IL SILENZIO SULLE PERSECUZIONI
di Angelo Panebianco
Dopo l’attacco di gruppi riconducibili ad Al Qaeda contro una chiesa di Bagdad che provocò cinquanta morti e un centinaio di feriti October 31 last year, a new wave of attacks has targeted this time, the houses inhabited by Christians, the provisional budget, which is likely to rise to at least three dead and dozens wounded. In Iraq and it is open season on Christians, says Archbishop Matoka, Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Baghdad, "the government does nothing to stop the attacks." It's easy for Westerners, settled the issue as one of the many tragic consequences of the war in Iraq. There is some truth but is also an insufficient explanation. Just as it is insufficient to note that what is happening is partly a result of U.S. choice perhaps premature to declare closed the war in Iraq and to withdraw the bulk of the troops. A withdrawal that left Iraq at the mercy of Iranian hegemonic plans and is undermining the work done in his time, by General David Petraeus: the Sunni insurgency is now in a strong recovery as well as the activism of Al Qaeda. Christians, unarmed and therefore easy targets, are victims in a power struggle between Islamic groups.
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