'People turned on Christians': Persecuted Iraqi minority reflects on life after Saddam

[joeybee12]

LONDON -- Rana stepped out of church in Baghdad in December 2006 to find an envelope wedged against her car windshield. Inside was a bullet -- a message that meant she and her family were next on an assassin’s list.

They fled the city the next day, leaving behind a business, a home -- everything.

"I didn't like Saddam Hussein, but he didn't bother the Christians," said Rana, 29, after a church service in London. "He was a dictator. When he went, the gangs came from everywhere."

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[leveymg]

1. Same thing's happening in Syria in areas occupied by the FSA and al-Nusra

Which is precisely why the Christians haven't peeled off and joined the opposition, as was expected. What's happened in the Mideast has nothing to do with democracy, and everything to do with a spreading religious war that the US stirred up when we did our regime change thing on the secular Ba'athist regimes in Iraq and Syria.

[joeybee12]

2. Yeah, and I saw how Rummy was boasting about the liberation of Iraq..

so I had to post this...what a phucker he is.

[leveymg]

4. The Junk Man Cometh.

[riderinthestorm]

3. Christian persecution is escalating in Egypt under Muslim Brotherhood president Morsi

Much worse than under Mubarek.

Even Libya and Tunisia's Islamist government is turning its gun sights on the Christian population there. Of course Iraq is also experiencing growing sectarian convulsions.

The entire movement sweeping the ME and N Africa really looks more and more like a religious war and less like a revolution every day.

What a shit storm.