Seven weeks before he died, Father Thaer Abdal was standing beside the gnarled stone grotto to the Virgin Mary in Sayidat al-Nejat church, an extremely worried man.
Sayidat al-Nejat means “Our Lady of Salvation,” and the young Syrian Catholic priest feared that his Baghdad congregation might soon be needing a measure of that divine salvation.
Thousands of miles away in Gainesville, Fla., the Rev. Terry Jones, was planning to burn a Koran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Father Thaer was afraid that after a period of relative calm for his parishioners, Christians in Iraq were about to be targeted again.
The Koran-burning was canceled, but anti-Christian hatred had already been stirred by the widespread advance publicity. And whether or not the Koran burning threat contributed to what was to come, the Iraqi priest’s fears proved correct.
On Sunday during a service, he was shot dead at the altar, alongside his worshipers, when gunmen burst into the church intending “to kill, kill, kill,” as one survivor recalled.
Thanks, fucktard, for endangering the lives of Christians around the world in the pursuit of your idiotic headlines.
(note: I am not attempting to promote any particular strain of Christianity, or promote it above any other religion, just that idiot-boy down in Florida got his co-religionists killed because he couldn't keep his pie-hole shut when a camera got too close. fuck him.)
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