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The systematic annihilation & expulsion of the Iraqi Christians

* Just a month ago it didn’t look too bad. There was some hope, as we could see here:

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Iraq gets its first Christian militia – with a little help from the peshmerga

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

*  In the fifties and sixties they did the same thing with the Jews.

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*  Now, Islam shows itself again in all its ugliness:

Islamic fundamentalists: “expel Christians from Mosul”

Asia News IT

Yesterday, a 38-year-old Chaldean was shot to death, but there could be a total of three victims. Men are driving around the city shouting slogans against the Christians, threatening more slaughter and violence. From the U.S. command, confirmation that Mosul has become the last stronghold of the al Qaeda militants.

* Mosul, martyrdom of Iraqi Christians continues

* Sharia fever hits Sudan: outrage after police in the capital, Juba, arrested more than 30 women for wearing tight trousers or short skirts. Women pulled from Church by Muslim moral police, beaten & arrested over clothing…

 
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Bethlehem: Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out

‘Muslims persecuting Bethlehem’s Christians’

Catholic Christians hold Paschal candles in the Church of the Nativity at a mass for the opening of the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday late March 22, 2008 in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Christians of the western church are making their preparations for tomorrow's Easter celebrations when they mark the resurrection of Jesus. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.

Store owner in West Bank city says ‘We are harassed, but you wouldn’t know the truth. No one says anything publicly about the Muslims’

* This has been going on for a long time…

by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a “sharp demographic shift” in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city’s total population today.

* Link :Pope in Paris, draws huge crowd, MSM ignores it…

It is estimated that, for the past seven years, more than one thousand Christians have been emigrating from the Bethlehem area annually and that only 10,000 to 13,000 Christians remain in the city. International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims.

* Not something that would interest BLiars sister in law, who is currently doing some shopping in Gaza, which, according to her, is worse than Darfur, no: worse than a concentration camp…

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Lauren Booth shopping in a well stocked Gaza grocery store.
(Lauren Booth was left befind in Gaza on her “Free Palestine” mission.)

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Indonesian Interfaith Derailment Watch

Indonesian priest kidnapped, severely beaten

Asia News IT

by Mathias Hariyadi


Fr Susetyo was taken from his home and beaten by unknown assailants. He is known for his activity in interreligious dialogue, frowned on by radical Muslims. At the hospital, he has been visited by the younger brother of former president Wahid.

Jakarta (AsiaNews) – Last night, Fr Benny Susetyo, secretary of the interreligious commission of the Indonesian bishops’ conference, was kidnapped and severely beaten. At least three people forcibly removed him from his home in Bintaro, in southern Jakarta, took away his cell phone, and beat him.

He is now recovering at Pondok Indah hospital in Jakarta, where he has been visited by other human rights activists, like Solahudin Wahid, a promoter of interreligious dialogue and the younger brother of former president Abdurrahman Wahid.

The police of Kebayoran Lama say that “we have not conducted any investigation, as there has not been any crime reported to us”. It is the first time in a long time that a Catholic priest has been kidnapped and beaten.

Fr Susetyo is also an active member of the Alliance for Nation and Religious Freedom, a group disliked by radical Muslims for its position on the problem of the Ahmadiyya (an Islamic minority group often persecuted by other Muslims).

Fr Ismartono, who is also active in religious dialogue, did not want to release any comment. He nonetheless noted that “the incident took place suddenly and very quickly. Benny had just regained consciousness when he learned he was at Pondok Indah”.