Baghdad Bloodbath: Need More Evidence That Islam is a Doctrine of Violence?
The Church of the virgin Mary, in the al-Karrada district of central Baghdad, scene of yesterday's bloodbath
UPDATED: 58 are now known to have perished.
The BBC were at pains to point out that these were ‘foreign Arabs’, not Iraqis – but the truth is that Christians in every Muslim majority country in the world regularly face intimidation, discrimination, violence and death from adherents of the Religion of Peace™:
More than 50 people have been killed as Iraqi security forces stormed a Catholic church in central Baghdad to free dozens of hostages being held by gunmen there, security sources say.
Seven members of the Iraqi security forces and at least five attackers were among the dead but officials said most hostages were rescued.
About 100 people had been inside Our Lady of Salvation for an evening Mass. The gunmen had reportedly demanded the release of jailed al-Qaeda militants.
Reports said the attackers were not Iraqis, but foreign Arabs. The raid came two days after a suicide attack on a cafe in Diyala province left 21 people dead.
‘Priest killed’
Residents of Baghdad’s Karada district, where the attack took place, first heard a loud explosion at about 1700 (1400 GMT), followed by gunfire.
Police said a group of armed men began by attacking the Iraq Stock Exchange building, and then took over the Catholic church just across the road, clashing with guards and killing some of them.
Security forces later surrounded the church and sealed off the area, with helicopters hovering overhead. Then they stormed the building.
Witnesses nearby said they then heard two explosions from inside the church and more shooting.
There are about 1.5 million Christians from ancient denominations in Iraq
One eyewitness, who was inside the church, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that the gunmen “came into the prayer hall and immediately killed the priest”.
The witness, who declined to give his name, said the people in the church had huddled into the main prayer hall when the gunbattles began with the security forces.
The gunmen reportedly threw grenades and blew their suicide vests.
There were no negotiations with the gunmen before the security forces stormed the church, reports suggest.
Witnesses also say they saw US troops on the ground and US military helicopters hovering above the scene, but the extent of their involvement is not yet clear.
“The operation has finished and we released all the hostages,” said the commander of police in south-eastern Baghdad, Brig-Gen Ali Ibrahim.
The BBC’s Jim Muir in Baghdad says there are different figures from different sources for the number of hostages and attackers involved, and how many of each were killed or captured.
Earlier reports said that two security guards at the stock exchange had been killed before the attackers occupied the church.
Many churches have been bombed in recent years – including Our Lady of Salvation in August 2004 – and priests kidnapped and killed, but there has never been a prolonged hostage situation like this before, our correspondent says.
There are about 1.5 million Christians from ancient denominations in Iraq. Iraqi Christians have been leaving the country in droves since the US-led invasion in 2003.
“Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth , (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” Qur’an 9:29
And no wonder. From Morocco to Mauritania, through to Istanbul, Cairo and Jakarta – with Beirut, Sana’a, Riyadh, Lahore, Islamabad, Dhaka, The Maldives, Pattani and Narathiwat in Thailand and Basilan and Marawi in the Southern Philippines along the way – right across the Muslim world in fact, non-Muslims unfortunate enough to live in Muslim lands are treated as worse than second-class citizens, sometimes little better than animals.
Their dhimmi status is codified in the Sura of Islam (the Qur’an and the Ahadith – the sayings and traditions of the Prophet).
Legal discrimination, economic marginalisation, violence, kidnap, rape and forced conversion of young females, vandalism of their places of worship – all are rife and rarely punished.
One of our favourite sites, The Religion of Peace, documents in detail Muslim atrocities since 9/11. They currently total 16,307 deadly attacks. The number of violent incidents carried out in the name of other faiths during the same period is either extremely low, or zero.
Work it out for yourself – and remember these facts the next time you hear some credulous, dhimmi journalist or multikulti witterer telling you that this is an ‘isolated incident’, or that atrocities like this are ‘the work of foreigners’.
Islam is a religion of conflict and violence – hatred and discrimination are codified into its scriptures.
[Source: BBC News]
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Tags: Allah-Sanctioned Violence, Anti-Christian, Dhimmitude
Accordingly, it was law that special jizya tax collectors were allowed to smack the back of the dhimmi’s head or neck after they paid; this was yet another symbolic gesture to let them know that their status was inferior.
The Religion of peace name is a joke and everybody knows it. Of course when someone hears the headline “Attack on a church kills 50+”, no one reads on and is surprised to find out who the culprit is. They only want to know the what, where, and how. It is because deep down, as much as people in the media claim that it is just a “few bad apples”™, we all know differently.