President Obama: I’d like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq – What about the Christians?
On Tuesday President Obama addressed the US nation and informed the world that the war in Iraq was over.
So tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country.
In the years since the Iraq War was launched, 2,000 Christians have been murdered and 600,000 have fled Iraq, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. 44% of Iraqi refugees are Christians, and many of the 600,000 Christians who remain are internally displaced persons who have had to flee their homes.
And all of this happened whilst US combat troop levels were high.
I came across an article in which Iraq’s new ambassador to the Vatican Habbeb Mohammed Hadi Ali al-Sadr is quoted as saying:
Terrorist elements were coming from outside of Iraq, and they only added Christians to their hit lists because an act of terror against Christians got more media attention than killing Muslims.
How wicked is that?
So what will happen now to our vulnerable brothers and sisters?
Tags: Christian Persecution, News
September 2nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
As infidels, they’re done for. Islam will show them no mercy… and all we can do now is pray…
September 2nd, 2010 at 10:29 am
Yes most Christians were a lot safer under Saddam than they are now, as were most professional women of whatever Faith. Bush and Blair have a lot to answer for but I guess in time the West will get its oil.
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Meanwhile in the UK Christians welcome the purveyors of islam under the false flags of equality and interfaith dialogue while indulging their anti-semitism in the jihad against Israel.
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Interesting piece by Canon Andrew White in the Washington Post:
Remember religion’s role in Iraq