Monday, December 13, 2010

More Iraqi Christians flee homes

I saw this article this morning and wanted to post it but I forgot. Thanks Faryouz for posting on facebook.

'It threatens to reduce further what Archdeacon Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East called “a community whose roots were in Iraq even before Christ.”

Those who fled the latest violence — many of them in a panicked rush, with only the possessions they could pack in cars — warned that the new violence presages the demise of the faith in Iraq. Several evoked the mass departure of Iraq’s Jews after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.

“It’s exactly what happened to the Jews,” said Nassir Sharhoom, 47, who fled last month to the Kurdish capital, Erbil, with his family from Dora, a once mixed neighborhood in Baghdad. “They want us all to go.” '

3 comments :

Anonymous said...

what about the MILLIONS of Iraqi sunnis who were forced from their homes?

or they dont count according to mojo

Iraqi Mojo said...

Iraqi Christians are still fleeing their homes because the Sunni Salafi 3arab jarab continue to attack Iraqi Christians.

Iraqi Mojo said...

Sunni extremists also continue to attack Shiites:

"Roadside bombs struck crowds of Iraqi pilgrims Tuesday as they prepared to mark the year's most solemn Shiite religious ceremony, killing three people and wounding at least 31, police said.

The two explosions went off in the late afternoon in Sunni Muslim areas in the Iraqi capital and to its north. Sunni insurgents in Iraq have frequently targeted Shiite shrines and pilgrims."