Friday, October 15, 2004

Christians Being Driven out of Iraq

It appears that Christians may soon be driven out of Iraq.
One would like to blame the Arabs, but it seems that a lot of Kurds are in on it as well.
Of course, if the US invades Syria, as some report the military is drawing up plans for (and as Osama bin Farah suggests we do), then it is likely that Christians in the Middle East will lose all of their havens, and unless Israel will take them, are going to be expelled (presumably to the US or Europe) or killed.

Of course, if there is a demographic war going on here, then the obvious thing to do for the Iraqi Christians (or Chaldo-Assyrians) is to resettle all of them in Lebanon to help them to once again outnumber the Muslims; if the Syrian government falls, whether by our hand or from internal struggle, we'll probably have to move them to Lebanon as well (although if Syria's government falls, either the US or Israel will have to occupy Lebanon to prevent anti-Christian genocide there).

According to recent reports, as much as 5% of Iraq's christian population has fled since the invasion. At that rate, it will be about 30 years before they all leave, but I have a feeling that it will pick up and the Christian communities in Iraq will be cleared (i.e. < 100,000 left) within 5 years. This has an impact on the issues of how we are to deal with Syria, Lebanon, and the Kurds in the following years; and as the Kurdish star rises in Northern Iraq and Syria, finally resolving their issues, the issues of the Christians in Iraq are going to be the next Gordian knot to solve.

Or not; we may just let them get killed or expelled.

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