The end of an ancient Christian community.

In all the meaningless nonsense spoken by Blair and Bush about Iraqi freedom, about the great future that await this hateful, discordant nation, the ancient Christian peoples of Mesopotamia are on the verge of extinction.

In the dying days of the first world war, the Ottomans massacred anything up to 800,000 Christian Mesopotamians, called Assyrians, along with their butchery of the Armenians, Greeks and Maronites. The remaining Christians have tried to get along since, avoiding the malevolent gaze of the people and governments of Iraq.

Since the toppling of the Ba'athist regime in 2003, the Christian peoples of Iraq have been all but been abandoned by the 'Christian' powers of the West, to the barbaric and Satanic power of the Islamic murderers.

"When they cook a dish in the Middle East, it is traditional to put the meat on top of the rice when they serve it. They kidnapped a woman's baby in Baghdad, a toddler, and because the mother was unable to pay the ransom, they returned her child beheaded, roasted and served on a mound of rice. The infant's crime was to be an Assyrian, but this story, reported byBarnabasnabus Fund, went unnoticed in the West, like so many other horrific accounts of Christian persecution in Iraq.

This is all done under the eyes of the coalition, Christian nations, can you imagine the howls of protest if this was the other way around?

"The latest report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that two million Iraqis have fled since the invasion, and almost a third of these are Assyrian who are down from 1.4 million in Saddam's Iraq to fewer than 500,000 today."

So, in other words, the Christians are being chased out of Iraq, a place Christians have been much longer then their Muslim supplanters, the same picture can be seen in Iran, Lebanon and Egypt, places once at the centre of the Christian world are now empty of believers, darkened by this wicked faith!

"The Assyrians are one of the world's oldest civilisations. Their empire collapsed in 612 BC after four and a half millennia of civilisation; Rome was still a village and the Angles and Saxons were a thousand years away from forming a partnership. Now, while one of the world's oldest Christian nations faces extinction at the hands of Islamic extremists, the West does nothing.

Their history has been one of struggle. They survived the Muslim Arab invasion of the seventh century, and centuries of Turkish rule, a period that culminated in the genocide of 1914-1918, known as the Sefyo (sword). While Turkey remains in a state of denial about the murder of one million Armenians, the rest of the world is largely unaware that as many as 750,000 Assyrians and 200,000 Greeks were also butchered on the orders of the Turks, largely aided by the Kurds."

Why do we all hear about the suffering of Muslims? These episodes in history are awful, and forgotten!

"But their main hope is for a Christian administrative area in the Nineveh Plains, once their ancient capital. Without this protection, their numbers will shrink until they will reach a tipping point. Soon, Assyrian civilisation may only exist in the British Museum, where their monuments still draw tourists from around the world. In the year that Britain agonises over its past role in the slave trade, it is inaction on the part of a nation that both created and destroyed Iraq that now threatens to blacken our country's name."

It is sad, that this ancient community will most probably vanish within our lifetimes, it is sad that the west stands by and looks the other way whilst their co-religionists are murdered, raped, humiliated and driven from their homes, shame on us!