Ernie : I see news stories like this literally every day. What I pass along to RC.org is a small % of such stories. Its not only Iraq, of course, it is Pakistan, Morocco, Turkiye, Malaysia, Yemen, Iran, Egypt, and you-name-it,. including horror stories from cities in Europe. The problem is enormous, there is no way to pretend otherwise, it is "systemic" and , while the worst of it is opposed by possibly the Muslim majority, it is a truism that Muslim ideology, that is, all "orthodox" forms of the religion, creates the kind of values that, when circumstances are right, produces --like an assembly line-- scores of violent jihadists, or even hundreds, year after year. There is no way to minimize the seriousness of this. Billy message dated 11/30/2010 [email protected] writes:
Lest Billy think I am completely oblivious.... _http://www.persecutionblog.com/2010/11/iraq-three-christians-killed.html_ (http://www.persecutionblog.com/2010/11/iraq-three-christians-killed.html) Christian Persecution Blog: Iraq: Three Christians Killed (http://ncol.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834526d9869e20147e0459d8e970b-pi) On Nov. 22, three more believers were killed in Mosul, Iraq, according to the Assyrian International News Agency and Cable News Network. In this latest attack on the country’s Christian community, assailants entered a shop owned by two Christian brothers, Saad Hanna and Waad Hanna, and shot them. Waad died at the scene, and Saad died from his injuries a few hours later. In a separate incident later in the day, police found an elderly Christian woman strangled in her Mosul home. This violent attack is the latest in a series of attacks on Iraqi Christians in recent years. In October 2008, more than a dozen Christians were killed in Mosul during a two-week period, and more than 2,000 families fled the city. The Christian community in Iraq is estimated at only 1.6 percent of Iraq’s population of about 29 million people, or about 464,000. Since 2003, Christian leaders, churches and businesses in Iraq have been frequent targets of attack by Islamic extremists. As a result, many believers have fled. Pray that God will comfort those mourning the loss of these believers. Also pray that God will strengthen the faith of Iraq’s beleaguered Christians and enable them to persevere in the face of great danger. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: _http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism_ (http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism) Radical Centrism website and blog: _http://RadicalCentrism.org_ (http://radicalcentrism.org/) -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
