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Christian Iraqis Fleeing to Avoid Persecution by Muslims This Christmas

Editor’s note: The Associated Press’s preferred title for this story (which it authored) interestingly  “X’d” out the word Christmas:

Christian Iraqis Fleeing to Avoid Persecution by Muslims This ChristmasThe Blaze is happy to give the story a new title that puts “Christ” back in Christmas.

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — They saw their brethren murdered during Mass and then were bombed in their homes as they mourned. Al-Qaida vowed to hunt them down. Now the Christian community of Iraq, almost as old as the religion itself, is sensing a clear message: It is time to leave.

Since the Oct. 31 bloodbath in their Baghdad church, Iraqi Christians have been fleeing Sunni Muslim extremists who view them as nonbelievers and agents of the West. At a time when Christians in various parts of the Muslim world are feeling pressured, Iraqi Christians are approaching their grimmest Christmas since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 and wondering if they have any future in their native land.

They have suffered repeated violence and harassment since 2003, when the interreligious peace rigidly enforced by Saddam Hussein fell apart. But the attack on Our Lady of Salvation in which 68 people died appears to have been a tipping point that has driven many to flee northward to the Kurdish enclave while seeking asylum in the U.S. and elsewhere.

What seemed different this time was the way the gunmen brazenly barged onto sacred ground, the subsequent targeting of homes by bombers who clearly knew every Christian address, and the Internet posting in which al-Qaida-linked militants took responsibility for the church attack and vowed a campaign of violence against Christians wherever they are.

Ban Daub, 51, narrowly survived the onslaught. She and her nephew were at prayer when they heard explosions. They escaped before five attackers stormed in, but many of their friends did not. A neighbor died clutching his son and daughter in his arms.

Days later a string of bombs went off outside Christian homes across Baghdad. Daub and her family packed a few belongings and headed to a Christian district called Ainkawa in this Kurdish city of Irbil.

“We are afraid for our sons and our children. There is no life in Baghdad for the Christians,” she says.

Since 2003 no Iraqi religious or ethnic group has escaped violence. Tens of thousands died in bombings and street battles between minority Sunnis and the Shiites who supplanted them in power after Saddam Hussein, the longtime dictator, was toppled.

But like many of Iraq’s minorities, Christians do not have political clout or militias.

Even before the church attack, thousands of Christians were fleeing abroad. They are more than a third of the 53,700 Iraqis resettled in the United States since 2007, according to State Department statistics.

Since the church attack, some 1,000 families have fled to the north, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Friday. It said growing numbers of other Iraqi Christians were arriving in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon and contacting UNHCR for help.

How many Christians remain in this nation of 29 million is not reliably known. A State Department report says Christian leaders estimate 400,000 to 600,000 remain, down from a prewar level as high as 1.4 million by some estimates.

In the Middle East and in Muslim countries beyond, Christians are finding themselves subject to violence and harassment. The Vatican is so worried that it hosted a two-week meeting of Mideast bishops this fall, dedicated to supporting Christian minorities.

In Egypt, at least two people died and more than 150 were arrested last month in clashes between Christians and authorities over the building of a new church. In an ominous sign that militancy is transcending borders, the militants who carried out the Baghdad church siege said they were acting on behalf of two Egyptian women who they claimed were being persecuted by their priests for converting to Islam.

In Pakistan, a Christian woman is under sentence of death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

In Saudi Arabia, textbooks sometimes contain language intolerant of Christianity as well as other religions besides Sunni Islam, according to the State Department report on religious freedom.

In Malaysia, a court decision last year allowing a Catholic newspaper to refer to God as Allah, the Arabic word for God, sparked a spate of arson and vandalism against Christian churches.

Following the Baghdad church mayhem, some European countries offered asylum to Iraqi Christians. But Younadam Kanna, a Christian member of Iraq’s Parliament, worries that such Western intercession will be seen as discrimination by Iraqi Muslims who wonder why outside countries are so quick to offer assistance to Christians but are often silent when Muslims are attacked in Iraq. This could drive a wedge between Iraq’s Christians and Muslims.

“We are a small community here, and we are trying to resist and stay in our homes,” Kanna said.

More than 600 Christian families fled to the Kurdish area after the church siege, said the Kurdish interior minister, Karim Sinjari. More may have come without registering with authorities.

The Kurds are Muslims who have suffered oppression and discrimination but now have an autonomous, Western-supported homeland in northern Iraq. Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani, who is a Kurd, has gone so far as to suggest something similar for Iraq’s Christians. Meanwhile the Kurdish government has set up a committee to help the fleeing Christians. Proposals include letting them transfer their government jobs to the Kurdish provinces and allowing students to study in Kurdish colleges and universities.

“They’ve been part of Iraq for years. They are part of the community. They are part of the history. They are part of the culture of this country,” said Sinjari, who heads the committee. He believes Christians who come to Kurdistan are more likely one day to return to their homes than those who leave Iraq.

Ainkawa, the Christian enclave 320 kilometers (200 miles) north of Baghdad, has churches, Christmas trees for sale, and a population that has swelled from 7,500 to 22,000 since 2003, according to Ainkawa Mayor Fahmy Matti.

Christians have been in Iraq since earliest Christian times, and although there are several denominations, their enemies do not discriminate.

The Our Lady of Salvation church is Syrian Catholic, and Miriam Suleiman is Syrian Orthodox, but days after the attack her house was the target of a bomb.

She and her family are renting an apartment in Irbil for $500 a month, her son is on unpaid leave from his government job, and her daughter had to drop out of medical school in Baghdad. Still, they have no desire to go back.

“Maybe there will be peace and stability, but suddenly the situation will deteriorate,” said Suleiman, 61. “We want to go abroad. That is it.”

Matti, the Ainkawa mayor, said that about 70 percent of the Christians who moved there after the church attack came from Baghdad, and others from Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of here.

Mosul is one of the last bastions of Sunni extremists, who sow terror through assassination, targeting Iraqis of all faiths but Christians in particular.

About 10 Christian families from Mosul recently found refuge at St. Matthew’s, a monastery founded in A.D. 374 by a persecuted Christian and now home to a few monks. The families live in the stone rooms, their laundry drying in the courtyard and their kitchen utensils piled on the shelves.

A 23-year-old woman, requesting anonymity for fear of reprisals, said that in Mosul she would try to blend in by keeping her head covered, Muslim-style. She said people would say “Oh, so you are supported by the West because you are Christian. … They say it is not your country. You should leave.”

That is not so easy.

To emigrate, Iraqis need a passport, and must apply for it in their city of residence – in the monastery refugees’ case Mosul, the place from which they fled. A monk at the sanctuary, who for his safety identified himself only as Joseph, said Christians trying to get out often cannot afford hundreds of dollars in bribes to obtain a passport.

Ban Daub and her family fled to neighboring Syria in 2006. In 2008, having been denied asylum and told Baghdad was getting safer, they returned to the capital. A few months later a bomb blast rained glass shards into their bedrooms.

Daub’s nephew, Izz Annan Azziz, said that after he left Baghdad for Irbil, a Muslim friend would call daily, assuring him it was safe to come back.

Then another Christian was killed, and the friend called to say that maybe it was best that he leave Iraq for good.

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Associated Press writer Sameer N. Yacoub in Amman, Jordan contributed to this report.

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  • advent2
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 9:33am

    Until the so called “moderate Muslims” speak up en masse against the slaughter of innocents around the world, I believe they are all complicit and guilty of the same crimes. 90% of 1.5 billion is 1.35 billion. Where are they? Reminds me of the silence of the “moderate” German people back in 1935 after Krystalnaucht ( spelling?) But by then, they were too afraid to speak out. Our “tolerant” friends on this web page who fail to recognize the true threat and insidious nature of this “ religion of peace ” will find themselves in the same predicament. It is only a matter of time. Even so, come Lord Jesus.

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  • wash1776
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 8:22am

    I didn’t used to feel about the muslims the way I do now, but after so much of this violence just because we don’t believe the way they do, I don’t care for any of them anymore. When you see ones that have been born and raised here turn on this country and it’s people and set off bombs to kill us as well as all of the other things many of them are doing, I just don’t like muslims period now. You may have one for a neighbor who later goes out and sets off a bomb at some time. Just no way of knowing for sure. Their Sharia law and treatment of women is EVIL!

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  • VT_Republic
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 8:17am

    From the Religion Of Peace:
    Qur’an:9:88 “The Messenger and those who believe with him, strive hard and fight with their wealth and lives in Allah’s Cause.”
    Qur’an:9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
    Qur’an:9:112 “The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”
    Qur’an:9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
    Ishaq:325 “Muslims, fight in Allah’s Cause. Stand firm and you will prosper. Help the Prophet, obey him, give him your allegiance, and your religion will be victorious.”
    Qur’an:8:39 “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
    Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”
    Ishaq:324 “He said, ‘Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.’”
    Qur’an:9:14 “Fight them and Allah will punish them by your hands, lay them low, and cover them with shame. He will help you over them.”
    Ishaq:300 “I am fighting in Allah’s service. This is piety and a good deed. In Allah’s war I do not fear as others should. For this fighting is righteous, true, and good.”
    Ishaq:587 “Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.”
    Qur’an:8:65 “O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding.”
    Bukhari:V4B53N386 “Our Prophet, the Messenger of our Lord, ordered us to fight you till you worship Allah alone or pay us the Jizyah tribute tax in submission. Our Prophet has informed us that our Lord says: ‘Whoever amongst us is killed as a martyr shall go to Paradise to lead such a luxurious life as he has never seen, and whoever survives shall become your master.’”
    Muslim:C34B20N4668 “The Messenger said: ‘Anybody who equips a warrior going to fight in the Way of Allah is like one who actually fights. And anybody who looks after his family in his absence is also like one who actually fights.”
    Qur’an:9:38 “Believers, what is the matter with you, that when you are asked to go forth and fight in Allah’s Cause you cling to the earth? Do you prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? Unless you go forth, He will afflict and punish you with a painful doom, and put others in your place.”
    Qur’an:9:123 “Fight the unbelievers around you, and let them find harshness in you.

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  • Helldogger
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:46am

    Well, what do you expect from a “liberated” & “democratized” bunch of barefoot barbarians. Enough of this BS. I signed on for the war in Iraq & still do. But I signed on to KILL THE ENEMY. That’s all!!! You cannot civilize people who don’t want to be civilized. We need to have our missile bases set up in the desert & kill so much as a bunny rabbit that comes within a 100 mls of them. And let these inbread mongrels live their barbaric manor.
    Oh wait!! Here come President Oblaublau to the recue to help all those poor Christians. NOT!!!! Nor would President Jorge. The New World Order is western world Soviet Expansionism.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:21am

    Another great article.

    The Christians are persecuted wherever this totalitarian system of government called Islam raises it’s ugly head.

    Did you know that the Islamists took over Persia, which they then renamed Iran? The original people of Iran aka Persia were Zoroastrians. They took over the same way as they take over every country that they immigrate to. Through violence, Sharia and Jihad. It is the same in Egypt. The orginal people of Egypt were the Copts who are Christians. They were taken over by the Islamists through violence and persecution, so that now they are the minority. The Copts are still being persecuted and they are considered second class citizens in their own country, and treated as such. They are not allowed to get good job, or to build Churches.

    This is happening in Turkey right now as we speak. Turkey is changing from a secular nation to an Islamic one. Women are now required to wear the scarf to get a government position and the Secularists and Christians are being persecuted. It won’t be long now before Turkey will partner with Iran, just as Iran is partnering with Venezuela and digging for uranium there.

    The corrupt UN is turning a blind eye to all of this because they have been taken over by the Islamists there. They are now seeking to name Israel as the war criminal, while turning a blind eye to all of the Islamist’s worldwide terror. This is why we must seek to demand that our representatives in Congress no longer fund this corrupt body of thug-leaders.

    It is coming here to America in the form of creeping Sharia and Jihad, financed by the Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood and it’s paid tentacle CAIR. They seek to shut us up through their Sharia in the form of “political correctness.” It’s the way they worm their way in and get their “special treatment.”

    You must read this article about the “useful idiots.” Here‘s an excerpt and I’ll post a link to the entire article below so you can read it in it’s entirety. Amil comes from Iran. He left after the revolution where the fundamentalists took over by force.
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    Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of “Useful Idiots,” the sort of people Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also live in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascism—another virulent form of totalitarian ideology.

    Useful Idiots are naïve, they are foolish, they are ignorant of facts, they are unrealistically idealistic, they are dreamers and they are willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy. They are anarchists, they are aspiring revolutionaries, they are neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from any other segment of the population. Arguably, the most dangerous variant of the Useful Idiot is the “Politically Correct.” He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception.

    The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment. He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither approves of nor feels he belongs to.

    The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception.

    Understandably, it is easier to blame others and the outside world than to examine oneself with an eye to self-discovery and self-improvement. Furthermore, criticizing and complaining—liberal practices of the Useful Idiot—require little talent and energy. The Useful Idiot is a great armchair philosopher and “Monday Morning Quarterback.”

    The Useful Idiot is not the same as a person who honestly has a different point of view. A society without honest and open differences of views is a dead society. Critical, different and fresh ideas are the life blood of a living society—the very anathema of autocracies where the official position is sacrosanct.

    Even a “normal” person spends a great deal more energy aiming to fix things out there than working to overcome his own flaws and shortcomings, or contribute positively to the larger society. People don’t like to take stock of what they are doing or not doing that is responsible for the conditions of which they disapprove.

    But the Useful Idiot takes things much farther. The Useful Idiot, among other things, is a master practitioner of scapegoating. He assigns blame to others while absolving himself of responsibility, has a long handy list of candidates for blaming anything and everything, and by living a distorted life, he contributes to the ills of society.

    The Useful Idiot may even engage in willful misinformation and deception when it suits him. Terms such as “Political Islam,” or “Radical Islam,” for instance, are contributions of the Useful Idiot. These terms do not even exist in the native parlance of Islam, simply because they are redundant. Islam, by its very nature and according to its charter—the Quran—is a radical political movement. It is the Useful Idiot who sanitizes Islam and misguides the populace by saying that the “real Islam” constitutes the main body of the religion; and, that this main body is non-political and moderate.

    Regrettably, a large segment of the population goes along with these nonsensical euphemisms depicting Islam because it prefers to believe them. It is less threatening to believe that only a hijacked small segment of Islam is radical or politically driven and that the main body of Islam is indeed moderate and non-political.

    But Islam is political to the core. In Islam the mosque and State are one and the same—the mosque is the State. This arrangement goes back to the days of Muhammad himself. Islam is also radical in the extreme. Even the “moderate” Islam is radical in its beliefs as well as its deeds. Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire bound and well-deserve being maltreated compared to believers.

    No radical barbaric act of depravity is unthinkable for Muslims in dealing with others. They have destroyed precious statues of Buddha, leveled sacred monuments of other religions, and bulldozed the cemeteries of non-Muslims—a few examples of their utter extreme contempt toward others.

    Muslims are radical even in their intrafaith dealings. Various sects and sub-sects pronounce other sects and sub-sects as heretics worthy of death; women are treated as chattel, deprived of many rights; hands are chopped for stealing even a loaf of bread; sexual violation is punished by stoning, and much much more. These are standard day-to-day ways of the mainstream “moderate” Muslims living under the stone-age laws of Sharia.
    ~
    http://www.amilimani.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=2

    Rush Limbaugh commented on this article here:

    http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=147484438636318&comments

    If you are interested in how this scourge is infiltrating our American governmental institutions and our schools with it’s creeping Sharia and Jihad please join us at the ADL (American Defense League) to keep informed about what is going on in America and how they are using their “political correctness” to shut us up. Here’s the link:

    http://www.facebook.com/AmericanDefenceLeague

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  • dantom
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:07am

    Is there any other group in the world persecuted more than christians?

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    • APatriotFirst
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 11:23am

      Yes….Jews

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    • hiramsmaxim
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:39pm

      Jews have been persecuted more than any other people and the muslims will wipe them out first chance they get.

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  • elf1362
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:23am

    You should know that the Swedish government just forcibly repatriates 5 Christian to Iraq citing “situation of relative peace” in the country. Even the UN noticed it…Sweden accepts all the muslims but rejects Christians while Jews are fleeing the country being constantly harass by muslims with no reaction and even support of some Swedish politicians. Violent aggressions and rapes of Swedish people sky rock while the leftist government censures the media to speak about it. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/sweden-forcibly-repatriates-five-christians-to-iraq-citing-situation-of-relative-peace-in-the-countr.html

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  • NoDaDAZone
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:06am

    I have Iraqi-Christian friends here in the US. They are descendants of the original Christians. They speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus. They revere him as a prophet and call him “Rebe” like Rabbi,, which means teacher.

    One friend, here for 30 years, moved to USA with his family because his Muslim neighbors, people he grew up with and was friends, people who had been to his family’s home, one day they decided to massacre their Christian neighbors.

    Muslims like to do this because it is commanded in the Koran. “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them” When they have the “upper hand”, jihad by violence is mandatory. Islam ruins every land where they gain power, Mesopotamia (Iraq) being one of the first.

    Israel National Radio Interview: “Revising the revisionists and conquerers of ancient history”
    http://www.marcrubin.com/judean-eve.ivnu

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:15am

      Jesus is not a prophet………he is GOD

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    • NoDaDAZone
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:41pm

      @Oil_Robb

      Learn about original Christianity, before Constantine got his hands on it and perverted it. The infinite “unending-neverending” Elohim (one word for God in Hebrew) cannot be contained in a human body. We are all children of God as God created all matter in this universe and we are all part of that creation.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 8:10pm

      @ NoDaDAZone,

      “In Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form”
      Colossians 2:9

      Of course I know you probably don’t believe the whole word of God.

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  • smamere
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:49am

    Good ol Bill O’ Reilly was lambasted for saying there is a Muslim problem in the world. Any“religion” that promotes the annihilation of all non believers in their is not a religion. It is tyranny, pure and simple. My apologies to the moderate Muslims, wherever you are hiding.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:22am

      The Bible says to kill followers of other religions (Deuteronomy 13:7-12, among other places). Modern Christians don’t do this, but then neither do most modern Muslims. We’re only a couple of hundred years from a time when the worst Christians were just as bad as the worst Muslims are today. The moderate Muslims are all around us. They live here in America because they don’t believe in all this stuff, and if they’re “hiding” it’s only from guys like you who won’t give them the benefit of the doubt.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:36am

      @ chet………….true that passage does say that…………..but you ignorance of the Christian Bible is obvious………….The new testament is what holds sway, not the old testament. they are completely separate, and had to do with different times

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    • NoDaDAZone
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 4:24am

      @ChetHempstead

      That is BS. In Deuteronomy, when Israelites were commanded to kill, it was time-specific and people-specific, because the people they killed conducted child-sacrifice and other practices of Baal Worship. they were always given the chance to change their ways, but they couldn’t, much like Jihadi Muslims today.

      Although Christianity has been violent, that violence runs against the teachings of Jesus. In Islam, the violence is a RESULT of the teachings. A major difference between Christianity and Islam.

      Also the Crusades were a response to Islamic invasion of Europe. Look up Charles Martel and the Battle of Poiters in 732.

      Baal Worship (Islam is its descendant), with its cult of violence and domination began about 3000 BCE at Baalbek (megalithic platform structure) in Lebanon. The Canaanites, who due to climate change from a meteor in 3123 BCE, http://www.marcrubin.com/noah-index.ivnu had moved from their alloted region in southern Turkey, built an altar on top of the Pre-Flood structure and began sacrificing children and other kinds of bad behavior You wouldn’t want them for your neighbors.

      The Romans were Hamites, just like the Canaanites. They stole and claimed ownership. Basic Italian architecture, their way of building homes, comes from the Eutruscans, who settled the Italian coast before the later arriving Hamite-Romans killed them. Mesopotamians invented the arch. Not the Romans. That is another lie of history. The Temple in Jerusalem had arches as did Ninevah and Susa (first city in Persia).

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    • Auralae
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:43am

      @Chet–Hmph, you’re twisting scripture there bub. Both the verse just before and the verse right after make it clear that it’s people within their fledgling community who are to be held to these standards–not the people surrounding them. Regardless, as with every single other similar command, they were time and/or people specific, as opposed to perpetual. Islam’s command to kill the unbelievers is for all time.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 8:45am

      Chet, they need to speak out loudly and clearly, then, condemning the radicals. yes, it may be dangerous to them, but sometimes doing the right thing is dangerous – like the Christians going to church and practicing their religion who did so knowing there was a possibility of persecution.

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  • AynRandLives
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:40am

    Religion of Peace

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:48am

    check wikipedia to see how the living scum muslims of somalia have eradicated every other religion from somalia. check how the living scum muslims of iran have eradicated the baha’i faith. even a branch of their own religion, the sufi, have been eradicated from iran.

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  • uncleherbert
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:24am

    Tell me again, why the islamist are going to war? What have they got to be scared about?

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:12am

      why did Muslims take over the continent of Africa and drive out Christianity?….you be gaurenteed they dont send aid to that filthy contenent

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  • angelcat
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:14am

    Think for a moment how this story would be played in the lamestream media if Muslims were being persecuted by Christians. Holder would be holding news conferences and both he and the president would officially condemn the actions – maybe the U.N. as well. But it is only Christians being persecuted, and we all know that they aren’t politically favored or correct at the moment.

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    • Moonbat
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:20am

      @ Angelcat

      Yes — just imagine what would happen if Western countries were killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims, invading their countries and blowing their homes to bits. Oh, wait…

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    • timber wolf
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:05am

      @moonbat

      Oh wait, Islam did that to 50 plus countries already.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 2:26pm

      So you want the countries to just sit back and let the radical Muslims kill as many people both inside and outside of their own countries as they would like and force as many as they can to adopt their religion and customs? I don’t like war either, but it is sometimes a necessary evil.

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  • drattastic
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:11am

    Islam the religion of peace and tolerance.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:09am

      Yes and that crack pot in Iran wants Nuclear power to run TV’s and refridgerators ………..wake up loser

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  • Moonbat
    Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:05am

    There are over a billion Muslims in the world. They’ve been around for 1400 years. Do you seriously think they’re all trying to kill you? What’s taking them so long?

    There are hateful, murderous Muslims. And Christians, and Hindus, and probably Rastafarians. And there are decent human beings who subscribe to every faith. Was the Muslim man who earnestly wished me a Merry Christmas today just biding his time? I don’t think so.

    Maybe more of you guys should get out and meet some Muslims. Talk to them — I’ll bet there are some nearby. I can almost guarantee you they won’t try to kill you.

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    • tanker
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:57am

      They just don’t happen to be in the position to – here yet..look around @ where they think they can get by w/ their peaceful- elimination of the infidel – they are like mosquitoes- they wont leave you alone unless you kill them.

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    • timber wolf
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:57am

      Have you read the Qur’an or the Hadiths? to make such a statement? The mission
      of Islam is to become the dominant religion of the world.

      You say, ” I can (almost) guarantee ” but you don’t know for sure. Killing
      in American is not the norm yet, because the US still has the upper hand or
      rule of law. Under shariah law it would be daily event as it is in other countries.

      You say, ” There are hateful people of other religions who hate and are murderers.”
      This is true however, the Qur’an encourages the torture and murder of nonbelievers
      of Islam ( christians, jews, atheist/agnostic, homosexuals )

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    • Patriot Z
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:03am

      ummm if you look at history there was a time when muslims were contolling most areas..and yes they killed. you seem to not understand their mandate stated to KILL or convert. they are quite up front about this and actions drive home the point. while true christians do live along side, theey are basically 4th class citizens, having to pay high taxes just to be able to not be killed. they are harrassed amond other things daily. they are not allowed to build churches or worship as they see fit. you want to start with the argument of other violent groups when there is NO equivilent at all. These people WILL kill or enslave you. we are telling you, they are telling you and their actions are telling you that. so what exactly confuzes you? they want the kaliph back which means if they get it, your ‘religion of peace’ will be your MASTERS or your murderers.do they need to be midway through sawing your head off before you get the point.

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 6:24am

      No thanks! After knowing in my neighborhood muhammed attah lived down the street from me along with some of the other lesser known, but important members of this notorious, peaceful group of islam loving people (sarcasm), I have no desire to get to know them.

      They show no desire to get to know us! The muslims living near me keep their shades drawn, CONSTANTLY, the woman of the house is RARELY seen, the children do not wave, smile, the older boys will not make eye contact, etc. when I pass by. They do not speak English. The women do not wear western clothes. So, seems to me they do not want to assimilate, but our town just held a ‘meet and greet’ at our local libary to ‘get to know our muslim neighbors’?! No thanks. Especially after what I’m seeing with the underwear bomber, Ft. Hood muslim murderer, Times Square bomber and most recent Washington State’s near miss of their peaceful, muslim murdering bomber at their town Christmas celebration!

      Yeah, that’s right, get out to get to know them! NOT!

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:47pm

    The “devil” has to come to ROB, STEAL and DESTROY(kill)—Jesus came to bring LIFE————————
    guess which is islam…………………

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:45pm

    Those wonderful Muslims… they are just soooooooooooooooo tolerant of other Religions… Not like here in the US, right?!?!?

    Oh the hypocrisy!!!!!!!!!! …and they still question why people have Islamophobia, or why people want an official banning of Sharia Law… gee, I wonder why…

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    • GulfPeg
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 6:37am

      I think we shouldn’t be tolerant of the Muslims coming into our country until they stop this kind of nonsense against Christians in Muslim countries.

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  • woodydad
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:29pm

    I belong to ‘Voice of the Martyrs’ and if my faulty memory serves me correctly muslims murder well over 200,000 Christians every year. I know the yearly average total of Christian martyrs is around 260,000 including the ones killed by communist countries like China. So perhaps islam is responsible for less than 200,000. I do know that VOM says that muslims kill the vast majority of them. When you‘re peacefully murdering that many people each year it’s probably hard to keep an accurate count.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:25pm

    These “peaceful muslim people” are taught to kill infidels, which includes anyone who is not muslim. They are targeting & killing Christians all over the world. It’s time to put the politically correct lies to rest & scream the truth as loud as we can. Stand strong & do not let sharia law be allowed anywhere in this country. Our government officials (to include activists judges) better listen to us. We don’t want this here. There are more of us than there are of them. Can they hear us now?!

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    • sportlock
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:56pm

      Did ya miss this last pork laden bill they just tried to pass? It might take another election or two before they really get it.

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  • Marathonmark
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:21pm

    The use of “X” in the place of Christ is an ancient Christian practice using the first Greek letter of Christ as the symbol for Christ, it is not an attempt to omit our Savior.

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    • WISEPENNY
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:28pm

      Well that “golden nugget” is sure to make those Iraqi Christians fell a little better, no doubt.

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:32pm

      I did not know that, very interesting.

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    • sportlock
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:33pm

      Personally, I wasn’t aware of that. Thx for the info

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    • Marathonmark
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:36pm

      Actually, Wisepenny, it is our Lord who comforts them and He is not intimidated by someone trying to omit Him or persecute Him. My prayers are with my brothers and sisters in Christ and I think it only makes American Chrisians look stupid and shallow mistakenly fussing over a Christian symbol when our fellow believers are being slaughtered.

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    • seeker9
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:37pm

      @Marathon
      Hardly any one knows what you just said, x’ing out Christ, so the actual intent of the writer can’t be known.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:31am

      same with the fish design……….way back when Christians were being persecuted in rome , it was used as a meeting signal to be able to recognize each other…………one person would use his foot and draw a half circle on the dirt, and the other person if he was Christian would finish the symbol creating a “fish”

      persecution of Christians has persevered throughout the ages , and will continue until his return

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    • Vie_En_Ras
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:18am

      Thank you MarathonMark. I was going to point this out myself. X is the Greek for Chi and was used for Christ. That‘s why when people abbreviate it it’s Xmas, not Zmas or Qmas. If you must be offended, be offended by things that completely change the holiday like that super low-IQ show that celebrates “Crimbus”.

      Xtians or XPians are also considered acceptable ways to abbreviate Christian (XP being Chi Rho… follower of Christ… which makes me want to keep Windows XP even more… lol).

      Maybe instead of getting offended, people should research this stuff first (here, do your homework: http://hotword.dictionary.com/xmas-christogram/) so you’re armed with truth so you can put lies to rest by educating others. Sure ‘not others will know that’ so looks like it’s up to you to help educate them.

      Frankly I’m a little put off by The Blaze for pulling the whole *gasp* they put Xmas instead of Christmas! *gasp* routine. Sure, the original author might have been doing it to try to ‘offend’ but the joke’s really on them for being so ignorant, now, isn’t it?

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    • MDSBigPaPa
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 1:09pm

      Given what MarathonMark and VIE_EN_RAS have posted and, many of us “old timers’“ believe that the ”X” was inappropriate representation for Christ; If the Liberals/Progressive find this out, it will undoubtedly infuriate them to no end — They didn’t take Christ out of Christmas(Xmas) after all.

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  • WISEPENNY
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:16pm

    Where is the filthy rich Vatican with some financial aid for the refugees to get them to the U.S.?

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    • sportlock
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:30pm

      Great question, and certainly deserves an answer

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  • royalstar
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:14pm

    Unfortunately Christian persecution appears to be on the rise everywhere in the middle east. Even in Iraq not considered a muslim country. I’m sure Iran is behind much of this or fueling the flames. Persecution in our country appears to be on the rise also. We must be vigilent and continue to stand up because I think the progressives would like nothing better than to destroy Christianiy in the U.S. We are the main roadblock to their Socialist agenda. Another sign that we may be entering the last days as foretold.

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    • neverending
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:46am

      So true and well said.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:53pm

      There are the signs Jesus spoke of and the persecution for his name sake. They are coming on us like birth pangs. The tempo increasing! Muslims where is your religious tolerance for those not of your belief. Is only tolerance for your faith a must for everyone else to follow, can you not extend an olive branch to those who do not cause you any harm and have lived among your peoples for hundreds of years in peace. It seems you want to murder them where they are praying and execute them where you find them. Atleast let them leave in peace. God is watching!

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 7:27pm

      Yes, it is happening as it was foretold in the bible. Especially if it is recognized that Allah is the beast of Revelation. This cancer is spreading very fast because it is Satanically empowered, and because the world is ripe for judgment. Christians are taught to not stop confessing Christ, and to endure to the end. There will be many true martyrs. Jesus is coming soon.

      Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?” Revelation 13:4

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  • guyperram
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 10:57pm

    The religion of peace. What a joke. Only an idiot lib would buy into that nonsense. Islam is a religion of war. They are at war with anyone that isn’t their branch of islam. We had better wake up, before we all have to do the prayer rug thing, or die.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:07am

      The religion of peace. Depends what is…………………is

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 10:53pm

    We need an Ellis Island for immigrants and refugees.

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  • neverending
    Posted on December 18, 2010 at 10:49pm

    Before we know it this will be happening here. Already is on a very, very small scale.

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    • ME
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:11pm

      Islam is evil, Mohammad a pedophile, and hell waits for the idiots that fall for this prophet of Satan.

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    • sportlock
      Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:25pm

      Hold on just a minute, This is BS!!!! I was watching the news and they told me that Islam was a tolerant religion of peace. The Blaze must not be telling us of the thousands of Muslims peacefully protesting these atrocities…..

      See there’s a protest! Wait, thats for the right to wear a head scarf at work in Disneyland. Wait, over there!!! No, thats a protest not wanting to have their headscarf patted down. No, over there!!! Nope, thats a protest wanting to wear headscarfs in a drivers license photo..

      Seems the headscarf is more important to some then then having their entire religion hi-jacked by extremist?

      Maybe that’s the tolerance they speak of?

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    • walkwithme1966
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:07am

      Give me a break – no Christians are being killed here – you all are determined to make Islam your enemy when in actuality, we are very safe here in our country. How many Christians have been killed in the US since 9-11? None – except for those in your mind! http://maboulette.wordpress.com

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    • rwing
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:41am

      @ walkwithme

      I think the point should be made that it doesn’t matter if you are Christian or not, ALOT of Muslims around the world are killing people in the name of their religion. Doesn’t that trouble you? Also, what about the shooting by the Muslim officer at a Texas base this last year? He killed people in the name of his religion: ISLAM! I don’t care much for those who would defend such a religion by saying not all Muslims are that way…so what a whole hell of a lot of them are! Wake up!

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    • Patriot Z
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:50am

      walkwithme1966- how long do you think before they are? dude wake up. they ARE being killed in egypt and pakistan and other muslim dominated counties. gays ARE being killed women ARE being killed, children ARE being killed. what does it take for people like you to get that? why are you so happy to offer excuses for muslims? Im athiest and I can see the danger. are you so blinded by political correctness you cant see the danger you are in from these people? WE say they will KILL YOU…THEY (MUSLIMS) say they will KILL YOU histroy has shown they are violent, present actions show they are violent. so where exactly is the confusion for you?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 2:56am

      WALKWITHME1966 AKA Huffy-Hoe: Pure-Luck that no one has been killed here. I bet you think the border is secure and Obama has most transparent administration in history. The Kool-Aid is calling you

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:03am

      @WALKWITHME…………..they dont call London LONDONSTAN just for the fun of it…at least the Germans are comming to thier senses

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 5:46am

      A Christmas present from Mohammad.

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    • jakethesnake76
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 9:23am

      Well my Son going to Iraq wasn’t worth it then was it, instead of installing a freedom love God enlightened City in Baghdad our troops were fighting and dieing for this ? What The Hell ? By the way i mean that literally did we just reserve a hell for people over there where the Light is not tolerated ?

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 10:08am

      The danger of this happening here won’t be over til every Mosque in the US is burning and every Muslim has been destroyed or is running for the border. Islam is the epitomy of evil and and a cancer on society that must be totally eliminated. Wakeup Christians, theres no such thing as a “peaceful Muslim”……For thousands of years, they have demonstrated exactly what they really are.

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    • Big Toe
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 12:18pm

      Maybe one day in parts of the world where Muslim is minority, They can be treated as they treat the minority Christians in the Mid East. Hmmm.

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    • hmg
      Posted on December 19, 2010 at 3:39pm

      Geert says it best. go and watch. http://www.hadjimustgo.com

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    • darkloch
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:03pm

      don’t you just love how MODERATE islam is so tolerant of all religions…. as long as all religions are islamic.

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