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Posted by parhad (Guest) - Thursday, August 12 2004, 1:01:56 (CEST)
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..in this article we lament the unexpected result of what happens when foreign Christians murder Muslims who have Christians trapped among them...Iraqi Christians are running to Syria...reminds me of when they ran from Urmi to Iraq...then they Levied on their hosts and for years Christian extremists came to America to lie about the reasons they hotfooted it out..said they were forced to flee and diaspaored all over themselves..then they set up forums and called on America and Christ to go to war against Evil Iraq and "make their people free" and damn me if America didn't go to Iraq to protect the Christian people and as luck would have it Christians in America begged for even MORE soldiers and US militay bases and pleaded with Bush that he stay and get the job done and some over there went to work for the Brits and Americans and damn me if they didn't get killed along with any Muslim traitors and before you could say Jeezus H Christ...the Assyrians are once again running..this time to Syria..and I have every confidence that aina and beth this time will lead a chorus of chants and insults against Syria...telling us all Syria has done to hurt Christians and what Muslims owe Assyrians because really it is ALL Assyria if you think right...and then Bush will maybe want to attack evil Islam in Syria and has all those calls ringing in his ears to go save THOSE Christians...and Modesto parents will proudly offer up their remaining sons to go free Christians and protect them..like they just did in Iraq...and pretty soon the Christians of Syria are helping Bush as well...and are getting killed for betraying Syria...especially those who just ran there from Iraq and were allowed in..and before you can say Jeezus H Christ again...they're running back to Urmi in Iran, after running to Syria from Iraq where they ran to, FROM Urmi all those oily wars before... and Bush and our boys are saying that last axle of evil must fall before Christians can REALLY be saved and they'll attack Iran and all the Christians who ran from Iran years ago to Iraq...and just ran to Syria will all get up and run back to Iran where they started from 100 years ago and they'll be no safer than they were the LAST time they believed any Christian anywhere..or any Jew anywhere, was coming for to be therir Messiah and Savior and whatever remnant is left from all this running will fall on its knees in front of a church in ruins in Iran and cry out GLORY BE TO JESUS, for the few of us left after all this jogging have been SAVED!!!

And Narsai will be eating and planning his next dinner in California.

Assyrians fleing Assyria

...that's your problem right there...you are are bugs and you don't know that ther is no Assyria.

Posted By: Ashor Giwargis (FiberLink.65-115.lynx.net.lb)
Date: Wednesday, 11 August 2004, at 5:07 p.m.

Dear All,

Good article about a bad fact...

AUANEWSWATCH
Middle East - AP

Syria Becoming Haven for Iraqi Christians

Wed Aug 11, 2:44 AM ET

By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer

DAMASCUS, Syria - A banner draped across a wall of a Damascus church commemorated a long-ago massacre in neighboring Iraq (news - web sites), but hundreds of worshippers praying below worried about more recent violence that is driving Iraqi Christians from their homeland.

"We offer these prayers for the souls of those who were killed in our brotherly Iraq," said a Syrian priest before reading the names of seven people killed Aug. 1 when suspected Islamic militants set off explosions at five churches in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.

In addition to the seven dead, dozens were wounded in the first major assault on Iraq's Christian minority since Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion in April 2003.

Even before the church bombings, Christians reporting harassment by Islamic fundamentalists had begun streaming out of Iraq, many to neighboring Syria. Syria's relaxed visa rules for Arabs and its geographical and cultural proximity to Iraq have attracted thousands of Iraqis, Muslim as well as Christian, seeking to escape chaos at home. A disproportionate number of the refugees, though, have been Christian.

The Iraqi Embassy in Damascus and United Nations (news - web sites) High Commissioner for Refugees estimate the number of Iraqis of all faiths in Syria at about 250,000. Some 12,000 of these have registered with the UNHCR — of which 20 percent are Christians. Yet Christians make up just 3 percent of Iraq's population of about 25 million. The major Christian groups include Chaldean-Assyrians and Armenians.

Benjamin Chamoun showed a reporter a handwritten death threat signed the "Islamic Resistance Group" he said he had received for working as a driver at a U.S. military base. He quit three months ago, but at first didn't consider leaving his homeland. Then came the church bombings.

"There is nothing worse than attacking churches," added Chamoun, who is a member of the Chaldean-Assyrian church, the major Christian sect in Iraq.

...yes there is...attacking mosques first.

"We, as Christians, are not persecuted by Muslims. Our problem is with Muslim extremists," said the 35-year-old Chamoun as he sat in an apartment in the Jaramana area on the outskirts of Damascus. Jaramana has become an Iraqi Christian neighborhood.

...and we have the same Christian extremists on our side...we are ALL being killed for these assholes.

Chamoun, who fled with his wife, two daughters and son, hopes to emigrate to Australia. If he doesn't get a visa, he said he will try to find a job in Syria and wait for the situation to improve back home.

Under Saddam, even in the later years when the Iraqi leader attempted to rally support by waving the Islamic banner, Christians were free to practice their religion and lived relatively peacefully among the Muslim majority. Some, like former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, even rose to prominence.

...gee

History has seen other periods of sectarian tension and violence in Iraq. The Sunday Iraqis in Syria were praying for those killed in the church bombings fell a day after Martyrs Day, one of the most important days on the Chaldean-Assyrian calendar. It marks the 1933 massacre by the Iraqi government of Christians demanding more rights. Chaldean-Assyrians say some 3,000 people, including women and children, were killed in Simele, a town in northern Iraq.

"Aug. 7 will remain a symbol of honor for our people and their national identity," read a banner still hanging Aug. 8 during Sunday services at the Chaldean-Assyrian Abraham Church in Damascus.

Islamic extremism has been on the rise in Iraq in the chaos since Saddam's fall. Some trace this to the arrival of foreign Muslim militants drawn to Iraq by the chance to attack Americans.

...and where did the Americans come from and who came first?

Iraqi Christians in Syria speak of Muslim extremists back home forcing even Christian women to wear Islamic veils or having their liquor shops burned — Islam frowns on alcohol.

...ge...neither happened when Saddam was in power

"Iraqis from all sections of the Iraqi society have been approaching our office," said Ajmal Khybari, senior officer at UNHCR office in Damascus. "But in the past two or three months we have seen an increase of Iraqi Christians."

In one sign of how many Iraqi Christians are in Syria, an Iraqi church leader traveled to Damascus to mark Martyrs Day.

"We are against the immigration of Christians," Archbishop Touma Iramia Gewargis, head of the Archbishopric of Ninewa and Duhuk in Iraq, said during his visit. "We were against it in the past and are in the present and "future. We want to protect our nation because we are first-class citizens in Iraq."

Jassim...get out your white-out...you son of a bitch! TELL me you boys had nothing to do with any of these...fucking weasels..just because you hide when there's trouble or raise your pious hands to heaven when you get caught...skunks!

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