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On November 21st,
2004 while Layla, a mother of two orphans, was
heading home at Al-Dawara in Baghdad, a fanatic
Islamist thug stopped her and ordered her to take
off her Cross so she could become clean again!
Layla refused to remove
her Cross using strict and polite words. The
extremist Moslem reached to her Cross, snapped it
off, threw it on the ground, then grabbed his gun
and shot her in the head.
Like Layla, Chaldeans
(Native Iraqis-Christians) and other non-Moslem
minorities (Jews, Minda=ians,
& Yazidis) have suffered horrific violence by
Extremist Islamist Arabs.
Today Christian Iraqis and
non-Moslem minorities face the darkest phase of
extremist groups in Middle East history. What is
shocking is that the whole world is tongue-tied,
just watching, in silence, the ongoing genocide of
Christians and other non-Moslem minorities!
This genocide is the
result of the Saudi Wahabist ideology, and is part
of many previous Christian persecution periods that
were started a long time ago in the Middle East.
This new phase was well planned and financed by
Saudi princes, sheikhs and fanatic Wahabist imams of
Saudi Arabia, the most extremist Moslem country in
the world. Not to mention the other Islamist player,
Iran. Their militia is mostly concerned in enforcing
Islamic law by forcing the non-Moslem women to wear
Islamic clothing, prohibiting the selling of alcohol
and a few other practices that are considered a
clear violation of Human Rights and the UN Bill of
Rights.
Due to their tremendously positive impact on Iraq=s
daily life, the ongoing ordeals of Non-Moslem Iraqis
especially Christians are the worst example in comparison
to the ordeals experienced by other Middle Eastern
Christians. The orchestrated killing, the raping of
women and young girls and the looting of fortunes
and properties are common daily practices in Iraq
these days. Recently, converting Christians to Islam
by force has become the extremists=
new operation. If one refuses to convert, he or she
faces the two laws governing Islam=s
Shari=a:
either having to flee their homeland or being beheaded.
Amer Hanna Fatuhi,
who lost his sister-in-law Layla in 2004,
created twelve art works using Layla as a symbol
for the ongoing genocide of Iraqi Christians and
other non-Moslem minorities.
He intends to show
these art works on July 31st, 2007 at
the (Royal Oak Public Library Showroom), then at
Mesopotamia Art Gallery ( Ferndale ) to reach
out to those individuals and organizations that
are concerned with providing equality to all
human beings.
To learn more about this
project or about the ongoing sufferings of Iraqi
Christians and other minorities in this Iraqi reign
of chaos, or if you are interested in supporting the
spreading of this crucial message to the whole world
to SAVE Iraqi Christians and other minorities in
Iraq and the Middle East, kindly visit the visual
artist and historian Amer Hanna Fatuhi at:
www.amerfatuhiart.com
or
www.mesopotamiaartgallery.com
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