Iraq's Mandaeans 'face extinction'
By Angus Crawford BBC News, Damascus
Islamic militants forced Selwan to jump into a bonfire The Sabian Mandaeans - one of the oldest religious groups in the world - are facing extinction, according to its leaders. They claim that Islamic extremists in Iraq are trying to wipe them out through forced conversions, rape and murder.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6412453.stm

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom ...This ethnic cleansing has resulted in clearing a lot of Baghdad areas from Mandaeans and other minorities. In other cities in Iraq the situation is not ...
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An exodus to Sweden from Iraq for ethnic Mandaeans - International ...Mandaeans, a distinct ethnic group estimated to number no more than 70000 ... Here, they escape the sectarian cleansing that was unleashed by the fall of ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/09/asia/mandeans.php

From the BBC, news that, having ethnically cleansed Jews from Arab countries back in 1948, the Muslims are looking to repeat that success on an even smaller religious minority: the Mandaeans:... When I get into debates about Islam, I invariably find myself being accused of "intolerance", if not "racism". And yet Islam is the embodiment of intolerance. In Iraq, the Muslims, in full accordance with the laws of their religion, are practising ethnic cleansing directed not only against Mandaeans, but also against Christians. And yet if I criticise that, in the mind of the liberal apologist for Islam, I am a bigot.
http://fulhamreactionary.blogspot.com/2007/03/islamic-tolerance.html

IRAQ: Religious and ethnic minorities want rights enshrined in new ...The Mandaeans are smaller in number at some 100000 and live mainly in southern Iraq, ..... The Ethnic Cleansing of christians In Iraq Continues Nov. 13, 04 ...
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/constitu.html



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