by John Zmirak at Taki's Magazine
Conditions in the new Iraq continue to get worse for that country’s dwindling Christian population. On Friday, February 29, 2008 terrorists kidnapped Paulos Faraj Rahho archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, and killed three of his assistants. We still don’t know who’s responsible--our Shi’ite “allies” (who have marched around Christian neighborhoods closing down liquor stores and offering Christian women the choice of hijab or death), Sunni Ba’athists, or the tiny cadres of Al Qaeda in Iraq. It might just be bandits, preying on a group that has lost the protection its once enjoyed under the sturdily secular (if tyrannical) regime of Saddam Hussein. This is just the sort of thing which “unpatriotic” war skeptics feared, and some of us predicted: that in removing the iron fist of secular dictatorship, we might well unleash the will of the people. In Iraq, as in many parts of the world, what people will seem to want is the chance to gouge, slaughter, and drive out their neighbors. It’s hackneyed to point to the death of Tito and the subsequent bloody dismemberment of Yugoslavia, but the comparison holds--right down to the ethnic cleansing that even today the Kosovo Albanians are practicing against the harried remnant of Christian Serbs.
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