Monday January 17, 2005

I've been thinking:

Today, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Catholic Archbishop Georges Casmoussa was thrown into the trunk of a car and kidnapped by terrorists.

There are about 650,000 Christians in Iraq. They compose only 3 percent of the 25 million people there, but they are an influential and successful minority that always got along with everyone.

This kidnapping is not an isolated attack against Christians in Iraq.
In fact, it is only the latest among a slew of attacks on Christians. In August, for example, 4 churches were simultaneously bombed - 12 people were killed, 61 were wounded and 15,000 Christians fled Iraq.

Why are the terrorists targeting Catholics?

Because of the symbolic value of attacking psduedo outsiders.
Christians are different. Christians are independent. Christians align themselves with Rome which is seen as the damned West. Because the objective of the terrorists is to divide Iraq into smaller and smaller sub-sects.

These Iraqi terrorists will easily murder - Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites, and Christians. Their goal is to divide and conquer.