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- I thought the program did an excellent and most admirable job in describing the difficulties of the ''Iraqi Christians". However, what the program failed to realize was that the "Iraq Christians" are actually the indigenous Assyrian Christians of that nation.
The Assyrian people have existed and thrived in Iraq/Mesopotamia for almost 7,000 years. Thus, it is important to point that out whenever describing their plight.
60 Minutes should definitely consider running the story a third time discussing the underlying bias against the Assyrian Christians because of the indigenous rights they so deserve and how the "Iraqi Christian" status only acts as a Dhimmi to suppress their influence in Iraq.
Some helpful links in researching the history of the Assyrian Christians of Iraq, I would recommend the following unbiased websites:
www.zindamagazine.com
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- Your article would be more accurate if an excerpt was made about Tariq Aziz''s plight & his future. " The former foreign minister, a Chaldean Christian, is often cited as proof of the favour that Christians enjoyed under Saddam. "Nothing could be more false", say some Chaldean Iraqi refugees in Italy.
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=27816
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- Your article would be more accurate if an excerpt was made about Tariq Aziz''s plight & his future. " The former foreign minister, a Chaldean Christian, is often cited as proof of the favour that Christians enjoyed under Saddam. "Nothing could be more false", say some Chaldean Iraqi refugees in Italy.http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=27816
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- Not sure if the statement from a Christian leader in Iraq has any thing to do with growing heat on Christians of Iraq.
Mr. White had issued an statement about detained Iraqi Dr. Billal Abdullah. Dr.Abdullah is in a London-England jail for failed bombing charge at Glasgow-Scotland Airport.
Mr. White had issued statements regarding Dr.Abdullah early July last year,saying that, an Iraqi had shown willingness to die for getting revenge for death of his friends.
It doesn''t need to prove for Mr.White to be relevant to Dr. Abdullah,nevertheless his statements came in media very promptly & as a very reliable source.
Mr. whites statement may or may not form part of investigators submission to court of law, but such statements from christens in Iraq did make a political case to stay with "War on Terror" agenda.
NO! TB-Liar statements in NATO or House of commons,mentioning 45 Minute capability of sadam to deliver WMD to London didn''t have any thing to do with plight of Christians in Iraq. - Reply to this comment
- Ah, mark19772 is clearly one who has embraced a religion of reason and peace...
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- LexusMan3 , please read history first before you say things about other people faith, your kind of people is the reason for what is happening in Afganestan and Iraq or other place aroud the world, you and your kind who belive in what you call "jesus" are the reason for every problem human face in this world, wake up and smell the smoke, the smoke that created by you and jesus, the smoke that one day will burn you and your kind.
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- Regardless of how we felt about going in to Iraq, we are there now. It''s nauseating how many people who are shrieking about the violence & death supposedly being caused by American occupation (like they weren''t doing this to each other for hundreds of years prior to the existence of our country) - these same sensitive souls think nothing of withdrawing our troops so that Iraq can collapse into complete anarchy with even worse carnage.
But don''t worry - survival of the fittest ensures that the best butcher will float to the top & Iraq will again be stable under the thumb of a new & even better butcher in Baghdad. Then you can feel at peace, having helped the Iraqis find peace... - Reply to this comment
- Iraq is not the only country suffering from overzealous & violently irrational bigotry.
Christianity is not guilty of massacres - people are guilty of massacres. Just because some use it as a pretense for their works does not mean that it actually supports what they do. Christianity teaches that war is evil & a consequence of sin. It does not appear that Islam can say the same - though I admit that I do not know enough about it to be certain.
I don''t agree with much of what Bush has done, but I don''t blame his religious beliefs & I don''t comfort myself by assassinating his character or intelligence
(which on his worst day are still head & shoulders above Kerry''s so, yes, we could have done even worse).
It is possible for a good person to make a tragic mistake - thinking they are doing the right thing because they have good reason. Goodness knows most of the posters here believe that it is fine to do the wrong thing if you have the right reasons.
To paint Saddam as some kind of victim here is totally, twistedly sick.
Yes, Christians were safer under Saddam''s reign. Kurds & others, however, were not. Saddam was still a butcher even if he *only* slaughtered other groups of people. - Reply to this comment
- 8 And they brought their wives and children together, and whosoever believed or had been taught to believe in the word of God they caused that they should be cast into the fire; and they also brought forth their records which contained the holy scriptures, and cast them into the fire also, that they might be burned and destroyed by fire.
9 And it came to pass that they took Alma and Amulek, and carried them forth to the place of martyrdom, that they might witness the destruction of those who were consumed by fire.
10 And when Amulek saw the pains of the women and children who were consuming in the fire, he also was pained; and he said unto Alma: How can we witness this awful scene? Therefore let us stretch forth our hands, and exercise the power of God which is in us, and save them from the flames.
11 But Alma said unto him: The Spirit constraineth me that I must not stretch forth mine hand; for behold the Lord receiveth them up unto himself, in glory; and he doth suffer that they may do this thing, or that the people may do this thing unto them, according to the hardness of their hearts, that the judgments which he shall exercise upon them in his wrath may be just; and the blood of the innocent shall stand as a witness against them, yea, and cry mightily against them at the last day.
This is from Alma 14 in the book of Mormon. I am not asking anyone to believe the book, just a thought about what is happening in Iraq to the Christians. - Reply to this comment
- My, what a civil exchange of perspectives we''re seeing on today''s forum, history lessons an all! The main and irrefutable fact: life was far more "tolerant" under the so-called butcher of Baghdad than post-Bush, post-"liberation," and not just for Christians. Women, minorities, and even merchants all fared better.
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