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Publication: AINA
Date: October 12, 2006
URL: http://www.aina.org/news/20061012004656.htm
On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian
(also known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul Alexander),
was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was posted at either
$250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that signs be posted once again
on his church apologizing for the Pope's remarks as a condition for negotiations
to begin.
Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday.
An email from a priest in Sweden, Adris Hanna,
describes the Muslim terror campaign against the Christians in Iraq:
The Syriac-Orhtodox priest Paulos Iskandar
was kidnapped this Monday, October 9, and beheaded today Wednesday October
11.
The Bishop in Mosul wrote me an email tonight
and told me that the funeral will be held in Mosul tomorrow.
Christians are living a terrified life in
Mosul and Baghdad. Several priests have been kidnapped, girls are being raped
and murdered and a couple of days ago a fourteen year old boy was crucified
in the Christian neighborhood Albasra.
I have also spoken to a group of nuns that
were robbed and treated brutally on their way between Baghdad to Amman in
Jordan.
The murder of father Paulus is the final blow
for Christians, and now only hell is expected for the Christians of Iraq.
We the oriental Christians in Sweden and the
rest of the Western world must protest against the genocide. We must do what
we can to stop the rape, threats, hatred, robberies, murders
We must
do something.
These latest murders continue an escalating
pattern (1, 2, 3) of attacks against Iraq's Christians. On October fourth
a bomb ripped through an Assyrian neighorhood, killing 9 (AINA 10-11-2006).