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Wave of bomb blasts target Christians in Baghdad
CatholicHerald.co.uk ^ | Wednesday, 10 November 2010 | By Mark Greaves

Posted on 11/10/2010 4:29:47 AM PST by jacknhoo

A series of bomb blasts targeting Christians in Baghdad has killed at least three people and injured two dozen more, security sources have said.

At least 14 roadside bombs were detonated and a mortar round was fired in Christian districts across the Iraqi capital last night and early this morning.

An interior ministry source told Reuters that the attacks were a “continuation” of the massacre at Our Lady of Salvation church which killed dozens of worshippers last week.

According to one report, today’s bombings targeted the family of one of the victims of the massacre.

The Islamic State of Iraq – an al-Qaeda front group – claimed responsibility for the Baghdad church attack and warned in a message published on militant websites that more attacks would follow. “We will open upon them the doors of destruction and rivers of blood,” the statement said.

The latest bombings follow protests by Iraqi Christians in Sweden, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and America who urged the Iraqi government to do more to protect the country’s minorities.

About 300 protesters at the “Black March” in London called on Britain to remember its historic debt to Iraq’s Aramaic-speaing Assyrian Christians, who fought alongside Britain in two world wars.

Two Christians were also reported to have been murdered on Sunday.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholicsiniraq; iraq; iraqichristians; islam; islamonazism; muslim; muslimworld; religiousintolerance; warcrime; whywefight
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To: jacknhoo

Prayers for safety for these souls who just want to worship
God in peace.

I pray that the fake president causes no more harm with his
reckless and careless words in Muslim cultures.


21 posted on 11/10/2010 6:15:56 AM PST by luvie (Thank God)
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To: jacknhoo

“Pray for Christians throughout the middle east. Pray for our president turn his heart toward life and away from his ideology and culture of death.”

done


22 posted on 11/10/2010 6:17:41 AM PST by MichaelCorleone
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To: ProudFossil
The great Zero said we should understand this in the light of Islamic teachings.

(With his index finger pointed up) "The holy Quran tells us..."

23 posted on 11/10/2010 6:22:39 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: jacknhoo

Maybe just ONCE our fearless leader presidente globetrotter could speak out against the religious intolerance being exhibited against Christians he claims to know and love.


24 posted on 11/10/2010 6:25:29 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: puppypusher

The problem if the iraqi christians do fight back is that the west are too politically correct to back them over the muslims while the muslim countries have no problem backing these terrorists.
Look at Lebanon, the christian resistance against muslim and palestinian attacks was painted as some extremist movement and pretty much got no support from anyone with the exception of israel who helped train and equip them, while every muslim country supported the palestinians.


25 posted on 11/10/2010 6:25:51 AM PST by hannibaal
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To: jacknhoo

Michael Moore calls these scum freedom fighters. Hold his fat to the fire and make him issue a condemnation for the guys he supported (with naked treason) when he declared “they WILL win Mr. Bush”.


26 posted on 11/10/2010 6:27:39 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: jacknhoo

One need not look far Christians are less than second class citizens in all muslim states. It’s a holy wars, a cleansing, a genocide in many countries and has been going on for many years, WAKE UP OBANGI!


27 posted on 11/10/2010 6:29:39 AM PST by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: jacknhoo

*ANGRY -SPIT-


28 posted on 11/10/2010 6:33:04 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: nmh
He wants to dilute America’s wealth and technological edge to our enemies and put America in her place as an impotent power.

That's exactly what he wants to do, and he's achieving it with dazzling speed.

29 posted on 11/10/2010 6:36:54 AM PST by livius
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To: jacknhoo
Prayers of protection for my Christian Brothers and Sisters in that cesspool of jihadists.

Islam has always been at war with Christianity just as Satan has always been at war with the Lord.

30 posted on 11/10/2010 6:39:45 AM PST by 444Flyer ("The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."-S. Johnson)
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To: jacknhoo; All

If a country doesn’t have true “freedom of religion” to, without fear, assemble and worship (or not) in accordance with their personal conscience....then you don’t have a free society.

When we “liberated” Iraq we should NEVER have allowed any government to be set up that didn’t have this principle as a cornerstone.


31 posted on 11/10/2010 8:14:58 AM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Sola Veritas

We allowed the Iraqis to enshrine Islam in their constitution. Under their constitution, nothing is to be allowed in Iraq that “conflicts” with Islam.


32 posted on 11/10/2010 8:36:38 AM PST by livius
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To: Sola Veritas
When we “liberated” Iraq we should NEVER have allowed any government to be set up that didn’t have this principle as a cornerstone.

and therein lies the problem with 'nation building'...

our blood and treasure should be simply to 'liberate'...then let em rebuild how they see fit...if they rebuild more evil, well then eventually we simply destroy it again and re-liberate...

33 posted on 11/10/2010 8:39:04 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: jacknhoo

Prayers.


34 posted on 11/10/2010 6:10:12 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: jacknhoo; ex-Texan

Iraqi Christians continue being murdered by Iranian or Saudi-backed Islamic terrorists, while Obama was in Islamic Indonesia verbally blasting Israel, coupled with Hillary doing the same. Both of them are triggering severe judgments on America.


35 posted on 11/10/2010 10:19:13 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never "free")
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To: Allegra

Stay LOW Allegra.

They are after Christians In Action.


36 posted on 11/12/2010 5:56:09 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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