"Gunmen" assassinate Christian leader in Iraq

(MIDDLE EAST NEWS) via JIHAD WATCH.org ^ | Posted by Robert at July 12, 2009 2:36 PM | n/a

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "Hanna, a Christian, was driving with his daughter in Kirkuk when gunmen pulled him from the car and shot him dead, police there told the German Press Agency dpa.

His daughter witnessed her father's murder, which took place in the predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Dumiz, police added...."

[Islaminaction]

This does not matter to most people. Only catering to Muslims does.

[Faith]

May God protect this daughter and receive her father into His heavenly kingdom.

[Cindy]

In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray this in agreement.
Amen.

[MaxMax]

And so Iraq begins to close the circle. Who will be the next Saddam?

[kingpins10]

Further proof that Islam is the religion of peace. s/

[Eleutheria5]

So where’s the meat of the news article? I was hoping for some facts, and instead I get a blog comment. Blog comments are nice. I make them myself. But they are not in and of themselves a news story.

[Cindy]

If you read blogs like I do, then you’re used to clicking on links and following them:

Here, I did it for you (before my Sunday nap):

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1489206.php/Iraqi_Christian_official_assassinated_in_Kirkuk__Extra__

[pctech]

This is the reason why I cannot ever trust anyone who claims to be Muslim. Their religion is not one of peace and encourages bloodshed as opposed to love.

[ohioWfan]

Amen and AMEN, Faith!

And may God protect other believers in Iraq as well.

[etradervic]

A president who was a real leader would have railed against intolerance towards minority religions of Christianity and Judaism in the Middle East. This is really the true problem in the middle East - not Palestine, settlements, or anything else.

Obama's kiss butt diplomacy is a pathetic attempt to hide his incompetence under the guise of a conciliatory understanding (that is really a misunderstanding).

[Captain Kirk]

Obama's kiss butt diplomacy is a pathetic attempt to hide his incompetence under the guise of a conciliatory understanding (that is really a misunderstanding).

You're forgetting that the massive depopulation of Christians began under Bush because of his "kick butt" policy which led to the establishment of a pro-Iran, Shi'ite regime in Iraq and the overthrow Saddam's relatively tolerant (for Christians) secular regime. Obama is a scumbag but the cleansing of Christians from Iraq did not begin under his watch.

[cookcounty]

In addition to the attacks against churches in Baghdad today.

[etradervic]

If Bush had adhered to a “kick butt” policy in Iraq, there would not be a strong pro-Iranian faction in Iraq.

[SoCalTransplant]

Hey Islamo-facists, you might want to check your history. Trying to stop the Church of Jesus Christ by killing its followers is about as effective as dousing a fire with gasoline (See: Anicent Romans, Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, N. Korea, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and any other satellite Soviet state I missed. Also see Africa, where the church is thriving, partly due to Muslim prosecution). This is a tragedy, but from a purely historic standpoint this type of prosecution only serves to strengthen the church.

[Captain Kirk]

Unfortuantely, it isn’t strengthening the church in Iraq. It has been disappearing rapidly since 2002.

[Captain Kirk]

If Bush had adhered to a “kick butt” policy in Iraq, there would not be a strong pro-Iranian faction in Iraq.

That line of argument reminds me of the lefties who say that we could have won the War on Poverty if only we had spent more money.

My answer to them is the same as my answer to you. Surely, the fact that we did spend some money must have done some good. Instead, it made the situation much, much worse for iraqi Christians. BTW, the installation of a pro-Iran regime was almost inevitable given the overthrow of Saddam. Even Chalabi, the darling of the neocons, turned out to be a Iranian shill,.

[etradervic]

My original point is that Islamic intolerance is not a priority to Obama but should be. It also should have been a priority to Bush, but was not. If it had been, the plight of Iraqi Christians would have been an important consideration in Bush's "nation building."

Since you have used the "leftie" analogy, I will argue that the logic that claims that we can not speak of this intolerance because it will lead to an undesirable Islamic reaction is the same logic that prevented the left from supporting Reagan's "evil empire" approach to the now extinct USSR.

[ohioWfan]

It also should have been a priority to Bush, but was not. If it had been, the plight of Iraqi Christians would have been an important consideration in Bush's "nation building."

I'm not sure you have your facts straight there, etradervic. The violence against Christians was perpetrated in large part by alQaeda, and it was definitely the highest priority of President Bush and the Coalition forces to remove alQaeda.

If you can prove that the plight of Iraqi Christians was not included in the Petraeus policy to defeat the enemy and build a safe and free Iraq, I would like you to post a link to back it up, please.

Thanks.

[Rockitz]

The Holy Spirit-filled Christians of Iraq will be the only ones left to carry the gospel to the masses after the US led troops are gone and that scares the Islamists to no end.

God protect these Christians an embolden them to speak in truth and love to the Iraqis. Open the hearts of the Iraqi people to accept Jesus Christ as the Way and the Truth and the Life. Amen.

[Cindy]

“God protect these Christians an embolden them to speak in truth and love to the Iraqis.”

And Amen.

[SoCalTransplant]

Give it time....God’s mills grind slow, but they grind fine.

[kingpins10]

The Koran says not to trust “Jews or Christians”. And “anyone that is not to be converted, is to be killed.”

Nuff said !

[pctech]

There ya go, black and white. I don’t care what the bleeding hearts in this country say, you just can’t trust them, especially since their religion is satanic.

[demshateGod]

ROP is Bush’s term. It’s not just 0 who’s dhimmitized.

[ohioWfan]

What President Bush said about Islam was immediately after 9/11, to prevent full scale attacks on Muslims in this country and to make sure that everyone knew that our fight was against the killers and not all of Islam.

If you compare that in any way to Obama's groveling and lying about the history of Islam and his pro-Islam, anti-Christian stance, you are so far out of the realm of truth that you might as well be deliberately lying.

I don't think you mean to do that, so perhaps it would be best to clarify the vast difference between Bush and Obama rather than writing misleading posts like this.

[Captain Kirk]

Okay, what was the your alternative policy? Impose another Sunni secularist dictator in Iraq? If so, how would you have kept this guy “under control” and prevented a Shi’ite uprising? A permanent occupation by U.S. troops? If so, how would you have paid for the costs? Installing Chalabi as a Shi’ite dicatator? We already know that they guy had zero support....plus he was pro-Iran.

[Captain Kirk]

Give it time....God’s mills grind slow, but they grind fine.

Time? The Iraqi Christians don't have time. If the rate of decline continues as it has since 2003, the Christian population will completely disappear in six more years:

In Iraq, the number of Christians has been declining on a fast track basis in the wake of the 2003 invasion of the country by the US. Of the 1.4 million Christians living there in 2003, nearly half have fled. Apart from the consequence of the invasion, Iraqi Christians, especially those in Mosul, came under attacks unleashed by the Salafi militants as well as the Al-Qaeda.

[etradervic]

All you need to do is google Moqtada al-Sadr. He was the Iranian backed leader of a Shiite militia (more like an army) in Iran. He was allowed to travel back and forth to Iran since 2003 where he received his marching orders and continued to perpetrate terrorism, to support al qaeda, and to kill our soldiers in Iraq. It was his name that was shouted as they hung Saddam.

There is no way that Sadr and his organization should have been allowed to survive.

[ohioWfan]

Thanks for the lesson on al Sadr. My son earned his bronze star in East Baghdad, fighting the JAM and being attacked by Iranian supplied weapons.

I'm pretty aware of what's gone on and what's going on now........but thanks again for the lesson.

Doesn't change my point, nor the fundamental difference between Bush and Obama, which is profound.

Anyone who is informed already knows that.