This past Sunday in Baghdad, while Catholics were celebrating Mass at Our Lady of Salvation Church, gunmen from the Islamic State of Iraq, an Al-Qaeda affiliated organization, stormed the church and took 100 people hostage. Fifty-two people were killed in the attack, and 67 people were wounded.
The Islamic State of Iraq has vowed to continue its attacks, and is allegedly targeting Egypt’s Coptic minority for its supposed mistreatment of Christian women who convert to Islam, while a succession of bomb blasts once again rocked Iraq Tuesday evening, raising additional questions about the security services’ ability to cope.
The Daily Star, a newspaper in Lebanon, published this story dated tomorrow, November 3, 2010.
Caroline Glick posted a piece today, entitled "The Age of Dissimulation", in which she spoke of the atrocity at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad on Sunday. She wrote:
On Sunday, we received a grim reminder of the plight of such minorities with the Islamic terror attack on Baghdad's largest church, the Our Lady of Salvation Catholic church.
As some one hundred worshipers celebrated evening mass, Islamic terrorists stormed the church. According to an eyewitness account, they walked straight up to the priest administering the mass and executed him. The Muslim terrorists then took the Christian worshipers hostage.
As Iraqi military forces stormed the church under US military supervision, the Islamic terrorists threw grenades at the worshipers and detonated their bomb belts. By Monday, the death toll had reached 52. It will be interesting to see how Catholic officials in Iraq and throughout the world respond to this attack.
It will indeed be interesting to see how Catholic officials throughout the world respond to this attack.
