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Baghdad Jihadists Tear Down Crosses From Assyrian Churches, Tell Christians to Convert or Die

No offer of dhimmitude for them. "Islamists Tear Down Crosses From Assyrian Churches, Tell Christians to Convert or Die," from AINA, with thanks to Andrew Bostom:

Baghdad (AINA) -- An unidentified Islamic group has been threatening the Chrisitan Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) in the Dora district of Baghdad, a traditionally Assyrian area. The Islamic group issued an ultimatum yesterday to Assyrian families, telling them to leave Christianity and convert to Islam within 24 hours or they would all be killed.

The Islamic group also issued a fatwa (a religious edict) to confiscate the property of all Christians, to force Assyrian women to veil themselves, to forbid genuflection (making the sign of the Cross) and the wearing of the Cross.

Earlier the same Islamic group forcefully removed the Cross from the churches of St. John and St. George. An affiliated Islamic group in Northern Iraq occupied the Assyrian monastery of Raban Hormuz.

The persecution of the Assyrians in the Dora district has been relentless:

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