Iraq: Muslims murder another Christian in Mosul

Posted by Robert on March 17, 2010 2:02 PM

Will the Islamophobia never end? "Iraq: Christian killed in northern city of Mosul," from [1] AKI, March 17 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Baghdad, 17 March (AKI) - Masked gunmen on Wednesday shot dead an Iraqi Christian in the northern city of Mosul, the Assyrian Christian website Ankawa.com reported. The city has been at the centre of a number of attacks targeting Christians in recent months.

Yaqub Adam, a 54-year-old father was hit by a hail of bullets fired from a pistol with a silencer. He was murdered near the shop where he worked as a glassmaker.

It was the first Christian killing since Iraq's national elections on 7 March and came less than a week after 122 Christian families returned to Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province.

Around 800 families had left their homes in Mosul in the past few months to seek safety in villages in the surrounding province, Mosul's bishop Monsignor Emil Shimoun Nona, told Adnkronos International (AKI).

Over 40 Christians have been killed in Mosul in the past three months in bomb and gun attacks in a resurgence of the violence which killed 40 Christians and caused more than 12,000 to flee in 2008....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/iraq-muslims-murder-another-christian-in-mosul.html

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[1] http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.1.134832122