Posted on 10/14/2006 7:15:24 PM PDT by Doctor13
More stories can be read at Assyrian International News Agency
Islamic Group Beheads Assyrian Priest, Crucifies 14 Year Old Boy in North Iraq
photo of murdered Assyrian priest
Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul Alexander), was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was posted at either $250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that signs be posted once again on his church apologizing for the Pope's remarks as a condition for negotiations to begin.
Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday.
An email from a priest in Sweden, Adris Hanna, describes the Muslim terror campaign against the Christians in Iraq:
The Syriac-Orhtodox priest Paulos Iskandar was kidnapped this Monday, October 9, and beheaded today Wednesday October 11.
The Bishop in Mosul wrote me an email tonight and told me that the funeral will be held in Mosul tomorrow.
Christians are living a terrified life in Mosul and Baghdad. Several priests have been kidnapped, girls are being raped and murdered and a couple of days ago a fourteen year old boy was crucified in the Christian neighborhood Albasra.
I have also spoken to a group of nuns that were robbed and treated brutally on their way between Baghdad to Amman in Jordan.
The murder of father Paulus is the final blow for Christians, and now only hell is expected for the Christians of Iraq.
We the oriental Christians in Sweden and the rest of the Western world must protest against the genocide. We must do what we can to stop the rape, threats, hatred, robberies, murders We must do something.
These latest murders continue an escalating pattern (1, 2, 3) of attacks against Iraq's Christians. On October fourth a bomb ripped through an Assyrian neighorhood, killing 9
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Prayers Up For The Troops.
They are blinded by hate.
Their hate of Bush trumps everything thing else.
You wrote: "The slimey, whore-mongering religion of peace. They will die in their own feces and be crapped upon by pigs. This is nothing but a cult of death. They serve a false, phony, plastic, dead, pitiful, impotent bogus god. May they all die horrific burning deaths."
Shankbear, don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel !
Of Course the DemoncRats have no problem with the killing of Christians.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Roger-That,,,We lost two local Marines within three days of each other, in Anbar,Who were good friends.
This makes me so sick I can hardly see.
This can't be true. Islam is a religion of peace. /sarc
What god would require them to do this? Not the ONE that I know. Their refusal to see the Truth is their own obituary.
Well, the only way they can be part of a religion that truly has peace as part of it (having God's peace in Christ) is that they will be transformed from Saul's to Paul's.
You are right that Saul/Paul was not a muslim, but he was a very energetic and enthusiastic persecutor of the church, and he had the full backing of the majority of the Sanhedrin. He watched over and served as a just witness (ie he officially approved of the stoning death) to the first Christian martyr, Stephen. He repeatedly went ot the religious jewish leaders for orders to allow him to continue his persecutions of Christians outside of Jerusalem. So in this aspect Saul has many similarities to the modern day islamofascists.
Unsaved is unsaved, they use force to try to convert, else if not, they kill you.
In the Koran, Allah requires them to convert or kill by the sword.
In the Bible, God wants us to spread the Gospel message and pray for those that they may be saved.
Why anyone would think that forced religious conversion would genuinely count for anything is not thinking right. We've had a lot of pseudo-Christians in the past try to force conversions and it winds up turning people against you (and unfortunately, in many cases, God's Word).
Thanks.
Prayers for the Christians and victims.
God have mercy on us all.
May Goid deal decisively and quickly with the demopnic moon god worshipping Jihadi's. May all record of their existence be removed from the earth ASAP.
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These are the people the Democrats want to play patty-cake with. God help us if they get elected.
Prayers for Fr. Alexander and all the victims of jihad -- and for all those fighting the jihadis.
Well they are in the death throes of a group of thugs that has been in power and now is out of power and they are trying to inflict the most gruesome hell they can in order to deter freedom. Won't happen.
I agree.
I understand.
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