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Attacks against Churches in Iraq

George Haddad Al-Hayat 2004/12/10

During a few weeks only, a third wave of outrageous bombing of Christian
churches occurred in Iraq. These bombings of the churches were a
disgrace and they cannot be justified with any formative elucidations.
These bombings can be considered as an open political manipulation of
the events. The perpetrators are not a marginalized reactionary or
radical group; they are key players in the Iraqi scene. This group has
strategies and goals that pertain to the structural historical formula
and cultural identity for both the Iraqi government and the Iraqi
people. From the viewpoint of Iraqi nationalism, Arab nationalism and
the viewpoint of scrupulous Islamism, I am going to present to you the
following remarks

1. The Iraqi Christians did not welcome the American occupation;
on the contrary, they confirmed their nationalism and their adherence to
Arabism without relinquishing their Christianity.

2. The Iraqi Christians were always a genuine part of
Mesopotamian culture and were loyal to the Iraqi government. Their
Christianity was not imposed from the outside; it is undoubtedly oriental.

3. Historically, Iraqi Christians were always an operative
element in the establishment of the Arab-Islamic Empire. They
contributed a lot to the Islamic culture as they translated many books
from Greek and Indian into Arabic. There were also many Christian
doctors and philosophers in Iraq. Hence, one cannot separate between the
historical cultural role of the Christians in Iraq and the Arab-Islamic
culture.

4. The attacks against the churches in Iraq remind us of what
happened to the Iraqi Jews after the establishment of the state of
Israel. International Zionism, the U.S. and Britain were surprised to
see that Iraqi Jews did not respond to the Zionist call to immigrate to
Israel. The underground organizations and the Zionist apparatuses in
collaboration with the Iraqi monarchy at that time started to organize a
wave of explosions and attacks against the Iraqi Jews in order to drive
them to flee Iraq. This is exactly what drove the Iraqi Jews to go to
Israel.

After discussing these very important remarks one must ask: who are the
people behind the attacks on the Christian churches and who is
supporting them? Perhaps the first and easiest accusation is directed
towards the Islamic radical groups. However, if we look at these crimes
from a criminal investigation point of view, and ask who is benefiting
from these attacks, it would not be difficult to discover that the
American occupation, international Zionism and Israel get the real
benefits from such attacks.

No matter how much the Americans, the Israelis and the Zionists delved
into their conspiracies and crimes, and even if the succeeded to a
certain extent in "Lebanonizing" Iraq, their general efforts in doing so
will not succeed - history is not on their side.

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