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2007-01-12 Iraq

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Posted by tipper 2007-01-12 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Never really understood why there are any Christians left in the Arab world. I would think even Missionaries could find a more productive location to spend time such as Africa.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-12 11:10|| 2007-01-12 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 We had a series like this over Christmas in the Houston Chronicle. The Israelis were blamed in the first paragraph, and I stopped reading.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-01-12 11:24|| 2007-01-12 11:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Christians have lived in the Arab world for the past 2,000 years. They were there before the Muslims

Oh how the muslims forget this when they claim the land is theirs ie Jerusalem and surrounding areas!!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-01-12 11:35|| 2007-01-12 11:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Good to get the friendlies out before we level the joint.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-12 11:38|| 2007-01-12 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 the reason is there. buried, but there:

"But there are deeper-seated reasons behind the most recent exodus: the demise of secular movements and the growing influence of political Islam in the Middle East"

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2007-01-12 11:47|| 2007-01-12 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 There's also the growing realization that they ca get out, fueled by the region's greater contact with the outside world. Television has done much to spread radical Islamist ideas but, much like people behind the Iron Curtain watched the propaganda mostly to see what was being railed against, so too have the dhimmis been able to see how much better life out there is even from televised mullah/imam/whatever rantings. And that first cousin to make it over quickly sells the rest on the idea.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-12 12:16|| 2007-01-12 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Being somewhere first doesn't mean squat if they kill you for your beliefs. First doesn't matter when the majority rewrites history to suit them anyway.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-12 12:25|| 2007-01-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Them's some hot Christian Syrian babes.

Love the obligatory "things were better under Saddam" bit they manage to work in there.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-12 12:50|| 2007-01-12 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 There is also danger of backflow, created by the emerging new and improved "Jimmy Carter" type Christians. It would give new meaning to the term "Muslim Voice."

Posted by Poison Reverse 2007-01-12 12:52|| 2007-01-12 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Christians in the Muslim world have always lived on borrowed time, now their loans are being called. The significant thing about these news articles is how they pin all blame on the West and on the Jews, rather than the "root cause," which is Islam.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-12 12:57|| 2007-01-12 12:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Excalibur : Them's some hot Christian Syrian babes.

Yes, marvelous what NOT wearing a head scarf will do for one's appearance....

Posted by BigEd 2007-01-12 13:35|| 2007-01-12 13:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Israel should invite them all to emigrate. It would help their demographic numbers a bit.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-12 15:17|| 2007-01-12 15:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Where is Keith Ellison's protest? MF.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-01-12 15:31|| 2007-01-12 15:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Another way to say this is "Brain Drain".

Posted by RWV 2007-01-12 15:33|| 2007-01-12 15:33|| Front Page Top

#15 Wow, we could use a few good "christians" like them!

Posted by Flans Ometch6221 2007-01-12 17:42|| 2007-01-12 17:42|| Front Page Top

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