Posted on 11/08/2007 10:51:57 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Michael Yon emails: "I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John's Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from 'Chosen' Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John's, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope. The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. 'Thank you, thank you,' the people were saying. One man said, 'Thank you for peace.' Another man, a Muslim, said 'All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.' The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers. (Videotape to follow.)"
Good news. Which means we won’t be seeing it on the LSM.
Beautiful!! :)
Next Nancy will be saying we’re trying to create a theocracy.
Cross? Or jumping-jack?
Do they also see Buddhists and Hindus as brothers?
Tolerance needs to extend to people with these other religious beliefs as well. Not just “people of the Book”.
Someone better keep the hara-kiri swords in DC locked up = we wouldn't want murtha, reid and peelosi to fall on their ...
oh, wait a minute
What a wonder this is!! God will be very pleased.
While I agree with you, that was a lousey post on an uplifting thread like this.
geeeze, take a chill pill
This is a giant paradigm shift moment...in the right direction.
Give 'em time to breathe
“Good news. Which means we won’t be seeing it on the LSM.”
Or in a Hollyweird movie. Unless it serves their “war on Christians” agenda.
Muslim/Islamic theology ain’t my “cup of tea”.
But if there’s a path for peaceable cooperation, it should be pursued
on a “trust, but verify” basis.
(Tip of the hat to “The Gipper”)
It has been my hope from the beginning that the majority of the Iraqis would end up realizing that the U.S. wanted to provide them with a peaceful stable nation, and it would be able to achieve that with them.
This is an amazing event. I am so glad you posted this. It is a realization in part of my most heartfelt desires for Iraq.
We can always compare the improbable or impossible excellent outcome to the pretty darn good actual outcome to make the actual look bad. That's a trick out of the Democrat playbook.
The sage, Thomas Sowell, says that we should always ask, "Compared to what?" (As in, "How's your wife?" "Compared to what?")
Compared to heaven on earth and the end to all war, Christians and Muslims cooperating to put a cross on top of a Church is pretty meager. Compared to Baghdad a couple of months ago or a couple of years ago, it should make us all offer loud and joyful thanks to God.
THEN we can work on an even better situation. But I refuse to die of thirst because the glass is half empty when I can live because it's half full.
It is so rare it is worth noting.
But don’t fall into illusions. Most of muslims don’t respect Christians.
Wow.
Bush’s fault.
AMEN to that, and Thank the Lord for prayers answered!! This is nothing short of amazing, and definitely Divine Intervention. I know I have been praying for signs like this.
I have reservations just like other folks do. Okay? There’s no harm in acknowledging goodness when it takes place.
Has it very occurred to you that we have over ten million Muslim adherents in the United States? If they are precisely what you folks claim they are, why hasn’t this nation been reduced to utter destruction?
I do not think it a good policy to allow immigration from the Middle-East at this time, but reality is a bitch isn’t it.
Probably months ago, an act like this would have been a sure death sentence for all involved.
The fact that these folks realize they can do this now, says more than anything the Pentagon could say.
It is a great day in Iraq. Thanks for the response.
Bump for the civilized!
Since there are no Buddhists and Hindus in Iraq I don’t care whether the average Iraqi “tolerates” them or not. It’s uplifting and beautiful to see that Christian and Muslim Iraqi neigbours erected together a cross in their common country. It’s about Peace in Iraq. India or Tibet don’t come into the equation, so your comment was more than moot.
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