Canadian parliament told that Iraqi Christian children have been crucified by Muslims

I have not seen any definite information on whether Iraqi refugees including Christians have returned to their homes since the reduction in violence in Iraq over the last year due to the surge and other factors, but according to the Ottawa Citizen, the persecution of Iraqi Christians is as bad as ever, or worse. (NB: since this account comes from Canada, a non-nation whose only identity is that it is not the U.S., is not like the U.S., and does not like the U.S., we need to confirm this crucifixion story from other sources before we can believe it.)

Iraqi Christians are targets of cleansing, committee told

One in three a refugee, but Chaldo-Assyrians want to remain in country

Muslim militants are crucifying children to terrorize their Christian parents into fleeing Iraq, a parliamentary committee studying the persecution of religious minorities heard yesterday.

Since the war began in 2003, about 12 children, many as young as 10, have been kidnapped and killed, then nailed to makeshift crosses near their homes to terrify and torment their parents. (cont.)

Here are previous articles at VFR on the persecution of Iraqi Christians that was unleashed by America’s brilliant move of FREEING and LIBERATING and DEMOCRATIZING Iraqi Muslims:

Thousands of Christians fleeing Iraq (October ‘04)

Where will Christians fit in the coming Iraq? (Sept. ‘06)

Christian neocons’ silence on calamitous effect of democracy on Iraqi Christians (April ‘08)

“[J]ust as the Jewish neocons married themselves to President Bush’s insane Muslim democracy agenda, which among other things handed Gaza to Hamas, and so gave up caring about Israel’s security, Catholic neocons in similar fashion are indifferent to how Muslim democracy has been ruinous to Christians in Muslim lands. It seems that any intellectual and moral life the neocons may once have had, has been supplanted by a single, remorseless idee fixe: Bush and Democracy uber alles.”

Our ultimate success in Iraq (On Nir Rosen’s New York Times Magazine article on Iraqi refugees, May ‘07)

“[W]e … set about … to democratize this country, not just in order to establish a new government there but to make that country a model that other Muslim countries would follow. Yet the result of our invasion and attempted democratization was to turn Iraq into the biggest terrorism-and-murder snakepit in the history of the world. By removing the only existing order there and not replacing it (because we thought, like hyper-Jeffersons, that all men including Iraqi Shi’ites and Sunnis just naturally gravitate toward being self-governing yeoman farmers, each under his vine and fig tree and living harmoniously with his neighbors), we caused Iraq to turn, literally, into hell on earth, forcing millions to flee for their lives.”

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Erich writes:

You wrote: “NB: since this account comes from Canada, a non-nation whose only identity is that it is not the U.S., is not like the U.S., and does not like the U.S., we need to confirm this crucifixion story from other sources before we can believe it.”

As the story reports, these allegations were made by representatives of various Christians in Iraq (Chaldean, Syrian and Syriac) in testimony to a parliamentary human rights committee. The reporter, Jennifer Green, mentions “Filham Isaac, speaking for the Nineveh Advocacy Committee,” and also “Mr. Isaac’s colleague, Zaya Oshana.” The fact that Jennifer Green, a journalist, has taken the trouble to report this (when mainsream media tend to ignore such stories) and has not insinuated into her reportage the usual politically correct nonsense we usually see in news stories about Muslims, along with the apparent fact that the news venue where she works (The Ottawa Citizen) seems to have many such stories in its archives), indicate that her reportorial interest has nothing to do with Canada per se (and might have to do with her and her paper’s concern about Middle Eastern Christians). This along with the fact that she is merely reporting on the testimony of Iraqi Christians to a government committee makes it dubious that whatever deficiencies Canada has as a sociopolitical entity are not relevant to determining the veracity of this story—for which simply finding at least one other source would be the pertinent agendum.

LA replies:

Well, that’s what I said. More sources are needed to confirm that these reports have been made, and that these reports are credible.

Erich might have shown me the same consideratoin he shows the Ottawa Citizen. Since I am known as being highly critical of Islam, the fact that I do not instantly believe the crucifixion report but want more evidence could be seen as indication that I’m interested in the truth even if it goes against my pre-dispostitions, not that I’m being biased against Canada.

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