Chin
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Where is the outrage? Oh yeah, they're Christians. Mah Bad!?! 
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
WASHINGTON -- A group of armed Muslims set fire to St. George's Assyrian Church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad last week, completing decimating what remained of a church already hit by a deadly fire-bombing in October 2004.
"The bombing of St. George's Church should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that a process of ethnic cleansing has begun," the Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick of Christian Solidarity International told NewsMax.
"Unfortunately, the United States has put very little pressure on the Iraqi government to establish, as guaranteed by provisions in the Iraqi constitution, an autonomous federal unit of self governance and security for these minorities," he added.
Wednesday's attack is only the latest in a series of measures by Islamic militants aimed at forcing Christians to leave Iraq.
"There are estimates that nearly 50 percent of the Christians of Iraq have been forced to flee into exile," Roderick said." It is lamentable that the international community and the U.S. have not treated this terrible human dilemma with an urgent response."
Peter BetBasoo of the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) has been following closely the plight of his fellow Assyrians in Iraq.
"Over the past 30 days, al-Qaida has moved into the Dora neighbood and started to collect the jizya [protection money]," he said. "They are telling the Assyrian families who remain in the area they must pay this protection money, or leave."
The jizya, sometimes referred to as a "head tax" or a "poll tax," was established by the Quran on non-Muslims as a means of enforcing their submission to Muslim rule. Those who refused to pay the jizya were to be killed.
The "Islamic State in Iraq," a Sunni insurgent governing council dominated by al-Qaida, recently appointed a local imam, Hatym al-Rizeq, as its "prince" for the al-Dora neighborhood. He began demanding that Christian Assyrians pay the protection tax last month.
According to AINA, al-Qaida elements moved into the Dora area recently from al-Anbar povince, where they were fleeing the U.S. security sweep.
The Dora neighborhood, some six miles southwest from central Baghdad, "seems to be abandoned by both Iraqi and Coalition" forces, AINA reported last month.
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
WASHINGTON -- A group of armed Muslims set fire to St. George's Assyrian Church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad last week, completing decimating what remained of a church already hit by a deadly fire-bombing in October 2004.
"The bombing of St. George's Church should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that a process of ethnic cleansing has begun," the Rev. Dr. Keith Roderick of Christian Solidarity International told NewsMax.
"Unfortunately, the United States has put very little pressure on the Iraqi government to establish, as guaranteed by provisions in the Iraqi constitution, an autonomous federal unit of self governance and security for these minorities," he added.
Wednesday's attack is only the latest in a series of measures by Islamic militants aimed at forcing Christians to leave Iraq.
"There are estimates that nearly 50 percent of the Christians of Iraq have been forced to flee into exile," Roderick said." It is lamentable that the international community and the U.S. have not treated this terrible human dilemma with an urgent response."
Peter BetBasoo of the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) has been following closely the plight of his fellow Assyrians in Iraq.
"Over the past 30 days, al-Qaida has moved into the Dora neighbood and started to collect the jizya [protection money]," he said. "They are telling the Assyrian families who remain in the area they must pay this protection money, or leave."
The jizya, sometimes referred to as a "head tax" or a "poll tax," was established by the Quran on non-Muslims as a means of enforcing their submission to Muslim rule. Those who refused to pay the jizya were to be killed.
The "Islamic State in Iraq," a Sunni insurgent governing council dominated by al-Qaida, recently appointed a local imam, Hatym al-Rizeq, as its "prince" for the al-Dora neighborhood. He began demanding that Christian Assyrians pay the protection tax last month.
According to AINA, al-Qaida elements moved into the Dora area recently from al-Anbar povince, where they were fleeing the U.S. security sweep.
The Dora neighborhood, some six miles southwest from central Baghdad, "seems to be abandoned by both Iraqi and Coalition" forces, AINA reported last month.
