“Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future,” said Archbishop Amel Shimoun Nona in an interview by Corriere della Sera. “I lost my diocese. The physical setting of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who want us converted or dead. But my community is still alive.”The archbishop’s interview was reported by the blog Rorate Caeli.Nona, whose Eastern Rite church is under the authority of Pope Francis, now lives in Erbil, in Kurdistan, Iraq.The archbishop warned:Please, try to understand us. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims. Also you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost of contradicting your principles. You think all men are equal, but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their values. If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home.CNSNews.com observes the Chaldean Catholic Church can be traced back to Thomas the Apostle, one of Jesus’s original twelve apostles. The actual diocese of Mosul was established in 1967, with the main church being St. Paul’s Cathedral.As Breitbart News reported last month, over one million Christians have been killed or have had to flee Iraq because of persecution by radical Islamists.
Let's not seek solace in pop culture or Facebook or junior-high soccer tournaments or music festivals or NFL preseason games. Let's fully take in what this devotee of the Risen Christ is telling us about what is coming our way. And behave accordingly.
Isn't that what the terrorists want? Oh well, you just want us to give up preseason games, carry on. I pity anyone seeking solace in NFL preseason games but the tickets are relatively cheap.
ReplyDeleteSure it's a tragedy. Hey, they don't have to say stuff like that in Switzerland. Is that why some American corporations are hot to trot on over there. We never found the WMDs but we got Sadaam, stirrred up a huge hornet's nest and now you want us in a wider war. Hair of dog, I suppose.
ReplyDelete"It is also difficult to look upon post-Saddam Iraq as a democratic country when you consider the treatment of Iraq's Christians. This isn't to say that life for Iraq's Christians was peaches and cream under Saddam -- far from it. Yet life is not appreciably better for Iraqi Christians since Saddam was deposed nearly nine years ago. An estimated 200,000 Christians have fled Iraq due to anti-Christian violence by Islamic extremists and account for half of its refugees." Read more at http://spectator.org/articles/36703/should-saddam-have-stayed-power
“Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.”
ReplyDelete― Patrick J. Buchanan
Pat Buchanan comes to his foreign-policy views from a different starting point than Ron Paul & Lew Rockwell (paleocon vs. libertarian), but they arrive at the same full-of-shit destination.
ReplyDeleteMen who are not inclined to piss kerosene on fires. No WMDs were ever found. Bush said that made him sIck to his stomach every time he thought about that. Your ilk then crowed that we got Saddam. Now look where that got us and that Archbishop's million Christians. Talk about playing right into the terrorists' murderous hands!
ReplyDeleteIslam is too divided for jihad.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what kind of peace He was talking about, probably the peace that passeth all understanding, but the 1st words of the Risen Christ to his assembled apostles were Peace Be With You.
ReplyDeleteOn the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"
Read more at http://biblehub.com/john/20-21.htm
See my latest post - the one about James Foley.
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