Comments on: Islamic Group Driving Christians Away From Mosul http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Trip Miller (friend of the Assyrians) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-855 Trip Miller (friend of the Assyrians) Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:48:57 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-855 Last year author and activist, Rosie Malek-Yonan’s book, The Crimson Field, was brought to the attention of Congressman Christopher Smith’s office who chaired a House Committee on International Relations. The Crimson Field is a true story chronicling the author’s own family struggle to escape the Assyrian Genocide of WWI where 750,000 Assyrians were massacred by Ottoman Turks, Kurds and Persians. Consequently, on June 30, 2006, Ms. Malek-Yonan was invited to Capitol Hill to give a Congressional testimony about the plight of the Assyrian Christians in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of Iraq in 2003. You can read the text of her testimony at http://www.thecrimsonfield.com/congressionalhea.html . Her testimony and the additional report she provided, prompted Congressman Christopher Smith to fly to Iraq to meet with the Assyrian community and to turn in Ms. Malek-Yonan’s report to U.S. officials in Iraq. Now one year after Ms. Malek-Yonan’s passionate plea to the U.S. government, a Congressional appropriations subcommittee has voted to send $10 million to aid the Assyrian Christians in Iraq. However, but for this aid, nothing else has been done to help the Assyrians Christians of Iraq and the Assyrian refugees stranded in Syria and Jordan. Perhaps this financial aid will be a start, but it begs the question, who will receive the funds and how will they reach the Assyrian community and how much of the $10 million will actually find its way to the Christian community in Iraq that is in desperate need of assistance. As Ms. Malek-Yonan had testified, monies were previously allocated to the minorities in Iraq, however, the Kurds were in charge of disbursements and Assyrians never saw their share. I hope that this time the Assyrian community in Iraq will receive a generous portion of these funds without being forced into Islamization, a practice running rampant in Iraq today. Stephen Crittenden of TheReligionReport for ABC Radio National Australia recently interviewed Ms. Malek-Yonan in a program called “Christian Minorities in the Islamic Middle East: Rosie Malek-Yonan on the Assyrians.” This is where you can read the full transcript of this very enlightening interview: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/1937124.htm . Last year author and activist, Rosie Malek-Yonan’s book, The Crimson Field, was brought to the attention of Congressman Christopher Smith’s office who chaired a House Committee on International Relations. The Crimson Field is a true story chronicling the author’s own family struggle to escape the Assyrian Genocide of WWI where 750,000 Assyrians were massacred by Ottoman Turks, Kurds and Persians. Consequently, on June 30, 2006, Ms. Malek-Yonan was invited to Capitol Hill to give a Congressional testimony about the plight of the Assyrian Christians in Iraq since the U.S. led invasion of Iraq in 2003. You can read the text of her testimony at http://www.thecrimsonfield.com/congressionalhea.html . Her testimony and the additional report she provided, prompted Congressman Christopher Smith to fly to Iraq to meet with the Assyrian community and to turn in Ms. Malek-Yonan’s report to U.S. officials in Iraq.

Now one year after Ms. Malek-Yonan’s passionate plea to the U.S. government, a Congressional appropriations subcommittee has voted to send $10 million to aid the Assyrian Christians in Iraq. However, but for this aid, nothing else has been done to help the Assyrians Christians of Iraq and the Assyrian refugees stranded in Syria and Jordan. Perhaps this financial aid will be a start, but it begs the question, who will receive the funds and how will they reach the Assyrian community and how much of the $10 million will actually find its way to the Christian community in Iraq that is in desperate need of assistance.

As Ms. Malek-Yonan had testified, monies were previously allocated to the minorities in Iraq, however, the Kurds were in charge of disbursements and Assyrians never saw their share. I hope that this time the Assyrian community in Iraq will receive a generous portion of these funds without being forced into Islamization, a practice running rampant in Iraq today.

Stephen Crittenden of TheReligionReport for ABC Radio National Australia recently interviewed Ms. Malek-Yonan in a program called “Christian Minorities in the Islamic Middle East: Rosie Malek-Yonan on the Assyrians.” This is where you can read the full transcript of this very enlightening interview: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2007/1937124.htm .

]]> By: Andre Slewa (Assyrian) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-854 Andre Slewa (Assyrian) Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:15:14 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-854 D.B. that's horrible! this is happening all over Iraq so it's not the first time D.B. that’s horrible!
this is happening all over Iraq so it’s not the first time

]]> By: RandallJones http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-853 RandallJones Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:28:13 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-853 Let's not forget the Judeo-Christian secular humanists who have driven millons of Iraqis out of their homes and country. See <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/3981375bf7b6a484e019c6eabbb366e7.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/3981375bf7b6a484e019c6eabbb366e7.htm</a> Let’s not forget the Judeo-Christian secular humanists who have driven millons of Iraqis out of their homes and country. See http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/3981375bf7b6a484e019c6eabbb366e7.htm

]]> By: D.B. Shobrawy http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-852 D.B. Shobrawy Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:02:44 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-852 an assyrian friend of mine moved here to the united states shortly before the war started, his father however was left there and unable to get a green card. A couple years into the war his father called him to inform his son that he got the green card and that he'd be leaving Iraq and reuniting with him. The next day the son recieved a call informing him that his father had been murdered by the death squads. an assyrian friend of mine moved here to the united states shortly before the war started, his father however was left there and unable to get a green card. A couple years into the war his father called him to inform his son that he got the green card and that he’d be leaving Iraq and reuniting with him. The next day the son recieved a call informing him that his father had been murdered by the death squads.

]]> By: Esra'a http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-851 Esra'a Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:57:29 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/07/05/islamic-group-driving-christians-away-from-mosul/#comment-851 This is awful news. I'm speechless! This is awful news. I’m speechless!

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