[NYer]

There are now more Iraqi Chaldean Aramaic speakers in Detroit than in Baghdad.

Ping!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This sounds like an insightful book but it also sounds like it pussy-foots around the reason why these religions are going extinct. It isn’t the West’s refusal to respect traditions that Westerners view as “bizarre” that is causing these minority religions to die out. Its the fact that Islamic society systematically persecutes and attempts to destroy them over time. And occasionally there is a violent outburst from Islamic terrorists that flat out mass murders these peoples.