Christmas is now an official holiday in Iraq
You're welcome :)
Ah yes shia rulling
Soon you will all be our brothers in Christ Jesus.
George W. Bush is smiling from heaven
Is he on a flight somewhere?
incoming global poger face screencap
On a flight to the farm upstate
The cr*Stcucks did this.
Why?
what a bunch of cucks
Damn, I know that there's a sizable Christian population in Iraq, but enough to make Christmas a holiday?
Or is it just a matter of instituting a gift-giving holiday to promote commerce?
Thank you, Saddam
You mean GHWB. GWB is still alive.
This is cuckoldry incarnate.
This is the equivalent of USA making Ramadam a holyday
shut the fuck up nerd
What’s the problem with recognizing ramadan as a holiday?
why would a 99% muslim wartorn islamic hellhole do this?
It's already in most of India:
en.wikipedia.org
Same with Islamic holidays:
en.wikipedia.org
Only 3rd world country that is so submissive and cucked beyond hope. Sad.
this is like if it was common practice for americans to take on the jewish rite of circumcision haha
retard
Assyrian Catholic Church exists in Iran and Syria
They use the Chaldean rite and are in full communion with the Catholic Church
Iraq was safe for Christians during Saddam and it has slowly become safe again.
kill all christians
and is also one of the oldest
What? Why? I could understand Ramadan start and end or something but why a Christian holiday?
Christians are not immigrants in the land that is now Iraq. They have been there for 1800+ years.
Christians have been in the Levant since before and after Mohammad came knocking in
Christians were established in Iraq and the Middle East long before I*lam and often were in high positions or well-educated
They are a minuscule minority
Because Iraq clearly needs more sectarian strain, the place is getting too boring and safe, obviously.
Hmh, okay that does make more sense. Still weird that a 97% Muslim country would do this.
4D Chess
>tf
>tp
I think it’s bullshit
haha
Fucking cucks
This is what I admire about India desu, I remember reading that they've had presidents(or prime minsters?) of every major faith in India.
>George W. Bush
>christian
What's he doing up there?
the iraqi government probably wants christians to vote for them in the next elections
george H. W. bush is the dead one you idiot
There have been Christians in Iraq for several hundred years longer than there have been muslims.
india has much bigger problems than religion
Hurray Iraq!
thanks saddam
hmm...
based
amen
>republicans
>going to heaven
And you guys still doubt that they will become a superpower in a year
hate salafis
tolerate normal sunnis
love me catholics
love me eastern orthodox
tolerate me shias
simple as
>politicians
>going to heaven
Fixed. They all sold their souls long ago user.
Ebin
I still don't know the difference between Iran and Iraq.
Which one is supposed to be not a Muslim savage one?
>there's a sizable Christian population in Iraq,
Yep. So why the fuck not make a holiday for everyone? Everybody wins. Makes perfect sense to me and is a great gesture.
Yes presidents but India has also had non-Hindu prime ministers.
The "Superpower 2020" meme was created by Abdul J. Kalam, a rocket scientist and former president of India.
Iran=Persia
They are both muslim savages, but Iran was on right path until islamic revolution in 1970 happened.
Iraq is mesopotamia
Iran (from Aryan) is persia
Iraq was fucked in the ass in early 2000s.
Iran has not been (yet)
99229041
>2k18
>believing in tales
I love this post so much
They're a tiny minority.
Imagine making every single religious holiday a holiday in all countries
>implying this is anything but a good thing
Don't care
They are still sandnigger subhumans and shouldn't be allowed in white countries
>americans lost
>saddam's sodomized corpse is rotting in his grave
>isis is gone
>isr*eli are throwing a sissy fit
>secularism is dead
>west lost iraq for good
>iran and russia spreading their influence
>qatar pipeline is going through
>christianity is thriving
>madan came back
>s*nni utterly btfo
its as if God watched over iraq to make sure everything went absolutely perfect against all odds
hes just a racist brainlet, same as the americans that sperg out if you say happy holidays because god forbid 5 billion people on the planet celebrate something else or nothing
This isn't American imperialisms
Christianity has been practiced in Iraq centuries before in England
>Damn, I know that there's a sizable Christian population in Iraq, but enough to make Christmas a holiday?
I find that even those who know of their/our existence such as yourself usually underestimate their prominence and size. Such is the fate of being primarily both Eastern Christian and Kurdistani - the two most ignored categories, put together. Just look at this thread to see a reluctance to acknowledge the facts.
Iraqi Christians have had a significant political presence in Iraqi government since its independence and their participation as Levies in WWII, and in particular they are a "Question" or topic for resolving, since the threat of their disappearance.
To illustrate it for you, Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, was a major Christian center "Tagrit" whose population has retained Christian customs to this day. "Tagrit" was the center for Jacobites in what is now Iraq, Antiochene Christians tied to the Coptic church.
You probably mean the "Chaldean Catholic Church". Whereas "Syriac Catholic Church" as well as the Maronites follow Antiochene rituals, Chaldean Catholic ritual is Parthian/Chaldaic/etc..
The majority of them converted from "Nestorianism" to Roman Catholicism in the 19th century. Perhaps speaking of Syria you meant the Nestorians. Many of them settled in northeast Syria following WWI, where I. S. I. S. attacked them. Not as many are Roman Catholic.
Yes, and growth of Catholicism among them has roots in the 13th century, and the abovementioned church began in 1552. The Lebanese were already Catholic by then, it seems.
You should understand it goes beyond recognizing Christmas. There is a whole independence movement that is now a century old - a Christian state on Iraqi territory was proposed in the diplomacy after WWI. Several singers living in the U.S. have made nationalistic songs, and their 'flag' has been heavily promoted.
I advise you to do more research. The mainstream press does not recognize the difference between north and south Iraq. Christianity is as significant in the north (which is culturally Kurdistan and not Arabic) as it is in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, etc. The 99%, 97% statistic simply should be ignored, as 90% of Americans are also non-Californian. Just in general, I advise some research into the fact that northeast Syria, southeast Turkey, north Iraq and parts of Iran are a society of their own where Kurdish, Aramaic, Turkmen, Circassian, Armenian, Azeri, Persian, and Arabic are spoken, and entire religious groups are located such as the Yezidis. Not just Aran Muslims.
This region has been forgotten thoroughly by those who get their information from the mainstream press.
Arab Muslims.
Why do Americans do this?
Operation Iraqi Freedom was a success.
You would have thought we'd at least know our own presidents
Ok, but in America the vast majority of people celebrate Christmas you dumbfuck.
i see a lot of the right wingers whine about saudi arabia taking no refugees but if remember correctly they do but they dont refer to them as refugees
yeah killing all those iraqis definitely wasn't part of the greater israel and oil plan - it was to save christmas!
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They'll finally get to enjoy Mariah Carey's all i want for xmas is u?
Why are Muslims such giant cucks?
The city Suleymaniyyah in Iraq is named after someone of Georgian descent.
Just for accuracy, I should point out that a large proportion of them actually are 'immigrants' ethnically cleansed from what is now Southeast Turkey in WWI and living in Iraq and Syria since the 1930s. Nevertheless in the case of Iraq it wasn't a huge difference. There are also Armenian Christians there who have been there since before WWI, with the spread of the Armenian diaspora.
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>Almost 75% of Iraq's population lives in the flat, alluvial plain stretching southeast from Tikrit to the Persian Gulf.
About 90% of Iraq's Christians are native to the area containing the other 25%, to the north. So just that fact, ignoring many others I could bring up means that in practice locally the "2%" is 8%. Coptic people are also located in the part of Egypt with 25% of the population. Meaning that if you go by percent of Egypt, Iraq, etc.'s total population percentage who are Christians, you will get a completely false picture, and many in the West/Europe seem to be misled about the Middle East in this way.
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Didn't the Iraqi government itself say it was a crusade?
It was under the Baath government as well. The founder of the Baath party was a Chaldean Christian
So is it safe to say that the war on Christmas has been won, my fellow MAGApedes?
Good idea, if your nation was ravaged by religious extremists taking steps towards religious tolerance when you got the chance isnt a bad idea
Absolute brainlet
Iraq shilling for muh religious tolerance so that next year western countries start recognizing Islamic holidays.
4d chess
>ramadan
>implying it’s a holi”day” anywhere
dumb
>making every single religious holiday a holiday
>Not having public holiday for buddhist, hindu,islam, christian and chinese new year on top of national holidays giving a total of at least a month of public holiday every year.
Its like you enjoy working or something.
publicholidays.com.my
Don't Muslims consider Jesus to be one of the prophets anyway?
Yes but for us Jesus isn't the son of god
It's a win-win situation