The Globe thinks we forget things.
Then:
"In the 1990s about 70,000 Mandaeans lived in Iraq. Today, only around 3,000 or so remain.... under Saddam Hussein, they had some protection. When his regime fell, it became a free-for-all.... an unintended consequence of the Iraq war."
WORCESTER — Massachusetts is home to the country’s largest and fastest-growing number of Mandaeans, members of a non-Arab, pre-Christian race whose 60,000 people have been scattered worldwide since Iraq erupted in sectarian violence in 2006.
Mandaeans are a monotheistic people who revere John the Baptist; regard running water, such as rivers, as sacred; do not intermarry; do not accept conversions; and speak an ancient Aramaic language.
So they are nutty religious extremists who are supremacists?
Sure looks that way!
They also are pacifists who, in Iraq, have suffered murder, rape, and kidnappings by Islamic extremists, and by criminals who target the Mandaeans’s traditional success as jewelers, said Wisam Breegi, a Mandaean refugee who lives in Woburn.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking, readers?
The "Jewish" Iraqis?
A total of 380 Mandaeans have emigrated directly to Massachusetts since 2008, according to State Department figures. Mandaean leaders estimate that at least 50 more refugees have migrated to Massachusetts from other states. “This is a place where they can not only start, but flourish,’’ said Breegi, whose jewelry store in Boston’s Downtown Crossing serves as a resettlement assistance center....
Yes, the COSTS of WAR NEVER END, Americans!
You must TAKE IN the REFUGEES from places YOU NEVER WANTED to INVADE in the FIRST PLACE -- and who WOULD NOT BE HERE had we NOT COMMITTED that ABOMINABLE and ATROCIOUS WAR-CRIME of an INVASION and OCCUPATION!!
Obscurity has been a survival tactic for a people, desperate not to be noticed, whose last mass migration occurred 2,000 years ago, Breegi said. Since they moved to lands in present-day Iraq and Iran in the first century, Breegi said, the Mandaeans have suffered waves of persecution and massacre....
Although they use the many streams and natural water around Worcester for their rituals, Breegi said, Mandaeans lack a temple and a cemetery. They also fear their children will drift from the religion in a culture that is rife with distractions. Already, Aljuhily said, he has been visited by Jehovah Witnesses who handed him Christian literature written in Arabic....
Here is some advice: Don't answer the door and wait until they leave.
If you do happen to make that mistake, tell them very firmly you are not interested and to get the hell of your property or you will call a cop!
I'm speaking from experience.
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And consider:
"Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's million or so Christians for the most part coexisted peacefully with Muslims, both the dominant Sunnis and majority Shiites (New York Times October 17, 2007)....
Sunnis, Shi'ites, and Christians lived side by side; many intermarried"
See why I no longer believe anything the lying, Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist War Daily says anymore?
Little CORN KERNELS in a BIG, STEAMING, STINKING TURD -- and I am tired of digging.
So how come the Mandaeans are not being sent back like other Iraqis?
"Iraqis not granted asylum sent home" by Associated Press | September 23, 2010
BAGHDAD — Several dozen Iraqis who did not gain asylum in Europe returned to Iraq yesterday despite concerns the country is still too dangerous, the UN refugee agency said.
Security has dramatically improved in Iraq since the height of sectarian bloodshed in 2006 and 2007, but the UN agency has urged governments not to force Iraqis who fled the country after the 2003 US-led invasion to return, citing continued attacks and human rights violations.
After the plane carrying the deportees landed at Baghdad’s airport, 10 of the passengers refused to disembark and had to be escorted off the aircraft by police, an airport official said.
The returnees did not resist the security personnel who boarded the plane but told them they were not returning to Iraq voluntarily, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
The official said all the deportees will be questioned by police before re-entering the country.
The plane arrived from Stockholm with 27 Iraqi deportees from Sweden, nine from Norway, four from the Netherlands, and an unknown number from the United Kingdom, Sybella Wilkes, a UN spokeswoman, said. The Iraqi official said 56 deportees were returned yesterday.
Most of the 2 million Iraqi refugees are living without permanent homes in neighboring Syria and Jordan.
That number has dropped by about 3 million according to my agenda-pushing press.
And have we THANKED THOSE COUNTRIES for HELPING US OUT and CARING for OUR MESS?
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I didn't think so.
