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#IslamicApartheid in Iraq: Non-Muslims Flee North

Creed apartheid, religious apartheid -- the endless persecution of non-Muslims in Muslim countries.

All that American blood and treasure in Iraq for ...... sharia.

"Iraq's religious minorities flee"  DW.DE, April 2, 2013, thanks to Lookmann

Non-Muslims in Iraq suffer violent attacks and discrimination. Many Christians, Yazidis and Mandeans have fled the nation. Only in the Kurdish north are religious minorities safe - except when they live in 'mixed' towns.
Violence, kidnappings and attacks on religious minorities are a daily occurrence in Iraq, where a national patchwork of religious and ethnic groups once existed, a sense of unraveling remains.
Violence against minority religious groups had already begun before the fall of Saddam Hussein. Hussein reached the apex of his in the midst of a bloody conflict between Kurds and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites. Caught in the crossfire of those battles were Christians; Yazidis, a Kurdish ethno-religious group; and a group known as Mandeans.
Churches are now regular recipients of bomb attacks - as they have been for years. When Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako became head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq in March 2013, security authorities in parts of Baghdad were on high alert. The patriarch, however, is the leader of a congregation in decline.
In addition to many Catholics, Christians of other denominations are leaving Iraq. From what was once a group of roughly 1 million Christians in the biblical land of Babylon, a few hundred thousand remain. Iraq's other religious minorities have suffered a similar fate.
Day-to-day life is particularly difficult for Mandeans, whose religion accepts certain Old and New Testament figures - Adam, Noah, John the Baptist, for example - but rejects Abraham, Moses, and Jesus Christ. The religious community is based in southern Iraq, whence it traces its origins for over 2,000 years to John the Baptist. Mandeans argue that the Koran itself would define them as a "people of the book" - that is, as adhering to a religion worthy of protection. Many Iraqi Muslims see things otherwise.

Obama's #epicfail: Deadliest day in Iraq, 103 people killed in jihad attacks

More of the carnage and bloodshed from Obama's catastrophic anti-freedom foreign policy failures. His systematic surrender to jihad worldwide is an unmitigated disaster as the daily Obama death toll mounts.

(AP) Coordinated Iraq attacks kill 103 By SINAN SALAHEDDIN and BUSHRA JUHI, Associated Press

BAGHDAD: Bombings and shootings ripped across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 103 people in the deadliest day this year. The coordinated attacks in 13 cities sent a chilling warning that al-Qaida is slowly resurging in the security vacuum created by a weak government in Baghdad and the departure of the U.S. military seven months ago.

Though there was no immediate claim of responsibility, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq declared on Sunday a new offensive aimed at sowing instability across the country.

Iraqi militants have kept up a steady drumbeat of deadly attacks since the U.S. pulled out in December, ending nearly a decade of war. They have sought to deepen the chaos created by the deepening sectarian political crisis that pits Sunni and Kurdish leaders against Shiite political powers. The latest violence bore most of the hallmarks of al-Qaida: the bombings and shootings all took place within a few hours of each other and struck mostly at security forces and government offices _ favorite targets of the predominantly Sunni militants.

"The majority of the Sunnis in Iraq support al-Qaida and are waiting for its return," Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State of Iraq since 2010, said in the statement that was posted on a militant website.

Iraq: Jihadi homicide bomber kills own family

Proving once again, Islam above all else. This story may shock the western mind, heart and soul, but it is consistent with the sharia, ie honor killings, clitoridectomies, etc. The state (Islam) above all else.

Iraq suicide bomber kills own family Irish Examiner, July 07, 2012

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at a gathering of his own family in western Iraq, killing his pro-government cousin and six other relatives, officials said today.

The blast targeting a leader in the Sahwa militias in the city of Ramadi is a reminder of how extremism still divides Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority, with some working with al-Qaida-linked insurgents against others who support the Shiite-led government.

The killing is part of a surge in violence six months after the last American troops withdrew.

The bomber entered the home of his cousin, the local Sahwa leader, on Friday night as the extended family was gathered for a meal, said a police official in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, 70 miles west of Baghdad.

He approached the militiaman and detonated his explosives, killing his target as well as his wife, three of their teenage children, his brother and another relative, said the official.

Anbar is the province where Sunni tribes first revolted against al-Qaida in late 2006 and 2007, joining US troops to fight the insurgency.

Sharia Law in Iraq: Gay and Fashion Conscious Teens Honor Killed

All that American blood and treasure in Iraq to .... install sharia law. Obama say, "respect it!"

Clearly Bush did not understand Islam or the sharia when he invaded Iraq. This was not what he envisioned when he freed Iraq and called Islam the "religion of Peace." When reality meets fantasy, hundreds of young people get killed. Young women get honor murdered, women get clitorectomized, and are forced to marry barbarians.

Who are the true "misunderstanders" of Islam? Devout muslims or clueless Western politicians and Islamic apologists in the media.

"My family wanted to shoot me for being gay': Iraqi medic tells how he fled his homeland as 90 Emo-style youngsters are victims of honour killing

• Ahmed says 'even under Saddam Hussein I wouldn't have been killed for being gay'
• 90 Iraqi students have also been killed for dressing in Western Emo-style
• Ahmed has since fled to the U.S. as a refugee
• His boyfriend sent explicit pictures of him to family members
• Sister tells him: 'You have to flee - I'd prefer you live in a far away place than see your name on a grave'
  

By Rob Cooper  13 April 2012 

A gay Iraqi medic has told how he was forced to flee his homeland to avoid being killed by his family because of his sexuality.

The young man, identified only as Ahmed, escaped to Jordan after being betrayed by his boyfriend who sent explicit pictures of them together to his uncle.

He said in a harrowing interview that even under Saddam Husseim's reign he would not have been killed for being gay.

Medic: Ahmed, pictured right with two other doctors, is a medic who graduated from Baghdad University in 2006

The video was released after it was emerged that 90 Iraqi students have been killed for being an Emo.

The revelations will provide a wake-up call nine years after U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq to topple Saddam.

Ahmed said in the newly-released Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project interview that his family wanted him dead when they discovered he was gay.

His sister phoned and told him he was going to be shot dead after his family were sent explicit images.

He fled to Jordan and from there the Baghdad University medicine graduate was able to travel on to the United States as a refugee.

In the harrowing video, Ahmed said life was better for homosexuals under Saddam.

'After the war things started to get worse because every man started to express every hatred he has,' he said.

'I don't support Saddam - I didn't like him - but at least there was law. I can get jailed for being gay during Saddam but at least I wont be killed.'

Ahmed said he was together with his male partner for four years before he lost his job and started asking for money.

When he refused to provide extra cash, his boyfriend blackmailed him by sending explicit pictures to six of his uncles.

Ahmed added that his sister told him: 'They (the family members) received a small envelope under the main gates of their houses.

'They opened them (and) they saw a CD of shameful nude sex pictures between you and a bearded man.

Forced to flee: Ahmed, centre, was handing over some of his earnings to his boyfriend after he lost his job - and was blackmailed for more

'A letter was written with the CD 'your son is one of Baghdad's biggest gay b****** and your son is a w**** and he is well known in Baghdad for being gay.'

He added that his sister told him he had to flee because the family would have him killed.

In an emotional interview he revealed his sister said: 'You have to flee. I prefer that you live in a far place rather than seeing your name on a rock on a grave.'

Ahmed's story emerged after it was revealed militants in Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad have also been killing youngsters who dress in the 'Emo' style.

Shock: Ahmed's sister told him to get out of the country - because she would prefer him a long way away to in a grave

Fans of the trend – short for emotional – wear tight jeans and have distinctive long, black or spiky haircuts.

Iraq's Moral Police released a statement on the interior ministry's website condemning the 'emo phenomenon' among Iraqi youth, declaring its intent to 'eliminate' the trend.

The move is part of a wider clampdown on young people taking on what government officials call 'Western appearances' in Iraq.

Read the rest.

Sharia: Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for "emo" haircuts

Obama say, "respect it!"

And the left is fighting for this, the most radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth -- think about that. Every freak on the left would be stoned, whipped, slaughtered for their eccentricities and/or lifestyle choices. Is it any wonder that the ummah thinks so little of the West?

And for those who believe that "it's just a few fanatics," "those few fanatics" have taken over Iraq, Egypt, and Libya, with Tunisia, Thailand, Algeria, and Morocco in their sights.

Dozens of Iraqi teenagers stoned to death for ‘emo’ haircuts: activists

Friday, 09 March 2012

Iraqi activists said this picture belongs to a teenager who was brutally killed by religious police for having an “emo” hairstyle. (Courtesy of Al Tahreer News)

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By Al Arabiya

Iraqi activists sounded the bell over the killing of dozens of teenagers by religious police for having “emo” haircuts.

Activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar daily that at least 90 Iraqi teenagers with “emo” appearances have been stoned to death by the Moral Police in the country in the past month. The violent crackdown against “emo” Iraqi teenagers came after the Iraqi interior ministry declared them as “devil worshippers.”

“The ‘Emo phenomenon’ or devil worshiping is being probed by the Moral Police who have the approval to eliminate it as soon as possible since it’s detrimentally affecting the society and becoming a danger,” a statement by the Interior Ministry said.

“They wear strange, tight clothes that have pictures on them such as skulls and use stationery that are shaped as skulls. They also wear rings on their noses and tongues, and do other strange activities,” the statement added.

The statement said that Iraq’s Moral Police was granted approval by the Ministry of Education to enter Baghdad schools and pinpoint students with Western appearances.

The activists told the newspaper that a group of armed men dressed in civilian clothing led the teenagers to secluded areas a few days ago, stoned them to death, and then disposed their bodies in garbage dumpsters across the capital, Baghdad.

“First they throw concrete blocks at the boy’s arms, then at his legs, then the final blow is to his head, and if he is not dead by then, they start all over again,” one person who managed to escape told the daily.
The exact death toll remains unclear, but Hana al-Bayaty of Brussels Tribunal, an NGO dealing with Iraqi issues, said the current figure ranges “between 90 and 100.”

Activists said that leaflets were distributed in Baghdad warning teenagers from donning the “emo” style, and in some regions, teenage homosexuals were killed by battering their heads also by concrete blocks.

Iraqi Parliament Bans Travel to Israel

All that blood and treasure in Iraq to install a sharia constitution and stand by while the centuries-old Christian community and tiny Jewish community is annihilated under Islamic law, and now this.

There were seven Jews left in Baghdad, but the notoriously anti-semitic Wikileaks sealed their fate:

The seven remaining Jews in Baghdad have been named by WikiLeaks, leaving them in danger of persecution, according to the city's Anglican vicar.  Their lives are now in immediate danger, according to Canon Andrew White, and they’ve been advised to hide their religion. Canon White said Baghdad’s Anglican Church is trying to protect them, as they fear extremists might try to kill them if they’re identified.

Iraqi parliament to pass bill banning travel to Israel Jihad watch

The West keeps trying wish into existence modern, moderate, model Islamic states in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. It keeps not working as advertised. "Iraqi bill to ban travels to Israel," by Roi Kais for YNet News, January 30:

The Iraqi parliament is planning to pass a new bill banning Iraqis from traveling to Israel, Al Jazeera online reported Monday.

The bill was proposed following a number of incidents at the Bagdad airport. A local security officer working there said the passport had caught a number of Iraqi officials carrying passports with Israeli entry visas. The officer, speaking on a condition of anonymity, reported that the passports of some nine high-profile Iraqi politicians were clearly marked with Ben-Gurion Airport stamps as well.

According to the source, the politicians made their first trips to Israel after the Iraqi elections, held on January 2010, until around October that same year. The officer claimed that during questioning of the Iraqis, it was discovered that they were operating as envoys to Israel on behalf of Iraqi politicians.

In response to the report, Iraqi Parliament Member from the National Iraqi Alliance Mohammad Redha al-Khafaji declared that some 50 parliament members have already put their John Hancock [Irony -ed.] to a bill proposing to ban such trips to Israel. Khafaji emphasized that in the past, Iraqi senior officials had visited Israel secretly.

Meanwhile, a member of the parliament's judicial committee said these signatures do not necessarily mean that such a law should be passed.

Forbidding a citizen from traveling is against the Iraqis' right to freedom, as written in the constitution. However banning travel to Israel has nothing to do with politics, she told Al Jazeera, explaining that Iraq has never had any diplomatic or political relations with Israel, nor has it acknowledged the State of Israel.

One may argue it is against the constitution's guarantees of personal freedom, but the same constitution holds that no law may contradict Sharia. The spirit of the latter provision overrules the former.

Israel classifies Iraq, as well as most Arab countries, as an "enemy state." However, over the years senior Israeli officials have hinted on numerous occasions that despite having no official diplomatic relations with such countries, many times there are economical and security ties.

Obama Administration Nixes Ticker-Tape Parade for Iraq War Troops

Obama's contempt for the military is palpable. They say they are afraid a celebration "could spark violence overseas." How ridiculous. As if the jihadis weren't already trying to kill U.S. military personnel. Now the Obama Pentagon would have us believe that everything is fine and peaceful, but a ticker-tape parade for our troops will set the jihadis off? Please.

No troop parade imminent as Iraq war ends Associated Press (hat tip Gateway)

WASHINGTON — Americans probably won’t be seeing a huge ticker-tape parade anytime soon for troops returning from Iraq, and it’s not clear if veterans of the nine-year campaign will ever enjoy the grand, flag-waving, red-white-and-blue homecoming that the nation’s fighting men and women received after World War II and the Gulf War.

Officials in New York and Washington say they would be happy to help stage a big celebration, but Pentagon officials say they haven’t been asked to plan one.

Most welcome-homes have been smaller-scale: hugs from families at military posts across the country, a somber commemoration by President Obama at Fort Bragg, N.C.

With tens of thousands of U.S. troops still fighting a bloody war in Afghanistan, anything that looks like a big victory celebration could be seen as unseemly and premature, some say.

“It’s going to be a bit awkward to be celebrating too much, given how much there is going on and how much there will be going on in Afghanistan,” said Don Mrozek, a military history professor at Kansas State University.

Two New York City councilmen, Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, have called for a ticker-tape parade down the stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes. A similar celebration after the Gulf War was paid for with more than $5.2 million in private donations, a model the councilmen would like to follow.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said last week that he was open to the idea but added, “It’s a federal thing that we really don’t want to do without talking to Washington, and we’ll be doing that.”

A spokesman for the mayor declined to elaborate on the city’s reasons for consulting with Washington. Ignizio said he had been told by the mayor’s office that Pentagon officials were concerned that a celebration could spark violence overseas and were evaluating the risk....

“The sports celebrations that we’ve had in New York for the Yankees and the Mets were amazing,” Oddo said. “But these are the real heroes.”

Midnight Masses Canceled in Obama's "Stable, Self-Reliant" Iraq Because of Growing Security Concerns

The O-bumbler said: “Everything that American troops have done in Iraq—all the fighting, all the dying, the bleeding and the building and the training and the partnering—all of it has landed to this moment of success....Iraq’s not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people.”

Midnight Masses canceled in Iraq because of growing security concerns Catholic News Service (hat tip Gregory)

LONDON (CNS) -- Chaldean Catholic officials have canceled traditional Christmas Eve midnight Masses because of security risks.

Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk in northern Iraq told the agency Aid to the Church in Need that Christians will spend Christmas in "great fear" because of the risk of new attacks.

All services and Masses have been scheduled for daylight hours, he said in an interview with Rome-based AsiaNews.

"Midnight Christmas Mass has been canceled in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk as a consequence of the never-ending assassinations of Christians," he said, citing the Oct. 31, 2010, attack on the Syrian Catholic cathedral that left 57 people dead in the Iraqi capital.

Archbishop Sako also expressed concern over the growing conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims vying for political power. He said the conflict has led to growing instability, especially in the days since the pullout of U.S. military troops in mid-December.

Obama's Killing Fields: Dozens Dead As Jihad Bombs Rip Baghdad; Ex-Iraqi PM Accuses US of Leaving Job Unfinished

The criminally corrupt media ripped Bush to shreds when he successfully fought back the global jihad guerrilla network in Iraq. Obama turned and ran and declared victory. And Iraq is engulfed in chaos.

Another colossal Obama failure.

Spencer saw this coming: "What Now For Iraq? Jihad."

Dozens die as 14 bombs explode across Baghdad MSNBC hat tip Van

BAGHDAD — A wave of bombings ripped across Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing at least 63 people and injuring almost 200 in the worst violence Iraq has seen for months. The bloodbath comes just days after American forces left the country.

The blasts also came on the heels of a political crisis between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite factions that erupted this weekend.

The political spat has raised fears that Iraq's sectarian wounds will be reopened during a fragile time when Iraq is finally navigating its own political future without U.S. military support.

The string of explosions will ratchet up tensions at a time when many Iraqis are already worried about security. If continued, it could lead to the same type of tit-for-tat attacks that characterized the insurgency years ago.

Iraqi officials said at least 14 blasts went off early Thursday morning in 11 neighborhoods around the city. Most of the attacks appeared to hit Shiite areas.

"The timing of these crimes and the places where they were carried out confirm... the political nature of the targets," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said in a statement.

Citing police and security officials, Reuters said at least 63 people had been killed and a total of 194 people were wounded.

Ex-Iraqi PM accuses US of leaving job unfinished MSNBC hat tip Van

A leading Iraqi politician has accused the country's prime minister of acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence opposition, saying he risks provoking a new fightback against dictatorship.

Iyad Allawi -- a former prime minister who leads the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc -- also claimed the United States had pulled out its troops "without completing the job they should have finished."

Allawi said that the current premier, Nuri al-Maliki, had used fabricated confessions to demand the arrest of the country's Sunni Muslim vice president, Tareq al-Hashemi.

Al-Hashemi, who has taken refuge in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, denies allegations he ordered bombings and shootings against his opponents. The move against him, on the very day U.S. troops left the country, threatens to upset a balance among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions.

As troops leave Iraq, they cross the border into Kuwait for the final steps toward departure. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

Speaking to Reuters two days after the final departure of the U.S. forces that ended Saddam's Sunni-dominated rule, Allawi called for international efforts to prevent al-Maliki, who is a Shiite, from provoking renewed sectarian warfare of the kind that killed tens of thousands in the years after Saddam fell in 2003.

"This is terrifying, to bring fabricated confessions," Allawi said shortly before leaving the Jordanian capital Amman to return to Iraq. "It reminds me personally of what Saddam Hussein used to do where he would accuse his political opponents of being terrorists and conspirators."

"We fear the return of dictatorship by this authoritarian way of governing. It's the latest in a build-up of atrocities, arrests and intimidation that has been going on a wide scale," said Allawi, who comes from the Shiite Muslim majority but who has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis.

O-ministration "Blindsided" by Crisis in Iraq Since Withdrawal

Blindsided? WTF? Helen Keller could have seen this one coming. 4,500 Americans paid the ultimate price for this?

And what is our dear leader doing about it? Taking the dog to Petsmart and going out for pizza, while Meesh Antoinette took a separate plane(s) to Hawaii. On our taxpayer nickel, of course.

OT, but not really: O's lack of response to the NORKs' power change will have serious consequences for America down the road.

America has been seriously, if not fatally mismanaged by this faux President. Get the details in The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War On America.

Spencer foresaw all this also. See his article "What Now For Iraq? Jihad."

Baghdad: the most dangerous city in the world

In Iraq, a return to old enmities WaPo hat tip Van

PRESIDENT OBAMA struck a “mission accomplished” tone when he greeted Nouri al-Maliki at the White House last week, heaping praise on the Iraqi prime minister and declaring that he “leads Iraq’s most inclusive government yet.” It didn’t take long for those words to boomerang. No sooner had Mr. Maliki returned to Baghdad than he launched what looks like an attempted coup against the country’s top Sunni leaders. Though the outcome is still in doubt, Iraq’s fragile political order appears in danger of crumbling just days after the departure of U.S. troops.

Mr. Maliki’s strike took the form of criminal charges against Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni known for his attempts to find accord with Shiite leaders. Three security guards arrested last week were paraded on state television Monday, where they confessed to acts of terrorism and alleged that Mr. Hashimi had directed them. Mr. Maliki, meanwhile, asked parliament for a no-confidence vote against Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq, another Sunni. Sunni members of parliament and cabinet ministers responded by suspending their work — threatening a governmental collapse.

We haven’t seen enough to judge the charges against Mr. Hashemi, and few Sunni or Shiite leaders are free of any link to the violence that has wracked Iraq since 2003. But both the timing and the televised form of Mr. Maliki’s charges against the vice president were blatantly political. They followed what has been a mounting campaign by the prime minister, a Shiite with close ties to Iran, against perceived Sunni enemies. Hundreds of former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party have been arrested in recent weeks. Security forces controlled by Mr. Maliki have surrounded the compounds of Sunni leaders in Baghdad.

The Obama administration appears blindsided by the crisis. It shouldn’t be so surprised.

No kidding.

It risked just such a breakdown when it disregarded the recommendation of its military commanders that some U.S. forces remain in Iraq to help guarantee against a return to sectarian conflict. Sunni and Kurdish leaders also urged U.S. officials to broker a deal for a stay-on force with Mr. Maliki; now they say their worst fears may be coming to pass. “The Americans pulled out without completing the job they should have finished,” Iyad Allawi, the leader of the secular political bloc supported by most Sunnis, told the Reuters news agency Tuesday.

 

Muslims Rampage in Iraqi Kurdish city after Friday Prayers

Hey, it's what they do. The violence and mayhem always follow Friday prayer.

Crowds rampage in Iraqi Kurdish city after sermons

Rioters attacked liquor stores, a massage parlor and hotels after being stirred up by fiery sermons in a predominantly Kurdish city in north Iraq, police officials said today.

Pro-government crowds then attacked Islamist party offices in retaliation, they said.
Thirty people including 20 policemen were reported injured in the rampage, which followed Friday midday prayers in the town of Zakho, some 300 miles northwest of Baghdad. Zakho lies within the territory controlled by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government.

Some 30 liquor stores, four hotels, and a massage parlor in and around the city near the Turkish border were ransacked, set on fire or otherwise damaged, they said.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak to the media.

UPDATE: Over at Jihad Watch Robert has been posting information on these Muslim mob riots from an eyewitness on the scene, including photos and video:

More photos: Muslim mob destroys Christian-owned businesses after Friday prayers Jihad Watch

Here are more photos of the expression of Islamic piety in Iraqi Kurdistan Friday. After Friday prayers, Muslim mobs promptly misunderstood Islam: they left mosques and ransacked Christian-owned liquor stores and other businesses. I am sure the mainstream media reports will be along presently to tell us that this has nothing to do with Islam.

Of course -- in case anyone doesn't realize -- to say that this mob of savages misunderstood Islam is sarcasm. The mob didn't misunderstand Islam at all. Clearly they were acting upon what they heard in the khutba, the Friday sermon. They stormed out of the mosque and took vengeance against Christians they regarded as "spreading corruption in the land" (cf. Qur'an 5:33).

These photos were sent to me by the same Iraqi reader who has been sending us regular reports (earlier coverage, including more photos and video, here, here, and here). These photos come courtesy Ankawa.com here and here.

Iraq: Muslim mob shouting "Allahu akbar" attacks, ransacks, burns Christian-owned shops and hotels

I just received this email from a reader in Iraq:

Subject: Muslims attacked our liquor shops, salons, hotels

Message: Hello, I'm an Assyrian in Iraq. Today after Friday prayers, Muslim Kurds in Zakho (near Dohuk) attacked and besieged liquor shops, salons, hotels, massages that are owned by Christians. The security didn't do anything and the rampage has continued til now! You won't see this news in the media.

Indeed not. But you will see it at Jihad Watch.

UPDATE 1:23PM PST: I just received this new message from the same man on the scene in Iraq:

Thank you so much for putting the news out there, Robert.

The attacks haven't stopped, and I just go the word that they are ATTACKING a Catholic Diocesan office.

The security is standing still and watching as I am writing this to you.

Christian homes are being fired upon as well.

And I just learned that they're starting to attack small villages on the outskirts of the town as well. This could be a major news as it unfolds.

It seems to me that it already is.

Robert has more photos here.

Under Islamic Law, Muslims Commit Christian Genocide in Iraq

Muslim rule is unhealthy for Christians and other living things. Where is the sloganeering and propaganda art on Islamic domination, genocide and gender apartheid?

IRAQ 2010 a terrible year for Iraq’s Christians (thanks to Marty)

Baghdad (AsiaNews) - The year 2010 was the worst year to date for the Christian community in Iraq, it has been revealed by the organization for human rights in Iraq, Hammurabi. Many Christians were forced to leave the country in fear of killings and violence of all kinds. The death toll among Christians over the past seven years, according to Hammurabi exceeds 822 people. 629 of them were murdered for being part of the Christian minority. Others were involved in 126 attacks of various kinds and many others have been victims of military operations undertaken by U.S. and Iraqi forces. 13% of victims are women. Among the Christian victims of 2010 there are 33 children, 25 elderly and 14 religious. In 2010 Hammurabi recorded 92 cases of Christians killed and 47 wounded, 68 in Baghdad, 23 in Mosul and one in Erbil.

Fallen Heroes Identified, RIP

The death count of our soldiers continues to rise in unprecedented numbers in the 21st century. To what end? What's the strategy? Where is the queen of the pig people, Cindy Sheehan?

Here are today's latest fallen warriors:

SGT Glenn M. Sewell, 23, of Live Oak, TX, died June 13 in Wasit province, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.  He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, TX.

SSG Nicholas P. Bellard, 26, of El Paso, TX, died June 13 in Wasit province, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.  He was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, TX.

UPDATE: And yet another:

SSG Jeremy A. Katzenberger, 26, of Weatherby Lake, MO, died June 14 in Paktika province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire.  He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, GA.

This month.

6-13-2011

US

Sewell, Glenn M.

Sergeant

23

Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Wasit

Wasit

U.S. Army

Texas

Live Oak

6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division

Fort Hood, TX

6-13-2011

US

Bellard, Nicholas P.

Staff Sergeant

26

Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Wasit

Wasit

U.S. Army

Texas

El Paso

6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division

Fort Hood, TX

6-08-2011

US

England, Matthew J.

Private 1st Class

22

Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Najaf

Najaf

U.S. Army

Missouri

Gainesville

3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment

Fort Hood, TX

6-06-2011

US

Campo Jr., Emilio J.

Specialist

20

Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket fire

Baghdad

Baghdad (southeastern part)

U.S. Army

Minnesota

Madelia

1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Fort Riley, KS

6-06-2011

US

Fishbeck, Christopher B.

Specialist

24

Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket fire

Baghdad

Baghdad (southeastern part)

U.S. Army

California

Victorville

1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Fort Riley, KS

6-06-2011

US

Hartwick, Robert P.

Specialist

20

Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket fire

Baghdad

Baghdad (southeastern part)

U.S. Army

Ohio

Rockbridge

1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Fort Riley, KS

6-06-2011

US

Olivieri, Michael C.

Private 1st Class

26

Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket fire

Baghdad

Baghdad (southeastern part)

U.S. Army

Illinois

Chicago

1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Fort Riley, KS

6-06-2011

US

Cook Jr., Michael B.

Specialist

27

Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket fire

Baghdad

Baghdad (southeastern part)

U.S. Army

Ohio

Middletown

1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Divi

 

To date:

Coalition Military Fatalities By Year

Year	US	UK	Other	Total
2001	12	0	0	12
2002	49	3	18	70
2003	48	0	10	58
2004	52	1	7	60
2005	99	1	31	131
2006	98	39	54	191
2007	117	42	73	232
2008	155	51	89	295
2009	317	108	96	521
2010	499	103	109	711
2011	173	23	47	243
Total	1619	371	534	2524

Iraq: Muslims Bomb Baghdad Church on Easter Sunday

Following up on the Muslim attack on Our Lady of Salvation cathedral in central Baghdad last October, in which 52 people died. Read more: Islamic Genocide of Christians in Iraq: "religiously motivated" ...

How much longer are good and decent and fine people going to take this?

7 wounded in bombing outside Baghdad church MSNBC hat tip Zilla

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi police official says seven people have been wounded by a roadside bomb outside the entrance of a Baghdad church.

The official says the blast took place Sunday just yards (meters) from the Sacred Heart Church in Baghdad's Karradah neighborhood. Shrapnel from the bomb struck the outside of the building.

Four policemen and three civilian bystanders were wounded.

Iraqi security forces are on high alert for any violence targeting Iraq's beleaguered Christian community this Easter. Iraqi Christians have faced a recent wave of violence, including an attack last year against a Baghdad church that killed 68 people.

The officer declined to be identified because he was not authorized to brief the media.

Islamic Genocide of Christians in Iraq: "religiously motivated people who engaged their victims in theological conversations about Islam"

This Assyrian Catholic church was taken over by jihadis, and during the course of the several hours during which they controlled the church, the insurgents killed many of the worshippers, until the Iraqi army forces finally stormed the building.

I have been viewing reports from survivors of the massacre, posted on YouTube (here, here and here).  From these, and earlier published reports (e.g. here), a picture emerges of the jihadis as religiously motivated people who engaged their victims in theological conversations about Islam, and justified their actions based on the Islamic sharia. (Mark Durie) 

Amir wrote me,
Pamela, Take a look at what the Muslims doing to the Christian in Iraq everyday. Over 80 people were beheaded in a single day during a Sunday mass. The youngest one were a 4 months old baby that was beheaded front of her parents and throw the head at her mom. Can you please please please help us? We need a strong voice like yours. God bless.

 

 

The reason why someone like Daisy Khan can make the outrageous statement that "the era of extremism is over" is because ethnic cleansing, mass slaughter, Islamic supremacism and genocide is not extreme, but Islamic purity. Islamic scholar Mark Durie reports further on the mass slaughter of Christians praying in St. Mary's church by Muslims in Baghdad.

The Religious Character of the Massacre at Our Lady of Salvation Cathedral in Baghdad Mark Durie

The massacre of Christians at Our Lady of Salvation Cathedral in Baghdad on October 31 2010 gained extensive world-wide media attention.  This Assyrian Catholic church was taken over by jihadis, and during the course of the several hours during which they controlled the church, the insurgents killed many of the worshippers, until the Iraqi army forces finally stormed the building.

I have been viewing reports from survivors of the massacre, posted on YouTube (here, here and here).  From these, and earlier published reports (e.g. here), a picture emerges of the jihadis as religiously motivated people who engaged their victims in theological conversations about Islam, and justified their actions based on the Islamic sharia.

It is good to note well the testimony of these survivors, because there is a view, widespread among the secular professional terrorism analysts of Western nations, that contemporary terrorism is not essentially religious in nature, but is a political movement which exploits the religion of Islam to serve what are in reality political goals.

One of the dangers of this rhetoric is that it causes the Western media to overlook or 'filter out' incidents of terrorists attacking indigenous Christians (and other religious minorities), because these attacks cannot be accommodated in the category of 'political violence'.

However there was no political advantage to be gained by killing unarmed Christian worshippers in Baghdad.  It was a purely religious act.  Thus, according to the survivors, their attackers:

1. Cried out Allahu Akbar 'Allah is greater' each time they shot Christians.
2. Called the Christians kafir 'infidel'.
3. Witnessed to the Christians that Allah is one.
4. Said it was halal (religiously permitted in Islam) to kill them, because they were Christians.
5. Rebuked their victims for 'worshipping' the cross and Christ and told them not to do so, e.g. they said, 'Don't worship the cross'.
6. Selectively targeted young men for killing: one of the attackers said 'Don't leave a young man alive.'  This is in accordance with the laws of jihad, which stipulate that male captives can be killed. Authentic hadiths (traditions) of Muhammad report that when he eliminated the  Jews from Medina, he had the men executed.  (A Jewish boy called Atiyyah later reported that when an examination revealed he had not yet begun to grow pubic hair, he was allowed to live).
7. Declared that they themselves would go to paradise but their Christian victims would go to hell.  They seemed to presume that they would be killed as an outcome of the seizure.
8. Refused to put a wounded victim out of her misery, by ending her life, although she was begging for this, on the grounds that it was fitting for her to suffer in this life because she was on her way to hell anyway.
9. Deliberately targeted Christian symbols for destruction, e.g. destroying crosses and a statue of Christ. (It was a tradition reported by Waqidi that Muhammad would destroy anything he saw which had a cross on it: W. Muir, The life of Muhammad. Volume 3, p.61, note 47.)

Doorbell Death for Iraqi Christians in New Genocide Attacks

No comment as yet from Moebamma on the Islamic genocide of Christians (and Jews and Hindus and non-Muslims and .....)

Doorbell Death for Iraqi Christians in New Genocide Attacks Zilla blog Iraqi Christians were not safe at Church, they were slaughtered during Holy Mass on October 31, they could not openly celebrate Christmas, and they are not even safe in their homes. via The Daily Caller:

The latest bloody attack on Iraq’s Christians was brutal in its simplicity. Militants left a bomb on the doorstep of the home of an elderly Christian couple and rang the doorbell.
When Fawzi Rahim, 76, and his 78-year-old wife Janet Mekha answered the doorbell Thursday night, the bomb exploded, killing them, Mekha’s brother told The Associated Press on Friday. Three other people, apparently passers-by, were wounded.
“When I went there, I found both of them cut to pieces near the gate of their house,” said the brother, Falah al-Tabbakh, 47, who had been at a funeral nearby in the eastern Baghdad district of Ghadir. He rushed to his sister’s house after neighbors called him, and they told him what happened, he said.
The bombing was among a string of seemingly coordinated attacks Thursday evening that targeted at least seven Christian homes in various parts of Baghdad that wounded at least 13 other people, a week after al-Qaida-linked militants renewed their threats to attack Iraq’s Christians.

read the rest here

"The grave human tragedy of the Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, has worsened dramatically"

All that American blood and treasure in Iraq .... for the sharia. Breathtaking. Note this as well: Women's rights steadily eroding in Iraq as Islamic supremacists gain power

Dire reportage from the singular and exceptional human rights champion, David Littman.

"The grave human tragedy of the Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, has worsened dramatically" Jihadwatch

A letter from David G. Littman, representative to the UN-Geneva for the World Union for Progressive Judaism, to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay:

WORLD UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM

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THE MARTYRED CHRISTIANS OF IRAQ
RENEWED APPEAL (2008, 2009, 2010)... for the New Year 2011

To the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay
31 December 2010
Your Excellency,

Having suffered a serious brain haemorrhage on 27 November - and now being treated for acute leukaemia - it seems highly unlikely that I shall be allowed by my doctors to return to the Palais des Nations - without a mask, if at all - to defend universal human rights as I have endeavoured to do for the past 25 years. Hopefully, I shall remain in shape to prepare an 'Appeal' now and again - and perhaps more, if providence should allow.

Our 1st intervention on 3 February 1986 was a written Appeal - on behalf of the WUPJ - to the Chairman of the CHR's 42nd session, condemning the nomination of ex-Nazi Byelorussian, Dr. Hermann Klenner, as one of three vice-chairmen. Our 1st oral statement (12 February) condemned the ongoing Orwellian UN General Assembly Resolution 3377, voted on 10 November 1975 (37 years after the evil 1938 Kristallnacht), equating Zionism with Racism. Our 2rd oral statement (3 March) dealt with the question of "fanatical fundamentalists preaching jihad actions of international terrorism against their sworn enemies: either Muslims, referred to as 'heretics'; or non-Muslims, referred to as 'infidels'." Our 3rd oral statement (7 March), inter alia, dealt with the situation of dhimmis (Jews and Christians in Arab-Muslim lands), providing full details on this historical phenomenon, which slowly emptied 'Arab lands' of their ancient Jewish populations - from time immemorial - numbering over 900,000 in 1948 - under 20,000 by 1986; today they are less than 5,000 (barely ½ of 1%).

Madam High Commissioner, we are providing these 'details' (*), in order to stress that for 25 years we have reminded the CHR (and since 2006 the HRC), to no avail, of that commonplace saying: "after Saturday comes Sunday": i.e. after the dhimmi Jews will have been expelled from Arab lands, it will be the time of the dhimmi Christians. Alas, the 'international community' has shown no interest in "Jewish refugees" from Arab-Muslim lands (representing about ½ of Israel's Jewish population of 5.5 million) - only in "Arab-Palestinian refugees" from UN mandated Palestine, whose tragic plight resulted from the Arab League's 1947 "no!" to international legality and its military attack to destroy Israel. This refusal then to recognise a Jewish State continues today.

The grave human tragedy of the Christians in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, has worsened dramatically since our joint 2008 and 2009 Christmas Day Appeals to you, UNSRs, and at UN bodies. We are enclosing again our last year's joint Appeal and a recent article by a Qatari liberal, Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: "The Perpetrators of the Massacre at the Baghdad Church are 'the Children of the Culture of Hate." [Al-Jarida-Kuwait, 15 Nov. 2010, tr. by MEMRI, Special Dispatch 3473, 27 Dec. 2010].

This 'writing on the wall' has been evident for decades to all with eyes to see and ears to hear. On the eve of the New Year, we call on you as HCHR, on concerned SRs, and UN bodies to strongly condemn this atrocious martyrdom of a religious-ethnic community, dating from the birth of Christianity in the Middle East. There are less than 10 Jews in Iraq from over 140,000 in 1948. If the UN does not act decisively, the 1¼ million or so Iraqi Christians a decade ago (now under ¼ million) will be reduced to mere thousands or hundreds and all their possessions confiscated, as happened to the dhimmi Jews. The plight of Egypt's Copts for decades is another neglected tragedy, totally ignored by the OIC, itself. The HRC is following the CHR - and the UN is suffering irreparable damage to its reputation in all fields: "for yielding pacifies great offences." NOW is the "time to speak" - and not "a time to keep silence."

Respectfully,
David G. Littman - Representative to the UNO-Geneva (Case Postale 205, 1196 Gland - Suisse)
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* WUPJ, Human Rights and Human Wrongs, No 1 (1986), pp.1-17 (UN Public Library, NY/Geneva). For historical documentation, see Paul B. Fenton & David G. Littman, L'Exile au Maghreb: La condition juive sous l'Islam : 1148 - 1912 (800 p.), Paris-Sorbonne, Nov. 2010
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cc. Ms. Asma Jahangir, SR : Freedom of Religion & belief ; Mr. Githu Muigai, SR: Racism...; Mr James Anava, SR: HR and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples; Ms. Gay J. Mc Dougall, Independent Expert on minority issues; Pr. Walter Kälin, Rep. of S-G- HR of IDP.

Stop Muslim Persecution and Wholesale Slaughter of Christians in Iraq

On October 21, Muslims seized a church in Iraq, and kidnapped and slaughtered scores of righteous souls. We are witnessing the same annihilation of Coptic Christians in Egypt by Muslims as well.

Amir wrote me,
Pamela, Take a look at what the Muslims doing to the Christian in Iraq everyday. Over 80 people were beheaded in a single day during a Sunday mass. The youngest one were a 4 months old baby that was beheaded front of her parents and throw the head at her mom. Can you please please please help us? We need a strong voice like yours. God bless.

 

 

 

I urge Canadian Atlas readers to march against Islamic supremacism and murder of non-Muslims. Stand up and fight back.

Christians to hold peaceful demonstration in Toronto against persecution of Christians in Iraq

Please join this peaceful Christian demonstration in Downtown Toronto on this Saturday.

November 6th, 2010 at 1:00pm

Where: meeting place….. - Corner of Yonge & Front

Directions: From Yonge |Street and Front TO  House of Parliament-City Hall

Canada Condemns Attack in Baghdad Church(No. 349 - November 1, 2010 - 4:15 p.m. ET)

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement condemning the October 31 terrorist attack in Baghdad:“Canada condemns Sunday’s terrorist attack on worshippers at Baghdad’s Church of Our Lady of Salvation. On behalf of all Canadians, I offer my deepest sympathy to the families and friends of those killed, and wish a full and rapid recovery to the injured.

“We condemn in the strongest terms those who would conduct such a cowardly, vicious and senseless attack on innocent civilians in a place of worship”