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Joseph's church in western Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry official. Two bombs placed inside the church exploded at about 10 p.m. No one was in the church at the time of the attack.
Sunday afternoon, three bombs exploded outside churches, wounding eight civilians, the official said. The bombs detonated within a 15-minute span, between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. Two of the churches are in central Baghdad's al-Karrada district, and the third is in al-Ghadeer in eastern Baghdad.
Many of the country's 1 million Christians have fled the country after targeted attacks by 'extremists'.
Gee, I wonder what religion the extremists practice. Could it be 'the religion of peace'?
Many of the country's 1 million Christians have fled the country after targeted attacks by 'extremists'.
Gee, I wonder what religion the extremists practice. Could it be 'the religion of peace'?
You opened up a can of worms and not one reply in the first 6 concerned the "religion of peace" as Muslims like to call it. Only that they destroy their own mosques so why not expect them to do the same to Christian churches.
Sometimes I like to get into threads like this one but think you can handle them yourself without my chiming in.
I feel outrage whenever there's religious intolerance.
Right! Tell that to the Sunni Muslim Kurds.
I stand corrected.
I could have been more clear, under Saddam there was a secular government and tolerance of the Christers.
Since the US occupation, extremism is on the rise.
Relations between Christians and Muslims in Saddam’s Iraq were relatively peaceful. Although a Muslim, Saddam ruled Iraq as a secular state, and was more concerned with cementing his own wealth and power than promoting an Islamic way of life. However the rise of Islamism since his overthrow has seen many Muslims turn against their Christian neighbours. On one level the violence meted out to innocent Iraqi Christians stems from the perception of the current war being the product of the 'Christian' West. You find many examples of Iraqi Christians who have been called 'Crusaders' and threatened on that basis. Yet the full extent of anti-Christian feeling stretches back long before the current war, to the position of Christians in classical Islamic thought.
Muslims have always recognised the Christian religion - indeed Jesus is mentioned in the Qu'ran as one of the prophets that preceded Muhammad - and in classical Islam Christians received state protection.
It doesn't help that Bush said it was a holy war and that god told him to attack Iraq; or that some wacked soldiers are trying to convert Iraqis; or that some of our military leaders have called this a crusade.
Many of the country's 1 million Christians have fled the country after targeted attacks by 'extremists'.
Gee, I wonder what religion the extremists practice. Could it be 'the religion of peace'?
You had to know the minute we left the city that the bombing would start. What a f'd up situation we have created. Where's Saddam when we need him
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