Syrian sanctuary for Iraq’s displaced Christians

Most analysts agree that the trigger to the venomous sectarianism now prevalent in Iraq – a land hitherto free of it – was the destruction of the Golden Mosque in Samarra last February. In a letter to you at the time (February 24), I said that the collapse of the secular Iraqi state "has unleashed the demons of sectarianism and the incubus of al-Qaeda", their access made possible by Bush and Blair. The iron law of unintended consequences – well, I think unintended – has also incubated another horror, the driving out of Iraq's Christian community: after 2000 years, they are going, fast.

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