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Former Iraqi lawmaker says number of Christians leaving Iraq rising
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In 1980, 1.8 million Christians lived in Iraq; however, unconfirmed data in 2014 showed that only 400,000 Christians remain in Iraq,†Slewa stated.
When the so-called Islamic State emerged in Iraq in 2014, the Christian population was forced to take refuge in the Kurdistan Region or immigrate abroad to escape religious extremism and political instability.
According to the former lawmaker, after the 2003 liberation of Iraq and the Islamic State’s military defeat, successive governments in Iraq continue to discriminate against certain religious minorities, forcing the Christians to leave the country.
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Those 3 paragraphs tell you a lot of what one needs to know, it got real bad in 2014 because of most likely, Obama's poor management of Iraq.
