MUST READ: ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES PROMOTE GLOBAL JIHAD

Administration's Policies Promote Global Jihad
by Cliff Kincaid

Conservative thinker and strategist Paul Weyrich sees a Republican political disaster in 2008 because of Iraq. “I believe that the Democrats, most likely with Senator Hillary R. Clinton (D-NY) as the nominee, will win,” he says. “The Republicans, regardless of who they nominate, will lose because of the war in Iraq. Voters want to punish the Republicans for Iraq.”

It’s easy to see how this might develop. But the backlash could get even worse when members of the conservative Republican base begin to grasp how the Bush policy has led to the virtual destruction of the Christian community in Iraq. It is nothing less than an outrage for this to be occurring under the auspices of a conservative Republican President who claims to be a born-again Christian.

But Iraq isn’t the only problem like this. Bush is now working with the U.N. to create a Muslim state in Kosovo.

On July 25, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held a major hearing on religious persecution in Iraq that made your stomach turn. It effectively demonstrated that American soldiers, many of them Christians, are giving their lives and limbs to prop up a Muslim government that encourages or tolerates religious persecution against Christians. Michael Cromartie, chairman of the group and an appointee of President Bush, said reports indicate that nearly half of Iraq’s Christians have already fled the country.

He explained that “Violence against members of Iraq’s Christian community is of particular concern in Baghdad and the northern Kurdish regions. Reported abuses include the assassination of Christian religious leaders, the bombing and destruction of churches, and violent threats intended to force Christians from their homes. In some areas, ordinary Christians have reportedly stopped participating in public religious services for fear of inviting further violence.”

Pascale Warda, an Assyrian Christian who was the Minister of Migration and Displacement during the first transitional Iraqi government, testified, “Over 30 churches have been destroyed, priests have been kidnapped, killed, or beheaded, and the Christians have been systematically targeted for persecution by Islamic fundamentalists. A 14-year-old boy was crucified in Basra. A one-year-old baby was roasted and delivered to his mother’s doorstep, on a bed of rice.”

The dramatic hearing was covered by a few specialized news organizations, such as Catholic News Service, but the major media ignored it.

Writing on Front Page magazine, in an article headlined, ‘The Death of Iraq’s Christians,” analyst Doug Bandow contended that “Washington has done essentially nothing” to help these people.

“Christian America may soon be the death of Iraqi Christians,” he wrote. “The irony is extraordinary: America, a nation with deep Christian roots, has inadvertently loosed the vicious forces bent on destroying Iraqi Christians.”

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