Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul Alexander), was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was posted at either $250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that signs be posted once again on his church apologizing for the Pope's remarks as a condition for negotiations to begin.Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday.
An email from a priest in Sweden, Adris Hanna, describes the Muslim terror campaign against the Christians in Iraq:
The Syriac-Orhtodox priest Paulos Iskandar was kidnapped this Monday, October 9, and beheaded today Wednesday October 11.
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.
These latest murders continue an escalating pattern (1, 2, 3) of attacks against Iraq's Christians. On October fourth a bomb ripped through an Assyrian neighorhood, killing 9 (AINA 10-11-2006).
Crossposted at Eye On The World.
5 comments:
We seem to be at war with Satan himself.
Um, yup.
Or maybe with the anti-Christ, and not the devil. The anti-Christ; the one whose job it is to be the antithesis of Christ, and who is to try to pull souls from Christ and deliver them to the devil. I try not to be melodramatic, but I've been thinking, what was Mohammed but someone who preached a doctrine that's the opposite of Christianity, and whose life example was the polar opposite of Christ's? Not different from, not a variation or heresy of, but an opposition. Just because the anti-Christ will become very strong in the end times, does that mean that he's someone who's born now? Why couldn't he have been born and died 1400 years ago, have his religion have a growth spurt, go into a type of remission from spreading, then take off like wildfire all of a sudden?
I'm just thinking out loud. I'm sure others with more Christian knowledge and insight, philosopher types, have pondered this better than me.
MTS,
Whether Mohammed is literally the prophet of the anti-Christ predicted in the Bible or not, what you say is true and it is not melodramatic.
Christ taught us to sacrifice ourselves for others. To help the weak, the orphans and the widows.
Mohammed teaches to kill for Allah. It is a philosophy of power, the strong over the weak.
It is the opposite of Christ.
Mohammed himself, when he first got revelation from Allah, believed himself to be demon-possessed. he later decided that he wasn't, but I think he ought to have gone with his first hunch.
Rarely do posts make me burst into tears. Believe me when I say that I am crying now. And I am crying the kind of tears that when they are done will be replaced by stronger resolve. I'm going to kick some heads in, if only figuratively.
This IS a turning point. A point we cannot turn back from.
It is just the begining. Wait for next 3 years. We will remember about this year as a good year. In my opinion, umanity have 2 options:
1). Force all religions that use death as penalty to cancel this.
2). All religions (societies) that dont use death as penalty, must adopt this punishment.
In last case will be a matter of power. Natural selection. The strong one survive.
All non-muslim religions agreed with the fact that individual must have private live, private beliefs, private customs, etc.... Islam is the opposite. Individual dont matter. Like in communism, what is important is only the targets of leaders. All the rest dont matter. Individuals can be sacrifited for this, no matter how many.
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