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  • Friday ,22 August 2014
العربية

It's time to treat the Christians fairly

By Dr. Abdul Khaliq Hussein

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Friday ,22 August 2014

It's time to treat the Christians fairly

It is indisputable that Christians are indigenous citizens in Iraq. Their existence in this country is prehistorically and they embraced Christianity since its very beginning as well. This is verified with tons of historical monuments museums and documents in Iraq.

Christens in Iraq and the Arab nation played a significant role in developing their countries and carried the Western civilization to the Arab world.

They do not lack the efficiency in all areas: scientific, medical, literary, artistic, media, academic, and political. As for their role in Iraq's modern history is explicit. They participated in all progressive movements and shared the most injustices and oppression by the government as well as the terrorist organizations. Such oppression has reached the peak by the terrorist organization of Daash.

As the new democracy of Iraq is suffering from childbirth and is struggling in order to consolidate its newborn democratic system, why don't we suggest that he next Iraqi president be a Christian man? Similar system is applied in India. Unfortunately, too many challenges face such idea.

Christians and other religious minorities, especially Yezidis, have suffered a lot by Daash and other gangs that commit their crimes in the name of Islam and Sunnis, but in fact they have nothing to do with Islam or Sunnis.

Now, a Christian man should take the office of
Vice President or the Deputy Prime Minister.

All the national and international powers, including the United Nations, called on Iraqi political leaders to form an Inclusive government that combine both efficiency and citizenship. The new Iraqi regime has to prove it doesn't discriminate between people based on their ethnicity or religion. This is the only way to earn the respect and support of the whole world.