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Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St. John’s. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos likely will recognize their friends here. The Muslims in this neighborhood worry that other people will take the homes of their Christian neighbors, and that the Christians will never come back. And so they came to St. John’s today in force, and they showed their faces, and they said, “Come back to Iraq. Come home.” They wanted the cameras to catch it. They wanted to spread the word: Come home. Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. “Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq.”
Michael Yon has been embedded in Iraq for some time .He manages to report on the news the rest of the MSM somehow misses.
Do you think that the sectarian rivalries were perhaps over-stated and intentionally inflamed by outside agitators ? Perhaps the Iraqi people are more tolerant then we have been led to believe ?
Wow, I don't really know what to say about this. I find it amazing that the Church has reopened, and that the Muslims came out in force to show support for their Christian neighbors. I have to admit that this post from Mr. Yon makes me question my own beliefs about rank and file Iraqis and their relationship with Christians. If both Christians and Muslims in Iraq are saying openly that there is no rift between them, that's a pretty good sign.
There was once a large Jewish community in Iraq. Much of the Talmud was written and debated in Babylon in the great study halls of Sura and Pumpaditha. The largest Jewish community in the world during the 1st -3rd Centuries was located in Iraq after the destruction of the Great Temple by Rome. The Jewish community there flourished for a time, and grew.
What if...
What if the Iraqis in Mr. Yon's story could be as accepting of the Jews as they are of the Christians. Maybe someday they can be.
I think the displaced Jews of the ME should converge on Annapolis and demand the right of return and just compensation (estimated conservatively at $300 billion )
As you know my brother's still over in Iraq completing his duty. He thinks he might be back in Germany to his base in December or possibly move back to the States, as early as next year. He's almost retired and wants to go from his MOS in engineering to recruiter for his last few years.
Thanks for sharing this news. The positive side doesn't get reported enough. I think the agitators are people, some news media, that didn't question the facts. Rather like most of the protesters, they are accomplices in a passive mode when it comes to not supporting our troops. But kudos to exceptional reporters like Michael Yon.
As you may have noticed I use Michael’s blog as my source for information as to what is going on in Iraq. He thinks the way things are going he will be in Afghanistan next year. I’m looking forward to getting the straight scoop on what’s happing there.
“I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John’s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome. A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from “Chosen” Company 2-12 Infantry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope. The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ” Thank you, thank you,” the people were saying. One man said, “Thank you for peace.” Another man, a Muslim, said “All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.” The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers
Wow, I don't really know what to say about this. I find it amazing that the Church has reopened, and that the Muslims came out in force to show support for their Christian neighbors. I have to admit that this post from Mr. Yon makes me question my own beliefs about rank and file Iraqis and their relationship with Christians. If both Christians and Muslims in Iraq are saying openly that there is no rift between them, that's a pretty good sign.
There was once a large Jewish community in Iraq. Much of the Talmud was written and debated in Babylon in the great study halls of Sura and Pumpaditha. The largest Jewish community in the world during the 1st -3rd Centuries was located in Iraq after the destruction of the Great Temple by Rome. The Jewish community there flourished for a time, and grew.
What if...
What if the Iraqis in Mr. Yon's story could be as accepting of the Jews as they are of the Christians. Maybe someday they can be.
That would be something to behold...
Elliot
Some interesting facts about Iraq:
1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq (not Evan Almighty, the real Noah)
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!
6. Isaac’s wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq.
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq
8. Jonah (from the whale) preached in Nineveh, which is in Iraq
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
10. Amos cried out in Iraq.
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.
12. Daniel was in the lion’s den in Iraq!
13. The three Hebrew guys that were in the fiery furnace (along with Jesus) were in Iraq
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the “writing on the wall” in Iraq
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq
17. The wise men were from Iraq
18. Peter preached in Iraq
19. The “Empire of Man” described in Revelation is called Babylon, which is a city in Iraq Israel is the nation that is most often mentioned in the Bible. But do you know what is the second most mentioned nation? You guessed it….Iraq! However, they do not use the name Iraq in the Bible they refer to it as Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Some interesting facts about Iraq:
1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq (not Evan Almighty, the real Noah)
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!
6. Isaac’s wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq.
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq
8. Jonah (from the whale) preached in Nineveh, which is in Iraq
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
10. Amos cried out in Iraq.
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.
12. Daniel was in the lion’s den in Iraq!
13. The three Hebrew guys that were in the fiery furnace (along with Jesus) were in Iraq
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the “writing on the wall” in Iraq
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq
17. The wise men were from Iraq
18. Peter preached in Iraq
19. The “Empire of Man” described in Revelation is called Babylon, which is a city in Iraq Israel is the nation that is most often mentioned in the Bible. But do you know what is the second most mentioned nation? You guessed it….Iraq! However, they do not use the name Iraq in the Bible they refer to it as Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Absolutely true.
One that you forgot is the fact that Isaac's wife, Rebecca was also from Iraq. Iraq was, once upon a time, the most culturally and scientifically advanced nation in the world. I have always had a great admiration of historical Babylon as a great power.
Now that is impressive, worthy of above the fold front page news on every paper in the country. Have you sent a copy of that to Hillary and Schmucky? While you're at it, remind of the good news on the NY Times front page.
I just thought about it, and even if this made all the MSM the left would just say they got along fine while Saddam was in power. Why? Because they've said it before. Anything like this is bound to be in spite of Bush in their eyes. How sad.
WAKE UP AMERICA blog has identified why we are getting so much good news from the war. It turns out there is a vast right wing media conspiracy that waits for the Democrats to go on holiday to flood the media with good news.
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