christians
has already left the country. "In twenty years there will be no more Christians
" said Wijdan Mikha'il,
Minister for Human Rights in the new Iraq
. "I've always considered before
Iraq and then Christian. Today it is said
that a Christian is 'infidel'. "
liquidated the Jewish community, that the Prophets
and scribes of the Talmud, even
eighty percent of the Mandaeans, the most ancient
Gnostic cult, has left Iraq.
In January 2005 one of their leading figures
, Read Radhi Habib,
was killed after refusing to convert to Islam.
Then came the three brothers
Juhily, kidnapped and slaughtered. "The Islamic fanatics
attack us for what we are," says
Yonadam Kanna, a Christian lawmaker
Baghdad.
E 'has just been murdered
the secretary of a Christian clinic in Mosul.
Day
after a faithful of the parish of St. Paul. Four months ago
Munthir father, septuagenarian Reverend
of the Presbyterian Church in Mosul,
was found with a bullet in his skull.
"We will kill all Christians starting
he" had said the kidnappers. Then two
Chaldean sisters, Margaret and
Fawzeiyah Naoum, stabbed to death in Baghdad.
The Director of the National Museum of Iraq, the Assyrian
Donny George, fled to Syria
. "Hundreds of Christians have been killed
and their churches destroyed," the complaint
Romeo Hakkari, a leader of House of the Two Rivers
Democratic Party. The good news is that the monastery of Mar
Gorghis of Mosul was
inaugurated the academic year of theology. Classes
strictly mixed
despite the threat of Sharia. A girl
Baghdad's Chaldean
been delivered to the family
died after a seizure. At Tell el Skop
are just nine Christians were killed, including two children between
. "Christians are now
considered endangered." These are the words of
Bashar Warda, dean of the seminary moved from Baghdad more
in Kurdistan for security reasons. The
church dedicated to Our Lady of Baghdad was bombed in September
last year, killing two worshipers. On August 5, 2005, a student
Assyrian
University of Mosul, Anita Tyadors,
was executed because he spoke English, wore Western
was proudly
Christian. A few days later there was the massacre of four Assyrian
escorting
Pascale Warda, the only woman minister
Jaafari government. The Society for Threatened Peoples
publish a report on the violence against Christians in Mosul University
, "
attacked as 'American agents'." Jihadis use
the same accusation against Christians that
Hashemite monarchy, overthrown by the Ba'athist fascism
, used for their collaboration with the empire
English.
"Let us unite to put an end to this madness
" is the plea for help that the bishops have launched
summit of Sharm el-Sheikh two weeks ago. The spokesman
American bishops' conference, Thomas Wenski,
asks Condoleezza Rice to intervene.
The Christian population in 2003
had one million and 200 thousand people,
now dropped to 600 000. In Nineveh, an ancient name
of Mosul, was born the prophet Jonah. Here
Chaldeans and Assyrians, the oldest inhabitants
Iraq, still pray in Aramaic, the language of Jesus
anchor
good part of the twentieth century have been recorded
minorities of Jews, Yezidi and Christians,
including Catholics, Protestants, Mandaeans,
Armenian Orthodox, Nestorian and Monophysite Jacobites
. Now thousands
Christians fled to the Kurdish town of Ain Kawa
. Here Wahabi Mullah Krekar
had forced the closure of shops
during prayer, the burqa on women,
satellite dishes and
instrumental music, photos female
by eliminating any product imported from abroad.
sovereign freedom came in 2003,
follow-up of American troops. City
flagship of General Petraues,
Mosul is now a land of conquest
anti-Christian. Over the last fortnight
dozens of families, the few who resist
exile, have been intimidated
asking you to pay a
"contribution to the resistance, on pain of death."
In Baghdad, the family of Mazen
Sako was attacked by militiamen dressed in black
: "We came to exterminate.
will be the end for you Christians. " Majed
have killed ten years. The Chaldean Patriarchate
transferred in the Kurdistan
Babel College, which holds the oldest Christian
library, and the Seminary of St. Peter
. North
Christians are protected by the peshmerga, the legendary Kurdish militia
. Islamic groups are
imposing the tax on "subjects"
in Baghdad and Mosul, the famous jiza,
tax abolished by the Ottoman Empire. "Non-Muslims
must pay tribute to jihad if they want to have
permission to continue to live and profess their faith in Iraq."
Christians are also forced to leave
houses after threatening letters
will assign the property to Muslims. Those who want to sell
fail to find buyers, the imams have
said: "Do not buy from the infidels, the
we free."
A fatwa forbids the ritual gestures made in public
. "Remove the crosses from
churches or we will burn." E '
the threat to the Church of Sts Peter and Paul
of Dora, the great Christian
district of Baghdad.
in February 2004 in Erbil, the Tagliatesta of Ansar al Sunna
, murder of twelve Nepalese
caused
hundred deaths in the headquarters of Kurdish parties. "The Crusaders entered
in the provinces of Kirkuk," it read in the claim.
In 2004 he was killed the Assyrian
Qoryaqos Ra'ad Augustine, a professor of medicine
Anbar University.
in claim Zarqawi
put together "the National Guard pagan" and
"collaborators crusaders."
In March 2004, two Christians in Baghdad, Ameejon
Barama and his wife Jewded,
were found with their throats cut off. On 21 October the death
pounced on the Assyrian translator Layla
It Kakko Elias. More than three hundred
translator murdered by terrorists.
A number of slightly more than
academics killed since 2003.
A month after al-Qaida went on to launch grenades
churches.
Shlemon Warduni, Chaldean bishop of Baghdad, said
"
two months many Churches have their crosses from their domes
", as the Assyrian church of San Giorgio
, which the Islamists have removed the cross
, for the Chaldean Church of San Giovanni
we thought the faithful. The agency announced that Sir
Christians in Dora
can remain only if they agree to give a wife a daughter or sister
a Muslim,
creating the conditions for "a gradual conversion to Islam
whole family."
Raymond Moussalli, a spokesman
of Christian refugees, said that seven churches in Dora
closed.
A fatwa forbids the wearing of the cross around her neck.
"Christians are dying," says
Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk while
hear news of car bombings and killings of Christians
from Kurdish areas. Father
Adris Hanna warns that "
priests are kidnapped, women raped, a boy in Basra
of 14 years was crucified. " "That Iraqi Christians
was among the first communities to
world, with the ritual and the Syriac Aramaic language
" says Father Bernardo Cervellera, director of
AsiaNews. "E '
in a war against Christianity
and' the 'Christian roots.
These communities are important in the history of evangelization. The defense of Christians
is not confessional, but of civilization. The betrayal of the West is complicit
pan-Arab Islam. "
viewfinder even pagans. Three weeks ago
were executed 23 Yazidi, ancient
prezoroastriana sect, on the road between Mosul and
Ba'ashika, a majority Christian village
.
stopped the bus and killed them after having brought down
Christians, who
have imposed the tax. On 21 October 2004
the bodies of two Yazidi were found headless
between Sinjar and Talafar.
to Christian women are asked to respect
sharia, or risk the
death, and some were killed.
The new Constitution, the first anti-fundamentalist Islamic world
and supported by Christians, is at the center of the fury
jihadist
because Article 14 says that "all Iraqis are equal without
regardless of sex, ethnicity,
nationality, origin, color, religion,
and Article 7: "Any behavior
that supports, aids or incites the spread
racism, terrorism, takfir (state
infidel) ethnic cleansing
are prohibited. " Takfir ideology is
lawful killing "infidels", including Muslims
that do not follow Sharia law. E '
admitted the murder of children because
not vitiated in the future. "Did you enjoy
peace in the land of Muslims. Your ill
became apparent when I entered the invaders. They found great
support among Christians as interpreters and informants.
Christians are agents of the occupiers. " This
death warrant was put out by
Brigades
agents for the clearance of Christians. " In September
Amer Iskander was beheaded father, who was kidnapped after his speech in Regensburg, Benedict XVI
the "Lions of Islam". "The quack
Benedict XVI remembers Pope Urban II at Claremont"
said Zarqawi's successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri
. The killing of
Korean Kim Sun-il was claimed against
"a Christian who wanted to evangelize
the land of Islam." The kidnappers of Iskander
wanted an apology posted
thirty folders on churches in Mosul. Minister Sarkis
Kurdish Ghajan had
block construction of houses for Christians to come.
the day of death of Iskander, Joseph Petros
father was killed in Baghdad.
Fides
a nun says that "the responsibility lies with the imams who
say that killing a Christian is not
crime. It 's a manhunt. " Among the occupations most affected traders
alcohol
a work permit under Saddam.
From "Anger of Allah" to the '
Organization of Islamic doctrine, "the Wahhabis
hunt for dealers alcohol.
95 percent of the liquor stores run by Christians
has already closed.
In May 2003, Sheikh Mohammed
Sadr issued a fatwa against the Fartousi
alcohol and cinema. Among the first to die there was
Sabah Sadiq, while he went to pay the ransom
brother. The category
of barbers is another one of the most bloody. After
Baghdad and Mosul in recent days have been hit
in Kirkuk. In 2005, forty
Baghdad barbers
riddled or slaughtered.
In Mosul the situation even worse.
the store windows, there are flyers "
Monotheism and Jihad, the organization of
Zarqawi. The text barbers not to
offend Islam with cutting-shaven. Pena
"the beheading of the barber and the customer
in front of the family." Other crimes:
listen to Western music, wear jeans
, sell movies, dancing,
commit adultery and, in the case of
women, not to cover or walk without
a man. A campaign was launched
against 'un-Islamic art. " A series of sculptures
pagan were pulverized.
A famous statue in the north of Mosul was destroyed because
portrayed women with jars on their shoulders.
were frustrated
Christians accused of drinking alcohol. The body of a woman in robe
was found on the street.
"A prostitute punished," said the cartel.
everyone take note. Barbers
exhibited signs
which states that "not making the cut or shaved
or shaving the beard."
Christians who have not put data into hiding
written to protect yourself:
"No facials.
on a bus line driver has imposed
division between men and women. Other leaflets
forcing clothing stores to cover
Dummies.
public bathrooms have closed because of a fatwa on
soap, "
not exist at the time of Muhammad." Orders reach
absurdity: restaurants, many Christians can not fully prepare
salad of cucumbers and tomatoes, is a female and another male
. Christian women
not show themselves in public without a veil.
The city walls are plastered with flyers that
ordered to "follow in the footsteps of our
Maria
who covered his head. The death penalty. "
September 11th, television stations around the world
handed a spot of al Qaida. A band of jihadists
breaks into a house in the funeral march
banner,
shoot at a target. A Christian cross.
Symbol to be removed, as the beautiful
jars of Mosul, as the wonderful
Buddhas of Bamyan, father
Iskander. Few understood the symbolism.
In 1998, the Pakistani Bishop John Joseph
were shot in the head
before a court in which he was condemned to death
Christian Ayub Masih.
today as then, the cilia of the free world
drop on the fate of Christians.
In Iraq, the land of Eden, the homeland of Abraham
start from
evangelists in China, an ancient history
is shutting down as cold ashes.
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