Author Topic: Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul  (Read 2471 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Dan

  • Moderator
  • Ultimate JTFer
  • *
  • Posts: 4308
Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul
« on: October 11, 2008, 09:41:49 PM »
Hundreds of terrified Christian families have fled Mosul to escape extremist attacks that have increased despite months of U.S. and Iraqi military operations to secure the northern Iraqi city, political and religious officials said Saturday.

Some 3,000 Christians have fled the city over the past week alone in a "major displacement," said Duraid Mohammed Kashmoula, the governor of northern Iraq's Ninevah province. He said most have left for churches, monasteries and the homes of relatives in nearby Christian villages and towns.

"The Christians were subjected to abduction attempts and paid ransom, but now they are subjected to a killing campaign," Kashmoula said, adding he believed "Al Qaeda" elements were to blame and called for a renewed drive to root them out.

Political and religious leaders interviewed said the change in tactics may reflect a desire on the part of extremists to forcibly evict all Christians from Iraq's third largest city.

Earlier this week, Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako said he was worried about what he termed a "campaign of killings and deportations against the Christian citizens in Mosul."

Mosul police have reported finding the bullet-riddled bodies of seven Christians in separate attacks so far this month, the latest a day laborer found on Wednesday. On Saturday, militants blew up three abandoned Christian homes in eastern Mosul, police said.
Father Bolis Jacob of Mosul's Mar Afram Church said he was at a loss to understand the violence. "We respect the Islamic religion and the Muslim clerics," he said. "We don't know under what religion's pretexts these terrorists work."

The violence in Mosul occurs despite U.S.-Iraqi operations launched over the summer aimed at routing Al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgents from remaining strongholds north of the capital.

The killings come as Christian leaders are lobbying parliament to pass a law setting aside a number of seats for minorities, such as Christians, in upcoming provincial elections, fearing they could be further marginalized in the predominantly Muslim country.

Iraq's Christian community has been estimated at 3 percent of Iraq's 26 million people, or about 800,000, and has a significant presence in the northern Ninevah province.

In Mosul, where Christians have lived for some 1,800 years, a number of centuries-old churches still stand.

Joseph Jacob, a professor at Mosul University, said there were nearly 20,000 Christians in the city before the 2003 U.S. invasion. But over half have since left for neighboring towns, or new countries, he said.

Islamic extremists have frequently targeted Christians since the invasion, forcing tens of thousands to flee Iraq. Attacks had tapered off amid a drastic decline in overall violence nationwide, but that appears to be changing with the deaths this month.

On Saturday, Bashir Azoz, a 45-year-old carpenter, said he was forced to flee his home in the city's eastern Noor area after gunmen warned a neighbor the day before to leave or face death.

"Where is the government and its security forces as these crimes take place every day?" asked Azoz, who is now staying with his wife and three children in a monastery in the Christian-majority town of Qarqoush, east of Mosul.

Separately on Saturday, a U.S. soldier died when a bomb exploded near his vehicle outside Amarah, southeast of Baghdad. The U.S. military said it was withholding soldier's name until it notified next of kin.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,436481,00.html

'What happened to Islam being a religion of Peace... a piece of Sh**'

Offline mord

  • Global Moderator
  • Platinum JTF Member
  • *
  • Posts: 25853
Re: Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2008, 08:12:49 PM »
Yes this is the moslem M.O. wherever they are in the majority
Thy destroyers and they that make thee waste shall go forth of thee.  Isaiah 49:17

 
Shot at 2010-01-03

Offline Lisa

  • Forum Administrator
  • Silver Star JTF Member
  • *
  • Posts: 9373
    • The Urban Grind
Re: Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2008, 08:46:29 PM »
And to think, this is what American troops fought and died for...

Offline lebanese

  • Junior JTFer
  • **
  • Posts: 47
Re: Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2009, 12:11:11 AM »
Yes this is the moslem M.O. wherever they are in the majority

Yes. it is true. and they will always be a majority. since no woman in the world can accept to be born to just have babies. sadly, they will be a majority and noone will ever be able to stop them. unless it is by liberating their women

Offline Ulli

  • Honorable Winged Member
  • Gold Star JTF Member
  • *
  • Posts: 10946
Re: Terrified Christian Families Flee Iraq's Mosul
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2009, 04:19:12 AM »
Yes this is the moslem M.O. wherever they are in the majority

Yes. it is true. and they will always be a majority. since no woman in the world can accept to be born to just have babies. sadly, they will be a majority and noone will ever be able to stop them. unless it is by liberating their women

No!

Unless we will stop to give them Billions of foreign aid, we will stop to provide welfare to them in our own countries and we will find alternatives to oil.

Look before the oil boom the quranimals were small in numbers, because they couldn't provide more with food.

Until they have enough money the population numbers growth.

Equality of women has of course something to do with it, but it is not the main point here.

I could imagine, if the Muslim women are fully equal, they would give birth even more, because they are now a full member of "Global Jihad".
"Cities run by progressives don't know how to police. ... Thirty cities went up last night, I went and looked at every one of them. Every one of them has a progressive Democratic mayor." Rudolph Giuliani