"We Must Do Something"
I recently wrote a flip post about recent beheadings, intending to express a type of jaded resignation to their having become such a ‘regular’ event, yet we hear nary a chirp from a media paralyzed by an almost preternatural silence when viewing a man’s head perched on his once living chest. I regret that pretense of callous indifference after having read this sobering quote at Gates of Vienna in reference to the beheading of Fr. Paulos Iskander.
from Arab Sport: Crucifying Christian Children in Iraq
“The News Agency says it received this report from a priest in Sweden, via email. Father Adris Hanna sent the following information:
- - - - - - - - - -The Bishop in Mosul wrote me an email tonight and told me that the funeral will be held in Mosul tomorrow.
Christians are living a terrified life in Mosul and Baghdad. Several priests have been kidnapped, girls are being raped and murdered and a couple of days ago a fourteen year old boy was crucified in the Christian neighborhood Albasra.
I have also spoken to a group of nuns that were robbed and treated brutally on their way between Baghdad to Amman in Jordan.
The murder of father Paulus is the final blow for Christians, and now only hell is expected for the Christians of Iraq.
We the oriental Christians in Sweden and the rest of the Western world must protest against the genocide. We must do what we can to stop the rape, threats, hatred, robberies, murders… We must do something.”
all bold mine
GOV continues with a brief history of Assyrian and Chaldean Christians, a people who do not hold themselves to be Arabs, a body of Christains who have suffered exile, persecution and slaughter, a people who have traced their spiritual roots to “to the beginning of the Christian era”.
“In 1933, as several hundred Assyrians attempted to cross the Tigris River into the French mandate of Syria, fighting erupted with Iraqi border troops. Within a few days, thousands of unarmed Assyrians were summarily executed in their villages while the Iraqi government stood aside. The Assyrian patriarch fled to exile in Cyprus and Britain, eventually reestablishing his seat in Chicago in 1939 along with approximately 15,000 Assyrians.”
And again they flee.
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"Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death... and they will love him for it."
