More strife in the mideast:

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Time for Israel to Retake the Philadelphia Corridor Beyond the Cusp

This morning Israel came under a barrage of fifty Mortars fired in a massive attack from the Gaza Strip. Hamas proudly took full credit for this escalation. Apparently Hamas does not have any apprehensions about being speedily restocked and fully supplied with the tools used in the continued terror campaign against Israel. They are fully confident that the necessary armaments will flow freely from Egypt with the new management (read Muslim Brotherhood and fellow sympathizers) since the overthrow of Mubarak.

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front lines: Iraqi archbishop: Time is running out for Iraq's Christians

Iraqi archbishop: Time is running out for Iraq's Christians - Jihad Watch

Qur'an 2:256 says "there is no compulsion in religion." There are, however, innumerable means of coercion intended to make life so inconvenient, unpleasant, intolerable, and dangerous as to wear down unbelievers over time into converting or abandoning their ancestral homes. That strategy is enshrined in Qur'an 9:29, which offers non-Muslims conversion, subjugation, or war.
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The institution of dhimmitude is intended first to contain non-Islamic belief, and secondly, and consign it to a slow, quiet death as it is marginalized and expunged from the broader society.

Where dhimma laws are relaxed and fall into disuse (as inherently illogical, unnatural laws often do), unbelievers must nonetheless live in apprehension of the day that fervor for Islamic law renews hostility against them. And compliance with one's dhimmi status is always in the eye of the oppressor/beholder, leaving the dhimmi to wonder which innocent "provocation" or rumor (rumors of desecrated Qur'ans or "blasphemy" are wildly popular), will create a pretext for renewed abuse.

In Iraq, that time is now, as it also is in Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia, to name a few.

Read more from Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil (formerly of Baghdad) here.