"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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It was easy to allow the several hundred remaining Jews to worship.
You're forgetting
that at least 125,000 were evicted and not allowed to take more than a few
hundred dollars
of property. The Ba'ath Party finished the job with public hangings of
Jewish leaders in
'69. Some estimates claim that 40% of the population of Baghdad was
Jewish 100 years
ago.

http://www.jewishpress.com/news_arti...p?article=2612


You are correct. However, before the recent war, there were Jews living in
Iraq ... and they were free to practise their religion.

Also, Iraq was the only country in the region where Christians were free to
practice their faith. In theory, and to a lesser extent, in practice, there
was *more* freedom of religious expression in Saddam's Iraq, than in any of
the neighbouring countries.

Regards

Donal
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