Embattled Christians push for homeland in Middle East - Fox News

[TomSea]

Embattled Christians push for homeland in Middle East

Christians driven from their ancestral homelands and persecuted by Islamist terrorists are pressing for an autonomous region of their own if the dust of Middle East violence ever settles.

Representatives of Iraq's Christian and Yazidi communities, as well as members of other religious minorities, convened in Washington last weekend and put forward a plan to carve out a sovereign state in the Nineveh Plain. Their plan has the backing of several lawmakers, including Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., who introduced a congressional resolution supporting the idea last week.

“Christians, Yazidis and other ethnic and religious minorities have been slaughtered and driven from their homes by ISIL’s horrific genocide,” Fortenberry told advocacy groups at  In Defense of Christians' national convention last week.

The plan is a response to declarations by Congress and the State Department last March that ISIS was responsible for genocide against Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities in the region. A safe zone that could evolve into a sovereign state could allow them to remain safe from the black-clad jihadist army, say backers.

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[geronl]

Should have been Lebanon

[geronl]

This ethnic cleansing has been happening for a century all over the middle east and now Africa.

It's not a new thing.

[Cripplecreek]

Christians driven from their ancestral homelands and persecuted by Islamist terrorists are pressing for an autonomous region of their own if the dust of Middle East violence ever settles.

[Cripplecreek]

This ethnic cleansing has been happening for a century all over the middle east and now Africa.

It's not a new thing.

Yup. The Christian population of the middle east was around 40% in 1900. Today its around 2% give or take a few points.

[geronl]

Yup. The Christian population of the middle east was around 40% in 1900. Today its around 2% give or take a few points.

 


and I don't want to hear any of the myths and lies that Saddam or Ghaddafi was good for Christians.

[Cripplecreek]

and I don't want to hear any of the myths and lies that Saddam or Ghaddafi was good for Christians.

Good only in the sense that they didn't single the Christians out. They were equal opportunity oppressors.

[TomSea]

I personally do not believe all Middle Eastern Christians are "anti-semites". I hope they can get their own land.

[Fishrrman]

Fishrrman's solution:

Drive the muslims from Lebanon, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.
Clean the place out of every man, woman, and child.

Then give Lebanon to the Middle-east Christians.

Let them establish a coalition with Israel to defend their borders.

This proposition is intended to be taken seriously.