An Iraqi news anchorwoman working for the Iraqi cable TV Sumaria, headquartered in Beirut, has begun wearing a cross in support of Assyrians/Christians in Mosul, Iraq. Dalia AlAqidi, a Sunni Muslim from Iraq, says that this as not a “religious initiative but an uprising against anyone trying to obliterate civilization…If I do not speak and others remain silent then as the saying goes ‘He who is silent about justice is a mute devil.'”
Her initiative has received wide artistic support. She has contacted Iraqi artists to design lapel pins picturing the Cross and Crescent, symbolizing a civilization facing bleak darkness.
Dalia defended wearing the Cross, which is forbidden in Mosul, and has shrugged off threats already aimed at her. Writing on her Facebook page, she said she already received calls from Saudi Arabia. “I started getting calls from Saudi Arabia on the wisdom of wearing the cross. I say to you people my issue is humanitarian, cultural, civilized, far from religion, and non-negotiable. I’m not trying to change anyone’s religion.”
In an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar, she says “What is the use of history and civilization, if we go backward to the days of ignorance and backwardness, Christians are indigenous people of this land and we cannot continue if they are absent or the absence of any other Iraqi component…You, the penitential (Takfiris), the unbelievers, the polytheists, the apostates, and the decapitators, I am a simple human being defending the rights of my countrymen without checking their identity…Our religion is a religion of tolerance, and this political Islamic fascism made even moderate Muslims like myself ashamed of their faith and their community and fear pushes many to commit to silence, and I will not be silent about this injustice.”
Please pray for the Iraqi Christians and for Dalia AlAqidi and her safety.–Assyrian International News Agency
I am impressed. This is exactly what the Middle East needs. This is real courage. God bless her.
Dalia AlAqidi is brave and she is behaving as a human being.
Sometimes not even christians are behaving in this manner
and therefore such courage is to be applauded in a big way.
The Lord says He who does not shy from defending the sign of the Cross
and faces the world with great determination in what he truly believes in,
then I shall not forget him and will ask God the Father to Bless that soul.
Let there be many Dalias who can be having the strength and the stamina
to face the barabarians who in this day and age are committing such horrible
atrocities against human kind. But someday the arm of God will get to them too.
I pray that Dalia and others like her, may continue to defend the weak and the
silent who are suffering in Iraq and other war suffering zones…
Lord God have mercy and keep your mighty arm and guard and guide Dalia.
sincerely
George Stagno Navarra
Sliema / Malta ( Roman Catholic)
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