'there Is No Future In Iraq.' Christian Refugees Escape To France

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I hope for these Christians' sake they are not bothered in France by Muslims the way the Jews are now.

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'There is no future in Iraq.' Christian refugees escape to France


Refugee families leaving Iraqi Kurdistan under threat of the Islamic State expressed skepticism that Muslims and Christians can continue living together in Iraq.

By John Irish and Antony Paone, Reuters SEPTEMBER 20, 2014
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ARBIL, IRAQ — On a warm evening at Arbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan some 150 mostly Christian refugees anxiously waited to flee their homeland aboard a French government plane.

The refugees, of all ages and from 25 different families, had one message as they prepared to fly to Paris to escape the threat of Islamic State militants: Christians and Muslims can no longer live together in Iraq.

Shakeep, a 46-year-old lawyer who worked at Mosul's main law court, was taking his wife, mother, daughter and nephew to Tours in western France, where his uncle lives. One bag each was all they had left of their belongings.

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