Translated by Baghdadhope
Cardinal Bagnasco words "describe a real situation Iraqi Christians are suffering for" but at the same time show that its cause is not Islam but those fundamentalists who absurdly claim to represent." Father Philip Najim, the Chaldean procurator to the Holy See, commented in this way to Sir, the statement made by the President of the CEI who yesterday, during the Permanent Council, denounced "the too long suffering of Christianity in Iraq" talking of "religious cleansing". "We are in Ramadan, when the Muslim is required to fast and to examine his conscience. We are amazed for the violence against Christians in this time,"said Najim recalling Bagnasco's words referring to the two Chaldeans lately killed in Iraq. "It is the same Koran - he recalls - that calls for a dialogue of peace with Christians who believe to the only God. The dialogue, however, must be based on the centrality of God and not on dogma. What unites us is the faith in the only God." For the procurator "to persecute Christians and other minorities means to remove God from one's live taking his place. Islam is not represented by fundamentalists who spread blood in the name of faith that cannot be manipulated to create division and suffering for the people. "