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Zeven Aramese Kerken in Bagdad (Irak) door extremisten aangevallen met autobommen
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Op zondag 12-7-2009 was weer raak in Irak. In totaal werden zeven Aramese kerken in Bagdad aangevallen door autobommen. Vier mensen werden gedood en 18 gewond.
Het is langzamerhand een gewoonte geworden voor de fanatici om de Arameeėrs van Irak om de zoveel tijd eraan te herinneren dat ze beslist geen illusies mogen maken voor wat betreft hun plaats in de toekomstige Irak. De zeven getroffen kerken zijn:
1. De Oost- Aramese Chaldese St. Maria Kerk in het district Sharaa Palestina
2. De Oost- Aramese Chaldese St. George Kerk in het district Madidi
3. De Oost-Aramese Chaldese St. Joseph Kerk in het district Nafak
4. De Oost- Aramese Chaldese Heilige Hart Kerk
5. De West- Aramese Syrische Orthodoxe St. Paulus en St. Petrus Kerk
6. De Oost- Aramese Oude Kerk van het Oosten (Assyrisch), St. Maria kerk
7. De Oost- Aramese Chaldese St. Jacobus Kerk
In Irak zijn er diverse Aramese denominaties, te weten de Oost- Arameeėrs (Chaldeeėrs en Assyriėrs) en de West- Arameeėrs (Syrisch Orthodoxen, Syrisch Katholieken en Melkieten).
Sinds het begin van de Amerikaanse inval in Irak in 2003, zijn er honderdduizenden Arameeėrs gedwongen Irak te verlaten. Het aantal Arameeėrs, bestaande uit diverse denominaties, werd voor de oorlog geschat op 800.000. Door de aanhoudende geweld, terreur en aanslagen wordt geschat dat er niet meer dan 400.000 Arameeėrs in Irak zijn overgebleven. Rond 400.000 Arameeėrs zijn uitgeweken naar landen als Syriė, Jordaniė en het Westen.
De situatie voor de Arameeėrs, ook bekendgemaakt in sommige media als Assyriėrs of Chaldeeėrs, is extra zorgelijk, daar zij in tegenstelling tot andere groepen geen eigen militie hebben om zich te verdedigen. Ze zijn aangewezen op de bescherming van de Irakese overheid die helaas niet in staat is om dergelijke aanslagen te voorkomen.
Door de zwakke positie van de Arameeėrs, zijn ze een gewilde prooi voor de Islamitische terroristen die Irak willen zuiveren van alle onreinen en onbesnedenen. Maar ook de ordinaire criminelen en dieven maken gretig gebruik van het machtsvacuüm om de Aramese Christenen geld af te troggelen.
Aan de andere kant zijn de Arameeėrs zelf ook voor een belangrijke deel schuldig aan de belabberde toestand waarin zij zich bevinden. Dit heeft te maken met de gruwelijke haat en onderlinge verdeeldheid die werd ingespoten in de harten van een deel van de Arameeėrs door de Katholieken en Protestanten die in de naam van de afschuwelijke Jezus van het Westen, die beslist niet Jezus Christus van de Bijbel, een ravage hebben aangericht.
En deze door het Westen gecreėerde demonische haat is zelfs zo gruwelijk dat het de Arameeėrs belet om de handen ineen te slaan in deze moeilijke tijden om problemen het hoofd te bieden. Deze haat en verdeeldheid wordt vandaag de dag nog flink aangewakkerd door sommige Christenen die proberen om zieltjes onder de zwakke en weerloze Arameeėrs te winnen. De vijand van Christus slaagt iedere keer maar weer in, door vooral gebruik te maken van de naam van Jezus, om de volgelingen van de Christus van de Bijbel tegen elkaar op te zetten en uit elkaar te verscheuren. En deze geheime technologie werd gretig door Katholieken en Protestanten gebruikt met afschuwelijke resultaten voor ons volk.
Meer over deze verdeeldheid en onderlinge haat:
http://www.aramnahrin.org/Dutch/Aramese_Geestelijke_genocide.htm
http://www.iraqichristians.org/Dutch/Wonderen_In_Irak_9_4_2008.htm
http://www.iraqichristians.org/Dutch/Mosul_Aramese_Srebrinica_24_10_2008.htm
Seven churches hit in Baghdad. Four dead
The dead and most of the wounded from attack on St. Mary, the church where Mgr. Sleimon Wardouni, Chaldean Patriarchal Vicar, officiates. Other churches suffered minor damage. The hand of Al Qaeda to avenge the "martyr of the veil"
» 07/12/2009 22:31
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15761&geo=23&size=A
Baghdad (AsiaNews) - A series of car bombs targeted seven Chaldean and Orthodox churches of Baghdad tonight.
The worst hit church is the Chaldean Church of St Mary, in Sharaa Philistine, where the patriarchal vicar of Baghdad, Mgr. Sleimon Wardouni officiates. The car bomb exploded on the road that runs alongside the church and left four dead and dozens wounded many seriously.
The other churches, because of their distance from the road, suffered slight damage and some wounded, other churches have not reported damage to people or buildings.
The other churches targeted were: the Chaldean Church of Saint George in the district at Madidi, that of St. Joseph in Nafak (Chaldean), the Church of the Sacred Heart (Chaldean), the church of St Peter and Paul (Syrian Orthodox), and Assyrian church of Saint Mary.
A seventh church, that of St. James in Dora it seems is still in flames hours later.
Only days ago, Msgr. Wardouni had issued a statement to AsiaNews, emphasizing the relative calm that there was in the capital and in Iraq after the departure of American soldiers.
Some journalists in the capital say that the police suspect Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, of being behind the attacks motivated by revenge for the "martyr of the veil" in Germany. Marwa el-Sherbini, 32 years old and in the third month of pregnancy, was killed in a knife attack in a Dresden courtroom by a German of Russian origin who she had sued for defamation. In the Islamic world she is being called the "martyr of the veil."
Churches in Iraq targeted in bombings; 4 killed
Sixteen people are wounded at a Baghdad church. Christians fear renewed persecution days after U.S. forces withdrew from Iraqi cities. In Nasiriya, a bomb explodes near the U.S. ambassador's convoy.
By Liz Sly
July 13, 2009
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-bombings13-2009jul13,0,2315778.story
Reporting from Baghdad -- An explosive device detonated beside a convoy in which the U.S. ambassador was traveling in southern Iraq late Sunday afternoon about the same time that Christian churches across Baghdad were hit by a wave of bombings. The attacks offered new evidence that Iraq remains far from stable after American forces withdrew from its cities at the end of June.
There were no injuries among the U.S. Embassy personnel traveling in Ambassador Christopher Hill's convoy in Dhi Qar province when an improvised device exploded, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Susan Ziadeh.
The bomb was small, but it hit a vehicle near the ambassador's as the
heavily armored SUVs passed through the provincial capital, Nasiriya. It
is the first such attack on a U.S. envoy since the American-led invasion
in March 2003. "There was a bang and we went through a thick cloud of
smoke," Hill told Aamer Madhani, a journalist with USA Today traveling
with him, according to the newspaper's website. "It was nothing."
Dhi Qar is a Shiite Muslim-dominated province that has long been one of
the quietest in Iraq, but it is heavily under the influence of Shiite
militias, some of which have close ties to Iran. U.S. troops maintain
only a minimal presence across southern Iraq and pulled out of the
cities there long ago. Bombings are rare, and the fact that one came
close to hitting the ambassador's vehicle underscored that even the
calmest areas of Iraq cannot be considered secure.
Meanwhile, six bombs exploded outside churches around Baghdad, killing
four and sowing fears among the country's dwindling Christian minority
that they may be subject to a fresh round of persecution now that U.S.
forces have withdrawn from Iraq's cities.
The deaths occurred when a car bomb detonated outside Virgin Mary Church
on Palestine Street in east Baghdad as worshipers were leaving evening
Mass. Sixteen others were wounded in the attack.
"This is going to make the Christians scared," said Bishop Shlemon
Warduni, who was in his office at the back of the church when the bomb
went off. "They will be scared to come to services, and maybe more will
leave the country."
That attack came shortly after five smaller bombs exploded outside four
other churches in the Karada and Dora neighborhoods, both of which once
had sizable Christian communities. The four churches were closed at the
time, police said.
Sunday's attacks came after one church was bombed late Saturday,
pointing to a renewed campaign of violence against one of Iraq's oldest,
smallest and most persecuted communities less than two weeks after U.S.
forces completed their pullback, leaving Iraqi forces in charge of
security in the cities.
Christian legislator Younadam Kanna tied the bombings to the withdrawal
and to Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's scheduled July 21 visit to the U.S.
Extremists are trying to demonstrate that Baghdad is still unstable,
Kanna said, and the easiest way to draw American attention is to bomb
Christians. "It's a message to the international community."
Others feared that the attacks may mark a resurgence of anti-Christian
violence. They were reminiscent of a wave of bloody bombings against
five churches in Baghdad and Mosul five years ago. Those bombings
signaled the beginning of widespread attacks by Islamic extremists that
prompted an exodus of hundreds of thousands of Christians.
Nobody knows for sure how many Christians have left, said Abdullah
Nufaili, who heads the Christian Endowment, a state organization that
oversees churches. But he estimates that a community that once made up
5% of the population -- or about 800,000 people -- now totals less than
2%.
"Definitely we are the most vulnerable members of this society and we
don't have any political forces to protect us," he said. "We were
expecting this, and we expect it to get worse. . . . Their goal is to
drive the Christians out of Iraq."
