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025 - Iraq, not only oil-II

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12-20

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It is not Utopia.

A Christian Arab writes about Iraq. His name is Giuseppe Samir Eid and he is the author of essays on the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam. To the analysis he sent us, he gave the title: “Iraq: not just oil”. This is an appropriate title, because the bet on the future of the country of the Tigris and Euphrates goes far beyond material wealth; it is a project of free and peaceful coexistence between peoples and religions. And precisely from Iraq this future can be born and restore hope also to the Holy Land and Lebanon and to the tormented Middle East. “It’s not a utopia,” concludes Samir Eid’s analysis. Read for yourself.

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026 - Nativity: yes or no?

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12-20

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In this pre-Christmas period in some schools souls are warming up on the theme: “Nativity: yes or no?” with the excuse of respect for non-Christians, to “not offend” the new immigrants in Italy.

It should be noted that non-Christians have always been present in the schools but the problem only arose with the arrival of Muslims. Often those who pose the problem are not the Muslims themselves but precisely certain teachers, either to set trends or because they delude themselves into favouring integration by penalizing everything that is part of the Christian tradition. In the name of respect for differences and the protection of minorities, they renounce making the Nativity in the classroom on Christmas, they choose no poems or strictly non-religious songs for the Christmas play, and they ask to remove the crucifix from the walls of schools and hospitals.

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027 - The forgotten Martyrs

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Ambrosian Church 12-20 To know each other to co-exist and build peace.  The text on the systematic persecution and progressive marginalization of Christians in areas of Muslim domination was sent by Joseph Samir Eid. It is an impressive statistic of a “hidden tragedy” with data in progressive development in the various geographical areas.

The forgotten martyrs

Christians in the Middle East, Copts in Egypt, Maronites in Lebanon, Chaldeans in Iraq, Armenians in Turkey, Melkites or Orthodox in Syria, or Palestinians in Bethlehem, have been in a silent exodus for more than half a century. They are hunted from their native lands because of the war and the flow of Islam. Return to a hidden tragedy.

The main refugee population in the Middle East is not the Muslim Palestinians, victims of the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948, nor the Jews of the Arab countries and Iran, forced to a symmetrical exodus between 1945 and 1979, but the Christians of Arab, Aramaic, Armenian or Greek culture.

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029 - ISLAMIC TERRORISM AND PREVENTION: A CHALLENGE

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12-2004

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Original contributions

Aug-Sept-Oct 2004

Islamic terrorism and prevention: a challenge

Giuseppe Samir EID (R.C. MILAN SOUTH-EAST)

I read with interest the scenario described by Farotti in the May 5 Issue.

I would like to offer my contribution on some aspects of prevention just touched upon by the Author, but which help to complete the understanding of the phenomenon.

In the last forty years there has been a very strong demographic growth in Muslim societies, which has led to more than a doubling of the population. This has happened in geographical areas which, with the exception of a small privileged minority, are characterized by a very low economic level compared to that of the West, causing waves of migration towards Europe.

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