Iraqi Churches Bombed on a Sunday, Again.
By bluegal Monday Jul 13, 2009 5:30pm
Global News Blog [Christian Science Monitor]:
It takes a certain amount of courage to attend a church in Iraq.
In the past 24 hours, bombs exploded outside of six churches in various Baghdad neighborhoods, killing at least four people, and wounding more than 30, according to a Reuters report from the Iraqi capital.
Sunday’s attacks were among the worst, in terms of the death toll. But many of these same churches have been bombed before. On Jan. 6, 2008 – also a Sunday – seven churches (four in Baghdad, three in Mosul) were hit in a similar round of bombings. Two years earlier, four churches (three in Baghdad, 1 in Kirkuk) were bombed – also on a Sunday in January.
The Assyrian (Christian) International News agency reports that 52 Assyrian churches have been bombed in Iraq between June 2004 and the end of 2008.
The latest attacks come in the wake of the US withdrawal of combat troops (on June 30) from most Iraqi cities.
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there will be a bloodbath of unprecedented magnitude. All the blood on Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld's hands.
the Cons will blame it all on Obama and the Dems because the withdrawal will happen on their shift.
not that they seemed to care all that much about the plight of Iraqi Christians during the Bush administration. I swear, I used to raise the situation of the Iraqi Christians when arguing online with wingnut supporters of the war in Iraq, and they would brush it aside as unavoidable collateral damage. And yet these are the same people who get all in a tizzy here in America if you tell them Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.
Quite. How many Churches were being bombed there before Bush and Cheney decided to go bumbling in there and steamroller the place?
It's so peaceful and serene.
And so are the members of the fan clubs.
Pick a religion. Any religion. Any religion at all.
Let me think.. umm Islam.... Islam... Islam... and ummm.. Islam.
is a theist!
Just wait. The real fireworks haven't even started yet.
This will get so ugly. It'll make the Sunni Uprising look like a picnic.
All because of religious beliefs. My God is better than your God.
This is why I don't like religion. Sunni against Shiites. Jewish against Muslim, Catholic against Protestant. And every other religion and tribe. Because religion is a tribal thing. I'm not against individual people of faith. That's there biz. But over and over I've seen when too many people of one religion or another get together, the hate starts. And hate is an easy thing to foster. Especially in a Church. The Southern Baptists have a really good track record.
Thanks but I'll pass.
But I do know that some people of faith are genuinely very nice people. And they do help other people in need. But, there's not enough of them.
Now, in this article the Sunni's and/or Shiites are now attacking Christians in Iraq.
Great, that's all we need. Now the Bible thumpers will want to go in and protect them. It almost sounds like it was designed that way.
until all religions are done away with. Simple as that.
The wars and the violence in the Middle East will go on forever.
It's all so very depressing.
Well,
The Harlot did step on two shores and spill a bowl, letting loose that Lion of Islam where the Tigris and Euphrates meet.
NO?
Yes because atheists NEVER committed atrocities against people under Mao and Stalin...
is like calling "bald a hair color"
People kill People... that's a fact, plain and simple.
Now... why people kill people, that's what needs to be understood.?
It's not like atheists band togther and hit the streets looking for Christians to kill. We prefer to avoid them, at least the crazy ones.
I'm all for people having religious beliefs, if they want to, but not organzied religion on a Crusade.
Bush did say it was a Crusade, as in, I'm sending Christians to kill you (true or not, he said it.) That made churches fair targets. His mistake; one of thousands.
...and the Petraeus Report part 1 & 2 of 2.
1 → [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osJaH1Ow3fA ]
2 → [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbzLog3_EWs&NR=1 ]
It held off the inevitable total catastrophic meltdown just long enough to hand the ticking time bomb onto the next guy.
Mission accomplished!
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Why can't people understand...
... When you go out proclaiming that you are a "Christian Nation" ---
And when you conduct "Crusades" against Muslim Nations ---
And use "TORTURE" as your means to coerce the correct answer from your captive; You make it difficult for other "Christians" to practice their Faith without being subjected to retribution for what other people of your Faith did to that common enemy of the State/Church.
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let bush, cheney, rummey, the whole pnac gang and every fucking wingnut move to iraq and attempt to keep the warring factions away from each other's throats...just bring our men and women home
i dont care if the whole mideast blows up...we dont belong there
It would probably be blowing up a lot less, or even not at all, were it not for American (and British) involvement in the first place.
You can't toss a grenade into a full theatre and say, "It wasn't my fault shit happened."
Let us also not forget that our US military is now distributing bibles (in Arabic) in Iraq and Afghanistan in an ongoing effort to convert a few souls to the jesus team. I wish for a day when the credulous an uneducated no longer control the majority of our populous.
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