About ten days ago, Al Qaeda operatives invaded a Christian worship service being held in a church in Baghdad. By several accounts they began indiscriminately shooting and throwing grenades at the congregation. Security forces arrived, stormed the church, and dispatched the terrorists--but not without a great loss of innocent life.
France has announced a special asylum programme for 150 Iraqi Christians, with priority being given to those who survived wounded in the attack, according to a report in Al Jazeera. Good on the French.
The same article reports that
Al-Qaeda has declared Christians everywhere "legitimate targets" in the wake of the bloodshed at the Baghdad church.So be warned. Every Christian in the world should now consider that, like Salmon Rushdie, they have a fatwa hanging over their head. Not that it will change anything. We are called to be servants of the Living God, not to be in craven subjugation to the devil.
But the religious reality represented by Al Qaeda is becoming more evident.
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