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All Christians
'targets,' Iraqi militant group says
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Posted by Dan on
November 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM |
After the deadline for Egypt’s Coptic Church to release Muslim prisoners expired Iraqi militants said that all of the Christians in the Middle East are now targets. Security at places of worship has been increased because of this threat. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/03/iraq.christians.threat/index.html
Katelyn Scholl
12:01 PM on November
13, 2010
The chairman of the U.S. Commission
on International Religious Freedom said that the Christians in the Middle East
face "a grave terrorist threat." I don’t fully understand this
article, or what is even going on with this situation. What I do know is that I
find this absolutely disturbing. I go to church every Wednesday and Sunday to
worship. I can’t imagine being bombarded by gunmen and crazy terrorists with
explosive wardrobes.
Also, I will never understand how people can use the
very lives of others to get what they want. The gunmen were demanding that the
Iraqi government release a number of detainees and prisoners in Iraqi prisons,
saying the Christian hostages would be freed in return? Really?
I just can’t fathom holding someone hostage in order to get my way. This whole
thing is obnoxious.