Christians in the Arab World: A Guide!

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• Christians in the Arab world: A guide! 
  by http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/ 
  CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AMONGST ALL DEM MOOZLEMS?????? INCONCEIVABLE!!!! And not just a few, but as of this moment, as many as 12 million. Now, how do we reconcile this fact with what the Jewish mainstream media tells us on a daily basis, that DEM MOOSLEMS want to kill Christians, convert them by the sword, cut their heads off and circumcise their women?
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  Simple–these are cleverly crafted lies designed to propagandize the Christians of the West into supporting Israel’s wars against Muslims worldwide, plain and simple.
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  theweek.com 
  How many Christians live in the Middle East?
  Between 10 million and 12 million. The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and home to some of its oldest communities, but the Christian population has dropped dramatically over time, especially over the last decade. When Christianity was founded 2,000 years ago, it spread rapidly across the Roman Empire, into Egypt and westward. Mohammed began the Arab Muslim conquests in the 7th century, spreading Islam across the region, but he allowed Christians to continue practicing their religion. Christians remained a majority in parts of Iraq until the 14th century, when raids by Central Asian warlord Tamerlane decimated the community. The 20th century saw another precipitous drop, because of low birthrates and emigration among Christians. In 1900 Christians made up 25 percent of the population of the Middle East; by 2000 they were less than 5 percent. And then came the Iraq War.
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  What effect did that war have?
  After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, sectarian tensions long kept in check by Saddam Hussein erupted into civil war between Sunnis and Shiites. Christians — Aramaic-speaking Assyrians with an ancient lineage — were caught in the cross fire. In the decade since the invasion, more than half of Iraq’s Christians have fled to refugee camps in Syria or Jordan, reducing a prewar population of more than a million to some 400,000, mostly in the relatively tolerant enclave of Iraqi Kurdistan. In October 2010, just a few months after U.S. combat troops left, militants of al Qaida in Iraq laid bloody siege to Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Baghdad during Sunday evening mass, killing 58 people and wounding 78 more. “This tragic event sent a powerful message to Christians in Iraq — they are in grave danger and should leave the country,” said Tiffany Barrans of the American Center for Law and Justice. Christians in Arab Spring countries would soon feel the same way.
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