"Come Back to Iraq, Come Home"

Follow-up to Michael Yon's iconic photograph from last week, showing Muslims and Christians rebuilding a church in Baghdad:

Sissie wrote eloquently about that image and Michael Yon here.  Yesterday, Mass was held at this church, St. John's, and both Muslims and Christians attended the mass.  Their message:

"Today, Muslims mostly filled the front pews of St John’s. Muslims who want their Christian friends and neighbors to come home. The Christians who might see these photos likely will recognize their friends here. The Muslims in this neighborhood worry that other people will take the homes of their Christian neighbors, and that the Christians will never come back. And so they came to St John’s today in force, and they showed their faces, and they said, 'Come back to Iraq. Come home.' They wanted the cameras to catch it. They wanted to spread the word: Come home. Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. 'Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq.” "

H/T Solomonia

Comments

[Sissy Willis]

Ooh. Goosebumps. And thanks for the nice mention. :-)

[Thomas Shawn]

This is like asking their neighbors to come back on a suicide mission.