{"id":34007,"date":"2019-05-29T06:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=34007"},"modified":"2019-05-29T06:48:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T06:48:33","slug":"constant-discrimination-drive-christians-out-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/05\/29\/constant-discrimination-drive-christians-out-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018CONSTANT DISCRIMINATION\u2019 DRIVE CHRISTIANS OUT OF IRAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leader of the Chaldean Church has called on the Iraqi government to put in place and enforce laws \u201cthat guarantee Christians and other religious minorities \u2026 full citizenship and freedom in practicing their faiths explicitly.\u201d \u201cThe absence of serious steps\u201d to protect the rights of minority faiths in the country, said Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako in a statement sent to Aid to the Church in Need, \u201cwill push the remaining Christians and minorities to choose emigration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christians and minorities \u201chave played a significant role in enriching Iraq\u2019s cultural, social and economic diversity, making valuable contributions to education, health, public administration and social services,\u201d said the Cardinal; without them, Iraq would become \u201ca country with one homogeneous fabric [that] could be isolated from the world and [which] may generate a kind of radicalism, [and] ethnic and sectarian fanaticism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patriarch Sako listed a number of factors that are pushing Christians and other minorities toward leaving the country. These include the ongoing \u201cfragility of the security situation\u201d and Iraq\u2019s \u201cinstitutional weakness at the level of justice,\u201d the state\u2019s failure to protect non-Muslims from discrimination in the realms of \u201ceducation, employment and social life,\u201d as well as at the political level. Christians with outstanding professional qualifications, the cardinal charged, are denied positions only because of their faith. \u201cQualification and competence,\u201d the cardinal insisted\u2014and not an individual\u2019s faith\u2014should be the \u201cmeasure for employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Furthermore the patriarch noted that Christians are denied their rightful quota of five seats in the Iraqi Parliament. He also called for the application of \u201ca civil law for all Iraqis,\u201d rather than Christians and other religious minorities being \u201csubjugated to [an] Islamic court, [with regard to] spiritual, religious matters, marriages, inheritance, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patriarch Sako proposed a number of additional \u201cpractical measures\u201d to fight the \u201cinjustice and discrimination\u201d suffered by religious minorities. He called on the Iraqi leadership and \u201cpolitical \u2018powers\u2019\u201d to combat \u201creligious extremism that uses violence\u201d and to take measures toward \u201cdisarming militias; providing security and stability; combating extremism, discrimination, terrorism and corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cardinal insisted that the Iraqi political leadership should promote \u201ccitizenship values\u201d that support the common good by drawing on \u201cprinciples of freedom, dignity, democracy, social justice and true relationship among all Iraqi citizens regardless of their religious, cultural and ethnic affiliations.\u201d Such policies will bring about harmonious \u201ccoexistence with Muslims\u201d for Iraqi\u2019s religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally, the Patriarch called for laws that help create \u201cgood conditions that guarantee Christians and other religious minorities \u2026 full citizenship and freedom in practicing their faiths explicitly; preserve their heritage, archeological and historical monuments as an integral part of Iraqi civilization, in order to enable them to continue their lives with dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Chaldean Church has called on the Iraqi government to put in place and enforce laws \u201cthat guarantee Christians and other religious minorities \u2026 full citizenship and freedom in practicing their faiths explicitly.\u201d \u201cThe absence of serious steps\u201d to protect the rights of minority faiths in the country, said Cardinal Louis Raphael&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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