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2011-04-07 Iraq

Iraqi Christians demand autonomous region, Yazidi minority objects

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Posted by 2011-04-07 00:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Not just in Iraq, but around the world, Christian minority communities should seek laws permitting foreign Christians to assist them with "specifically non-religious development aid", so that they "will not be an economic burden" to their home country.

While indeed there would be some of this, what would not be said is that part of this aid will be in improving security for the Christian areas, to make it much harder for Muslims to persecute them.

Send in a platoon of MacGuyver types with some very ordinary looking construction supplies, like anti-blast wall paint, cans of "plastique patch putty", "additives for mud brick", and a bunch of other mundane stuff, and they could make a Christian area pretty impervious to small arms or mobs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-07 10:11|| 2011-04-07 10:11|| Front Page Top

#2 The ghetto walls were originally conceived as defence against rampaging mobs, Anonymoose. They became cages with doors guarded on the outside.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-07 16:38|| 2011-04-07 16:38|| Front Page Top

#3 tw: It works both ways. Someone once noted that at the border of Poland and Russia, on the Polish side the Jewish homes were made of brick, but on the Russian side, they were made of wood.

It was explained to him that by law, the Russians required the homes of their Jews to be made of wood, so that when pogroms were ordered, their houses could be burned. Tearing down brick houses was too much trouble.

Then he made the simple observation that there was no real border, so why would any sane person live on the Russian side? "Tradition."

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-07 18:24|| 2011-04-07 18:24|| Front Page Top

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