Christians Being Driven Out of Mosul for Political Reasons:

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All Assyrian News agancy said that kurds did it , do we need any further debate or discussion

[Emanoelkurdistani]

Stinkard ADM fascists hidding behind the title "Christian"!

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Stinkard ADM fascists hidding behind the title "Christian"!

They (ADM) “hide behind” their National Identity (Assyrians) and not behind “Christians”.

We just hate Assyrian , we can not help it , you guys are so stupid .

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PNA -Christian minorities who are spread throughout Iraq but are particularly concentrated in Mosul province were subjected to intimidation during the long years of Saddam Hussein's Baath Regime.

Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the collapse of Saddam's regime, there was a glimpse of hope that Christians and other minorities in Iraq could enjoy their minority rights and exercise their religious practices without intimidation. This hope, however, was short-lived as Christians became targets of anti-U.S. insurgents and fundamentalists. A number of churches were bombed and thousands of Christians alongside other minority groups fled to Kurdistan Region for safety. Recently, the attacks against Christians in Mosul province intensified. Just in the last few weeks, at least 14 Christians were murdered and four houses were blown up. Christians who are concentrated in Mosul province were threatened either to pay Jizyeh (according to Islamic law of Shari'a, Christian minorities must pay the Islamic state for their residency) to the insurgents and terrorists, or leave the city or face the death.

As Christians remained a minority group without proper political or military force, their only chance of surviving during the Baath Regime was to obey or be part of the Baath system as there was no collective Christian resistance against the Baath in Iraq, despite the fact that individual Christians participated and joined the Kurdish national movement and Peshmerga forces during the Kurdish resistance and fought against Hussein's brutal regime. Some of them played significant roles and became high-ranking officials in the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of the main ruling political parties in Kurdistan Region. Francis Hariri and Sergis Aghajan are the two known Christians who hold key positions both in the KDP and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Hariri was murdered in 2001 while Sergis Aghajan still serves as Financial Minister of the KRG.

Following the toppling of the Baath Regime, insurgents and terrorist elements concentrated in Mosul province and threatened Christians alongside other minority groups. For fear of intimidation and threat, Christians paid Jizyeh (most correctly, ransom) to these groups so as to protect themselves from threats. However, as a result of improved security in Mosul province, Christians gradually felt more secure and their fear from outlawed elements was significantly reduced.

Some Christian leaders expressed explicitly that they would like to be part of Kurdistan Region as Kurdistan Parliament provided a legal framework for minority rights for Christians and other ethnic and religious groups within the KRG jurisdiction. Seeing and observing security and peace that Christians enjoy in Kurdistan Region, some Christians in Mosul province were attracted to the region. Christians' positive attitudes toward the KRG and the close and friendly relations between Kurds and Christians were another reason for the insurgents and terrorist elements such as al-Qaida to target them.

With this positive background of Christians and Kurds and the legal minority rights of Christians that reside within the jurisdiction of the KRG, and with the Christian communities in Erbil and Duhok provinces administered by the KRG, it is absurd to claim that Kurds are behind the attacks against Christians in Mosul province. In a press conference on October 25, Osama al-Nujaifi, a member of Iraqi Parliament from the Iraqi List of Ayad Alawi, stated that the Kurdish forces were behind the displacements. Al-Nujaifi's statement is a very cheap and baseless accusation with political aims to upset historically positive relations between the two communities. As Romeo Hakari, general secretary of the Bait-Nahrain Democratic Party, a Christian Assyrian party, clearly and sharply responded: "Those who accuse Kurds of such actions have the same thinking as Baathists."


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Now I suppose that the Bait-Nahrain Democratic Party is a bunch of traitors for ADM. In fact, according to ADM, all other parties are traitors !

[Emanoelkurdistani]

They (ADM) “hide behind” their National Identity (Assyrians) and not behind “Christians”. < Well I'm not totally agreed. You're better to say: They (ADM) hide their Silly Un-civilized Fascism behind the titles "Assyrian" and "Christian"!