Examining the Potential Impact of Sharia on Christians

September 10, 2005

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1772840,00.html

On September 10, 2005 The Times reported, "Exactly a week after the London bombings of July 7, two Iraqi bishops met Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor over dinner at a Roman Catholic church in Chelsea. Archbishop Louis Sako, of Kirkuk, and Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Abouna, of Baghdad, were in the capital on business: they specifically wanted the cardinal to approach the British Government on behalf of Iraq’s Christians, who, they said, were fleeing their country at the rate of 30,000 people a month. The two Chaldean Catholic leaders wanted Britain to intervene to try to stop Sharia being incorporated into the draft Iraqi constitution, fearing that they would become second-class citizens if Islamic religious law were imposed. Instead they wanted the constitution to be secular, guaranteeing equality under the law for all Iraqis."