Imagine a Christian liquor peddler flourishing in Muslim Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

Thats the way it used to be before the USA invaded that country. Bet the Iraqi Christians wish Saddam was still running the place. This stuff just makes my head ache.

Don

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07129888.htm

IRAQ WRAPUP 3-Churches bombed, US deaths in Iraq mount

<snip>The small Christian community of about 650,000 or some 3 percent of the population has suffered from an upsurge in militant Islam since the fall of Saddam's secular regime. Some have fled or closed down traditional businesses, notably selling liquor, which flourished in Iraq despite a Muslim religious ban.

At least one Christian leader has been quoted recently saying he would form an armed militia to protect the community.

"There were two or three families in the church," one frightened worshipper from Mosul's ancient Tahira Chaldean church told Reuters after the attack on the white stone building, some of which is said to date back to the 7th century.

"Gunmen came in, took the guard's weapon and a couple of mobile phones. Then they made everybody leave the church. After that there was an explosion that did a lot of damage," said the man, who asked not to be named for fear of intimidation.

Christians, possibly targeted partly because radical Muslims link them with the "crusader" invaders from America and Europe, have been attacked several times in the past four months.

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[leftchick]

1. irony abounds doesn't it?

the Christian crusaders running the Christians out of town!

:crazy:

[NNN0LHI]

2. Who was it that said "may you live in interesting times" n/t