The American Spectator : Iraq's Forgotten Minority

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Iraq's Forgotten Minority

By Doug Bandow on 1.2.07 @ 12:07AM

The country has become a particularly dangerous place for Christians.

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Generously accepting political refugees should be treated as separate from the larger immigration debate. The cause of Iraqi Christians is just and their numbers are small. Turning our backs on them would be contrary to America's most basic values, while demonstrating yet again that Washington can be counted on to forget its friends. That surely is not a lesson the administration should allow to emerge from its policy in Iraq.

There is no consensus about the best strategy in Iraq, but there should be agreement about the importance of protecting Iraq's dwindling Christian community. This is one moral obligation America should not break.

Doug Bandow is Vice President of Policy for Citizen Outreach and author of Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press). He is writing a book on religious persecution abroad.

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topics:
Business, Islam, Law, Military, Iraq, United Nations, Immigration

About the Author

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).