Madrid, Spain, Oct 20, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The Spanish newspaper “La Razon” published a remarkable report this week claiming that terrorists from Al Qaeda now have their sights set on Iraqi Christian children, who are being threatened with death in order to get them to convert to Islam.
According to correspondent Fernando Perez Barber, who filed his report from Baghdad, “the international Islamic criminal group, Al Qaeda, is proposing to ‘use dynamite’ to force Christians out of Iraq.”
“Such is the frequency and reach of the attacks, kidnappings and briberies that it is no longer possible to continue to deny that the ‘Jihadists’ of Al Qaeda have made Chaldean-Assyrian Christians their targets of choice. In their impromptu meetings after religious services, the faithful have begun to realize that the Christian community is boxed in.”
The radicals have succeeded in terrorizing Christians through the “destruction of Christian-owned distilleries, the selective assassination of alcoholic beverage vendors, the threatening of women who do not wear the veil, and lastly, through the bombing of churches.”