I have seen the Christians who fled Muslim Arab areas in Iraq. They fled to Kurdistan. They didn't fight. Other Christians didn't fight for them.
In this case, the fight is for religious freedom. In this day and age, Christians as a rule don't fight as in physical violence and war with their enemies who persecute them. Instead it's exactly as Fr. Ganni wrote before he was killed. He considered it a "privilege" that he had always been able to witness to the way in which "Divine providence is revealed through many quite humble people whose only goal is to work for the Kingdom of God by following the example of Jesus".
For the last year in his discussions with various world diplomats Pope Benedict has highlighted the growing assaults on religious freedoms around the world. He condemns the attacks and calls for the governments of these regions to adopt effective measures for the protection of religious minorities.
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This news article from AsiaNews.it goes directly to our discussion.
» 04/26/2011 17:29
LIBYA
The war in Libya, another Vietnam
by Maurizio d'Orlando
The military escalation appears to be going beyond the initial UN mandate. Appeals by the Pope and the bishop of Tripoli to give diplomacy rather than weapons a chance have been ignored. The war between Libyan rebels and Italy (in the early part of the 20th century) lasted about 20 years. The military intervention marks the end of the Peace of Westphalia as well as Western democracy.
Milan (AsiaNews) – The ghost of another Vietnam is haunting the Mediterranean. What a month ago was still called a “humanitarian action” to save Libyans from Gaddafi’s violence has become a war. Despite appeals by Benedict XVI (on Easter Sunday for instance) in favour of diplomacy against the use of weapons, Italy has opted for escalation, agreeing to bomb “targets in Libya”. A few days ago, the United States approved the use of drones against military objectives (the same drones that kill civilians in Pakistan).
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Here is the link for the rest of the article and although it's rather lengthy, it is well worth the read.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-war-in-Libya,-another-Vietnam-21393.html
Check out the last 4 paragraphs.
Libya thus appears to herald another guerrilla war, the way Vietnam was for the United States. Sending instructors brings back ominous memories, suggesting that Europe might have found its own Vietnam. At the start, the war in the Southeast Asian nation was low key but then things began escalating. President Kennedy’s initial deployment of 900 military instructors in 1961 jumped to 11,000 by 1962. At its peak, US troop deployment in 1969 was 543,000.
The prospect that Islamist and extremist (Salafis and al-Qaeda) leaders could replace Nasserite nationalist Arab leaders (Hosni Mubarak, Gaddafi and Ben Ali) in the Mediterranean and the Arab world is a source of real concern. If that should pass, a world wide clash clash between secularist and Islamist fronts would be a real possibility.
What is also of great concern is the fact that the military involvement in Libya is not only a neo-colonial war, but also the death warrant for the era that began with the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648. Thus, United Nations Resolutions 1970 and 1973 mark the end of the principle of national sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs (based on the principle ‘Cuius regio, eius religio’) of an internationally recognised sovereign and independent nation. A world directory or government and a world central bank thus appear to be real possibilities. If this were the case, the war in Libya would mean the end of Western democracy and the system that developed in the past 300-400 years.