MUSLIMS: Iraqi Muslims step up Christian pogroms!

Iraqi Archbishop: Christians Face 'Liquidation' | Christian Post

A systematic effort to rid Iraq of its Christian citizens has been going on since 2003 ...

The most senior Catholic cleric in Iraq warned that Christians in his country face “liquidation” if the Iraqi government and the U.S. military do not step-up protection for religious minorities in Iraq.

“We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence,” said Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako, reported Agence France-Presse on Friday. “The objective is political.”

Sako’s comment comes after police reported earlier this week that seven Christians have been killed in separate attacks this month. Police found bullet-riddled bodies of seven Christians in October, with the latest body of a Christian day laborer found on Wednesday.

Since the U.S.-led Iraq war in 2003, more than 200 Christians have been killed, dozens of churches bombed, and more than half the Iraqi Christian population have left the country, according to the archbishop.

Iraq is a perfect example of the Butterfly Effect (the law of unintended consequences). Some of the people we had intended to aid through our overthrow of Saddam Hussein are the very people we have most disturbed,

“We believe it is the responsibility of Americans who occupy our country to protect Iraqis,” Sako said.

One can not dogmatically insist cristophobia is at work here, but the Muslims certainly do fear and hate Christians, and teach others to fear them and hate them as well.

Catholic, Chaldean, Christianity,
Cristophobia, Iraq, Muslims, Religion

PERSECUTION: Ancient orthodox body under serious persecution!

Orthodox Christianity under threat | International Herald Tribune
HT - Orthodox Christianity under threat | EuropeNews

When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and his Islamic-rooted party came under fierce fire this summer from secularists, who came close to persuading the country's supreme court to bar both from politics, he called the campaign an attack against religious freedom and a threat to Turkey's efforts to join the European Union.

Yet in nearly six years in power, Erdogan has shown no inclination to extend even a modicum of religious freedom to the most revered Christian institution in Turkey - the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the spiritual center of 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world. As a result, Turkey's persecution of the Patriarchate looms as a major obstacle to its European aspirations, and rightly so.

Turkey is a secular state with a majority Muslim population; you fools who think there's no threat from this "peaceful" religion are setting up your grandkids and their children for serious heartache and suffering.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate, which was established in the fourth century and once possessed holdings as vast as those of the Vatican, has been reduced to a small, besieged enclave in a decaying corner of Istanbul called the Phanar, or Lighthouse.

Almost all of its property has been seized by successive Turkish governments, its schools have been closed and its prelates are taunted by extremists who demonstrate almost daily outside the Patriarchate, calling for its ouster from Turkey.

Christianity, Cristophobia,
Persecution, Politics, Religion

PROPAGANDA: Is the National Jewish Democratic Council cristophobic?

Obama campaign asked to repudiate anti-Christian National "Jewish" Democratic Council | Israpundit

Obama challenged to reject nominal Jewish organization's support ...

There is no place in modern politics for any organization that uses racial, ethnic, religious, or misogynist hate to advance its agenda.

We therefore call upon the Obama campaign to reject the support of the National Jewish Democratic Council, whose “Bubbie versus the GOP” video ... portrays Jesus, Christian ministers, and the Cross in a “This is the Enemy” context.

NJDC has also provided derogatory misinformation about the Christian computer game “Left Behind: Eternal Forces,” and it has used its nominally Jewish identity to whitewash anti-Semitic hate speech from MoveOn.org.

Now NJDC is circulating a petition to condemn John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as a running mate. Even though we do not share Palin’s belief in Jesus, it is our obligation to condemn NJDC’s anti-Christian hate propaganda under color of Judaism as strongly as we expect decent Christians to condemn anti-Semitic hate speech under color of Christianity.

The National Jewish Democratic Council’s “Bubbie versus the GOP” ... is still available as of September 1 2008. “Bubbie versus the GOP” really seems to be “Bubbie versus Christians, Jesus, and the Cross,” because it portrays all of them in a “This is the Enemy” context.

Maybe NJDC’s real problem with Sarah Palin is that she believes that Jesus is her Savior, even though Barack Obama shares this belief–but left-wing Democrats get a pass from NJDC.

The materials referenced above are from the 2004 presidential election and are seriously outdated ... but the fact they are old doesn't mitigate their cristophobic nature, especially in light of the NJDC's current anti-Palin efforts.

Christianity, Cristophobia, Hate,
NJDC, Propaganda, Religion